The Restorative Yoga Teacher Training at De La Sol will delivered by Andrea Peloso. Andrea has studied extensively with Judith Lasater who she assists in Canada and the U.S. She is certified from the Downward Dog Yoga Center and currently teaches Vinyasa, Restorative and Pretnatal yoga in Toronto.
The training 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 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, traditional, and scientific 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.
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. 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.
Dates: April 14, 21, 28 | May 5, 12, 19, 26 | June 2, 9, 16
Time: 4:00 – 8:00pm
Investment: $850 + hst. An optional $30 certification fee can be paid to Andrea if you want to be certified by her.
Registration: Students cannot register online for this training at this time. Please registration in studio or by email. Students must register for all 10 sessions as this is a closed group (cannot register for single sessions). Students wishing to receive certification from Andrea must attend all 40 hours. This training fulfills the Yoga Alliance requirements Continuing Learning. If you need to miss a weekend, you can make up the class privately with Andrea.
Week One: Fundamentals of Teaching Restorative Yoga
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.
Week Two: Elements of Support
The psychology of deep support.
Restorative yoga and the emotions.
The Mind and Restorative Yoga.
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.
Week Three: Elements and Harmonies
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 beginning exploration of these concepts through setu bandha sarvangasana and supta baddha konasana.
Ayurveda, Western Culture, and Restorative Yoga: The 3 doshas and how they relate to Restorative Yoga.
Week Four: Calming, Digesting
A look at Deeply calming postures. Also understanding the affect of these poses on Digestion.
Viparita Karani and variations
Supported Halasana and variations.
Specific props for pitta deranged digestion and general digestive disorders
Restorative Navasana.
Week 5: Breathing, Soothing, Lungs and 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.
Week 6: Pelvis and 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.
Week 7: Women & men: menses, prostate, fertility, & 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.
Week 8: Pregnancy, Fertility, Sides and 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.
Week 9: Kidneys, Heart, Depression and Kappha, Specific Injuries
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.
Restorative Yoga Teacher Training
The training 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 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, traditional, and scientific 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.
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. 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.
Dates: April 14, 21, 28 | May 5, 12, 19, 26 | June 2, 9, 16
Time: 4:00 – 8:00pm
Investment: $850 + hst. An optional $30 certification fee can be paid to Andrea if you want to be certified by her.
Registration: Students cannot register online for this training at this time. Please registration in studio or by email. Students must register for all 10 sessions as this is a closed group (cannot register for single sessions). Students wishing to receive certification from Andrea must attend all 40 hours. This training fulfills the Yoga Alliance requirements Continuing Learning. If you need to miss a weekend, you can make up the class privately with Andrea.
Week One: Fundamentals of Teaching Restorative Yoga
Week Two: Elements of Support
Week Three: Elements and Harmonies
Week Four: Calming, Digesting
Week 5: Breathing, Soothing, Lungs and Liver
Week 6: Pelvis and Lower Back
Week 7: Women & men: menses, prostate, fertility, & menopause
Week 8: Pregnancy, Fertility, Sides and Hips
Week 9: Kidneys, Heart, Depression and Kappha, Specific Injuries
Week 10: Sequencing