Five Day Yin Yoga Training

A wonderful opportunity to delve deep into the practice of Yin yoga with Norman Blair who is one of the UK’s most experienced and well-respected Yin yoga teachers.

This five-day (40-hour) Yoga Alliance-accredited Yin yoga teacher training course gives participants space to study and explore this increasingly popular form of yoga. The course is both theoretical and creative, giving you the tools and the inspiration with which to confidently create your own sequencing. 

The reasons for and the results of practising this form will be explained. There will be detailed examination of poses, examples of sequencing and plenty of time to evaluate our own experiences. Participants will learn about contraindications and modifications. 

By the end of the course, participants will have a detailed understanding of Yin yoga as a practice. Qualified yoga teachers will be equipped to begin teaching Yin yoga. Learning Yin yoga can significantly expand your horizons as a teacher, equipping you with ideas and methods to offer this practice to your students. Practitioners wishing to deepen their Yin practice are also welcome on this course, alongside anyone wishing to qualify to teach Yin. This is a course for both professional development and personal development.

Three three-hour sessions will be led by external teachers on anatomy, meridians, and on meditation. 

Course Content

• introduction to and practising more than twenty Yin yoga poses 
• the history of Yin yoga 
• examining some of the theories behind Yin yoga
• exploring the relationship between Yin yoga and meditation 
• understanding the possibilities and precautions of Yin yoga 
• learning about meridians and how Yin yoga might influence energy flows 
• examining the differences between Yin yoga, Restorative yoga and dynamic yoga 
• doing Yin yoga in different ways (with props, without props and more) 

The guest teachers on this course:

• Emma Charlton | Anatomy
• Maitripushpa Bois | Meditation
• Amanda Wright | Yin Yoga

You will receive two manuals plus handouts on anatomy, meridians and meditation – and more. In addition to the five days in studio, you will have access to three 45-minute lectures and a recorded two-hour Yin class taught by Norman. 

About Norman:

Norman began regularly practising yoga in 1993 and his first meditation retreat was December 2000. In October 2001, he started teaching yoga. His first book – Brightening Our Inner Skies: yin and yoga – was published in 2016. In July 2025 he published a book of yin wisdom; his next book will be published in 2026 – Everything We Do Matters: poems and prose about yoga and life.

Norman teaches classes, retreats and workshops and has been running Yin yoga trainings since 2013. Particularly inspirational teachers include Judith Hanson Lasater, Paul Grilley, Richard Freeman and Sarah Powers. He believes that through regular yoga and meditation practices we can experience profound changes in our mind and body.

Norman has been actively involved in social justice campaigns since the early 1980s. He believes that it is crucial that we connect inward work with outward work – personal transformation in the service of societal transformation. As practitioners, we know that we have the capacity for positive change. We can be catalysts for change: we can look up, raise our aspirations, be less reactive and more creative.