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, E-RYT 500, YACEP, 30 years exp Noah Mckenna

Noah Mckenna developed the Soundmoves method over three decades of teaching and personal practice. The approach centres on restorative yoga taught at clinical depth — sequencing built around the autonomic nervous system, integrated with heart rate variability biofeedback, polyvagal-informed practice, and resonant frequency breathing. Noah holds an M.Sc, the C-IAYT credential from the International Association of Yoga Therapists, E-RYT 500 with Yoga Alliance, and YACEP continuing education provider status. Soundmoves is registered as an IAYT-Approved Professional Development provider, a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga School (RYS 200 and RYS 300), and a YACEP provider. His teaching draws on years of immersion in India — including time in Mysore — but the methodology he now teaches is his own: a synthesis of contemplative tradition, contemporary neuroscience, and the practical science of breath. The work is delivered as evidence-informed yoga teaching with a primary focus on nervous system regulation, suitable for students wanting to teach this work themselves and for yoga therapists wanting to deepen their clinical scope. He teaches online, asynchronously, with lifetime access for every student. Direct questions from enrolled students are welcomed.