Transform Stress into Strength with Restorative Yoga
And experience lasting peace, emotional resilience, and mindful living
Restorative Yoga equips you with the tools to respond, not just react, empowering you to shape your life according to your own values.
Our restorative training and deck offer a proven, step-by-step approach to take charge of your health and happiness, nurturing resilience and paving the way for a sustainable journey toward well-being.
Why restorative Yoga?
We spend too much of our precious lives stuck in a cycle of emotional triggers and constant challenges. The constant flow of information and high expectations make it hard to find the peace and focus you need to live with intention and focus.
This isn’t just another yoga routine — it’s an innovative restorative journey that pulls your attention away from the chaos and into your own inner mastery. Imagine holding each pose, not just for the physical stretch, but to release the deep-seated emotions and tension that keep you reactive and stuck. Through this practice, you shift from victimhood to a life driven by purpose and strength. This journey isn’t about avoiding stress—it’s about rewiring your nervous system, so that when challenges hit, you remain centered, turning old patterns of fear into a mindset of limitless possibility.
Ready to transform? Let’s make it happen.
Unlock Your Potential with the Restorative Yoga Deck and Course
With 72 beautifully illustrated cards, this wholesome deck introduces you to effective somatic practices, innovative prop-enhanced poses, and powerful breathing techniques designed for self-regulation. Plus, the intention cards will upgrade your life and relationships through emotional intelligence.
The course offers practical tools to break free from the limiting impact of built-up emotions and tension. You’ll learn how to harness your presence as a catalyst for self-development, steering your emotions away from automatic reactions and towards intentional, empowering responses.
At the heart of this journey is a deep understanding of the nervous system. We’ve included special segments of somatic practices to help you recognize and address the states of your nervous system when stress is activated. Whether in a high-alert stress state or feeling frozen, our practices guide you to release or activate energy as needed, helping you regain control over your inner world.
Imagine the impact of releasing stored frustration and anger from your body, and transmuting that energy into building the life you truly desire.
By cultivating emotional intelligence and mastering these restorative practices, you’ll be equipped to navigate life’s challenges with grace and resilience, creating a reality that reflects your highest values and aspirations.
These aren’t just a yoga deck and training; they are life-changing tools that redefine how you experience and express your entire being, transforming tension into elevated states of existence.
Restorative Yoga Deck At A Glance
72 beautifully illustrated cards
Visual & Written Cues To Practice Safely
Name in English and Sanskrit
Focus phrases for each posture
Emotional regulation indications for each pose
Online manual with in-depth insights and suggested practices.
How Does It Work?
We’ve divided the deck into 6 practical categories, to help you navigate the practice and your emotions with ease:
Build Emotional Intelligence With Your Yoga Practice
Based on the innovative body mapping model by Glerean et al. (2013), this deck reveals the profound connection between emotions, thoughts, and physical sensations.
Whether you’re experiencing tension, tightness, or numbness, the key to unlocking these blocked energies lies in enhanced bodily awareness and breathwork.
By consciously engaging in restorative yoga poses, you’ll learn to recognize emotional patterns in the body, returning to a state of balance and inner peace.
This practice allows you to feel deeply and release stored emotions, leading to lasting well-being and emotional resilience.
Through the yoga practices in our Restorative Deck, each pose is designed to release blocked emotions and cultivate positive energy, turning emotional challenges into opportunities for transformation.
A Personalized Path to Balance
Each card in the Restorative Yoga Deck is a powerful tool for shifting your emotional state. On the back, you’ll find one or more of the seven core emotions highlighted.
Feeling sad? Build a sequence with poses specifically designed to release sadness and guide you toward joy. Because multiple emotions are linked to each pose, you can create a sequence that perfectly matches your mood, helping you experience an immediate, positive emotional shift.
This dual-emotion system lets you move from negative to positive emotions with ease. The benefits outlined on the back of each card give you a clear, actionable path to transform your emotional state—whether you’re moving from stress to calm or sadness to joy.
Transform Your Emotions with Intention Cards
Each intention card reveals a positive emotion with its negative counterpart on the back. Use them as powerful prompts when building your sequence. For example, if you want to move from sadness to joy, simply choose that card as your intention. Place it in front of you as a constant source of inspiration throughout your practice.
Ready to shift your emotional state? Grab your card, set your intention, and let your practice guide the way.
This concept ties closely to an ancient yogic principle found in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra: Pratipaksha Bhavana, or “cultivating the opposite.”
When negative emotions arise, instead of resisting them, we focus on their opposite qualities. In doing so, we shift from suffering to empowerment.
Rooted in ancient yogic wisdom and backed by modern emotional science, this approach helps you transform your energy and turn emotions into fuel for personal growth.
It’s not about managing your emotions, it’s about managing your reaction to your emotions.
Our deck also includes two powerful symbols to guide your restorative yoga journey:
The wave symbol
Represents practices designed to balance the nervous system, particularly when you're experiencing heightened stress (sympathetic nervous system response) or feeling shut down. These restorative poses help bring your body into a state of calm, promoting deep recovery on physical, mental, and emotional levels.
The flame symbol
Signals a deeper physical pose that requires preparation. These poses are more intense and should be approached with mindfulness and care, ensuring your body is properly warmed up to receive the full benefits of the practice.
Together, these symbols offer a roadmap for achieving balance and depth in your restorative practice, supporting your overall emotional and physical well-being.
Seamless Use with Other PlayPauseBe Yoga Decks
On and Off the Mat
These practices can be added to any yoga routine. Whether you want to use them as a standalone sequence, combine them with our Yin deck, or incorporate them into the beginning or end of a Vinyasa flow, they integrate perfectly.
You can also select a single pose to mindfully start or end your day, or opt for a somatic practice or Pranayama to relieve stress whenever needed.
Pair the Restorative Yoga Deck With Restorative Online Course
With in-depth theoretical support, sequencing strategies, and detailed breakdowns of every pose, you’ll gain a much deeper understanding of how to tailor your practice to your unique emotional and physical needs.
Whether you’re a yoga teacher or a dedicated practitioner, the course helps you master the connection between the body, mind, and emotions, while also providing the option to get certified later.
By combining the deck with the course, you’ll enhance your practice and equip yourself with powerful tools for emotional intelligence, nervous system support, and long-term well-being.
How Will This Deck + Course Transform Your Life?
- Break free from the stress cycle by understanding its root causes and the programming that keeps you stuck.
- Turn limiting beliefs and emotions into opportunities for growth and success.
- Deepen mindfulness in your yoga practice and everyday life, bringing greater awareness and clarity.
- Enhance your body awareness and learn how your thoughts and emotions impact your physical health.
- Take control of your life by mastering non-reactivity and making empowered choices.
- Cultivate elevated emotional states for lasting happiness and contentment.
- Unleash the energy to create the reality you truly desire.
Whether you’re a complete beginner or already familiar with Restorative Yoga, this online course has something for YOU. Beginners will find clear, accessible explanations that make learning straightforward and enjoyable.
For those with more experience, the course offers deeper insights and fresh perspectives, helping you to integrate new ideas and techniques into your yoga practice.
It’s an opportunity to expand your understanding and enrich your practice in ways you might not have considered before.
Meet the Instructor
Ann Schreppers
As a lifelong ballerina and bodyworker, Ann is passionate about love for Self, others, and the Earth. Ann has over a decade of full-time experience teaching in the field of human consciousness and over 1500 hours of certificates in Yoga/energy psychology.
Her mission is to remind you of your life’s potential through compassion and curiosity with open and light energy.
”I am humbled for all my teachers & life lessons I have encountered so far and my capacity to increasingly appreciate my reality.” – Ann
Beyond the Mat: A Game-Changer for Therapy and Personal Growth
These tools go far beyond the mat—they’re a game-changer for therapists and anyone focused on personal growth. By integrating these practices into therapy sessions, you can help clients rewire their nervous system and brain, facilitating deep, lasting change.
Imagine guiding someone to not just understand the changes they need but to fully embody them, making these shifts a permanent part of their reality.
If you’re serious about taking your life, your practice, or your therapeutic work to the next level, the restorative Yoga training and deck are for you. Break free from the patterns holding you back, and start living—and helping others live—the life you’ve always wanted.
Yoga Alliance is a world leader in the field of education and yoga. In grateful service to our global community of yogis, PlayPauseBe offers high-quality teachings to deepen the practice of everybody who discovers our courses. From now on, we’ll register the courses as Continued Education, with in-depth course materials and assignments and personalized feedback.
Self-discovery is the most powerful part of the yogic journey and with our cards you always have a pocket-size guru at hand. Our restorative course does not only educate, but facilitates new ways of engaging with challenges and stressors in your life. Are you ready to transform your reality through the yogic techniques?
This restorative course will awaken your capacity to manage and regulate stress, through awareness and action. It offers an integrated body-mind approach to handle challenges with presence and peace and to grow through your teaching and life journey.
Restorative Yoga Packages
Restorative Yacep Bundle
€420,00
€329,00
Restorative Yoga Deck + 25 Hour Self-Paced YACEP Certification Course – Worldwide shipping included
- The Restorative Yoga Deck – 72 cards + In-box Manual
- The Online Restorative Yoga Course: Enjoy lifetime access to the complete course covering:
- Introduction to Restorative Yoga: Discover the practice and its incredible benefits for body and mind.
- In-depth Tutorials: step-by-step guidance for each restorative pose, somatic practice, and breathwork technique in the deck, empowering you to deepen your practice with confidence.
- Understanding Emotions & Trauma: Explore how emotions and trauma are stored in the body, their physiological effects, and how restorative yoga helps release them.
- Key Yogic Concepts: Dive into essential ideas like the Koshas and the cycle of Samskara, and understand their connection to emotional well-being.
- Transitioning Between Poses: Gain insights on smooth pose transitions and the importance of props for safety and deep relaxation.
- And more!
- The Training Manual: This comprehensive resource provides in-depth theoretical support, practical tools, and detailed assignments. Even if you’re not pursuing certification, the assignments offer an excellent way to self-assess and ensure a solid understanding of key concepts
- Sequencing Guidance: The manual also offers expert sequencing strategies to enhance your personal practice, and if you’re a teacher, to elevate your class offerings.
- Personalized Feedback: Receive direct, tailored feedback from our expert instructors to help you maximize your learning and growth throughout the course.
- YACEP Certification: you’ll earn 25 hours of continuing education credit, certified by Yoga Alliance. This is perfect for Registered Yoga Teachers (RYTs) looking to fulfill their ongoing education requirements.
This is a pre-order, you’ll receive the deck in late December
Restorative Yoga Basic Bundle
€320,00
€199,00
Restorative Deck + Online Course (worldwide shipping included)
- The Restorative Yoga Deck – 72 cards + In-box Manual
- The Online Restorative Yoga Course: Enjoy lifetime access to the complete course covering:
- The Online Restorative Yoga Course: Lifetime access to a comprehensive course that includes:
- An introduction to Restorative Yoga and its benefits for body and mind.
- Step-by-step tutorials for poses, somatic practices, and breathwork techniques from the deck.
- Insights into how emotions and trauma are stored in the body, and how restorative yoga helps release them.
- Exploration of key yogic concepts like the Koshas and the cycle of Samskara, and their link to emotional well-being.
- Guidance on transitioning between poses and using props for safety and deep relaxation.
Not Included in this package:
- Training Manual: The comprehensive manual with theoretical support, practical tools, and assignments is not part of this package.
- Personalized Feedback: Direct, tailored support from instructors is not provided.
- YACEP Certification: You will not receive the 25 hours of continuing education credits certified by Yoga Alliance, nor the YACEP certification.
This is a pre-order, you’ll receive the deck in late December
Restorative Yoga Deck
€52,00
€46,90
Restorative Yoga equips you with the tools to respond, not just react, empowering you to shape your life according to your own values.
This is a pre-order, you’ll receive the deck in late December
FAQ
The Restorative Yoga Deck combines emotional regulation techniques with innovative prop-supported poses. It’s grounded in body mapping based on the Glerean model (2013), which links emotions to physical sensations. The deck offers unique categories like somatic practices and pranayama techniques, making it more than just a yoga deck—it’s a toolkit for emotional and nervous system health.
Yoga teachers will find the deck invaluable for guiding their students through emotional regulation and nervous system support. It includes clear instructions on using props, belts, and walls to enhance the restorative experience, making it easier to create nurturing, safe spaces in class. Additionally, the deck’s focus on emotional intelligence offers tools to help students connect with their emotions through movement, enabling teachers to offer a more holistic practice.
Absolutely! The Restorative Yoga Deck is a powerful tool for anyone who wants to explore emotional balance, body awareness, and mindful relaxation. With detailed instructions, not only on the cards but also on the printed and online manual, it’s easy to follow along whether you’re using it for your personal practice or sharing with others.
The deck encourages the use of props like yoga belts, blankets, bolsters, and the wall for enhanced physical and emotional support. These props make the practice accessible to all body types and help deepen relaxation by providing additional support. In the online course we give further guidance on how to use the props and adapt each pose to your personal needs.
Each card highlights a specific emotion and its opposite, allowing you to focus on shifting from challenging emotional states (such as anger or fear) to empowering ones (like compassion or trust). This practice is rooted in the yogic principle of Pratipaksha Bhavana—cultivating the opposite emotion—and gives you tools to navigate emotional highs and lows with more grace and resilience.
The online course offers a comprehensive exploration of restorative yoga, focusing on emotional regulation, nervous system balance, and mindful movement. In addition to video tutorials for each restorative card in the deck, it covers topics such as understanding stored trauma and emotions, the yogic concepts of samskara and conditioning, and how emotions are stored in the body. You’ll also learn how to transition between poses and the importance of using props for safety and support, and much more!
If you choose the YACEP-certified version of the course, you will receive personalized feedback from our experienced instructors. This feedback will help refine your practice, ensure correct alignment, and provide tailored guidance to enhance your learning experience.
The YACEP (Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider) certification is available for yoga teachers who want to deepen their expertise and integrate restorative practices into their teaching. This certification not only enhances your professional qualifications but also equips you with advanced techniques for emotional and physical well-being that you can share with your students.
Yes! The course is designed for both yoga practitioners and teachers. If you’re a practitioner looking to deepen your personal practice, it will offer you valuable tools for emotional regulation, stress management, and restorative yoga techniques. If you’re a teacher, it will give you additional insights to bring these transformative practices to your students.
The training is a 25-hour course, but you can move through the material at your own pace. While some students complete it in a week or two, others may spread it out over a longer period depending on their schedule and practice needs. The self-paced structure allows for flexibility, so you can take as much time as you need to absorb and integrate the teachings
While the deck provides valuable guidance for personal practice, the online course offers a much deeper dive into the theory, principles, and techniques of restorative yoga. It also includes in-depth pose breakdowns, variations to make each pose extra challenging and modifications to make it more accessible and more. The course provides a more comprehensive learning experience and equips you with a stronger foundation for your practice or teaching.
Yes! The Restorative Yoga Deck can be seamlessly integrated with any existing yoga practice. You can use it as a standalone sequence, pair it with a Yin or Vinyasa flow, or incorporate specific poses at the beginning or end of your regular practice for added emotional support and relaxation.
The deck can be used independently, but pairing it with the online course offers a deeper understanding of the practices and the theory behind emotional regulation and nervous system support. The course provides sequencing strategies, in-depth pose breakdowns, and additional resources for both practitioners and teachers. If you’re seeking Yoga Alliance certification, the course is essential for obtaining that qualification.