Breathe Life into Your Practice with the Restore Your Prana Certification Course

The Restore Your Prana (RYP) Professional Training offers an immersive breath-retraining certification uniquely tailored for yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and healthcare practitioners. This program will equip you with the essential tools you need to be proficient in recognizing and addressing dysfunctional breathing habits in your students and clients to greatly facilitate healing. The RYP program is the only breathing program that explores the original yoga teachings of pranayama within the context of respiratory physiology. You’ll graduate with the tools and confidence you need to address breathing pattern disorders from an authentic yoga perspective.

Discover the Power of the Breath

In the wake of the COVID crisis, the importance of breath has never been clearer. Our world needs skilled practitioners who can teach breathing techniques to bolster immune function, aid in recovery from Acute Respiratory Distress, and soothe anxiety.

Join us to:

·     Develop an in-depth understanding of yoga philosophy and the relationship between mind and breath according to both western and yoga science.

·     Explore respiratory physiology within the framework of the original yogic teachings on pranayama.

·     Gain a deep understanding of both the bio-mechanics and biochemistry of breathing.

·     Develop your personal practice and go through breath retraining personally so you can speak and teach from your personal experience.

·     Master pranayama techniques.

·     Empower others to harness the breath for enhanced health and resilience!

Information Session

Join us for an exclusive Facebook Live information session on April 10th at 4pm PST and delve into the transformative potential of the Restore Your Prana (RYP) program! Whether you're a yoga teacher, therapist, or healthcare practitioner, this session offers a unique opportunity to explore how RYP can elevate your practice and deepen your understanding of breathwork. Don't miss out – join us to gain insights into how RYP can empower you to unlock the healing power of pranayama.

Course Overview

Wherever your starting point, through this training you will learn how to teach pranayama with confidence and to competently use breathing exercises in your healing work with others.

  • Inspired by Robin Rothenberg’s groundbreaking book, “Restoring Prana: A Therapeutic Guide to Pranayama and Healing Through the Breath,” this training provides students with vital tools to unlock the potential of pranayama, aligning respiratory science with the traditional principles of yoga.

  • This course is intentionally set up to be 100% online and self-paced so that anyone in the world can participate and work with the material in a way that best matches their learning style.

  • Our comprehensive program offers over 30-hours of supplementary tutorials, including visually-friendly animated videos explaining intricate physiology. It also comprises over twenty inspiring pre-recorded yoga sessions led by Robin Rothenberg, demonstrating how to integrate the conceptual material from "Restoring Prana" into impactful classes.

  • Mentors

    Throughout the course, you'll be matched with a skilled mentor who will act as your personal coach, offering feedback, encouragement, and guidance to ensure your success in the program. Most of the RYP mentors are Certified Yoga Therapists (C-IAYTs) and have been personally trained by Robin. In addition, mentors have all completed the Buteyko Educators’ Training with one of the world’s leading authorities on the Buteyko Breathing Method, Patrick McKeown. Our mentors are flexible to accommodate time-zone differences. Tuition covers fifteen hours of one-on-one mentoring, including sessions every 4-6 weeks and assessment feedback on homework, practicum, and quizzes.

    Sanghas

    We host monthly RYP sangha gatherings, bringing together members from all cohorts and alumni. These interactive sessions provide opportunities for Robin to address questions, lead mini practices, and facilitate discussions among participants. Peer-to-peer networking and Breathing Buddy pairing enhance connectivity among students worldwide, guaranteeing a rich and fulfilling learning experience for all.

  • We’ve expanded the program to fifteen months from a year to allow students more time to digest and assimilate the material. Each module of the RYP includes a practicum component which allows you to safely practice the particular skills addressed in the corresponding section with mentor supervision and feedback.  

You’ll ‘learn on the job’ and acquire immediately usable skills as you progress through the program.

Course Materials:

· Robin’s book: Restoring Prana will serve as your manual for the course providing you with didactic material and at-home exercises.

· The Svadhayaya Breath Journal, the companion workbook to Restoring Prana, provides summaries, charts, worksheets and journaling questions designed to help you learn and digest the material.

· Ancillary Materials, available online, round out the written material through recorded practices, shorter videos on specific topics, and articles.

· Monthly Sangha gatherings are monthly live Zoom meetings where we gather to discuss progress, address questions, and practice. Recordings of these gatherings are available if you miss the live meeting, or if you want to explore any of the previous meetings.

 

Achieve Certification

 At the completion of the training and receipt of your RYP Certification, you will be able to: 

  • Confidently recognize and address common breathing pattern disorders.

  • Adapt pranayama techniques for a group or an individual.

  • Teach others the basics of functional breathing.

  • Facilitate safe and beneficial pranayama practices.

  • Articulate the Science of Breath from both the Vedic and Western Physiologic perspective. 

Personal Study Track

If a student’s primary intention in taking the RYP program is for personal growth and development, they may choose the personal study option. This allows students access to monthly mentor sessions and review of reflective assignments, as well as access to monthly Sangha Meetings. However, those that opt for the Personal Study Track will not be required to complete the practicum assignments or take the quizzes. With the Personal Study Track option students will not receive an RYP teaching certificate and will not be qualified to teach the RYP methodology in any educational forum. There is a slight fee reduction for the Personal Study Track.

Status Change: If a student initially chooses the Personal Study Track option, they will have three months to decide to upgrade to the full certification program. Likewise, if a student begins the course with the intention to complete the full certification and decides to change to the Personal Study Track, they can do so within the first three months, unless there are extenuating circumstances.

Pricing:

· TUITION for training:  $2,950

· Personal Study Track: $2,500

 Professional Development

· 100 APD credits available for IAYT

· 100 CE’s available for Yoga Alliance

 Pre-requisite to Training

All students are required to either attend or download and view the following (choose either option 1 or 2) prior to registration:

1)  Robin’s Restore Your Prana 10-hour workshop

2)  Robin’s Yoga U Online webinars: The Healing Power of Breath and Restoring Prana: The Key Roles of the Diaphragm in Health and Vitality (both webinars are required)  

 Upon completion of the preparatory courses, you’ll be required to complete a short Restore Your Prana online quiz to notify us of your readiness. Restoring Prana and the Svadhyaya Breath Journal are required texts for the training.  

21st Century Vitalism Podcast Interview—Functional Breathing and the Restoration of Prana with Robin Rothenberg

In this 21st Century Vitalism podcast episode, Robin takes us on a journey through the ancient Yogic practice of Pranayama and the most up to date scientific research on respiratory physiology - all while drawing some powerful and important parallels between the two. With this knowledge, she then teaches us how we can utilize the breath to cultivate greater energy, clarity, and spiritual insights.

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