After years of teaching Yin Yoga and working as an Acupuncturist, I became aware of a gap between what was being taught and what people were actually experiencing.

Many students believed they were failing because their bodies did not match the shape they were being asked to create. The pose had become the goal, and the body something to overcome.

A moment that stayed with me was a workshop with over thirty Yoga teachers. The teacher asked: “What do the hamstrings do?”
No one answered. It revealed something simple: we spend our lives inside our bodies, yet often do not understand them.
That question became the beginning of this training.

The Body is the Teacher

This training was never only about Yin Yoga. Yin Yoga gave me a way of slowing down and observing, but the deeper question remained the same: All experience, thought, emotion, relationship, change, is lived through the body. And yet, the body is often not central in how we are taught. If life is experienced through the body, then the body must sit at the centre of practice, not as form, but as lived experience.

For me, anatomy is not separate from spirituality. The body is where life is lived. This training places the body at the centre of everything we do, as experience, not as shape.

Why The Five Movements?

The Five Movements are not just a system of Chinese Medicine. They are a way of understanding life in cycles. Growth, expression, gathering, release, rest - these movements appear in seasons, health, relationships, and human experience.

This training is not about memorising a system. It is about learning to observe how life moves. The body becomes one doorway into that awareness. The heart becomes another.
The aim is not expertise. It is intimacy with life.

Anatomy gives us a language for structure.

Anatomy and Chinese Medicine are often taught separately. In lived experience, they are not.

One describes structure. One describes process.

A posture is not only physical. A sensation is not only mechanical. They are different ways of describing the same experience. Together, they offer a more complete understanding of the human being - as both structure and flow.

Teaching People, Not Postures

No two people enter practice in the same way. Some through sensation. Some through thought. Some through emotion, breath, or stillness. The posture is the same. The experience is not.

So the question becomes: How is this person meeting themselves right now? Teaching becomes less about alignment and more about relationship.