* 5 Reasons To Attend A YIN Yoga Teacher Training
| Written By TJ Maher
| Founder & Lead Teacher @ YUJMU
| Reading Time ~5 min.
[A version of this article first appeared with our partner Inea Yoga.]
The following are observations I have had leading YUJMU 100 hour Yin Yoga Teacher Trainings around the world. It refers to my experiences as a teacher of only YUJMU trainings and so I recommend you do your own diligent independent research when selecting any indepth training.
Choosing to attend a Yin Yoga Teacher Training is a big step that sends ripples into your life.
When you are considering attending a training there may be many tangible reasons that first spring to mind; career reasons, benefits to your body, long term health, etc..
These are the obvious and very important reasons you should be thinking about however below you will find 5 reasons that might not be so obvious.
We hope this helps in some small way with your choice, whatever it may be ❤️
1 | Unearth Your Inner Lagoon
After I attended my first Yin Yoga Teacher Training, one thing that I most appreciate to this day from that experience is discovering that I could feel a way that I never knew I could feel.
Having never felt that level of relaxation before from a prolonged, consistent daily Yin practice I had just accepted the way things were; less relaxed than I could have been.
After attending a few more Yin Yoga Trainings and practicing everyday for some time I had a new default relaxed state of feeling in my body that I could appreciate and find whenever I needed.
A state where the body has no tension and the mind is at ease with the passing of time.
I call this an inner lagoon, you may not always go to the lagoon but once you know it is there it provides great comfort even just in that knowledge.
A YUJMU Yin Yoga Training, particularly in our immersive format is an ideal way to find it.
2 | Find A New Groove
We tend to find ourselves in a groove in life, a pathway that has become familiar that we just don’t deviate from.
Soon this groove becomes so deep we start to think there is no other way, no other path, just this groove that we are traveling. We wear into that rut making it deeper and deeper in us until it's all we think that there is.
Joining a Yin Yoga Training is a deliberate step to bring yourself out of your rut,
even for a brief time, so that you can be reminded there is another way, there are other ways.
Feeling these other ways is crucial as we can read about them or see them but when you feel them then it becomes an option for you that you can choose to embrace when you need it.
YUJMU Trainings are intended, above all, for students to feel the experience of the content that is taught in the lectures and training manual.
3 | Bring Tranquility To Family & Friends
What is sometimes overlooked when we make big choices for ourselves, like deciding if we have time & money to attend a Yin Yoga Training, is how much this kind of choice will affect those around us who we care about.
When we return home after a training, what positive benefit to others could you have after unlocking the more relaxed, soothing version of yourself?
The kind of stillness and peace that you tap into during a YUJMU Yin Yoga Training ripples out from you.
This is similar to how a cat or dog can bring us a sense of equanimity just by being around them, so too can you be that for those you care about.
4 | Discover A New Purpose
There is naturally a focus on the physicality and energetics of attending a Yin Yoga Training, or Yoga Trainings in general, but as we mentioned at the top, many choose to attend teacher trainings for a career change or expansion to their current career.
More broadly than careers though this experience can lead to a rediscovery of purpose, something we all look for in life in one form or another.
How do we understand or perceive our Life? What are we supposed to do while we are here?
Once you feel deeply what Yin Yoga can do for you there is a strong motivation to share and help others to feel this release of physical tension that they hold, just as you did.
Many trainees attend our Yin Training at first just for deepening their own practice. At some point a transition occurs during the experience into wanting to teach. Things changes and teaching feels more accessible, a switch flips in the mind; “I can actually do this and it would help people.”
5 | Because You Deserve To Feel Peace & Love
We’ve been mentioning helping others but let’s bring it back for an important note. The letting go and feeling of peace brought on by consistent practice of Yin Yoga is
a state of being that you deserve to feel and be able to tap into throughout your life.
Attending a Yin Yoga Teacher Training fits many practical purposes but maybe none as important as rediscovering our core priority of feeling inner love and peace.
We must feel this to share it, so it does indeed start within you.
Whether something is attained at the training or plants the seed to just begin your journey towards it, this experience can serve the much more profound purpose of tangibly setting the priorities that you want in your precious life.
Bonus | Change The World
Releasing what does not serve you and finding inner peace and
love is exactly what the world needs to see and feel through you.
By personifying these kinds of choices and priorities you become an inspiration to others; what shines from you others will find solace in and seek to explore versions of it in themselves.
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