200-hr yoga teacher training

In partnership with Empowered Minds

2025 Training Dates and Registration Opening Soon

 
 

Program overview

Our 200-hr, Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher Training is an intergenerational and interdisciplinary journey through yoga’s roots. In this place-based and trauma-informed program, we learn the fundamentals of yoga and explore movement as liberation practice. Throughout this 200-hr journey, you will participate in live-training with our masterful and cross cultural team.

curriculum overview:

  • Yoga Philosophy: Interbeing + Interconnection

  • Overview of the Times

  • The Myth of Separation

  • Connecting Across Lines of Difference

  • Yoga History: Appropriation + Honoring Yoga’s Roots

  • Mass Media, Mind Control + Meditation

  • Adaptation without Appropriation: Place-Based Practice

  • Kemetic Yoga +Ancient Egypt

  • Asana, Pranayama, Mudra + Bandha

  • Yogic Anatomy + Physiology

  • Western Anatomy + Physiology

  • Polyvagal Theory + the Social Nervous System

  • Physiological and Psycho-spiritual Impact of Trauma

  • Yoga and Equity: Representation vs. Diversity + Inclusion

  • Mantra + The Power of Sound

  • Laughter, Storytelling & Play

  • Spoken Word Poetry: Finding Your Authentic Voice

  • Business of Yoga

  • Professional Ethics

  • Yoga as Liberation

TRAINING TEAm (Scroll)

 
 

2024 training dates + registration opening soon

We graduated our first generation teachers in June 2023.

Registration for our 2025 cohort has not yet opened.

Submit interest form below to be the first to know when we do!

 

required reading

YIU Teacher Training Manual, *provided

Yoga for A World Out of Balance, by Michael Stone

The Key Muscles of Hatha Yoga, by Ray Long MD

Embracing Yoga’s Roots, by Susanna Barkataki

Recommended Reading

The Bhagavad Gita, translated by Eknath Easwaran

My Grandmother’s Hands, by Resmaa Menakem

The Politics of Trauma, by Staci Haines

The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel van der Kolk

 

tiered tuition, registration + scholarship structure

One of the primary gaps we are working to fill is that of access and representation. For that reason, we’re offering this program on a scholarship-funded, pay-what-you-can basis to students, staff, and families of our partner schools. Scholarships will be made available to general community members on a need-based basis. We encourage all participants to pay what you can, ensuring that we can continue to train the next generation of teachers with zero financial barrier to entry.

Interested students must fill out an application before registering for this course. Once you submit your application, we will schedule a brief phone interview to discuss further details.

Once accepted, you will receive a confirmation letter and link to pay what you can.

Tiered Tuition:

True Cost Community Rate: $2800

CCSD Staff, Teacher + Nonprofit Rate: $800

Students + Families of Partner Schools: $0 - Fully Funded

*Full and partial-scholarships available to qualifying community members

*Priority given to students, staff and families of our partner schools, including Mitchell, Memminger, Sanders Clyde, James Simons, Simmons Pinckney, Liberty Hill Academy, and Burke High School