Yin Yoga is not about stretching blindly, but effectively. So, you release what you want: emotions, stress, tension, or built-up pain. With our Yin Yoga Course, you explore the Yin Yoga world with
At SciYoga, we designed probably the most scientific course on Yin Yoga. With our Yin Yoga Teacher Training Course, you learn Yin Yoga with its science-backed benefits, including an understanding of myofascia, myofascial release, tension vs compression, mechanism of muscle release, and more. This vital information, coupled with modifications and correct prop usage, makes you a world-class Yin Yoga teacher. Moreover, we are certified by Yoga Alliance, and our certification is internationally recognised.
Yin Yoga is a slow-paced style of Yoga where postures are held for a slightly longer period, i.e., 3-5 minutes. The term Yin comes from the Yin and Yang philosophy of traditional Chinese medicine (called TCM). As per this Yin and Yang philosophy, Yin means passive energies, representing the moon, cool, calming, and dark energies. Whereas Yang means active energies, representing the sun, hot, agile, and bright energies. Yin and Yang together balance everything in this world. Therefore, Yin Yoga is all about balancing the solar and lunar energies of the body. Furthermore, the movement of Yin and Yang also underlies the five-element theory of TCM, which we briefly cover in our Yin Yoga teacher training course.
Probably the most Scientific Yin Yoga Teacher Training Course, learn from the experts. At SciYoga, we offer an exceptional Yin Yoga Teacher Training Course, which goes into almost every possible detail of Yin Yoga and makes you a refined Yin Yoga teacher. For instance, our course has detailed Yin Yoga shapes, or Yin Yoga Asanas, Fascia, Yin Yoga Anatomy, and more. We cover every Yin Yoga Asana with the right prop adjustments, modifications, progressions, and regressions. We offer all sorts of prop modifications so that you are well-equipped to help all of your students. You also learn various versions of the Yin Asanas, so if anybody wants to progress into the stretches, you guide them to it; if anybody wants to regress because it is too much for them, then you also have that option available to you.
With this course, our idea is to make you a Yin Yoga teacher who knows every nitty-gritty of Yin Yoga. A teacher who will guide their student into Yin Yoga almost effortlessly. They would want to come to your Yin Yoga sessions again and again. Our Yin Yoga Teacher Training course is certified by the Yoga Alliance and is accepted everywhere in the world.
Let’s now address the elephant in the room, which is the Yin Yoga and Fascia connection. Every time I discuss Yin Yoga with anyone, they ask what fascia is and how Yin Yoga helps to stretch it. Let’s understand and uncover this thing.
First of all, fascia is a deep connective tissue, lying under our skin. It binds and separates our muscles and different organs. Simply put, it is like a covering that wraps our muscles and their muscle fibres (spindles). As fascia wraps our muscles, it is also called myofascial. Fascia depends on muscles for a lot of its functioning; a muscle contains almost 30% fascia. We have over six hundred muscles in our bodies, and we are able to distinguish them because of fascia.
Fascia has sensors of its own, through which it can assess the position of our muscles and their movements. Hence, fascia is truly vital for our body. However, as surprising as it may sound, fascia was poorly understood until very recently. Before we understood fascia, surgeons used to operate on people without giving much thought to fascia. However, with time, biomedical science realised that even when surgery was successful, people still complained of limitations in their bodies and range of motion. Later, it was discovered that fascia is behind all these movement limitations, and this opened like a Pandora's box to biomedical science.
Fascia covers our body as if we are wearing a suit on our bodies. Therefore, even if somebody has pain in an area, it may travel to another area, which we call distant pain referrals. Yin Yoga is believed to be helpful for releasing the fascia. Many people share their experience after practising Yin Yoga, and they claim that they feel their range of motion and mobility have increased after practising Yin Yoga. As per Yin Yoga, fascia is actually a Yin tissue of the body, whereas muscles are more dynamic, hence a Yang tissue of the body. Overall, Yin Yoga has a deep connection with fascia.
Our teachers are experienced in Yin Yoga and have been teaching and practicing it for more than a decade. For instance, our lead Yin Yoga teacher, Divyansh Sharma, has taught Yin Yoga for about a decade to people all across the globe. His Yin Yoga journey started with a prestigious, exclusive meditation and Yin Yoga organisation where he taught Yin Yoga to corporate leaders.
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Our Yin Yoga teacher training course is designed with one clear purpose: to make you an effective Yin Yoga teacher. And what is our secret formula for that? In our course, we offer comprehensive guidance on how to use Yoga props effectively. We have even trained people from brands such as Decathlon Sports India. With our Yin Yoga training, one should be able to design functional Yin Flows with an effective Yoga Prop setup. Let’s have a look at our Yin Yoga teacher training course content.
Yin Yoga feels so amazing on your body that you want to practice it every day. Our students, who have become Yin Yoga teachers, often mention that they notice more male students attending Yin Yoga classes than in any Yoga class. This symbolises that Yin Yoga works really well in every population. Let’s see some of the benefits that Yin Yoga has to offer:
There are conditions that researchers describe as Non-communicable diseases, including Cardiovascular conditions, cancers, etc. In a study(Daukantaitė D. et al. 2018[1]), it was concluded that even short-term Yin Yoga practice can decrease the risks of these diseases.
Yin Yoga definitely gives you loyal students who show up almost every day to your classes. What is interesting about Yin Yoga is that about 1 out of 10 people who practice Yoga have experienced Yin Yoga classes. Despite this, Yin Yoga is very successful. Because people who come to Yin Yoga classes love it. They love how it feels on their bodies. A good Yin Yoga class feels like a warm day after a freezing winter. And once you start liking Yin Yoga, there is no going back.
Recently, a study published in the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association highlighted that Yin Yoga can help reduce stress and anxiety in students (Lemay V. et al., 2021[2]). Therefore, Yin Yoga can also be used as a tool that helps with mental health issues. However, this study highlighted that we need to practice Yin Yoga for at least six weeks to gain these benefits.
Yin Yoga can also improve mindfulness (Lemay V. et al., 2021[2]). Mindfulness is the ability of a person to stay in the present and actively absorb what is happening around. This is vital for numerous reasons, including social interactions, learning new things, utilising resources properly, and more.
Some studies also indicate that practising Yin Yoga can be a way to overcome negative situations that one has to go through in one's life. As humans, we know that we can almost never avoid adverse situations. However, one thing that we can do right is to change our response in such times. With practice like Yin Yoga, we are able to cope with every adverse situation with ease.
It is believed that Yin Yoga stretches our fascia. For the best results, we suggest pairing Yin Yoga with the self-myofascia releasing technique (SMR technique). The SMR technique is where you use a roller, a tennis ball, or an acupuncture ball to put pressure on your muscles. The good thing is that we include the SMR technique in our Yin Yoga session. We also help you with its seamless integration into your Yin Yoga practice. This ensures that you can stretch and release your fascia.
Yin Yoga acts as the best bet to release your emotions. Trust me, I’ve seen many people getting emotional, crying, and sobbing after a Yin Yoga class. It is very difficult to understand this feeling scientifically, but those who experience it know it. Yin Yoga helps calm down our trapped emotions through a mechanism, not well-known but well-experienced.
With our course, you also learn to give proper cues during your Yin Yoga sessions. This is critical for Yin Yoga teachers because not everyone wants you to stay mute during the sessions. For beginners, they need cues; they need your voice as an anchor to feel secure. Not everyone can let go in their first session, so as a Yin Yoga teacher, you need to know the power of your cues. You need to know what the rules are for effective cueing. All of this is covered through our Yin Yoga Teacher Training Course.
Cues are instructions that guide your students to the correct Yin Yoga pose or shape. These cues can have three types:
| Location | Goa, India | |
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| Course | 100 Hour Yin Yoga YTTC | |
| Start Date | End Date | Status |
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We offer our Yin Yoga Teacher Training Course at various locations in India, including Goa, Dharamshala, and Rishikesh. We pick the best teachers and guest teachers and reserve their time for our course.
For our courses, accommodation, and food in India, we have a special collaboration with Trimurti Yoga School. Trimurti Yoga School has been running for the last 15 years; therefore, they have perfectly engineered their accommodation and food.
For our courses in Goa, India, the best way to reach our Goa campus is by flight. You can get a flight to Goa at Manohar International Airport, Mopa (GOX) or Dabolim Airport (GOI). We recommend that you land at GOX as it is newer and has much better facilities. From there, we will provide you with a cab that will drop you directly at our Trimurti Yoga campus, Agonda-Palolem Road, Canacona, South Goa. To avail a complimentary pick-up from the airport, you just need to provide us with your flight details.
Tap here to read our Terms and Conditions.At SciYoga, we offer numerous science-backed courses. Our courses are loved by people all around the world because they can trust our teachings. Our teaching is reliable and safe not only for our students but also for their own friends and family. We have numerous students who admire our efforts in this direction. In addition, our students also admire our connection with the roots of Yoga. We bring a blend where science is given priority, but the ancient heritage of Yoga is also preserved.
In Yin Yoga, unlike active Yoga (Yang Yoga), you don’t have perfect alignment; you just assume the shape of an Asana.
[1] Daukantaitė, Daiva, et al. "Five-week yin yoga-based interventions decreased plasma adrenomedullin and increased psychological health in stressed adults: A randomised controlled trial." PloS one 13.7 (2018): e0200518. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200518
[2] Lemay, Virginia, John Hoolahan, and Ashley Buchanan. "Impact of a Yin Yoga and meditation intervention on pharmacy faculty and student well-being." Journal of the American Pharmacists Association 61.6 (2021): 703-708.
