A REVOLUTIONARY 200 HOUR YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
Yoga Alliance Certified • Hybrid Curriculum • Accessible • Scholarships Available
Course Overview
Our 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training is designed to illuminate the ideas we hear about spiritual growth and diving deeper into our self through ancient yogic wisdom. We use various asana (yoga postures), experiential philosophy and self-inquiry through journal prompts to train teachers of Yoga; not just a teachers of postures.
Joining our 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in Vancouver means becoming part of a yoga community that will support you well beyond the short 200-hours of the training. We understand that the training is just the beginning of your journey and we do our best to support you wherever it takes you. To that end, we offer ongoing continuing education, in-studio teaching opportunities and teaching support.
This is so much more than a yoga teacher training. It is life training, warrior training; a training of transformation. Our TT offers you the space to rediscover the beauty and love that define who you really are: strong, beautiful, powerful, and a unique manifestation of the source of all things.
Students can expect to learn the history of yoga and an in-depth understanding of yogic teachings, as well as a thorough, grounded practice and theory in the physical postures of yoga. We explore the use of meditation, mantra and pranayama in your personal practice, as well as in your teaching.
This training is inspired by the Karma Yoga lineage of transcending one’s actions and is dedicated to the transformational power of selfless service. These life-changing teachings will alter the way you experience and teach asana, anatomy, alignment and sequencing, and will prepare you to be a powerful teacher, ready to serve and empower others.
Required Reading:
To be read prior to training:
↠ Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Recommended Reading:
↠ Roots of Yoga by Mallinson
↠ The Upanishads by Eknath Easwaran
Your Karma Teachers Training & Open Source Yoga Manual will be provided to you at the beginning of the training.
The cost of the manual is $25 in addition to your tuition.
NEXT TRAINING DATE:
May 18th - June 23rd, 2024 - FULL
IN-PERSON: Every Sat & Sun 12-8PM
ONLINE: Every Tues-Thurs 630-830PM
2024 TRAINING DATES:
Fall & Winter - TBD
Our Hybrid Program
Our 200-Hour Yoga Teacher training has been adjusted as follows to accommodate in-person & online learning:
96 hours in-studio. Hatha yoga essentials of practice:
↠ Practice a fundamental sequence of postures
↠ Essential postural alignment
↠ Understand pose forms, benefits, modifications
↠ Observation, physical adjustments and basic cueing
↠ Manual therapeutics
↠ Essential restorative postures
↠ Student practicums
36 hours live online:
↠ Yoga humanities (history, ethics, philosophy)
↠ Yamas & Niyamas
↠ Meditation, Pranayama and Yoga Nidra
↠ Class sequencing
↠ Anatomy
↠ Refining alignment
↠ Yin, Restorative and Rehabilitative yoga
68 hours home study/practice teaching:
↠ Self-practice development
↠ Practice teaching
↠ Reading and video assignments
In-studio teaching hours will be spread throughout the training on weekends, to help with integration of the teachings.
The 68 hours of home study will include teaching practice, starting each session off with a general Q&A. Teaching assistants will support.
Practicum hours include teaching a fundamental sequence of postures to the rest of the group for 40 minutes. You will be learning this sequence from the very beginning of the training. Practicums and graduation will be done in person.
Interested in more? Please book your complimentary 30 minute discovery call at the link below.
Our Teacher Training Faculty
Jennifer Clarke E-RYT 500 - Co-Lead 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Trainer
Jennifer Clarke ERYT-500, I started practicing yoga in the 90s and since then it has been a daily part of my life. Yoga practice has helped me stay embodied during challenges of life. It is a self care tool that supports me to be responsive to life, uphold my boundaries, respect the boundaries of others, show up, and flow through my life. I can absolutely say that my yoga practice has helped me become a better parent. I have been teaching weekly classes since 2006 and I am so grateful to my students all these years, some of whom I've had the honour of teaching since the beginning of my career.
My formal yoga training includes 200hr Yogaworks Teacher Training, a 300hr Teacher Training with Open Source Yoga, Anatomy and Physiology at Langara College, 100 hour Ashtanga Teacher Training with Fiona Stang, and 1000’s of hours of training, courses and workshops with excellent local teachers and master teachers from abroad. I completed a 1,000 hour Qigong Practitioner and Masters level training program with Empty Mountain.
I am an Expressive Movement Facilitator, (soon to be a Registered Somatic Educator). I have completed a 3-year studio based contemporary dance training, two years of dance at University of Calgary and have been dancing and performing for over 20 years in Canada and parts of Europe. I also have a BA in Literature. I’ve dedicated my life to the study of movement, yoga, dance, meditation, spirituality, energetic healing and qigong. You can learn more about me at www.jenniferclarkeprojects.com
Daniel Clement E-RYT 500 - Co-Lead 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Trainer
Daniel has been practicing an teaching forms of hatha yoga since the mid-1990’s. His original training was in the Ashtanga Vinyasa form and from there he developed an interest in more therapeutic forms of alignment-based yoga, including Iyengar and Anusara Yoga.
Daniel has been teaching 200hr and 300hr yoga teacher trainings since 2006 in China, Japan and Canada, leading over 90 trainings and graduating over 1,000 teachers. His focus is to encourage critical thinking and the teaching of safe and effective postural yoga within his own trainings. Manual therapy including Thai Yoga Massage techniques provide a sound basis for addressing injuries and physical complaints.
Yoga to Daniel is inquiry. Yoga is the engagement of reason, compassion and physicality toward knowledge of what it means to be conscious and to be happy.
Megha Ghai RYT 500 - Co-Lead 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Trainer
Megha is a zen Yoga teacher/therapist from India, who provides a heart-centred approach to mind-body wellness for adults and teenagers. I strive to assist my students in self discovery, allowing for growth within their current capabilities and setting them up for success not only in their pursuit of yoga but in their daily lives.
Andrew Fredericks E-RYT200 & RYT 500 - Co-Lead 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Trainer
Yoga found Andrew first in 2012 while serving 2.5 of a 7 year sentence of incarceration. This was the beginning of how Yoga supported Andrew on a new path. Through his leadership at Karma Teachers from 2017 to 2020, participating in 14+ teacher trainings with over 300 students, this accelerated experience contributed to the growth personally and professionally. Learning through hardship was a theme since youth and continues to serve as a primary source of learning. He brings authenticity and humbleness to his teachings. Consciousness is a constant practice when teaching and learning. Andrew strives to show up as a student that is learning to teach and is not afraid to grow from mistakes. Andrew is dedicated to Karma Yoga and is service oriented. He hopes to bring more emphasis on our karmas in today’s world through self inquiry and discussion. He currently volunteers a part of his life to work with incarcerated people and parolees as they transition into society. Some additional training’s that have contributed to his toolbelt are: 55 hr Yin Yoga, 25hr Advanced Anatomy, 200hr Trauma Responsive Mind-Body Wellness & SEL Somatic Healing TT, 35hr Prison Yoga Project TT, 25hr Consciousness, Yoga & Life Coaching, 85hr Breathwork and 300hr Yoga Teacher Training with Open Source Yoga.
Your Investment
$ 3000 Full Course Tuition
$ 2400-3000 Partial Scholarship (with 33 Energy Exchange hours)
$ 1700-2400 Partial Scholarship (with 55 Energy Exchange hours)
PLEASE NOTE: A 6 month period is given to complete volunteering hours. A portion of these are expected to be completed prior to training and up to 2 months post training.
Scholarships are offered to individuals who meet the criteria in line with our missions statement, to remove the financial barriers for those who have faced hardship or are recovering. Due to high level of requests, we have a limited amount for each training.
To those who are able to pay, please bear in mind that you are contributing towards the overall success of Karma Teachers’ ability to support students to take this journey with what they can or cannot afford. This is a way of paying it forward.
Payment Plans
Interest free payment plans are available upon request to suit students’ needs. Certification for the program will not be issued until the balance has been paid in full and all requirements have been completed.
$500 deposits are non-refundable but are transferable.
“I have never, in any other learning environment, felt more empowered to explore my own limits, ask for help, and stand strong in my vulnerability with the certainty that I would be supported by my mentors and peers.”
Additional yoga teacher trainings, courses & workshops we have offered include:
300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training / Yin Yoga / Yamas & Niyamas / Ayurveda Vancouver / Kids Yoga / Yoga Nidra / Art of Assisting / Mantra & Vedic Stories / Chair Yoga / Biotensegrity / Advanced Philosophy & Pranayama / Restorative Yoga
