40 Hour Yin Yoga Immersion
&
Teacher Training
April 30th - May 3rd, 2026
Stay tuned for Registration opening Fall 2025
There is more to come on the evolution of this Yin Yoga Immersion as we take it on the road in a retreat format late 2026 and into 2027
with
Cathleen Wasielewski
BS Pharm, BCST/RCST®,
ERYT-500, YACEP, MIM®,
Yintuition Healing
Advanced Practitioner of Somatic Awakening®
and
Hannah Kumaski
RCST®, BCST, MIM®,
RYT-200
Tidal Body Healing Arts
“Yin Yoga is the gentle path to self-discovery, healing, and inner peace.”
- Paul Grilley
What is Yin Yoga?
As a “practice” Yin Yoga is complementary to active, movement based Yang practices. The dynamics of the energy that is ignited in the body opens doorways to physical, energetic, emotional and meditative benefits.
In its physical therapeutic effects, the practice supports our everyday functional movements by touching the body’s deep structural connective tissues and fascial layers.
Yin is in a relationship with Yang that is both complementary and oppositional. Energetically, it is this polarity that ignites the internal dynamic life force or Qi (Chi) that animates our bodily health. Emotionally and meditatively practitioners explore a spacious experience of their inner landscape and work with the depth of the tender experience of being human. The energy of being human consists of a fluid multilayered system of connected energies that include the physical and subtle energetic bodies along with the emotional and spiritual bodies. Yin Yoga brings awareness to the vibrational flow of energy through these layers while supporting a process of growth and the recognition of wholeness.
The practice itself appears outwardly very still while the inner layers experience profound energetic movement. Connective tissues connect our many parts and layers. We call them Yin tissues and they include bones, tendons, ligaments, and connective fascial sheets. These tissues carry nerves and fluids and contain ground substance that is essential for a healthy existence.
In practice we apply healthy and slow tensile, compressive and shearing forces to create a comprehensive full body response that bridges the gap to the total health and well-being of mind, body and spirit.
In this training we ask and answer the questions of why we need this practice, why we need stillness to create mobility, and why we seek the sensation and stay with it.
Training will:
~ cover the yin yoga practice and its meaning
~ explore yin poses and their effects on the physical, energetic and emotional bodies
~ allow an experiential exploration that supports intellectual understanding of the meditative nature of the practice and why it is a key to whole health
~ open the doorway to the spiritual nature of our physical and subtle bodies through practice
~ show how this practice challenges what we have been taught about conventional methods of Yang exercise
~ explore teaching skills that facilitate the many benefits of Yin Yoga
This training covers the science as well as the esoteric and will leave you with a foundation and practical skills to share with others in a classroom setting as well as deepen your own practice.
Embodying Yin as a principle and a practice opens us to universal balance in relationship to the yang which can occupy much of life.
Yin includes:
Spaciousness
Depth
The inside
The mystery
Nourishment
Receptivity and more…
Who is this training for?
Everyone!
It is a yoga teacher training so great if you are a yoga teacher or a mover or a somatics person who brings body transformation to the world. Or, do the training to offer a yin dimension to the work you already do and the person you already are.
In each of the four days there is a short meditation and a long Yin Yoga practice, lecture covering anatomy, postures, the subtle body and the emotional field as well as teaching skills, and personal work.
You are welcome to be in the container to witness yourself and invite yin into your life, slow down, learn, heal and be.
This is a 40 hour training which includes 32 classroom hours with an expected 8 hours of home study.
This is a Yoga Alliance® certified training eligible for CEU’s
Cost $775
Payment plans available - please inquire
Required Materials
The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga by Bernie Clark
Insight Yoga by Sarah Powers
Optional Materials
Yinsights by Bernie Clark
Your Body, Your Yoga by Bernie Clark
Yin Yoga: Outline of a Quiet Practice by Paul Grilley
Lit from Within by Sarah Powers
Please come with an openness to new perspectives as well as an openness to feeling deeply through the layers of the Yin tissues and into the spiritual nature of the subtle body.
There are no prerequisites for this training and no yoga experience is necessary.
Bring your yoga mat as well as a water bottle, snacks, supplies to take notes with and anything else you may need for your comfort during the days of study. Dress comfortably and in layers as Yin practice can often release internal heat in the body which may create a cooling effect following practice.
This is a 4 day Intensive Teacher Training
Yin Yoga Immersion
April 30th - May 3rd, 2026
Thursday & Friday 9am-6pm
The Portland Yoga Project
449 Forest Ave
Portland, Maine
Saturday 9am-6pm
Sunday 9am-3pm
PYP Downtown
129 Newbury St
Portland, Maine
REGISTRATION OPENS FALL 2025