Polyvagal Informed Restorative Yoga (15hr + 5hrs case study and mentor feedback) with Judy Hirsh Sampath 

Description – What do you desire for your students/clients - to feel safe in your space and leave feeling relaxed, calm and restored? To feel healthy, whole and healed?

Restorative yoga is an effective tool to release held tension and the heavy weight of what we carry in our bodies physically, mentally and emotionally. However, it is of vital importance  as a facilitator to understand that releasing, softening and letting go is not always appropriate or desirable. 

In this programme for yoga teachers, yoga therapists and other health providers, you will gain skills in creating as much safety as possible for students/clients to reach a regulated state of being. When you show up as a confident and knowledgeable leader and settled in your own nervous system, your students/clients are able to build trust, co-regulate with you, and take your hand as well as the support of the props. 

You will gain more confidence and knowledge - in planning and preparing with clear intentions, to look after your own nervous system be when meeting the unexpected, and holding space for restorative practice in classes and 1:1 settings.

Application of appropriate asana, pranayama, visualisation and meditation to meet different nervous system states will be explored. Through technical demonstrations, trauma sensitive language and cues, philosophical discussion, and guided practice, you will reinforce what you already know, and learn new skills.

What you will learn?

·         Technical overview of the autonomic nervous

·         Practical benefits of restorative yoga as an effective regulating tool for homeostasis

·         Options for propping and cues to for restorative postures in general classes and workshops

·         Understand the vagus nerve and polyvagal theory

·         Identify and assess hyper stress overload and hypo survival mode, held states of mobilisation and immobilisation

·         Trauma focus - information, sensitivity and safety by practicing cuing, pacing and leading 

·         The power of psycho education – normalising familiar and unfamiliar states of being and how to shift mood and re-patterning

·         Body reading and listening skills for assessment and application of appropriate practices

·         Philosophy of pain, suffering and obstacles to moving on

·         Compassion and awareness tools

·         4  non-contact hours to consolidate learning with a case study write up to submit to the tutor for feedback mentoring notes. This is required to complete the course.

Cost: £300 (includes £30 BWY registration fee).

Judy Hirsh Sampath is a yoga therapist and trainer with over 20 years experience of educating teachers and therapists to become powerful and confident facilitators. She runs classes, workshops and programmes, CPD courses, a 600 hour diploma in yoga therapy in north London, and retreats in South India and the UK.

For more information, please contact: education@yogaunited.com or visit www.yogaunited.com/education