Yin Yoga Training

About the class

International Yin Yoga Teacher Trainer Mel McLaughlin from The Yin Space will be leading us for this immersion into all things Yin. An ideal course for any current or aspiring yoga teacher to attend and a deeper dive for students wishing only to expand their yin-formation and practice!

Join us this December in Cheltenham with Melanie McLaughlin for her inspiring 50 hours Yin Yoga Teacher Training programme. We will slip off the radar for 5 days of yin “chill-pill”. Exploring our ‘Yin-sides’ with a deep immersion into the other side of the yoga coin, we are keeping it small and intimate and you will be fully versed in the art of teaching yin when you are finished. We answer all the “whys” and practice twice to bookend the day and layer the intellectual information with somatic experience.

“There is a yin and yang to everything in the universe. They are like two sides to the same coin, one cannot exist without the other and they complement each other.”

Yin yoga is growing in popularity, largely in response to what has become a very “yang”- dominated yoga culture. People are discovering the benefits of a quieter; more still practice – not just in their physical bodies, but also in their nervous and energy systems.

Mel has been passionate about a yin-style practice for over 11 years, through her own personal practice and self-study. In 2012 Mel formalised her training with Paul Grilley through his 240-hour Teacher Training program in the USA, recently revisited for ongoing training, and now shares this wealth of experience, insight and expertise.

Course will Cover

•A study of Yin asanas

•An alternate look at anatomy and physiology for yoga

•Explore the differences between a yin and yang practice

•Yin sequencing and class themes

•Pranayama and meditation in a Yin practice

•Muscle meridian theory and related organs (courtesy of Dr Motoyama & Paul Grilley’s research)

•The energy system and Chakras

•Fascia research and its function and qualities relevant to YIN

•The concept and importance of Chi/Qi

•Teaching styles and methodologies in Yin yoga, including “wall yin”

*note (immersion includes take home Manual)

Prerequisites: x5 hours of yin classes prior to the training start date.

If you want to teach YIN - Participants will need to have successfully completed a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training course prior to commencing Yin Yoga Teacher Training (copy of certificate must be seen/submitted for verification OR join us if it is for personal enjoyment and a deeper experience of yin.

£550 early bird if booked before 30th September 2020, £600 thereafter.

100% attendance is required for certificate to be awarded.

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