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20hr Yin Yoga Training

20hr Yin Yoga Training
Sept 26-28, 2025


Instructor:

Jee Moon

Schedule:

Friday  1-7pm
Saturday 1-7pm
Sunday 1-7pm

Location:

Urban Breath Yoga
2812 Sutton Blvd
Maplewood MO 63143

Pricing:

$525

Questions?
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Whether you're a yoga teacher, teacher-in-training, or simply a yin yoga lover, this training is a rare opportunity to deepen your personal practice and expand your teaching skills.

Jee Moon brings depth and authenticity to her teaching, having studied directly under Paul Grilley—the founder of Yin Yoga—for over a decade. Her approach follows Grilley’s method, which emphasizes functional anatomy, individual variation, and the integration of meridians and chakras. Jee blends this wisdom with her own gentle, grounded style to create a learning experience that’s both clear and inspiring.

This training offers a well-rounded mix of theory and practice. You'll explore the foundations of yin yoga, functional movement, meridian theory, and pose variations based on skeletal differences. Teachers will gain practical tools to confidently lead yin classes, while practitioners will leave with a more personalized, embodied understanding of their practice.

Whether you're looking to teach full yin classes or integrate yin elements into other styles, you’ll come away empowered, informed, and excited to share.

Topics

The purpose of asanas
Functional yoga
Tension and compression
7 phase of yin practice
Yin/yang theory
Yin/yang tissues and exercise|
6 archetypal yin poses and targets
Muscle and fascia
Theory of exercise
Chi and meridians
Teaching functionally
Designing a yin class

Readings

Required:
Yin Yoga: Principles and Practice by Paul Grilley

Recommended: 
Insight Yoga by Sarah Powers
The language of Yin by Gabrielle Harris

“Most forms of yoga today are dynamic, active practices designed to work on half of our body, the muscular half, the “yang” tissues. Yin yoga allows us to work the other half, the deeper “yin” tissues of our ligaments, joints, deep fascial networks, and even our bones. All of our tissues are important and need to be exercised so that we can achieve optimal health and vitality.”  

Bernie Clark, The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga

There is a term called ‘samsara’ in the wisdom teaching of yoga. Samsara has the connotation of revolving cyclically and going around and around without relief. When we get lost in the spinning cycle of samsara, we lose balance and suffer. Yoga is a long journey of cultivating clear and open awareness which requires slowing down and waiting. This is a skill that we can cultivate through meditative practices like yin yoga and meditation. When we can skillfully guide our minds to slow down and be calm, we can relax into deep inner experiences.

There is a famous and popular poem by Pico Lyer that expresses the value of yin practice and the balance between yin and yang:

“In the age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still” 

Jee Moon

Jee Moon

Jee started yoga in 2001 during the process of restoration after knee surgery in South Korea. Her first yoga teacher was a long-term qigong practitioner and acupuncturist who taught her how to integrate knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine and qigong with yoga. After a few years of practice, her curiosity about yoga grew bigger, so she embarked on her journey to learn more about it.  She traveled extensively around Asia practicing with different teachers and practicing her own teaching throughout her travels. She studied many different styles of yoga, including Vinyasa yoga, Power yoga, and Gentle yoga. She eventually returned to South Korea, and learned about Zen Buddhism and meditation in Zen monasteries, where she feels a deep karmic connection, and where she has maintained a meditative practice ever since. Jee is an experienced teacher in a wide range of yoga styles, and she's also an accomplished practitioner of mindfulness meditation. The core of her teaching style is the belief that yoga should not just be a physical exercise, but a path towards the Ultimate Reality.

In 2010, Jee moved to St. Louis, MO with her husband and three cats. She fell in love with the open sky and vast land of Missouri. In the same year, she finally met Paul Grilley. She profoundly appreciated him because not only because he had so much to offer but also for being a diligent and dedicated yogi. For over a decade, she learned yin yoga, yoga anatomy, chakra and meridians, Bhagavad Gita, and Yoga Sutra from him, but most importantly, she learned how to be a dedicated yogi. On a personal level, the most valuable jewel she appreciates even today is that he introduced her to Motoyama Hiroshima and Pramahansa Yogananada because she carries them as her gurus in her heart.

In 2020, when the whole world was shutting down, she decided to open herself to a new possibility and went back to college to become a phystical therapist assistant. Currently, she is working at a skilled nursing facility for patients with dementia, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's. She still teaches yoga on the weekends, leads meditation retreats seasonally, and conducts many different yoga workshops throughout the year. She has a couple of things on her bucket list, such as visiting every National Park in the US and becoming a birder. Living in St. Louis with her husband and four furry babies, she misses her family and yoga community in South Korea. She goes back to mingle with them every year and finds herself in the Zen monastery where she originally started her meditation practice. 

Urban Breath Yoga is your sanctuary, a place to find growth, serenity and connection–– a place to belong. Here you will discover deeper awareness, enliven your senses and be embraced by our beautiful community. In this space, life is more interesting, more inspiring. Through yoga and breath, you can sculpt your body, calm your mind and touch your soul. So come! Expand beyond limitations and fears, and birth a new vision of yourself. Let us guide you in becoming more alive than ever before. You need this... We all do. Find yourself here.