40-hour Restorative Yoga Teacher Training

with Andrea Peloso

June 7-9 & 14-16, 2019

 

This forty hour teacher training is a complete training for those who wish to teach and/or practice Restorative Yoga.  The training is a rich exploration to inform the personal study as well as teaching skills of each student.  Students will learn the joys of restorative yoga 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, emotional, and biomechanical elements of each pose.

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.  How to set up the postures in detail, as well as modify for a class with less props will be explored.


Instruction

Andrea Peloso  has been offering courses based on her extensive experience assisting Judith Lasater as well as other teachers for over a decade.  She now teaches regularly across North America and sometimes further afield.  Andrea creates a safe, fun, educational, and healing environment in which to learn and grow as people and as teachers.


Course Curriculum

In the context of this course we will be studying the science of the nervous system as well as Ayurveda and many different postures in different variations.  All of them are not listed below, only a few in certain examples.  Class curriculum will shift to a small degree each time depending on student questions.  Below is a possible course curriculum.  Depending on student questions and interest some themes may be focussed on more than others.


Fundamentals
  • Basics of Restorative Yoga
  • Understanding the Nervous System: Parasympathetic and Sympathetic. How
  • Restorative Yoga Affects the Nervous System.
  • The well-propped pose: to prop or not to prop and why?- 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 practice.


Elements of Support / Adjustments
  • The psychology of deep support.
  • The pranas and their relationship to Restorative Yoga.
  • The role of mindfulness in the Restorative yoga practice.
  • A detailed look at proper support of the hands, knees, back, pelvis, arms, and neck in Savasana and elevated chest pose.
  • Use of blankets to move and support of the body.
  • Art of touch.
  • Adjustments with blankets.
  • Stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system with either props or adjustments.
  • Use of weights, sandbags, smaller seed bag weights.


Traditional Wisdom
  • The vayus and their relationship to Restorative Yoga.
  • 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 beginning exploration of these concepts through Setu Bandha Sarvangasana and Supta Baddha Konasana.
  • Ayurveda, Western Culture, and Restorative Yoga: The Three doshas and how they relate to Restorative Yoga.

Digestion
  • Understanding the affect of these poses on  the full digestive system.

Breathing, Soothing, Lungs & Liver
  • Supported Shoulderstand,
  • Supta Paschimottanasana, and Adjustments.
  • Closing or opening the lungs with blocks.
  • Restorative Twists.
  • The emotion of anger. Restoratives for the liver – healing stagnation, or invigorating.  Restoratives for Pitta Imbalances

Pelvis & Lower Back
  • 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.
  • Supine Balasana.


Women, Men, Intersex:  Prostate, Menses & Menopause
  • Menses: an irregular or painful Moon Cycle/ PMS
  • Poses for Prostate
  • Poses for Menopause
  • Supta baddha konasana with 3 variations
  • Elevated Blocks pose.
  • Heart and High Blood pressure: specific techniques.


Pregnancy, Fertility, Sides & Hips
  • Supported Janu Sirsasana
  • Supported Pigeon
  • Restorative Yoga for Pregnancy, and Fertility. Restorative Side Stretches.  Restorative side lying poses for scoliosis.
  • Restorative Yoga and Pregnancy – a lecture on the stages of pregnancy, what to avoid, and when.
  • Side Lying Savasana,
  • Supine Virasana and variations.


Kidney, Heart, Joints & Depression

  • Restoratives for Kidneys and Heart.
  • Restoratives for Depression/ Kapha Imbalances.
  • Understanding and modifying for specific injuries. Teaching Restorative Yoga with Case studies.
  • Stimulating Restoratives: Restoratives for Depression, Kidneys and Bladder.
  • Supporting various joint and structural injuries: specific issues, and techniques.

Emotions
  • Soothing Anger
  • Calming distress
  • Comforting Grief
  • Awakening from dullness and depression
  • Healing Anxiety
  • Being Present to the Emotions in a Restorative Practice.

Sequencing
  • The Art of Sequencing for Classes
  • Restorative Yoga and the Four Seasons
  • Teaching for Groups and Individuals
  • Bringing Students to deep rest: ideal timing, atmosphere, reading the room.
  • Practice Teaching: Gaining Confidence with presenting the material.


For Yoga Teachers & All Interested

Many students have attended this training that were not yoga teachers either to inform their own health and wellness or to inform their line of work.  This training is a rich resource for anyone seeking to expand their knowledge of their own health and looking into non invasive, gentle, affordable, but powerful tools for healing.

Those who have attended the restorative training in the past are police officers, massage therapists, acupuncturists, social workers, chaplains, or students seeking insight into their own health conditions.



Final Project for Restorative Certification

For Restorative Teachers there is a final project that completes your certification.  Components for the final project consist of cultivating a home practice in Restorative,  a photo journal of private classes with individual Restorative students, and a book report.  There is a $60 fee for certification sent in at the time and a one year timeline to complete the project.



Biography

Andrea Peloso discovered yoga as a young teen and has been teaching for 17 years.  Her teaching has brought her across Canada, as well as the United States and Japan.

Andrea has over 1750 hours of yoga training and more than 800 hours of study  with Judith Lasater, of whom she is an assistant.  She also has studied with Ramanad Patel, and has hundreds of hours of study with many senior and accomplished teachers as well as the experience of teaching and assisting full time for sixteen years.  Andrea has a degree with honours in Philosophy and Women's Studies and has studied Eastern and Indian Philosophy.

Andrea has an energetic, gentle and caring teaching style and seeks to make her classes highly educational, straightforward, fun, safe and inclusive.  www.andreapeloso.com

 

 

Dates
June 7-9 & 14-16, 2019

Times
Friday 5:30-10 pm
Saturday 1-9 pm
Sunday 10 am-5:30 pm

Location
10 Forbes Street, Suite 103
St. John's, NL


Registration & Payment

Early bird:  $795 + HST (until Mar 15th)
Regular:  $915 + HST


Register by email to cherylfenk@gmail.
 $175 non-refundable deposit is required at
time of registration to hold your spot.


Payments made via e-transfer to cherylfenk@gmail.com.
Please make the password "restorative".


Option A:  Pay full amount when you register (includes $175 non-refundable deposit).

Option B:  Pay $175 non-refundable deposit to hold your spot.
Then pay remaining early bird amount by March 15th or
pay remaining regular amount by May 15th.


After May 24th, refunds (minus deposit) will only be given if 
 your spot can be filled from a wait list.

“Andrea Peloso is a dedicated teacher who I trust to offer excellent instruction. She cares deeply for yoga students and the practice of yoga.”

~Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D., PT, yoga teacher since 1971,

and author of 9 books.