Waking Yoga 200-Hour Training

*Message Jenn at wakingyoga@gmail.com or DM @wakingyoga to receive an invitation to the 200-hour info sessions.*

Waking Yoga is a foundational 200-hour yoga training that fosters inclusion, self-authority, and body positivity. We are a collaborative of seasoned yoga educators, therapists, and community activists. We believe that yoga can be a powerful tool for personal healing and liberation as well as for the healing and liberation of society.

Our vision is to nurture trauma-informed yoga teachers who are active in their communities and beyond, guiding them to work mindfully with privilege and oppression and understand the nuances of their students’ races, genders, sexual orientations, bodies, and overall lived experiences as deep sources of individual and collective wisdom.

We will support you through four months of self-inquiry, yoga, and evidence-based mindfulness and somatic practices that will lead you deeper into self-knowledge and enrich your work in the world. In doing so, we will safely yet honestly explore raw conversations about our relationships with society, ourselves, and each other.

This training is an opportunity to make your healing and growth as a human your priority for four months. This experience will leave you more awakened to the world within you and the world around you.

THIS TRAINING IS FOR...

• Beginning to intermediate yoga practitioners who want to strengthen their practice and intermediate to advanced yoga practitioners who want to deepen their practice
• Yoga practitioners who want to use yoga and mindfulness as a tool for well-being and stress management as well as for trauma resolution and resilience
• Mental health clinicians who want to incorporate somatic work into their practice
• Yoga practitioners who want a foundation for a yoga therapy program
• Yoga practitioners who want a foundation for conscious service work and activism
• Anyone who wants to create inclusive yoga classes and communities
• Anyone who wants to offer yoga in under-resourced communities who have not yet had access to wellness programs
• Anyone in the helping professions who wants to work more consciously and sustainably
• Anyone wanting to better understand themselves, society, and their humanity through the teaching and practice of yoga

IN OUR TRAINING YOU WILL LEARN TO:

• Cultivate a strong, safe, and intuitive personal practice
• Use yoga and mindfulness as a tool for self-awareness, self-care, and healing
• Regulate your nervous system and build resilience
• Live courageously and compassionately in the face of difficulty
• Deepen your personal and community relationships
• Become a safe and healing presence for others
• Teach Hatha, Hatha Flow and Adaptive yoga classes in multiple public environments
• Develop a trauma-informed approach to teaching yoga in any setting
• Teach yoga to marginalized groups and special populations
• Hold space for all members of society
• Use yoga as a tool for social healing and progress

CURRICULUM

• The eight limbs of yoga
• An exploration of embodiment through Hatha, Hatha flow and Yoga breathing
• An exploration of embodiment through evidence-based mindfulness practices
• Functional anatomy through embodied experience
• The fascial network and its relationship to well-being
• Intuitive alignment principles
• Subtle anatomy and the energy body
• Somatic skills for discharging stress
• Somatic skills for grounding, creating boundaries and growing resilience
• Body-positive and inclusive yoga offerings
• Ayurveda and self-care
• An understanding of the brain and nervous system
• Polyvagal theory and how it relates to stress, trauma, and resilience
• An in-depth, trauma-informed approach to teaching yoga
• An understanding of collective and ancestral trauma and its effects on society
• Yoga philosophy for modern society
• Yoga for social change

ADMISSIONS & PREREQUISITES

Students should have a minimum of one year of yoga practice (or permission of lead guide). Once enrolled, students must complete a training questionnaire.

This training is limited to 28 students.

AFTER COMPLETING THIS 200 HOUR TRAINING, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:

• Become a nationally Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT 200) through Yoga Alliance®
• Teach Hatha, Hatha Flow and Adaptive yoga classes in multiple public environments
• Offer yoga to specialized populations or in conjunction with your own healing modality

Register for 300-hour Advanced Courses and specialize in a variety of styles including Yin, Restorative, Prenatal, Children, Vinyasa, and more

LOCATION & SCHEDULE

This 200 hour will be an in-person/virtual hybrid.

Training begins September 2022 - February 2023

Tuesdays & Thursdays 9am - 2:45pm

Program Dates

September 9/6, 9/8, 9/13, 9/15, 9/20, 9/22, 9/27, 9/29

October 10/4, 10/6, 10/11, 10/13, 10/18, 10/20, 10/25, 10/27

November 11/1, 11/3, 11/8, 11/10, 11/15, 11/17, 11/29

December 12/1, 12/6, 12/8, 12/13, 12/15

January/February 1/3, 1/5, 1/10, 1/12, 1/17, 1/19, 1/24, 1/26, 1/31, 2/2

PROGRAM INVESTMENT

Our payment calendar is arranged on a monthly basis:

• Deposit due upon enrollment $295
• 5 monthly payments of $600 (Sept - Feb)

Total Investment $3,295

Early Bird Cost: $2,955 (By July 1st)

This training is limited to 28 students.