300-hour
Yoga Teacher Training
Grow in your practice, enhance your skills, and further your career in an advanced training program designed to fit your needs.
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Our advanced training will provide you with the skills you need to succeed as a modern yoga teacher. With an emphasis on adaptive yoga and specialized study, our courses help you learn to make your teaching accessible to all students. Our core courses will teach you the most fundamental skills and knowledge, specialization courses allow you to refine these skills for unique populations and styles of yoga, and our mentoring courses allow you to deeply explore topics that are meaningful to you.
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The modular, course-based model of our advanced training allows you to choose the courses that interest you and fit your schedule. We value personal instruction and community and include these as fundamental components of all of our training courses.
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During times of social distancing, Yoga Alliance has approved all registered programs for virtual learning. We are continuing to offer quality teaching through live video classes and online courses, and all scheduled trainings will continue as planned.
Training Details
Modular Advanced Training
Our program is designed to allow you to choose training dates and topics that fit your goals for your practice, teaching, and career. Our training is divided into three main course types:
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Small-Group Mentoring
The foundation of our advanced training program, this unique offering gives you the chance to be guided in your personal practice and as a teacher, guided by a yoga therapist. Each 20-hour course will include group and personal time with your teacher designed to nourish and inspire you, supported by your mentor and fellow teachers. Topics in these courses will include philosophy, skills, and wisdom customized to each small group.
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Core Courses
The courses focus on knowledge and skills that form the core of a strong advanced yoga education. Topics in these courses include teaching methodology, advanced anatomy, adaptive yoga, and advanced yogic philosophy. These courses are 40 hours each, and will be offered over intensive weeks, sometimes in a retreat format.
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Specialization Courses
These courses focus on areas of expertise that are more selective and specific, such as trauma-informed yoga, yoga for specific groups, or specialty styles of yoga like Yin and Restorative. These courses are 20 hours each, offered over weekends.
Retreats and Personal Instruction
Some courses will be offered in retreat format, offered in the San Antonio area or other destinations. You also have the option for some hours to be completed by meeting one-on-one with a faculty member or completing an apprenticeship program.
For more information on full program guidelines and requirements, please schedule a consultation
Small-Group Mentoring
20-hour courses limited to eight students
The Yoga Sutras
Asana Refinement
March 2021
Explore the main text that influences how we practice and teach yoga in this small-group study. Join guest faculty member Emily Liles, yoga therapist and long-time student of the Yoga Sutras. With her insight and guidance, learn how the key philosophies of this text can impact your life and teaching.
Sundays, 6-9 pmMarch 7, 14, 21, 28, & April 11
May 2021
Essential for any student who needs support in understanding yoga postures more completely and holistically. Each week of this course will focus on a different group of postures and we will study anatomy, biomechanics, and variations for each group to help you have a detailed understanding of practicing and teaching these asana.
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Sundays, 6-9 pm
May 2, 9, 16, 23, & 30, 2021
Special Populations
Begins July 2021
A focused approach to working with student populations outside of the yoga studio. Take a closer look at working with athletes, the elderly, teens, and other groups you work with. Learn the skills and tools you need to make yoga accessible and successful for these groups.
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Sundays, 6-9 pm
July 11, 18, & 25, Aug 1 & 8, 2021
Core Courses
40-hour courses essential for skilled teachers
Advanced Anatomy
January 2021
Take a holistic and scientific approach to yoga practice in this course where you will study the many systems of the body and how they are influenced by yoga practice. Based in classic wisdom and modern scientific study, this course is ideal for having a deeper understanding of the workings of the physical body. Topics will include biomechanics and functioning of the muscular and skeletal systems, the fascial system, and the nervous system.
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January 15-17 and February 26-28, 2021
Friday: 6-9 pm, Saturday: 12 pm-8 pm, Sunday: 10:30 am-5:30 pm
Advanced Teaching Skills
January 2021
A course designed to help you hone your skills in the yoga classroom, taught by several skilled teachers with different teaching philosophies. Topics include voice skills, planning group classes and workshops, teaching private lessons, assisting skills, use of props, and incorporating authentic themes. This course is essential for anyone wanting to advance their skills and effectiveness in group and private classes.
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January 29-31 & March 26-29, 2021
Friday: 6-9 pm, Saturday: 12 pm-8 pm, Sunday: 10:30 am-5:30 pm
Adaptive Yoga
March 2021
Learn and practice adapting your teaching of yoga to fit a variety of needs. In this course, you'll learn to understand the anatomy, physiology, and contraindications for a variety of common physical limitations and conditions and learn the best way to offer adaptations while helping students feel welcomed and empowered in their practice.
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March 5-7 and April 9-11, 2021
Friday: 6-9 pm, Saturday: 12 pm-8 pm, Sunday: 10:30 am-5:30 pm
Pranayama, Mantra, Mudra
May 2021
This intensive course is deep study of classical yoga breathing and meditative practices that impact the subtle bodies. In this course, you will learn how these practices impact our bodies physiologically and energetically. You will also learn how to effectively practice and teach these techniques, including tools for sequencing classes around them and the skills needed to hold space for students practicing these powerful techniques. Be prepared for an immersive course where you can study the effects of intensive practice in your own body and learn about the experiences of others.
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June 9-13, 2021
Wednesday: 4-8 pm, Thursday-Sunday, 9 am-6 pm each day
Specializations
20-hour courses on specialized teaching areas
Yoga for Athletes
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga for Body Image and Eating Disorders
February 2021
This training will help you bring yoga into the athletic arena. Learn how to teach yoga that complements athletes' current fitness regimen, allowing them to reach optimal physical and mental performance. Open to yoga teachers, trainers, and coaches.
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February 6th & 20th, 12-8 pm each day
March 19-21, 2021
This course will help you to understand how to adapt your language and teaching to enable students have a safe and effective yoga practice. With a particular emphasis on students who have experienced trauma around body dysmorphia and related traumas like eating disorders, this training will give you a greater understanding of the unique challenges these students face and how they can be improved with specialized yoga practice.
Friday: 6-9 pm, Saturday: 12 pm-8:00 pm, Sunday 10:30 am-5:30 pm
Yoga and Spirituality
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga for Sexual Trauma
April 23-25, 2021
In this course, learn how the tools of yoga can be combined with spiritual practice and be a spiritual practice in an of itself. Learn how you can support students in their spiritual journey in a way that is safe, inclusive, and powerful.
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​Friday: 6-9 pm, Saturday: 12 pm-5:30 pm, Sunday 10:30 am-5:30 pm
May 21-23, 2021
This course will help you to understand how to adapt your language and teaching to enable students have a safe and effective yoga practice. With a particular emphasis on students who have experienced sexual trauma, this training will give you a greater understanding of the unique challenges these students face and how they can be improved with specialized yoga practice.
Friday: 6-9 pm, Saturday: 12 pm-8:00 pm, Sunday 10:30 am-5:30 pm
Yoga for Sexuality and Sexual Health
The Art of Holding Space
July 9-11, 2021
Explore how yoga can help support our sexuality and sexual health. By studying anatomy, the subtle body, and common perceptions and misperceptions about sexual health, we can better understand how the practice of yoga can help us have a healthy relationship with our own sexuality and improve sexual well-being.
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Friday: 6-9 pm, Saturday: 12 pm-5:30 pm, Sunday 10:30 am-5:30 pm
July 28-August 1, 2021
Become more intentional with the environment you create as a guide and teacher with this facilitation training. Use the tools and philosophy of yoga to guide group experience and discussion in classes, support groups, and other meetings.
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​Friday: 6-9 pm, Saturday: 12 pm-8:00 pm, Sunday 10:30 am-5:30 pm
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Master Schedule
All courses in 2020, listed chronologically
January 3-31
Mentoring: Book Study (The Four Desires) - January 3, 10, 17, 24, & 31
2021
January 15-17
Core: Advanced Anatomy - Week 1
2021
January 29-31, 2021
Core: Advanced Teaching Skills - Week 2
2020
February 5-7
Specialization: Yoga for Athletes
2021
February 26-28
Core: Advanced Anatomy - Week 2
2021
March 5-7
Core: Adaptive Yoga - Week 1
2021
March 7-April 4
Mentoring: The Yoga Sutras in Practice - March 7, 14, 21, & 28, April 4
2020
March 19-21
Specialization: Trauma-Sensitive Yoga for Body Image and Eating Disorders
2021
April 9-11
Core: Adaptive Yoga - Week 2
2021
April 23-25
Specialization: Yoga and Spirituality
2021
May 2-30
Mentoring: Asana Refinement - May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
2021
May 21-23
Specialization: Trauma-Sensitive Yoga for Sexual Trauma
2021
June 9-13
Core: Pranayama, Mantra, and Mudra
2021
July 9-11
Specialization: Yoga for Sexuality and Sexual Health
2021
July 11-August 8
Mentoring: Yoga for Special Populations
2021
July 28-August 1
Specialization: The Art of Holding Space
2021