Beloved,-- if you're feeling disconnected, exhausted, burnt out, like your creativity is tapped out. If you are feeling called to offer nourishment to yourself and your community this is for you
Doing will not give you your being. We are collectively stuck in "go-mode," burnt out & depleted. This is an invitation to make your body & mind a refuge. To reclaim your being.
Rest is goodness in action. It transforms your inner landscape. In this 50 hour level 1 restorative training you'll explore and learn to teach practices for deep and nourishing rest, techniques for nervous system regulation, myofascial release techniques, pranayama practices, and so much more. It is time to reclaim your birthright.
This 50 hour training is on-demand with instant and lifetime access
Building an Inner Life
Restorative yoga practices, nervous system regulation tools, and contemplative practices offer us and opportunity to build our inner landscape. To create an internal refuge that is resilient, boyant, tender, and spacious. When we cultivate our inner world through deep rest we are better able to face life's challenges with compassion and generosity. This practice is far more than techniques it is an invitation to build an inner intimacy.
What will you learn?
- Restorative yoga poses and prop set ups
- Sequencing restorative yoga classes
- Katonah Yoga™ restructuring restorative techniques
- Myofascial release techniques
- Applied anatomy of the nervous system
- Nervous system regulation techniques
- Somatic tools
- Teaching techniques
- Pranayama (breathwork)
- Physiology of relaxation
- Implications for optimal longevity
- Teaching private lessons
This training was offered livestreaming in 2024. You will have lifetime access to the program and you are welcome to email Selena to ask questions and to schedule a 30 minute call to ask questions as you move through the material.
The course was recorded over multiple weekends and is broken into modules for ease. Please note that there are a handful of images referenced in the course that are no longer available. This will in no way effect your ability to learn the material. All postures are demonstrated and practiced during the course. The program is discounted to reflect to lack of live interaction and the missing images. The content is stellar.
Rest is a God-like Thing...
- Reclaim your humanity through rest
- Learn that rest is resistance and a radical act that will support your flourishing
- You are not a machine and through this course you will learn to choose rest not as a reward for doing but as a foundation for living.
- You will learn to creative an atmosphere that supports a calm nervous system
We are dismantling the idea that resting is laziness - reclaiming our humanity and committing to contemplative practices that build our inner intimacy, presence, and joy.
You will commit to deep personal rest during your training and learn to hold that spaciousness and tenderness within so that you may share it outwardly. This work will transform your family, your creativity, your work. Whether you are a teacher ready to guide others in these practices or a student craving something beyond the power-vinyasa practices that can drive us further into the ground this is for you.
Who is this for?
This training is for anyone ready to deepen their relationship with rest. Yoga teachers will receive 50 hours of CEUs and a graduation certificate of completion. These hours may also be applied to a 1,000 hour teacher training with Selena.
Non-teachers will highly benefit from this work. It will provide you with a powerful home practice.
All of us deserve to to be empowered to take care of ourselves, to learn to tend to our inner landscape, and to provide self-nourishment. Being a teacher is not required.
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Meet Selena
Selena is a renowned Teacher of Yoga and Meditation, dedicated to delivering transformative wellness experiences that inspire personal growth, creativity, and inner harmony. With extensive experience leading global retreats, she masterfully blends cultural exploration with yoga, breathwork, and meditation practices, guiding individuals toward clarity, balance, and renewed purpose.
As a Leadership Coach and Mentor, Selena empowers others to unlock their potential. Her academic foundation is complemented by years of experience guiding individuals towards personal growth. With extensive training in psychology, holistic therapies, and personal development methodologies, she has earned certifications in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnosis, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) coaching which she applies to her clients. Her work fosters deep self-discovery, empowering participants to reconnect with their authentic selves and embrace a life of intention and well-being.
Selena holds an MPH from Boston University in International Public Health, a MA in Sociocultural Anthropology, and was a PhD Candidate. She is a Fulbright scholar and two time Cornell University Fellow.
Selena’s thoughtfully curated retreats seamlessly blend cultural exploration with self-discovery, fostering spaces for joyful, intentional living and conscious travel.
Since 2015, Selena’s syncretic teaching has been profoundly impacted by immersion in studies with her mentor, Nevine Michaan, founder of Katonah Yoga®. The techniques underpinning the Katonah practices come from classical Hatha yoga, geometry, Five Element Theory, and various lineages of western esoteric philosophy. Learn more at KatonahYoga.com
Reclaiming your birthright
When we hold rest as a lifestyle, when we've cultivated our inner landscape and built a cherished intimacy with the body we are more attuned to our intuition, our boundaries come easy, our creativity flows, and we surrender to the buoyancy of life as it is.
You are not created to hustle and grind - living from a place of rest, worth, and nourishment will shift the way you show up in the world. It is an act of altruism.
THIS COURSE IS JUST $479 the life course was $1200 but as you do not have direct access to Selena for each live class the courwse is discounted.
YES, I NEED RESTBy the end of our 50 hour training, you'll have learned to:
- Guide yourself and others into deep rests states
- You will have set off on a journey of inner compassionate listening
- You will feel confident offering these practices to others
And you'll learn from a relaxed and easeful state! This is a NO PRESSURE training. Your goal is to let yourself soak in it.
My goals is that you would first and foremost steep yourself in this work. There is no pressure to "get it all" straight from the get go.
Teachers wishing to graduate must watch the recordings, complete a written project within 1 year of completion. You will receive personal feedback.
Resting is an act of resilience and revolution in the endless mess of "grind culture"
She truly comprehends the complexity and pitfalls of the human experience on such a vast level. Her craving of knowledge and ability to make it accessible and easily integratabtle in your life is transformational. I left the workshop inspired but also immediately started implementing communication skills I learned; which will improve all my relationships, most importantly the one with myself. I don’t think the knowledge and insight you gain from a Selena workshop is as fleeting as some because of the myriad of tools she supplies to you. She is dedicated to providing every student a useful and meaningful way to process and implement the information she presents.
Veronica
Selena's workshop will inspire, educate, and empower you to pursue and uncover your authentic self. She is not your teacher if you wish to be coddled or spoon fed. She will provoke fundamental questioning that invites you to strip away the self limiting stories, practices, and habits that hold you back from your greatest potential. Go to her class, shake the dust, and breathe life into your dry bones.
Maggie
The Power of Rest
The world needs more than power vinyasa classes, fire and yang. We need to cultivate our depths, we need to establish ourselves in the ground of being, learn to tend to our bodies from a place of love. We need to reclaim our rest and our tenderness.
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- Flexible online learning platform
- Lifetime Recording Access
- Spaced Modules for integration
- CEUS and advanced TT hours for teachers
- Open to all practitioners
- Flexible and supportive learning
Students are required to purchase props for their restorative work. A list of required props can be found in your course platform.
This course is missing a few images referenced in the course. Your learning is in no way impacted as ALL postures are practiced and recorded during the course.
Your learning is supported by several beautiful books you will be required to purchase. Your reading list can be found in the course platform. This includes discourse on anti-racism and rest as liberation.
Let's Talk Modules
Intensive Weekends
MODULE 1
Module 1
Weekend 1 you will learn about the physiology of rest, nervous system basics, practices for connecting with your inner landscape & calming the nervous system. Practicing containment, creating safe conditions, and experience restorative yoga practices.
MODULE 2
Module 2
In our second intensive weekend we will explore prop set ups and sequencing of restorative yoga classes. Breath practices and myofascial techniques *this is not a full myofascial training but you will learn simple techniques for integrating into your work and home practice.
MODULE 3
Module 3
You will learn implications of restorative yoga on the lymphatic system, nervous system, and longevity. Katonah Yoga™ restructuring postures.
Selena has once again totally over delivered. Her programs are all so rich I will be returning to this material for years to come. I also cannot stress enough how much this changed my own practice and relationship with self. As always her courses are not just pragmatics, they are always a whole life endeavor. 5 stars.
Joanne Yoga Teacher
Selena made me fall in love with yoga again. I am a long time teacher and yoga therapist and frankly so disillusioned with the wellness and yoga world. Selena is a breath of fresh air and pragmatic magic in a world of hype and oversimplification. She honors the complexity of life in a way that makes me exhale.
Faith Yoga Teacher
Selena once again turned my world upside down. Every time I take a course with her I come out with so much more than new set of skills. My relationship with self was expanded, my patterns shifted, and my day to day improved. I've been integrating what I learned more into my own life at this point than my classes and I'm so grateful.
Nikki
I can't say enough about Selena's courses. I sign up for all of them. She continues to wow me with how much she knows. Her own hunger as a student is contagious. She's a no BS teacher that somehow still keeps all the mystery and magic without the nonsense. No spiritual bypassing here. Honest conversations, solid teaching.
Kate
I'm ready for the rest revolution
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