Teacher Training will change your life.
And we want to be the ones to help you do it.
Because doing a teacher training is about more than becoming a yoga teacher. (In fact, you might not want to be one!)
But we bet you LOVE yoga.
Maybe you feel, like we do, that yoga has become of the most transformative experiences of your life. That it helped you find yourself. That it helped you heal. That it changed you, body, mind, + soul.
And maybe some small part of you knows you’re READY… for more.
Here’s what more looks like:
This is a 6 month immersive experience is taught by a faculty of yoga teachers and experts in their fields. Our teachers truly care about your growth, finding your path, and how you get to know yourself.
Our teacher trainers come with expertise ranging from mental health, inclusion, physiology, philosophy, and beyond. Students will learn not just about teaching yoga: they’ll learn how to deepen their practice, cultivating a meaningful connection to themselves and others, and learn skills that come off the mat with them and into the real world… all in a supportive group and with caring one-on-one mentorship.
Our Curriculum Includes:
Connection to ourselves, each other, and our world
Honoring the traditional wisdom and history of yoga and understanding it’s meaning and evolution
Exploring the many incarnations and paths of yoga, including the sister sciences, lineages, and connected practices
Creating + maintaining a safe, consent based, welcoming and inclusive environment
Breathwork, pranayama, and the many other limbs of yoga outside of movement and asana
Weaving the threads of science and magic found in yoga
Leadership; as yoga practitioners + within our communities
Asana Labs to break down postures, anatomy, and our approach to individual alignment
building a foundation of trauma informed practices and mental wellness to scaffold how we learn and teach
Holding space for others while creating boundaries of self-care for ourselves
Examining what brought you to yoga and using that to create meaning, power and resilience on and off the mat
Authentically examining yoga -- the beautiful, the challenging, the real
Learning and honing our skills as students + teachers
Understanding how yoga applies to our life off the mat, and using those experiences to create storytelling on and off the mat
Self-work, coaching, and creating a healing relationship with ourselves
Cultivating a community of encouragement and understanding
Understanding movement, mobility, and anatomy
Connecting this practice to the brain, the nervous system, and understanding how they work
How to build business acumen that supports your career and ability to teach
and much, much, much more.
We believe yoga should be accessible to all.
Our trainings are on a community based, tiered, pay-what-you’re-able scholarship scale.
We want to be clear — your financial situation is in no way a barrier, regardless of where you are financially in life.
Our community raises money throughout the year to off-set this sliding scale because we are a collective who cares about each other.
These tiers are on an application only basis, + we encourage you to choose the tier you are able to contribute while valuing the level of effort and work and our efforts to pay our staff a living wage.
2024 schedule
Opening Intention Setting Ceremony: 1/12 Friday 7:00pm
Week 1: jan 13, 14
Week 2: feb 3, 4
Week 3: feb 10, 11
Week 4: march 2, 3
Week 5: march 23, 24
Week 6: april 6, 7
Week 7: april 27, 28
Week 8: may 18, 19
Week 9: june 1, 2
FINAL Week 10:
Special Closing Ceremony: june 14th
Final Day of Training: june 15th
GRADUATION: Sunday june 16th
DATES + SCHEDULE
This training consists of in-person sessions, self-directed learning, physical practice, coursework, assignments, reading, mentorship, virtual learning and more.
All times for meeting dates listed below are:
Saturdays 10am - 4pm
Sundays 12-5,
Our YTT weekends are held only once or twice a month, so that students can still be committed to their real lives and yoga practice.
There are 3 additional virtual sessions that can be taken live or watched at a self-directed pace. This schedule is designed to be easy to commit to, + with plentiful time to integrate.
“I have been a student of yoga for many years. I never planned on teaching. But as my practice grew, I saw that world needed specific kinds of teachers… and I realized I would have to become that teacher.
I was looking for a yoga rooted in honoring a rich philosophy, but with a progressive backbone - a practice as intersectional as I am. Sufi masters say that a teacher should be as transparent as glass, letting light shine through so that the student finds illumination.
This is the ethos of this training as I experienced it.
We received an extensive training that drew on deep eastern traditions, and spanned to contemporary discourse with teachers and mentors who possess boundless passion and wisdom. Under their tutelage, with their support, I became a yoga teacher, and even more astoundingly, I unfolded and expanded into my most authentic self. In short, this is an exemplary yoga teacher training plus so much MORE.”
- Fatima Rizvi, student and now teacher at Vira Yoga
Vira Yoga Collective’s Teacher Training Tuition:
Our trainings are on a community based, tiered, pay-what-you’re-able scale. *ALL TIERS include specialty memberships so students can consistently complete the practice requirement at Vira*
Scholarship Tier: $1900 - by application only, 2 spots
Community Contributor Tier: $2600 - by application only
Collective Builder Tier: $3000 - * this options includes an unlimited membership throughout training *
*payment plans available at request*
Our training is ROBUST + offers extensive mentorship; here’s what tuition includes:
An immersive, comprehensive, one-of-a-kind training with course material taught by an all-star roster of teachers with over 50+ collective years of teaching
A multi-faceted, considered, nuanced, authentic and grounded approach to teaching, comprehension, and connection to the self.
Unlimited access to our full virtual library AND a speciality class card for in-person classes.
One-on-one mentorship that goes beyond a typical training and group work, with meaningful guidance and feedback to grow you on your journey
a teaching assistant to support you throughout training
History, the meaning behind the practice, text study, coaching, anatomy, asana labs, skills sessions, business training… this is spiritual and practical.
… and even more special stuff that we can only share once you’re enrolled! We live to surprise. 😉