Yoga Teacher Training

Continuing Education ~ Course Description

Restorative Yoga Restorative Yoga
30 hours - November 2 ,3, 4 & November 16, 17, 18, 2012
with Hali Schwartz - $625.00 + hst

Friday 6-9 p.m.
Saturday 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. – 4p.m.
Sunday 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. 2-5 p.m.

Restorative Yoga has become a practice for the modern age. More and more, yoga students are discovering the beauty and grace of this intense, but gentle method of relieving the pain caused by physical and energetic stagnation.

Restorative yoga is often associated with healing from diseases, as it is a practice done with the use of props instead of muscular tension to maintain alignment in the poses. Restorative poses help relieve the effects of chronic stress in a myriad of ways. Learn how to safely sequence a restorative practice which will include inverted poses. Inverted poses reverse the effects of gravity.

Many of us stand or sit most of the day and so blood and lymph fluid accumulate in the lower half of the body. By reversing the relationship of the legs to gravity, fluids are returned to the upper body and heart function is enhanced.

Restorative yoga alternately stimulates and soothes our internal organs. With this movement of blood comes the enhanced exchange of oxygen and waste products across the cell membrane.

In this course, we will learn the basic 'body of work' that the restorative practice entails. The use of various props that will allow deep relaxation to occur, as well as learning the techniques for communicating this to others. Restorative sequences are designed to move the spine in every direction and thus anatomical discussions are an integral aspect of the principles of restorative yoga.

Individual Workshop Payment Plan Options are available as well. Please contact the manager of our Danforth Avenue location at 416.461.6161 or Toll Free 1.866.903.9642.

About Hali Schwartz

Hali Schwartz Hali Schwartz has been practicing Hatha Yoga for 12 years as well as studying yoga philosophy, Sanskrit and yogic chanting since 1988. The course of her studies has focused strongly on the ancient Sanskrit language; the various yoga scriptures such as the Bhagavad Gita and Patanjali's Yoga Sutra; as well as chanting from the Vedas, Upanishads, and the verses from the above mentioned yoga texts.

Hali has also had the opportunity to find her way into the study, practice, and teaching of Hatha Yoga through some excellent teacher training instruction in the Sivananda and Bihar schools of Hatha Yoga in Kerala, India where she travelled to in January of 2001, 2002 and and 2003.

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