Teacher Training
Get ready to find and share your calm
30-hr Restorative Yoga Teacher Training
Embodied Rest: The Foundations of Restorative Yoga
with Alana Mitnick
Yoga Alliance Certified.
Participants who complete the training will receive 30 continuing education hours (CEUs). This training also fulfills one module of Bodhi Salt Yoga’s 2027 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training program.
Restorative Yoga is a practice of being, rather than doing.
Conscious relaxation takes practice. As yogis, it’s an essential life skill we can cultivate in ourselves and learn to share with our students and loved ones. Through supported, restful postures, we begin to recognize habitual patterns of tension and gently invite the body and mind to soften, release, and let go. By supporting the body’s relaxation response and parasympathetic nervous system activity, Restorative Yoga encourages deep rest and restoration, creating space for healing.
Join Alana Mitnick for a nourishing, rejuvenating, and enriching 30-hour Restorative Yoga Teacher Training. Open to yoga teachers and dedicated practitioners, this training is designed to deepen your understanding and personal experience of Restorative Yoga while providing the foundational knowledge and practical skills to guide others with greater confidence, awareness, and presence.
The training combines guided restorative sessions with detailed posture and prop breakdowns, lectures, and group discussions. You’ll learn how to design and guide thoughtful, accessible restorative experiences for group classes, private sessions, and your own personal practice.
Class Dates
This training will be held over 2 weekends:
January 22, 23, & 24
January 29, 30, & 31
Class will meet from:
Friday 6 pm - 9 pm
Saturday 1 pm - 6:00 pm
Sunday 1 pm - 6:00 pm
Investment
Early Bird Price:
by November 18, 2026
$595
Full Price:
$695
Fees include a Restorative Yoga Manual.
This 30-hour Yin Yoga Training is certified through the Yoga Alliance for Registered Yoga Teachers. Graduates of this training will receive a total of 30 hours of continuing education units.
Restorative Yoga Postures & Gentle Transitions — Explore foundational restorative postures and the art of transitioning slowly and mindfully between them.
Detailed Prop Use & Setup — Learn to work skillfully with bolsters, blankets, blocks, straps, chairs, walls, and sandbags to create comfort, stability, and support in each posture.
Assessment, Modifications & Adaptations — Develop strategies for adapting practices to meet the needs of different bodies, ages, abilities, injuries, and limitations.
Pre & Postnatal Posture Considerations
Sequencing for Groups & Individuals — Learn to design restorative practices for group classes and private sessions, and to thoughtfully integrate restorative poses into other styles of yoga.
The Nervous System: Understanding Stress & Relaxation — Explore how Restorative Yoga supports nervous system regulation and creates conditions for rest and restoration.
Yoga Nidra — Experience and explore the practice of guided yogic sleep and deep relaxation.
Subtle Anatomy & Energetics — Investigate the energetic dimensions of rest and the subtle body.
Therapeutic & Safe Touch — Explore consent, boundaries, and guidelines for supportive, appropriate touch.
Creating a Safe & Nurturing Environment — Learn how to cultivate a welcoming, supportive space where students can soften, settle, and rest.
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about Alana…
Guided by love, Alana's presence and teaching allows for the space to pause and listen within. With an interest in drawing awareness towards the subtle body through breath and sensation, she offers yoga classes that are accessible to people of all ages, bodies, and abilities.
Alana, E-RYT 500, has been a dedicated practitioner of Yoga for over 25 years. She completed her training with Kira Sloane through Lulu Bandha's Yoga School and has been teaching consistently for 16 years. She owned the Ojai Yoga Shala for five years while simultaneously serving as Lead Content Producer at Yoga Anytime from 2014-2022. Alana currently teaches Restorative and Yin Yoga Teacher Trainings at Bodhi Salt Yoga.
As a new mother, Alana continues to practice and share Yoga because it keeps her honest, conscious, and invites a quality of ease and spaciousness into her relationships and everyday life. She is committed to a path of service and integrity, and aims to live a wild, wholehearted, authentic, and meaningful life.