Registration & Program Details
Rasa Flow Yoga School Prerequisite: No previous practice of yoga or meditation required.
Part-Time Program:
Dates: April 12 – August 30, 2026
Sundays: 9:45 AM – 2:15 PM
Mondays: 6:45 PM – 8:30 PM
Homework: 3–4 hours weekly of distant learning, practice, and journaling
Tuition: $2500
Fee includes application, tuition, texts, handouts, and student record administration.
Location:
Montrose Square
2180 Kelly Ave, Unit 4140
Port Coquitlam, BC
Cancellation Policy:
No refunds once the course begins
$250 administration fee for cancellations before the course starts
To Register:
Email us at rasaflowyoga@gmail.com
The Power of Stretch
Yin • Restorative • Meditation • Pranayama
200-Hour Teacher Training
Tap into your sense of purpose and make a meaningful difference in your community by sharing gentle, time-tested practices that reduce pain, restore mobility, calm the nervous system, and support lifelong well-being. This training integrates Yin Yoga, foundational Restorative Yoga, meditation, and breathwork into a progressive system designed for modern bodies and modern lives.
Why Train at Rasa Flow Yoga?
At Rasa Flow Yoga, training is personal, supportive, and deeply transformational.
Small class sizes allow for individualized attention, and thorough instruction ensures clear understanding. Our supportive environment encourages questions and curiosity. Hands-on experience builds confidence so you feel ready to teach after graduation. Students are guided to develop their authentic voice and teaching style in a calm, non-competitive atmosphere. Many report increased confidence, reduced stress, and a renewed sense of purpose.
Why We Need Yin and Restorative Yoga
Modern life pulls us toward constant activity, stimulation, and pressure, creating stress, tension, and overthinking. True balance requires slowing down and nurturing ourselves. Yin Yoga and Restorative Yoga offer tools to calm the nervous system, restore energy, and cultivate inner clarity. By caring for yourself through these practices, you are better able to care for others and live with balance and purpose.
What Is Yin Yoga?
Yin Yoga is a cooling, grounding practice that balances the active, heating energy of daily life. In traditional philosophy, Yang represents the warming energy of the Sun, while Yin represents the calming energy of the Moon. Hatha Yoga itself represents balance: Ha (Sun/Yang) plus Tha (Moon/Yin).
Yin Yoga emphasizes the receptive, cooling aspect of practice, cultivating stillness, patience, and deep release.
Benefits of Yin Yoga
Focus: Slow stretching, flexibility, and mindful presence
Yin Yoga increases joint mobility and connective tissue health while releasing stiffness, tension, and discomfort. It improves flexibility safely without strain, enhances body awareness and mindfulness, and integrates meditation into movement. Yin practice also helps regulate the nervous system and promotes emotional balance and mental stillness.
The Progressive Yin Method
Rather than pushing students into long holds immediately, this training teaches a safe, progressive approach to deep stretching.
Level 1 — Gentle Stretch
Approximately 1-minute holds. Ideal for beginners, tight bodies, recovery, and stress relief.
Level 2 — Intermediate Yin
Approximately 2-minute holds. Builds tolerance, breath awareness, and deeper release.
Level 3 — Deep Yin Practice
5 to 7-minute holds. Encourages profound stillness, fascial release, and meditative states.
What Is Restorative Yoga?
Restorative Yoga focuses on simple, supported poses that encourage deep relaxation. Unlike intense or “pretzel-style” yoga stretches, restorative practice allows the mind to enter a peaceful, meditative state while the body heals. It emphasizes conscious stillness, support, and mindful breath, providing a tool for stress relief, recovery, and overall balance.
Benefits of Restorative Yoga
Focus: Deep relaxation, recovery, and nervous system balance
Restorative Yoga reduces stress and promotes overall calm. It improves sleep, supports restorative rest, lowers blood pressure, and balances the nervous system. This practice supports healthy hormone function, stimulates and soothes internal organs, refreshes the mind, heart, and lungs, and recharges energy while encouraging deep rest.
Meditation and Pranayama
You will develop tools to regulate energy, calm the mind, and support emotional balance. Training includes meditation practices, six accessible breathwork techniques, breath-led relaxation methods, and integration of breath into Yin and Restorative sequences.
Training Curriculum
Students learn the three principles of Yin Yoga, Yin and Yang theory, practicing with intention and attention, progressive Yin stretching methods, foundations of Restorative Yoga, six pranayama techniques, functional anatomy for deep stretching, history and philosophy of yoga, and subtle body concepts including chakras, nadis, and meridians.
Modifications for different bodies and needs, sequencing Yin and gentle classes, creating a sustainable personal practice, and practice teaching with feedback are included. Students will have the opportunity to teach a Karma public class and may invite friends and family.
Your Experience
This training is not only about becoming a teacher. It is a journey of personal transformation.
Participants often experience reduced stress and anxiety, improved sleep, greater flexibility and ease of movement, emotional balance, renewed clarity and purpose, and a strong sense of community.
Why Teach The Power of Stretch?
Teaching allows you to share meaningful practices that help others reduce pain and stress. You can build a community around your teaching, develop a fulfilling part-time or full-time path, express creativity and compassion, and align your work with purpose. Teaching also deepens your own well-being.
Mental Health and Well-Being
Good mental health influences how we think, feel, and act. Through The Power of Stretch, you can cultivate self-acceptance, build resilience, improve relationships, and navigate challenges with greater ease.
A Practice for Lifelong Health
Everyone benefits from The Power of Stretch, especially as we age. The practice targets areas of the body that commonly become stiff and restricted, particularly the lower body and hips.
By releasing physical tension, you may experience a sense of openness, freedom from stiffness, greater ease in daily life, emotional lightness, and renewed energy. From that place, purpose naturally emerges.
Embrace the Power of Stretch
When the body softens, the mind quiets. When the mind quiets, clarity appears. From clarity comes purpose.
The Power of Stretch is an invitation to slow down, reconnect, and move forward with intention.
Testimonials of our recent graduates:
Teacher training with Rasa Flow Yoga School has opened my mind, I see both sides of the practice as a yoga teacher and as a yoga student. – Robert Bursey
If you are waffling on whether to take the Yoga Teacher’s Training Program at Rasa Flow Yoga, don’t hesitate to sign up. This training is extremely valuable whether you want to become a yoga teacher or whether you simply want to learn more about the philosophy and best practices of yoga on a personal level. The teachers are wonderful authentic people that only have your best interests at heart. Highly recommend! – Deppy Thompson