LIVE 5 HOUR TRAINING - RESTORATIVE
with Abbie Galvin
Saturday & Sunday, March 6-7th (12-2:30pm)
Price: $75
5 Hours bankable toward your Katonah Yoga® Certification.
Restoration is the work of returning something to its former state and relaxation is the state of freedom from tension or anxiety. Our goal is reformation; the act of improving or making changes for the better. The technique of restorative yoga is to embody formal forms (asanas) whose geometry over time allows for a therapeutic experience. Restoring anything implies that one is rehabilitating back to an original state of being or function. Our approach to restorative yoga is meant to reshape a stressed out, uninformed or broken body, which helps to set up the conditions to redirect a life.
Restorative yoga practices are often held in a class setting. It’s forte is shared experience and communality. Playing and learning with others develops the skills of self definition, self assertion and how we get our personal needs met while making room for others. A restorative practice plays the polarity between solitude and togetherness luring us to the place of the in-between - that is - how to conform physically to what the class is doing while concurrently being alone with our own thoughts on our own mat.
The virtue of a restorative practice is found within time spent inside oneself, developing the finesse of being in the moment. The repertoire of restorative poses is conceived to manipulate our container so that it becomes more agile, durable and one that demands that we organize it formally rather than how we organize our body habitually or without conscious effort. Restorative yoga is the venture to forge a new frame of reference, via our structure, both physically and neurologically. Teaching it has to include a way of seducing each student inward to be alone with themselves for the duration of the class. This training is for teachers looking to assimilate this theory into their teaching and for students interested in immersing themselves in this material to more deeply profit from it.
For optimum participation have the following props available: blocks, blankets, sandbags, a strap and a chair. If you don’t have these things, please improvise. If you are joining us to learn to teach this material, bring a student or a body with you. Either way, bring your imagination and your curiosity, the only real requirement. Come either to have a restorative experience or to learn how to give someone else one.
Join Abbie Galvin LIVE on zoom for 5 Hours (over 2 sessions) of theory and practice. You will receive a zoom link via email one hour before the start of each session. Recordings available upon request. Email info@thestudio.yoga after the session to request.