Restorative Teacher Training with Sarah WIlliams
at Luna Wave, Spring 2027
We’re excited to share this Continued Professional development course at Luna Wave, led by senior Yoga Teacher Sarah Williams
Join us for this Sea front Yoga Teacher training now rescheduled for Spring 2027 for Yoga teachers, trainees and body worker and keen students!
How do you practise and teach restorative yoga in an overstimulated world?
This 30-hour course offers a comprehensive approach to traditional practices of rest and restorative yoga, complemented by somatic inquiry — working directly with interoception, nervous system states and the felt sense of the body. Rooted in yoga and backed by science, this explorative training puts your own embodied experience at the heart of your learning.
Through a combination of theory, practice and self-led study, you'll build the confidence to teach and practise restorative yoga with real depth. You'll come away with a working understanding of what restorative practice and somatic movement actually are — and why they give you and your students genuine tools for self-inquiry, not just relaxation.
KEY TAKEAWAYS OVER The three weekends
Experience the art of restorative yoga through practice
Learn ten key restorative postures, plus numerous variations and prop strategies
Learn how to sequence full restorative practices, and how to weave rest into active/dynamic classes
Explore stress physiology and the anatomy of rest, including the autonomic nervous system and its states of regulation
Learn a range of somatic practices inspired by Sarah's long term Feldenkrais practice] — along with templates and guidelines to build your own
Why is this training different?
Most restorative trainings go straight to the postures. This one doesn't.
True rest isn't a shape the body holds, it's a state the nervous system has to be guided into. Going straight into stillness can actually keep the body on guard: without first building interoceptive awareness, a "restful" posture can be held in a body that's still bracing, still scanning, still far from parasympathetic. This training starts instead with somatic inquiry; orientation, titration, tracking the felt sense, so that the nervous system is met and gently guided toward genuine down-regulation before a single restorative posture is introduced. The postures become an outcome of that process, not a substitute for it.
Informed by a wide range of movement methods, this training combines traditional restorative practice with rigorous somatic inquiry to create a holistic and transformative journey to deep rest.
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Yoga teachers and trainees of all styles, backgrounds and experience.
Keen students who want to explore and bring further understanding to their own practice.
Massage therapists, therapists, bodyworkers and movement professionals looking to bring tools to their existing profession.
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The course takes place over 3 weekends in Spring 2027. We have organised it this way to give you plenty of time for integration of learning and information and to make it as accessible as possible.
Weekend 1 : February 6th and 7th
Weekend 2: March 6th and 7th
Weekend 3: April 10th and 11th
Saturdays: 2:30-7:30pm
Sundays: 3:30-8:30pm
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The benefits of taking a training in person span beyond peer learning. In a studio setting you’ll also benefit from the nervous system regulatory power of being with other people. Our studio is right on the Brighton Seafront, so you’ll also enjoy the magic of Brighton Sunsets and the immersive power of Nature as you learn.
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Attendance of full course
Submission of restorative sequence
Class practice/observation log
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The training costs £585.
Payment plans are available. To discuss your options please contact Sarah directly on sarah@sarahwilliamsyoga.com
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Yes, we have one fully funded scholarship on this training.
If you’re interested please fill in this form to be considered. Applications close end of the day, October 31st.
We will be in touch after that to let you applicants know if they have been successful.
Please note, places on this are non-refundable so please make sure you’re able to commit before you make payment.
ABOUT SARAH
Sarah is a senior teacher. She brings traditional teachings into a modern context, and her classes offer students a platform to get to know themselves rather than perform. Sarah is inspired by teaching beginners and supporting the next generation of yoga teachers. She teaches classes, workshops and teacher trainings throughout the UK. Sarah's teaching has been featured in publications including The Guardian, and she is a feature writer for Om Yoga and Lifestyle Magazine.
Sarah trained under and formerly assisted Jason Crandell on his advanced teacher trainings, and holds an MA in the Traditions of Yoga and Meditation from SOAS, University of London. She is also a proud ambassador for the charity Yoga Gives Back.