Embodied Rest™️ Foundation
Yoga teacher training YTT
A carefully curated 40 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Embodied Rest, a practice that fuses Restorative Yoga, Somatics and Nervous System tools, creating a modern, intelligent, Inclusive, Nervous System & Trauma Informed approach to guiding rest practices.
Co-created and taught by Calli Popham & Flo Derounian
“Rest will never feel urgent to those who don’t understand the violence of exhaustion. In a world that uses the body as currency, rest is a sacred defiance A reminder that we shall not be owned.”
course structure
DATES & TIMES:
1 weekend at Flow State in Hove, Brighton.
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DATE: Friday 3 | TIME: 2pm - 8pm
DATE: Saturday 4 | TIME: 11am - 8pm
DATE: Sunday 5 | TIME: 10:30am - 5:30 pm
Online modules
3 Live & Recorded ZoOM CALLS
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DATE: Tuesday 7th | TIME: 10 :30am - 1:00pm
DATE: Tuesday 14th | TIME: 10 :30am - 1:00pm
DATE: Tuesday 21st | TIME: 10 :30am - 1:00pm
WHAT THE TRAINING COVERS
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Exploring the history of Restorative & Yin practices and their evolution
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What is ‘Rest’?
Looking at the Etymology of Rest & What our own personal relationship to Rest is
Understanding the Science of Rest & Fatigue
The Physiological Rest Response & what happens Neurologically when we are at rest.
Exploring the difference between Rest and Sleep
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Exploring what it means to ‘be embodied’.
What an Embodied Practice and approach is, and why it matters in this modern day.
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Understanding how Trauma, Systemic and Social Injustice & Neurodivergence can impact a persons ability to ‘rest’
Exploring how to make practices Trauma - Informed and Inclusive for all Nervous Systems
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What is the Nervous System, what role does it play?
Understanding the Polyvagal TheoryBreath and its link to the Nervous System and breath practices to down regulate
Understanding the role of Movement in Nervous System Regulation and why movement before stillness can be crucial
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IHow to Hold & Create a safe space for people to fully rest through an Polyvagal Lens
Understanding Neuroception & how to create a welcoming safe space for all nervous systems
Environmentally & working with Exteroceptive Senses
How to Hold a Safe Space
How to create a Rest Suitable playlist and why on a Neurological level Music is important
Body Language
Using Trauma Informed Inclusive Language & Understanding Prosody
How to hold both Story & Silence throughout a Rest Class
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What is Fascia
Working with the Fascial system
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How to intelligently sequence a Rest Class
Exploring the Dance of Movement & Stillness
Foundational and Creative ways to to Prop Restorative Poses
Embodied Visualisations
Trauma informed & Inspiring Language & Cueing
Exploring how to hold both Story & Silence
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What is Embodied Touch?
How is it different to ‘Assisting’ or ‘Adjusting’ in other styles of yoga
Self-Massage Techniques
Touch & Trauma
Seeking Consent
Hands on Practice
LEAD TEACHERS
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Calli Popham
FOUNDER + LEAD TEACHER
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FLO DEROUNIAN
EMBODIED REST
INVESTMENT & APPLICATION
cOURSE FEES: £600
If you are called to join this training please apply below.