200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training

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 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 no application required for this 200-Hour 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 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 weeks of training 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.

Attendance at the Tuesday 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. Last year calls were on a Wednesday, and it's likely we will change the day of the calls in following years.

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

Online Training Only

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

Hybrid Training

For the hybrid version of the 200-Hour Program (both online and in-person training), you are free to select your own room type based on availability. An upfront full payment for your 200-Hour tuition and chosen room type (which includes a non-refundable and non-transferable $2290 USD deposit) will secure your reservation for the online training portion and at the retreat center as a student in the 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training.

All payments are non-refundable and non-transferable after June 26, 2024.

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

Online Training Only

• Included:
  • Online training tuition
  • Digital custom-designed training manual
• Not Included:
  • In-person training tuition & inclusions

Hybrid Training

• Included:
  • Online & in-person training tuition
  • Digital custom-designed training manual
  • Accommodations & meals for in-person training
• Not Included:
  • Travel
  • Airport transfers
  • Extended stays

Online Training Only

The deposit payment of $2290 USD is always non-refundable and non-transferable. 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.

Hybrid Training

For the hybrid version of the 200-Hour Program (both online and in-person training), we will accept refunds or transfers of full payments towards the in-person training (less the $2290 USD non-refundable and non-transferable deposit) before June 26, 2024 - after that deadline, there are no refunds or transfers of full payments. This is due to the fact that we are required to make payments to reserve your reservation at the retreat center and secure training materials for the group. We realize that some extenuating circumstances beyond your control may prohibit you from attending; however, we cannot make exceptions regardless of the circumstance due to the non-recoverable payments that we deliver in advance. We highly recommend purchasing travel insurance which covers refunds due to medical emergencies and other difficult circumstances.

We appreciate your understanding that this policy is for all.