Listen. Feel. Align. Radiate.
Our inner and outer worlds are inextricably linked, and this connection influences our psychological, emotional and physical states. Living in alignment with nature — including our own — is the ultimate form of self-care. Join Leah Adams for Yin Yoga Teacher Training at shefayoga Venice. This program offers a blend of lectures, hands-on learning, and practice that delivers wisdom teachings with a sense of lineage and science. Students will gain practical tools that can be applied to their own lives and to their yin and yang style teaching. It is an immersive training—a deep dive into understanding fundamental aspects of your own nervous system, becoming rooted in ancient practices, and learning how to fuel sustainable and healthy bodies, hearts, and minds through the perspective of the Eastern lineages of energetic healing arts.
Total training hours: 35. 32 contact hours / 3 homework hours
Cost: $1050. A non-refundable deposit of $350 holds your spot.
Learn to teach the foundations of Yin Yoga in this immersive teacher training with Leah Adams. Yin Yoga is a meditative and centering yoga practice that is often described as the other half of exercise. It is a complementary practice to more active styles of yoga, supporting maintenance of mobility, and an opportunity to explore mindfulness and the more subtle aspects of a yoga practice. Yin Yoga offers a container to coax the nervous system into balance and promote deep rest. Yin Yoga is both ancient and modern, designed to enliven the tissues, soften and steady the heart, and enhance and balance our energetic system.
This Yin Yoga Teacher Training offers a blend of Yin Yoga classes, lectures, hands-on exploration, and practice teaching.
Our training curriculum covers the following topics:
- Classic Yin Poses (benefits, considerations & cautions, body types, modifications, variations, sequencing)
- Benefits of Yin Yoga
- Anatomy of Yin Yoga
- Exploring sensation (tension, compression, opening, edges, discomfort, pain)
- Inner Practice: Introduction to Meditation & Visualization
- Restorative breathwork for nervous system support
- Bioelectricity and the subtle body
- Qi and meridian theory
- History of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture
- Difference between Yin and Restorative Yoga
This training is for yoga teachers, acupuncturists, massage therapists and anyone that practices Yin Yoga who wants to dive deeper into the philosophy and practice of Yin Yoga.
About the instructor: Leah Adams
Leah Adams is a yoga teacher trainer, mindfulness facilitator, and ongoing student of some of the world’s most masterful carriers of wisdom. She is ever grateful to her Yin Yoga teachers Bernie Clark and Sarah Powers. Leah’s intention is to support others in discovering their own unique blend of effective, resonant modalities, as they walk the path toward sustainable nourishment, holistic vitality and balance. She offers workshops and training on Yin Yoga, functional breathwork, pranayama, meditation, and ayurveda.
As part of her dedication to supporting wellness in the healthcare environment, she has mentored nurse leadership to bring centering exercises to meetings – a practice that has not only been well-received but requested by the team. Leah also created the “60 Seconds to Center” guide for leaders which was featured by the Institute for Corporate Productivity’s 2020 report on Next Practices in Holistic Well-Being (I4PC). Leah is the co-founder of “Being-Well in Healthcare”.
Leah, is a cancer survivor with a former career in advertising and fashion, she believes wholeheartedly that opportunities to practice yoga are everywhere, not only on the yoga mat. She has been invited to teach in the workplace and is delighted to have worked with UW Mindfulness, Virginia Mason, Rosen Harbottle, Yoga Reset, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, and Northwest School of Massage. In addition to the certificates below, Leah has spent hundreds of hours in continuing education courses with an emphasis on studying the nervous system, Ayurveda, and Traditional Chinese Medicine meridian theory. She has spent 8 months to 7 years learning directly from her mentors including, Stephen Brown, Dr. Claudia Welch, Celeste Young, and Brian Utting.
Leah is a lifelong student who now lives and teaches in the Seattle area. Happiness for Leah is playing in warm ocean waves, sharing late nights and long talks, clumsily playing her guitar, and cooking for friends and family. When not on the cushion you might find Leah blending herbs, making decoctions, serving tea or cuddling her fur babes. She spends every moment she can surrounded by trees.