YIN YOGA TEACHER TRAINING (60 HOURS) with Jo Phee
YIN YOGA TEACHER TRAINING (60 HOURS) with Jo Phee
20 – 26 Jan 2025
Chinese Medicine, Meridian Yin & Hip Anatomy I
Yinspiration is the first yin yoga school in the world to create a specialised Chinese Medicine module for the yin community in 2012. This program was designed and co-written with the Vice Principal of the Singapore College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and is the first yin yoga training program that models after the Chinese Medicine curriculum taught in TCM universities in China. Thousands of yin yoga teachers and trainers around the world have graduated from this program. This Chinese Medicine module continues to serve as the blueprint program for hundreds of yin yoga trainers worldwide. As the FIRST yoga school in the world to create a 300-hour yin yoga certification program, this comprehensive training is designed in accordance with the requirements for registration with Yoga Alliance USA. Upon graduation, students may apply directly with Yoga Alliance USA for “YACEP” status or accumulate these hours towards Yinspiration’s 300-hour advanced certification and 1000-hour Diploma in Yin Yoga.
What you will learn in this training:
CHINESE MEDICINE
History of TCM
Initiation of TCM Theory
The Four Great Classics of TCM
TCM Fundamentals
TCM Diagnostics
Yin & Yang Theory / Philosophy
Eight Guiding Criteria in TCM
Clinical Application of Yin & Yang
The Three Treasures
The Four Vital Substances
Theory of Qi
Types of Qi
Types & Causes of Qi Disharmonies
Six Evils & Seven Emotions
TCM Treatments
THE MERIDIANS
TCM Visceral System
Multiple Meridian Pathways
The Myofascial Meridians – 3 Layers
Arm & Leg Meridians
Yin/Yang Meridian Flow Directions
Naming of Meridians
Hand & Foot Meridian Points
Meridian Circuit Flow
The Meridian Tree
Meridian Clock
The 12 Regular Meridians
The Five Elements
Guasha Scraping Technique
Meridian Tapping
MERIDIAN YIN
Yin Yoga Theory
The Creep Effect
Stress Relaxation Theory
Phase Change of Fascia
The Home of Yin Yoga
Principles of Yin Yoga
The Rebound
How To Teach Functional Yin
Yin Yoga Poses & Variations
4 Stages of a Yin Pose
3 Parts of a Yin Class
Bhava (mood) of a Class
Setting Up The Class
Teaching Considerations
Teaching Safely
Teaching Responsibilities
Energy Curve of a Yin Class
Creative Sequencing
How To Teach Meridian Yin
Crafting A Theme
Yin Yoga Sutras by Paul Grilley
ANATOMY OF YOGA
14/10/7 Model
Tension & Compression
Definition of Stress in Yoga
Common Anatomy Terms
Bony Landmarks
Muscles and Movements of the Hips
Bone Variations of the Hips
Anatomy Lab (Comparison of Extremes)
Analysis of Yin Yoga Poses
What you will receive:
60 hours of expert instructions
Chinese Medicine manual
Book of Yin by Jo Phee
Acupuncture Doll & Guasha plates
Training Kit
Tuition: US$1400
Jo Phee Biography
Jo Phee is the creator of AcuYin, MyoYin, Meridian Nidra and the world’s first 1000-hour Diploma in Yin Yoga.
Known as a teacher’s teacher, Jo is a senior Yin Yoga & Anatomy Trainer well-known in the international yin yoga community for her specialties in Chinese Medicine, Bone Morphology, Functional Anatomy and Fascia Science. The first to introduce cupping, guasha, acupressure and myofascial release into yin yoga teacher training programs worldwide, Jo is also the pioneer yin yoga teacher to create “Upper Body Yin Yoga” to the mass public in 2006.
Widely dubbed as the “Queen of Props & Sequencing”, Jo has created hundreds of yin yoga variations and sequences in the past two decades through the ingenious use of props. These variations are showcased in her Book of Yin and have since been widely practised by the worldwide yin community.
Starting her yoga journey since 2000, Jo is the first-generation yin yoga teachers trained by Yin Yoga creators Paul and Suzee Grilley. Serving as their Senior Lead Assistant since 2009, she has spent thousands of hours in apprenticeship with them over the past two decades. She was personally mentored by them to teach their entire yin yoga and anatomy training curriculum. Jo has taught more than 20,000 public yoga classes since 2003 and conducted over 100 yin yoga teacher trainings worldwide. She teaches in 20 countries all over Asia Pacific, Middle East, Europe and USA. Thousands of yin teachers and trainers around the world have graduated from her Yinspiration teacher training programs.
Brought up solely with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) from childhood by her Chinese Taoist parents, all of Jo’s initial induction into TCM was based on experiential knowledge passed down from generations in her Chinese family. She learnt Guasha and Cupping treatments from her grandparents and Chinese herbal medicine from her mother. To add theoretical knowledge to her practical experience, Jo went on to study at the Singapore College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Jo is a certified TCM Tuina Massage Therapist.
Jo holds a 3-year Diploma in Yoga (3000+hrs) from the Satyananda Yoga Academy. She has taken rigorous examination in the ashram to teach the original Yoga Nidra practice developed by Swami Satyananda of the Bihar School of Yoga. Her formal education in this practice coupled with her vast knowledge of the Chinese Meridian system inspired her to develop a new systematic practice - Meridian Nidra.
In 2012, in cooperation with the Vice Principal of the Singapore College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jo developed the world’s first comprehensive Chinese Medicine module to be taught in a yin yoga teacher training program. This module is closely modelled after the curriculum taught to Chinese Medicine Doctors in TCM universities in China. Since, this module has been the “gold standard” for many Chinese Medicine yin trainings around the world. In 2025, Jo will lead the much-anticipated TCM collaboration with Shanghai University of TCM for all Yinspiration graduates.
Driven by a profound interest in functional anatomy and fascia science, Jo has attended cadaver dissection labs in the United States and Europe since 2013. She has 1200 hours of dissection lab experience and has studied up to 100 cadaver specimens to-date. She has performed cadaver dissections at Stanford University, University of Padova Italy, McGill University Canada, Rutgers University Newark, University of Dundee Scotland, Marquette University Wisconsin and the Institute of Anatomical Research Colorado.
Jo has completed Fascia Research Summer School at Ulm University Germany and Leipzig University Institute of Anatomy. She is a founding member of the Fascia Research Society and a team member of the Fascial Net Plastination Project. From 2018 - 2022, she was involved with the team to create the world’s first 3D Plastinated Human Fascial Exhibits at the world-famous Body Worlds Plastinarium in Guben, Germany. Jo was the Chair Host for the Biotensegrity Symposium Canada 2019, and a presenter at the Pink Fascia Conference 2021. Jo continues to work regularly with the fascia research community to stage trainings for Yinspiration graduates, as well as leading her own cadaver dissection lab.
Jo holds certification in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) foundational training from Brown University and also from the Polyvagal Institute with Dr Stephen Porges. She is currently working on her “Book of Yin”, a publication that showcases hundreds of yin yoga variations, a reflection of her 20 years of teaching yoga.
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The Myoyin Solution: A 2-Hour Masterclass on Myoyin Yoga
The MyoYin Solution
Venue: The Yoga Room and Pilates
Date: Sunday 16 Feb
Time: 12.30-2.30pm
Overview
The Myoyin Solution: A 2-Hour Masterclass on Myoyin Yoga
The Myoyin Solution is a transformative 2-hour masterclass that blends myofascial release (MFR) techniques with the deep healing practice of Yin Yoga.
In this masterclass, we’ll use yoga therapy balls, blocks, bolsters, and other props, alongside Yin Yoga practices, pranayama (breathing techniques), and mindfulness, to support your body and nervous system. This powerful combination will help you release chronic pain, stress, tension and tightness, bringing balance to both body and mind.
What's Included:
Theoretical learning on the principles of Yin Yoga, fascia science, and how fascia plays a key role in chronic pain and nervous system regulation.
Benefits of Myoyin Yoga for both physical and mental well-being, including stress reduction, improved mobility, and pain relief.
Practical experience with myofascial release techniques combined with Yin Yoga sequences to release tension, boost mobility, and promote relaxation.
A take-home manual to guide you in continuing your healing journey at home.
*All props needed for the practice are provided by the studio.
Who Is This Masterclass For?
The Myoyin Solution is ideal for those dealing with chronic pain, burnout, stress, tightness, or fatigue. If you're looking to improve mobility, recover from workouts, or find a new way to restore balance in both your body and mind, this masterclass is for you.
Benefits?
reduced pain,
improved mobility,
reduced tension and tightness,
reduced stress,
reduced muscle soreness,
improved posture,
improved workout recovery,
emotional release and
enhanced relaxation.
Pricing:
$75 per person
10% off for members
Feel It All, 3-Day Yoga Workshop with Meghan Currie
FEEL IT ALL
3-Day Yoga Workshop with Meghan Currie
May 17-19, 2024
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Feel It All │Vision
One of the most amazing opportunities in this life is to feel. Our feelings can be our guides, our teachers, and powerful catalysts for learning, action and change.
There's a higher purpose and intelligence woven through the mosaic of our experiences. It’s a dance for each of us to learn in our own unique way; the dance of navigating how to empower ourselves, and each other, to fully inhabit our body-mind in the present moment. This dance can be transformative, personally and collectively.
Allowing what’s arising and expressing to be felt, builds a bridge of trust with oneself and life. It cultivates a powerful strength and inner knowing that whatever is going on, you can handle it. Not only handle it, but see the gift, knowing that there's something bigger behind it, a purpose that ultimately generates growth, expansion and inspired action.
This weekend immersion is an opportunity to play, explore, connect and feel. Not a time out, but a time IN. To go deep together through movement, story, stillness and breath.
Although the classes are separate, they are designed as one single tapestry, woven together to take you on a journey through the layers of yourself. Through unique sequencing and breakdowns of posture, breath, and stillness, we will explore the flavors of what it means to feel it all.
Join me for a deep journey of re-engaging intimately through the miracle of the body.
Each class will take you layer by layer into the vast richness of your body in a comprehensive way, weaving in movement, metaphor and philosophy.
“Being human is an imperfect journey, and each moment is a tiny thread, mystically woven in the tapestry of our lives.”
- Meghan Currie
Schedule
Friday - 5:00pm-7:30pm | Take it as it Comes: Backbends and Twists
Saturday - 10:00am-1:00pm | Fluidify - Be Like Water: Arm Balances
Saturday-2:30-5:00 pm | Space to Feel - Soma: Hips & Forward Bends
Sunday - 10:00am-1:00pm | Golden Joinery: Inversions
Feel It All │Class Details
Take it as it Comes
“There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.”
-Eugene Kennedy
Life teaches that everything is inherently imperfect and fleeting. If we can discover the beauty in irregularity and imperfection and let go of perfectionism we can learn to accept things as they come, appreciating beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete" in nature.
To embrace the flaws of things, ourselves, and others: as imperfections make us beautiful, and our scars are the poetry that most lend us wisdom, strength and grace.
“Imperfection is relatable.”
-Lauren Conrad
Deconstruction of advanced Backbends & Twists
Somatic presencing
Progressive creative sequencing
Fluidify - Be Like Water
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
-Bruce Lee
Embracing the philosophy of water reminds us that adaptability is key to navigating life’s challenges. Water's flexibility is its strength. It can take on various states – liquid, solid, or gas –depending on its environment. In our lives, flexibility and openness to change can be equally powerful.
Sthira Sukham Asanam
Deconstructed Arm Balances
Fluid movement-Flowing into and out of postures
“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”
-Alan Watts
Golden Joinery
“Our scars are what make us unique. Nothing broken is ever lost.”
- Adrienne Brodeur
Being human is an imperfect journey that’s not always comfortable, but it’s the imperfection and discomfort that creates the most beauty and wisdom, and can be the spark that generates inspiration and action in unexpected directions.
Some things are even more beautiful for having been broken. In life, love and relationships, it's the challenges that make us stronger and allow us to rebuild and transform. We realize our full potential, what we are made of, by touching our thresholds and our life experiences leave mystical little imprints, tiny seeds, that create beautiful blossoms over time.
In this workshop we will break things apart and join them back together with gold to rediscover the strength and beauty that is born out of imperfection.
Inversions
Breaking things apart and Joining key actions and elements
“Our lives do not go backward nor tarries with yesterday- for every wrinkled line is a road map of this journey- and every scar, a solemn decoration. It is perception that writes timeless poetry upon flesh and mind with quill dipped in golden ink…creating art despite the breaking- for that is when true beauty emerges.”
- Roxy St. Clair
Space to Feel - Soma
“Within yourself is a stillness, a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”
— Hermann Hess
When we slow down and become quiet, yielding, and still, there is a dynamic inner universe we can discover. One that sometimes can get overpowered by the noise of our daily lives.
This class is designed to guide you inward to discover the subtle expressions of feeling. We will explore a recipe of deep hips openers and forward folds, yin & restorative poses to integrate and synthesize aspects from the previous classes, and unfold new insights.
Your nervous system will slip into sweet deep restoration, inner layers will soften, dissolve, melt and thaw, and you will find your calm as you unwind on the deepest level.
Deep Hips & Forwards Folds
Yin elements
Guided Meditation
Breath work
Santosha
“Even in stillness, there is movement. Sometimes it takes time for the molecules of change to shift form. Even when it feels like nothing is happening, transformation is taking place.”
— Anonymous
ABOUT MEGHAN CURRIE
Meghan Currie is a well-known yoga instructor with 20 years of experience in practicing yoga and 10 years of experience in teaching around the world. Her classes focus on breath-based movement techniques to help connect the mind and body. She also incorporates creativity and playfulness into her classes to encourage self-expression.
Meghan’s yoga style is an unexpected blend of strong and playful. Her movement is intuitive, dance-like, slow fluid style that uses breath awareness to deepen one's connections somatically. Embodying curiosity, complexity, and whimsy to inject lighthearted deliciousness into sequences that are oftentimes quite physically challenging. The emphasis on breath creates a depth of bodily experiencing and a fluid meditative state that helps focus and still the mind while opening, aligning and toning the body.
Like any recipe, she believes there must be just the right amount of all the ingredients to produce the most epic flavor. When she teaches, she mixes herself with all other unpredictable and delicious ingredients to co-create with the universe and be a part of something grand. In her practice, awareness is consciously anchored in somatic experiencing moment to moment as this enables everything to be felt fully and processed as it comes up. The outcome is a growth, not only in physical strength, but also emotionally and mentally. The intention above all is an embracing of all the diverse aspects of oneself. Meghan regularly tours around the globe teaching yoga workshops, retreats and festivals. She believes that every student is also everyone's teacher.
Start your free 14-day trial in the Meghan Currie Online Studio to get familiar with Meghan's style and discover the transformative power of your practice!
Website: https://www.meghancurrieyoga.com/
Meghan’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meghancurrieyoga/
LOCATION
Unit 2, 60 Scarborough Beach Road. We are located upstairs, above Jetts Gym. Free parking is available on-site and on the street.
Fully equipped studio (mats, bolsters, blankets, blocks, eye pillows), Water fountain, Toilets. Please note, we do not have showers on site.
INVESTMENT
The Workshop is built as a progressive journey where each session builds upon the last class.
Early Bird│Full Immersion│Until March 29th - $380
Regular│Full Immersion│After March 29th- $420
Cancellation Policy:
Please note tickets are non-refundable, however, they can be transferred to another person, in that case, please email us.
hello@theyogaroomandpilates.com.au