Restorative Yoga: Teaching Training Program 2026

A Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Program

21 hours training program with Jude Hynes

Charge the body and chill the mind.

Pre-Requisite: RYT200 hour certificate

This 21-hour teacher training program is registered with the Yoga Alliance the professional body based in USA as a continuing education program. Yoga Teachers’ registered with the YA are required to do ongoing study and to record the details of the continuing education programs they attend in order to continue to be registered with the YA.

Content of the 21-hour program:

• The rationale and benefits of Restorative Yoga
• Principles of Sequencing
• Environmental Elements
• Three Tried and True Programs

Teaching Methods:

• Observation, demonstration, hands-on cues, adjusting, and modification of poses.
• Getting students into the poses safely, instructing them in the pose, and getting them out of the poses safely.
• Teaching students pranayama and meditation techniques when they are in the poses as well as verbally weaving in concepts based on yogic philosophy.

Troubleshooting:

Instructing and guiding students who have special needs, e.g., older students, pregnant women, students with back, neck, knee, hip, and shoulder issues, and modifying the poses accordingly.

Description and learning objectives:

• Through mini-lectures, written course materials, practical demonstrations, role plays, and teaching exercises, participants will gain teaching skills and strategies that reflect their deeper understanding of the key principles and concepts of the Restorative Yoga Style.
• They will understand and demonstrate the appropriate use of techniques pertaining to Restorative Yoga, particularly in relation to using yoga props.
• They will recite and deliver teaching scripts of RY.
• They will be able to apply principles of demonstrating, aligning, giving hands-on cues and adjustments.
• They will practice and master correct techniques for the art of setting students safely into RY poses and teaching students to calm their nervous system using breathing techniques to relax the body and calm the mind while in the pose, and bring them out of the poses safely.
• They will explain how to modify poses to meet the special needs of individual students.
• They will demonstrate three different RY programs.