DETAILS:
Date: Saturday 31 Oct - Sunday 1 November 2020
Time: 10:30am-5:30pm each day (Online via Zoom)
Investment: $295 Early Bird (Before 17 Oct 2020) OR $350 Full
With: Gena Kenny
“Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.”
Explore the somatic healing system of Restorative Yoga with one of Australia’s most renowned teachers in the method, Gena Kenny.
Over one immersive weekend, you will embody and explore potent kinaesthetic movement practices combined with more ‘traditional’ restorative poses designed to bring you back to wholeness and health.
Like an explorer, you will scale the terrain of your inner landscape as means of moving past the egoic and often limiting narrative of the mind, to land fully in the present moment in newfound state of rejuvenation and rest.
You will learn to listen deeply to the language of your body, understand the nervous system and its integral role in self-regulation and healing, make friends with the mental, emotional and physical trauma manifesting as stagnation in the energy body and develop intelligent trauma-informed techniques to further enhance your teaching.
This is a weekend of self [re]-discovery not to be missed as Gena shares with you her knowledge developed over decades of studentship and teaching under the tutelage of her teachers: Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Donna Farhi + Liz Koch.
Drawing on nature as perhaps her greatest teacher, Gena will shine a light on the Universe already residing within you, drawing on practices to help to connect with your physical, energetic, organ and fluid bodies and their role in helping to heal the body of trauma, illness + dis-ease.
This weekend immersion will equip you with knowledge required to confidently guide a Restorative Yoga class, further expanding your teaching repertoire.
ABOUT YOUR TEACHER: Gena Kenny
Gena is a leader in the field of Restorative Yoga, a teacher’s teacher and author of the best- selling Gift of Yoga book and DVD.
Gena discovered yoga through an injury in her previous career as a firefighter with the Melbourne Fire Brigade.
Through her career as a firefighter she incurred many injuries simply due the extraordinary physical nature of the work; this was her path to yoga.
Having lived with chronic pain for many years through a torn disc, Gena is a living example of how effective the practices of Restorative Yoga and Yoga Therapy are for moving out of a chronic state of pain. She believed that pain would be a part of her life always but after applying these practices consistently over time, she now lives pain free. She has returned to her sport of outrigger canoe paddling; she is back in the gym weight training and believes that without these practices this would not have been possible.
Through her own journey of moving out of chronic pain, Gena shares in depth knowledge and a lived experience with all who study with her.