50-Hour Online Deep Dive Yin Yoga Teacher Training

Pre-application requirements

You will need a stable internet connection, a device (computer, tablet, or smartphone) capable of streaming video, and access to Zoom for live sessions.

Certifications

The course/hours count as Continuing Education hours for Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®) only.

How the training works

As soon as you sign up, you can dive into pre-recorded theory videos, a comprehensive PDF workbook, meditation videos, and 90-minute Yin-style yoga class videos that you can go through at your own pace. Join Maite for three weekends of live interaction, investing between two and four hours daily over those weekends. This is where you will review and refine your Yin teaching skills, learn livestreaming adaptations for specific injuries and conditions, and receive very personalized guidance in navigating your emotions and supporting your students. You will be invited to the private WhatsApp group where you can chat with Maite and your classmates during the training.

There is a special Facebook community for graduates where you connect with other Yin yoga lovers and teachers, ask questions, and find support. All 24 hours of live classes and coaching calls with Maite are recorded and available for replay. This ensures you can access all the valuable interactions and personalized guidance at your convenience. You will have access to all course videos, the comprehensive PDF manual, guided meditations, and practice sequences as soon as you sign up, and they will still be available for a year after the course ends.

You will receive personalized feedback on your assignments, have ample opportunity for direct interaction with Maite during live sessions, and gain access to your private WhatsApp group for ongoing peer support. Certification is awarded upon successful completion of practical assignments, participation in the curriculum, and a live exam with Maite, designed to build your confidence and ensure your mastery of the material. This course is designed to be comprehensive.

While the core live sessions are on weekends to fit busy lives, please expect to invest a few hours a week outside of live sessions for self-study, practice, and preparation. They recommend three to five hours per week to get the most out of the material, especially for grasping detailed topics like meridians and anatomy. The good news is that you can start on the self-study the moment you sign up.

Timing of sessions (GMT+2)

• 16:00 - 20:00 April 18 - 19 and 25 - 26 and May 2 - 3

Course information

• Expand your knowledge of Yin yoga, either as a teacher or student
• Explore the connections between the emotions and the physical body
• Discover how the ancient art of traditional Chinese medicine can be applied to your daily life, Yin and Yang yoga teaching
• Find out how to use yoga therapeutics to address specific health challenges
• Get real-time online guidance with Yin yoga master, Maite Mendez
• Awaken the best yoga teacher within you

What you will gain

• Become a more confident Yin yoga teacher: Learn to create safe, effective, and meaningful Yin classes that your students will love
• Heal and reconnect with yourself: Discover how Yin can profoundly shift your perception of your body and help you form a more mindful and intuitive connection with yourself
• Deepen your personal practice & emotional intelligence: Experience personal healing and learn to understand better and manage your emotions
• Gain knowledge that will serve you for a lifetime: Through a better understanding of traditional Chinese medicine, the Meridians, and the five elements, you will have a 360-degree understanding of wellbeing
• Better understand how different bodies and anatomies impact poses: You will be able to offer safe, effective, and personalized modifications – both for yourself and every body during classes
• Find a community of supportive, like-minded people: Many students who take this course forge deep connections with their classmates during and after the course. And it is easy to stay in touch with the dedicated WhatsApp group for your class and the Facebook Community for graduates

Curriculum

• The balance between Yin and Yang: Learn to regulate your nervous system by balancing the two main energies in the body: the feminine and the masculine
• The body or mind connection: Gain a deep understanding on how and why your thoughts and emotions really impact your physical body and overall health
• Advanced meditation techniques: Learn meditations that have been used for centuries by Buddhist monks to attain true mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional freedom
• Water - fear and trust: These emotions affect the health of your kidneys, urinary bladder, and central nervous system
• Wood - anger and compassion: These emotions affect the health of your liver and gallbladder
• Fire - love and hate: These emotions affect the health of your heart and small intestine
• Earth - worry and satisfaction: These emotions affect the health of your stomach and spleen
• Metal - grief and letting go: These emotions affect the health of your lungs, large intestine, and skin
• Asana labs and yoga therapeutics: Dive deep into injuries and how to use props for special conditions and ailments
• Anatomy, fascia, and meridian lines: Understand the biomechanics of movement beyond the Yin yoga practice and how certain asanas will energetically impact and benefit your organs
• Real-time final exam: Both theory and practice

The “MMM” (Maite Mendez's method)

The MMM is a signature program that weaves together the depth of Yin yoga with the wisdom of meditation, stillness, energy awareness, and ancestral knowledge. Guided by Maite’s years of self-practice and teaching, this training becomes an intimate exploration of body, mind, and spirit. Rooted in traditional Chinese medicine, inspired by mantra and affirmation practices, and infused with the art of energetic creation, this training invites you to go beyond teaching - to awaken your inner teacher. You will learn to hold space from a place of embodied wisdom, to guide others not only through Yin postures, but through a process of transformation and self-realization. This experience is both deeply personal and profoundly professional:

• You will gain the practical skills to confidently teach Yin Yoga from an authentic and integrative approach
• You will discover how thoughts, emotions, and energy shape your reality and how to consciously create from this understanding
• You will reconnect with presence, softness, and intuitive knowing, the true essence of Yin: In this training, you are invited to step into a new way of being to hold space with authenticity, to mentor from a place of clarity, to teach from your lived truth

This is not a replication of existing Yin yoga curriculums. It is a unique transmission, designed for those ready to evolve as teachers and as human beings. This online teacher training has been designed not only to make you an exceptional teacher, but to awaken you as a person. What you will learn will allow you to deeply understand how your mind, your emotions, and your energy shape matter and reality itself - a dimension rarely explored in Yin Yoga teacher trainings today.

This is not just another Yin yoga training - this is a signature experience crafted for those who are not only ready to teach but also to find their teacher within. Guided by Maite's own life-long experience, this program brings forth the union of asana and meditation, body and spirit, lineage and presence. Over years of devotion and self-practice, Maite shares her personal integration of meditation, quiet presence, mantra, and affirmation, and the ancestral wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine passed down through her family.

Special bonus

1. Affirmations, acupressure, and more

If you enroll before a specific day (to be announced), you will get priceless tips about affirmations, acupressure, myofascial release, nutrition, and aromatherapy that will help you, your students, and your loved ones live their best lives.

2. Nutrition and emotions e-book

Based on the principles of traditional Chinese medicine, this easy-to-understand e-book will guide you to rebalance your emotions and wellbeing through adequate nutrition.