This 50 hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training is structured around five flexible learning modules with two opportunities per year for each module. Students have one year to graduate. Once the first module is complete, students may choose their own path through the remaining four, taking them at their own pace and in any order they like. Module One is offered in January and June. This format allows for flexibility and takes into account busy schedules and important commitments.
✓ One year to complete the program
✓ Five modules -Two opportunities to take each module
✓ Flexible schedule
✓ Personal learning with one-on-one sessions in module 4 and 5
At graduation, participants emerge from this training with an understanding of how to teach Yin Yoga, the beautiful, meditative, and centering yoga practice, often described as the other half of exercise. You will also learn the principles of Yin and the subtle body, functional anatomy, and how to apply foundational mindfulness practices to yin yoga.
This 50 hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training offers students the opportunity to take their time to learn the concepts, assimilate, and return to ask questions. One-on-one support and personal meetings throughout the training provide students with ongoing mentorship as they learn. This model is dedicated to allowing participants to soak up what they’ve learned and deepen their inquiry. Further, our sessions have a maximum of twelve participants, ensuring a more personal and individualized learning experience.
Registration opens in January
Techniques, Training & Practice
Key poses of yin for legs and torso (benefits, considerations & cautions, body types, modifications, variations, sequencing). Weaving breath, meditation, mantra and mudra into a yin class.
Teaching Methodology
✓ Sequencing a yin class
✓ Supporting the body with and without props
✓ Atmosphere of a yin class – pace, vocabulary, voice, and music
Teaching styles
✓ Student learning styles
✓ Supporting students with discomfort, injuries, illness and pregnant women
Physical & Energetic Anatomy
✓ Benefits of yin
✓ Skeletal variation
✓ Understand movements of major joints (hips, knees, ankles, spine, and shoulders)
✓ Exploring sensation (tension, compression, opening, edges, discomfort, pain)
✓ How to create your unique shape
✓ Energy body – Eastern and Western perspectives
Yoga Philosophy Lifestyle & Ethics
✓ Origins of yin yoga
✓ Difference and importance of yin and yang types of activity
✓ Difference between Yin and Restorative Yoga
✓ Applying foundational mindfulness practices to yin
✓ Learning to listen
✓ Art of relaxation
✓ Practicum
As a student in this program, you will have many opportunities to practice teach; starting with individual poses and concepts, and working towards longer sequences as training progresses. If you are a registered teacher with the Yoga Alliance, this training can can count towards 50 hours of CEUs.
The robust manual provided has all the information needed for the course. It also includes additional resources (books, articles, videos) for those who wish to deepen their exploration of yin
In addition to the training curriculum, this includes course materials, student record administration and private online community to stay connected and ask questions after training is done.
Schedule:
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Pricing:
✓ Module one – $275 (registration for module 1 is required before students can register for modules 2-5)
✓ Modules 2-5 – $225/each.
Included in the price are all learning materials, your Yin Yoga Teacher Training manual (inclusive of class plans and a robust library of resources), one on one sessions with Leah, and the certificate of completion. If you are a registered teacher with the Yoga Alliance, this training can count towards 50 hours of CEUs.
Program Hours:
50 hours (45 contact, 5 homework),
After Graduation:
You will receive a certificate of completion upon graduating. You may teach yin yoga if you are already a 200/300/500 Yoga Alliance certified teacher and count 50 hours towards your continuing education units (CEUs).
About the instructor: Leah Adams
Leah is a passionate student of Ayurveda and is a certified Ayurvedic Health Counselor and has completed a NAMA (National Ayurvedic Medical Association) approved course of study. She incorporates this as well as Meditation, Chinese Medicine Meridian Theory, Western Science, and Nature into her teaching, bringing her love of yoga and her ever-growing knowledge of it to share with others. Leah teaches weekly classes to providers at Washington’s top Cancer Care Hospital, is serving as a faculty member for a CME (continuing medical education) course of Seattle’s Virginia Mason Hospital, and has also lead mindful yin classes at the University of Washington Mindfulness Project. In her classes she encourages students to find connection to their inner wisdom, healing, creativity and joy. She believes that every choice, every day, in every way, can add restored vitality and mind-body balance into our lives. Through her study and practice of yoga and Ayurveda, across three continents she’s learned that living in alignment with nature is the ultimate form of self-care.