50HR RESTORATIVE YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
with Ashley Michelle Martin

50 HOUR RESTORATIVE YOGA TEACHER TRAINING

In a world that moves fast and demands more, Restorative Yoga offers a sacred pause — a space to soften, to release and to remember our wholeness.

This training invites you into the subtle, healing world of Restorative Yoga — where stillness becomes medicine, breath becomes prayer and presence becomes the true practice. You’ll learn how to guide students through deeply supportive postures, create nurturing environments and hold space with intention and compassion.

Whether you’re a yoga teacher, healer, or simply someone drawn to the power of rest, this training will deepen your understanding of the nervous system, trauma-sensitive language and the energetics of slowing down. You’ll leave feeling grounded in your ability to offer rest as a form of healing — for yourself and for others.

This is more than a training — it’s a remembering. A return to the quiet wisdom within.

(Registered with Yoga Alliance)

IN-PERSON TRAINING DATES & TIMES 2027

Weekend One

Friday January 22nd, 2027

5:00-9:00pm

Saturday January 23rd, 2027 

9:00am-5:00pm 

Sunday January 24th, 2027 

9:00am-5:00pm

Weekend Two

Friday January 29th, 2027 

5:00-9:00pm

Saturday January 30th, 2027 

9:00am-5:00pm

Sunday January 31st, 2027

9:00am-5:00pm

(10-non contact hours will be required from you as part of this training. This will include study, practice and self reflection homework.)

WHAT IS RESTORATIVE YOGA

Restorative Yoga uses props, shapes and time spent to create comfort, safety and deep relaxation in the body. This practice calms and relaxes the entire nervous system. It invites you to cultivate more spaciousness and compassion in both mind and body. 

It can increase circulation to vital organs, strengthen immunity, and promote conscious relaxation. This practice allows you to slow down. Our busy, stressful lives, often create  resistance, stress and tension in our bodies. Restorative Yoga teaches the body resiliency and recovery as we flow between the stress response (surviving), and our natural state (thriving). Shifting into deep rest and relaxation can still the busy mind, improve capacity for healing, boost our immune system, balance our nervous system and it promotes  qualities of compassion and understanding towards ourselves and others. 

THIS TRAINING IS FOR YOU IF

• You would like to experience some time for yourself in the practice of deep rest and relaxation.

• You are a Yoga Teacher wanting to teach and share this practice with your studio and students. 

• You are an energy worker and you’d like to learn more about balancing the nervous system. 

• You are a fitness instructor, massage therapist, health coach, health care professional, or you work in the healing profession.

WHAT THIS TRAINING INCLUDES

• Learn about what Restorative Yoga truly is, its benefits, lineage and evolution. 

• Learn about the autonomic nervous system both sympathetic and parasympathetic. 

• Shift through the different levels and layers of Being in a journey through a Yoga Nidra Practice.  Explore how The Koshas can relate to a Restorative Yoga Practice 

• Learn a gentle hands on approach to the practice and how to lean into compassion while teaching classical Restorative Yoga.

• Learn how to set the body up in the most respectful and restful way.

• Learn how to adapt and modify the practice for both yourself and your students. 

• Learn Restorative Yoga with minimal props and an abundance of props. 

• Scene, Setting & Space: Learning how to create the utmost relaxing and safe space for practice. 

• Music & Meditation: Guidance on choosing the right music and full length meditation practices that will teach you tone and pace. 

• Languaging & Verbal Cues: Learn how to use your voice with gentle and soft tones. Working within trauma sensitive guidelines. 

• Learn how to incorporate Sound Healing into a Restorative Yoga Practice. 

• Learn proper alignment techniques and sequencing to promote optimal balance and relaxation.

HOMEWORK

You will be encouraged to create a daily Restorative Yoga practice throughout your training. You will be required to create and teach a sample Restorative Yoga Sequence. Reading, writing and reflection homework will also be required.

Books to purchase before first training day are: Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times by Judith Hanson Lasaster & Restorative Yoga with Assists: a manual for teachers and students of yoga by: Sue Flamm (Puja)

COURSE MATERIALS INCLUDED

50 YOGA ALLIANCE CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS