Time Management 101

The time has come to teach a softer style of asana yoga, one that nurtures your body and mellows your mind.

You’re in the right place if you’re a yoga teacher who wants to start teaching yin yoga. While you don’t need special certification to teach yin yoga–although some studios require it–you do need to have a clear understanding of the unique qualities of this quieter, yielding style.

Keep scrolling to learn more. . .

What is Time Management?

To best answer that it might be helpful to give you a definition of “yang” yoga. Yang yoga is a dynamic and muscular style of asana (posture) yoga that emphasizes internal heat as well as the lengthening and contracting of your muscles.

🥵 Think power yoga, vinyasa, hot yoga.

Where yang equals heat and dynamicism, yin is cool and restful with a focus on the connective tissue that isn’t normally exercised in more active yoga asana classes.

Yin Yoga is:

• Mostly seated asanas where you hold the poses for several minutes

• Suitable for almost all levels of practitioners

• Not restorative yoga

If you’re looking for something beyond the sweaty, speedy vinyasa power yoga classes, yin yoga might be exactly what your mind and body are craving.

On this page, you can learn more about yin yoga with:

• Popular articles detailing the benefits and reasons to incorporate yin yoga into your yoga practice

• A quick video lesson on what yin yoga is and isn’t (oh, those pesky misconceptions)

• A 60-minute yin yoga class against the wall that will bring you subtle and satisfying results

• Yin Yoga Quick Start: Essential Poses + Simple Sequences, a 30+ page ebook to get you practicing (or teaching) yin yoga right away

• Online courses designed to get you teaching while deepening your own practice