Restorative Yoga is healing in its nature and is less about doing and more about ‘undoing’.

Restorative Yoga is an invitation to go inside, internally nourishing and allowing the body to do what it needs to do to heal and restore.  Slowly, we feel into more softening, and spaciousness – a place where our nervous system gets the attention it needs and where great things can happen when we experience parasympathetically dominance (state of relaxation).

There’s no doing in Restorative Yoga. For some of us this ability to fully relax, to stay still can feel near impossible and very challenging to practice. Just know though that restorative yoga whilst passive is very productive.  

In Restorative Yoga the stretches are 100% supported with props. The poses are usually held for longer, some between 2-5 minutes. By staying in the pose for an extended period of time, restorative yoga provides the muscles with a deep stretch giving us the chance to experience “beingness,” or a quality of awareness not related to “doing”.

 My name is Jan Ungerer and I am a qualified Restorative Yoga Teacher, having completed my yoga training under the loving guidance of many esteemed teachers including an immersion program with the original teachings by Astanga Yoga Master Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. I am a leadership coach, a yoga teacher , mother and grandmother. I am also inhabiting a body that is getting older and ever changing.

 So, if you have ever felt the need to slow down, find time to literally breathe and you are leaning more towards the ‘yin’ side of things meaning a softer, more receptive and relaxing way of being, then this is for you!