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20-HOUR YOGA ALLIANCE RESTORATIVE YOGA TEACHER TRAINING – NYC
December 20, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Hello, Harlem! In this training, we dive deep into the art of holding space for deep relaxation. Creating a safe, calm environment and assisting with the release of tension and trauma for deep healing. All levels welcome. This training will give you the confidence to hold space for others and for yourself.
Saturday, Dec. 20, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm | Sunday, Dec. 21, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm | 6 hours of prerequisite online content that will need to be watched prior to the in-person training | 20 Hr CEUs
20-HOUR YOGA ALLIANCE YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
As we round an incredibly powerful year and head towards winter solstice, we are honored to host an unforgettable 2-day live and online restorative yoga teacher certificate training.
This training will give you the confidence to hold space, teaching restorative with or without props. Teaching different types of bodies, prenatal, recovery and injuries as we work through many different modifications and ways to support the body, meeting each student where they are at.
At the heart of the holistic practices within the training is a commitment to transformative and heart-centered whole-person wellbeing. Drawing from the knowledge amassed by Micheline, renowned yoga, fitness, and wellness trainer, across a variety of practices, participants will learn well-researched wellness, restorative, and healing practices and tools in a space of intentional collective care. Tap in through powerful and life-changing discovery through a combination of yoga, energy work, and sound healing to create a safe space to heal and grow.
IT TAKES A VILLAGE
The home of our weekend wellness training is Chloe Day School & Wellness Center. In support of the Center’s generous “Week of Gratitude” initiative, a portion of the proceeds from our weekend training will go to a local senior center who will provide seniors impacted by Snap cuts $25.00 holiday grocery cards from a local grocer.
CURRICULUM OVERVIEW:
Breathwork and Short Guided Meditation
What is Restorative Yoga
Creating Deep Relaxation and Balanced Sessions
Key Principles for Finding Deep Relaxation
➛ Less Movement & Going Inward
➛ Breathwork, Visualization and Simple Cueing
➛ Fully Supporting the Body
➛ How to Create a Safe and Warm Environment
➛ Calming the Nervous System
➛ Hands On – The Power of Touch and when not to touch.
GAIN IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE ON:
Yoga Nidra
Why Practice Restorative
Teaching – Restoratives Shapes and Modifications for injuries/Prenatal/Different Bodies
Hands on Practice
Pressure Points
Alternative Props
ABOUT THE TEAM:
➛ Training Facilitator—Micheline, founder of Be Well Yoga & Reiki, has been practicing yoga for over 20 years and teaching since 2015. She took her teacher training in 2015 at Revolution Yoga and has been teaching ever since. Micheline has her 200 Hr and 300 Hr Ytt, and many additional trainings that give her a full rounded education on creating spaces to slow down focusing on the physical and energetic bodies. Her passion for Restorative Yoga comes from the understanding of the benefits it offers through her own experience. Restorative Yoga has helped her at a deep level to heal from past trauma and helps her reset on a daily basis while juggling a busy schedule as a homeschooling Mom, Wife, Yoga Instructor/Teacher Trainer and Reiki Master Teacher.
“Restorative Yoga is a deep healing practice that I have learned to love and hold dear to my heart. It should be available to everyone, even if it means laying on a bed or seated on a chair.” —Micheline DeBono, Founder of Be Well Yoga and Reiki
➛ Co-producer—Kahshanna brings her passion for consciousness leadership, transformative and ancestral healing practices, and PACEs and resilience science to her role as a purpose-driven catalyst and trauma-informed change agent across a variety of transformative disciplines – and as the Founder and “Community Building Through Communications” Strategist at Kissing Lions Public Relations. Kahshanna served as a subject matter expert, organizational spokesperson, and facilitator of trauma-informed (TI) training for various communities in the public and private sector. Kahshanna is “Tending the Roots” and “Equity in Practice” certified. Kahshanna is a New York State Trauma Informed Network and Resource Center (NYS TINRC) Advisory Council member and is an International Civil Society Working Group (ICSWG) member of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (UN PFPAD).
Note: To attend this training, participants must complete the registration process and all prerequisites.