Course Overview

Learn to teach Soundmoves Restorative classes with this series of partner-based exercise lessons. This course follows on from the pre-requisite restorative practice curriculum. Each lesson takes a position or a technique and guides you through necessary steps to deliver a whole new type of Yoga class. Building your creative repertoire will enable you to freestyle and improvise  classes that reflect your own personality and style. 

Key Positions:

  1. Standing
  2. Seated
  3. Prone
  4. Supine


Key Techniques:

  • Diaphragm Assisted Breathing
  • Diaphragm Resisted Breathing
  • Isokinetic Movement
  • Pandiculation
  • Vocalising
  • Drishti


Course Curriculum

    1. General Information

    1. Introduction to the Standing Position.

    2. Lesson 01: Basic Standing practice

    3. Lesson 02: Full Version teaching to a partner

    4. Lesson 03: Focus on Pranavrittasana

    5. Lesson 04: Focus on Namaskarasana 01 and 02

    6. Lesson 05: Focus on Ardha Chandrasana

    7. Lesson 06: Focus on Parivrittasana

    8. Lesson 07: Mini Version oriented to hands and feet

    9. Lesson 08: Mini Version oriented to eyes and abdomen

    10. Lesson 09: Mini Version oriented to knees and shoulders

    11. Lesson 10: Mini Version oriented to pelvis, spine and head

    1. Introduction to the Supine Position.

    2. Lesson 01: Basic Supine practice

    3. Lesson 02: Guiding primary diaphragmatic breathing with a partner

    4. Lesson 03: Adjusting and contacting in the Supine Position.

    5. Lesson 04: Vocalising in the Supine position.

    1. Introduction to the Prone Position

    2. Lesson 01. Basic Prone practice sequence

    3. Lesson 02: Prone Position - Set-up and Adjustments

    4. Lesson 03: Demonstrate Teaching to Partner

    1. Introduction to the Seated Position

    2. Lesson 01: Basic Seated practice

    3. Lesson 02: Seated Partner set-up

About this course

  • 24 lessons

Soundmoves creator and curator

25 years Yoga teaching experience

M. Sc, C-IAYT, ERYT-500 Noah Mckenna

Noah Mckenna developed Soundmoves after two decades as a teacher trainer and therapist in the Yoga hotspot of Mysore, India. Soundmoves brings clinical experience and cutting edge research to the table infusing multiple healing modalities into a seamless formula. As an instructor Noah has the gift of distilling information and conveying it with simplicity and depth. The lesson designs reflect a coherent structure that comes from decades in the field. Noah's clinical research on the therapeutic effects of Soundmoves Yoga happens at the University of Adelaide School of Medicine in the discipline of Psychiatry. His clinical work tracks heart-mind connectivity when yoga practices are performed at specific frequencies. Heart rate variability is central to this work and intersects with blood pressure and brain wave rhythms.