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Yin Yoga Foundational Teacher Training: Practicing Surrender and Receptivity
Thu, Jul 30
|Integral Yoga Institute
This training will focus on the great therapeutic benefits of Yin Yoga on the physical, energetic, and mental/emotional bodies (the annamaya, pranamaya, and manomaya koshas). We will investigate the foundational shapes of Yin Yoga, seeking to understand the method of this practice ...


Time & Location
Jul 30, 2020, 9:00 AM – Aug 02, 2020, 5:00 PM
Integral Yoga Institute, 227 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011, USA
About The Event
This training will focus on the great therapeutic benefits of Yin Yoga on the physical, energetic, and mental/emotional bodies (the annamaya, pranamaya, and manomaya koshas). We will investigate the foundational shapes of Yin Yoga, seeking to understand the method of this practice and exploring appropriate ways of modifying poses to meet individual students’ needs. Included in the training are daily Yin Yoga practices and opportunities to work in partners and small groups for practical experience applying the information. You will viscerally integrate the information so that, upon completion of the training, you will feel confident teaching Yin Yoga and also fielding students’ questions with confidence and clarity.
Topics to be addressed:
theory of Yin/Yang/Tao and how those concepts are embedded in the practice and are vastly illuminating in a quest for balance
tension and compression, two of Yoga’s primary stressors
anatomy and physiology: bones, muscles, fascia, and organs
anatomical uniqueness…