20-hour Yin Yoga Teaching Primer with Anita Boh & JY Ooi, Apr 19 - 27

Orchard Central
Saturday & Sunday, April 19, 20, 26 & 27, 2025
9am - 3.30pm

In this 20-hour Continuing Education Training (CET), you will receive an overview of the practice and teaching of yin yoga, with a view to preparing yoga teachers to confidently teach this practice with authenticity in a public group setting.

This CET aims to promote a greater understanding of the fundamental principles underpinning the practice of yin yoga (including what distinguishes a yin yoga class from more yang styles of yoga), and give participants the opportunity to experience how yin yoga classes may be sequenced in various ways.  

We will also cover in this CET common yin yoga poses and various ways they may be sequenced, as well as the art of teaching a yin yoga class (e.g. language, cueing of options and variations, the use of props, adjustments, amongst others). This training aims to develop in teachers critical awareness regarding the practice of yin, and give teachers the opportunity to reflect on how to lead the practice in a public group context.

By the end of the CET, yoga teachers should find themselves in a place to appreciate the practice of yin, be comfortable with stillness and silence, and equipped to teach with intentionality and greater awareness about the practice.

This CET has been structured into 2 weekends based on the following schedule.

DAY 1: FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Students often come into a yin class having little idea about how it is going to be taught other than that it will be a slower-paced class.  This first session will start with a 75-minute yin yoga practice to show how floor-based poses held for time in stillness will feel physically and mentally.

The first session covers fundamental principles, including but not limited to what distinguishes a yin yoga class from more yang styles of yoga, and the general fundamental principles of yin yoga .

DAY 2: YIN POSES & SEQUENCING
Sunday, April 20, 2025

The second session continues by introducing attendees to common yin poses and how they may be sequenced. We start with a 75-minute yin yoga practice based on a different sequence from the first session to show how a yin class can be sequenced differently.

We will apply our minds to how yin poses may be sequenced in different ways for different purposes and outcomes. We also learn how props such as blocks, bolsters and straps may be incorporated to provide variations to a pose in order to accommodate an individual’s unique skeletal framework. Expect to develop sequences for yin yoga classes based on intention and reflection, as well as discuss the sequences with a view to clarifying and refining them.  

DAY 3: THE ART OF TEACHING (PART 1)
Saturday, April 26, 2025

This third session starts with a 75-minute yin yoga class, building upon the knowledge of yin yoga, yin poses and sequencing of poses acquired in the previous 2 sessions. We will delve into topics relevant to teaching a good yin yoga class, including but not limited to topics such as lighting, demonstrations, volume and vocal tone, and the general energetic arc of the sequence.

Each participant will also have opportunities to practice-teach yin poses to feedback from the class and trainers.

DAY 4: THE ART OF TEACHING (PART 2)
Sunday, April 27, 2025

The fourth session builds on the first 3 sessions. With a 75-minute yin yoga practice in the morning, trainees will be encouraged to tap on what they have learnt, to teach a self-developed sequence.

Throughout the day, the fourth session will be part-yin practice (as led by participants), and part-feedback/mentorship. We continue discussing how to refine our teaching as budding yin yoga teachers, identify the resources we can tap on, and discuss common challenges in the teaching of yin yoga in public group classes.

Sample Schedule

9am - 11.30am: Yin Practice and Morning Session
11.30am - 1pm: Lunch Break
1pm - 3.30pm: Afternoon Session

Price

Early bird (by February 28): $980
Regular: $1,080
Single session: $280

You may attend a single session, the full 4-day training, or any combination of the programme that best suits your needs.

This is a Yoga Alliance-certified Continuing Education Training (CET) programme. For yoga teachers, attendance for all 4 sessions and completion of work assigned during the course is required to clock your CET hours.

Cancellation Policy

Please note that this event is non-refundable.

ABOUT ANITA BOH



Anita began her yoga journey with Hom in 2013. Her first introduction was a 90-minute hot yoga class. She fell in love with it, and the rest is history. She took her first 200-hour Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training in 2019 with Hom. In 2021, Anita left her corporate job to fully dedicate herself to teaching yoga full-time.

Throughout various stages of her life, yoga has provided a safe space to center her thoughts. Beyond the physical benefits, Anita views yoga as a way of life and an ongoing journey of self-discovery. She considers herself both a dedicated student and a passionate teacher of yoga. With over 500 hours of yoga teacher training, Anita draws inspiration from her mentors: Blair Hughes (Power Vinyasa), Copper Crow (Hot Hatha), Amber Sawyer (Prenatal and Postnatal), and Nicky Hadjithoma (Yin). 

Anita is dedicated to guide people of all ages and abilities discover their physical, emotional strength and resilience. Her teaching style is grounding, supportive, and inclusive, focusing on simple and dynamic full-body sequences, combined with breathwork and meditation. 

Outside of yoga, you might find her spending time in nature, reading about horoscopes, or enjoying music under the sky.

ABOUT JY OOI



JY started practising yoga in 2014 and teaching yoga in 2017. He believes that a yoga practice can be the basis for self-actualisation and personal development, and that it should ideally be less performative and more internal.

Trained and certified in a variety of yoga styles, JY has found that the practices of yin yoga and meditation have most informed his personal practice and outlook on teaching. He has in recent years delved into associated domains such as mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), Vipassana meditation and trauma-informed yoga. He is transitioning to teaching with a greater emphasis on healing, therapeutic and meditative elements.

JY encourages practitioners to observe sensations, thoughts and their breath with a view to realising the impermanence thereof. The equanimity and insight that comes from realising no situation lasts forever is a window to deeper self-awareness and connection. He consciously aims to teach from a grounded space, offering supportive and encouraging classes that facilitate the connection of body and mind through the breath.