Yin Yoga Teacher Training
2025 Dates TBD
The yin yoga practice is one that invites you to land, to feel, to connect to those deeper parts that we often ignore and that need the most attention. To practice and teach this style of practice in a way that delivers all it has to offer, the opportunity to heal and cultivate self-compassion and mindfulness, one must have a personal awareness and connection to themself.
Yoga teachers and students will gain a more in-depth, personal understanding of the practice and feel confident to integrate the teachings learned into class or personal practice sequencing and delivery. You will feel confident to guide yourself and others to work through the resistances of grounding, to be with discomforts and distractions, and to find stillness from time of self-compassion and mindfulness, from time that allows for healing. When we turn inwards and ask this of others, a certain level of humility and compassion is attained. This training challenges us to embrace humility and seek compassion towards ourselves and others.
Guiding yourself or someone to stillness is a skill, something that takes compassion, patience, and the ability to hold space; the ability to allow discomfort, to lean towards it, in order for there to be opportunity to find acceptance in the present moment.
Prerequisites for 75Hr Certifications
Yoga teachers with a 200Hr certificate for a foundational yoga training
Students with a regular yoga practice or keen interest in learning more about yin, meditation, self-compassion and healing.
Required Reading Material: Yin Yoga By: Paul Grilley & Yinsights by Bernie Clark (https://yinyoga.com/yinsights/for free web version)
Distance Learning Component
One hour workshop recording about Personalizing your Practice. Includes an overview of target areas, poses for each & exploring each target area for yourself to help students in their exploration.
One hour workshop recording from Uriel regarding philosophy.
One reflection submitted on review of a yin class not taught in the weekend. (This can be a class that was conducted live online, from a recording or a studio practice.)
Audio of a meditation practice to guide self-inquiry and nurturing; the expectation is for it to be practiced weekly with weekly prompts for journaling (two-hour time commitment for the month)
Audio of Yoga Nidra, to be practiced weekly with weekly prompts for journaling (two-hour time commitment for the month)
Submission of a sequence with an outline of the intention for the class, reason for the poses, transitions, any breath work involved, meditation included, any additions of assists, etc.
A personal 30-minute meeting with Emilie to review the sequence and discuss any questions about teaching yin, further study, etc.
Attendance at two 90-minute Yin classes. First within 1 month of the initial weekend of training and the second in between the other training weekends.
30 minutes of reflection after each Yin class.
Teachers
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I wasn’t always very good with being still. The idea of sitting for a period of time with no “real” purpose would drive me crazy. I was that person who always needed to be doing and had started to forget the importance of being.
My first yin class evoked a lot of emotion, particularly anger, an emotion I wasn’t use to feeling or even expressing. Although I did not like to feel that emotion, I couldn’t ignore how good my body felt after the yin class, how much more calm I felt from the emotional releases I experienced. Just like my regular practice, I became enthralled with yin, I would look forward to these weekly classes, to that experience of feeling so much and then letting it go.
When I started teaching it was natural to offer longer held stretching poses at the end of a challenging vinyasa style of class. I was soon encouraged to look at teaching yin and I am ever grateful for that encouragement! My foundational training took me to Vancouver to study with Bernie Clark, a scientist by trade and yogi at heart! This training cultivated a desire to learn more, it changed how I approached offering yin poses and why. Wanting to learn more I decided to apply to learn with one of Bernie’s first Yin teachers, Paul Grilley, the yogi responsible for bringing yin yoga to the west! Paul is known for his extensive knowledge of anatomy and basing his yoga instruction on the function of the postures, not on how they “should” look.
I have completed 300 hours of yin yoga training with Paul and plan to continue learning from him and other knowledgeable and passionate yin yoga instructors. I am excited to share the understanding I have gained thus far on my journey about this practice, helping fellow teachers feel more self-assured in the intention behind their instructions.
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Nikki came to yoga in 2012, craving an activity to get her out of the house and drawn by both the strength, grace and challenge of arm balances and inversions, and a desire to finally forge a path to peace and happiness in her life. She quickly fell in love with the practice of yoga as a whole and how it enriched all facets of her life, and though she still loves the physical challenges, it presents she has come to appreciate the mental, spiritual and philosophical aspects of the practice as well.
She did her 200hr training with Shanti Hot Yoga the same studio where she was inspired by her teachers to deepen her practice and eventually follow her dream to become a yoga teacher full time. She has since accomplished this goal and with over 1000 hours of teaching experience has garnered her E-RYT 200 certification.
As a writer and storyteller, she loves the idea that a yoga class can lead you somewhere, that you can tell a story with body and breath. As a teacher and student, she is passionate about yoga not as a practice of doing, but rather as one of trying, experiencing and feeling. And whether it’s a couple of people or a crowded room, as a teacher she tries to pass along the greatest gift this practice has given her, “Ultimately this is a practice of connectivity. It connects us with the world. It connects us with ourselves. And it connects us with each other.
Time will be spent learning the following
Benefits of yin.
Ability to analyze the body functionally and understanding that the postures are a means to target certain areas of the body and/or effect energetic releases.
Meridian line and chakra associations within each target area and the energetics of the meridian lines and chakra systems that are invoked and worked during a yin practice and how the postures, meditation techniques and breath work can stimulate these systems.
Skeletal differences and focus on anatomy, learning about fascia, ligaments, tendons and joints and the theory of exercise specifically required for these tissues and how it all effects the student doing yin.
Learn the difference between tension and compression in movement and what you should do for your student when these arise in practice.
Learn the relationship between the superficial and deep facial lines in body movement.
Pranayama and meditation techniques to tap into one’s subtle energy body.
Yin class design and incorporating yin and yang sequences.
You will learn how changing the orientation of the pose can bring freedom to someone who can’t do a posture a certain way. Example: seated, wall, reclined, & standing variations.
Learn and develop chakra meditation techniques that focus on deepening self-connection and awareness.
You will broaden your understanding of how one’s past or current day experiences can affect them emotionally & mentally and how re-creating a physical connection is a step towards healing.
Time will be spent creating sequences and practice teaching so a certain level of comfort is gained before teaching public classes. Assisted yin sequence will be shared so that one-on-one sessions or personal assists in classes are readily available as well as applicability and techniques of working with healing touch and sound healing in the practice.
This training challenges us to embrace humility and seek compassion towards ourselves and others. When we turn inwards and ask this of others, a certain level of humility and compassion is attained.
Training in Diversity, accessibility, equity and inclusion.
Teachers and students will come away from this training feeling prepared to facilitate practices in a way that is as unique as their understanding of the yin yoga practice. They will recognize that the affects to the body go beyond just getting into and out of poses.
Teachers will feel confident in guiding students to feel and be with physical sensation with the intention of opening the body and mind. Students will confident in creating personalized sequences for themselves and their unique needs as well as supporting oneself in a mindful process of grounding and releasing.
This course counts for 75 hours of CE credits with Yoga Alliance
Teachers will come away from this training feeling prepared to facilitate classes in a way that is unique as their understanding of the yin yoga practice and how it affects the body will go beyond getting people into and out of poses.
Teachers will feel confident in guiding students to feel physical sensation with the intention of opening the body and mind.
This course counts for 75 hours of CE credits with Yoga Alliance
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Uriel is a yoga teacher, an entrepreneur, and a leader of transformational Yoga teacher trainings and retreats across the Globe. She is the founder of Shanti Yoga Studios and the Shanti Traditional School of Yoga based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Having held senior management and marketing roles in Corporate Canada for twenty years she answered the call to become a yoga teacher. A life-changing journey to India to study the ancient teachings would transform her life. Overnight she walked away from everything that she knew and started a phase in her life that would take her on the adventure of a lifetime.
Stepping into her true purpose she recognized that students longed for the same deep transformation in their lives. Her studios and teaching philosophy are guided by the values of the time-honored wisdom teachings of the yoga tradition.
Led by masters such as the late Georg Feurerstein, of the Traditional School of Yoga and world-renowned yoga and meditation teacher Rod Stryker she is a student for life. Having studied Tantra, Vinyasa Krama, and Iyengar yoga, she brings a multi-disciplinary approach to her teaching.
My vision is clear she says: “I believe in the power of yoga to transform lives and inspire students to awaken their soul’s calling”.
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Annette completed her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training with Shanti Hot Yoga in 2017. She is known for her authentic, playful, non-judgmental and challenging teaching style and compassion for thoses in and out of the studio.
Yoga has been a part of Annette’s life for several years now. Her practice has helped her grow stronger; physically & mentally and more courageous, both on and off the mat. As a teacher and student, yoga inspires her to live each moment more intentionally and mindfully.
One of Annette’s passions is to help others to find their strength, to believe in themselves and to have balance and inner peace so they can create space and happiness internally and eternally.
“Don’t limit your challenges, challenge your limits”… on and off the mat.
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Dates, Times & Location
2025 Dates TBD
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Fee & Refund Details
The deposit is not refundable. We are very strict on deposit refunds, so please be sure you can do the training before registering.
Refunds ( excluding the deposit amount) are available up to 30 days prior to the beginning of training.
Full payment is due and will be processed 30 days before training begins.
If you withdraw from the Yin yoga teacher training program, for a medical reason, a credit can be provided for a future Yin training.
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Payment Methods
Cash, Cheque, Money Order, Visa, MasterCard or Debit.
Investment Details
TUITION AMOUNT
2025 Tuition and Dates TBD