Deepen your own practice and learn to teach meaningful, meditative Yin Yoga classes that nurture the whole person—body, mind, heart, and spirit—with personalized guidance in a supportive, intimate group setting.
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Discover the transformative power of meaningful, meditative Yin Yoga—both as a personal practice and an art of skillful teaching.
This comprehensive 50-Hour Hybrid Live Online Yin Yoga & Meditation Teacher Training is for those who feel called to deepen their own practice or share the profound benefits of Yin Yoga and meditation with others.
Whether you're a dedicated practitioner, yoga teacher, or wellness professional, this training offers an integrated exploration of Yin Yoga as a practice for the whole person—body, mind, heart, energy, and spirit. You'll learn to create and lead deeply meditative Yin Yoga experiences that weave together Yin anatomy, mindfulness and meditation, compassionate awareness, and the balancing wisdom of Yin and Yang.
The physical practice provides an essential foundation. You'll explore Yin Yoga's core principles, poses, functional anatomy, and effects on the connective tissues. Through modifications, variations, prop use, safety considerations, and responsive cueing, you'll learn to practice and teach in ways that honor each person's unique body while supporting mobility, flexibility, resilience, and balance.
The training also draws from the wisdom traditions that have deeply influenced Yin Yoga and meditation, including Buddhist philosophy, yogic teachings, Yoga Nidra, and Taoism. These timeless perspectives offer a rich context for self-inquiry and personal growth while helping you bring greater meaning, authenticity, and depth to your teaching and everyday life.
Meditation is woven throughout the training as both a personal practice and a teaching skill. You'll learn the foundations of meditation and experience mindfulness, breathwork, Yoga Nidra, and other contemplative practices, discovering how to integrate them naturally into Yin Yoga to cultivate greater presence, clarity, emotional resilience, and inner peace.
A special focus of the training is Taoist philosophy and energetics, including Five Elements Theory, Yin–Yang Organ energetics, and practices for sensing and working with Qi. You'll deepen your understanding of the relationship between body, mind, heart, and energy while exploring how these principles can enrich your own experience and bring another dimension of balance and vitality to what you share with others.
You'll also develop practical tools for inspired, intentional teaching—from creating meaningful themes and sequences to guiding poses, meditation, self-inquiry, and energetic practices with clarity and care. Through direct practice, Yin Yoga and meditation classes, guided reflection, a seven-day home practice immersion, and teaching practicums, you'll deepen your embodied understanding while cultivating an authentic teaching voice that responds to the needs of your students.
By the end of the training, you'll have deepened your personal relationship with Yin Yoga and meditation, along with the confidence and practical skills to create and guide meaningful, meditative experiences with authenticity, wisdom, and care. You'll also carry forward an embodied understanding of these practices and their capacity to nurture balance, self-discovery, and well-being—enriching both your own life and the lives of those you serve.
• April 15–18, 2027
• Thursday–Sunday intensive format
• $445 USD Early Bird Tuition (through February 28)
• $519 USD Standard Tuition
• No-fee two-payment option available
• Live sessions: 11:00 AM–7:30 PM Eastern Time (EDT)
• 32 hours of live online instruction with Sagel via Zoom.
• 18 hours of immersive self-paced learning, including streaming instructional lessons, guided practices, personal reflection, a seven-day home practice immersion, and a teaching practicum.
Your training includes one year of access to a comprehensive online learning portal designed to enrich your experience before, during, and after our live sessions. You'll have 90 days following the live training to complete the remaining coursework and certification requirements.
Inside your online learning portal, you'll find:
• Recorded video teachings, streaming instructional lessons, and specialized classes
• Guided Yin Yoga, meditation, and energetic practices
• Selected readings with guided reflection and opportunities for integration
• Resources to support your seven-day home practice immersion and teaching practicum
• Knowledge checks and reflective learning activities
• A complete 130-slide downloadable course presentation
• Supplemental class planning materials and resources
Experience a warm, supportive small-group learning environment where reflective exercises, experiential practices, live teaching practice, group discussion, and meaningful dialogue are woven throughout our time together. These shared experiences invite you to explore the teachings beyond theory, deepen your understanding, and develop confidence in your own teaching. Enrollment is limited to 12 participants to foster genuine connection, individualized attention, and space for questions and personalized guidance.
No prior experience is required. This training is designed for yoga teachers, dedicated practitioners, wellness professionals, and anyone with a sincere interest in deepening their practice and understanding of Yin Yoga and meditation. A 200-hour yoga teacher training certification is not required.
The live portion of this training is intentionally designed to be interactive and experiential. Your presence and participation enrich your own learning while contributing to the meaningful exchange, connection, and shared experience at the heart of our time together. For this reason, a minimum of 80% attendance at the live sessions is required for certification. Please be sure you can attend the majority of the scheduled live training hours before registering.
This program is Yoga Alliance–approved. Upon successful completion, you'll receive a 50-Hour Yin Yoga & Meditation Teacher Training Certificate. Registered Yoga Teachers (RYTs) may submit this certificate to Yoga Alliance for 50 Continuing Education (CEU) hours.
Please have access to the required book as you move through the training. The additional titles are offered as complementary resources for further exploration.
Required Reading
Yin Yoga & Meditation — Sagel Urlacher
Recommended Reading
Peace Is Every Step — Thich Nhat Hanh
The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga — Bernie Clark
All books are widely available through online and local booksellers.
I'd love to hear from you. If you have questions about the training or would like help determining whether it's a good fit for you, you're always welcome to reach out. You can contact me directly at sagel(at)yinandmeditation(dot)com.
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This immersive training weaves together Yin Yoga anatomy and philosophy, timeless wisdom traditions, meditation, experiential practice, and practical teaching skills to deepen your own practice while cultivating the confidence, wisdom, and embodied understanding to guide meaningful, meditative Yin Yoga experiences.
Whether you're a yoga teacher wishing to bring greater depth and meaning to your Yin classes, a wellness professional interested in integrating Yin Yoga and meditation into your work, or a dedicated practitioner seeking to deepen your own experience, this training offers a comprehensive and heart-centered exploration of both practice and teaching.
Refined over more than a decade of teaching Yin Yoga and meditation through teacher trainings, immersions, and continuing education programs, the curriculum brings together functional anatomy, mindfulness and meditation, Buddhist and Taoist wisdom, energetics, and practical teaching skills. At its heart is an integrated approach to Yin Yoga that honors the whole person—body, mind, heart, energy, and spirit.
Sagel's years of study and teaching also informed her book, Yin Yoga & Meditation, described by Bernie Clark this way:
“Often I'm asked by students where they can go to learn more about Yin Yoga and extend their studies. Well, now I have the answer! This book! This is it.” — Bernie Clark, author of The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga
You'll leave with a deeper personal practice and the practical tools, embodied understanding, and confidence to create and guide meaningful, meditative Yin Yoga experiences with wisdom, authenticity, and care.
50-Hour Hybrid Live Online Yin Yoga & Meditation Teacher Training
Certification & Immersion
The Foundations of Yin Yoga & Meditation + Skillful, Inspired Teaching
April 15–18, 2027
Early Bird Tuition: $445
One of the greatest joys of teaching Yin Yoga and meditation over the years has been witnessing how these practices continue to evolve in the lives and teaching of my students.
Your certification may mark the completion of our formal training, but it doesn't need to mark the end of our connection. I remain a resource for you as your practice and teaching continue to unfold. Whether a question arises in your teaching, you'd like to share an insight from your own practice, or you simply want to reconnect, you're always welcome to reach out at sagel(at)yinandmeditation.com.
I'm honored to support your continued growth and always delighted to hear where these practices take you.
“One of the most extensive, accessible and enjoyable trainings that I have ever taken… I have incorporated Yin Yoga regularly into my practice because of this profound presentation. Not to be missed for teachers and anyone with a body and mind.”
"I was a principal in an urban minority schools for many years, learning there is a lot that goes into an outstanding teacher. It is a magical mix of knowledge, communication, empathy, convictions, personality, energy. You have it all!"
"Thank you for a wonderful experience during our training last week. I admire your teaching style and strong active listening skills. I want to express my gratitude for you. Your books are an amazing gift right from your heart. You can tell you care about your teachings and the students you have.”
"I appreciated the time going over each pose, substitutions, and counterposes and felt it was balanced with the science, class guidance and traditional wisdom…I am absolutely inspired to teach more. I also really liked your teaching style- calm, clear and so willing to answer questions."
“I left this training feeling like I had so much more to offer my students and it’s already evolved my teaching, and my personal practice. It was a really great experience and I’m so grateful to have been a part of it...This training left me a better teacher. So much of what we learned can be applied to other styles of yoga."
“I have gone to many different kinds of trainings in both the yoga and non-yoga world, and your approach to teaching is unlike anything I have experienced. You embody what you teach. You live it and understand it completely at a cellular level. It simply flows from you as effortlessly and consistently as the breath…I feel confident in teaching a safe, well thought out Yin class and feel empowered to go with my own heart!”
“Love love love Sagel’s instruction. Very professional, very organized, very knowledgeable. I would recommend Sagel to anyone who has any interest in Yin, yoga, or meditation. Looking forward to taking her Yoga Nidra training and hopefully the Yin 2 training!”
“I would definitely recommend this or any training led by you! I took your Yin Yoga & Meditation certification and I will never forget it. You have such an amazing gentle and supportive energy. I always leave your trainings feeling very confident like I truly “own” the material.”
“Your Yin practices are a major reason why I once again have a spring in my step. I can run again. I can ski again. I can live again!! Thank you!”
“#MindBlown after taking Sagel’s Yin & Meditation Teacher Training. Deep deep knowledge on unlocking some pretty profound capabilities of the human body & mind. I can’t recommend this training enough!”
“I took Sagel's Yin training last fall & it was amazing. Sagel was welcoming & kind & very knowledgeable about Yin & meditation. She was available to answer any of our questions, she connected individually with students after class & presented the information in a clear & digestible manner. I loved this training & highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about Yin Yoga. It's a life changing practice!”
“The perfectly ethereal and powerful Sagel Urlacher delivers one of the most extensive, accessible and enjoyable trainings that I have ever taken. I have incorporated Yin Yoga regularly into my practice because of this profound presentation. Not to be missed for teachers and anyone with a body and mind."
"You have such a great way of explaining things. Seriously, when I look back at all my teachers through these many years, you are by far my favorite because of your ability to explain things without being over wordy or Condescending. Thank you for your support and beautiful spirit."
"I cannot thank you enough. I value your teaching style, your soothing voice, your entertaining stories, and I have grown so much personally. I can't wait to share it with more people. I have and will continue to recommend this course."
“I only want to express my deepest gratitude to you, you put your heart into this course, and it's felt through the classes. 🙏 I always love learning new things, and almost everything was new and interesting for me. I loved it all. And I love you!”
“Sagel has created connective beauty and rhythm in the practice of Yin Yoga. Her training has been healing, beautiful, and integral. She is generous in her untethering soul and strength, Sagel is magic in teaching, knowledge, heart, and practice of patience, recovery, and sustainable strength.”
“It was so lovely being in your presence again. The time we spent was hugely informative, especially after teaching Yin for several years. I have a renewed excitement around the practice. I have been using the meditations from your book with each class since the training. I also have been using the Mandala map for inspiration. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and light.”
"Sagel has written a true gem of a book I will come back to for years to come! Full of wisdom, technique, practices, and philosophy, layers unfold and will keep you coming back for further exploration. As a yoga teacher, I value Sagel’s expertise in Yin yoga, Yoga Nidra, and mindfulness…I truly love the innovative mandala mapping for the practice, and I have learned so much, as the teachings go right to the heart & soul."
“This training was a gift and blessing for students, healing, and journey within our communities…Sagel reminds us, guides us in, how to create brave, rippling attention in our sacred temple – our bodies…”
“I echo all the hundreds of other thanks people have sent your way, your Yin Training was comprehensive, well thought out, poised, pertinent, useful and heartfelt.”
“Sagel did an amazing job at connecting with each of us and creating a presence. I was very excited after the training and have already started cultivating more of a practice for myself, and space for me to teach. I will happily recommend this program to anyone wanting to deepen their practice from either a student’s or teacher’s perspective (or both!!)…Sagel is such a wonderful teacher.”
