Yin Yoga is learning to listen to the body experience, performing stillness postures, held for extended periods of time to develop our awareness inwards. The Yin practice initially relates to grounding & physical release, yet with practice and awareness we can discover the world of energy within. We learn to recognise imbalances, blocks or over-concentrated areas of tension that we hold; to restore & harmonise our life force, to a personal balance of flow & grace. 

The Yin Approach 

Yin’s Approach is taught ‘Functionally’ whereby postures relate to specific target areas of the body, within the varying experience of all students. Postures are held in stillness for periods of time, applying progressive tension to the connective tissue of the body, requiring awareness and skill to achieve its special benefits.

Yin Yoga is an in-depth, transformative practice that attracts a broad range of yoga practitioners, especially moderate to experienced Vinyasa Yoga students & teachers. Drawn to develop their yoga experience beyond dynamic and formulaic approaches, it can be said that Yin develops a practitioner’s experience of deeper Self-knowledge and provides a bridge towards meaningful meditation.

Yin can be taught to go beyond musculoskeletal anatomy to understanding and balancing energy within our subtle realm which encompass- the physical, emotional and mind layers of the body. Therefore, the Yin discipline becomes a natural portal into a practitioner’s feeling & psychological world, opening us towards wholeness & healing.

Content

 In this course we will review the basics of Yin’s Functional practice and build our learning towards relating, experiencing and adjusting the energy within ourselves. As to this, the practices will develop to transcend the physical and become more subtle-body focused.We will look at working with our body sensations, the meridian system and the emotions within, and how the quality of this flow can affect our perceptions, states & behaviours.

We will further learn an introductory appreciation of our intrinsic elements that are inherent and how they coincide to the Chakra system of the spine.

Includes 

Course subjects will include Yin’s Functional Approach reviewed: Principles of the Practice, Yin’s Anatomy (14-10-7) System, Teaching/ Practice Methodology & Sequencing and the practical Laws of Tension & Compression.

TCM’s 12 Standard Meridians, TCM, and their emotions, Introduction to the elemental body and the Chakra system of the spine.

Basic Applied Anatomy (skeletal range of motion bone to bone comparisons) & practical demonstrations (key joints example: Hip). Does not include in-depth analysis which are included in Elements & Chakra courses.

An introduction of energy theory & psychology relating to the emotional meridians & chakras and transpersonal archetypes and how to they plan a role in our transformation.

Course Benefits

Students will gain effective learning models for Yin’s structural anatomy, the principles of the practice & teaching methodology. Students will review Paul Grilleys- 14-10-7 anatomy formula, the Functional teaching process, and the experiential approach of the Yin practice.

Students will be introduced to the TCMs Meridian system and their emotions, and the elemental essences with their rudimentary orientations within the Chakra system.

Students will leave enriched and more skillful in their personal Yin Yoga practice. For those looking to teach, these students will feel more organised and knowledgeable in teaching an effective and safe introductory Yin class, with an authentic and recognised Yin lineage behind them.

Course Orientation

This 3-day course can be a follow on from the Yin Foundations level course, or can be taken as a stand-alone journey, for students & teachers who have some Yin Yoga experience and now want to go deeper into the energetic layer of their practice.

As with the foundations course, this event will provide learning how as to practice & teach Yin Yoga effectively & safely, for all ranges of students and experience levels.

There will an experiential, energetic focus to this intermediate course- evaluating models of sensation, meridians & chakras (the energy body), to open students to a path of experience, psychology, healing and wholeness.

Important Info

Yin is for all ages and experience levels, yet it requires careful and systematic knowledge and guidance, to ensure effectiveness and safety.

This course offers a next level journey to a deeper physical experience; practitioners can use Yin to support physical recovery and healing, as well as inner inquiry and further inner-work.

For teachers, this course offers a deeper option for their teaching; which translates to transformative group experiences and developing experience and knowledge for workshops, retreats and 1-2-1 therapeutic applications.

Students attending this course should be aware that some of the content will address early life programming and our family of origin archetypes and conditioning. Discussions will include our day-to-day symptoms of energetic imbalances and other personal & behavioural orientations within our lives.

All TYP courses are rooted in the eastern traditions of Yoga, (Patanjali, Hatha, Vedanta & Tantra) as well as having significant influences of Shamanism and western Transpersonal Psychology. This means that a student’s lineage, background, childhood and early life parenting and conditioning can be investigated, as part of course practices and exercises.
All students should consider their physical, emotional and mental condition, before embarking on any course, and should consult a licensed physician if necessary as to their current or previous conditions which could affect their ability to complete any course of study.

Please fill any pre-course application/ information out carefully and accurately, to ensure safety and appropriateness of any live or online training experience.