2025 restorative yoga teacher training
55-HOUR SELF-PACED TRAINING
WITH JILLIAN PRANSKY
Guide Your Students Toward Deep Rest and Renewal
Learn to design and lead restorative yoga practices that ease layers of tension, calm the mind, and create space for healing — for your students and yourself.
Free Restorative Yoga Teacher Training Guide & Practice
Get a detailed look inside the training, including the full schedule, module descriptions, and a 40-minute restorative practice led by Jillian.
training overview & topics
training updates for 2025
This year’s program is flexible to meet your needs and fit into your schedule. The core modules are pre-recorded videos that will be released weekly so you can complete them at your own pace.
This year’s training is now on-demand, and there will be live monthly mentorship opportunities with Teaching Assistant Mentors (TAMs) for meaningful sessions devoted to Q&A, mentorship, and community building. All live and pre-recorded sessions are available on-demand for one year.
Plus, you may add on the bonus Expanding Restorative Skills series (13-hours), featuring a world-renowned panel of luminary guest teachers and leading experts—Indu Arora, Hala Khouri, Dr. Gail Parker, Lisa Weinert, and Dr. Christiane Wolf, —in topics including somatic healing, trauma, pain, and ayurveda.
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Restorative yoga is often misunderstood as simply "a nap on a mat." While it does offer deep relaxation, it is so much more. This transformative practice is a vital form of self-care—and collective care—that helps us restore our inner resources, release physical and emotional tension, and address the trauma we carry in our bodies. Restorative yoga teaches us skills to self-regulate and calm the nervous system, offering powerful relief in our fast-paced, high-stress, and often sleep-deprived lives.
In today’s world of growing challenges, restorative yoga provides tools for nervous system regulation and somatic healing. It combines the science of relaxation with the intention to shift our inner chemistry, supporting both healing and growth. The result? A more open, present, and energized way of living.
Join Jillian’s Restorative Yoga Teacher Training to discover how this practice transforms lives—from calming the nervous system to empowering somatic healing and fostering connection, both within and beyond.
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This Restorative Yoga Teacher Training is ideal for individuals who are passionate about healing, teaching, and supporting others in creating greater ease and balance. Whether you’re new to teaching or a seasoned professional, this program is designed to deepen your expertise and broaden your impact.
Yoga Teachers: Perfect for both new and experienced instructors looking to expand their skills and offer specialized practices for relaxation and nervous system regulation.
Healthcare Professionals: Ideal for doctors, nurses, and holistic practitioners seeking tools to help patients manage stress, trauma, and recovery.
Physical and Occupational Therapists: Learn techniques to integrate restorative practices into rehabilitation and support clients in healing both body and mind.
Mental Health Professionals: Psychotherapists, counselors, and social workers will gain somatic tools to complement therapy and support emotional well-being.
Bodyworkers and Coaches: Mind-body fitness instructors, health coaches, and massage therapists can enhance their services with restorative techniques that foster deep relaxation.
Professionals in Helping and Teaching Fields: Designed for anyone in roles that involve teaching, caregiving, or guiding others toward healing and transformation.
Join a growing community of professionals using restorative practices to create profound shifts in well-being, for themselves and those they serve.
55-hour training topics:
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Begin your journey with an exploration of the core principles that make restorative yoga a transformative practice. Explore the foundational elements of restorative yoga, including its unique role in relaxation and healing. You’ll learn how this practice creates balance, nurtures inner quiet, and sets the stage for self-awareness, compassion, and well-being. By understanding the profound impact of restorative yoga on the mind and body, you’ll build a strong base for guiding yourself and others toward renewal and deeper states of connection.
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You’ll explore the basic anatomy of the nervous system as it relates to the stress response and relaxation response theory, with the aim of understanding how you can use Restorative Yoga to calm the nervous system for health and healing.
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At the heart of yoga are principles of wholeness and oneness, often taught through the five Koshas, our layers of being. In this lecture, you’ll receive an introduction to the Koshas and how they can help organize and guide your approach to practice and teaching.
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You’ll learn how alignment affects breathing, and how breathing impacts overall well-being, including the nervous system and all of the systems that influence health and healing. The discussion will address well-being from the top down (brain to body) and from the bottom up (body to brain).
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Learn how to set up a basic Savasana, as well as several variations depending on the props available and individual needs of your students. This will support our fundamental approach to all of our other poses, no matter what restorative “shapes” we work with.
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Through lectures, tutorials, poses clinics, and full restorative practices, you will explore the core restorative poses, propping, and methodology.
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You’ll learn how to artfully choose words, create imagery, sequence instructions, and craft a pace and tone that will help your students initiate their own healing and rejuvenation.
SCHEDULE
RYTT 2025 is now on-demand! Live mentorship and practice teaching sessions are offered monthly to support your training and provide live feedback and connection.
Mentorship & Practice Teaching Sessions:
December 2
2026 Dates Coming Soon
12-1:30 pm EDT, subject to change
Hear From Our Alumni
expanding your skills guest expert series
*OPTIONAL ADD-ON SERIES WITH EXPERTS IN RESTORATIVE PRACTICES
Explore a range of essential aspects of restoration, health, and healing with our experts that will prepare you to meet a wider range of needs within our communities including somatic healing, race-based trauma and post-traumatic growth, anxiety narrative healing, and pain.
MEET OUR GUEST EXPERTS
INDU ARORA
HALA KHOURI
DR. GAIL PARKER
LISA WEINERT
DR. CHRISTIANE WOLF
GUEST SPEAKER TOPICS
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Ayurveda is an ancient, person-specific healing modality. Conscious attention to dosha- and guna-specific preparation is a non-negotiable pillar for rest-based practices like Shavasana and Yoga Nidra. A deeper understanding of and attention towards such preparatory practices is essential if we wish to benefit deeply and also for our body and mind to attain a restful state with minimal effort and maximum ease.
According to Vedic wisdom, each one of us has a unique dosha constitution, signature of karmas and lifestyle. There is no denying that we have a different physical, mental, pranic, and emotional capacity too and so are our challenges. The same practice may not work the same way for everyone. By recognizing this, we prepare ourselves in a way that addresses the signature of unique dosha and guna imbalances that keeps us from diving into the state of rest.
MEET INDU ARORA
Indu Arora is a Yoga and Ayurveda teacher, mentor, and author, based out of the USA. She considers herself a student for a lifetime. Indu has been sharing about Yoga philosophy, Yoga Therapy, and Ayurveda for the last two decades across more than 50 cities worldwide. Her unique gift is making Yoga and Ayurveda a practice, which is equally useful and accessible for a beginner as for a sincere seeker who has made Yoga a lifelong journey. She is inspired by and taught under Kriya Yoga, Himalayan Yoga and Kashmir Shaivism Yoga lineages. She has studied in a traditional Guru-Shishya parampara.
Her teaching style is rooted in empowering and inspiring students to awaken the inner Guru through insight, discernment and self-inquiry. Her core philosophy is ‘Yoga is a Work-in and not a Work-out’.
She is the author of Mudra: The Sacred Secret (2015), Yoga: Ancient Heritage, Tomorrow’s Vision (2019), and SOMA: 100 Heritage Recipes for Self-Care (e-book, 2020; updated hard copy, 2022).
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
In this session, you'll learn the basic theory, tools, and a sample practice to better support trauma survivors as they befriend their bodies and establish a sense of safety in their practice. You will also explore an introduction to somatic and trauma-informed yoga techniques that can be integrated within a relaxation or restorative yoga practice.
MEET HALA KHOURI
Hala Khouri, M.A., SEP, E-RYT, has been teaching yoga and the movement arts for over 25 years and leads trauma-informed yoga trainings nationally. Hala is trained in Somatic Experiencing, a body-based psychotherapy that helps resolve trauma and its symptoms. She has been doing clinical work for over 10 years and is currently working on her doctorate in Community Psychology with an emphasis on Liberation Studies and Eco Psychology. She is a co-founder of Off the Mat, Into the World, a training organization that bridges yoga and activism within a social justice framework. She also works with A Thousand Joys training direct service providers and educators to be trauma-informed and culturally responsive. Learn more at halakhouri.com.
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Whether you are the cause, recipient of, or witness to racial stress and trauma; Restorative Yoga is a self-care practice that can help you find renewal, liberation, and inner peace. In this training module, Dr. Gail Parker will guide you on a journey of self-discovery, healing, and transformation. The emphasis will be on self-study, the utilization of Restorative Yoga postures, affirmations, and journaling prompts designed to help successfully navigate the stresses and traumas associated with race-based traumatic stress injury. These practices can buffer the nervous system, increase resilience, and strengthen the psychological immune system supporting health, growth, and transformation.
MEET DR. GAIL PARKER
Gail Parker, Ph.D. CIAYT, E-RYT 500, is an author, psychologist, educator, certified yoga therapist, and lifelong practitioner of yoga. She is the President of the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance. Dr. Parker has appeared as a psychologist expert on local and nationally syndicated talk shows, including numerous appearances on the Oprah Show.
Her bestselling book Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma blends psychology, Restorative Yoga, and meditation as effective self-care practices. Her new book Transforming Ethnic and Race-Based Traumatic Stress with Yoga is a companion guide that offers practical applications of yoga that support growth after trauma.
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In this workshop you will learn:
How to discover the healing power of your personal story, and how the practice of and teaching of restorative yoga can offer more awareness of the healing power of your story.
Through these practices and narrative healing, you will learn how to use your own story as an intentional teaching tool to connect with and offer healing to your students, clients, and community.
MEET LISA WEINERT
Lisa Weinert is passionate about the power of storytelling to heal and transform lives. She's the founder of Narrative Healing and she teaches regularly at places like Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, and Wesleyan University. Her first book Narrative Healing: Awaken the Healing Power of Your Story was published by Hachette Go in 2023. Find out more: www.narrativehealing.com
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Relaxing yoga poses can be wonderful when we struggle with pain. But sometimes we it feels that the pain gets in the way of relaxation. So what can we do when we can’t relax due to pain?
In this session we will explore the practices of mindfulness and self-compassion to become curious about all of our experience. What is it exactly, that we call pain? How are we relating to this experience? Are we annoyed? Frustrated? Fearful? Are these feelings adding to the pain or decreasing it? And how can loving awareness change this?
MEET DR. CHRISTIANE WOLF
Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD, is a former physician, internationally known mindfulness (MBSR, MSC) and Insight (Vipassana) meditation teacher. She is the author of Outsmart Your Pain and the coauthor of A Clinician’s Guide to Teaching Mindfulness. Dr. Wolf is the lead-consultant and teacher trainer for the VA’s (US Department of Veteran Affairs) National Mindfulness Facilitator Training.
She was trained as a Dharma and retreat teacher through Spirit Rock Meditation Center and the Insight Meditation Society under Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein.
Originally from Berlin, Germany, she is a senior teacher at InsightLA in Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband and their three teenagers.
Christiane is a long-time yoga practitioner and a long distance runner. Learn more at: www.christianewolf.com
Tuition & Registration
INCLUDES:
✓ 55-Hour Training with Jillian Pransky
✓ Live Sessions + All Recordings for 1 Year
✓ Mentorship Sessions
✓ 100+ Page Full-Color Digital Manual
✓ Yoga Alliance and International Association of Yoga Therapists
✓ Payment Plans & Scholarship Available
ON-DEMAND NOW
55-HOURS
$1399
PAYMENT PLANS AVAILABLE
68-HOURS
$1,699*
PAYMENT PLANS AVAILABLE
*Includes 13-Hour Guest Expert Series
partial scholarship
Scholarship rate for 2025 is $825 for the 55-hour training
You are invited to apply if you meet any of these requirements:
You are Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color, or you are an LGBTQIA practitioner/teacher
You are seeking a financial hardship gift and serving or offering teachings to underserved communities
You are working within a nonprofit
More information is available on the application.
FAQs
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Yes, this training is accredited for CEUs through Yoga Alliance and International Association of Yoga Therapy.
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All session recordings are available for one year. This training may be completed live or via recordings. All coursework may be completed via recordings. The 2025 training includes one year of ongoing mentorship with Jillian and Training Assistant Mentors.
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Required Books:
Deep Listening by Jillian Pransky
Suggested Books:
Soma - 100 Heritage Recipes for Self-Care by Indu Arora
Peace from Anxiety by Hala Khouri
Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma by Dr. Gail Parker
Radiant Rest by Tracee Stanley
Narrative Healing by Lisa Weinert
Outsmart Your Pain by Dr. Christiane Wolf
Props:
4-6 blankets
2-4 blocks
2-4 bed pillows
3-4 small towels
Ottoman or chair for legs up
1 bolster
2-4 eye bags
Long, soft scarf
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You can view the full detailed training schedule including the dates and times of all live sessions and when pre-recorded sessions will be available in the Free RYTT Training Guide.
have more questions about training?
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