Restorative YTT (20h) 

About the Teacher Training

Students will learn how to create a practice and how to apply it therapeutically for stress related illnesses such as asthma, or bad back, the issues related to pregnancy and more scenarios. This training will focus on developing practical skills.

Trainees will work with fellow students to develop an “eye” to see physical misalignments and know how to adjust them. Trainees will practice tuning into the subtle energetic field of their students, learn hands on adjustments, practice teach restorative poses and yoga nidra, and also experience two restorative classes, one with Gina and one with Mona.

Who Can Participate?

This 20 hour training is for teachers, teacher trainees, and students interested in delving deeper into Restorative Yoga. Participants will learn how to teach restorative yoga, develop their own home practice and get the opportunity during the training to give and receive a private while getting support from both Mona and Gina.

About the Teachers

Mona Anand is a co-owner of ISHTA Yoga and a Yogiraj or yoga master in the ISHTA lineage. She is a Senior Trainer in ISHTA’s 500 Hour Global Teacher Trainings and has designed her own yoga nidra trainings, which are taught around the world. For over a decade she has been teaching her signature Restorative/Yoga Nidra Chakra Workshop series and Ayurveda series. Mona currently teaches group classes at ISHTA Yoga and leads yoga retreats to India and around the world. She has a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University and lives with her husband and two daughters in New York City.

After twenty years of teaching yoga, Gina Menza has learned the importance of balancing the active side of one’s yoga practice with the quiet solitude of a restorative sequence. Gina has taught in innumerable places; from classrooms in Los Angeles California, sidewalks in Times Square new York City, studios in Stockholm, Sweden and beachside in Goa, India. Gina has designed the prenatal material used in both the 200 & 300 hour ISHTA trainings as well as creating her own Yoga Alliance registered prenatal school, which holds its 85-hour intensive trainings in New York City.

Useful Info

• Date: October 19th - October 21st 2018
• Time:
  • Friday 9:00-17:00
  • Saturday  10:00-18:00
  • Sunday 9:00-17:00
• Location: Nirvana, Stockholm
• Price:
  • Early, Early Bird, 4995 SEK: (expires July 23rd)
  • Early Bird, 5250 SEK: (expires August 27th)
  • Regular Price: 5700 SEK
• Teachers: Mona Anand & Gina Menza
• Organizer: ISHTA Yoga
• Click here to read more or register

The Training Will Cover

• The science behind Restorative Yoga
• How to teach Restorative Yoga including the benefits and contradictions of key poses
• How to work with a variety of props in restorative poses for classes, privates and a home practice
• Hands on adjustments
• Class sequencing
• How to design and modify a restorative practice for specific issues
• Basic understanding and how to teach Yoga Nidra
• Introduction to essential oil uses