Service Description

Restorative yoga is a practice that is all about slowing down and opening your body through passive stretching. You hardly move at all, doing just a few postures in the course of an hour or so. It is a completely different experience than most dynamic yogas. During the long holds of restorative yoga, your muscles are allowed to relax deeply. It's a unique feeling, props such as blankets and bolsters, rather than your muscles, are used to support your body. This workshop is extremely chilled requiring very little physical effort at all! Additionally you'll be treated to a mini massage in each posture if you so wish. During our final half an hour we enter deep relaxation aka, Yoga Nidra. You begin by lying on the floor, face up, in 'Corpse Pose' it's yogi name is 'Shavasana'. Then I will gently prompt you to begin sensing the body and breathing in specific ways to incite a relaxation response in you. This relaxation response is the secret sauce to Yoga Nidra because it balances the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems – the left and right brain –allowing you to unwind into various, beneficial brain wave states. Yoga Nidra works by gently guiding you through four main stages of brain wave activity – beta, alpha, theta, and delta. In the end, the goal is to achieve a “hypnagogic state” — the state between wakefulness and sleep. It’s that magical time just before you fall asleep when the body rests while the mind is still reasonably lucid. If you’ve never experienced this before, you’re going to love it!  Perfect not only for relaxation of the mind, but for releasing and relaxing tired muscles for those of you who dedicate yourselves to more high paced yoga, running, CrossFit, cycling and more! Give those muscles and that mind a real treat!