Healing Through Stillness: A Somatic Journey Into Deep Rest + Inner Restoration

30-Hour Restorative Yoga Immersion + Healing Journey
La Jolla (San Diego)
May 1st - 4th

Do you feel the quiet pull to retreat inward…To slow down, to soften, to truly listen?
If so, this is your invitation.
TRILOGY SANCTUARY RESTORATIVE YOGA TRAINING + HEALING JOURNEY

Healing Through Stillness: A Somatic Journey of Self-Reclamation

“There’s nothing that heals like a pause, like a moment of true stillness.”
— Judith Lasater

Join us for a sacred and intentional journey into stillness as medicine, a path of self-reflection, somatic healing, and conscious connection. In a world that feels increasingly chaotic, uncertain, and overwhelming, what if the antidote isn’t doing more—but being more? More present. More attuned. More at peace within your own body and breath.

You may feel the effects of this era deeply—disconnection, isolation, chronic stress, self-doubt, and nervous system overload. This training offers a sanctuary—a space to unwind, recalibrate, and come home to yourself. Through the gentle, profound practices of Restorative Yoga, Somatics, Breathwork, Meditation, and Subtle Body Awareness, we will explore how healing through stillness is not only possible—it’s essential.

“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead, embrace them, let life flow through you.”
— Rumi

What is Restorative Yoga?

“Trauma creates changes you don’t choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose.”
— Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score

Restorative Yoga is the art of receiving, releasing, and remembering. Unlike movement-based practices that center on effort, achievement, or flexibility, Restorative invites you to surrender, to soften into stillness, to dwell in comfort, in honest reflection, and in the medicine of deep rest. Here, the body is not striving for form or aesthetics, it is gently cradled in containers, fully supported by blankets, bolsters, and blocks. Each one becomes a sanctuary crafted to evoke the sensation of being held, so you no longer have to hold: hold it in, hold on, hold them up, or hold it all together.

This is a somatic, embodied meditation a sacred pause where doing less opens the gateway to feeling more. Within these containers, the body unwinds layers of habitual tension, the mind re-routes and rewires, and the heart softens, expands, and reclaims spaciousness. In the stillness, we attune to subtler rhythms. We listen deeply to breath, to sensation, to the quiet wisdom that has always lived within.

Restorative Yoga is not a practice of striving, fixing, or performing, it is a radical return to being. A re-patterning of the nervous system toward ease, a welcoming of emotional alchemy, and an invitation for healing to arise naturally, from the inside out. These containers become thresholds where burnout meets balm; anxiety meets stability, steadiness, and ease; and exhaustion is alchemized into renewal.

This is a refuge, a sanctuary for body, mind, and soul to recalibrate and restore. It offers support for those navigating trauma, fatigue, chronic stress, or the ache of disconnection - a gentle, profound return to wholeness.

HEALING MODALITIES INCLUDED

This immersive journey interweaves somatic awareness, conscious breathwork, subtle body energetics, mindful journaling + connection practices - offering you tools to self-soothe, self-regulate, and self-heal. We will explore the science of the nervous system, the power of the parasympathetic state, and the art of crafting restorative containers - personalized sanctuaries - for yourself and those you serve.

WHO IS THIS FOR?

Whether you are a yoga teacher seeking to deepen your offerings, a healer or guide expanding your toolkit, or a curious soul ready to turn inward this training welcomes you. You will walk away with a deeper relationship to your breath, your body, and your inner world—and the embodied ability to share these gifts from a place of grounded presence and authenticity.

Let this be your invitation to pause, to reconnect, and to surrender to the silent, unyielding power of stillness... and, in that space, Begin Again.

RESTORATIVE yoGA OVERVIEW
Healing Through Stillness: A Somatic Journey Into Deep Rest & Inner Restoration

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” — Rumi

WHAT WILL YOU BE LEARNING AND EXPERIENCING?

• Sacred Circles & Somatic Connection
  Ground in community through rituals of presence, authentic sharing, and collective healing. Experience the power of being seen, heard, and held as we co-create a sanctuary of support.

• Restorative Yoga Posture Clinic
  In-depth exploration and embodied experience of over 25 Restorative Yoga poses. Learn how to skillfully use props to create therapeutic shapes that invite the body to release, the mind to quiet, and the heart to open.

• Somatic Healing Modalities
  Engage in guided somatic practices to attune to your body's innate wisdom. Explore how subtle movements, breath awareness, and nervous system regulation can support trauma release and invite embodied safety.

• Prescriptive Rest
  Learn how to personalize restorative sequences for common ailments, chronic stress, injury, and emotional fatigue. Meet yourself and your students exactly where they are, offering support from a place of deep listening and compassion.

• The Language of Restorative Yoga
  Conscious communication through tone, presence, and intention. Discover the power of words to soothe, guide, and hold space for transformation.

• The Gifts of Turning Inward
  Experience and learn to facilitate powerful inward tools including Pranayama (breathwork), Mudra (energetic seals), Meditation, and Transformational Journaling to deepen the restorative journey.

• Astral Anatomy & The Subtle Body
  Explore energetic healing through the lens of Chakras, Nadis, and Koshas. Learn to sense and support energy flow in restorative shapes and stillness.

• Nervous System Rebalancing: Anatomy & Function
  Understand the anatomy of stress and relaxation. Learn how Restorative Yoga supports the parasympathetic nervous system, promotes vagal tone, and aids in healing trauma through rest.

• The Art of Teaching Restorative Yoga
  Learn to theme, sequence, and guide restorative practices with clarity, creativity, and presence. Explore the sacred balance of structure and flow in your teaching.

• Personalized Healing Sessions
  Step into the seat of the teacher and learn to create customized, one-on-one restorative experiences that are nurturing, intuitive, and deeply healing.

• Living Your Practice
  Explore how to embody and share the principles of Restorative Yoga in daily life. Cultivate alignment, authenticity, and balance—and offer these gifts to others from an overflowing well of your self-care and stillness.

Facilitator - Gabrielle Blachley

• E-RYT 500+ with yoga training certifications and continuing education degrees in India, Guatemala, Chicago, and San Diego.

• Lead facilitator of over 35 yoga teacher trainings, intensives, and yoga mentorship programs in San Diego, California.

• Gabrielle has been teaching yoga full-time for 20+ years and owned a donation-based yoga school - devoted to and passion-filled about her yogic path.

  “The butterfly is a symbol of transformation. In the darkest, murkiest places, it finds the strength to emerge into the light.”

Gabrielle believes that yoga is limitless in its potential to transform and heal our lives. Her approach to teaching is holistic, intuitive, playful, and therapeutic, in which she encourages students to turn inward to the constant fluctuations and transformations taking place with each breath and recognize that each time you step onto the space of your mat, you can begin again.

Gabrielle was born and raised in Chicago, where she was trained to be a professional ballerina, blessed to have her mother as her mentor for many years. This experience set the stage for her affinity and passion for physical expression and the artistry of movement.

An unfortunate injury intercepted her lifelong dream and dedication to becoming a ballerina. But, through this humbling life experience, she found yoga, which would forever change and heal her life, and her relationship to her physical body and mind.

After receiving a BA in Fine Arts and Communications from Loyola University of Chicago, Gabrielle’s free spirit led her to many faraway places like Hawaii, Europe, India, and Morocco, where she lived, studied, and trained for several years exploring the vast world of yoga and the healing arts. It was on this journey, that she heard the calling and first realized she might just be...a teacher, like her Mother (something she denied for years)?!?!

These life experiences and a series of life-altering events challenged, humbled and encouraged her to spread her wings and begin her donation-based yoga school, Monarch Yoga Shala, in Chicago, IL. Founding a donation-based yoga school, was a dream, and through this dream, Gabrielle realized her potential to help and transform people's lives was endless. It was also during this time in her life, as a young mother and business owner that again life challenged her physically, and after a traumatic spine injury, was faced with the reality and challenge of rebuilding her relationship with her body. This new reality as well as several other injuries over time would give her priceless insight and influenced her to pursue a different path as a teacher, one which forced her to fully focus on the importance of biomechanics and alignment. After doing a few online trainings with Sadie Nardidni and working at Catalyst Physical Therapy and Wellness as Yoga Director, her style of yoga is more "anatomy-enhanced," with attention to intuitive alignment.

Being raised by a strong-willed, free-spirited artist and force of nature, Gabrielle always envisioned doing something for women's empowerment. Circle + Rising is a women’s healing circle and collaboration of women empowering women which began as a dharma project that turned into a monthly gathering at yoga studios in San Diego.

Gabrielle is a Transformative Coach and teaches yoga daily at numerous studios in San Diego, leads yoga teacher trainings, facilitates workshops, and hosts international retreats.

Her motto: Show up, forgive, unconditionally love, and fly fearlessly - believing you can always… Begin Again.

Contact Gabrielle for questions: gabrielle@trilogysanctuary.com
Take time for you and the journey within!

Questions? Connect with our Restorative Staff below.