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Welcome to Kind Karma® Yoga & Awaken with Meditation!

We have been professionally offering yoga and meditation teacher certification since 2001. We believe learning to teach yoga can be educational, inspirational and joyful. It's our belief yoga should be taught in an encouraging environment that fosters confidence and the necessary skillset to teach and share yoga.

Graduates from Kind Karma Yoga, are currently teaching all over the world, including such places as Ecuador, Costa Rica, South Africa, Japan, Canada, California, Colorado, Florida, Maine, Mississippi, North Carolina, Norway, South Carolina, Ohio, New York and Long Island.

In Peace, Light & Loving Kindness,

🕉 Dean (Sukh Shabad), Ph.D., E-RYT 500, RCYT, RPYT, KKRGM-24, Founder & Spiritual Advisor
🕉 Heidi (Ananda), KKRYT-2,000, E-RYT 500, KKRGM-20, Director of Asana Training
🕉 Naomi (Lakshmi), LCSW, KKRGM-20, Director of Administrations & Outreach
🕉 Lauren (Chandreyee), KKRYT-1,400, RYT 500, KKRGM-20, Assistant Director of Outreach

Our Yoga Alliance Registered Schools

300 Hour Kind Karma Yoga Teacher Training

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Yin Yoga Training Essentials: "Listening to your Authentic Self"

With Dr. Dean Telano and the Kind Karma Yinsters

❝ Kind Karma® Yin Yoga is a practice of meditation and mindfulness that provides an opportunity to 'shape' you into what you want to become. It allows you to become the best version of yourself, by offering you the space, stillness and quiet to turn inward and make a conscious decision to let go of what no longer serves you. ❞
Dean Telano, Creator of Kind Karma Yoga

Kind Karma® Yin Yoga Course Training Manual

By Dean Telano, Founder of Kind Karma Yoga

"Kind Karma Yin Yoga Essentials: Listening to Your Authentic Self'" contains over 170 photos and 50 easy to follow images, tables and illustrations, many of which are related to the meridians, the Five Elements, and Yin & Yang.

Each yin asana includes variations; modifications; counter poses; benefits; contraindications; and related meridians and chakras. Additionally, standing and floor-based qigong movements and breathwork are including to cultivate and deepen the connection with yin energy.

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Course Description

Kind Karma® Yin Yoga uses gentle long held postures – "shapes," with a compassionate, open-minded attitude of self-acceptance to awaken and free the yin parts of our physical, emotional, energetic, mental and spiritual selves. Yin Yoga practice is perfect for anyone who wants to bring more freedom, flexibility, mobility or energy to their hips, pelvis, hamstrings, spine and shoulders. Often, these areas of the body become stiff and less mobile because of aging, old injuries or chronic overuse.

This course, Kind Karma® Yin Yoga Training Essentials: "Listening to your Authentic Self", is intended to provide students with the fundamentals for the development of a professional and safe Yin Yoga practice that is forged with direct experience and training.

This course combines yin yoga with meditation, breathing exercises, and the introduction to healing applications of sound therapy. Many of our yin yoga class sequences tailor the practice to target certain emotions by embracing a meridian-based approach.

❝ Each practice of yin yoga offers you a unique window of opportunity to notice and listen to the messages of your emotions, feelings, body sensations, reactions and inner voice. In such a beautiful and skillful way, yin yoga offers you the intention, time, silence, stillness and space to tap into, listen to, validate, embrace and, ultimately, cherish your authentic self, as it speaks to you. ❞
– Dean Telano, Creator of Kind Karma Yoga

Course Outline

Kind Karma Yin Yoga Training: Essentials

(With Certificate of Certification)

Yin Yoga Focus Areas of Study

"Listening to your Authentic Self": 9 Step Approach.
Physical, Energy & Emotional Bodies.

Understanding Yin Yoga

Unique lecture with demonstrations.
11 Precepts of Kind Karma Yoga.
Yin & Yang. How Yin & Yang Relates to Our Body.
Dao. The Five Daoist Elements & its Relationship to Yin Yoga
Meridian Study and their Relationship with the Organs & Emotions.
Anatomy Basics. Anatomical Considerations for Safety.
Connective Tissue & Fascia. Yin vs Yang Tissues.

Art of Teaching Yin Yoga

Tattvas & Essences for Effective Yin Yoga Practice & Teaching.
Tension and Compression: Two of Yin Yoga’s Primary Stressors.
Teaching Methodology: Yin Yoga Teaching Essentials. Practicing with a Yin Perspective. Art of Sequencing.

Yin Yoga Practice

Kind Karma Yin Yoga Pranayama.
Kind Karma Yin Yoga Meditation Techniques.
Kind Karma Yin Yoga Unique Class Openers – including the "Heart Soul-Flower Power" & "Sea of Chi".
Yn Yoga Practice so that the Principles of Yin Yoga can be Experienced, Realized & Felt.
Yin Yoga Poses for Lower & Upper Body Meridians.
Props Usage. Modification & Variations. Contraindications. Benefits.
"Listening to your Authentic Self" Class Sequences."
Introducing the Healing Applications of Sound.

Additional Course Details

We are a Yoga Alliance Approved Continuing Education Provider

We have 4 Yoga Alliance Registered School designations.
We are a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP), thus the hours completed can be applied towards Continuing Education.
This training is an opportunity for yoga teachers to deepen their knowledge and understanding about the meridian theory based on Traditional Chines Medicine (TCM).
Participants will receive a Certificate of Completion in Kind Karma® Yin Yoga.