10 HOUR INTENSIVE - RESTORATIVE
with Abbie Galvin

Saturday & Sunday, July 30th-31st (2-7pm EST)
Price: $250 in person / $150 on zoom

10 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. Teaching it has to include a way of seducing each student inward to be alone with themselves for the duration of the class. This intensive 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.

IN PERSON attendees must be fully vaccinated in order to participate.

ZOOM attendees 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.

Please book confidently, no refunds granted.