A Yin Journey into the Elements World
20 Hours Teacher Training Course / Immersion
Join Jamie Clarke and ‘The Yoga People’ in a 3 day intensive honouring Nature and the role that it plays inside of us. We will explore the introspective practice of Yin Yoga on a journey through the elements and the group of muscles that help us activate each one of them.
Introduction to Yin and the Elements with Jamie Clarke
Why Yin and the Elements?
The Intention behind these workshops is to weave together the understanding and experience of the Yin Yoga practice with the connection to our own Elemental Constitution and individual psychology. To achieve this the Yin Yoga practice will be presented through the lens of the Five Element Tantric model together with the renowned Elemental Typology theory by psychologist Carl Jung.
Through this blend of ancient and contemporary philosophies and a deeper understanding of our own Elemental make-up we will awaken to how the introspective practice of Yin Yoga can function as a practical portal to balancing our personality.
Workshops & Themes
Each workshop will focus on an Element and its characteristics, firstly through their properties in nature, and to follow how they influence our thoughts, emotions, behaviour, and relationships. Through Jungian Elemental Typology, we will realize our reliance placed on our primary element and the opportunities that lay in developing our inferior shadow essences.
Using a 'Functional, Anatomical Target Area approach, each practice will be themed around each of the Jungian four elements. The poses will address the Chi flow in their respective meridians with focused awareness upon sensations characteristic to each of the elements.
Within each workshop we will look at Yin’s Applied Anatomy, through bone-by-bone comparisons of Skeletal Variation. We will analyse, evaluate and shed the illusion of aesthetics, adjusting from what we want from a pose and how we should, based on our individual structure, effectively and safely experience our yoga practice.
What Students will Learn:
How to understand the aspects of their own Elemental Constitution and how this relates to their way of being.
How to relate to others’ Elemental makeup and how this affects their ways of being.
How to relate the Elemental Philosophy into the Yin Yoga practice.
How to experientially interpret what they feel in a Yin Yoga practice.
Applied Anatomy Joint Range of Motion, procedures for testing and how this affects Yin and Yang Yoga Postures
Academic Applied Anatomy which supports a deeper understanding of the Functional Approach to teaching and practicing
Who is this workshop for?
Yoga practitioners and students who have an unfolding interest in ancient practices relating to Elemental Psychology, would be particularly appropriate for this course.
Summary Schedule
February 21; Introduction Holistic Elemental Practice, Intro Elemental Philosophy
February 22; Yin Earth Practice, Lower Body Joint Anatomy, Earth/ Fire Philosophy, Yin Fire Practice
February 23; Yin Water Practice, Upper Body Joint Anatomy, Water/ Air Philosophy, Yin Air Practice
Course Schedule:
February 21
Yin Yoga Full Elemental Holistic Introduction Practice.
Introduction to Jungian Elemental Psychology and Typology.
February 22
Yin Elemental Earth Practice
Functional Earth Anatomy; Flash Highlights of Flexion of Ankle and Hip Joints & Related Postures
Jungian Elemental Typology; Earth & Fire, Superior/ Inferior Functions & Relationships
Functional Fire Anatomy; Flash Highlights of External Rotation of Hip Joint & Related Postures
Yin Elemental Fire Practice
February 23
Yin Elemental Water Practice
Functional Water Anatomy; Flash Highlights of internal rotation of the hip joint & Related Postures
Jungian Elemental Typology; Water & Air, Superior/ Inferior Functions & Relationships
Functional Air Anatomy; Flash Highlights of the complexity of the shoulder joint & Related Postures
Yin Elemental Air Practice
Weekend Schedule:
9.00 - 9.30
9.30 - 11.00
11.00 - 12.00
12.00 - 13.00
13.00 - 14.00
14.00 - 15.00
15.00 - 16.00
16.00 - 17.00
Elemental Meditation
Yin Elemental Functional Practice
Themed Elemental Psychology
Themed Elemental Anatomy
Lunch Break
Themed Elemental Psychology
Themed Elemental Anatomy
2nd Elemental Yin Functional Practice
Elemental Yin’s Module Components
Friday Evening: A Holistic Yin Yoga Practice and Introduction Lecture
As we begin the weekend, we will introduce ourselves to the four elements through an inclusive Yin Yoga practice. Each Element has its corresponding physical Target Area, its relevant meridian channels and select poses that stimulate or harmonize the chi flow in these channels. Similarly there are corresponding Elemental pranayama and meditation techniques that supports the practice.
This initial Yin Yoga practice experience will be an opportunity to experience the Yin Practice ‘Functionally’ and will be an invitation into understanding how using the ancient Elemental system within the Yin practice, can be insightful and customizable to the practitioners needs on physical, emotional and psychological levels.
There will be an overview of how the Elements are positioned as a psychological system through Jungian Elemental Typology and how this model is an effective approach to understanding our nature and our shadow aspects as human beings.
Saturday Morning
There will be an extended Yin Earth Practice with its corresponding pranayama and meditation techniques. The practice will be supported by the meridian and chakra theory, bringing together traditional esoteric wisdom and Yin’s Functional approach of practice.
In the Elemental Anatomy segment, we will analyse the flexion movement of the hip joint and review the varying archetypal areas of tension and compression when doing Earth-grounding forward fold poses.
We will review Jungian Elemental Typology as it relates to Earth Functions and understand how these qualities are active in unconscious patterns of mind, emotions, behaviour, relationships and worldview/ spiritual perspectives.
We will further unfold how the blend of attitudinal approaches of Extrovert and Introvert mixed with cognitive qualities, deeply influence the experience and function of each Elemental Type.
Saturday Afternoon
The evening session will encompass a Yin Fire Practice with its corresponding pranayama and meditation techniques, which can be used to stimulate or harmonize this most magnetic of elements.
The Functional Anatomy covered will be the bone tension and compression variables of the articulation of the spine in backbends and twists.
We will review Jungian Elemental Typology as it relates to Fire Functions and understand how these qualities are active in unconscious patterns of mind, emotions, behaviour and relationships. As with the Element of Earth the attitudinal influences will be touched upon, this time as they relate to Fire.
Sunday Morning
Our third workshop relates to the element of Water, its corresponding Yin practice and relevant pranayama and meditation techniques. The Functional Anatomy covered will be the tension and compression variables of internal rotation of the hip joint. These Internal ranges of motion will relate more specifically to hip abduction poses such as Box Splits and Frog poses as well seated poses such as Virasana and its variations.
We will review Jungian Personality Typology as it relates to Water Functions and understand how characteristically these qualities are most active in unconscious patterns of mind, emotions, and archetypal shadow behaviour.
Sunday Afternoon
Lastly there will be a Yin Air Practice with its corresponding pranayama and meditation techniques centred on the heart space region of the body.
The Elemental anatomy will encompass the shoulder joint, whereby we will review and understand its areas of compression and which archetypal postures this joint influences.
We will also learn Jungian Elemental Typology as it relates to Air Functions and understand how these qualities are active in ‘air type people’, giving insights to key characteristics and pathology, when this Element is out of balance.
About Jamie Clark
Jamie Clarke has been a student, teacher and scholar of Yoga since 2001 and is particularly inspired by Yoga as a process of therapy, personal development and spiritual growth.
Jamie is a E-RYT 500 teacher and has been directly trained by yoga masters, Larry Shultz- Ashtanga Vinyasa & Rocket, Lino Miele- Traditional Ashtanga, Paul Grilley- Yin Yoga and Edward Clark- Tripsichore.
Jamie´s asana practice and teaching style is drawn predominantly from these disciplines, and takes further inspiration from his special interest in yoga anatomy and how it inextricably influences the functional approach to teaching and practicing asana. His own practice and teaching is further rooted in a deep interest all meditation techniques, in particular ancient Tantric Chakra meditation and Buddhist Vipassana practices.
Other teaching influences have come from trainings with masters Richard Freeman, Shiva Rae, David Swenson in Ashtanga and Vinyasa disciplines, David Life in Jivamukti Yoga and Max Strom in breath work. Jamie also works closely with his teacher and training colleague Duncan Wong, and draws inspiration and influence from the martial art techniques of Yogic Arts.
Jamie has 8 years training in transpersonal psychotherapy and has worked closely with experienced masters Lois and Alan Pimentel of London in the related fields of psychology, ancient and contemporary since 2008.
He has always been interested in lineage and ancestry and has worked on repeated intensives with Jill Purce in family constellations and overtone chanting.
His philosophical interests have been nourished with progressive studies in Yogic History (Buddhist and Ancient Greek) , Tantra and the Taoist meridian theories of China. He is currently completing a Masters degree in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology at the University of Middlesex, London.
Price 2.700,-
If you are only able to join one of the days, you are welcome to send us an email as we open the last spots up if any, a week before. info@yogaflat.com