The 200-hour yoga teacher training is meant to educate, inform, and lead you into a deeper understanding of the yoga tradition and practice. Not only will the training offer the chance to study yoga breathing, meditation, asana, philosophy, sequencing, anatomy, pose workshop and breakdown, but you will be given ample opportunity to find your teaching voice by way of practice teaching your fellow trainees, throughout the entire training.

The reality is that most people who take a teacher training, don’t even teach! They take the training to learn and grow their practiceAnd sometimes, trainees have only just begun their yoga practice. They stumbled into a yoga room with a friend and liked the way they felt, and now they are curious. On the other hand, sometimes students have been on their mat for decades, but coming back to the teachings with a beginners mind is everything.

This training is a unique offering of the 200 hour training in large part due to what lead trainer Dana Damara brings to the experience: over two decades of studying, practicing and teaching yoga. In addition to her profound understanding and knowledge, she brings an innate passion for teaching yoga to those seeking to learn not only more about yoga and its many aspects, but also about themselves.

Dana is a Master Trainer, former studio owner, 200 and 300 hour trainer, a mother, an author, a philanthropist, as well as an Energy Coach and Healer. She invites all of her students to connect within intuitively. The ability to tap into and express your own true voice in a safe and authentic way is instrumental as you begin on the yoga teachers’ path. This is Dana’s main intention.

This is a great question. Many people who are interested in delving deeper into the yoga practice decide to enroll in a 200 hour (Yoga Alliance Certified) training at their home studio with a teacher who they like and respect. All 200 hour trainings should cover similar material. So then the question becomes about the lead instructor; do you like her/him ? Does her/his approach resonate with you ? Also it becomes one of timing; are you able and willing to commit the time fully so you can take full advantage of the training making the most use of your dedicated time and resources?

Inquiring students often ask if they are ready to enlist in a training of this sort. It’s a fair question. First and foremost you do NOT need experience or a certain amount of time on your mat. It is ideal if you have 1+ year of yoga practice, priming you for the deeper study, but everyone comes as they are, and we meet you there.

The main requirement for “readiness” is desire to show up and curiosity to sit in the student’s seat and learn.

We understand that Yoga Teacher Training is a large commitment of both time and finances. With that in mind, and to offer our teacher trainers a full and supported program, we have created the following cancellation policy: Following your purchase of teacher training tuition, you have a 30-day grace period. If you decide teacher training is not right for you during that time, we will happily refund everything except your $1,000 deposit. Following the 30-day grace period, your tuition will not be refunded and once the training begins, the 30-day cancellation policy is null and void, and there are no refunds.

If you need to leave the training, you may use your funds for another training within one year, or take it online at your leisure. The cost difference will NOT be accounted for as the virtual option is much less expensive than the in person training.

All trainees will be required to complete the 170 contact (in studio) training hours as well as the 30 +/- out of studio hours. There will be reading and writing assignments, short quizzes and a test along the way. If you show up to the practice, if you do the work you will pass. At the completion of the training you will have earned your 200 hour RYT certification status which is the bare requirement for hire. From there you may decide to go right out and look for teaching opportunity. Or you may wish to supplement the training with a mentorship program. Or you may wish to continue training by way of additional supplementary workshops or enrolling in a 300 hour training.

Absolutely not a problem. You will have the opportunity to practice poses like this and others. However, if for any reason, including past injury, you do not wish to practice a particular pose it will not be a problem.

We strongly recommend you attend the training in full. However, if you need to miss a few hours, a day or a short amount of time we will work with you to make sure you make up the missed material. If you know that more than one of the weekends will prove conflict, you might want to consider postponing the training until a time when you can make the entire commitment.

BOOKS REQUIRED FOR DDE YOGA TT:

We strongly encourage you to buy the required reading and have a look at the books over the summer. At very least just leafing through the books to get a sense of the sort of things we will be reading and discussing. The two philosophy books - Patanjali’s Sutras and the ancient yogic text the Bhaghavad Gita, are hardly accessible, however are corner stones of yogic tradition. Similarly, it is not expected that you have read and absorbed all information contained in the Anatomy book prior to the program start, but that you have had a look and are generally familiar with the major body part which we will thoroughly dissect during the training. Dana’s book, Oms from the Mat will be an easy and pleasurable read.