40 Hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training
April 30 - May 3, 2026
with:
Cathleen Wasielewski
BS Pharm, BCST/RCST®
ERYT-500, YACEP, MIM®,
Yintuition Healing
Advanced Practitioner of Somatic Awakening®
and
Tidal Body Healing Arts
RCST®, BCST, MIM®, RYT-200
Yin Yoga is the gentle path to self-discovery, healing, and inner peace." - Paul Grilley.
WHAT IS YIN YOGA?
As a “practice” Yin Yoga is complementary to active, movement based Yang practices. The dynamics of the energy that is ignited in the body opens doorways to physical, energetic, emotional and meditative benefits.
In its physical therapeutic effects, the practice supports our everyday functional movements by touching the body’s deep structural connective tissues and fascial layers.
Yin is in a relationship with Yang that is both complementary and oppositional. Energetically, it is this polarity that ignites the internal dynamic life force or Qi (Chi) that animates our bodily health. Emotionally and meditatively practitioners explore a spacious experience of their inner landscape and work with the depth of the tender experience of being human. The energy of being human consists of a fluid multilayered system of connected energies that include the physical and subtle energetic bodies along with the emotional and spiritual bodies. Yin Yoga brings awareness to the vibrational flow of energy through these layers while supporting a process of growth and the recognition of wholeness.
The practice itself appears outwardly very still while the inner layers experience profound energetic movement. Connective tissues connect our many parts and layers. We call them Yin tissues and they include bones, tendons, ligaments, and connective fascial sheets. These tissues carry nerves and fluids and contain ground substance that is essential for a healthy existence.
In practice we apply healthy and slow tensile, compressive and shearing forces to create a comprehensive full body response that bridges the gap to the total health and well-being of mind, body and spirit.
In this training we ask and answer the questions of why we need this practice, why we need stillness to create mobility, and why we seek the sensation and stay with it.
TOGETHER WE WILL…
cover the yin yoga practice and its meaning
explore yin poses and their effects on the physical, energetic and emotional bodies
allow an experiential exploration that supports intellectual understanding of the meditative nature of the practice and why it is a key to whole health
open the doorway to the spiritual nature of our physical and subtle bodies through practice
show how this practice challenges what we have been taught about conventional methods of Yang exercise
explore teaching skills that facilitate the many benefits of Yin Yoga
This training covers the science as well as the esoteric and will leave you with a foundation and practical skills to share with others in a classroom setting as well as deepen your own practice.
Embodying Yin as a principle and a practice opens us to universal balance in relationship to the yang which can occupy much of life. Yin includes: Spaciousness. Depth. The Inside. The Mystery. Nourishment. Receptivity. And more…
WHO IS THIS TRAINING FOR?
Everyone!
It is a yoga teacher training so great if you are a yoga teacher or a mover or a somatics person who brings body transformation to the world. Or, do the training to offer a yin dimension to the work you already do and the person you already are.
In each of the four days there is a short meditation and a long Yin Yoga practice, lecture covering anatomy, postures, the subtle body and the emotional field as well as teaching skills, and personal work.
You are welcome to be in the container to witness yourself and invite yin into your life, slow down, learn, heal and be.
This is a 40 hour training which includes 32 classroom hours with an expected 8 hours of home study.
This is a Yoga Alliance® certified training eligible for CEU’s
COST:
$775 | Payment plans available with a deposit - Please inquire
SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION
We offer scholarships to the descendants of people who have been affected by the ongoing ramifications of settler colonialism, slavery, and racism and who wish to participate in our Yoga Teacher Trainings.
We have a 50% scholarship available for this training!
Please read more here & fill out the application on our webpage to apply for a scholarship!
REQUIRED MATERIALS:
Bernie Clark’s the Complete Guide to Yin Yoga
Sarah Powers’ Insight Yoga
OPTIONAL MATERIALS:
Yinsights by Bernie Clark, Your Body, Your Yoga by Bernie Clark, Yin Yoga: Outline of a Quiet Practice by Paul Grilley, Lit from Within by Sarah Powers
SCHEDULE DETAILS:
April 30 - May 3, 2026
Thursday & Friday 9am-6pm
449 Forest Ave Portland, Maine
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Saturday 9am-6pm & Sunday 9am-3pm
129 Newbury St
Portland, Maine