Restorative Yoga 40-Hour Training

No Need to Be an Instructor 
Two Weekends: November 1-3 and 22-24, 2024
These days people need rest more than they need anything else - more than exercise, more than changes in diet, more than vacation, more than medication. Deep, healing, profound rest. It is this that we crave, we need on every level, and it is this that will set us up to be able to absorb and benefit fully from everything else.

Restorative Yoga provides the deep rest, the profound relaxation that has the power to heal and rebalance us on every level. It is one of the most effective ways of healing and cleansing from the effects of stress in the body and the mind, and we know now that stress is the single most consistent factor at the root of everything from poor sleep to chronic disease. 

Leslie, owner of Yoga Grove, and renown for her fully hands-on and fully customized restorative yoga classes, is thrilled to announce that she will be once again offering a Restorative Yoga Training Program this November for both existing Yoga Instructors and students/practitioners who wish to deepen and inform their restorative yoga practice.

​Over the course of this program, participants will receive 40 contact hours of YACEP-certified hands-on training covering:

- the science and physiology of relaxation 
​- understanding the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
- Restorative Yoga poses themselves, how to set them up for oneself and for others
- understanding the physiological, psychological and emotional effect of each Restorative Yoga pose
- the art and subtleties of folding, propping and blanketing
- qualities of the environment necessary for relaxation
- special poses, modifications and sequences for insomnia, trauma, anxiety, grief, depression, pain, menstruation, pregnancy and menopause
- how to sequence and lead a Restorative Yoga class
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Leslie Cranston has studied restorative yoga intensively with Judith Hanson Lasater, who founded the Relax and Renew(R) approach to Restorative Yoga. Leslie has over 120 hours of basic and advanced Restorative Yoga Teacher Training, and has personally taught over 2500 hours of Restorative Yoga in a private or small-group hands on setting. She also has offered over a dozen very popular and much anticipated Restorative Yoga Retreats, and numerous Restorative Yoga Teacher Trainings.
Her uniquely personalized, full-service and deeply therapeutic approach to Restorative Yoga teaching has helped countless people find deep rest and healing when suffering from: ​

​- chronic pain
- fibromyalgia
- cancer
- palliative care
- PTSD
- adrenal fatigue
- adrenal breakdown
- insomnia
- Parkinsons disease
- grief and loss
- anxiety and depression
- heart arythmia and palpatations
- headaches and migraines
- conception and pregnancy
... and much more
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Many people swear that Leslie's Restorative Yoga has saved their lives and the impact of her classes is evident from all the detailed testimonials she has received over her years of teaching it.

​Please join Leslie for this incredible opportunity to learn first-hand from a Master in Restorative Yoga -
​the Art of Profound Relaxation.

When & Where

34 hours of training will be offered over 2 weekends*, and then 6 hours of shadowing and assisting Leslie during actual Restorative Yoga classes are required at Yoga Grove after the group training above, in order to complete the 40 hours of the program.

Friday, November 1: 5:30pm to 9:30pm
Saturday, November 2: 12:30pm to 8:30pm
Sunday, November 3: 9am to 4pm
Friday, November 22: 5:30pm to 9:30pm
Saturday, November 23: 12:30pm to 8:30pm
Sunday, November 24: 9am to 4pm

Location: Yoga Grove on Fridays and Saturdays (274 Jane Street, Toronto) and St Paul's Anglican  Church Gymnasium (404 Willard Avenue) on Sundays. The shadowing of Restorative Yoga classes will be done at Yoga Grove - students can choose the dates/times of classes to shadow. 

* 1 hour meal break included each day

Registration & Cost

COST: $950 + HST, early bird rate of $850 + HST if you pay in full by September 1st, 2024.

Non-refundable deposit of $250 is required upon registration. Balance is due by March 1, 2024.

Required Texts**

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  • Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times by Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D., PT.
  • Restore and Rebalance: Yoga for Deep Relaxation by Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D., PT.

**Note: Please bring both texts to class every day.

Certification as a
Restorative Yoga ​Instructor

The training is open to all teachers and serious students. However if you wish to become certified by Yoga Grove as a Restorative Yoga Teacher you must:
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  • Attend all sessions (no exceptions).
  • Complete a project to be submitted by mail approximately six weeks after the workshop.
  • Include $150 cheque at the time of submission of the project for the certificate and the time spent grading the project 

To be further recognized by Yoga Alliance International for the full 40-hour YACEP training, you must also be a Yoga Instructor (at least 200 hour trained).

It is also possible to take just the training sessions for learning only and not submit the project. 

Cancellation Policy

- $250 registration fee included is not refundable
- the balance is refundable in the form of credit at Yoga Grove for future classes, workshops, trainings, etc. 
 
 If you have any questions, please contact us.