200hr Fascia-Informed
Yoga Teacher Training

More than learning poses

Yoga teacher training is often described as learning how to teach yoga. That is true, but it is only part of the story.

At YinWave, teacher training is also about learning how to stand in front of people with clarity, how to speak with purpose, how to understand the body with respect, and how to use yoga philosophy as a living design for life rather than a set of ideas kept in a manual.

You will learn how to teach safely and confidently, but you will also learn how to listen, adapt, observe, sequence, guide, support and lead.

Whether you want to teach public classes, deepen your personal practice, bring yoga into another profession, or simply become more confident leading a room full of people, this training has been created to meet you there.

What this training will give you

1. The foundation to teach internationally
You will complete a Yoga Alliance accredited 200-hour training with the core skills expected of a Registered Yoga Teacher. This includes teaching methodology, sequencing, class planning, safe practice, observation, cueing, ethics, professional standards and practical teaching experience.

2. A deeper relationship with yoga philosophy
We will explore yoga philosophy as something practical, human and useful. Not as abstract theory, but as a design for living, relating, choosing, practising and teaching.

3. Confidence to lead a room
Teaching yoga is not only about knowing postures. It is about holding attention, reading a room, using your voice well, managing nerves, creating trust and guiding people through an experience with care.

4. Fascia-informed teaching skills
You will learn to see the body as more than isolated muscles and joints. We will explore fascia, connective tissue, tension, compression, rebound, hydration, stillness and how different bodies experience the same posture in very different ways.

5. Business and marketing essentials
A good teacher also needs to understand how to communicate their work. We will cover the basics of finding your voice, describing your offer, creating simple class messaging, building trust and taking your first steps into teaching professionally.

Why Yin Yoga and Standing Balance?

Image: Use the Yin class image with students lying on bolsters.

Yin Yoga teaches patience, observation and sensitivity. It asks us to slow down enough to notice what is really happening beneath the surface.

Standing balance practice teaches presence, steadiness and the ability to respond. It shows us how the body organises itself in real time, through the feet, fascia, breath, nervous system, vision, vestibular system and attention.

Together, these two strands create a powerful teacher training foundation.

One helps you understand stillness.
The other helps you understand steadiness.

Both help you become a more thoughtful, grounded and adaptable teacher.

At YinWave, we are interested in how yoga feels inside a real human body, not how it looks from the outside.

That means learning to work with variation, sensation, proportion, tissue response, nervous system state and the simple truth that no two bodies are built exactly the same.

You will explore:

• Tension and compression

• Functional alignment

• Skeletal variation

• Fascia and connective tissue behaviour

• Yin Yoga principles

• Rebound and integration

• Breath and nervous system regulation

• How to offer options without making students feel corrected or inadequate

This approach is strongly influenced by the functional Yin Yoga tradition associated with Paul Grilley and others who helped bring skeletal variation and individual anatomy into modern yoga teaching.

Suggested Resources:
For further background:

Paul Grilley Bone Studies
Paul Grilley: The Five Yin Archetypes

Yoga philosophy as a design for life

Yoga philosophy can sometimes feel remote, academic or difficult to apply. We will approach it differently.

We will look at yoga philosophy as a living map for attention, behaviour, self-study, discipline, compassion and freedom.

You will be invited to explore questions such as:

• What does it mean to practise honestly?

• How do we meet discomfort without forcing change?

• How do we teach without performing?

• How do we build steadiness in a world that constantly pulls attention away?

• How can yoga help us live with more clarity, kindness and responsibility?

The aim is not to memorise philosophy for an exam. The aim is to let it shape the way you practise, teach and live.

Item Learning to teach by actually teaching

Image: Use the standing balance class image.

This training includes a strong practicum element because confidence grows through experience.

You will practise teaching in manageable steps, beginning with short instructions and gradually building toward fuller sequences and class delivery.

You will learn how to:

• Open a class with confidence

• Give clear and useful instructions

• Use your voice naturally

• Sequence with purpose

• Hold silence without feeling awkward

• Offer options and modifications

• Read the energy of a room

• Recover when something does not go to plan

• Give and receive feedback constructively

By the end of the training, you will not only know more about yoga. You will have practised becoming the person who can share it.

Item Teaching is also communication

Many new teachers finish training with knowledge, enthusiasm and a certificate, but very little idea how to begin.

We will cover the practical side too.

You will explore:

• How to describe what you teach

• How to write simple class copy

• How to speak to the students you want to serve

• How to build trust without over-selling

• How to approach studios or community spaces

• How to price your work with confidence

• How to think about newsletters, social media and local marketing

• How to stay ethical and grounded while still being visible

This is not about becoming pushy. It is about learning how to communicate your work clearly enough that the right people can find you.

The next course is spread over 6 months and requires
12 weekend days
5 Business days (take as holiday)
3 Bank Holidays
20 days total - all compulsory

Starts Dec 26
10th, 11th, 12th & 13th

Continues to May 27:
Jan 15th, 16th, 17th
Feb 19th, 20th, 21st
Mar 26th, 27th, 28th & 29th
Apr 16th, 17th & 18th
May 1st, 2nd & 3rd