Teach inspiring and highly sought after classes while cultivating a deeper relationship to your yoga. Advance your teaching by curiously delving into the subtleties, advanced knowledge, and refined skills of teaching yoga. This training provides you with a well-rounded spectrum of yoga education by giving you tools to teach skillfully and think critically.
The premise of our training is that you are already great at what you do. Now, let's get to the next level of your practice and career.
Who is this Advanced training for?
Curious yoga students and teachers who have graduated from a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training (or related training) and are interested in refining their teaching skills with a community of like-minded yoga enthusiasts. Upon completing this training you can register with the Yoga Alliance to receive your 500 hour RYT credentials.
What makes our 300 hour YTT different?
1. Not a studio
We are focused entirely on yoga teacher development - no distractions. This singular focus allows us to channel all of our energy and passion toward bringing you the best learning and development experience possible.
2. FLEXIBLE program format
The program format is simple - complete three modules and you complete the training. The benefit? These modules can be taken in any order, whenever you would like, within a six year period of time. Sign up for all three modules back-to-back or participate in whichever ones you would like. Our schedule flexibility allows you to make the most of your training.
3. get the most out of your 300-hours
Many other programs include you taking public group classes, which we feel is not an advanced learning experience. Don’t get us wrong - we fully believe in maintaining your personal practice and therefor ask you to maintain a consistent practice on your own outside of the training hours. With us, all of your 300 hours will be spent in an advanced training classroom with your training peers - a unique experience meant just for the 300-hour students.
4. It's about you
Our goal is to support you in further refining your teaching style to become the best, most effective, intelligible, engaging yoga teacher you can be. We want you to leave this training teaching like the best version of yourself; not trying to replicate the style of others.
PROGRAM FORMAT
Sign up for all three modules
OBTAIN YOUR 300-hour Certification
Complete the three modules in any order at any time within a six year period to complete your 300-hour certification. Each 100-hour module is a fully contained curriculum in itself which means you can start with any one. Modules are offered once per year in Baltimore.
OR, Take Individual modules
SIGN UP FOR whichever MODULE(S) YOU WOULD LIKE
If you would like to participate in an immersive training and learning experience instead of a full 300-hour training, we welcome you to join one or two individual modules instead of completing all three. We believe in continued education for yoga teachers and will make that possible for you.
WHAT OUR GRADUATES ARE SAYING
CORE CURRICULUM
Module #1
Create Freedom With Stability
• Practice and Alignment: Feet, legs, and hips - the practice, anatomy, assisting, and alignment of related poses.
• Sequencing: Core studies of vinyasa yoga including single and multiple bell curves, class outline structures, and refining our sequencing with themes.
• Philosophy: Historical depths and unique perspectives of yoga philosophy including studies of early texts like the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita; understanding these teachings and relating them to your personal practice.
• Teaching Methodology: The art of seeing - techniques of observation and teaching to what you see. Refinement of cueing with essential language and use of voice. Managing common scenarios in group classes and techniques to guide all levels.
• Business of Yoga: Living ethics - relationships, boundaries, and guidelines for a thriving yoga career; reflection on your core principles as a practitioner and development of your core principles as a yoga teacher.
• Specialty Topic - Western Anatomy: The musculoskeletal system and biomechanics relative to yoga practice; anatomy applied to hands-on assisting; debunking anatomical myths; the why behind common yoga injuries and prevention exercises
Module #2
Flow with fluidity
• Practice and Alignment: Core, pelvis, spine - the practice, anatomy, assisting, and alignment of related poses..
• Sequencing: How to create purposeful and effective sequences for vinyasa yoga including backbends, forward bends, twists, and laterals; crafting sequences with peak poses using anatomical and philosophical themes.
• Philosophy: A thorough breakdown of the Sanskrit language to confidently pronounce it and speak it in your classes; study relevant teachings within the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, and unveiling various teachings from Patanjali within the Yoga Sutras.
• Teaching Methodology: Refinement of verbal cues with accuracy and precision; using directional and relational cues; addressing pain and supporting students through injuries. Live practicums teaching with your authentic voice.
• Business of yoga: Composing and formatting impactful workshops. Creating unique and transformational private sessions for groups and individuals. Finances and best practices of these teaching streams for a viable and rewarding career path.
• Specialty Topic - Prenatal Yoga and Special Populations: Pre and Postnatal Yoga - methodology and sequencing for the Mom. Effective use of chairs, blankets, straps, blocks, and walls to deepen and modify anyone’s practice. Yoga for arthritis.
Module #3
Awaken your power
• Practice and alignment: Shoulders, arms, neck - the practice, anatomy, assisting, and alignment of related poses.
• Sequencing: How to safely and effectively sequence with experienced-level arm balances, inversions, and weight bearing poses of the arms and upper body including insightful understanding of standard poses like downward dog.
• Philosophy: The myths of the asanas as inspirational and educational messages in classes. The neuroscience of meditation and pranayama including personal practice of various techniques.
• Teaching Methodology: Intertwining philosophy with asana for a mindful flow that brings out the heart of yoga during modern day classes. Articulation of different philosophical vantage points. Teaching breath and meditation in your classes.
• Business of yoga: Your professional identity - goals and actions for a thriving yoga career.
• Specialty topics - Energetics: Seven main chakra theories, functions, and related yoga practices. Application of subtle energetic anatomy to sequencing classes. Understanding the Vayus within yoga and in-depth pranayama practice.
Non-contact hours
Each module requires 10 non-contact hours that are completed on your own commitment and schedule. These hours include reading and homework assignments due before or after each module.
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2024 DATES + LOCATION
with Lindsay (lusignea) Kiracofe & Guest Faculty
Our 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training modules will be back in 2024. We are working on program details and can’t wait to share them with you. Click below to get notified when we announce this program’s dates.
TUITION
EARLY BIRD ALL 3 MODULES
$3,250
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All 3 modules
$3,450
- Standard rate
- Pay in full option
- or payment plans available
SINGLE MODULE
$1,250
- A la carte rate
- Pay in full option
- or payment plans available
Additional fees: 6 books are required for training and announced upon your program registration. These books are bought independently by you and will become lifelong resources and references in your growing yoga library.
Tuition payment plans: $500 deposit is due with your registration. We offer payment plans for your remaining tuition balance. Let us know you would like a payment plan by clicking “Payment Plan” in the designated section of your registration form. We will then reach out to you to come up with a payment plan that works for you.
REQUIREMENTS TO RECEIVE the 300-hour certification
The advanced training is designed for anyone who has completed their 200-hour teacher training from any school or lineage.
All three modules are required in order to complete the 300-hour training. All three modules can be completed back-to-back, or can be mixed-and-matched over the course of six years. The modules are not required to take in numerical order. For example, you may take Module 2 before you take Module 1, or you may take Module 3 before you take Module 1 or 2.
YOGA ALLIANCE
Upon completion of this 300-hour training, students will receive their 300-hour certificate which qualifies them to receive the 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher (500 RYT) designation with Yoga Alliance.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Our Teacher Training is nationally recognized and registered with the Yoga Alliance.
Upon completion of this program, you can receive your national registration with the Yoga Alliance as a 500 hour Registered Yoga Teacher (500 RYT).
Learn more about the Yoga Alliance by visiting their website.
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