Jaya Yoga Teacher Training celebrates Yoga like no other training program we know of. More than just learning asana and teaching techniques, you will discover true Yoga, the essence of who you are. You will train, personally, with two teachers developed to you and your Yogic discovery. You will become immersed in Yoga with the guidance of your teachers throughout the program. You will learn to recognize your teaching strengths and to authentically and comfortably create connection, unity ...Yoga... in your classes. 
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
​ ~ Rumi

RYT200 Training Schedule

We understand that your life is busy and there are often many other commitments you need to consider before diving into a 200 hour training program. After years of experience leading trainings, we have determined a balanced training schedule that allows our students to best absorb the breadth of the training program, as well as, honor those modern life commitments (family, work, finances, and personal time).

Our training program is broken into two distinct parts: Part 1 containing the first 100 hours of our training, and Part 2 with the second 100 hours completing the RYT200 certification. These workshops must be taken consecutively as the information offered in the workshops will build on each another. You may, however, take additional time between Parts 1 & 2 as is needed for your finances or schedule. 

Part One: 100 Hours

Part 1 of our training is offered in two formats: 4 Monthly Weekend Intensives from Feb-May, OR as a Summer 2-Week Intensive offered every other year. ​In this part of the training we will cover the foundational aspects of yoga: yoga history & various styles of teaching, the 8-limbs, meditative inquiry, human anatomy & movement, and pose alignment. This portion of your training will include the following weekend workshops that may be taken towards the RYT200 certification, or as a standalone for personal interest, continuing education, or towards an RYT500 program:

3 Day Foundations

This 3-Day Training is an immersion into learning a dynamic style of hatha/vinyasa that focuses on sustainability and prehabiliation AND an in-depth experience of the 8 Limbs of Yoga.

Sustainable Hatha Anatomy & Alignment

This workshop teaches simple principles of alignment in fundamental Vinyasa poses based on essentials of hatha yoga biomechanics. This training will give you options to refine your practice and teaching to become even more sustainable regardless of your lineage or dedicated asana style. These functional fundamentals can help to prevent yoga injury especially in areas most prone to injury in modern active yoga styles: the wrist, lumbar and cervical spine, and hips/knees! 

Part Two: 100 Hours

Part two of our training completes your RYT200 certification and is offered as a 2-Week Intensive every Summer or Fall of alternating years. This is where we will dive deeper into the world of yoga, human movement, pose modification, yoga for different bodies or conditions, hands-on adjustments, inversions and more. The following workshops will be included in Part 2 of our training and can also be taken as a standalone for personal interest, continuing education, or towards an RYT500 program: 

Sustainable Vinyasa Yoga​

​Aligning with the sacred energy flow of the body is the simplest way to tap into your pranic vitality and return to the natural alignment that is your true nature. Learn simple principles of alignment in fundamental Vinyasa poses based on essentials of hatha yoga biomechanics. This training will give you options to refine your practice and teachings to become even more sustainable regardless of your lineage or dedicated asana style. These functional fundamentals can help to prevent yoga injury especially in areas most prone to injury in modern active yoga styles: the wrist, lumbar and cervical spine, and hips/knees! Sustainable Yogasana creates a good understanding, body awareness, and integration between yoga therapeutics and more active styles of yoga.

Yoga for Every Age & Stage

There is so much great information out there about teaching to different ages and stages of life. Stephanie has taken the vast amount of options and information available for modifying the traditional practices for specialty populations into the most practical and powerful. Learn the most important considerations for modifying classes for pregnancy, seniors, obesity, and fun and playful formats for teaching to kids. This is a training for every body and will include adaptive options for stress reduction for optimal health for every age and stage. 

Creating Connection Through Touch

​Yoga is a gift. We can create connection and community in many ways. One natural way we express connection is through touch and physical support. This 5 hour teacher training workshop will focus on assisting and adjusting asana to both connect and to guide. Healing through touch by bringing aligned balance to our students' bodies.

Pricing

Our entire RYT200 training comes to $2685. A $500 deposit is required to hold your space in the training. This includes all workshops (Part 1 & 2), as well as, the online SAYF Certification and exam. You may pay for Part 1 & 2 separately as you attend, or set up a monthly payment plan to keep you on track leading up to the training. Your balance must be paid in full by the conclusion of your training. In special circumstances we can offer a payment plan extension, please contact our training manager to see if you qualify. 

Registration

A yoga teacher training is and should be an intentional, personal relationship with both yourself and your inner growth, as well as with your teacher trainers and the information that is presented. We would love to have a personal conversation with you regarding our program and your interests to make sure that we are a good fit for you and your needs. 

To register please contact us expressing your interest and any remaining questions you may have regarding the Jaya Training Program. You may also directly register for our upcoming trainings and workshops online. 

Jaya Yoga Training Highlights

  • Over 80 asana/postures/modifications/vinyasas (some unique to Jaya Yoga) from an alignment, kinesiology, and energetic perspective. We explore asana thoroughly to balance the muscles and prevent yoga injury, looking at asana together as standing poses, backbends, forward bends, twists, arm balances and inversions.

  • Kinesiology is the study of movement, performance, and function by applying the sciences of biomechanics, anatomy, physiology, and psychology. From a yogic perspective, we look deeply into the poses and apply the ancient science of bandhas (energetic seals/locks) with modern functional strength/muscle balancing. Additionally, we take into consideration skeletal anatomy and develop an understanding of the physiology of stretching to "see" both the benefits and limitations of asana to balance the physical body.

  • Discussion of common yoga injuries and how to prevent them through progression, modifications, and options.

  • We develop an understanding of the subtle energy body: koshas, chakras, rasas and nadis, and understand the benefit of pranayama, kriya, mudra, and asana to connect with the inherent vital energy that we are.

  • We will review up to 30 kriyas, many unique to Jaya Yoga.  Kriyas are mental and physical fluid meditations.  Kriyas are not well known or understood in the West, yet are a primary practice in India, where yoga began.

  • At the 200 hour level, we deeply study Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, including the essentials of Yoga philosophy, the 3-Step Plan, 8 Limbed System, and Yamas and Niyamas.

  • In celebration of yoga all ways, we look at the "family tree" of the major lineages of Eastern and Western Yoga Traditions, older & contemporary, to understand the styles and traditions emerging today.

  • Sanskrit pronunciation and practice for both asana and yogic terms.

  • Support in developing your authentic teaching voice and language.
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  • Energetically balancing our classes with hatha and vinyasa. The energetic and physical practices of mantra and mudra will be introduced and practiced, including practical ways you can incorporate them into classes. Meditation and pratyahara (sense withdrawal) will be daily practice using a variety of techniques, as will the other limbs of the 8-limbed system.

  • Mindful Adjustments. Learning to connect individually and energetically with students first, and secondly, through visual, verbal, and touch. Physical adjustments are an advanced teaching technique that should be applied with experience once a teacher has become comfortable with teaching technique and creating connection. 

  • Practice teaching experience through observation and assisting in classes with your peers.