Yin Yoga Teacher Training
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If you’re a yoga teacher wishing to enhance your teaching or personal practice by touching upon deeper (t)issues rarely worked in more dynamic styles, join Yael’s 50-hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training.
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September 20th, 21st and 22nd,
October 25th, 26th and 27th,
and November 15th, 16th and 17th.
Fridays 6:00 - 9:00pm
Saturdays 1:45 - 7:45pm
Sundays 1:45 - 7:45pm
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All classes will be held at Mimi Rieger Yoga.
1218 Ninth St. NW,
Washington, D.C. 20005
Each day of training will include a led Yin practice, as well as lecture, discussion, and experiential work in dyads/triads.
Begin
We’ll begin our training with the more external aspects of Yin Yoga: the shapes that focus on the parts of our bodies thickest with connective tissue, how to create a safe and positive biomechanical stress on the deep layers of fascia to gently accentuate pliability of our joints within our natural range of motion. You will learn why physical alignment is less important in this practice than the animating force behind the poses, which draw us deeper into the inner dimensions of our experience.
Then
Once we’re more comfortable with the stillness that characterizes Yin Yoga, we can dive into the energetic understanding of how this practice spotlights paths and points along the luminous body. In doing so, and combined with technologies such as breath, mudra, visualizations, mantras and meditations, we can learn how to increase the amount of chi (life force) in the system, or melt stagnations, or allow chi to be better absorbed by the mind-body complex.
Finally
Finally, as we continue to be drawn inward, we’ll explore Western and yogic understanding around how to alleviate suffering and cultivate resilience. We will learn how attention, accompaniment, agency and compassion can help ourselves and our students tune into hidden and dormant parts of ourselves that can be activated as a catalyst for growth and transformation. Like all else Yin, this is a slow and openhearted process that takes discipline and cannot be rushed.
About your teacher, Yael
Yael loves delving deeply into what heals us, what helps build our resiliency, and what allows us to be courageous and active agents in our communities. To that end, she began practicing yoga 25+ years ago while doing organizing with immigrant communities, and became a teacher in 2006 as a way to bring healing to those on the front lines of creating a more just world. She soon fell in love with Yin Yoga, studying with Paul Grilley, credited with creating Yin Yoga and an expert in functional anatomy; Sarah Powers, who popularized Yin Yoga by integrating it with both mindfulness and Taoist meridians; and Biff Mithoefer, who incorporates storytelling and shamanic teachings into his teachings. As a yoga therapist and seasoned facilitator, coach and energy worker, Yael offers group and one-on-one sessions in clinical, educational, community and faith-based settings. She serves as core and guest faculty of several 200 hour and advanced yoga teacher trainings and is a voracious reader and life-long learner, most recently doing cadaver dissections with Gil Hedley, a yearlong program with Dr. Gabor Mate in Compassionate Inquiry, and an end-of-life doula program. Learn more about Yael at www.yaelflusberg.com.
Your development
The Yin Yoga Teacher Training includes 48 hours of in-person training with Yael Flusberg, reading and homework assignments, a workbook, and a certificate of completion. RYTs who complete the course are eligible to apply for CEUs with Yoga Alliance.
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The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga by Bernie Clark, with a foreword by Sarah Powers.
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· Your Body Your Yoga, by Bernie Clark, foreword by Paul Grilley is the single best book that explains anatomical variation and why it’s so important in teaching any style of yoga.
· Insight Yoga by Sarah Powers is a eloquently written book which focuses on using the meridians to create Yin sequences.
· Both Yin Yoga and Chakra Meditation by Paul Grilley are succinct overviews of the philosophical underpinnings of practices that provide the anchor for Yin.
· Yael will provide (boundless) additional resources after each session.
Fees & Registration
The fee for Yin Yoga Teacher Training is $990, payable as follows:
$350 non-refundable deposit due by July 30, 2024 to secure your space. Click here for the application.
Payment in full is due by September 1, 2024.
Mimi Rieger Yoga Teacher Training graduates receive a $100 discount.
Course Topics and Sequence
September 20th-22nd: Yin & the Physical Body
Learn the history of Yin and the Yin approach to Yoga
Review key principles of Functional Anatomy
Learn anatomy from the perspective of joints and fascia including plasticity vs. elasticity of tissues; the importance of skeletal variation and natural range of motion; proportion and orientation; and the difference between compression and tension
A Yin Yoga Asana Clinic in which you’ll learn the most common Yin poses and variations
October 25th-27th: Yin & The Energetic Body
Reflect on what energy is, and how it moves, gets obstructed, and how both yin and yang yoga relate to energetic flows
Review energetic anatomy from the Yogic perspective, including chakras and elements
Learn energetic anatomy from the Taoist cosmology including the main yin meridians, Modern Meridian Theory and how acupuncture meridians relate to fascial meridians (Anatomy Trains)
November 15th-17th: Yin and the Psycho-Spiritual Body & The Role of A Yin Teacher
Learn the neurophysiology of stress, trauma, and resiliency and how this can guide you to create a Yinenvironment for yourself and your students
Explore the Eastern understanding of suffering and how heart-mind practices alleviate suffering and help liberate our energy and spirits for more effective and impactful pursuits
Explore different ways to integrate mindfulness and resilience tools into a Yin practice
Discover Yin teaching methodology including the art of assisting in a Yin class (where you may be dealing with beginning and seasoned students with a range of physical and psychological concerns)
Explore many ways to sequence a Yin practice, including combining Yin with Yang.Understand the role of a yin teacher (teaching philosophy, facilitation skills, use of touch, voice, personal practice, ethics)