Yoga Teacher Training

Your training syllabus is extremely comprehesive. You will be exposed to many styles of yoga such as:

Vinyasa Flow
Power Yoga
Ashtanga
Hot 26 Yoga
Beginners
Restorative
Gentle
Yin Yoga
Prenatal Yoga
Kids Yoga
and more!

The content of your training will be diverse to ensure that you have a full appreciation of the history of this practice and the meditative aspects that help to make it so powerful. You will learn topics such as:

The History of Yoga
The Yoga Sūtras
Yamas and Niyamas
Chanting
Meditation
Cakra and Kosa’s
Anatomy
Posture Breakdowns
How to Teach with Props
How to Sequence Postures
Trauma Informed Training
Business of Yoga
Voice of a Teacher
How to Theme a Yoga Class
How to teach Meditation
Hand Mudras
and more!

Thanks to the virtual option, you can make up any missed lectures via videos of your lectures, on your own time! This training is designed to work with your life and family. In person students and virtual students alike have access to all the videos for make up, as needed. Videos are posted after your weekend concludes. 

For our virtual students our goal is to provide you the option to spend as much time as you choose connecting and learning live, while also knowing that you have the flexiblility to watch later and make this training adapt with your life.

We do ask that our in person students only miss if it is truly necessary, as there is usually a waitlist for in person spots.

You will have a diverse teaching staff, both locally and from around the the country. We will epose you to experts in their field to ensure you experience a wide range of teaching philosophy’s and styles. Within that teaching staff, you will have a few lead instructors who you will spend a good amount of time with. Below are some of the instructors you will experience both in your virtual content and live at your intensives.

Jessica Lynne Trese traveled to India to study at KPJAYI with R. Sharath Jois in Mysore, India and was blessed with the Authorization to teach Ashtanga Yoga in 2013. Jessica is passionate 500hr instructor who dedicated her life to sharing the practice of Ashtanga Yoga. She will lead you on many topics including history, philosophy, chanting, meditation and Ashtanga Yoga.

Ashley Adams is the founder of Black Prāṇa Magazine and dedicated herself to changing the landscape of yoga instructors in America. After training over 4,000 instructors of color, she merged with the Collective, so that we can make a global impact together. Ashley is a 500hr instructor known for her laid back style and hip hop yoga classes. Some topics you will explore with Ashley are the Virtual Business of Yoga, 12 Laws of the Universe, Diversity in Wellness Spaces and more.

Tina Tidwell Bedore is a former professional Dancer and an owner at the Bella Prāṇa Collective. She is a 500hr instructor with certifications in Meditation, Prenatal, Yin, Seniors, Yoga as Therapy, Yoga and Ayurveda, Restorative and Kids Yoga, to name a few. You will join Tina for topics such as Sequencing, How to Teach with Props, Teaching Pregnant Students, Posture Breakdowns and more.

Megan Weathers is Reiki Master and 500hr instructor who specializes in Adaptive Yoga and is certified in the Hatha Yoga style. Megan works with students with disabilities and focuses on Restorative, Gentle, and Yin yoga styles. Megan will share her expertise on each of those styles, meditation, hand mudras, and more.

Roni Harris is a 500hr instructor and the Founder and Owner of the Bella Prāṇa Collective. After first being in ministry, she then spent over 13 years as the owner of the Collective, a saught after yoga teacher, and leader of international retreats. Now living in Denver, Colorado Roni will share with you about the power of themeing a yoga class to bring greater meaning, the brick and mortor Business of Yoga for those who hope to make a living in wellness, and will join you for various topics during your live intesives.

These are only a few of the many instructors you will be learning from throughout your training experience. We are committed to exposing you to some of the most qualified and passionate instructors in their fields.

All students will have 50 hours of virtual lectures that are on demand, to take at your own pace. Then 150 hours of the training are held in person at our studio, and is also streamed live virtually.

In-person spots are limited, and are first come first serve.

To graduate this program officially you must experience or watch all 200 hours of course content. You will be given some smaller written homework throughout the training, and you must submit recorded videos of you teaching. We show you exactly how to do these recordings step by step, so no worries if technology makes you nervous. We got you.

Fulfilling the graduation requirements, and being deemed a safe and thoughtful instructor by a leader teacher, is how you will receive your official certificate of completion.

Our next training begins in February of 2025! Below are the dates for our live intensive weekends. If you reserve an in person spot, we expect you to join us for the dates below. We usually have a waitlist for in person spots, so if you believe you might not be able to attend the grand majority of the training in person, than we ask that you consider joining us virtually for maximum flexibility. Virtual students will join us live as we stream from the studio, and all students can watch videos of our weekend intensives afterward as needed.

Intensive Dates for 2025:

February 13th – 16th
April 10th – 13th
June 19th – 22nd
August 14th – 17th
October 16th – 19th

Daily Schedule on Intensive Weekends:

Thursdays 4:00pm – 9:00pm
Friday 10:30am – 6:30pm (1 hour lunch break at 11:45am)
Saturday 8:00am – 6:30pm (1.5 hour lunch break at 11:45am)
Sunday 8:00am – 6:30pm (1.5 hour lunch break at 11:45am)

There are two ways to join our 2023 Teacher Training! You can attend in person or virtually. Below are the costs for each.

In Person tuition is a total of $2,200 with a $300 non-refundable deposit. The deposit amount goes toward your total cost. This includes your entire training experience, digital 200 page manual, and one year of unlimited yoga in our virtual studio.

Payment Plans

Accessibility is core to our mission, so you will have the ability to choose a payment plan. As your training approaches you will be sent the option to pay the remainder of your tuition in full or choose a 3 part or 5 part payment plan where your payments will be made every 30 days.

If you do not make a payment on your payment plan, you will not be able to access your online content until that payment is made.

Return Policy: Your deposit is non-refundable. Once you have been given access to the content of our training and our manual, there are no refunds for any payments that have been made toward your training experience.

This is a 200hr training program that will take 10 months to complete, and you will want every bit of it to allow these experiences to integrate into your life and practice. There are 50 hours of virtual lecture and 150 hours of live intensives. You will complete 5 intensives every other month, either virtually or live with us in-person. If you need to miss an intensive, no worries, we will record them and make those videos available to you so you can still graduate on time.

During the months in between your intensives, you will have the 50 hours of on demand lectures to complete at your own pace, an at home reading list to move through at your own pace, and we expect you to be committed to your personal yoga practice to supplement what you are learning in those lectures.

You may take longer than 10 months to complete if needed. We find that 10 months is an ideal length of time to allow the training to work with your family and lifestyle, while also allowing time for the knowledge to build and integrate, as well as time to practice teach.

After your 10 months of training, you have up to one year to turn in your graduation materials and be approved to receive your certificate.

This means you have access to all of your training video lectures until October of 2026. Your manual is yours to keep permanently.

It’s time! Our 2025 training sign ups just opened!

Choose the “reserve my spot” button to sign up! You will be taken to our virtual studio, where you will create an account and follow the prompts. You sign up on our virtual studio because some of your content will be online so you need an account there to access it.

Within 48 hours you will receive a welcome email with all of your next steps.

This is a Vinyasa Flow-based training that will also expose you to many styles of yoga. This training is wonderful for those who would like to teach yoga in their communities. We expect trainees to be open minded, kind, and commited to the experience.

You do not need to be able to achieve “fancy” postures or be super flexible. This training is for real people and real bodies. Our focus is on teaching you how to instruct others, so we ask that you do have a personal practice and are able to practice confidently and safely on your own.

Training is also open to students who would like to expand their practice and knowledge. You do not have to want to teach yoga to join teacher training. Though, please note, you will be expected to partcipate in every aspect of the training, as you learn how to teach others together. If you do not want to practice teach with your fellow trainees then please choose our At Home Training + Study option, created just for you.

Yes! We are a Yoga Alliance certifiend 200hr training program. During this training, you will learn how to register yourself as a Yoga Alliance certified instructor. Feel free to search for our school on the Yoga Alliance website, and check out reviews from our graduates!

If you have any questions at all, please reach out to us at [email protected]. We are here to help guide and support you throughout this entire experience.

Because we are the largest and oldest studio in the city, and we are for a reason – quality and community. We believe it’s our responsibility to use our history and size to focus on making yoga accessible. One of the ways we make yoga accessible is price. Our training has a much lower price than the national average for trainings while also providing payment plans to make the financial schedule more doable. You can break your payments up into 3 or 5 payments with an initial non-refundable $300 deposit when you sign up that goes toward the total cost. Take advantage of this incredible price to spend 200hrs with master instructors and become certified to share this life changing practice with others!

Another foundational way we make training accessible is to have a schedule that works with real life and your family. Our intensive weekends are once every other month. This allows you to plan far in advance and not spend too much time away from work or family.

We also record the entire training – because life happens! If you miss you can watch the videos and get the exact same content as if you were in the room.

But that’s not it! You can hop on LIVE from home at any time. If you get sick and need to stay home, or maybe have to travel, you can still join us live virtually. You can ask questions of the instructors from home and continue to participate!

We do everything we can to help support your personal practice as you train with us, so you get an unlimited membership for the year to our virtual studio. We have over 600 classes of every level on our virtual studio to give you free access to trying different teachers and styles on-demand on your own schedule. We encourage you to join us in the studio if you can, so please remember we have regular donation only classes every week to help make that possible!

In our training you will be exposed to many different styles of yoga! Our foundation is the Vinyāsa flow style, however you will learn about Restorative, Gentle, Yin, Power, Hot Yoga, Beginners, Aṣṭāṅga, Prenatal and more. Exposure to many styles gives you the opportunity to identify what kind of teacher you would like to be (people are often surprised!) and helps you to become an instructor with greater range and ability, to provide accessible experiences to the varied bodies in the room. At the Collective we believe a training that exposes you to many styles and voices creates soulful holistic instructors.

Together our 3 lead instructors have 70 years of teaching experience! That’s just our lead instructors –  instead of spending your time with only a few instructors – we bring in teachers who are each a master their field. This means you will have dynamic weekends filled with different perspectives. Our instructors are 500hr certified teachers who have taught thousands of students.

The highest quality of instructor is foundational – and so it what we choose to spend our time talking to you about. You learn about teaching yoga to those with disabilities, and trauma informed language. You will learn about other healing modalities such as Ayurveda and Reiki. You will learn yogic history and philosophy. You will spend time with an expert on the Sanskrit language. You will learn about appropriation and diversity in wellness spaces to create inclusive class experiences. You will leave with a deep understanding of all 8 Limbs of Yoga, Yama and Niyama, and so much more from the wisdom of the yogic texts.

To have the right to teach yoga to others, we help ensure you’ve done the personal, reflective, internal and scholarly work to truly represent this ancient practice and honor the the South Asian yogis those who have shared it with us.

As you can tell…this training is the real deal. So only choose us if you feel ready to show up fully – and we promise you, we will bring it.