Teacher trainings in person and online
An out of the ordinary experience
Embodied Yin yoga invites us to explore our multidimensional capacities for healing by listening and sensing with the whole body-mind. It increases awareness of our mind-body connection in each dimension and through different somatic approaches, intuitive movement, classical nondual Tantra, Chinese medicine and Yin yoga, opens up space by helping to release limitations.
In Yin Yoga we create gentle (sometimes more dynamic) long held postures and practices with an attitude of Maitri, loving kindness. The poses stimulate energy flow in meridians, energy channels, and restore, rewire and replenish our nervous system.
“Through intentions, what is in the room, words, sounds, light and movements we were guided through so many inner landscapes that week.”
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine is rooted in the ancient philosophy of Taoism and dates back more than 2,500 years.
TCM includes many different practices, including acupuncture, moxa (burning an herb above the skin to apply heat to acupuncture points), Cupping, Chinese herbal medicine, tui na, dietary therapy, and tai chi and qi gong.
“Chinese cosmology suggests that life’s movement is like a spinning ball on a flowing river, a tide of wind and water, a vortex revolving while rhythmically contracting and expanding ( Yin-Yang ) as we are carried along by the currents of Tao”- Harriet Beinfield
In Traditional Chinese Medicine the human body is considered a miniature version of the larger, surrounding universe. Tao is a composite of everything, the intrinsic order of all things. The way we interact with Tao, with nature, is described by Yin-Yang and the Five Elements/Phases.
In the universe the harmony between two opposing yet complementary forces, yin and yang, supports wellbeing and happiness. Disease results from an imbalance between these forces. The Five elements, or Five Phases: water, wood, fire, earth and metal, symbolically represent all creation and phenomena. The relationships between these elements explain the functioning of the body, how it changes during disease and how to best ensure that Qi (pronounced chee), blood and body fluids that are the most important fundamental substances necessary for life, continue to flow through the body, maintaining health.
Water | Kidneys
Everything starts from water. In this Yin phase of gestation, of movement in stillness, of truth, Nature as her and as you, finds the wisdom of the in-between.
No coming, no going, just Being.
To deeply dive into the essence of existence and to find what it means, is what is needed for creation.
It is essential to the Life you are meant to experience.
To create and experience fully.
Wood | Liver
The Wood Phase is seen in birth, in new life bursting forth, excited and with tremendous potentiality.
This is the most yang phase. It is expansive, determined and driven, risky even!
In this phase of growth, when balanced, we find our smooth flow of all our resources and evenness of emotions, our vision is clear and we express our true nature clearly.
The force moves upward and outward out into the world!
Fire | Heart
The peak of the Yang phase corresponds to Fire.
The Heart is considered the ruler. It is all-knowing and ever-present, sharing its wisdom unconditionally for the good of the whole, when balanced.
It is fulfilment: the total expression and integration of our being, the full extent of our expansion, maturation, and development.
The Heart holds and envelops the Spirit, the Shen.
Spirit in Chinese medicine connotes the totality of the person’s life force at any given moment and represents the complete outward expression of the Qi through the personality.
This is where we take space and step into that space in the world.
Earth | Spleen
Our “ripening,” the stage during which we luxuriate in our maturity, corresponds to the Earth Phase.
Gathering and holding together is the dominion of Earth.
Like Mother Earth, the Spleen is the constant provider, the hearth around which the body gathers to renew itself.
By providing nourishment, Qi, and Blood, the Spleen holds the fabric of the body together and upright, maintaining the integrity and position of flesh, blood vessels, and organs.
Unification is the guiding principle here.
Metal | Lungs
It is time for eliminating what is unnecessary, storing up only what is needed. The return to more Yin, but still Yang phase.
Flow (yang) in the container (yin).
what is meant to stay will stay and what is meant to leave will leave.
Nothing is lost though.
Transmutation is the guiding principle in Metal, where perfection of form and function is searched for.
Derived from the earth, it is a pure substance generated by a process of reduction.
Turning base metals into gold, this Phase represents the transformation of the gross materials of nature into pure “essence.”
CELLULAR CONSCIOUSNESS
Each cell in our body has living intelligence. It is capable of knowing itself, initiating action, and communicating with all other cells. The individual cell and the community of cells (tissue, organ, body) exist as separate entities and as one whole at the same moment. Cellular consciousness is a state in which all cells have equal opportunity for expression, receptivity, and cooperation. Attuning ourselves to our cellular consciousness brings us to a place in which we can find the ground from which flows the intricate manifestations of our physical, psychological, and spiritual being.
EMBODIMENT
Embodiment emerges from our cells’ awareness of themselves. It is a direct experience. There are no intermediate steps or translations. There is no guide, no witness – just the fully known consciousness of the experienced moment initiated from the cells. Here, the brain is the last to know. The process of embodiment is a being process, not a doing process. It is an awareness process, not a thinking process. There is complete knowing and peaceful comprehension. Out of this embodiment process emerges feeling, sensing, thinking, witnessing, understanding, compassion. The source of this process is free; it is love.
By Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
SOMATICS
Somatics are the tools, pathways, inner awareness etc., we find and use through the body in order to recognize and become the embodiment that we already are, become the BEING before DOING.
Yin yoga is one of the greatest eye opener inwards, towards our limitless spirit that manifests as our bodymind and soul.
In these Yang infused times,
Yin helps us to stop.
To be able to start again.
Trainings
All our trainings are registered with Yoga Alliance. We are a RYS200 and RYS500 School. This is important because as you would want to evolve as a teacher and study with other great teachers/facilitators in the world, you will sometimes need to have the registration. We want to be inclusive and offer this option for registration to our students.
If you have any questions about the trainings contact:
katharina@authentic-flow.com
Online training & immersion
Want to become a Yin yoga teacher of the NOW?
With deeply rooted understanding of the tradition, non dual Tantra, somatics and Embodied anatomy among others things?
Hungry for cutting edge knowledge and embodiment of yourself in movement and stillness and then share it with others?
Embodied Yin™ teacher training is for anyone to embark on a journey towards becoming a yin yoga teacher/facilitator (If you haven’t completed a foundational yoga teacher training, you wont be getting a certificate to teach just yet) OR anyone already teaching yoga/movement/dance etc. but aspire for more tools and a more embodied way of facilitating. You can also join to deepen your studies, if teaching is not in the books just yet.
The 50-hour “out-of-the-box” Yin Yoga teacher training provides a comprehensive study into the philosophy and methodology of Embodied Yin Yoga.
Topics and practices include asana (Embodied yin yoga), use of Props and assists, embodied and experiential anatomy, pranayama, mantra, meditation, Chinese medicine and Taoism and the foundations of non-dual Tantrik philosophy.
More specifically we will dive into:
Chinese medicine in relation to Yin yoga (the five Phases/elements theory and Meridians)
Qigong, Shiatsu, movement therapy
Embodied experiential anatomy and energetics
Trauma sensitivity in yoga
Taoism and Classical Non-dual Tantra (not Neo tantra)
In-depth study and understanding of the main yin poses+ some unconventional poses
Explorations into Embodied Flow , Body-Mind Centering and other somatic practices
Tools for self-healing
The power of Touch- and what that power means + different ways to use props and give some healing assists
The power of holding space
Authentic teaching
Illuminating soundscape
and much more!
With a focus on the process of self-inquiry, self-discovery and transformation, students will deepen their own journey in Yoga, particularly in Embodied Yin yoga, while preparing to lead others on the path with skill and authenticity.
Satu Tuomela
“I have learned to let things flow.
I am courageous enough to meet myself at every moment and be in the channel of remembrance, of the light, of the darkness, and of the otherworldly.
Yoga and intuitive movement have truly given me a home, a ritual, an opening into discovery.
From this discovery a language and a presence has developed over the years to clearly articulate all the messages coming through and to guide others into themselves; into healing. For me this is salvation”
Satu has been teaching for more than 25 years and is known for her very unique, otherworldly and authentic transmission. Satu is specialised in Somatics and Embodiment practices. She is an experienced yoga teacher (ERYT500) with more than 12000 teaching hours under her belt, Embodied Flow™ senior teacher, a teacher training facilitator, Creator of Authentic Flow (born in 2009), Shake the Dust (Born in 2007), Embodied Yin (Born in 2007) and Co-creator of Embodied Flow™ Yin program and a Reiki Master, soon to be a movement therapist.
Satu charms with her intuitive, all seeing, facilitation and a big love for classical non-dual Tantrik teachings, her Shamanic roots and goddess vibe. Her exquisite use of music, harmonium playing, singing, humour, loving presence, Somatic brilliance, Spaceholding abilities and clear understanding of human body and how everybody is unique, is well known around the world.
Satu has a background in dancing (ballet) and basketball. She fell in love with yoga in her teens and started teaching almost immediately. Satu has studied two different 200h trainings in vinyasa flow and Hatha. Immersed in Anusara yoga, continued with two advanced teacher trainings (both 300h),