Fall 2024 Yin Training Dates
September 27-29 | Ocober 18-20 | November 8-10
The yin yoga practice is one that invites you to land, to feel, to connect to those deeper parts that we often ignore and that need the most attention. To practice and teach this style of practice in a way that delivers all it has to offer, the opportunity to heal and cultivate self-compassion and mindfulness, one must have a personal awareness and connection to themself.
Yoga teachers and students will gain a more in-depth, personal understanding of the practice and feel confident to integrate the teachings learned into class or personal practice sequencing and delivery. You will feel confident to guide yourself and others to work through the resistances of grounding, to be with discomforts and distractions, and to find stillness from time of self-compassion and mindfulness, from time that allows for healing. When we turn inwards and ask this of others, a certain level of humility and compassion is attained. This training challenges us to embrace humility and seek compassion towards ourselves and others.
Guiding yourself or someone to stillness is a skill, something that takes compassion, patience, and the ability to hold space; the ability to allow discomfort, to lean towards it, in order for there to be opportunity to find acceptance in the present moment.
Time will be spent learning the following:
Benefits of yin.
Ability to analyze the body functionally and understanding that the postures are a means to target certain areas of the body and/or effect energetic releases.
Meridian line and chakra associations within each target area and the energetics of the meridian lines and chakra systems that are invoked and worked during a yin practice and how the postures, meditation techniques and breath work can stimulate these systems.
Skeletal differences and focus on anatomy, learning about fascia, ligaments, tendons and joints and the theory of exercise specifically required for these tissues and how it all effects the student doing yin.
Learn the difference between tension and compression in movement and what you should do for your student when these arise in practice.
Learn the relationship between the superficial and deep facial lines in body movement.
Pranayama and meditation techniques to tap into one’s subtle energy body.
Yin class design and incorporating yin and yang sequences.
You will learn how changing the orientation of the pose can bring freedom to someone who can’t do a posture a certain way. Example: seated, wall, reclined, & standing variations.
Learn and develop chakra meditation techniques that focus on deepening self-connection and awareness.
You will broaden your understanding of how one’s past or current day experiences can affect them emotionally & mentally and how re-creating a physical connection is a step towards healing.
Time will be spent creating sequences and practice teaching so a certain level of comfort is gained before teaching public classes. Assisted yin sequence will be shared so that one-on-one sessions or personal assists in classes are readily available as well as applicability and techniques of working with healing touch and sound healing in the practice.
This training challenges us to embrace humility and seek compassion towards ourselves and others. When we turn inwards and ask this of others, a certain level of humility and compassion is attained.
Training in Diversity, accessibility, equity and inclusion.
Teachers and students will come away from this training feeling prepared to facilitate practices in a way that is as unique as their understanding of the yin yoga practice. They will recognize that the affects to the body go beyond just getting into and out of poses.
Teachers will feel confident in guiding students to feel and be with physical sensation with the intention of opening the body and mind. Students will confident in creating personalized sequences for themselves and their unique needs as well as supporting oneself in a mindful process of grounding and releasing.
This course counts for 75 hours of CE credits with Yoga Alliance
Teachers will come away from this training feeling prepared to facilitate classes in a way that is unique as their understanding of the yin yoga practice and how it affects the body will go beyond getting people into and out of poses.
Teachers will feel confident in guiding students to feel physical sensation with the intention of opening the body and mind.
This course counts for 75 hours of CE credits with Yoga Alliance
