24/08/2026
I am one of three designated teachers who can certify you in Judith Hanson Lasater's Relax and Renew® lineage.
Which means I see a lot of poses that look well supported.
The pose in slide 7 is the one I see most often. It photographs well. The bolster is there, the props are there, and the student is lying down with her eyes closed. Nothing under her head, though, and nothing under her elbows. So the neck extends instead of resting in slight flexion, and the humerus pulls at the shoulder for the whole eight minutes.
She will tell you afterwards that she could not settle. She will not know why.
As long as there is effort left somewhere, the body will not let go. Set up like a yin teacher and you use too little support, rarely where it is needed.
I wrote The Teacher's Guide to Restorative Yoga, with a foreword by Lizzie Lasater, so I am not going to tell you books are useless. But a book gives you the principles. It cannot look at the student in front of you and tell you to raise that bolster two inches.
You cannot teach a rest you have never had. That is what Module 1 is: twenty hours learning the practice in your own body. Restorative Yoga: The Foundations is open now.
Enroll by September 27 and you also get three months in the online studio, a €77 value.
The full pathway already runs in French and Italian. In English, it starts here, and Module 2 follows in February.
Comment FOUNDATIONS and I will send you the link.
