• Asana Details: Refine your postures with precision and mindfulness. Through guided practice, detailed instruction, and asana break downs you’ll enhance your alignment, strength, flexibility, and learn to tailor asana to fit your body and your practice. Work with props and modifications to adapt postures for your practice needs day to day. 

• Anatomy Insights: Gain a comprehensive understanding of the body’s mechanics using the latest science. Our sessions will cover the anatomy essential for safe and effective practice, helping you to better connect with your own physicality. Apply your understanding to support intelligent sequencing and injury management, setting your students up to minimize injury and find more freedom to move. Source your cuing from an understanding of good alignment and the anatomy that governs it. 

• Diverse Yoga Lineages: Sample from a variety of styles and traditions that have shaped modern yoga. Think Yin, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Hatha, Restorative, Kundalini, Vinyasa; touch on the unique philosophies and practices that each lineage offers.

• Subtle Body Practices: Delve into the world of pranayama (breath control), bandhas (body locks), and other techniques (chakras, chanting, Ayurveda, etc.)  that harness the energy within. Learn how these practices can transform your physical and mental state as well as be integrated into your asana practice. 

• Yoga Philosophy: What IS yoga actually though? (The question no yoga teacher wants you to ask)… We will take a look at the history of yoga, foundational texts, and the modern application of yoga philosophies. We will look to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and the Bhagavad Gita to inform our appreciation of the practice of yoga to provide a deeper sense of understanding, purpose and clarity. Develop your own practice of yoga “off the mat”, integrating philosophical principles with modern application to help you live more intentionally. 

• Meditation Techniques: Develop a meditation practice through homework and guided sessions. Explore different meditation styles to find what resonates most with you and supports your inner journey.

• Intelligent Sequencing: Often what makes a class feel good (or not) comes down to sequencing. Using equal parts science and art, learn how to develop class sequences that prepares the body for the concepts being taught, while at the same time flowing postures seamlessly together to create an immersive experience. 

• Teaching Methods: Here we will cover the practical aspects of teaching including how to structure a class, managing tempo, clear and concise cueing, and finding your seat as a teacher, using your voice, body language, and adjustments as tools to guide a class. As well as the intentional use of music (or not). 

• Diversity and Inclusion: Embrace the richness of diverse perspectives within the yoga community. Engage in discussions and practices that promote inclusivity, understanding, and respect for all.

• Practicum: We believe that anyone can become a great teacher. It just takes humbleness, a mindset of studentship, courage, and practice, practice, practice, practice. So we will offer up plenty of that. Expect assignments and small group mentor work to practice developing sequences, sharing them in a small or large group setting and getting supportive feedback and structure all the way through.

• 200-hour RYT Yoga Alliance Certification.
• Peak Hot Yoga YTT Manual
• 8 months Unlimited Yoga at Peak during your training months (Sept-May). (>$800 value) 
• Community Class Practicum: The opportunity to teach public classes at Peak and receive lead instructor feedback as well as the opportunity to teach ongoing community classes for practice. 
• High-Touch Mentorship: Weekly small-group mentor calls from January to April.

To complete this training program, you will be required to:

• Attend all training dates. Approved absences or sick days will need to be made up at the discretion of the lead instructors
• Log 30 in-class practice hours and 10 class observation hours
• Complete all homework assignments (readings, sequence design, exercises, practice teaching in a timely manner)
  
• Teach one public class (practicum)
  

*To honor your commitment and get the most out of this training expect to allocate at least 3 hrs per week of self study/practice above and beyond training hours during the course of this training.

• The Business of Yoga
• Teaching Prenatal Students
• Trauma Informed Methods
• Teaching Yin 
• Teaching Mobility

• Heidi Erdle 500hr RYT, 200hr E-RYT: Asana, Philosophy, History, Teaching Methodology, Sequencing, Adjustments
• Kara Foley 500hr RYT, 200hr E-RYT, Physiotherapist: Anatomy, Biomechanics, Physiology, Meditation, Sequencing, Adjustments
• Elke Johnson 200hr E-YRT: Subtle body, Pranayama, Yoga Nidra, Yin, Trama Informed Yoga
• Guest Teachers – to be announced : Prenatal yoga, the business of yoga, diversity and inclusion