Yin YOga training is back!

Formerly known as Yin Yoga Foundation Training, Yin Yoga Variations: An Intro to Leading a Practice of Surrender Featuring the Twisting Tree Archetype with Senior Paul Grilley Trainer, Joe Barnett. This is one of our most popular trainings!

There is something for all levels of participants in this immersion. This training is open to students, non-teachers, and teachers. You do NOT  have to be a student of Yoga University to attend this training. 

YIN VARIATIONS TT: An Intro to Leading a Practice of Surrender Featuring The Twisting Tree Archetype

• 5 Archetypal Yin Yoga Postures, their Target Areas, and their Variations
• Interactive, hands-on study of anatomy: Finding skeletal landmarks and testing range of motion (ROM).
• Understanding and discriminating sensation: Tension vs Compression, Muscle vs Fascia, Physical vs Subtle Energy
• 7 Essential Cues for guiding a Yin posture and exploring its variations
• 3 Stages of Time for skillful pacing of individual poses as well as whole sequences
• Introduction to the “Functional Approach” and the “Yin Yoga Sutras” of Paul Grilley
• “Narrations” practice: Roleplaying and dialogue practice between teacher and student: How to listen, how to lead
• 5 Foundational Sequences and discussion of their functions and variations, and the basics for building more

Yin Yoga is a simple practice of quiet and surrender,
a  practice of settling into a posture for 3-7 minutes, relaxing the  body’s resistance, allowing the deeper and stiffer tissues, the fascia  that wrap muscles and form joint capsules, to be safely and therapeutically stretched, hydrated, and strengthen. At the same time,  the techniques naturally offer a deep rest for the body, and a refuge  for the mind and heart.
Yin Yoga is a functional practice.
Guiding  students toward this simplicity and surrender can be challenging. It  requires a general understanding and appreciation of the infinite  complexity of human variation. Physically, mentally and emotionally,  every Yogi is unique and requires a unique approach. Realizing this, the  founder of Yin Yoga, Paul Grilley, along with his senior students and  assistants developed a system of Archetypes and Variations and various  dialogue practices to help teachers help their students toward greater  self-knowledge.
This Yin Variations 25-Hour TT will guide the student-teachers through the 3-Phase cycle of a Yin Yoga practice:

#1: Explore and Communicate. Through some schematics, charts, and lots  of movement and chanting, we will explore and communicate with the body and guide it into a shape, a posture that follows the its unique landscape of twists, turns, tensions, and compressions. We will learn  how and where to “listen/ observe” and how best to respond to the  evolving needs of the body and mind.
#2: Be still and surrender. We  will study what it means to “go deep” into the body with Yin Yoga, as  well as what it means to “go deep” into the mind and emotions, and  spirit with Yin Yoga. We will compare and contrast these aspects of Yin  Yoga with seated Chakra meditation techniques, as well as Yoga Nidra  Practices.
#3: Rebound. Passively and steadily observe the flow of  energy (i.e. chi, prana, “life force”) released on the exit of a Yin  pose. We will discuss life-force channels of different traditions. We  will turn to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras for a look into the deepest of  endeavors of all our yoga practices, to truly know ourselves.
The Yin teacher’s two voices: group leader and one-on-one consultant.

Through  a hands-on, interactive study of anatomy and movement, the Yin teacher  appreciates the endless variety of humankind. Through personal  explorations of the Yin Yoga Postures as well as dialogue techniques,  “Narrations,” with fellow students, she gains a set of practical tools  to successfully lead a class, or an individual through a one-on-one.
Posture Analyses: Anatomy and Function.
All  Yin Foundations courses include a brief analysis of each of the 5 Yin  Yoga Archetypes. In each of the Yin Foundations courses, a deeper study  of one of the five. In this course, we will spend extra time on the Swan  Archetype and its target areas, the glutes, and the lateral thigh.

Details:

• Dates: Friday-Sunday February 3-5, 2023
• Times: 9a-6p Daily
• Cost:      
  • $425 Early before January 3, 2023
  • $475 Late after January 3, 2023
  • To Register
  • Attending both Yin Yoga, Breath, and Dreamwork & Yin Variations TT? Great! We have a discount for you! 
    • $800 Early before December 6, 2022
    • $900 Late after December 6, 2022 
    • To Register
• *Fee includes training manual & handouts
• Refund Policy - one month prior to the event FULL refund less $150 - after 1 month prior to the event NO REFUNDS

See instructor bio below. 

Questions? Email us

Joe Barnett is an ERYT-500 Yoga Teacher Trainer, based in Tucson, AZ.
Joe  was the original assistant and is still one of the few primary  assistants to Paul Grilley, the founder of Yin Yoga and innovator of a  highly popular functional approach to anatomy and yoga asana. Joe has  also recently copy-edited Grilley’s recent works on meditation,  philosophy, and energy work. Joe has been teaching Yin and Yang forms of  Yoga for 2 decades, and continues traveling nationally and internationally throughout each year offering presentations and  trainings based on his long-time mentor’s work. Staying true to the  curriculum of Paul Grilley, Joe provides a deep study (both experiential  and anatomical) of skeletal variation, the fascia system, and yoga asana.
Joe also leads a study into the more subtle mind/body  practices. Through a framework of the revered texts Patanjali Yoga  Sutras and Bhagavad Gita, and the tantric practices of Pranayama and  Chakra meditation as inspired by Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama, Joe guides  pranayama techniques that combine breath and imagery to soothe the mind,  calm the nervous system and nurture Spirit.
Currently, he is in  training to be an end-of-life doula, volunteers at his local hospice,  and strives to find ways to integrate the education and normalization of  death and dying with the philosophies and techniques of yoga.
However,  Joe’s playtime is usually spent playing poorly at chess, learning  Sanskrit, loving his goats and cats and family, practicing acroyoga, and  studying anatomy, including a regular dissection course focused on the  fascia layers, and one focused on the brain.

Quote - "Joe Barnett  has been our friend and assistant for many years. He has two qualities  that make him an excellent presenter: he knows the anatomical principles  and he relates to people in a sympathetic manner. His presentations are  unhurried, hands-on demonstrations, this is the easiest way to absorb  these ideas.” ~ Paul and Suzee Grilley