YogaFaith Restorative Teacher Training
This training is online and can be done at your own pace with community and interaction.
Registered YogaFaith Restorative Trainer, R-YFRT
In a loud and chaotic world, prepare to restore and revive your soul. YogaFaith Restorative Training was created to help you live from a Sabbath heart, to cease from striving and begin abiding. Come with us as we show you how to take the Lord’s hand and keep your gaze on Him while His Holy Spirit breathes renewing breath into your physical body, your mind and your soul.
The required textbooks will be a welcoming season of relaxation and restoration. Enjoy teachings from first and foremost from God’s holy-breathed Word-the Bible, Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.d., Pastor and Author John Bevere, Yoga Therapist Michelle Thielen and author Bonnie Gray. Judith’s book Restore and Rebalance takes us through the anatomy of restorative yoga from the expert herself. Bonnie’s Whispers of Rest will create a deeply intimate journey with the Lord each day of your exploration of postures combined with her meditations. Michelle helps us redeem and reconcile biblical principles and techniques while elevating our prayer life in Stretching Your Faith. John Bevere’s The Bait of Satan will keep us from the deadliest trap of offense, the one thing that keeps you at unrest. Lastly, Mark Buchanan will change the rest of your life as he shows you how to restore Sabbath not only as a day, but as a lifestyle in The Rest of God.
Are you ready to be made whole? It begins with restoring your rest.
This training is the antidote to fight-flight-freeze.
Designed as a 40-day journey but go at your own pace.
Learn how to live from a place of rest and show others how to do the same.
Receive R-YFRT Certification
Receive 50 hours of Education // Continued Education Credits (CEC’s)
- Hours are currently being counted as contact hours.
“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.” Matthew 28-30, The Message
Additional Information:
Judith Lasater, C-IAYT, Founder of Relax and Renew
We will also practice Restorative yoga asana as a form of refuge.
Jody Thomae, International YogaFaith Director
R-YFT, TSYF, R-YFMT 500, Relax & Renew®. Yoga Therapist
Director and Ambassador Jody Thomae is an author, worship leader, and teacher of embodied prayer and creative worship. She has been involved in worship arts ministries since 1997 and is the author of “God’s Creative Gift” and “The Creator’s Healing Power.” Jody served as the Ambassador of the Year in 2018-2019.
Her passion is for the revelation of God to be made real through the prophetic and creative portrayal of the message of Christ’s unfailing love, in order to help sustain the hearts of the broken and weary. She is particularly interested in how God uses creativity and embodied movement (including yoga) in the formative and healing process. She is a graduate of Ashland Theological Seminary and a team member with Healing Care Ministries.
She has taught yoga for close to two decades and leads gently challenging Vinyasa flow (or slow, energizing flow) yoga classes that are ROOTED (grounded in form, alignment, intention) and REACHING (stretching towards personal goals, dreams, destiny). She is a YogaFaith Director, a Registered YogaFaith Master Trainer (R-YFMT), a Christian Yoga Association Master Trainer, R-CYAMT and Continuing Education Provider, CYA-CEP. She is also a Relax & Renew Trainer. Jody is currently pursuing her certification as a Spiritual Director through Healing Care Ministries. See www.jodythomae.com for more information on her ministry activities. See Rooted and Reaching here.
Amy Kuscsik
Yoga Therapist, YF-A, R-YFMT 500, YF-LT
Amy resides just outside of Perrysville, OH with her husband and three children. Yoga has been in and our of her life for nearly 20 years. In 2010, the Lord had other plans for her and brought yoga to the forefront of Amy’s life and that is when she began to embrace it as a form of personal worship. When she found YogaFaith, Amy knew this ministry was a divine match to her hearts longing to be an ambassador for Christ to people in need of healing. In 2017, she completed her teacher training with YogaFaith (R-YFT) and is also a certified restorative yoga instructor(R-R). These faithful steps are leading her to others to find wholeness and oneness with Christ.
Since 2012 she has taught primarily yoga in communities that are enveloped in the Mohican State Park in Loudonville, Ohio. Her practice has evolved into one that focuses on healing the body and spirit though body work, primarily a gently flow and restorative practice, and soon trauma informed yoga to compliment talk therapy. These modalities have forever shaped her testimony and personal ministry to help others get on a path of natural healing the way Christ intended.
Amy is also a YogaFaith Ambassador (YF-A), embodying Christ’s vision for this ministry and taking Jesus out into the world so others can find restoration in mind, body, spirit and soul.
Lizzie Lasater, Yoga Therapist, Yoga educator, producer, and designer, creator of Sunday Savasana Series and spirit jewelry collection.
Raised in San Francisco, and educated at Columbia University, Lizzie Lasater is a yoga teacher, producer, and designer, who shares her work via live online events, her Sunday Savasana Series newsletter, a spirit jewelry collection, YouTube, and Instagram. Lizzie lives in Salzburg with her Austrian husband and twin toddler boys.
Lizzie and her mom Judith workshop a wonderful 2-hour Restorative Class within this training.
Michelle Thielen, Founder of YogaFaith
Yoga Therapist, R-CYAMT
Called the Yoga Pastor, Michelle Thielen, R-CYAMT, Certified Yoga Therapist, is a speaker, author of Stretching Your Faith, Exit Wilderness A Roadmap Out of Depression and Hopelessness, and a traveling yogi who has been teaching somatic movement through dance and yoga for over 20 years. A student of Peter Levine’s Somatic Experience (SE), and Eric Walrabenstein’s therapy for psychological wounds, Michelle is passionate about helping the world heal from trauma to live a life of purpose. Restorative YogaFaith plays a vital role in the antidote of Fight-Flight-Freeze by inviting the body into “Rest and Digest.”
As a Trauma Sensitive Yoga Therapist and meditation expert, Michelle has been instrumental in aiding with the restoration of those who suffer from trauma, intense anxiety or depression into healing and freedom. She travels around the world aiding in the rescue efforts of human traffick victims as well as raising awareness about the epidemic. She holds certifications with the American Council of Exercise, is a Yoga Therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapists and founded the Christian Yoga Association in 2018, to build a bridge between faith-based yoga practitioners and educators.
She has 3 200-hour Certifications, 3 500-hour Certifications, Certified Yoga Therapists, and a Minister through Christian Global Outreach Ministries. Michelle has been the lead trainer of almost 200 Teacher Trainings.
The Bible, we use The Message version often
The Rest of God Mark Buchanan
Restore and Rebalance Judith Hanson Laster
The Bait of Satan John Bevere [DVD Optional] YogaFaith provides the devotional as some books do not include it, only the 20th anniversary addition.
Stretching Your Faith, Michelle Thielen
Whispers of Rest Bonnie Gray
- {minimum} 5 firm yoga blankets
- 2 yoga blocks
- 6 or 8 ft yoga belt
- Eye pillow
- 1 firm bolster minimum
- 2 standard size bed pillows with pillowcases
Designed as a 4-6 week, 50-hour Certification
Begin at any time and go at your own pace. We have a private community to join as well as an interactive innerface as you go through the material.
