Upcoming Dates & Times:

• Saturday April 18th 11am-7pm

• Sunday April 19th 11am-7pm

• Saturday May 16th 11am-7pm

• Sunday May 17th 11am-7pm

Location: Saturdays Coolidge Corner Studio - 1297 Beacon St, Brookline, MA

Sundays Back Bay Studio - 364 Boylston St, Boston, MA

Price: Early Bird $725| Full Price $775

All cancellations will result in a credit to your account, not a refund. Studio Credit will be offered with 48 hour notice before the event. Any cancellation less than 48 hours will not receive studio credit.

A Foundational 28 Hour Yin Yoga Training with Advanced Considerations (with Yoga Alliance credits)

The Way of the Waters is a foundational yin yoga teacher training for 200-hour yoga teachers and experienced practitioners who wish to deepen their understanding of yin as a contemplative, somatic, and relational practice. This training offers advanced considerations in trauma-responsiveness, attention, fascia, water physiology, and subtle-body awareness—while remaining grounded, accessible, and experiential.

Rather than approaching yin as a technique to be applied, this training invites teachers into a different orientation: tending the field instead of teaching, listening rather than directing, and cultivating the conditions in which healing and insight naturally arise.

At the heart of this training is a theory of change rooted in the waters—the body’s internal waters, the ground substance of fascia, the flow of attention, and the alchemical processes that unfold through time, stillness, and presence. Yin is explored not as passive holding, but as an intelligent dialogue with the body’s innate wisdom.

A Practice of Attention, Water, and Alchemy

The Way of the Waters unfolds over two weekends, moving through the yin–yang continuum of attention:

• Yang attention: learning to hold attention steady, discern agenda, and recognize effort

• Yin attention: welcoming what attention holds with clarity, compassion, and non-preference

• Integrated attention: tending the internal field with skill, humility, and care

Through meditation, inquiry, yin practice, working with water as a collaborator, and teaching practicum, students learn how attention itself becomes the primary instrument of healing.

Alchemy is presented not as metaphor, but as lived process—how sensation, emotion, memory, and awareness transform when met with time, space, and non-interference.

What You Will Explore

This training weaves together methodology, philosophy, and embodied teaching practice. Students will explore:

• What yin yoga is—and what it is not

• Yin and yang as qualities of attention rather than effort

• The historical and philosophical roots of yin within Daoist thought

• Fascia and ground substance as a primary medium of yin practice

• The stages and phases of water as a lens for healing and change

• Kidney/water, liver/wood, spleen/earth, heart/fire, and lung/metal through embodied practice

• Meridians and Five Element theory held within a broader somatic and relational context

• Photonic light, EZ water, and the Ka-body as subtle dimensions of experience

• The Four Foundations of Mindfulness and four-beat awareness as lived practice

• Trauma, nervous system response, and the creation of a trauma-responsive practice environment

• Attention, preference, and how unconscious agenda shapes experience

Rather than memorizing concepts, students learn to sense, notice, and track these principles through their own bodies and teaching.

Tending the Field: The Art of Teaching Yin

A central teaching of this training is the shift from “delivering content” to holding a field.

Students will learn how to:

• Create and sustain a clear, regulated class container

• Use language as invitation rather than instruction

• Sequence from intention, attention, and elemental logic

• Offer modifications and options with sensitivity and precision

• Work skillfully with pregnancy, hypermobility, injury, and heightened sensitivity

• Respond to disclosure with care, recognizing yoga teachers as frequent first points of contact

• Support wellbeing and resilience through pacing, tone, and presence

Teaching practicums throughout the training support students in offering short yin sequences with clear tenets, benefits, and messaging—always in service of the student’s internal experience rather than performance.

Who This Training Is For

This training is ideal for:

• 200-hour yoga teachers seeking a strong foundation in yin with advanced depth

• Teachers interested in trauma-responsiveness, mindfulness, and somatic healing

• Practitioners drawn to water-based, fascia-informed, and contemplative approaches

• Teachers who wish to move beyond scripts and into relational, responsive teaching

About the Teacher

Emily Peterson is a yin yoga teacher-trainer, shamanic practitioner, and guide in embodied healing. Her work is informed by over two decades of practice and study in applied psychology, mindfulness and peacebuilding, biomechanics, trauma and post-traumatic growth, somatic inquiry, and energy healing.

In addition to her formal training, Emily walks a shamanic path rooted in direct relationship with land, elements, and the unseen dimensions of experience. The Way of the Waters was not developed solely as a curriculum, but co-created through an ongoing relationship with the Spirit of the Waters—the living intelligence of water as it moves through body, psyche, and field.

This orientation shapes the heart of the training. Rather than positioning the teacher as an authority who applies techniques, Emily invites practitioners into a listening relationship with the body’s internal waters, the ground substance of fascia, and the subtle currents of attention that guide healing and transformation. Teaching becomes an act of tending—of creating conditions in which the body’s innate wisdom can emerge.

Emily is known for her ability to translate complex material into clear, accessible, and embodied teaching. She bridges scientific understanding with contemplative and shamanic insight, offering frameworks that support both rigor and reverence. Students are guided to develop confidence not through mastery or performance, but through presence, discernment, and ethical relationship with those they serve.

Graduates of her trainings leave with practical tools, lived understanding, and a deepened trust in their capacity to teach yin yoga as a practice of listening, care, and communion with the waters of life.

Assistant Signe Granese

Signe is a Psychology student and Yoga Teacher serving as a Breathwork Fellow and Yoga Fellow at Northeastern University. She is a certified DVRM breathwork and meditation facilitator and completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training through Down Under School of Yoga.