200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training | Online

You are ready to start on your journey to become a teacher if you have a love for yoga, the curiosity to learn more, and the desire to share what you love about yoga with others. All the rest is exactly what this 200-hour online yoga teacher training program will show you! Our YTT will give you the building blocks to help you feel prepared. You’ll learn key points for each asana, how to give safe adjustment and modifications, how to cueing others through a sequence, instructions for communicating with a wide audience, and how to ground your personal practice so you are teaching what you know in your body.

Nope - there is not an application needed for this 200-Hour Online YTT.

This program is for you if you have a passion for continuous learning, and a minimum of two years of consistent practice (3-6 days per week). While we do not require you to apply and be approved for the 200-Hour Program to participate in this online training, our goal is to work closely with those who wish to become dedicated teachers to guarantee a high level of outcome and proficiency.

Don’t worry – crazy arm balances and complex twists are not a prerequisite. We require participants in our program have a dedicated yoga practice for at least a year, so the training group has a working familiarity with a variety of asanas. From there we give you information to refine your practice and look at the asanas from a teaching perspective. Within the two training weeks you will surely meet a few challenging postures, but that is the beauty of yoga and your body – both systems learn from each other!

Yoga Medicine® is not a style of yoga but rather a training that educates the teacher to understand the body and create individualized yoga programs for the student based on their understanding of the anatomy, biomechanics, physiology, and the traditional practice of yoga. We have participants from all schools of yoga find that our trainings help deepen their knowledge asana and the body in a way that translates effectively to their own yoga methodology. In the 200-hour, the practices will be a mix of hatha vinyasa intermingled with therapeutics and restorative practices.

200-hour YTTs are offered all around the world in a myriad of formats, so there are innumerable factors to compare. What is more important is deciding what factors matter to you. Here are a few of the strengths that we love about Yoga Medicine®’s program:

• Yoga Medicine®’s teaching faculty has a breadth of experience teaching in their communities – locally and globally. They each have their own areas of expertise from their careers on and off the yoga mat, plus a wealth of information that they gained by training directly with our founder, Tiffany Cruikshank.
• Our program has stood the test of time and its longevity speaks volumes on its own. Tiffany Cruikshank built the 200-hour curriculum before YTTs were widely available and over the decades she has continuously refined the content. We continuously raise our own bar!
• The program’s structure was developed to ensure participants have ample opportunity to digest the information they learn and apply it to their own practice and teaching. Throughout the trainings blocks, you’ll be presented with an array of new concepts, so don’t think it is a breeze! But if you are up to the challenge, you’ll take the knowledge learned, review and apply the concepts in your homework so you are ready for your practice teachings and final exams with a stronger practice and a solid footing on all the key concepts from the curriculum.

The majority of the training is asynchronous and not delivered live or in real time. Approximately 155 hours of the training consists of pre-recorded videos and assignments that you complete at your own pace. The remaining 45 hours are taught live online and include monthly office hours, mentoring calls with lead instructors, and exam days. For the 100% Online YTT, the live components also include the 15x mandatory group calls in the second half of the year.

Attendance at the Wednesday live group calls is mandatory. These calls make up synchronous content that happens together as a group in real time. There is no other option for completing this requirement.

The training includes plenty of opportunities for interaction with your lead instructors and trainees. Some of these include: monthly office hours, 1:1 sessions with lead instructors, a live chat board in your online course portal, and a community forum dedicated for your cohort only where you can spark conversations with your fellow trainees. In the 100% Online YTT, you will have 15x two-hour live Zoom calls that allow for group discussion, practice teaching, and sharing the experience of the 200hr journey together. While these calls are held with the full cohort, they always include sessions in breakout rooms with smaller groups or 1:1 with another trainee.

A strong internet connection for streaming videos is needed for this training; videos are not available for download at this
time.

A full payment of $2290 USD will secure a spot for students in the 100% Online 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training. Once we receive your full payment, it is non-refundable and non-transferable.

Payment plans for all trainings are available at checkout to US customers via Affirm. For international customers, please email info@yogamedicine.com directly to set up a payment plan.

Immediately after your payment is processed, you will receive access to this training’s online portal and materials. For this reason, refund requests for online trainings are not accepted.

We appreciate your understanding that this policy is for all.