There’s a certain point many people reach in their relationship with yin yoga where the practice starts to bring up new or different questions.

At first, it can feel subtle. You’re practicing regularly, maybe teaching already, and you know yin does something other styles don’t quite touch. It slows you down. It opens space. It brings you into contact with parts of yourself that are usually easier to bypass. And yet, at the same time, you might notice that some classes leave you feeling strangely depleted, emotionally overwhelmed, or unsettled without really knowing why.

For a long time, I experienced this myself, both as a student and as a teacher. I loved yin yoga deeply, but I could sense that simply holding poses and staying still wasn’t the full picture. There were layers moving underneath the surface - emotional, energetic, nervous system responses - that weren’t being named or held with enough care. And without that understanding, I was often holding space from my own depletion, thinking that self-sacrifice was just part of being a teacher.

What I’ve come to see over the years is that yin yoga is not automatically regulating. Stillness is not automatically safe. And slowing down, especially for people who are sensitive, empathetic, or used to being the ones who hold everything together, can activate the nervous system just as much as it can soothe it.

This is one of the biggest misunderstandings I see in the yin yoga world.

People assume that because a practice is slow, it must be nourishing. But without nervous system awareness, stillness can easily turn into endurance, dissociation, or quiet overwhelm. Teachers can end up absorbing what’s happening in the room. Practitioners can end up blaming themselves when emotions surface and don’t resolve.

This is the gap my self-paced online Trauma-Informed yin yoga course was created to meet.

Not to add more information, not to make yin yoga more complicated, but to bring context, language, and safety to something that is already powerful, yet often held without enough understanding of how the nervous system, emotions, and the body are actually working together.

At the heart of this training is my integrated approach, the Meridian–Emotion–Nervous System Yoga Method®. It grew out of years of teaching, studying, burning out, reorienting, and listening more closely to what bodies were actually communicating in stillness.

In this work, the meridian system isn’t just an abstract map from Traditional Chinese Medicine. It becomes a way of understanding how emotional patterns live in the body. Emotions aren’t treated as problems to be fixed or released, but as physical impulses that need space, safety, and awareness to move through. And the nervous system becomes the translator, constantly assessing whether it’s safe to soften, or whether protection is still needed.

When you start to see yin yoga through this approach, the practice changes. Teaching changes. Even the way you relate to yourself changes.

Many people come into this training thinking they want to learn how to teach better yin classes. And they do. But what often surprises them is how much their own inner landscape shifts in the process. They become more attuned to themselves. Less reactive. Less effortful in how they hold space. Kinder to themselves. They stop trying to “get it right” and start trusting their capacity to sense what’s needed in the moment.

This isn’t just about perfect sequencing or saying the right words. It’s about learning how to stay present when something real is happening, in your own body first, and then with others. It’s about understanding your nervous system well enough that you’re no longer teaching or practicing from nervous system dysregulation.

Because when you’re regulated, you don’t have to perform presence. You are presence. And people feel that.

The self-paced nature of this course is intentional.

Facilitating this training live for years, I came to the realisation, that a 10 days intense immersion course does not suit everyone’s nervous system. And while the live courses are also amazing, people coming together, evolving together, experiencing together in beautiful island surroundings, I often see that such immersion can also be overwhelming to the nervous system of some students. I also understand that not everyone can travel to SE Asia for this course, so for a long time I have been feeling the call to make this knowledge available for those who cannot just drop their busy lives for a getaway or just simply prefer to absorb and integrate new knowledge at their own pace.

The nervous system needs time to integrate, to feel, to make meaning. You have lifetime access to the material, guided practices, reflections, and our community, along with regular live Q&A sessions where we meet and explore questions and topics together. So even in the online course, you are not alone and learning in isolation, but you have real time connection to a community and myself.

Some people take this training because they want to teach. Others come because they want to understand themselves better. Both are welcome. What matters is not where you plan to go with it, but the openness you bring to the process.

If you’ve been feeling that yin yoga means more than what you’ve been taught so far, if you’ve sensed that there’s depth there but haven’t quite found the language or structure to hold it safely, this training was created with you in mind.

Enrollment for the self-paced online course is currently open. And if what you’re craving is full immersion and embodiment, you’re also welcome to join me in Thailand for the in-person training.

If neither feels right yet, that’s okay too. You can begin by exploring my free offerings: my yin reset, my trauma awareness webinar, or my ebook, and simply see how your nervous system responds.

This work is not about pushing yourself into another certification or identity. It’s about learning how to stay with what’s already here, in a way that is honest, resourced, and sustainable.

If this resonates and you feel called to this work, I invite you take the first gentle steps:

Download my free eBook: Meridians & Emotions and Yin Yoga

Try the free Emotional & Nervous System Yin Reset, designed for you to experience how my integrated signature approach The Meridian-Emotion-Nervous System Yoga Method works

Watch my free Trauma Awareness Webinar - Trauma Informed Yoga Foundations

Join my next live 100HR Trauma Informed Yin Yoga & Chinese Meridians Teacher Training in Thailand:

20-29 Jan 2026
2-11 Mar 2026
12-21 Apr 2026
1-10 Jun 2026

If travelling is not an option right now, you can also join my online self-paced 100HR Trauma Informed Yin Yoga & Chinese Meridians Teacher Training

Join the live 30HR The Art of Trauma-Informed Space Holding course in Thailand:

23-27 Mar 2026
27 Apr-1 May 2026
15-19 Jun 2026

Join the waitlist of the online self-paced 30HR The Art of Trauma-Informed Space Holding course launching in February 2026

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