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RENEW YOURSELF, RENEW YOUR TEACHING BY DELVING DEEPLY INTO THE PRACTICE OF YIN YOGA
This 50-hour Yin Yoga Training course, appropriate for yoga practitioners, teachers, and teachers-in-training, is a unique opportunity to study in-depth the practice and instruction of yin yoga. Through extensive practice, instruction in functional anatomy and fascial connections, study of the energetic body (chakra system and meridians), and study of yin yoga teaching methodology, this course will advance your practice and encourage more skillful teaching. Yoga teachers taking this course will be confident in and well-equipped to add yin yoga classes to your schedule or incorporate yin techniques into your classes of other yoga styles.
Topics
What is yin/yang? Yang yoga vs yin yoga Yang tissues vs yin tissues Cultivating equilibrium(stress and rest) Fascia and fluid Qi and meridians 12 meridians and organs Organs and emotions Rebound; linking to meditation How to teach functionally
6 archetypal poses Theming classes
Training Schedule
Saturdays - October 1, 8, 15, 22
1:30-5:30pm in-person at the Maplewood Studio
October 28-30
Weekend Retreat at the Lay Center in Louisiana, MO
3 hours of self-paced online content is released each week.
Retreat Weekend Schedule
Friday: 1pm arriving 2-5 class 5-7 dinner 7-9 class
Saturday: 7:30-8 meditation 8-9 breakfast 9-12 class 12-2 lunch 2-5 class 5-7 dinner 7-9 class
Sunday: 7:30-8 meditation 8-9 breakfast 9-12 class 12-1 lunch 1-3 final class and farewell
Readings
Required: Yin Yoga: Principles and Practice by Paul Grilley
Recommended: Insight Yoga by Sarah Powers Your Body, Your Yoga by Bernie Clark The Spark in the Machine by Daniel Keown
From Jee:
For thousands of years, the primary objective of yoga has been to cultivate meditative awareness. This requires slowing down. To slow down we need to be able to wait patiently. Most of us who live in this fast-moving society do not feel comfortable when we hear the words "slowing down and waiting." Too often we get trapped by the allure of speed and are thrown off balance. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says to Arjuna "Yoga is Equanimity." Cultivating meditative awareness is to invigorate equanimity by being in the balance between effort and ease, control and surrender, knowing and not-knowing, and yin and yang. Pico Iyer expresses the beauty of slowing down into stillness in his poem.
“In an age of speed….nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still”
Instructor Jee Moon
Jee has been dedicated to teaching yoga since 2001. Her studies began with a teacher training course with a qigong teacher in Seoul, Korea; she went on to train in Ashtanga and Anusara yoga in Thailand, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, and Taipei and earned Yoga Alliance International Certification. Jee now specializes in teaching, and training teachers, in yin yoga. She has completed an extensive teacher training course and commits to yearly study in yin yoga and yoga philosophy with Paul Grilley, known for developing yin yoga. Jee's teaching of group classes and teacher trainings is rooted in years of practice and study of a diverse range of yoga styles, functional anatomy, meditation, and yoga philosophy. She teaches with great attention to detail, an individualized approach, and a dose of humor.