The best way to understand something is to live it. That’s why Veda Ela’s Restorative Yoga is more than just a teacher training course. It’s a Life Training that uses the language of yoga and other disciplines to take participants on a journey of Self-inquiry and Self-discovery. 
Beyond the Asanas and Techniques Besides instructing participants in how to teach the techniques of Restorative Yoga, the course will: 
• Unravel. Demonstrate how to peel the layers of the personality that are holding them back.

• Release. Offer them the tools to be able to let go of self-limiting beliefs and manifest their boundless potential. 
• Unblock. Reveal how to unblock emotions and let go of stagnant and poisonous energy. 

• Expand. Show them how to let go of that which keeps them from feeling limitless and powerful and go beyond the mind’s boundaries to meet themself. 
• Enable. Enable students to use Self-enquiry in daily life and how to apply it to the practice of Yin and Restorative Yoga. 
Applicable to Life Beyond just lessons for the yoga studio, the course will: 
• Provide students with Meditation Techniques as a way to improve their Lifestyle by focusing on what is relevant. Meditation can improve life quality by teaching us how to be fully alert, aware, and alive. It is a celebration of the self. 
• Reveal how to become a green yoga teacher. 
• Deal with stress through conscious movements and other techniques, which will enhance participant's physical health and emotional well-being. 
• Help students find and align to their life’s mission. 
• Encourage participants to spread the essence of this work into the world by bringing it into different areas like yoga studios, homes, schools, hospitals, prisons, business and so on. 
• Expand one's Self-Awareness 
• Veda Ela’s Restorative Yoga and Meditation Teacher Training doesn’t just improve participant's personal yoga practice and yoga teachings. It also helps them expand awareness, discover their dreams and broaden their focus to include the environment and it’s creatures. 
• These are essential elements to embodying yoga on and off the mat. After all, as yoga means union, we must join Body, Mind and Spirit with Mother Earth. 
Though not religious, the work is spiritual. 
What is Restorative Yoga? 
Restorative yoga is an oasis in our active and often chaotic lives. It nourishes and rests the body, soothes the incessant mind, reduces anxiety and relaxes the nervous system. Through it, you’ll discover the path to your true self and infuse your life with energy and clarity. 
Yin/Yang Aspect 
Restorative Yoga is a Yin (feminine/passive) form called the “yoga of Being”, which opposes yet balances the Yang style (masculine/active) practice. 

The Practice 
The Restorative Yoga poses are held for several minutes at a time and supported with blankets, blocks, bolsters, and other props. This makes them ideal for releasing deeply held tension, freeing blocked energy, and cultivating mindfulness. 
Healing Properties 
Restorative asanas help reduce the fight-or-flight response; thereby lowering adrenaline levels as well as other body-taxing hormones and harmful toxins. This restores the internal hormonal balance and boosts the immune system. Restorative Yoga focuses on the nervous system. By practicing it regularly, we help the nervous system to escape the “flight” or “fight” mode which brings it back into balance and bolsters our well being. 

Who is this course for? 
The Restorative Yoga and Meditation Teacher Training isn’t just for yoga teachers or people currently taking part in a Yoga Teacher Training. It is also highly relevant for body workers, therapists, and experienced yogis looking to change and reset their lives. 
Do note, this training is not for beginners. It expects a certain level of experience from participants without which students might struggle to get the most from the training. 
Yoga Teachers looking to extensively develop their Restorative Yoga and Meditation teaching skills. 
Yoga Students currently doing a YTT course who would like to dive into learning Restorative Yoga and Meditation. 
Experienced Yoga Students wanting to go deeper into self-understanding, and self-knowing. 
Body workers, therapists & care givers and other professionals familiar with the Yoga practice who would like to build upon their skills and the depth of their work. 

In this training you'll learn: 
The Yoga Lifestyle 
Not just to teach the technical aspects of Restorative Yoga, but also how to make Restorative Yoga a part of your life. 
Unleash Your Potential 
To use Meditation and the training’s therapy tools to confront and dissolve the self-limiting conditioning you’ve accumulated throughout your life. 
Presence 
How to be present in the moment and open up the body and mind to their incredible healing capacities. 
Powerful Tools 
The use of asana, pranayama, conscious movement, music, meditation techniques, Self-Enquiry and tools from therapy to still the mind. Restorative Yoga both prepares you for Meditation and IS a meditation technique in itself. 
Safe Spaces 
How to create safe spaces. Here, participants can be themselves, share, and ask for and receive support as they heal, open up and express themselves. Self-inquiry To interweave Self-inquiry into your yoga practice through the Zen Koan “Who I am?”. This will heighten your awareness of the difference between personality and your true nature. 
Focus -Ways of slowing down the frantic mind, so it will be easier to stay focused and present. After this course, you’ll be able to listen to the Body’s voice, surrender to the pose and accept the present moment as is. 
Limitless - That spiritual expansion has no limits. Experience the life-changing effects of integrating these beliefs into your Being. Learn how to live life in a higher vibration through awareness, acceptance of oneself and others and taking care of planet Earth. 
Holding Space How to hold space; for yourself and for your students. By simply being present, listening without judgement, and being silent, practitioners can access the true nature and freedom that lies within us all.
ABOUT VEDA ELA : 
Veda Ela is a yogini, dancer, therapist, life coach, yoga teacher, community builder and teacher to thousands throughout the world for over 40 years. She offers a therapeutic body–mind work rooted in attentive presence, embodied listening, and conscious rest. Her approach is grounded in the essence of yoga —the union of body, mind, soul, and environment—rather than physical postures, meditation and somatic practices, shaped by years of personal experience, own practices and teaching. With a calm, intuitive, and attuned presence, informed by training in somatic practices, she supports people through periods of stress, transition, or life inquiry, creating a safe space where regulation, clarity, and inner guidance can naturally unfold.
For more information also see the website of Veda Ela: www.vedaelayoga.com