Learn to fine-tune consciousness and foster nervous system health using the energy of sound. Sound genuinely has the power to change your state of being, which you know innately if you’ve ever been moved by a piece of music. ...
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 and develop their own home practice. Participants will experience a class taught by Gina and a class taught by Mona and will also get the opportunity during the training to give and receive a private and get feedback from both of them....
When did you take your first yoga class? What was that like? I took my first yoga class in the late 80's. It was the dog days of summer in NYC and I heard there was an air conditioned yoga class with soothing music at a Crunch gym near my apartment in the east village. How did you find ISHTA? I found Alan through a friend in Los Angeles who knew Al from his days teaching in Hollywood. Al had just moved to New York and I joined his classes when they were in a photography studio above Bumble and Bumble. Why is a restorative practice so important for students to do? When we ask a physical body to go through what is demanded in life it is exhausting. Not...
Anand Menza Restorative Teacher Training | January 22 - 24, 2020 The impact restorative yoga has had in releasing stress and tension for me is very personal. About fourteen years ago I had a bout of serious asthma attacks that were life changing. I was continually in and out of the hospital and put on high levels of cortisone for an extended period that created extreme anxiety and panic attacks. I started practicing restorative yoga, which was an integral part of my recovery. Restorative calmed my nervous system, relaxed my body and released tension from my breath. The effects of this practice released the fear of future attacks. No amount of trying to talk myself out of the situation helped because my whole system was stuck in a heightened...
A practice designed to ground and center and release anxiety and restlessness as we move into the fall. In the Ayurvedic system we are made up five elements: earth, water, fire, air and space....
This training will introduce new postures and sequencing. We will examine the effects that the season has on us from both a western scientific eye as well as an Ayurvedic perspective and appropriate applications of restorative yoga....
Come and join two ISHTA 500hr teachers for an evening of musical rejuvenation, reverie, and reminiscence. You will be led through a series of increasingly luxurious and restorative poses with Donna’s caring, nurturing guidance, healing hands, and essential oils, as Hattie provides a mellifluous musical backdrop while singing well known and well-loved songs and accompanying herself on her harp....
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....
This practice is designed to cool the fire element for those feeling overly aggravated or on overdrive. Throughout the practice, visualizations, essential oils and gentle hands on adjustments will help guide you to a place of deep surrender. ...
In this workshop we will balance these vayus using a pranayama technique developed by Mona and Alan called ISHTA Vayu Shodana. We will also incorporate various other pranayama techniques and visualizations into the asana, restorative and yoga nidra practice. When our prana is balanced we are able to connect back to spirt and we feel energized and inspired in our day to day living...