Yin Yoga & Chinese Medicine Teacher Training
This training is not simply about learning Yin Yoga postures.
It is about learning how to understand the human being inside them.
Through Yin Yoga, Chinese Medicine, anatomy, energetics and direct experience, we explore how practice can become a way of listening - not only to the body, but to the deeper movements of life within it.
Yin Yoga becomes a practice of perception.
Chinese Medicine offers a language for understanding what is being felt and experienced.
Together, they create a framework for teaching with greater depth, clarity and humanity.
“Meeting you, doing your training has initiated a massive change both professionally and personally... I really appreciate you, your energy and your knowledge. ”
Why I Created This Training
After years of teaching Yin Yoga and working as an Acupuncturist, I became increasingly interested in the gap between what was being taught and what people were actually experiencing. Again and again, I met students who believed they were failing because their bodies did not match the shape they thought they were supposed to create. Yet the body was teaching something very different.
“My life changed direction that week of the training and after this absolutely life changing journey of coming back to myself, is hard to express. ”
The heart of practice
This training is for:
This course is for everybody. From Yoga teachers wanting to deepen the way they understand and work with people; practitioners seeking a more embodied and meaningful relationship with practice; those interested in anatomy, energetics, nervous system health and Chinese Medicine; teachers wishing to move beyond performance-based approaches to Yoga; and anyone curious about how posture, breath, emotion, perception and life experience interact within the body.
You do not need to be a Yoga teacher or want to become one to attend. All that is needed is curiosity, openness, and a willingness to explore and deepen your understanding of how the Five Elements system can illuminate different aspects of human experience and life.
The smaller group setting allows for a depth and intimacy rarely found in larger trainings.
“This was a truly transformational 50 hour course and it has changed my life in so many amazing ways. I felt like I had really met myself for the first time in my life. I can’t thank you enough for guiding me through this special journey that will forever be in my heart.”
Structure & What is included:
The Five Movements Yin Yoga & Chinese Medicine Teacher Training is a 50-hour Yoga Alliance Professionals UK accredited course.
Across seven days together, we move through the Five Elements, exploring Yin Yoga postures, anatomy, energetics, archetypes, breath and awareness practice, while looking at the relationship between body, mind and emotion.
The Five Elements are explored not simply as a system of Chinese Medicine, but as a way of understanding the cycles and phases through which all life unfolds.
Each day includes meditation, Yin Yoga, functional anatomy, Chinese Medicine theory, discussion, observation and practical teaching.
The course includes a 50-hour Yoga Alliance Professionals UK accredited certificate, a printed training manual, seven days of teaching and study, and refreshments throughout the day.
This training is immersive and layered gently over time, allowing understanding to deepen through repetition, direct experience and shared exploration.
“Emma’s course made a space for me to find ‘my’ yoga. A gift I will have for life now and I am so grateful. ”
Teaching Philosophy
At the heart of this training is a simple but important question: How do we meet the person in front of us without imposing upon them?
Not every body is asking to be opened. Some are asking to feel safe. Some are asking to be listened to. Some are carrying experiences we cannot immediately see.
Over time this became one of the central questions of my teaching. Not every person enters practice through the same doorway. Some enter through the body. Some through thought. Some through emotion, breath, stillness or meaning. The posture may be the same, but the experience is never identical.
Throughout the training, we explore how Yin Yoga can move beyond the external movements of the body into a deeper relationship with breath, awareness, sensation, energy and lived human experience.
We study anatomy and structure in detail — not to reduce people to mechanics, but to better understand individuality, variation and what is being experienced internally.
Again and again, we return to one principle: Teaching people, not postures.
Because when practice includes awareness — not only movement, but breath, mind and felt experience — it becomes something more relational than form alone.
“Holding the space so beautifully as you alway do. Thank you for sharing this extraordinary amount of knowledge and making it so accessible.”
Practical details:
Training days usually begin around 8:30am and finish between 5:15pm and 5:30pm.
The course unfolds across seven days together. Depending on the location, this may take place over seven consecutive days, or across four days followed by a day to rest and integrate what we have explored so far, before returning for three final days of teaching, review and practice.
Each day includes meditation, Yin Yoga, anatomy, Chinese Medicine theory, discussion and practical teaching.
On successful completion, students receive a 50-hour Yoga Alliance Professionals UK accredited certificate.
“It was powerful, self enquiring and authentic…. Her passion for Yin, Anatomy and the 5 elements is infectious and magical. If you can spend any time as a student of this inspirational soul, do. You will never regret it. She has much to teach. If you are ready to learn.”
WheRE & WHEN
This training is held across a small number of locations throughout the year. Devon is my home base, with additional trainings hosted in selected locations depending on the season and my teaching schedule.
Manchester - July 2026
Space at the Mill, Manchester
17th - 24th July, 2026
(21st July off)
£850
Devon - August / September 2026
The Angel Hall, Totnes
29th August - 5th September, 2026
(2nd September off)
£850
Oxford - September & October 2026
Every Body Studio, Oxford
Weekend 1 - 17th–20th September
Weekend 2 - 8th–10th October
£1050
Cotswolds - March 2027
Retreat & Wild, Cirencester
11th - 18th March 2027
£1050
Bringing the Training to Your Community
The Yin Yoga & Chinese Medicine Teacher Training is now also being hosted in selected locations throughout the UK in collaboration with studios and communities aligned with this style of teaching.
If you feel this training may be something your community would benefit from, you are welcome to get in touch to discuss possible future dates, formats and hosting options.
The SPARK of practice
An immersive 30-hour Yoga Alliance accredited course, exploring the Daoist Yang flowing sequences combining movement, awareness, and the Five Elements theory. We focus our efforts on the most important relationships in Daoist philosophy - Water, Fire and Earth.
While the pace is more dynamic than our Yin Yoga trainings, the philosophy remains the same — connecting body, mind, spirit and exploring the art of moving with awareness.
More details, including pricing and registration, will be announced soon. This four day course will be held in London and run from a Friday through to and including the Monday.
Please get in touch to be notified when bookings open.
The ART of practice
For those wishing to deepen the Art of Practice, come with me on retreat — explore your practice, the body, mind, and heart, and journey inward in immersive, restorative environments.
The next retreat is in Sri Lanka. I am still confirming details yet you can read a little bit about it here…
Emma is a registered Senior Yoga Teacher and Teacher Trainer with Yoga Alliance UK.
This accreditation demonstrates excellent standards as set by Yoga Alliance UK.
She has over 4000 hours of teaching experience and over 1000 hours of certificated study in Yin Yoga and Anatomy, Advanced Ashtanga including the Rocket System & Vinyasa Flow.