Yin Yoga & Chinese Medicine: 50hr Teacher Training
Join Emma Peel for this immersive Yin Yoga & Chinese Medicine training here at R&R Studios, Cirencester.
Throughout the training, we explore anatomy, energetics, awareness practice and the relationship between body, breath, emotion and lived experience. We study structure in detail - not to reduce people to mechanics, but to better understand individuality and what is being experienced internally.
Again and again, we return to one principle: Teaching people, not postures.
This training is for you if you've been curious about Chinese Medicine and weaving it's wisdom into your teaching, if you're a yoga twacher looking to add a new style to your repetoire, or if you're simply a Yin Yoga fanatc and wanting to deepen your knowledge. This 50hrs training is certified by Yoga Alliance.
Meet your trainer
Emma Peel
Yin Yoga/ Anatomy/ Acupuncture/ Five Element Theory/ Daoist Flow
Emma Peel is a senior Yoga teacher, teacher trainer and Chinese Medicine practitioner teaching since 2011. Her teaching brings together Yin Yoga, anatomy, energetics, awareness practice and the Five Elements system to create spaces that encourage deeper listening, embodiment and self-understanding. With over 5000 teaching hours alongside years of continued study and practice, Emma teaches with warmth, clarity and a deep respect for individual experience.
What is Katonah Yoga®?
Katonah Yoga® is a blended practice developed by Nevine Michaan in New York more than 40 years ago. It references classical Hatha poses alongside Traditional Chinese Medicine and Daoist Philosophy.
We use sacred geometry, metaphors and visualisation to inform the practice, to communicate effectively and create an embodied experience. What this means is that it’s familiar with unfamiliar twists: the shapes are things you’ve seen before (perhaps with more props) and the language - descriptions, cues, suggestions - might be different. If you’re drawn to nature, like stories, imagery and have a curiosity - then this is probably for you.
Outline Schedule
Day 1 - 12th September
09:45am - Arrivals welcome
10:00am - Katonah Yoga guided practice
11:15am - Theory: What is Katonah Yoga
12:30pm - Practice: How to fit yourself.
13:30pm - Break
14:15pm - Theory: The principles of Katonah Yoga (TCM)
15:30pm - Practice: Embodying the pillars of Katonah Yoga
17:00pm - Q+A’s
Day 2 - 13th September
10:00am - Katonah Yoga guided practice
11:15am - Theory: Your body as a House
12:30pm - Practice: Navigating around your House
13:30pm - Break
14:15pm - Theory: Intro to the Magic Square
15:30pm - Practice: Katonah Breathwork & Restorative
17:00pm - Closing Q & A's
Fractals of the Whole: Katonah Yoga® Immersion
What can you expect?
During our 2 days together, we’ll spend time both on and off the mat as we go through what Katonah Yoga is, its’ guiding principles and breakdown one of its’ key metaphors that treats the body as a house.
Both days will have an extended 90-minute physical practice in the morning and a slightly shorter session in the afternoon, around which we’ll dive into the theory, philosophy and magic of Katonah Yoga.
This will be a highly interactive training where your input is truly valued.
Everything is a part of something
Katonah Yoga through its’ origins in Taoism shows us that everything is a part of something else: a minute is a segment of an hour, which is a portion of the day and a piece of the year. So how we experience one facet influences it all. We are a fractal of the whole.
This immersion will explore this idea of how we embody one experience informs how we embody all experiences. How our yoga mat is a mirror to everything else and how we spend our time upon it can ripple both outwards and inwards.
