With:Melanie Cooper
Price: £395
Dates: 1 & 2 February 2025
Where: online or The Shala London
40 hours YA accredited

Yin yoga is a way to unwind and relax very deeply. It is a style of yoga that can be taught as a specific class or as a delicious way to end a dynamic flowing class. Yin practice can also provide a valuable preparation for the more subtle arts of pranayama and meditation.

This course consists of two days live (either in person or live streamed) plus five hours of on demand recorded material available for 6 months to consolidate learning. The course can be attended as a stand-alone Yoga Alliance accredited course or as an optional module on our 300-hour programme.  

The environment created by Melanie Cooper on this course, is non-dogmatic and non-judgemental. It provides time for you to step into the yin place of receiving and nurturing. 

Course Overview

On this course, you will learn how to teach yin yoga in a way that is inclusive and safe for everyone. Many students find this slower type of practice is a gateway into their inner world, helping them to connect and go deep inside so they can truly rejuvenate though the practice of yin.  

 Adding this training to your skills set can help you expand your horizons as a teacher and for many teaching yin offers a positive change from teaching faster more yang based energetic classes. The course will cover a wide range of topics from sequencing to anatomy and fascia and meridians.  

From the training you will learn: 

• How to give assists based on acupressure and thai yoga massage

• The theory and practice of sequencing

• how to practice and teach yin poses

• how to plan a yin-based class

• how to use props effectively

• the theory and science behind the practice

• support in finding your own unique teaching style

• how to adapt the practice for different body types and personalities

The course will cover a practical exploration of yin poses, including how to teach, how to modify for different body types and how to give assists based on acupressure and Thai Yoga Massage 

With Melanie Cooper and Jennie Wadsten Sharma

Date
The course is 4 days long in total and you can choose to either do all four days in one go, or do 2 days this spring and 2 days at a later date. Choose what works best for you. 

Module 1:
Saturday 24 May - Sunday 25th May 2025

Module 2:
Monday 26th May - Tuesday 27th May 2025

Autumn 2025 date are:

Module 1:
Thursday 11th September - Friday 12th September 2025

Module 2: 
Saturday 13th September - Sunday 14th September 2025

Time

9 am – 5.30 pm (UK)
10 am – 6.30 pm (Sweden)
…but we’ll have several breaks and yoga sessions, so you won’t be looking at screens all day. 

You Will Receive

• Upon completion you will receive a diploma, Yoga Alliance 50 hrs (The Shala & YogaTreat, RYS 300 & YACEP). This course also counts as Continuing Education hrs with Yoga Alliance Professionals (UK).

• The support and guidance of two experienced yoga teachers throughout the course. 

• Small group setting: lots of personal attention and feedback.

• Plenty of time to reconnect with your own practice, and to recharge if you’re feeling drained.

• Lots of practice in non judgemental non dogmatic environment.

• Support in finding your own unique teaching style and your authentic voice as a teacher with expert constructive and supportive feedback.

We (Melanie and Jennie) have worked together for almost 10 years and have 45 years of teaching experience between us from teaching yoga and teacher trainings full time.

We have experienced a lot over the years – and what we keep coming back to is how important it is to be authentic, to find “your voice” as a teacher and to have the courage to be YOURSELF when you are teaching! Working as a yoga teacher is amazing – but it also takes a lot of energy – and can be very draining if you are not looking after yourself. (And it’s so easy to not give ourselves that time/attention/selfcare – so in the training we will also put emphasis on how to create space for your own health and practice: to stay balanced and mentally strong!

Price

Early bird price: £450 until 24 April 2025
Regular price: £500 
Have you done a Yoga Nidra course with us? Then you’ll  get an additional £50 off!

Location

Online via Zoom – from the comfort of your own home!

Who For?

We recommend that you have done a 200 hour teacher training (any style) but this is not mandatory! If you haven’t: send us an email and let us know and we will look into what other experiences you have and we’ll give you extra support during the course. 
The intention is to give you, as a teacher, more tools, to broaden your teaching skills as well as your target groups. Perhaps you have done a training in a dynamic yoga style and would like to add a slow style to your teaching menu as well – to be able to teach back to back classes at studios and retreats?

We will cover

Theory and science behind the practice

• The nervous system and the brain

• Meridians and the energy system

• Fascia

• Updated research, the different aspects of yin yoga and how it is applicable to different body types and how personalities, and how movement patterns plays an important part.

Anatomy

We’ll look into the specific areas of the body in more detail, how they move and respond to the Yin poses.

Teaching the poses

Our focus is very much on teaching the practice in a way that is inclusive and safe for everyone making this a nurturing and healing practice, a way to connect and go deep inside; a way to truly relax and rejuvenate.

For each pose we will cover:

• How to teach yin yoga poses

• How to use props

• Modifications for each pose

Sequencing & Class planning

• Sequences for specific meridians, for specific yoga poses (eg for backbends, opening the hips, twists, forward bends), and a general all round class

• How to plan a class, when and how much to talk, what to talk about and themes. 

Contraindications and modifications

How to develop your classes for conditions such as pregnancy, injuries and hyper-mobility, making the practice accessible for individual bodies

Course Manual

As part of the course you get two full colour manuals included in the price: one on the theory and one giving details on the poses. We will send you the manuals as pdf:s  one week before the course starts. 

– Yin Yoga Theory, 80 pages
– Yin Yoga Poses, 78 pages

If you’d like to receive hard copies you can buy them for cost price, Black and White: £35 (total for the two), Colour £45 including postage within the UK and Sweden (please add £10 postage for rest of the world) 

If you want the manuals as a hardcopy before the course, then contact us two weeks before the course starts.