In-Person

Yin Yoga Teacher Training
with Norman Blair

28 April - 2 May 2025

This Yoga Alliance accredited Yin yoga training course with Norman Blair gives participants space to study and to explore this increasingly popular yoga practice. Yin yoga can give us the space to slow down and to savour the experience of being in postures.

Course Information

Syllabus

The intention of this course is to equip participants with sufficient knowledge to ground their own practice of Yin yoga and some skills that could be helpful to teach Yin Yoga.

- Principles of Yin yoga

- Anatomy of Yin postures

- How to practice and teach the ten main Yin postures including options for hyper-mobility and contraindications

- Yin postures for meditation

- How to talk students into postures

- How to describe and market Yin yoga classes

- Detailed guidance on developing a personal practice.

- Looking at the postures, discussing variations and learning teaching skills

In a Yin yoga practice, all the postures are held for sustained periods of time (often five minutes). Within these long holds, there is an encouragement of softness and an emphasis on relaxing muscular tissue. Through these attitudes there can be a gaining of harmony and peace: so there is a greater ease, a deeper sense of balance, feelings of calmness and acceptance.

By the end of the training, you will have a flavour of this work and an appreciation for the depth of the study. It is hoped that this will support your own health and way of living and that you may begin to incorporate this learning into your teaching. In addition to the face-to-face sessions you will have access to three 45 minute lectures and a two-hour Yin classes taught by Norman. To complete the training, you will also need to submit a 1,000-word essay.

Example Daily Schedule

10:00-13:00 - Lecture/Teaching methodology

13:00-14:00 - Lunch break

14:00-17:00 - Yin practice

Dates

40h Teacher Training
28 April - 2 May 2025
10:00-17:00

Venue

Indaba Yoga Studio

What you will gain

Upon completion of the training, you will learn and experience sequences that can deepen inner quietening, that can open the hips and other emotional centres of the body, and that can encourage self-reflection.

- Explore the relationship between Yin yoga and meditation

- Understand the precautions and the possibilities of Yin yoga

- Learn about meridians and how Yin yoga might influence energy flows

- Examine the differences between Yin yoga, Restorative yoga and dynamic yoga

- How to do Yin yoga in different ways (with props, without props and more)

- The history of Yin yoga

- Examine some of the theories behind Yin yoga

Accreditation

The training is counted towards the 40-Hour Teacher Training through the Yoga Alliance.

Eligibility and Prerequisite

The training is open to yoga practitioners and teachers - and all those interested in movement.

Tuition Fee

40h Teacher Training - £695

Teacher

Norman - Lead Teacher

Norman Blair is one of the most experienced Yin yoga teachers in the UK and he has been teaching for more than 20 years. He started practicing yoga in the early 1990s and he has trained with teachers such as Judith Lasater, Richard Freeman and Sarah Powers. His book - 'Brightening Our Inner Skies: yin and yoga' - was first published in 2016 and has been reprinted twice; he has been teaching Yin yoga trainings since 2013. He sees yoga as a beautiful way of being that will enhance your life, welcome you back to your body, release habitual tension and encourage a greater focus and quality of mind.

Terms & conditions

Refunds and cancellation

Course cancellation by student

  • If you cancel prior to 8 weeks before the start of the course, we will refund 50% of the full course fee.

  • If you cancel your place less than 8 weeks before the first day of the course, Indaba is unable to offer you a refund.

  • If you need to leave the course for any reason once the course has started, we are unable to offer you a refund or defer your course place. 

  • You need to attend the full training to have the certificate.

  • It is compulsory to attend all of the teaching modules on the course.

Course cancellation by Indaba

  • In the unlikely event of extenuating circumstances, Indaba reserves the right to cancel, postpone or change the structure of the course at any time. If the course is cancelled prior to the course start, the course may be rescheduled and if students cannot attend the new course then 100% refunds will be made. If the course is cancelled partway through the course, Indaba will rearrange the remaining modules of the course as online. If the course is postponed, Indaba will rearrange the remaining modules of the course as online.

Photography

  • We reserve the right to photograph or film during the programme and to use these images for our website and marketing purposes. Please let us know beforehand if you are not comfortable with this.