50-Hour Yin Yoga & Anatomy Teacher Training (D'Alijo Retreat Center, Portugal)

The 50-Hour Yin Yoga & Anatomy Teacher Training is a week-long residential course in the theory and practice of Yin Yoga and functional anatomy, held at D'Alijo Yoga Retreat Center in Casal, Vila Real, in northern Portugal. It is rooted in the teachings of Paul Grilley and suits yoga practitioners and teachers who want to understand why long-held poses work the way they do, and why no two bodies respond alike.

What Happens

The training combines study and practice across a full week. The material covers Yin Yoga as both a physical and a philosophical discipline, so the days move between understanding and experience.

Topics include:

- Taoist philosophy, the thinking behind the Yin approach
- Skeletal variations, and how differences in bone structure shape what a pose looks like and feels like in each person
- Target areas, the parts of the body a given pose is meant to reach
- Sequencing, the art of building a class around long-held poses

A thread runs through all of it: every body is unique. The anatomy teaching is there to help you meet students as they are, rather than hold them to a single ideal form. The course totals 50 hours.

The Setting

D'Alijo Retreat Center hosts retreats and teacher trainings led by visiting facilitators and yoga studios. It sits in the mountains of northern Portugal, a quiet backdrop for a week of slow, inward practice. Yin Yoga asks for stillness and patience, and a place away from daily routine suits that well.

Before You Go

This is a teacher training with a focus on Yin Yoga and anatomy, so it is best suited to people who already practise yoga and want to deepen their understanding or begin teaching Yin. Places are booked directly with the teacher running the training, not through the venue.