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Relax and Rejuvenate with Restorative Yoga with Satya Greenstone

Created by Satchidananda Ashram-Yogaville (See other events)
Tuition: $185 - plus 2 nights accommodations of your choice, which includes all meals, Hatha yoga classes and more.Restorative Yoga is an effective antidote to stress. During this practice a deeply rejuvenating experience is created by placing your body in gentle, supported asanas (poses) that literally hold and support you as you let go of all your tensions. In this state of deep relaxation, the innate intelligence of the body returns and reintegrates the system to its natural state of balance and peace.Restorative Yoga uses props: blankets, blocks, the wall, pillows, a chair, whatever is effective to support the practitioner in various postures. The supported poses enable one to receive the benefit of the asana without exerting muscular effort.In this workshop you will experience and learn::: A balanced sequence of restorative poses:: How to use props, what props to use and when to use them:: Poses for specific needs:: Placing your own body in self-restorative poses:: Adjusting a student, friend or loved one into restorative poses:: Yoga nidra: deep relaxation:: Supported breathing poses for enhancing pranayama practice:: Other healing aspects of YogaAll props will be supplied for your use during the workshop. This workshop is open to students and teachers of all levels of Yoga practice.About the Presenter:Satya Greenstone has been a student of Sri Swami Satchidananda for over thirty-eight years, sharing the teachings of Integral Yoga in many diverse settings with students of all ages and backgrounds. In 1978 she and her husband started the Yogaville Vidyalayam—the Temple of Learning, an elementary school for the ashram community children, where they taught for seventeen years. Since 1999, she has been a primary teacher for the Basic Yoga Teacher Training Program. While serving as Teacher Training Coordinator, she helped to develop and teach the Gentle Yoga Teacher Training Program. Satya has been practicing and teaching Restorative Yoga for many years, gently adapting the Yoga practices to any individual needs and always finding a way to encourage and inspire.
Tags: "restorative yoga", "yoga retreat", "yoga workshop"
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