40 Hour SHAKTI YIN YOGA INSTRUCTOR TRAINING
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February 8/9 , 15/16, 2025. Two weekends Sat/Sun, 9-5pm.
Space is limited. Register below to be added to class list.
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St. John’s NL, In-person at 10 Clancy Drive, Quidi Vidi Boathouse. Live stream option also available.
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$600+hst ($690) CAD. $200 deposit required upon registration
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4 days of lecture, comprehensive yin yoga instruction manual, ongoing mentorship with instructor. Counts as 40 Yoga Alliance CEUs.
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Space is limited so register now to reserve yours.
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Shakti Yoga teacher trainings and workshops are taught in various locations within Canada, and internationally. Host this workshop in your area and save the cost of travelling to learn. Contact Bobby@ShaktiYogaMethod.com to discuss specific details on hosting this or other workshops and trainings.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
In 2010, after years of studying yoga in India, Japan, and Canada Bobby began to read about yin yoga. It sounded both deeply familiar, and wildly new. She invited Stephanie Guitar, a student of Paul Grilley, to host a two-and-a-half-day workshop at her Yoga Studio. At that time Yin Yoga was unknown in her area.
Bobby remembers walking out of Stephanie’s first session with a palpable level of excitement. As the weekend progressed however, she noticed threads of resistance and dismay coming up during lunch break conversations. Alignment based teachers rebelled against the idea of individualizing the poses by playing around with “alignment”. Others reported feeling like everything they had learned up to now was wrong. Were they supposed to give up on alignment all together? Bobby was beginning to think however, that this was the freshest breath of air blown into the modern yoga practice since she had begun studying 15 years prior. It was a paradigm shift in some ways; however, it was not unlike her early classes in Indian Ashrams where poses were held longer, and students were asked to be more introspective about the pose sensations. Her ashram teachers had also encouraged students to explore their own understanding of how to work into poses. For her, it felt like going home.
While the long pose holds were not radically new for her, the way Yin Yoga embraced skeletal variation was. In 15 years, none of Bobby’s yoga teachers, on any continent, had ever taught the concept that not all bodies were suitable for all poses. In India the prevailing notion she often heard was the old adage “with practice all will come”. Meanwhile, in North America rigid alignment-based, yang style instruction seemed to be becoming the most sought-after styles of yoga.
In short, Bobby was hooked and invited Stephanie back again, this time to instruct a full Yin Yoga teacher training at Shakti Yoga Studio. Soon her city was humming with talented Yin Yoga instructors. As Bobby continued to teach and practice, she dove into the teaching and writing of Paul Grilley, Sarah Powers, and Bernie Clarke as a means of deepening her own understanding of Yin Yoga. More than a decade later she is excited for the opportunity to share her understanding and expression of this beautiful yoga practice with you.