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 Instructor:
Andrea Marie Peloso
Spring
2010:
May 7-8, 14-16, 28-30
June 4-6
Fridays: 6:30 to 9pm
Saturdays: 5 to 8:30pm
Sundays: 1 to 6pm (no class on May 9th,
Mother's Day, one extra hour added on June
6th)
Cost: $850 plus GST
(40-hour certification. Individual
weekends may be attended for $240 plus GST)
Click here to register online.
Description:
The Restorative Training at Renaissance Yoga
and Ayurveda will be a multi-faceted and rich
exploration to inform the personal study as
well as teaching skills of each student.
Students will learn the joys of Restorative
through first-hand experience of the postures,
and will also learn hands on experience in how
to teach students of all levels. Also,
students will learn the
Ayurvedic, physiological, traditional, and
scientific elements of each pose.
Understanding the scientific reality of the
human nervous system and how it
affects the body will help students to compose
classes which are effective for
deep and long lasting healing - a contrast to
lighter styles of restorative yoga
which often skim the surface of the practice.
The art of reading bodies, and communication
with students is essential to a
well propped restorative pose. Students will
gain hands on practice in
understanding how each pose relates to different
bodies, as well as classical
alignment that enables the student to rest more
deeply.
An extensive repertoire of beginner as well as
advanced postures will be passed
on to students with the detail necessary to
bring depth and life changing
benefits to students.
Teaching methodology as a result of personal
practice and right relationship
with ourselves and others will be explored
throughout the training. As follows
deepening our compassion as well as our ability
to communicate will be a theme
throughout the course.
Specific conditions such as asthma, heart
disease, high blood pressure, anxiety,
insomnia, doshic imbalances, and many other such
concerns will be discussed with
specific routines and postures to aid these
conditions.
Homework and reading will be given each
weekend. For teachers who wish
certification, all weekends must be attended,
and there will be a final project to complete.
Curriculum:
Please note that during each class, students
will both receive and learn to set
up restorative postures with increasing
independence as the program progresses. Each
pose will have 1 - 5 modifications to
accommodate different bodies, perhaps more. Some
of the below description may be confusing if the
student is not yet aware of the names of various
Restorative poses. You’ll learn! Although
weekend 5 is devoted strictly to teaching,
teaching restorative is really also the focus
for the entire 40 hours. All specific healing
techniques listed below, save the anatomical
details and information on the nervous system is
based on traditional yoga wisdom, not western
medicine.
Weekend One: Fundamentals of Teaching
Restorative Yoga
Friday:
- What is Restorative Yoga?
- Understanding the Nervous System:
Parasympathetic and Sympathetic. How
- Restorative Yoga Affects the Nervous System.
- Stress related disorders, and how they can be
caused by an imbalanced nervous system.
- Understanding the role of traditional wisdom
and scientific understanding as it informs the
Restorative Yoga Practice.
- Restorative Yoga and the 5 Senses. Exploring
these concepts practically through - Supported
Audho Mukha Svanasana, Legs up the Wall
pose, and Savasana.
Saturday:
- The well-propped pose: to prop
or not to prop and why?
- Understanding the use of props.
- The psychology of deep support.
- A quick look at the ideas of Thich Nhat Hanh,
and Jack Kornfield.
- A detailed look at proper support of the
hands, knees, back, pelvis,
arms, and neck in sivasana and elevated chest
pose.
- The vayus: Prana and Apana. Understanding the
function of both and using Restorative to come
to a balance.
- Cooling and Heating/ Calming and Stimulating:
understanding the basics of what each
restorative does to various systems and parts of
the body according to traditional wisdom.
- A detailed exploration of these concepts and
more through setu bandha sarvangasana and
supta baddha konasana.
Sunday:
- Ayurveda, Western Culture, and Restorative
Yoga: The 3 doshas and how they relate to
Restorative Yoga.
- Grounding Vata Dosha
- A good restorative teacher needs to be able to
help their students find a deep
space of rest without the use of music, scents,
or song even if you choose to incorporate these
elements at a later point.
- We will practice elevated chest pose
variations to open the upper back lungs and turn
the students inwards.
- Viparita Karani
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Weekend Two:
Understanding Deep Inversions, Calming Anxiety
with Restorative Yoga. Cooling and Heating: a
more specific look at Lungs, Digestion, Asthma,
IBS, Acid Reflux, and beyond.
Friday:
- Supported Halasana and variations.
- Supta Paschimottanasana, and
Adjustments.
- A look at Deeply calming postures. Also
understanding the affect of these
poses on Lungs, Liver, and Digestion.
Saturday:
- Supported Shoulderstand,
- Legs over Chair
- A look at vast options for Restorative
Backbends (3-5 as time allows).
Sunday:
- Restorative Navasana.
- Specific props for pitta deranged digestion
and general digestive disorders
- Balasana.
- Closing or opening the lungs with blocks.
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Weekend Three:
The pelvis and lower back. A restorative
approach to
healing anger. Restoratives for the liver –
healing stagnation, or
invigorating. Women and men: menses, prostate,
fertility, and menopause. Difficult emotions.
Friday:
- Grounding the Femurs and balancing the pelvis.
- Restorative Variations on Grounding the
pelvis, and healing the Back.
- Sandbags.
- Using pillars
- Setu bandha sarvangasana variation with
bent knees, and sandbag.
- We will also learn partner adjustments for the
back in downward dog.
Saturday:
- Menses: an irregular or painful Moon Cycle/
PMS
- Poses for Prostate
- Poses for Menopause
- Viparita Karani modified
- Supta baddha konasana with 3 variations
- Elevated Blocks pose.
- Heart and High Blood pressure: specific
techniques.
Sunday:
- Supported Janu Sirsasana
- Supported Pigeon,
- 2-3 Restorative Twists.
- Restorative Yoga and Anger – what is present?
Postures and
perspectives for healing.
- Using Restorative yoga to heal from painful
relationships.
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Weekend Four:
Restorative Yoga for Pregnancy, and Fertility.
Restorative Side
Stretches. Restoratives for Kidneys, Heart, and
Bladder. Restoratives for
Depression. Understanding and modifying for
specific injuries.
Teaching Restorative Yoga with Case studies.
Friday:
- Restorative Yoga and Pregnancy – a lecture on
the stages of pregnancy,
what to avoid, and when.
- Side Lying Savasana,
- Supine Virasana and variations.
- Side Breathing and Stretches.
Saturday:
- Stimulating Restoratives: Restoratives for
Depression, Kidneys and
Bladder.
- Supporting various joint and structural
injuries: specific issues, and techniques. Some
students may come and serve as case studies from
outside of our course in this class.
Sunday:
- The Art of Sequencing for Classes
- Restorative Yoga and the Four Seasons
- Teaching for Groups and Individuals
- Reading Bodies
- Bringing Students to deep rest.
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