diff --git a/conda-env.yml b/conda-env.yml
index ee5fc5facb..854baa68f8 100644
--- a/conda-env.yml
+++ b/conda-env.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ dependencies:
   - nibabel>=3.2.0,<4.1
   - nilearn>=0.9.0,<=0.10.0
   - sqlalchemy>=1.4.27,<= 1.5.0
-  - pyyaml>=5.1.2,<7.0
+  - ruamel.yaml=0.17.*
   - h5py=3.8.*
   - seaborn=0.11.*
   - Sphinx=5.3.*
diff --git a/docs/changes/newsfragments/223.bugfix b/docs/changes/newsfragments/223.bugfix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a709cb2e00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/changes/newsfragments/223.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Enable YAML 1.2 support and allow multiline strings in YAML which would not work earlier by `Synchon Mandal`_
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/changes/newsfragments/223.enh b/docs/changes/newsfragments/223.enh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..54e3befe58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/changes/newsfragments/223.enh
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Use ``ruamel.yaml`` instead of ``pyyaml`` as YAML I/O library by `Synchon Mandal`_
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst
index d933e84a74..0a7a7a5dc7 100644
--- a/docs/faq.rst
+++ b/docs/faq.rst
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ The following steps are specific to VSCode and you can choose to go with it:
 
    .. code-block:: bash
 
-       conda env create -n <your-environment-name> -f conda-env.yml python=3.10
+       conda env create -n <your-environment-name> -f conda-env.yml
        conda activate <your-environment-name>
 
    The ``conda-env.yml`` can be found at the root of the repository.
diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst
index d9ab3a31ea..e6611abbb4 100644
--- a/docs/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/installation.rst
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ junifer is compatible with `Python`_ >= 3.8 and requires the following packages:
 * ``nibabel>=3.2.0,<4.1``
 * ``nilearn>=0.9.0,<=0.10.0``
 * ``sqlalchemy>=1.4.27,<= 1.5.0``
-* ``pyyaml>=5.1.2,<7.0``
+* ``ruamel.yaml>=0.17,<0.18``
 * ``h5py>=3.8.0,<3.9``
 
 Depending on the installation method, these packages might be installed
diff --git a/docs/maintaining.rst b/docs/maintaining.rst
index d9a29e68ac..2c883005c4 100644
--- a/docs/maintaining.rst
+++ b/docs/maintaining.rst
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ This plugin reads the latest tagged version from git and automatically
 increments the *MICRO* segment and appends *devN*. This is considered a
 pre-release.
 
-The CI scripts will publish every tag with the format *v.X.Y.Z* to Pypi as
+The CI scripts will publish every tag with the format *v.X.Y.Z* to PyPI as
 version "X.Y.Z". Additionally, for every push to main, it will be published
 as pre-release to PyPI.
 
diff --git a/junifer/api/cli.py b/junifer/api/cli.py
index c24482b8c4..d40cc9c684 100644
--- a/junifer/api/cli.py
+++ b/junifer/api/cli.py
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 from typing import Dict, List, Union
 
 import click
-import yaml
 
 from ..utils.logging import (
     configure_logging,
@@ -29,6 +28,7 @@
     _get_junifer_version,
     _get_python_information,
     _get_system_information,
+    yaml,
 )
 
 
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ def wtf(long_: bool) -> None:
         "system": _get_system_information(),
         "environment": _get_environment_information(long_=long_),
     }
-    click.echo(yaml.dump(report, sort_keys=False))
+    click.echo(yaml.dump(report, stream=sys.stdout))
 
 
 @cli.command()
diff --git a/junifer/api/decorators.py b/junifer/api/decorators.py
index eb2f0bda16..87ea51f89e 100644
--- a/junifer/api/decorators.py
+++ b/junifer/api/decorators.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #          Leonard Sasse <l.sasse@fz-juelich.de>
 #          Synchon Mandal <s.mandal@fz-juelich.de>
 # License: AGPL
+
 from typing import Type
 
 from ..pipeline.registry import register
diff --git a/junifer/api/functions.py b/junifer/api/functions.py
index 6c1a2a7cce..32cc2f8938 100644
--- a/junifer/api/functions.py
+++ b/junifer/api/functions.py
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 
-import yaml
-
 from ..datagrabber.base import BaseDataGrabber
 from ..markers.base import BaseMarker
 from ..markers.collection import MarkerCollection
@@ -22,6 +20,7 @@
 from ..storage.base import BaseFeatureStorage
 from ..utils import logger, raise_error
 from ..utils.fs import make_executable
+from .utils import yaml
 
 
 def _get_datagrabber(datagrabber_config: Dict) -> BaseDataGrabber:
@@ -270,8 +269,7 @@ def queue(
 
     yaml_config = jobdir / "config.yaml"
     logger.info(f"Writing YAML config to {str(yaml_config.absolute())}")
-    with open(yaml_config, "w") as f:
-        f.write(yaml.dump(config))
+    yaml.dump(config, stream=yaml_config)
 
     # Get list of elements
     if elements is None:
diff --git a/junifer/api/parser.py b/junifer/api/parser.py
index 8e96b365e9..fe5301439b 100644
--- a/junifer/api/parser.py
+++ b/junifer/api/parser.py
@@ -10,9 +10,8 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Dict, Union
 
-import yaml
-
 from ..utils.logging import logger, raise_error
+from .utils import yaml
 
 
 def parse_yaml(filepath: Union[str, Path]) -> Dict:
@@ -38,8 +37,7 @@ def parse_yaml(filepath: Union[str, Path]) -> Dict:
     if not filepath.exists():
         raise_error(f"File does not exist: {str(filepath.absolute())}")
     # Filepath reading
-    with open(filepath, "r") as f:
-        contents = yaml.safe_load(f)
+    contents = yaml.load(filepath)
     if "elements" in contents:
         if contents["elements"] is None:
             raise_error(
diff --git a/junifer/api/tests/test_api_utils.py b/junifer/api/tests/test_api_utils.py
index 33dd4db425..57b67624a6 100644
--- a/junifer/api/tests/test_api_utils.py
+++ b/junifer/api/tests/test_api_utils.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def test_get_dependency_information_short() -> None:
         "nibabel",
         "nilearn",
         "sqlalchemy",
-        "yaml",
+        "ruamel.yaml",
     ]
 
 
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ def test_get_dependency_information_long() -> None:
         "nibabel",
         "nilearn",
         "sqlalchemy",
-        "yaml",
+        "ruamel.yaml",
     ]:
         assert key in dependency_information_keys
 
diff --git a/junifer/api/tests/test_cli.py b/junifer/api/tests/test_cli.py
index 8e90dc765e..aa01285e4e 100644
--- a/junifer/api/tests/test_cli.py
+++ b/junifer/api/tests/test_cli.py
@@ -8,12 +8,18 @@
 from typing import Tuple
 
 import pytest
-import yaml
 from click.testing import CliRunner
+from ruamel.yaml import YAML
 
 from junifer.api.cli import collect, run, selftest, wtf
 
 
+# Configure YAML class
+yaml = YAML()
+yaml.default_flow_style = False
+yaml.allow_unicode = True
+yaml.indent(mapping=2, sequence=4, offset=2)
+
 # Create click test runner
 runner = CliRunner()
 
@@ -33,19 +39,17 @@ def test_run_and_collect_commands(
     # Get test config
     infile = Path(__file__).parent / "data" / "gmd_mean.yaml"
     # Read test config
-    with open(infile, mode="r") as f:
-        contents = yaml.safe_load(f)
+    contents = yaml.load(infile)
     # Working directory
     workdir = tmp_path / "workdir"
-    contents["workdir"] = str(workdir.absolute())
+    contents["workdir"] = str(workdir.resolve())
     # Output directory
     outdir = tmp_path / "outdir"
     # Storage
-    contents["storage"]["uri"] = str(outdir.absolute())
+    contents["storage"]["uri"] = str(outdir.resolve())
     # Write new test config
     outfile = tmp_path / "in.yaml"
-    with open(outfile, mode="w") as f:
-        yaml.dump(contents, f)
+    yaml.dump(contents, stream=outfile)
     # Run command arguments
     run_args = [
         str(outfile.absolute()),
diff --git a/junifer/api/tests/test_functions.py b/junifer/api/tests/test_functions.py
index 79c4dd9e58..b345a0ac7d 100644
--- a/junifer/api/tests/test_functions.py
+++ b/junifer/api/tests/test_functions.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 from typing import List, Tuple, Union
 
 import pytest
-import yaml
+from ruamel.yaml import YAML
 
 import junifer.testing.registry  # noqa: F401
 from junifer.api.functions import collect, queue, run
@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@
 from junifer.pipeline.registry import build
 
 
+# Configure YAML class
+yaml = YAML()
+yaml.default_flow_style = False
+yaml.allow_unicode = True
+yaml.indent(mapping=2, sequence=4, offset=2)
+
 # Define datagrabber
 datagrabber = {
     "kind": "OasisVBMTestingDataGrabber",
@@ -231,6 +237,7 @@ def test_run_and_collect(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
 def test_queue_correct_yaml_config(
     tmp_path: Path,
     monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
+    caplog: pytest.LogCaptureFixture,
 ) -> None:
     """Test proper YAML config generation for queueing.
 
@@ -240,32 +247,37 @@ def test_queue_correct_yaml_config(
         The path to the test directory.
     monkeypatch : pytest.MonkeyPatch
         The monkeypatch object.
+    caplog : pytest.LogCaptureFixture
+        The logcapturefixture object.
 
     """
     with monkeypatch.context() as m:
         m.chdir(tmp_path)
-        queue(
-            config={
-                "with": "junifer.testing.registry",
-                "workdir": str(Path(tmp_path).resolve()),
-                "datagrabber": datagrabber,
-                "markers": markers,
-                "storage": storage,
-                "env": {
-                    "kind": "conda",
-                    "name": "junifer",
+        with caplog.at_level(logging.INFO):
+            queue(
+                config={
+                    "with": "junifer.testing.registry",
+                    "workdir": str(tmp_path.resolve()),
+                    "datagrabber": datagrabber,
+                    "markers": markers,
+                    "storage": {"kind": "SQLiteFeatureStorage"},
+                    "env": {
+                        "kind": "conda",
+                        "name": "junifer",
+                    },
+                    "mem": "8G",
                 },
-                "mem": "8G",
-            },
-            kind="HTCondor",
-            jobname="yaml_config_gen_check",
-        )
+                kind="HTCondor",
+                jobname="yaml_config_gen_check",
+            )
+            assert "Creating job in" in caplog.text
+            assert "Writing YAML config to" in caplog.text
+            assert "Queue done" in caplog.text
 
         generated_config_yaml_path = Path(
             tmp_path / "junifer_jobs" / "yaml_config_gen_check" / "config.yaml"
         )
-        with open(generated_config_yaml_path, "r") as f:
-            yaml_config = yaml.unsafe_load(f)
+        yaml_config = yaml.load(generated_config_yaml_path)
         # Check for correct YAML config generation
         assert all(
             key in yaml_config.keys()
diff --git a/junifer/api/utils.py b/junifer/api/utils.py
index 0e2ea1001d..b4d8ba13b5 100644
--- a/junifer/api/utils.py
+++ b/junifer/api/utils.py
@@ -9,10 +9,19 @@
 from importlib.metadata import distribution
 from typing import Dict
 
+from ruamel.yaml import YAML
+
 from .._version import __version__
 from ..utils.logging import get_versions
 
 
+# Configure YAML class once for further use
+yaml = YAML()
+yaml.default_flow_style = False
+yaml.allow_unicode = True
+yaml.indent(mapping=2, sequence=4, offset=2)
+
+
 def _get_junifer_version() -> Dict[str, str]:
     """Get junifer version information.
 
@@ -71,16 +80,13 @@ def _get_dependency_information(long_: bool) -> Dict[str, str]:
         # Get dependencies for junifer
         dist = distribution("junifer")
         # Compile regex pattern
-        re_pattern = re.compile("[a-z-]+")
+        re_pattern = re.compile("[a-z-_.]+")
 
         for pkg_with_version in dist.requires:  # type: ignore
             # Perform regex search
             matches = re.findall(pattern=re_pattern, string=pkg_with_version)
-            # Fix issue with PyYAML name registration
-            if matches[0] == "pyyaml":
-                key = "yaml"
-            else:
-                key = matches[0]
+            # Extract package name
+            key = matches[0]
 
             if key in dependency_versions.keys():
                 # Check if pkg part of optional dependencies
diff --git a/junifer/storage/tests/test_utils.py b/junifer/storage/tests/test_utils.py
index dd7bab3bda..75e632533a 100644
--- a/junifer/storage/tests/test_utils.py
+++ b/junifer/storage/tests/test_utils.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
         ("nibabel", "4.1"),
         ("nilearn", "0.10.0"),
         ("sqlalchemy", "1.5.0"),
-        ("pyyaml", "7.0"),
+        ("ruamel.yaml", "0.18.0"),
     ],
 )
 def test_get_dependency_version(dependency: str, max_version: str) -> None:
diff --git a/junifer/utils/logging.py b/junifer/utils/logging.py
index 5e06dcd480..922b248a8f 100644
--- a/junifer/utils/logging.py
+++ b/junifer/utils/logging.py
@@ -90,7 +90,9 @@ def get_versions() -> Dict:
     """
     module_versions = {}
     for name, module in sys.modules.items():
-        if "." in name:
+        # Bypassing sub-modules of packages and
+        # allowing ruamel.yaml
+        if "." in name and name != "ruamel.yaml":
             continue
         if name in ["_curses"]:
             continue
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index db1ff6a465..f05b5b7c57 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "nibabel>=3.2.0,<4.1",
     "nilearn>=0.9.0,<=0.10.0",
     "sqlalchemy>=1.4.27,<= 1.5.0",
-    "pyyaml>=5.1.2,<7.0",
+    "ruamel.yaml>=0.17,<0.18",
     "importlib_metadata; python_version < '3.10'",
     "h5py>=3.8.0,<3.9",
 ]