40 Hour Yin Yoga Immersion
&
Teacher Training
February 4-7, 2027 ~ Portland, Maine
Stay tuned for registration TBA
There is more to come on the evolution of this Yin Yoga Immersion as we take it on the road in a retreat format 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?
Yin Yoga is an intelligent practice that sparks the vitality of healthy tissue and fluid biodynamics while opening the doorways to physical, energetic and emotional awareness. It is the energetic complement to Yang living.
We, as human beings, are a fluid multilayered system of connected energies. Yin Yoga offers us to feel the vibrational flow of energy through these layers while supporting a process of growth, the recognition of wholeness and the innate intelligence present in the human form.
Within the principles of the complementary energies of yin and Yang we recognize health on all levels. Yin and Yang are in a fluid relationship each containing the energy of the other. The polarizing flow between action and stillness ignites Qi to animate (bodily) health as the complementary energies are at play within the Yin Yoga practice.
In the practice itself functional movements are supported by exercising the body’s deep structural connective tissue and fascial forms. Yin tissues include bones, tendons, ligaments and connective fascial sheets which carry nerves and fluids as well as ground substance that is essential for vitality.
The experience is uniquely meditative as practitioners encounter the tender inner landscape of what it means to be human. In the outwardly still poses there are profound energetic movements as we apply healthy and slow tensile, compressive and shearing forces thereby creating a comprehensive full body response that bridges the gap to total health and well being of mind, body and spirit.
Training will:
~ bring science and tradition together while combining Eastern and Western philosophies to understand the innate wisdome of the body
~ cover the yin yoga practice and its meaning
~ explore Yin poses and their multilayered effects
~ open the doorway to the spiritual nature of our physical and layered subtle bodies through practice
~ allow an experiential exploration that supports understanding the meditative nature of the practice and why it is key to whole health
~ explore teaching skills that facilitate the many benefits of Yin Yoga
~ support the discovery of how our own dharma and internal perceptions are the platform for teaching with integrity
This training opens to the science as well as the esoteric to bring a foundation and practical skills to share with others in a classroom setting as well as deepen one’s 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. We learn to practice with intelligence in order to open the physical body, the subtle body, the mind and the spirit.
In this training will uncover how stillness creates mobility, ask and answer the questions of why we need this practice, and how staying with sensation is causal to therapeutic effect not only in the tissues of our body but in our lives.
We will study how the Yin Yoga practice is a guide to conscious awareness and an inspiration toward wholeness as we learn to decode the sensations that are unique to each individual.
Yin includes:
Spaciousness
Depth
The inside
The mystery
Nourishment
Receptivity and more…
Who is this training for?
Everyone! and is accessible to all bodies!
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
Partial scholarship available ** (see below)
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
**Student Assistant discount (50%) is available ~ please inquire
**Partial Scholarship available ~ Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) ~ more info here
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
February 4-7, 2027
Thursday, Friday & Saturday 9am-6pm
Sunday 9am-3pm
The Portland Yoga Project
Portland, Maine
