![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve come to believe that the support of one firm bolster is enough to allow many of us to let go after a long day. (In this restorative practice, for example, we make use of the same prop setup for a few poses.) It’s especially helpful when teaching students who are newer to restorative yoga, when teaching large groups, and when teaching or practicing somewhere that might not have a vast storehouse of yoga props (like a gym or your own home, for example).Įven when I’m teaching small groups of students familiar with restorative yoga at studios with ample props, I find that being able to use the same setup for two or three poses helps the flow of class. When I finally began teaching restorative classes, the solution I gradually arrived at was to create an extremely simple setup-the one I’m sharing here-and to use that setup for all the poses in a sequence. Still, when I became a yoga teacher, I shrank from teaching restorative yoga, daunted by the prospect of talking groups of people into building the poses I’d come to love. I tried a few restorative classes, but I was put off by the elaborate setups for each pose, which I felt stole minutes from my “naps” and taxed my mind with the (for me!) terrible task of spatial reasoning (I thank all the yoga teachers over the years who patiently untangled me from straps).Įach new setup created anxiety in me: Will I be the only one who builds this next pose all wrong?Īs I slowly became familiar with the architecture of the most frequently taught restorative poses, I got over my grumpiness and learned to love practicing restorative yoga with as many props as possible. ![]() I admit that early on in my yoga life, I wasn’t much of a restorative yogi. ![]()
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