Well done for arriving here, you’ve taken a step towards learning more about yoga and how a training course can enrich not only your own relationship to yoga but perhaps you’d like to start to share it with others.
We are planning to host both a 30hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training and a 200hr Foundational Teacher Training 2026 at Ministry of Yoga Lisbon, Portugal.
Yin YTT 13th-16th March 2026
Yin Yoga has been a fundamental practice at Ministry of Yoga, where we hold a moment to shed the layers of the day or week. Where we are able to draw the mind inward and slow the fluctuations of thought. Have you practiced the profound impact on the body and mind with the Yin Yoga experience? Are you being called to know more?
Join us for a deeply nourishing 30-hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training, designed for yoga teachers and dedicated practitioners who want to slow down, soften, and deepen their understanding of yin yoga.
Over this immersive training, we’ll explore yin yoga philosophy, functional anatomy, fascia, meridians, safe and effective sequencing, and the art of holding space. Expect long-held postures, mindful stillness, and plenty of time for self-reflection, practice, and integration.
Whether you’re looking to teach yin yoga or simply deepen your personal practice, this training offers a supportive, grounded environment to reconnect with your body, breath, and inner awareness.
Yin yoga is suitable for practitioners of all levels, from fitness freaks to bedridden patients and it can benefit all these populations. It can improve the following conditions:
- muscular pain
- muscular stiffness
- joint stiffness
- joint pain
- back pain
- insomnia
- anxiety
- chronic fatigue
- MS and other inflammatory neurological disorders
The Yin Yoga Teacher Diploma is a 30h complementary course suitable for yoga teachers, fitness and Pilates instructors, physiotherapists, mind-body therapists, educators etc.
This course also counts towards Continuing Education hours
Come as you are – leave grounded, inspired, and restored
The course includes, theory, practice (40 asanas) handouts and certificate.
Investment: 700.00€ (Food and Accomodation Not Included)
Dates: 13th March to 16th March 2026
Location: Ministry of Yoga, Rua das Portas de Santo Antão 27 Level 1, Lisboa Portugal.
Register now (spots limited to 9 people) Email Zoe: ztaylorministry@gmail.com
About your facilitators:
Vinay Jesta is an international yoga teacher and teacher trainer from India. He has led teacher trainings in India, Poland, Portugal and the Philippines and workshops in numerous other countries. Vinay has guided over 300 teachers into this path of yin yoga through 5 elements international school of yoga based in Poland. His teachings are rooted in the knowledge of eastern philosophy and western anatomy making his classes holistic and approachable to everyone.
Zoe Taylor has taught more than 1000 Yin Yoga classes since 2017, initially studying with Yin Therapy and Anatomy training in Australia, followed by additional studies with Vinay Jesta in Poland, 2018. Over the 9years of teaching this profound modality she has included self-myofascial release (massage balls) studied through the Biomechanics Method, along with Chinese Meridian studies with Hayley Enright from Lisbon Acupuncture. Zoe believes Yin Yoga provides a divine soul experience, blending long holds, deep release with meditation techniques. The frequencies shift within the mind carrying you to space that is often hard to find amongst the busy-ness of life. Zoe will be assisting Vinay with this training adding valuable insights on effective class instruction and sequencing.
200hr Foundational YTT
(6th-14th June & 17th-25th Oct)
This training will be delivered over 2 x 9 day modules both in MoY Lisbon and at the Mandira Yoga Centre.
Save the dates as more information will be provided soon. To be included on our first to know, early bird specials email your expression of interest to Zoe: ztaylorministry@gmail.com