SKY TING is pleased to bring back Abby Paloma’s Restorative Yoga Level 1 Teacher Training this Spring with option to be in person or learning on Zoom! More and more students are taking an interest in Restorative Yoga, a healing practice for stressful times. Abby Paloma has skillfully trained hundreds of teachers in the art of Restorative Yoga, and with the added expertise of Jessica Caplan, this training will be an in-depth exploration of the tools and techniques of this practice.

Restorative Yoga offers therapeutic tools to balance the nervous system in order to truly rest and replenish energy. States of deep mind and body relaxation are made more accessible through the architecture of restorative poses. Health benefits of a consistent restorative practice include lowered blood pressure and blood sugar levels, reduced insomnia, balanced menstruation, improved digestion, and increased fertility.

This training is open to yoga teachers, health practitioners, and dedicated students. After this training you will be able to skillfully offer your students and private clients a potent and medicinal practice of relaxation. You will be equipped with knowledge of how to incorporate restorative poses into your own practice and your regular asana classes. Restorative Yoga is a gift for yourself. Teaching restorative yoga is a gift for your students. When people partake in this peaceful practice, the whole world stands to benefit.

May 13-15, 2022 - IN PERSON or tune in VIRTUALLY

Friday May 13th, 3:30 PM – 7:00 PM EST

Saturday May 14th, 9:45 AM – 1:45 PM, 2:45 – 6:15 PM EST

Sunday May 16th, 9:45 AM – 1:45 PM, 2:45 – 6:15 PM  EST

-  The architecture of restorative backbends, forward bends, therapeutic poses, and poses for pregnancy.

-  The energetic and physical alignment in the poses.

-  How to guide students into states of deep relaxation.

-  Teachings about the human nervous system (sympathetic and parasympathetic) and subtle body systems.

-  How to structure a Restorative Yoga class, hands-on adjustments, and the role of music/sound.

-  Proper, activated breathing patterns and healthy vagal nerve tone.

- A sound bath with Jessica Caplan.

Abby Paloma is a Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese medicine and certified as a 500-hr Yoga Alliance and an Advanced Restorative Yoga teacher. She has taught yoga for over a decade.  

Through clear instruction and heartfelt sensitivity, Abby provides her students with time and space to dive inward to do their own healing work.  She infuses her teaching with the riches of Chinese medicine and with a great appreciation for stillness. Her deep understanding of physical and energetic anatomy offers harmonizing and grounding benefits to her students. She regularly teaches workshops that combine the benefits of restorative yoga, acupuncture and sound. In 2010, Abby also founded Farm To Yoga to unite yogis with their local farmers. Her undergraduate education focused on neuroscience and Jungian psychology at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. 

Jessica Caplan is a lifelong vocalist, certified sound therapy practitioner, and yoga teacher. She creates sound baths and meditative soundscapes for special events and yoga classes, and leads workshops, retreats and trainings in voice and sound healing around the world. A graduate of the 290-hour integrative sound practitioner training at the Open Center’s Sound and Music Institute, Jessica counts among her teachers in voice and sound Silvia Nakkach, Bisan Toron and John Beaulieu. Jessica is passionate about providing her students both in group and one-on-one sessions an embodied, compassionate approach to connecting with the voice, and through that, with one's soul. She is a Reiki practitioner and Restorative yoga teacher, and weaves her studies of yoga, sound healing, Native traditions, shamanic practices, and classical North Indian singing into her work. Jessica is also the co-creatrix of SoundMind (www.soundmind.space), an audio meditation series combining meditation with therapeutic sound, released in the fall of 2016.