Our next foundational 200-hour yoga teacher training begins in August 2024! Come chat with lead teacher Alexandra DeSiato in this free information session. Alexandra will talk about what she wishes she had known before she started her first YTT, what goes on in the classroom, and next steps after the program. You’ll also get to chat with other prospective trainees.
Feel free to register—or simply walk in, we'll be there!
Our next foundational 200-hour yoga teacher training begins in August 2024! Come chat with lead teacher Alexandra DeSiato in this free information session. Alexandra will talk about what she wishes she had known before she started her first YTT, what goes on in the classroom, and next steps after the program. You’ll also get to chat with other prospective trainees.
Feel free to register—or simply walk in, we'll be there!
As more and more athletes credit yoga with taking their performance to the next level, the field of yoga for athletes is growing in exciting directions. Specializing in yoga for athletes allows you to share yoga's benefits with a new, receptive population, and to help your students better. Studio owner Sage Rountree, a pioneer in the field, has multifaceted experience as a coach, athlete, and teacher working with endurance-sports athletes and collegiate teams.
Sage’s well-loved five-day intensive on yoga for sports training is designed for yoga teachers interested in working with athletes of all sports; it will also be useful for coaches, PE teachers, and personal trainers. At heart, this is a program that attunes you to working with special populations of every kind. Even if you are not intending to cater to athletes, you will come away with finely honed teaching skills and a sense of excitement about helping your students.
In lecture, group discussion, led classes, and practice teaching, we will:
+ discuss the needs, abilities, and limitations that athletes
bring to a yoga practice
+ survey exercise physiology relevant to yoga asana practice
+ investigate ways to modify classes for athletes of various sports
and levels of experience
+ design sequences appropriate for specific needs and points in the
training cycle
+ explore the pedagogy and business of working with athletes
Participants will gain a new awareness of the parallels between yoga and sports training and will leave feeling empowered to teach yoga to athletes in studio, gym, team, or one-on-one settings.
You'll receive the course's required readings as part of your tuition. The workshop confers 35 CEUs for Yoga Alliance.
Our gratitude and reparatory discounts take 25 percent off the full price for those who identify as Black, Indigenous, and Non-White. Write us for details: info@carrboroyoga.com.
This in-person course parallels Sage’s online course. If you can’t make it in person, or you would like to see the syllabus and preview the first unit, click on over to the online course: https://sagerountree.com/courses/teaching-yoga-to-athletes/
We meet at Carrboro Yoga 10 a.m.–1 p.m. and 2 p.m.–5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
$1200; $1008 if paid before May 1. We suggest you wait until May 1 to book any nonrefundable travel. This course has a minimum of six and a maximum of 18 registrants, so sign up now to ensure your spot!
Our foundational 200-hour yoga teacher training gives you all the tools you need to lead well-balanced yoga classes and to deepen your own practice. You will learn invaluable skills for use in the yoga classroom—and you’ll find these skills apply in a variety of situations. You’ll also learn loads about yourself. That means this program is a fine choice even if you think you have no desire to teach.
This seven-weekend program is led by professional educator Alexandra DeSiato, E-RYT500—herself a graduate of the program. We start in August 2024, and we really hope you will join us. Sign up before July 1 for the early bird rate!
Our program gives you a thorough grounding in:
- the philosophy and history of yoga
- the yoga techniques of asana (poses), pranayama (breath work), and meditation—nuts and bolts, safe practices
- anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology, from both Western and Eastern perspectives
- teaching skills, from language to sequencing to modifications
- how to create an inclusive classroom
Your lead teacher, Alexandra DeSiato, has twenty years’ experience leading college classrooms and fifteen years’ experience teaching movement, including Pilates and yoga. A masterful communicator, Alexandra is coauthor of three books: Lifelong Yoga and Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, both cowritten with teacher training program director Sage Rountree, and Whole Mama Yoga, cowritten with day-one Carrboro Yoga teacher Lauren Sacks.
We meet seven weekends over four months. This model allows for a deeper dive and an opportunity for self-study, plus the freshness of a compact timeline.
DATES FOR FALL 2024
Weekend 1: August 23–25
Weekend 2: September 6–8
Weekend 3: September 20–22
Weekend 4: October 4–6
Weekend 5: October 25–27
Weekend 6: November 8–10
Weekend 7: November 15–17
Got a busy life? We got you!
This schedule was created for attendees who are juggling a family life while moving into a deeper experience of yoga. And we’ll wrap before Thanksgiving!
TIMES
Fridays, 6–9 p.m.
Saturdays, 9 a.m.–noon, 1–5 p.m.
Sundays, 9 a.m.–noon, 1–4 p.m.
In addition to these hours, you will meet five times in small groups for practice teaching. The times for these meetings will be determined by your teaching group.
TO APPLY
Please visit our 200YTT page here to read all about the program and begin your application! Once you are admitted, you can return here to make your deposit and program payment. Paying with a credit card includes a nonrefundable $100 surcharge. We'll give you instructions if you'd like to pay via check!