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Yin Yoga Teacher Training: The Big Picture of a Quiet Practice (25 Contact Hours)

*5 Principles of Yin/Yang
*7 Yin/Yoga Archetypes
*3 Phases of the Yin Asana Cycle

This 25-hour course will be heavy on the experiential. It will include many deep stretching Yin Yoga practices that focus on the spine and hips. This deep stretch reaches into the joints and offers great relief from discomfort in and around these areas. Long periods of time in stillness and quiet will also offer great relief from mental and emotional stress. After each practice, you will feel lighter and more relaxed with all your daily movements... and within your relationships.

Next Level Series: Yin Yoga, Chakra Meditation & The Rebound (20 Hours)

Functional Anatomy of Yin

Energetic Anatomy: Chakras & The Spine

Three Body Theory: The art of becoming subtle

Technique: Breath, Visualization, Mantra

Philosophy: 5 Principles of Yin/Yang & Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras

In this Next Level Yin training, we will primarily focus on the subtleties: the quiet, the stillness, the surrender, and most importantly the wide open practice at the end of each yin pose and at the end of each chakra meditation called the rebound when we recline, reflect and deeply restore.

Please join our teacher trainees and the ommmazing Stephaney for an in-depth look into, and the practice of, various arm balances and inversions, from beginner to advanced. 

Learn how these asanas can be adapted to YOUR body and incorporated into your yoga practice. 

Learn how to acknowledge fear, and be fearless! Bring a beginners mind, an open heart, and a playful spirit. You can do hard things!

Details:

Date: Saturday, December 16, 2023

Time: 9a-11:30a

Cost: $35 Early/$45 Late - Early Discount Deadline is December 1st

Description: Stress in this modern life isn't going away. It's not a tiger chasing us, but our brains react in the same way as if ancient threats were here. Learn a new and effective way to care for your brain and body in this 90-minute experiential class. Learn the basics of EFT, a powerful way to transform your beliefs and habits related to how you currently handle stress. Tapping is an easy-to-use technique that can positively change your day-to-day life!

Details:
Dates: December 17, 2023
Time: 1-2:30p
Fee: Regular Class Rates ($10 Drop In)

We are overjoyed to bring the powerful, healing, evidence based practice of Yoga Nidra to Yoga University of Florida!
Please join our Yoga Teacher Training students for Yoga Nidra Teacher Training (25 Hours) with Annie Okerlin, C-IAYT, Certified iRest® teacher, E-RYT 500, YACEP. Space is limited.
Yoga Nidra Teacher Training (25 Hours) with Annie Okerlin, C-IAYT, Certified iRest® teacher, E-RYT 500, YACEP

Yoga Nidra Training Includes:
History
Styles
How it works with the nervous system / brain
Practice/experiential
Practice teaching
Self care
Trauma informed elements for meditation
Helpful postures to prevent discomfort during meditations - what does your body need you to do before rest.

Welcome back Missy! Please join our Teacher Training group for a Backbending Workshop with the one and only Missy White! 

Learn how to approach backbends with greater poise, awareness and attention to detail. Expand your edge as you open your heart and deepen your practice.
We will gradually warm up the spine and safely work our way towards the full expression of poses such as cobra, wheel, camel and scorpion. I will also focus on the safe transitions in and out of these poses which includes dropping back into backbends. Come play on your yoga mat and enjoy the expansion.

Modifications will be given to accommodate all levels.

MyLinda Morales Hutchings E-RYT® 500, YACEP® 

MyLinda's classes are a favorite among Central Florida and North Carolina yogis. MyLinda's reputation for strong, therapeutic, alignment-based yoga classes and trainings combined with deep spirituality and compassion make MyLinda's yoga classes and yoga teacher training programs highly sought after by local, national, and international students.

MyLinda has been passionately interested and involved in prayer, meditation, fitness, and health  for over 43 years. MyLinda began formal prayer and meditation instruction at the age of 14 with the Capuchin Nuns of Amarillo, Texas. MyLinda began practicing yoga in 1994 (29 years go!) and has been devoted to the service of yoga ever since! MyLinda is registered with Yoga Alliance® as an E-RYT 500®, Experienced Registered  Yoga Teacher, which is the highest level currently available. MyLinda  has over 7,000 hours of yoga training, over 12,000 hours of yoga teaching experience, and 1,000s more hours in personal practice. In addition, MyLinda has been teaching yoga since 1996 and training teachers since 2002. MyLinda has a fondness for yin yoga and has been studying it since 2014 (9 years). 

MyLinda's Full Bio

Renee is a compassionate and talented sound healer who has dedicated her  life to helping others find inner peace and balance. She has spent  years studying the power of sound and how it can be used to promote  physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. With a deep understanding  of the human energy system and a wide range of instruments and  techniques at her disposal, Renee is able to create a soothing and  calming environment for her clients. Whether she is working with  individuals or groups, Renee's calming presence and intuitive nature  make her a valuable resource for anyone seeking to improve their overall  health and well-being.

Renee is also a certified yoga teacher through Yoga University of Florida. 

About Yin Yoga - Yin Yoga is a very simple practice. We  settle into an asana for 3-7 minutes and slowly relax our muscles to  allow the deeper drier tissues–the connective tissues that wrap our  muscles and make up our joint capsules–to be safely and therapeutically  stretched, stimulated, and strengthened.
The alignment rules of the  postures are also simple, but more importantly, they are functional and  organic: We listen to our bodies and lead ourselves into the shape that  follows the natural contours of our spine, pelvis, and hips.

Gong baths are a type of inactive meditation, where you “bathe” in the healing vibrations of sound.

Using  sound as a form of healing dates back to ancient cultures. Records of  using gongs have surfaced from as early as ancient Egyptian, Greek, and  Roman times. 

“Gongs have been used as shamanic healing tools,  celebratory instruments, and a method of communication for thousands of  years. Evidence suggests that gong making was known as early as 4,000  B.C. and ancient alchemy sources put the gong as far back as 16,000  B.C.,” says sound healing practitioner Britta Hochkeppel. 

Additional physiological benefits heart rate and respiration rate slow down and come into balance during a sound bath as the parasympathetic nervous system is activated. Some studies have even shown that nitric oxide (which regulates physiological processes related to good health) in the blood increases.