Yoga Teacher Training

Course Outline

Yoga Teacher Training Immersion

Preparations: 24 hours of online video theory, 8 90-minute practices, &
Read Full Book “Yogabody” (Judith Lasater) (done at own pace)
Kickoff Meeting: Tuesday June 7th: 7pm - 10pm (Zoom)
Immersion 3 Weeks: June 11th at 1pm - July 3rd, 2022 at 2pm
Rest (Off) Days: June 17th & June 24th

Daily Schedule

9am Mat Practice & Workshopping
Noon Lunch Break
12:45pm Debrief Homework & Morning Practice
2pm Technical Study of the Day
4pm Teaching or Sadhana Labs
5:30pm End of Day
( 7pm is the end of day on Wednesdays & SAT July 2)

After our kickoff meeting on June 7th, we will begin the training, starting June 11th.
Every Day has 2 hours of homework for the next day.

Week 1 : June 11 - June 18 : “Postural Yoga Deep Dive”

This week will introduce you to the fundamentals of Postural Yoga and how it works, including state of mind and the spiritual effects of practice. Whereas Week 2 will be focused on Teaching, this session will be focused entirely on deepening your practice as we begin a study of Anatomy and Basic Yoga Philosophy. Here are a couple samples of the teaching in this session.

Yoga Insider vs Outsider & Faith

You are familiar with yoga practice. You have a solid sense of what yoga is, but there are also many areas of yoga that may seem incredibly foreign, exotic, or you just aren’t sure what is yoga and what is not. In this clip, Alex sets context for our time & place in yoga’s history as both insiders and outsiders.

A Part of our orientation is refining what we understand by “Faith”

Support and Stabilize the Joints

No matter how much your yoga practice isn’t about the fitness or musculoskeletal benefits of practice (and if that’s is what your practice is totally about), you still must contend with this body and take care of it. This means making sure that the most vulnerable parts of the body are taken care of in yoga practice. That’s the Joints.

This all around training will cover the full spectrum of yoga practice. From fitness, exercise, and anatomy, to regulating your nervous system, and deeper within explorations. Regardless of where you find yourself on the spectrum, you must first, take care of this body!

Week 2 : June 19th - June 26th

This week will introduce you to the fundamentals of cueing poses as well as provide plenty of practice cueing yoga poses and other exercises. There will be some additional underlying practice theory on how to structure students' capacity to get "more than the sum of the parts" out of practice. We will also focus on putting together sequences. This session gets you introduced to your teacher’s tool kit as we continue to refine your yoga mat practice. Here is a sample from this section.

The Safety Net

Teaching Yoga is complex. It takes a lot of skill and anatomical understanding to do it well. (This is why it takes a 200 hour course to learn!) That said, many yoga teachers make teaching more complicated than it needs to be. Most yoga teaching is simple and most of the time, you can teach a good class if you make sure to follow a minimum of best practices that we call “The Safety Net”.

Sequencing Frameworks

There are many reasons why we do not simply throw a bunch of random poses into a class. One is student safety. Another is to give a class that leaves people relaxed and reset in their nervous system by the time Savasanah rolls around. All of this is the art of sequencing.

Another key to sequencing is to set up sequences that are “more than the sum of the parts.” A good sequence helps students do things that they would not have otherwise been able to do. In order to accomplish this magic, we as teachers, must set a framework.

Week 3 : June 27th - July 3rd

After having worked on your yoga teacher’s toolkit, our final week will focus on consistent teaching and the chance to play with all the new tools in your toolbox. This is the time you get to make an art out of your teaching and find your own voice!

Domain of Infinite Distraction

With everything you have learned in techniques of practicing yoga, it may sometimes feel like you have a whole checklist of things to do. It is possible to practice “correctly”, but for practice to lose it’s magic.

Re-enchanting practice, and indeed, re-enchanting realities depends on our handling the domain of infinite distraction.

Accreditation & Certification

This training is planned to be delivered pursuant to Yoga Alliance's temporary provisions (which have been extended) for allowing Registered Yoga Schools (RYSs) to offer contact hours in a virtual format, subject to additional future guidance, and will meet and exceed Yoga Alliance’s Registered Yoga School 200 Hours + competencies-based model, with 200+ online classroom hours in the following categories:

75 hours of techniques, training, practice (asana, pranayama, subtle body, and meditation)
60 hours of professional essentials (teaching methodology, professional development, and practicum)
40 hours of anatomy and physiology (anatomy, physiology, and biomechanics)
30 hours of yoga humanities (history, philosophy, and ethics)

Upon completion of this training, graduates will receive a certificate of completion for 200 hours of study with 21st Century Yoga on the Mat and can register with Yoga Alliance as an RYT-200.

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