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Yin Teacher Training + Immersion
 

Join a small, intimate study + support group to seep your autumn in the deep wisdom of Yin.

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Slow down. Plant deep. Cultivate witnessing awareness.

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More than a particular style of yoga, Yin is an animate, energetic quality found throughout the yoga tradition since antiquity. When you weave practices of non-striving and non-efforting onto the mat, the doors of perception open.

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Slow down and open to "all the small miracles you've rushed through....." ​

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• 30 hour immersion

• Optional homework + self-study

• Optional 1-1 mentorship afterwards to sustain your practice

 

 

Dates + Times

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3 weekends, Saturday + Sunday 1-6pm

 

October 12/13

November 2/3

December 7/8

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Overview

Art of Yin is a yin immersion, one weekend a month in October, November and December, five hours Saturday + Sunday each.

What I intend to offer is an experiential yoga training. We’ll pack the in-person hours with wisdom-school philosophy, intellectual girdings, the theory of yin​ (as well, of course, as practice). We’ll look at the practice itself, the physical postures and their subtle body models.


As importantly, Art of Yin is structured to practice spending more of our lives at peace in our own bodies. You’ll personalize homework and practices to create ritual through the fall months -- small, actionable mini-practices. We’ll all deepen our relationship with the properties of yin: restoration, receptivity, ease. ​ If you're interested in teaching, this is foundational.

 

 

 

 

 

Week One

Rest: Yin Philosophy 

 

What are we doing here? What is yin? How is it unique to other wisdom paths; how is it in relationship with other schools of yoga? This weekend will include: 

 

• Meditation and practice to embody teaching in lecture

• Lecture, which will cover: Yin/yang and Taoist influence; relationships between pre-classical yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine (as directly relevant to yin yoga), and Western kinesiology and biomechanics; and energetics of yin, including anatomy of the subtle body.

• Group discussion / guided writing prompts

• Homework: Yin as radical resistance. 

 

Weekend Two

Breathe: Yin Physiology

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Now we've immersed in the intentions of yin: discernment, interoception, tools to paddle back to center. Okay, but how does yin work? 

 

• Meditation and practice to embody teaching in lecture

• Lecture, which will consider yin’s principle effects on the physical body, including functional anatomy (ie: variations in bone structure: what every yoga teacher on planet earth should know); physiology of fascia + joint capsules (ie: eustress: how to use stress beneficially); power of respiratory diaphragm and functional breathing

• Group discussion / guided writing prompts

• Homework: Yin as personal exploration 

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Weekend Three

Relationship: The Art of Yin Postures

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Think of this as 10 hours of yin. We’ll workshop each posture + its variation (yin has, like, 20 principle poses, though each has dozens of variations), with an emphasis on building relationship with each posture.  We’ll discuss planning a class, physically and thematically, based on felt sensation.  The intention of this weekend is each student has an a-ha moment about their own yin practice, and begins to build a relationship with teaching based on yin precepts.