300 Hour YTT: Continuing Education for Yoga Teachers

Sharpen Your Teaching Skills and Cultivate Your Wisdom

Have you completed a teacher training?

Are you astonished at how much you love helping your students transform?

In your 200-hour training, you learned about yoga’s philosophy and history. You dipped your fingers into the deep pool of yoga’s wisdom. You’re comfortable teaching a basic yoga class and developing a simple sequence.

Now, what’s next?

Are you ready to stand out from your peers?

To develop the confidence to work with students in unique situations?

Have you become fascinated by more advanced yoga postures?

Our continuing education program helps you cultivate your own wisdom and develop the skills to discern what paths are best for you, your practice, and your students.

Photo of AJ Durand helping a yoga student

From Cookie Cutter to Diamond Cutter

To become an excellent yoga teacher, you need to find the jewel within yourself to share with others.

To stand out by cutting through the yoga clichés and leading students with depth, skill, and confidence.

With our guidance, you’ll develop your professional skills, teaching language, asana vocabulary, and current philosophy to build a diverse yoga acumen.

How We’ve Structured Our Program

Yoga is a vast subject. We understand that you as an individual and a yoga teacher have a unique set of strengths and interests. 

We’ve divided our program into modules so that you can dive into the areas that peak your interest and match your skills. 

We offer modules in Advanced Sequencing, Mindfulness & Creativity, Yoga Matside (Individualized Healing Yoga), Ashtanga, Ayurveda for Yoga teachers, Pranayama and more….

You decide which modules fit your needs. 

If you’re interested in pursuing the 500-Hour Yoga Certificate, you can book the entire program.  You’ll need to acquire the required classroom and contact hours. Click here to get more information: www.massmobilemassage.com and look for the best chair massage you’ll find in the market. Ogawa is one of the best health and fitness stores. It is based in Malaysia, and it is working since 1996. Ogawa Manufacturers encourage a healthy lifestyle and great well-being. The Ogawa Massage Chairs are finest in quality and work wonders for the users. This bodywork chair is really beneficial for the massage and

300 HOUR TRAINING MODULES

Yoga Matside with AJ Durand

YOGA MATSIDE

With AJ Durand and visiting faculty ​Bea Doyle Starts September 2018

Get clinical yoga experience: Learn to teach students according to their needs, including injuries, trauma, breathing difficulties, and more. ​Details here.

Shapes and Flow with Mikhayla Anderson

SHAPES & FLOW ADVANCED ALIGNMENT & SEQUENCING

With Mikhayla Anderson and visiting faculty Christina SellStarts October 2018

Discover how to unpack, practice, and teach advanced yoga asana. Teach and walk students through a broad selection of advanced postures with confidence and the ability to offer options for all levels.

Details here.

Balance Yoga 300 Hour Training Philosophy Summit

PHILOSOPHY SUMMIT

With Mikhayla Anderson, Jessica Blanchard and AJ Durand 

Starts January 2019

Journey from the ancient to the modern, from gross to subtle, and back again. Using the Socratic Method we’ll examine issues around colonialism, the self-help conundrum, neo-spirituality, ancient Tantra and practical applications.

Balance Yoga 300 Hour Shakti Studio & Meditation

SHAKTI STUDIO & MINDFULNESS

With Mikhayla Anderson

Starts February 2019

Discover your inner creativity and use artistic tools to develop your voice and practice. Create resonance between your life and endeavors and your deepest desires with a weekend long meditation retreat at the Flowering Lotus Retreat Center.

ASHTANGA IMMERSION

With Jessica Blanchard and Meredith Murphy and visiting faculty David KeilStarts April 2019

Teach the Ashtanga Primary Series: Discover a foundation from which to teach Ashtanga or general vinyasa classes and the beginning of the Intermediate Series. Learn the basics of teaching Mysore-style Ashtanga.

Jessica Blanchard 9 months pregnant

AYURVEDA FOR YOGA TEACHERS

With Jessica Blanchard 

Starts September 2019

Hone your teaching skills with Ayurveda: Develop a balancing, Ayurvedic-informed sequence based on the season and individual. Module begins with retreat. Details here.

Pranayama Intensive with Jessica Blanchard

PRANAYAMA IMMERSION

With Jessica Blanchard

Starts November 2019

In-depth pranayama instruction and accountability: Learn how to practice to calm basic imbalances in the doshas. Discover how to apply breathing exercises therapeutically

What Will You Learn?

  • Effective teaching: You’ll receive critical feedback on your teaching skills and professionalism and benefit from a safe space for accountability. We’ll help you up your teaching game and show you ways to improve your skills.
  • Excellent teaching: You’ll discover how to build a safe yet inspired sequence that drives students to their personal best in a collaborative and supportive class environment.
  • Develop an eagle eye: In the Yoga Anatomy Observation module with David Keil, you will learn to use tools to see what a student is doing and/or not doing. Seeing makes all the difference in the adjustments or cues you give to a student in a particular pose. You’ll refine verbal cues and hands-on adjustments because they will be based on observations that are less biased, more detailed, and generally more informed.
  • StarFunctional Yoga Therapy with Bea Doyle: Learn to address issues of performance, mobility, and pain in the body using a variety of yoga postures, corrective exercises, self-massage techniques, experiential anatomy, and pranayama.
  • StarHone your teaching skills with Ayurveda: Develop a balancing, Ayurvedic-informed sequence based on the season.
  • StarClinical yoga experience: Learn to teach students according to their needs, including injuries, trauma, breathing difficulties, and more.
  • StarAdvanced asana: Discover how to unpack, practice, and teach advanced yoga asana with Mikhayla and Christina Sell. Teach and walk students through a broad selection of advanced postures with confidence and the ability to offer options for all levels.
  • StarTeach the Ashtanga Primary Series: Discover a foundation from which to teach Ashtanga or general vinyasa classes and the beginning of the Intermediate Series. Learn the basics of teaching Mysore-style Ashtanga.
  • StarIn-depth pranayama instruction and accountability: Learn how to practice to calm basic imbalances in the doshas. Discover how to apply breathing exercises therapeutically.

You Benefit From The Wisdom of Our Senior Teachers

Your teachers, AJ, Jessica, Meredith and Mikhayla are committed to sharing their love of yoga. They honor transparency. They are relatable and upfront about their level of knowledge and areas of expertise and will not presume to teach you what they don’t know. 

Our continuing education program is the culmination of four combined decades of practice, learning, and teaching. Jessica, Mikhayla and AJ deliver depth of knowledge coupled with humility. They teach in a safe way that is nurturing to each individual and encourage every student to practice and live in a healthy and intelligent way.

  • AJ’s eclectic teaching style makes each class a fun and enlightening experience for all types of students. AJ is developing a program called “Yoga Mat-side,” an individualized approach to yoga care based on his unique apprenticeship experience with Gabriel Halpern at Yoga Circle in Chicago.
  • Mikhayla, an Anusara-inspired yoga teacher, has taught for more than fifteen years. She shares her extensive experience in the fields of education and art by teaching trainees how to sequence, plan, and execute classes in creative, compelling, and intelligent ways.
  • Jessica is a registered dietician, Ayurvedic practitioner, and Authorized Level 2 Ashtanga teacher (by KPJAYI, the official Ashtanga institute). She has also studied extensively with Sri O.P. Tiwari, the world’s foremost teacher of pranayama.
  • Meredith has been teaching Ashtanga Yoga for more than a decade. She excels in helping students to work past their limitations in a gentle, encouraging manner. Creator of the Yoga Adjustments App, she’s our in-house specialist in giving hands-on adjustments. She’s studied under some of the world’s best teachers, including Sharath Jois, Richard Freeman, Manju Jois and Tim Miller. 

Having multiple voices creates a safe system of accountability and checks and balances. Jessica, Mikhayla, Meredith and AJ respect one another’s points of view and encourage an open dialogue between students and teachers.

We’re confident in our teaching skills and points-of-view, yet we encourage constant questioning and accountability. Rather than using a dogmatic approach to yoga, we encourage you to question, contemplate, and develop strong discernment skills.

Training Booking Options

Instance 1

single Training module

Book the modules that meet your needs. 

  • Work closely with an expert teacher
  • Modules may include visiting teachers or weekend retreats.
  • Work at your own pace
  • Customize the training to meet your needs
  • Unlimited yoga classes at Balance for the duration of the Module only.
  • StarPricing from $400 – $950 per module, discounted pricing for early bookings.
 Entire TRaining Package

Commit to the entire training of seven modules over sixteen months

  • Seven Training Modules at a deeply discounted price  ($1400 savings)
  • Three visiting teacher workshops included: Bea Doyle, Christina Sell, David Keil
  • Support, guidance and accountability for sixteen months
  • Unlimited yoga classes at Balance for the duration of the training ($1728 value)
  • StarOne payment of $4600 or 12 monthly payments of $400.

Sound Like A Lot?

Our continuing education is taught over several years, so you have plenty of time to get a firm grasp of the material and integrate it into your teaching practice.

We’ve divided the training into modules, so that you focus on learning one area at a time. We’ll kick off with an Ashtanga Teachers Intensive Featuring Jessica and Meredith. 

During the modules, each week you’ll meet with one of the teachers, and there will be a few longer immersions during the year with visiting teachers.

The program is broken into bite-sized weekly commitments — frequent without an overwhelming amount of information at once.

Of course, life sometimes intervenes. You may miss an afternoon or a weekend. This is okay because we record all the sessions. So you won’t miss any valuable learning.

What qualification does the training give me?

If you take the required hours, you’ll be eligible for the 500-Hour Yoga Teacher Yoga Alliance certification. This is an internationally recognized certificate.

Important Details

  • Training continues in September 2018 with Yoga Matside with AJ
  • Training sessions meet Mondays 6-90pm starting in September 2018, Yoga Matside has additional Sunday meetings
  • Sessions with Mikhayla Meet Wednesdays 6-9pm
  • Functional Yoga Therapy with Bea Doyle, October 19-21, 2018
  • Advanced Asana with Christina Sell, December 15-16, 2018
  • Art of Observation with David Keil, April 2019
  • Ayurveda and Yoga with Jessica Blanchard September – November 2019
  • Advanced Pranayama with Jessica Blanchard October – November 2019

Booking Options

We’re offering two ways of enrolling in the training. You can either book the whole training, which will include 67modules or book each module separately. To qualify for YA 500-Hour certificate you must accumulate the necessary contact hours.

  • A $500 deposit is due upon enrollment to hold your spot. If you cancel 30 days or more before the start of the program you will forfeit $250 of your deposit and the remaining balance will be refunded. If you cancel 14-30 days before of the start of the program, you will forfeit your entire deposit and any remaining balance will be refunded. These fees are non-refundable and non-transferable. If you cancel within 14 days before the start of the program or do not attend the program, the entire deposit and program tuition is non-refundable and non-transferable. Once the program begins the program tuition is non-refundable and non-transferable.

Questions?

Email jessica [at] balanceyogawellness.com or mikhayla [at] starblossomlife.com

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