Somatic Yin Yoga Training

​WHO IS THIS TRAINING FOR

This is a continuing professional development training for qualified Yin yoga teachers. It assumes you already understand yin mechanics: connective tissue loading, hold duration, the difference between a muscular and a fascial edge, and the basic pose vocabulary. We do not revisit the foundations of yin yoga — we go underneath them.
 

It is particularly suited to teachers who have noticed that their students' experience in long holds is richer, stranger, and more complex than standard yin training prepared them for — and who want a more complete map of what is happening in the room, and more precise tools for holding it well.

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It is also for teachers who are drawn to the territory where somatic practice, nervous system regulation, and psychological depth meet — and who want to work in that territory without crossing into therapy, overstepping, or losing the integrity of the yoga room.

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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

The practice of yin yoga already works on the body at a level that most yoga styles do not reach. The long, low-load holds access connective tissue that dynamic practice cannot touch. The sustained inward attention creates conditions for nervous system downregulation that ordinary movement does not produce. Yin yoga already does a great deal.

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This training adds four layers of understanding and practice that deepen what you already offer — and that, taken together, give you a complete framework for teaching yin yoga as a somatic, relational, and transformative practice.

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◉  LAYER ONE  —  Somatic Movement

Somatic movement — drawn from Hanna Somatics and Bartinieff — is the practice of establishing genuine neurological contact with a body region before asking it to hold still. When we move slowly, with full sensation awareness, through a region before a yin hold, students arrive in the pose differently: faster, more completely, with less defensive activation. The connective tissue becomes more accessible because the nervous system has been given permission to arrive first. This is not a warm-up. It is a neurological prerequisite.

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🔑  LAYER TWO  —  Fascia Science

You already know what yin does to connective tissue. This training gives you the deeper science: why the holds produce what they produce, how fascial tissue communicates with the autonomic nervous system, why chronic stress literally stiffens the body at the tissue level, and what the emerging research on fascia as a body-wide communication system suggests about the nature of somatic experience. Understanding the science gives you language — for yourself, and for students who want to understand what is happening to them.

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🌿  LAYER THREE  —  IFS-Informed Holding Language

Internal Family Systems — developed by Richard Schwartz — provides a relational map of the inner experience that arises in long yin holds: the part that braces, the part that floods with emotion, the part that suddenly wants to leave, the part that achieves. You are not learning to do IFS therapy. You are learning to use parts-aware language that does not shut down what surfaces — language that meets your students' inner experience with curiosity rather than instruction, and that creates enough safety for them to stay with what is arising.

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✨  LAYER FOUR  —  The Symbolic & Energetic Body
The fourth layer brings together two complementary maps of the body's deeper meaning: Evette Rose's Metaphysical Anatomy framework — which maps chronic holding patterns to biographical and emotional themes — and Traditional Chinese Medicine meridian theory, which maps the body's energetic pathways to emotional and elemental correspondences. Both are offered as an invitation rather than a prescription: a symbolic language that creates resonance without requiring belief.

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TRAINING ADDITIONALLY INCLUDES​

• Practical teaching guides: fully scripted somatic opening and closing practices, a complete 60-minute sample class script, class design guidance for each body region, and IFS cueing references.

• Certificate of attendance

• 20 CDP hours

• Comprehensive printed training manual 

• Lunch and Morning/Afternoon tea

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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 

• Location: Cattai, NSW (Hawkesbury/Hills region)

• Group size: Maximum 14 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.