Yoga Teacher Training at Kindred

The Art of Yin:

100 Hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training

In person at Kindred Studios, Strandhill

With Grace Tempany

ISFYT

September 6th-15th 2024

Location: Kindred Studios, Strandhill

**Early Bird available until Dec 31st 2023

The Art of Yin is the only 100 Hour Functional Yin Yoga Teacher Training entirely facilitated by a Senior Teacher & Trainer Pro with Yoga Alliance Professionals.

The Art of Yin can be taken as a stand-alone 100hr yin training.

It also counts as the first half of ISFYT’s Functional Yoga as Therapy 200hr YTT.

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WHY YIN?

Are you a yin yoga student who wants to teach?

Or a yoga instructor who aspires to be a brilliant yoga teacher?

Or a curious seeker who knows embodiment is where true growth lies?

The Art of Yin is for anybody who has ever felt confined within or frustrated by the excessive aesthetic focus that dominates much of the modern yoga world. It is for yoga instructors who are called to better serve their students, uplevel their teaching skills, and learn how to embody and transmit the yin practice from a grounded self-awareness.

The Art of Yin

The Art of Yin is a complete grounding in the yin yoga practice through a functional and deeply therapeutic lens.

It is designed to cater to students and teachers alike; in short, if the work we do here at ISFYT speaks to your heart and soul, then The Art of Yin will be the most nourishing soul food. It is for anybody who has ever felt confined within or frustrated by the excessive aesthetic focus that dominates much of the modern yoga world.

It is for yoga instructors who are ready to step into the seat of the teacher: who are called to better serve their students, uplift and uplevel their teaching skills, and learn how to embody and transmit the yin practice from a grounded self-awareness.

World-class teaching is much more than delivering content. Great teachers embrace their personal practice and their inner landscape, and understand the value of great questions - when they’re asking them, and when they’re contemplating them. This is the true integrity of masterful teaching and space-holding. Great teaching can be encouraged through self-reflection and meditation, and ultimately is dependent on how willing you are to meet your whole self; no striving, no holding back.

“Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.” - Parker Palmer

My work is to help yoga practitioners and instructors develop a more embodied connection to their bodies and minds and to reinstate critical thinking, discernment and self-inquiry as the heart and core integrity of each teacher’s personal and professional development.

Those I teach, mentor and guide, are on a path to uncovering their own inner teacher. They embrace their inner work as a pre-requisite for holding masterful space, and are already courageously and whole-heartedly walking along their own individual path.

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Meet your Trainer

Grace Tempany is a Senior Teacher with Yoga Alliance Professionals, a Trainer Pro and Mentor, specialised in yin, functional yoga, and trauma-informed somatic practices. As a trainee psychotherapist, her lens is inherently person-centred. As a former secondary school teacher, the art of teaching has been her bedrock.

Her teaching is built on the foundation of inclusion. Since she started teaching yoga ten years ago, she has dedicated her practice, research and teaching to providing the most accessible space for everybody to practise being in their bodies, and learn to gain a deeper connection with themselves, their truth, their voice and their own unique and personal journey.

She marries pedagogical expertise, lived and felt experience as knowledge, and the most up-to-date research from the yoga, education, and therapy worlds.

She created her own school of yoga because she believes in a deeper and more well-rounded yoga education. She knows that deep thinkers and old souls looking for retreats are yearning for more depth and integration opportunities. And she listened to to the soul whispers nudging her to create a home for many others out there who have yet to find theirs within the yoga community.

In 2023 ISFYT: The International School of Functional Yoga Teachers was born. In the making for at least the last 3 years, it will no doubt continue to evolve for many years to come.

Learn more about Grace here

Is the Art of Yin Teacher Training for you?

Absolutely yes, if:

You wish to befriend your inner landscape and learn how to listen to the wisdom of your body;

You’d like to bring the Art of Yin practice into your healing and growth;
You are curious about the clear simplicity of the functional (as opposed to aesthetic) approach to teaching yoga (The teaching of Paul Grilley, founder of the Art of Yin Practice)
You are seeking teacher training that prioritises personal practice;
You are ready to come to know your whole self on a more intimate level;
You welcome questions to guide your journey;
You aspire to learn the skills to be a more impactful yoga teacher of all styles, and not just yin;
You are willing to step outside your comfort zone and explore new territory;
You embrace the (minimal) additional reading, practice and homework completion that are part of this training.

Is the Art of Yin Teacher Training for you?

Maybe not right now, if:

You are looking for an add-on to add to what you offer, and you see yin yoga as a nice way to have a ‘break’ from teaching vinyasa or hatha;

You are not particularly open to engaging in self-reflection;
You do not feel that you do not need to receive feedback on your teaching;
Your regular personal yin practice does not have some place in your schedule, and value in your life;
You have a tendency to avoid discomfort, and are not open to looking at that avoidance and leaning into it;
You don’t appreciate questions as teaching tools;
You do not really value the art of teaching as a craft to master.

FAQs

Absolutely. This is not a problem for committed practitioners. On nearly every training I have run there have been participants who did not desire to teach. Some do change their mind throughout the course of the training, but many are content to be immersing themselves in the practice they love, and they embark on the journey for the contemplative opportunities and practices that the training provides. If you have questions or doubts, why not book in for a (zero obligation!) chat and you can run your concerns by me? I have no interest in working with people who are not aligned with the energy and vision of the teachings, so you don’t about to worry about being signed up to something for which you are not a good fit.
Not at all. Even if he majority of people who sign up may have done some kind of yoga training, because I prioritise everyones’ personal yin practice and teaching practice, each teacher leaves with a much stronger connection to their bodies, irrespective of their former training. The Art of Yin involves a fair amount of unlearning, and that is the common denominator irrespective of how much training you have completed prior. All real learning starts with embracing your ‘tabula rasa - beginner’s mind’, and calling on your discernment as you progress through the content, practices and teachings.
However, should you be interested in completing a 200-hour yoga training, you might be interested in my Yoga Therapy programme. It is designed to extend beyond the 100-hour Art of Yin training, and help you take your learnings and apply them to the ‘yang’ practices. If you want to teach hatha or vinyasa through a functional lens, learn more about myofascial release, experience the powerful energetic yang flows created by Paul Grilley, and sink deep into iRest yoga nidra, then you might be drawn to the complete Yoga Therapy training.
The best of all is that the 200hour can be completed as an immersion, or as two 100hour modules (yin & yang), so you have options which can work around your personal life and your professional needs.
More info on the Yoga Therapy curriculum can be found here.
Yoga Alliance Professionals - Peace of Mind!
Yoga Alliance Professionals are a UK-based accreditation body. Choosing the right Teacher Training Course is a big decision. To help give you peace of mind, I have been selected to become a TrainerPro, the new and prestigious trainer level with Yoga Alliance Professionals, who are an independent professional body for Yoga Trainers and Teachers globally.
Being a TrainerPro verifies:
- My Training Courses meet the highest standards.
- A fully qualified Senior Teacher leads the Courses.
- Graduates receive a globally recognised teaching certification.
I came to the yoga world from the education world, from teaching French and Music at second-level to teaching yoga, from mentoring newly-qualified teachers to training yoga teachers. In many ways, it’s the professionally trained and experienced teachers who are perhaps best equipped to train yoga teachers. Quite simply, they have the pedagogical skills to do so. There is a deep need for educators in the yoga education world. I have personally struggled in the past to find teacher training offerings that succeeded in marrying the world of the mind and intellect with the world of the wisdom of the body. I really believe it can and should be done, and this is my work with each student who crosses my path.