Yin Yoga Immersive Training
With JOE BARNETT
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About the Yin Yoga Immersive Training
This 25-hour course will be heavy on the experiential. It will include many deep stretching Yin Yoga practices that focusing on the spine and hips. This deep stretch reaches into the joints and offers great relief from discomfort in and around these areas. Long periods of time in stillness and quiet will also offer great relief from mental and emotional stress. After each practice, you will feel lighter and more relaxed with all your daily movements... and within your relationships. Within these practices, lectures, slide presentations, pair and group work, we will discuss the fundamentals of Yin Yoga. The birth of the practice and its development into a global Teacher Training program by my teacher Paul Grilley. At the center of that program are the 7 Yin/Yang archetypal postures and an exploration of the many, many variations. Over our time together, we will move our bodies through each of the archetypes, each of us finding our unique shape, unique sensations, and unique needs. The archetype/variation model of yoga training is a path for each individual to find their own way and meet their own personal, physical and emotional needs. I will also present the 3 Phases of the Yin Cycle, a model I developed to help the Yin teacher guide the flow of the deep stretching, quiet recovery, meditation, return to gentle mobilization, and ultimately deep stillness again, and again. In our time, we will also honor the roots of yoga and Taoism by talking about how our efforts and experiences in Yin Yoga can be enhanced with some understanding of the philosophies and practices of the ancient Indian Yogis and Chinese Taoists. Show up for deep learning and deep resting. We hope to practice with you. -Joe "Joe Barnett has been our friend and assistant for many years. He has two qualities that make him an excellent presenter: he knows the anatomical principles and he relates to people in a sympathetic manner. His presentations are unhurried, hands on demonstrations, this is the easiest way to absorb these ideas.” ~ Paul and Suzee Grilley About Joe Barnett: Joe Barnett is an ERYT-500 Yoga Teacher Trainer, based in Tucson, AZ. For most of his 25 years of yoga practice, Joe has apprenticed under Paul and Suzee Grilley, the founders of Yin Yoga and innovators of a highly popular functional approach to anatomy and yoga asana. Joe assisted many of the Grilleys’ teacher trainings including the first several courses where he served among other colleagues and teaching assistants to help shape the pedagogy and curriculum through deep discussions and evaluations of the evolving course. During those early years of Yin Yoga, Joe worked directly as a liaison between the Grilleys and the students, fielding practical questions about anatomy, subtle energy and meditation techniques. And more than that, Joe spent time with students who were troubled emotionally and/or psychologically by the deeply personal and internal work of yoga. After years of assisting his teacher and teaching his own public classes, and with the blessings and support of his teachers, Joe began traveling and leading teacher training courses of his own. Joe has been teaching Yin and Yang forms of Yoga for 2 decades, and continues traveling nationally and internationally throughout each year offering presentations and trainings based on his long-time mentor’s work. Staying true to the curriculum of Paul and Suzee Grilley, Joe provides a deep study (both experiential and anatomical) of skeletal variation, the fascia system, and yoga asana. Staying true to the practice, Joe can also provide the grounding, compassion and sometimes humor needed when students are taken to the deeper levels of awareness that can suddenly arise, and sometimes surprisingly. Joe has also recently copyedited Grilley’s recent writings on meditation, philosophy and energy work: The Yogi’s Guide to Chakra Meditation, and Chakras Bandhas & Mudras. He leads experiential studies into the subtle mind/body practices. With a framework of the revered Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and Bhagavad Gita, and the tantric practices discussed and guided in Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama’s enlightened body of work, Joe guides yoga nidra practices and pranayama techniques that combine breath and imagery to soothe the mind, calm the nervous system and nurture Spirit. Currently, Joe is in training to be an end-of-life doula with INELDA, he also volunteers at his local hospice, and strives to find ways to integrate the education and normalization of death & dying with the philosophies and techniques of yoga. Joe’s play time is usually spent playing chess poorly, learning Sanskrit, loving his goats and cats and family, laughing in acroyoga, and studying anatomy, including a regular dissection course focused on the fascia layers, and one focused on the brain.
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