This training programme will combine Yin yoga and The Functional Approach to enable teachers to teach their students from an aspect of how the student feels rather than how they look. 

The programme will focus on anatomy, skeletal and muscular, meridian channels, and mindfulness meditation practices.

The programme is designed for qualified or trainee yoga teachers. 

The benefits of understanding the human body anatomically will enable teachers to look at themselves and their students from a different perspective – functionally as opposed to aesthetically. It will also enable teachers to encourage their students to how they feel in a pose. This can be both physical, mental and from a feeling tone.

The course aims and outcomes are: -

• To understand how individual human anatomy influences all yoga poses.
• To understand and be able to teach yin yoga from a functional perspective.
• To equip yoga teachers with the knowledge of the 7-archetypal yin poses (this training covers the 5 lower body yin poses) and their alternatives.
• Equip yoga teachers to understand the musculoskeletal effects of a yin yoga practice.
• To understand the 6 lower body meridians and their function when in a yin yoga pose.

The course learning outcomes are: -

• Students will have learnt the bones and muscles of the human body.
• Students will have learnt the 5-archetypal yin poses and their alternatives.
• Students will have learnt the 6 lower body meridian channels and their functions.
• Students will have learnt basic mindfulness and meditation practices.
• Students will be able to teach yin yoga by looking at the body functionally.

Included:

• Comprehensive Colour Training Manual
• 50 Hour Yoga Alliance Professionals Certification
• 50 Hour British Wheel of Yoga Certification
• Meridian doll and meridian chart
• Writing materials
• 6 days of training and assessment

Not included - Course books

Pre-requisite reading:

As part of the course, you are required to purchase and read before course starts the following books: -

• Four Foundations of Mindfulness by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
• Insight Yoga by Sarah Powers

Payment:

Course fee - £725 – Early Bird Discount of £50 if deposit paid by 1st May 2026

Balance payable by 1st August 2026

A deposit of £150 is required with your application to reserve your place. Balance can be paid by instalments.

If booking less than 30 days before the course start date you must pay the full fee at time of booking.

Course Dates:

19th September 2026, 3rd and 24th October, 7th November, 5th December, 9th January 2027 - Online via Zoom

Booking - For more information, please contact Gillian at gilliancawte@hotmail.com or call 07968154525 or visit https://gilliancawteyoga.co.uk/yin-yoga-teacher-training/

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