Private restorative yoga: rest, with every shape supported

Restorative yoga is the quietest practice I teach. You lie or sit in a small number of shapes, each one built out of bolsters, blankets and blocks until nothing has to hold you up, and you stay in each for several minutes. There is no flow to follow and nothing to get right.

I am 200-hour trained at House of Om, Bali (more on that teacher training in Bali), and I have practised yoga for more than eight years.

What a restorative lesson includes

A private lesson is 90 minutes, and it comes to you. We start by talking for a few minutes about how your body and your week have been, because that decides which shapes we use. Then we move slowly through a handful of supported postures: a reclined shape over a bolster, a supported child’s pose, legs resting up a wall or a chair, and a quiet side-lying rest.

I adjust the props as we go. A blanket under the knees, a block under a hand, another fold under the head.

Every private lesson ends the same way: savasana with a mini massage, a short hands-on release for the neck and shoulders, and then sound healing to close.

Who restorative yoga suits

Restorative yoga suits people who are tired more than they are stiff. If your days are full, your shoulders live up near your ears, and a strong class feels like one more thing to push through, this is a gentler place to start. It also suits students who are returning to movement after a long break. It can be shared, too: in a lesson for you and your partner, each of you has your own mat and props.

If you would like some sensation and a little more stretch, Yin, with its longer and deeper holds, is close by. If the tiredness is really about work, read about lessons for stress and burnout.

Restorative yoga is not a treatment for any condition. If you are managing an injury, a health condition or a pregnancy, check with your doctor first and tell me what they said when you book.

How booking works

Message me on Viber. Tell me where you are in Metro Manila, roughly when you would like the lesson, and anything I should know about your body. We agree a time, and I arrive with the mats and props.

I teach private yoga across Metro Manila: in a tower in Taguig, with private yoga in BGC, or close to my own home, with private yoga in Rockwell. Before you message, see what the 90 minutes include and what a lesson costs.