50-Hour Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra, and Pranayama Training at Suryalila, Andalusia

The 50-Hour Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra, and Pranayama Training is a yoga teacher training at Suryalila Retreat Centre in Villamartín, Andalusia, Spain. It is led by Lidiya Petkova and Vidya Heisel, and it is built around the practice of conscious rest. It suits yoga teachers and practitioners who want to deepen their understanding of restorative yoga, yoga nidra and pranayama and learn to share these practices with others.

What to Expect

Over 50 hours of training, you study how rest can be taught with skill and care. The focus is on three threads:

- Nervous system balance: learning how restorative practices support the body's ability to settle and recover.
- Deep relaxation: cultivating it in your own practice, so you know from the inside what you will be offering.
- Guiding with confidence: building the ability to lead restorative practices that nourish body, mind and spirit.

Restorative yoga, yoga nidra and pranayama sit together naturally in this training. Each asks for slowness and attention, and each works through the breath and the quality of stillness more than through effort. For teachers whose classes lean toward the active, it offers a different way of holding a room.

About Lidiya Petkova and Vidya Heisel

Lidiya Petkova and Vidya Heisel co-lead this training, bringing two teachers' perspectives to the study of restorative practice, yoga nidra and breathwork.

The Setting

The training takes place at Suryalila Retreat Centre in Villamartín, in the Andalusian countryside of southern Spain. Suryalila is a yoga and wellness retreat centre, and its quiet surroundings suit a course about slowing down and resting well.