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 January 2024, and we really hope you will join us!
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. We love this model, as it allows for a deeper dive, an opportunity for self-study, and the freshness of a compact timeline. But we also offer two or three weeks between each session, so we don’t move too fast. There’s plenty of time for marinating and reflecting on what you’ve learned between weekends.
Consider how New Year’s Resolutions often fade into the background of our busy lives by May. With our four-month schedule, the momentum won’t fade. You’ll be able to focus solely on your teaching (or do a deeper dive into yourself and your practice) during some of the slower months of the year. Your commitment will be sustainable, and you’ll emerge at the end of spring transformed as a result.
DATES
Weekend 1: January 18–21, 2024
Weekend 2: February 1–4
Weekend 3: February 22–25
Weekend 4: March 7–10
Weekend 5: March 21–24
Weekend 6: April 11–14
Weekend 7: April 25–28
Please reserve the weekend of February 29–March 3 as our inclement weather makeup weekend.
This schedule was created for attendees who are juggling a family life while moving into a deeper experience of yoga. To accommodate family commitments and excursions, none of the required dates fall on holidays, CHCCS teacher workdays, or CHCCS school breaks.
TIMES
Thursdays, 6–8 p.m.
Fridays, 6–9 p.m.
Saturdays, 9 a.m.–noon, 1–5 p.m.
Sundays, 9 a.m.–noon, 1–4 p.m.
We meet in our dedicated training room at Carrboro Yoga. Some Thursday sessions may meet on Zoom.
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!
Learn to lead students toward better connection, whether they are moving or being still. The fundamentals of mindfulness are simple, but that doesn’t mean they are easy for students to follow or for teachers to lead. Let’s work on this together!
In this workshop, geared to meditation and movement teachers from any background, you'll learn how to present the basic principles of mindfulness in ways that will resonate best with the students you teach.
This workshop includes a preassignment to complete before we meet, so please budget at least five hours to prepare your homework in the weeks before the workshop.
Our in-person sessions will:
+ Cover the basics of leading present-moment awareness,
conscious breathing, mantra, and simple chanting
+ Build your confidence guiding students within
+ Help you find a good balance between clear cuing and judicious
use of silence
+ Give you a warm, supportive environment in which to practice your
new teaching skills
After we meet in person, you'll design and submit class outlines for Sage's review and have some back-and-forth mentorship; budget four hours for this work.
We meet Saturday, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. and 2–5 p.m., and again Sunday, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. (There is no Sunday afternoon session, freeing you to travel.)
This workshop is open to teachers from any movement modality—including none. Talk therapists, somatic therapists, and schoolteachers: you are very welcome!
If you are tracking CEUs for Yoga Alliance, you can claim 18 after completing the postassignment.
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 workshop has a minimum of six students and a maximum of 16, so please sign up today to ensure your spot!
$399/$349 early bird (register by January 27)
Learn to use your voice in service of your students. In this workshop, open to teachers of any movement style and all levels of experience, you’ll discover the secrets of confident cueing and find new ways to refine your language and your nonverbal communication in class.
This workshop includes a preassignment to complete before we meet, so please budget at least five hours to prepare your homework in the weeks before the workshop.
In our in-person sessions, we will:
+ Explore the various ways we can talk students into shapes and
discuss when to use each
+ Find a good balance between direct and metaphorical speech
+ Discuss the ins and outs of good grammar in a yoga class setting
(no sentence diagramming, though!)
+ Recognize that less is often more in yoga classes and test ways
to grow comfortable saying even less in class
+ Investigate when and how to offer nonverbal cueing
+ Build your confidence in your speaking abilities
+ Give you a warm, supportive environment in which to practice and
refine your new cuing skills
After we meet in person, you'll complete a postassignment for Sage's review and have some back-and-forth mentorship; budget four hours for this work.
We meet Saturday, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. and 2–5 p.m., and again Sunday, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. (There is no Sunday afternoon session, freeing you to travel.)
If you are tracking CEUs for Yoga Alliance, you can claim 18 after completing the postassignment.
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 workshop has a minimum of six students and a maximum of 16, so please sign up today to ensure your spot!
$399/$349 early (register before February 24)
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!