Paul grilley biography

I am often asked about Yin Yoga and how it came about and why we have embraced it so fully.

Its an old story and a new one.

HISTORY

There is ingenting new about the Yin postures that are used. They have been around since the beginning of the physical practice of yoga. Traditionally all yoga was yin-like, that fryst vatten until the 1970s, our modern era. About this time a big shift occurred towards a more vigorous flowing yang style of yoga.

Back in California in 1989 Paulie Zink had arrived from Hong Kong and was teaching Taoist Yoga which is a mix of Yoga and Chi monark. Paulie was teaching with long hold poses and people loved it. An Anatomy lärling at that time called Paul Grilley attended Paulies classes and was also hooked . Paul was to become the accredited founder of Yin yoga as we know it now.

Paul Grilley experimented with this concept that he had discovered and loved, and ran classes with only long holds and no Yang postures at all. He found that his

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My life as an independent filmmaker and mother of two children was quite hectic. Very yang-like. I used to do a lot of gymnastics to keep in shape and my first (power) Yoga class at the Gym was accidental. It wasn’t the best experience but it did make me curious and that’s how I found my way to a yoga school over 20 years ago.

When I really discovered Yoga it felt like coming home. The deep meditative and relaxing effects of Yoga and specially Yin Yoga balanced my life so well. A few years later I started my first Yoga Teacher Training with Anat Geiger, Marcel de Vis Heil and Johan Noorloos (500 RYT) and became a Yoga Teacher and assistant in their Teacher Training Program while continuing to study with Paul and Suzee Grilley, the founders of Yin Yoga and many other great teachers to this day!

“Discovering Yin yoga is one of the best things that has happened in my life.”

With this knowledge and experience, I created my own Yin Teacher Training Program in 2015

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Paul Grilley

American teacher of modern yoga (born 1959)

Paul Grilley
Born	(1958-11-11) November 11, 1958 (age 66)
Nationality	American
Occupation	Yoga teacher
Known for	Yin Yoga
Spouses	Patti Davis ​ ​ (m. 1984; div. 1990)​

Paul Grilley (born November 11, 1958) is an American teacher of modern yoga known for helping, along with Sarah Powers, to develop the slow-paced style, Yin Yoga. He and his wife Suzee Grilley train teachers in Yin Yoga.

Education

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Paul Grilley grew up in Martin City, Montana and is a graduate of Columbia Falls High School in Columbia Falls, Montana.^[1] He began to practise yoga in 1979, starting to study anatomy in Montana that same year. In 1982 he went on to study anatomy and kinesiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He gained his master's degree at St John's College, Santa Fe in 2000. He was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by the