Somatic Yin Yoga Training

​WHO IS THIS TRAINING FOR

This training is for registered yin yoga teachers — or yoga teachers with a strong yin practice — who want to add a somatic and trauma-informed layer to the work they already do. This is not an introduction to yin yoga. It is the layer underneath it.
Minimum prerequisite: Yin Yoga Teacher Training certification, or equivalent teaching experience with a strong personal yin practice.

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Prior knowledge of IFS or somatics is not required. What is required is a genuine curiosity about what the body carries, and a willingness to slow down long enough to listen.
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ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR
Anneriek Favelle is a Level 2 IFS Therapist and qualified Somatic and Dance Movement Therapist, currently completing a Master's in Counselling. She has been teaching yoga for over 25 years and has been running Yoga Teacher Training programs and retreats since 2017. 

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Anneriek's teaching lives at the intersection of the therapeutic and the embodied — where the yoga mat becomes a place of genuine self-inquiry, and movement becomes a language the body already knows how to speak.

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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Over two full days, you will move through the body region by region — legs and hips, spine, shoulders and heart — developing both a lived experience of somatic yin practice and the teaching tools to bring it to your own students.

 

Day One focuses on foundations and the lower body. We begin with the theory and neuroscience underpinning somatic movement — sensory-motor amnesia, pandiculation, interoception, and the window of tolerance — before moving into experiential practice through the hips and spine. You will learn how to sequence somatic mobilisation before yin holds, how to layer IFS-informed inquiry language into long holds, and how to read your students' nervous systems rather than just their poses.

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Day Two moves into the upper body and integration. We work through the shoulders, chest, and throat — exploring the parts of us that carry responsibility, vigilance, and the things we haven't yet said — before turning to the art of teaching this work: trauma-sensitive sequencing, holding emotional space, and how to build a complete somatic yin class from opening inquiry to closing.
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TRAINING INCLUDES

• Somatic movement theory: Hanna Somatics, Feldenkrais principles, pandiculation, and interoception

• Yin yoga fascia science: piezoelectric signalling, connective tissue vs muscle tissue — pitched at teachers who already know yin​

• IFS-informed cueing language: how to speak to the parts that arise in long holds without doing therapy

• Meridian theory: how the TCM meridian system maps to somatic yin sequencing — a fourth lens for experienced yin teachers

• The Symbolic Body: an introduction to Metaphysical Anatomy (Evette Rose) as an optional teaching layer

• Trauma sensitivity in the yin room: titration, resourcing, the window of tolerance, and what to do in difficult moments

• A complete somatic opening and closing practice — fully scripted and ready to teach

• Teaching practicum: each participant teaches and receives structured peer feedback

• 20 YTT Continuing Education Hours

• Comprehensive printed training manual (11 modules + 4 appendices)​

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WHAT YOU WILL LEAVE WITH

• A working understanding of somatic movement principles and how to apply them before any yin sequence

• IFS-informed holding language that meets your students' inner experience without crossing into therapy

• A trauma-sensitive sequencing framework across three major body regions

• Three complete class design templates ready to use

• A full-length sample class script to model your own teaching voice from

• Confidence to teach somatic yin immediately — not eventually

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PRACTICAL DETAILS

• Duration: 2 days | 20 YTT Continuing Education Hours

• Location: Cattai, NSW (Hawkesbury region)

• Group size: Maximum 12 participants

• Investment: $550 (includes lunch and morning/afternoon tea)

• What to bring: Mat, comfortable layered clothing

• Certification: Certificate of Completion + 20 YTT CPD hours 

• Questions: Email anneriek@yoga4you.online

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ATTENDANCE & CERTIFICATION

• 100% attendance is required for the certificate to be awarded.

• ​This course is competency-based; there is no pass or fail, only presence and participation.