YIN Yoga Teacher Training

THE YIN YOGA TRAINING
Two Live Modules
Combined with Online Learning Sessions
100-HOUR CERTIFICATE
Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider

Certification: After completing the complete course, homework and assessment, you will be granted a certificate from The Yoga Academy & Yoga Moves for a specialization as a Yin Yoga Teacher Training (100-hours) recognised by Yoga Alliance US. If you prefer, it can also count as hours toward Continuing Professional Development with the British Wheel of Yoga and other organisations and trainings. Assessment will take place during module 2 where you will have the opportunities to display your understanding by teaching in 2-3 person small groups.

Somatics
Students often arrive to Yin class after a busy day, or with busy minds and eternally projected awareness. Somatic education practices are a perfect way to begin Yin yoga classes. They help students cultivate concentration, internalize the senses, and awaken the ‘feeling mind’. This can lead to a deeper experience of ‘presence’ with the more still yin asana that can follow. These practices are superfood for the brain and the nervous system.      

Meditation Teaching and Yin Practice.

Many yoga students are keen to discover practices that help them begin or reconnect to the journey of meditation. Within the yin asana and seated periods in yoga classes, a natural pathway toward a regular meditation practice is revealed.

Students often encounter too much or too little verbal support or guidance from their teacher within a yin yoga, or even meditation class. Guided practices with themed spoken content can sometimes be too complex, too distracting, and even sometimes inappropriate. The voice is central when teaching yin yoga, and it is essential to create a safe and supportive space for students to fully immerse themselves into the frequencies of meditation within yin asana class. Finding the right balance between ‘holding the space’ and ‘teaching a class’ , and between ‘silence & speech’ are essential prerequisites for learning and authentic experience.

Structure of course

• The 100-hour certificate Yin Yoga training is offered in two modules with Zoom sessions in-between.

The live in person learning combined with online learning bring the best of both modalities together.  This approach gives time to develop understanding & skills, but also, and very importantly, offers you the time to embody the course material within the practices, from which personal experience you are best able to share the teachings effectively & authentically.

Applied Anatomy for Yin Yoga & Guest Teacher Gary Carter

Understanding essential human & ancestral anatomy is essential in all teaching & practice. This course offers authoritative content & guidance toward the practice & sharing of safe, accessible & highly effective yoga.

Contemporary anatomical research and understanding reconfirms the ‘whole’ body teachings of yoga, expressed dynamically through our ubiquitous fascial being and its myriad of functions, forms, fluids, magic and mystery. We will explore the latest research on the fascial body with Simon Low joined by the lively and uniquely informed Gary Carter, the international anatomy teacher & researcher who recently created the world’s first full-body fascia plastination in Berlin.

You will have a much clearer understanding of the optimal anatomically-sound approach to yin practice which will be reflected by the popularity of the approach that you will be prepared to share.

Gary Carter has taught for The Yoga Academy alongside Simon Low for over 20 years.

Who can join

• This course can be booked as a personal retreat or as a teacher training.

• We welcome Yoga teachers who wish to deepen their practice & want to learn to teach safe, effective and informed yin yoga or have a new perspective on teaching yin yoga.

• We welcome experienced students wishing to significantly deepen their knowledge, experience and personal practice but are not interested in a teaching certificate. (In this case any course assessment would be optional to you if you prefer (we would then offer a certificate of attendance).