Women in Yoga Teacher Training | Online 2026
Welcome to your Women in Yoga Teacher Training! We created this live online yoga teacher training to better support you in an interactive format with discussions along the way. You can either attend the weekly sessions live or watch the recordings to stay on top of the information as it progresses – you will have unlimited access to the live session recordings and resources.
This training has six, 2hr live sessions running every week. Each session will begin with a 90 minute lecture, followed by an interactive 30 minute discussion to prompt deeper inquiry.
This yoga teacher training will count as 12 ‘in-person/contact’ hours towards your 500-hour/1000-hour Yoga Medicine certification. Directly following the last live session of the yoga teacher training you will be invited to take an optional online exam – you must pass the exam within 45 days to receive your certificate of completion and training hours. These online hours will also be recognized as 12 continuing education hours (CEUs) by Yoga Alliance.
LIVE Sessions Schedule (8-10am PST | 9-11am MST | 11am – 1pm EST):
- Thursday, November 5th – Session 1: Domesticator to Draupadi: Women from the Vedas to the Epics
- Thursday, November 12th – Session 2: Fierce Goddesses
- Thursday, November 19th – Session 3: Women of Poetry and Piety: Mirabai and the Gopis
- Thursday, November 26th – Session 4: Passage to India: Madame Blavatsky to Indra Devi
- Thursday, December 3rd – Session 5: The Modern Women who Made Asana
- Thursday, December 10th – Session 6: Women in Yoga Today
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LIVE Session Recordings
You can watch the live session recordings using the video player below (when they become available) – each week the new recording will be added to the playlist. Just use the white dropdown arrow in the upper left-hand corner of the video player to toggle between each sessions’ recording. Within this video player, you can go fullscreen, change the speed, add closed captioning, and more.
Women in Yoga Final Exam – Submissions Due by January 24, 2027 @ 11:59pm PST
The Women in Yoga Teacher Training is meant to explore the often-overlooked history of women in yoga, examining their contributions, omissions, and influence on the evolution of the practice through a critical feminist lens. This training encourages the ability to think critically and analytically about source materials and philosophy. So due to the nature of this training’s structure, there are no right or wrong answers to a lot of the discussions we have had throughout this training. Therefore, the format of this final exam is an open-ended written assessment where you will answer 1 of 3 essay questions (whichever one speaks to you the most) so we can see that you can explain, through a process of critical thinking, how you are forming your answer and why you are making your decision. In 700-1000 words (meaning one-worded/sentence answers will not be accepted), you will submit your answers via the associated discussion board to your question (coming soon) no later than January 24, 2027. Then your lead teacher, Firdose Moonda, will read and comment on your submissions to acknowledge your engagement with the material. Upon approval of your submission, you will have successfully passed and will receive your certificate and 12hrs of completion for the Women in Yoga Teacher Training.
Note: If you do not submit your essay by January 24, 2027 @ 11:59pm PST, the essay discussion boards will be removed and you will no longer be able to submit your answers. Therefore, you will not be able to receive your certificate and hours of completion for this training.
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