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East+West brings together master level yoga teachers from India to teach with leading Western teachers creating a truly life-changing experience. See why LA Yoga Magazine called East+West the:
The Peoples Yoga Teacher Training
The Peoples Yoga offers a foundational 200-hour Teacher Training which pursues a fusion of classical and contemporary methods. The training will give you the opportunity to learn how to commit to daily meditation and asana practice. With journaling and weekly meetings with a partner, there is space for developing ways of articulating your individual experience.
The training draws on somatic practices as a way of knowing ourselves more intimately; hereby reclaiming the ability to make our own choices regarding the health of our minds and bodies. Throughout the training, you will discuss philosophy and ethics that are applicable to your own daily life and investigate methods of sharing the practice with your own community.
The Peoples Yoga emphasizes that in order to develop the pedagogical skills needed to teach and empower others we must first “do the work ourselves”. The schedule for the training is Fridays 6-9pm, Saturdays and Sundays 9-12am and 1-5pm.
- Price: $3000 (Early Bird available)
- Duration: 9 weekends over 5 months
- Website: http://thepeoplesyoga.org/
- Yoga Style: Classical yoga
Unfold Yoga 200 Hour Training
The Unfold Yoga 200-hour Teacher Training is designed to teach students ways of using the concepts of yoga professionally and personally. The training is great if you are expecting to use yoga in therapeutic relationships or simply if you want to learn how to be more resilient and compassionate when relating to others.
The mission of Unfold Yoga is to make yoga practices accessible to all. Within their training, you will be provided with adaptive techniques so that you know how to teach a sensitive audience and you will learn about yoga through the lens of social justice and dismantling racism. With the purpose of facilitating healing for yourself and others, the program also touches upon trauma-informed modalities, neuroscience-oriented methods and yoga for Larger Bodies.
It is a yoga teacher training that provides students with various techniques for self-discovery and personal growth as well as skills for bringing compassionate support to others. The training takes place every third weekend from Friday afternoon through Sunday evening and the number of students is limited to approximately 12.
- Price: $2950
- Duration: 6 months
- Website: http://www.unfoldportland.com/
- Yoga Style: Classical yoga
Yoga Union Teacher Certification
Yoga Union community wellness center offers an accessible and engaging 200-hour Vinyasa Teacher Training with the purpose of helping motivated students to become extraordinary teachers. The directors of the training will consider the individual needs of each student in order to provide a safe space for self-exploration throughout the training.
The program will encourage you to step out of your comfort-zone and empower you to teach in a way that is most authentic to your true nature. The school has a community-based approach with a focus on supportive healthy relationships and mutual support. The classes will take place on Fridays from 4:30-9pm, Saturdays from 12-9pm and Sundays from 12-9pm.
- Price: $3200
- Duration: 8 weekends over 8 months
- Website: https://yogaunioncwc.com/
- Yoga Style: Vinyasa
The Practice Space
- Price: $3000
- Duration: 4 months
- Website: https://thepracticespace.com/
- Yoga Style: Classical Yoga
Yoga Joy / Amrita Yoga
- Price: $3000
- Duration: 5 months
- Website: https://www.sarahjoyyoga.com/yoga-training-school.html
- Yoga Style: Classical Yoga
The Portland Project
WHAT TO EXPECT?
Our curriculum is focused on how to teach asana (postures) in a safe & effective way while contextualizing the practice and teaching of yoga from multiple perspectives including: philosophy & history, anti-racism & decolonization, and queer competency.
We will meet in-person over 12 weekends. In addition to the 12 weekends together, you will also be responsible for various at-home work and required reading to complete your certification.
- Price: $3000
- Duration: 3 months
- Website: https://www.theportlandyogaproject.com/
- Yoga Style: Vinyasa, Hatha, Yin
The Yoga Space 200-Hour YTT
The Yoga Space offers a foundational 200-hour Teacher Training for motivated students of yoga. The program draws on the lineage of Krishnamacharya and combines the techniques of Vinyasa flow, the Ashtanga system, the accurate alignment of the Iyengar system, and the modifications to the individual according to Desikachar.
The training focuses on the theory and practice of yoga, therapeutic applications and the art of teaching. Students will learn how to become confident in teaching using voice, body language, gentle assists and creative sequencing. The school expects students to do journaling of their individual practice and attend at least two yoga classes a week added to the TTC program.
With a duration of 6 months, the structure of this program gives you the opportunity to digest and apply the teachings to your daily life while allowing time for self-transformation. The schedule of the training is Friday nights 6:30-9: 30 PM, Saturdays: 12 – 8 pm and Sundays: 11 am – 5:15 pm.
- Price: $3500
- Duration: 6 months
- Website: http://www.theyogaspace.com/
- Yoga Style: Classical Yoga
The Bhakti Movement Center
The Bhakti Movement center aims to enrich the practice of each student and provides them with a practical understanding of yoga. Since they opened in 2007 they have been registered with the Yoga Alliance as a 200-Hour program. The Teacher Training Program offers a comprehensive, devotional curriculum based on practical immersion.
Classes are taught by an experienced community of teachers with healing professions in other fields such as mental health therapy, acupuncture, trauma stewardship and Somatic Experiencing. With a focus on devotional self-study and engaging with a supportive community, The Bhakti Shop Yoga offers a safe place for students to begin their journey as a teacher and develop their own personal practice.
The school recommends that you have at least one year of regular asana practice before entering the program. They also encourage all students that may enter their program to be inclusive and have the courage to confront blind spots regarding subjects such as racism. The training takes place on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, so students must be prepared for study-packed weeks.
- Price: $3200
- Duration: 18 weekends
- Website: https://www.thebymc.com/
- Yoga Style: Hatha
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