An integrative approach for the whole person

Mondays at 12:30 pm - Move Better: Yoga and Mindful Movement with Simone Nitzan

Mondays at 1:45 pm - Restorative Yoga with Simone Nitzan

Mondays at 6:00 pm - Slow Flow with Jelena Gajdel

Tuesdays at 6:00 pm - Vinyasa Flow with Kate Gordon

Wednesdays at 12:30 pm - Fascia Flow with Simone Nitzan

Fridays at 12:00 pm - Prana Flow with Julia Ayearst

To reserve your spot in a group class, please register through MindBody or by clicking the "Book a Yoga Class" button below prior to your session. If you're new to RENNI, your first yoga class is on us! The complimentary class will be credited to your account once you have signed up. This special offer is exclusively for first-time clients of RENNI.

Please register for an individual yoga session with Julia via Jane.

We live in a world of constant stimulation—endless to-do lists, pressures to produce, and a nervous system that rarely gets a true pause. Many of us are running on empty, caught in cycles of stress and exhaustion. We don’t just need rest—we need deep, conscious relaxation.

Restorative yoga offers exactly that. Unlike sleep, watching TV, or having a glass of wine, restorative yoga is an intentional practice of deep support and surrender—an invitation to slow down, reconnect, and allow the nervous system to shift from overdrive into a state of true restoration.

Who is this training for?

This 20-hour training is open to anyone craving deep rest and those looking to share it with others. Whether you're a yoga teacher wanting to incorporate restorative practices into your classes or someone seeking to better understand the science of relaxation, this training will give you the tools to experience and teach profound rest.

Through immersive practice and hands-on learning, you will:
- Understand the nervous system—how stress works in the short, medium, and long term
- Learn how restorative yoga rewires the body & mind for relaxation and healing
- Explore the power of breath—how it influences the nervous system and supports deeper relaxation
- Learn to set up & teach restorative postures using props and prop alternatives
- Experience a full restorative practice to integrate the teachings firsthand
- Gain confidence in guiding others through this deeply healing practice

Topics Covered:

- The Nervous System & Stress—Understanding how stress functions and how to work with it
- The Breath & Relaxation—Mechanics of breathing and breathwork techniques to regulate the nervous system
- Foundations of Restorative Yoga—General guidelines, sequencing, and the art of inducing pratyahara (sense withdrawal)
- Working with Props—How to use blankets, bolsters, blocks, and alternative supports to create the ultimate restorative experience
- The Art of Stillness—Timing, sequencing, and setting up a deeply nourishing class

This training is more than just learning how to teach—it’s about deepening your own relationship with rest, so you can guide others from a place of experience and embodiment.

If you’re ready to slow down, reset, and learn the art of true relaxation, join us.

This course qualifies for continuing education credits with the Yoga Alliance. 

Dates and Times: April 5th, 6th, 26th and 27th 1 - 6:30pm 

Investment: $500 + HST

Recommended Reading: Restore and Rebalance by Judith Hanson Lasater

About Simone Nitzan

The experience of consciously and fluidly linking the breath and movement inspires Simone in her practice and teaching. Her personal practice informs her teaching, and she draws on elements of vinyasa, restorative yoga, yin yoga, science-based alignment and mindful movement in her classes. She believes practicing yoga leads to a meditative state and expands our awareness of ourselves. Her classes bridge awareness of the breath with the alignment of the body and mind.

Simone is a mother, anatomy and yoga teacher, massage therapist and yoga student for life. She has been teaching since 2009 and has studied with a variety of teachers, including Judith Hansen Lasater, the mother of Restorative Yoga and her daughter Lizzie Lasater. 
 
Simone brings her expertise in anatomy and physiology into the yoga room, where she works to inform her students how to safely and sustainably work with their bodies through Yoga Asana, the breath and other energetic elements of the practice. She believes yoga can help heal physical and emotional injury, and she works with her students to find the unique practices that work for each of their body-minds.

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Massage Therapy can teach you to feel safe in your body and help you find a way back into an embodied self. An effective form of stress management, massage therapy can teach self-soothing, relieve pain that is stored in the body, and release trauma.

Trauma-Informed Bodywork will help you learn the language of your nervous system to release tension and pain from your body. The practitioner will guide you to notice sensations in your body and teach you ways to track them to come to a place of rebalance. Therapeutic massage techniques and gentle, supportive touch are used in support of nervous system regulation. Acupuncture may also be used in these sessions. *You do not have to have a diagnosis or even identify with the word trauma to benefit from this treatment.

A form of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture stimulates the central nervous system and promotes the body’s natural self-healing process. Through acupoint (the insertion of fine, sterile needles) pressure, heat, cupping, and/or electrical stimulation, acupuncture unblocks pain that is trapped in the body and allows for flow to be re-established.

Experience the benefits of acupuncture and feel an overall physical and emotional shift toward health and well-being.

*The RENNI clinic offers individual and community acupuncture, making this form of therapy accessible to more people in need.

The body is a gateway through which we can access our greatest states of well-being. When the body moves well and feels strong, we can experience a greater depth of groundedness and ease. This class series will take you through mindful movement and mobility practices culminating in a combination of yoga asanas and vinyasas. Your joints will be prepared and strengthened for various yoga postures, and each class will focus on a slightly different area of practice, including the hips, shoulders, core, backbends and balance postures. Each class will include some yoga philosophy, breath awareness, meditation, movement and savasana.

Restorative Yoga is like a hug you give yourself. Restorative Yoga is a meditative practice in which you produce and consume nothing. We give ourselves permission to truly relax, and our nervous system receives countless rewards. Many of us are managing chronic stress. Restorative Yoga is one of the best antidotes we have to chronic stress. It re-establishes homeostasis in the body, and aids digestion, sleep and immune function.

In a restorative yoga class, we set the body up to be completely comfortable and relaxed. We use props to support the body, so the body does no work to stay in a position, and we hold the postures for extended periods. Holding these postures for a longer time allows the nervous system to integrate the signal to relax, allowing you to access deeper states of restoration.

Fascia is a fascinating body tissue. Our muscles, organs, blood vessels and nerves are encased and connected through our fascia. Fascia creates a web of connections throughout the body and is the glue that holds the body together. It is what gives the body shape and stores tension pulling the body into different postural patterns.

This class will take you through a series of movements to get the fascia moving. Through these movements, your fascia will become more limber and be able to bounce, stretch and glide more easily and prepare the body for various yoga postures. When your fascia is healthy, everything in your body and mind can flow more easily, from your digestion and joint health to your mental state. Your downward dog may never feel the same again!

The class will finish with various longer-held yin postures that lengthen the body's fascial lines, leaving you feeling light and long, ready to take on the rest of the day.

An energizing morning practice, these Saturday sessions will help you to either establish a rhythm of regular practice or deepen your existing one. Each week we will move from gross to subtle: exploring a 60-minute yoga practice that will cover conscious movement, focused breath and pranayama, use of mantra, and meditation. These are group yoga classes taught through a therapeutic lens which means there will be lots of consideration for different abilities and modifications offered throughout.

While all yoga has the potential to be therapeutic, individuals will receive the greatest benefit when their unique needs are addressed whether they be emotional, physical, or mental. Yoga Therapy is the artful and targeted application of the tools of yoga (movement, breathwork, meditation, etc.) to address those specific needs.

In Yoga Therapy we take a holistic approach to address symptoms that cause suffering and in doing so move the student toward improved health and wellbeing. Yoga Therapy is informed by its sister science, Ayurveda and as such, the Yoga Therapist is also able to offer diet and lifestyle modifications to help address the needs of the student. Unlike group yoga classes that tend to prioritize physical postures and require a certain level of physical fitness, Yoga Therapy meets the individual where they are. I am trained in the therapeutic lineage of Sri Krishnamacharya who said “If you can breathe, you can do yoga!” As such you never need to worry about being “well” enough to participate. The whole aim of Yoga Therapy is to support the specific needs of the individual and modify the appropriate tools accordingly.

This gentle, all-levels flow encourages students to move slowly, balancing effort with ease. Move through gentle sequences with longer holds to build strength, stretch deeply and connect movement to one’s breath. End off with a restorative savansana and breathwork. 

Vinyasa flow-style class is intelligently sequenced and accessible for all levels. Kate weaves in a gentle element of mindfulness and breath work throughout the dynamic flow. Kate's wish is for her students to leave class feeling more connected and embodied, with a little more grace, clarity, and ease to weave into their life off the mat.