A deep dive into the theory and practice of Yin Yoga, rooted in the teachings of Paul Grilley. This training covers Taoist philosophy, meridian theory, anatomy and the art of sequencing long-held poses.

This training is for yoga teachers who notice that their students keep struggling with the same physical limitations year after year — and want to understand why. For teachers who want to teach smarter, not just harder, and apply functional anatomy in their classes. And for experienced practitioners who are ready to take the step into Yin Yoga teaching with real anatomical depth.

What you will learn

• Taoist philosophy and its relationship to Yin Yoga
• Anatomy: skeletal segments, muscle groups, target areas and skeletal variations
• Tension versus compression — how to apply this in your teaching
• Detailed analysis of Yin Yoga poses, modifications and alternatives
• Assisted Yin Yoga routines
• Introduction to Meridian Theory and its relevance to Yin Yoga
• Chakra Theory
• Pranayama and breathwork exercises
• Mindfulness practices and meditation
• How to sequence and teach a Yin Yoga class

For who?

Yoga teachers can use the 50 CE credits from this training for their 300-hour journey.

Price:

The price for the 50 hours Yin yoga anatomy is €995,-  excl VAT.

This training includes a 3 month membership of TheFatYogis.com

About Marcel

Marcel has been practicing yoga for over 2 decades, starting in a difficult period in his life, finding the healing benefits of this practice and meditation changed his life dramatically. He started his journey with Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga and Vipassana meditation, moving into a more static alignment yoga. Then he met Yin yoga’s founder Paul Grilley and his wife Suzee, who showed him the physical, mental and spiritual uniqueness of everybody. Studying under their wings changed his view on asana practice and meditation seriously. Knowing now that we’re all unique and we all need an unique approach in whatever we do, this is the message that he carries out in all his teachings.

Marcel is a well experienced teacher with almost 20 years of teaching experience, not only weekly classes in his studio in Amsterdam, but teaching teacher trainings and workshops worldwide. He calls the style of yoga that he is teaching Functional (Vinyasa) yoga, and it’s all about how to use the poses in the most beneficial way for your unique body, instead of how to try to fit your body into an aesthetic pose.

Marcel has been a gym goer for a long time and after teaching private yoga clients for a while, helping people with injuries and people that are recovering from all other kinds of physical problems he realized that it could be helpful in some cases to bring yoga students to the gym, with the idea that weight resistant movements can help them in a faster way. He became a (N.A.S.M.) personal trainer, now combining yoga, meditation and weightlifting to maintain or create a healthy lifestyle. Nowadays Marcel practices besides yoga, Crossfit where he is a level 1 trainer (CF-LV1), and you can find him boxing, or running. He believes that functional multi-disciplined moving is the best way to maintain physical health of course combined with healthy food, and good nights rest! Besides being a functional movement trainer Marcel is a licensed Acupuncturist, Massage therapist and specialist in herbal remedies.

Marcel is known for his strong sweaty functional vinyasa classes, his soft, soothing yin yoga classes and deep inter perspective guided chakra nyasa meditations.