Yin Yoga Props Decoded! Learn to teach Yin Yoga poses with skill and confidence, so the practice feels tailor-made for ALL your students.
Yin Yoga Poses with Props: An 8-Hour On-Demand Training
with Addie deHilster, Certified Yoga Therapist and Yin Yoga Trainer
If you’re wondering how to make the Yin Yoga practice more accessible and more effective for your students, you’re in the right place! In Yin Yoga, props are the key.
Perhaps you’ve personally experienced the benefits of this slow, quiet practice, but you’ve struggled with getting your students comfortable enough to hold the poses for 5 minutes at a time. Or, maybe you’ve heard conflicting information on using props in Yin Yoga, and you’re not sure how to help less flexible yogis, or those with conditions like back pain or sensitive joints.
Yin Yoga Teachers, does this sound familiar?
- You want to encourage people to use props for safety and comfort, but you aren’t sure if your class is still true to the Yin style (or “Is it too Restorative?”).
- You see a student struggling and forcing in their pose, but you aren’t sure how to communicate with them about the benefits of blankets, blocks, and bolsters.
- Your students complain of discomfort in Yin Yoga poses, but you’ve tried what you know and realize you need a bigger toolkit of pose and prop variations to really help them.
- You know your students could relax and drop in to that meditative Yin state, if they could just find more ease in the poses.
- You’d like to feel more confident in teaching and promoting your class, knowing that you can find a way to make it work for everyone!
Many Yin Yoga books and trainings don’t go in depth about how, why, and when we use props to support the poses.
Yes, props are welcome in the Yin Yoga style, but it’s not always easy to find detailed information about how to apply principles of propping in specific situations, with real students. This online training was created to help fill that gap!
Yin Yoga Training with a Yoga Therapist:
The creator of this online Yin Yoga training course is Addie deHilster, a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and experienced Yin Yoga teacher trainer. She has taught thousands of Yin Yoga classes (in-person and online) and led dozens of trainings over the last decade, drawing from more than 20 years of practice experience. For five years, she ran a brick-and-mortar community yoga studio that focused on accessibility and therapeutic practice, drawing many students who would not have been at home in a more mainstream yoga environment. As a Yoga Therapist, she brings a wealth of knowledge about the body, and can help you learn to make the Yin Yoga practice safer, more accessible, and more enjoyable for all of your students – regardless of their age or physical condition.
Yin Yoga Props Training Online: Who Is This For?
- Yoga Teachers curious about the poses taught in the Yin style
- Yin Yoga Teachers looking to fill a gap in their knowledge of propping technique
- Teachers who’d like to offer successful Yin Yoga private sessions, and give individual students a more customized practice
- Yoga Therapists interested in a safe, effective approach to Yin that can truly serve their clients’ unique needs
- Enthusiastic Yin Students who want to be empowered to understand the practice better and prop their own poses!
Addie’s teaching is thoughtful and practice based…the prepared workbook is a resource I refer to again and again.
I enjoyed the topic and Addie’s teaching style. I felt every minutes was beneficial to my yoga education and my personal practice.
What This 8-Hour Online Yin Yoga Teacher Training Covers:
This 8-hour on-demand training covers an extensive repertoire of Yin Yoga poses, with an emphasis on how to use props to maximize the benefits of the practice. You’ll learn from lectures, pose tutorials, and practice sessions.
- The real differences between the Yin Yoga and Restorative Yoga styles (hint – it’s not the props!)
- How the props can benefit nearly everyone
- Common conditions that require the use of props for safety
- How props can support a trauma-informed approach
- The issue of hypermobility and passive stretching
- When to use an alternate pose instead of propping
- Working with student mindset around props
- Teaching with props online
What’s Included in this Yin Yoga Props Training:
- Tutorial videos for 24 Yin poses, with details on cueing, propping, contraindications, and the energy meridians affected
- 30-page downloadable manual with additional pictures and notes for each of the poses we cover
- Five lectures explaining how and why we use props like blankets, bolsters, and blocks in Yin Yoga
- Downloadable slides from the lectures
- Three full Yin practice sessions to help you apply what you’re learning
This yin yoga teacher training is very accessible and easy to follow/navigate for both the casual student of yoga and yoga teachers with years of experience. Addie has an extensive knowledge of the many lineages, philosophies, and biomechanics that inform a yin practice – and she weaves this material together to form an intuitive and logical path to learning. Her approach to teaching these fundamentals is very manageable, with “bite size” nuggets of wisdom in every lecture and pose demonstration. Addie’s unfussy approach and kind demeanor makes the student feel at ease.
Training Cost – $149
Take the training at your own pace – once purchased, you will have immediate access to the course, and it’s yours to keep forever! Pause, rewind, take notes, and return again and again to deepen your learning.
Recommended Yin Yoga props: Two yoga blankets, one standard-size yoga bolster, two yoga blocks, one long yoga strap (10-foot preferred). See this page on my website for more detailed prop recommendations, if that’s helpful.
CEUs – Yoga Alliance CEU hours are available for this training (8 hours). Once you’ve completed the material, email us to take a quiz confirming your understanding of the content. You’ll receive a certificate for your CEUs after passing the quiz. (We’ll send you everything you need after you register.)