Who this training is for

You are ready for this training if you:

• Are a yoga teacher or serious practitioner looking to deepen your Yin practice and methodology

• Work with BIPOC communities and want culturally-grounded, trauma-sensitive tools

• Want to teach Yin Yoga skillfully to larger bodies, athletic bodies, and chronically overburdened bodies

• Are done with yoga trainings that treat your body and your culture as edge cases

• Want to understand the why beneath the shapes — the meridians, the elements, the subtle body

• Are ready to be in a room where you don't have to explain yourself first

Yin Yoga for The Culture is open to yoga teachers at all levels and practitioners with a serious personal practice. Students of color are especially centered, though all who come in alignment with this mission are welcome.

What you'll learn

Foundation: The Yin Practice

• The principles and history of Yin Yoga — where it comes from, how it works, and why it matters

• Understanding connective tissue, fascia, and the skeletal system through a functional lens

• Principles of stress response and nervous system regulation as applied to long-hold practice

• Yin sequencing: building classes that are purposeful, not just passive

The Subtle Body: A Multi-Traditional Approach

• Traditional Chinese Medicine's Five Element Theory — water, wood, fire, earth, metal — and how nature and each element speaks to emotional and physical wellness, and gives a framework for seasonally sensitive classes

• Meridian Theory: the 12 primary meridians, organ systems, and how to sequence around them

• South Asian frameworks for the subtle body: pranic body, the koshas, the vayus, and their relationship to Yin practice

• Applied yoga philosophy for the contemporary householder — how ancient wisdom lives in modern bodies and applies to modern minds

Teaching with Integrity: Trauma-Sensitive Approaches

• Foundations of trauma-informed yoga — what it is, what it is not, and why the distinction matters

• Teaching practices that honor rather than bypass the body's stored experience

• Understanding how historical and intergenerational stress lives in the body

• Creating containers of genuine safety — verbal, spatial, relational

• Music co-curator of a trauma-sensitive, culturally aware space

Upskilling Your Teaching: Yin for Every Body

• Yin for Larger Bodies: skillful use of props, language, and cueing that does not pathologize size

• Yin for Athletic and Tight Bodies: accessing depth without force or injury risk

• Yin for Overburdened and Chronically Fatigued People: the art of integrative resilience

• Skillful variations, approaches, and pacing for diverse physical realities

Embodied Empowerment: Teaching from The Culture for The Culture

• Centering BIPOC resilience — not as trauma narrative, but as embodied, ancestral intelligence

• Building culturally-informed class environments that center collective care and true wellness

• Building a non-code switching zone: finding the language that is true to who you are and who you serve

• The ethics of teaching across and holding space for different realities

The schedule

Format: In-person livestream hybrid — all sessions held live at KIN Wellness, Third Ward, Houston TX, with livestream access available for remote participants.