THE PORTLAND YOGA PROJECT
300HR YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
with kelley voegelin, victoria rutledge,
erin elhers, & lauren znachko
The 300 hour yoga teacher training at The Portland Yoga Project is a 12 month long program that provides the opportunity to expand and deepen your knowledge and experience as a yoga teacher. Participants are required to have a 200 hour training and are expected to have some experience with teaching yoga, but this training is primarily an opportunity to show up as a student—a student of yoga, your own practice, and yourself. Students will attend monthly weekend sessions that will include practice, lecture, discussion and reflection. Between in person sessions students will be given resources to watch and listen to in order to refine their home practice, dedicate themselves to self-study, and develop their own goals according to their specific skills and interests.
The primary aim of this training is to guide teachers toward skillful communication, clarity, and confidence as they evolve and develop as teachers with the understanding that becoming a skilled teacher requires skillful practice.
SCHEDULE—
13 weekends over 12 months (Saturdays 9am-5pm, Sundays 9am-4pm)
8-10 hours per month of pre-recorded, online content
2-4 hours per month of self-guided study, reading, and reflection
Dates—
2024 | September 21-22, October 12-13, November 9-10, December 7-8
2025 | January 11-12, February 8-9, March 8-9, March 29-30, April 19-20, May 17-18, June 14-15, August 2-3, September 6-7
Cost and Payment Options—
$4,000/$3,700 Early Bird
Early bird deadline is June 30, 2024 and must be paid in full
$500 non refundable deposit due by August 31, 2024
Payment Plans are available $292/month for 12 months beginning September, 2024
Please visit our scholarships page if you are able to commit to the full training but cannot access the full tuition.
Topics—
This 300 hour training will cover the following topics using lecture, discussion, in-person practice, and on-demand content.
Practicing and Teaching Stillness—Meditation, Pranayama, Mudras, Yoga Nidra
Investigating the Subtle Body—Chakras, Prana Vayus, Koshas, Ayurveda, Bandhas
Expanding Knowledge of Movement Science and Asana—Anatomy and Physiology, Biomechanics, Sanskrit, Postures
Integrating Yoga Into Our World—Pedagogy, Conscious Communication, Social Change, Ethics, Business
30 hours of this training are reserved for reading and other self-guided study that will be assigned over the course of the training.
This training is for you if—
You have completed a 200hr yoga teacher training
You have some yoga teaching experience
You are a critical thinker who values collaborative learning and self-reflection
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your facilitators—
Kelley Voegelin
Lead Facilitator
Kelley (she/her) began offering yoga classes in Brooklyn, NY in 2011. Over the years, she's come to offer multiple forms of this practice — Vinyasa, Prenatal, Yin, Gentle, and Restorative.
Her vinyasa style classes combine clear postural alignment with digestible, breath-centered pacing. Each fluid sequence strikes a balance of movement and stillness. In Yin, her approach is meditative and supportive of options, spaciousness and quietude.
Kelley is inspired by subtle body practices such as breathwork, mudra and meditation. She believes a yoga practice evolves for each individual over a lifetime. She aims to always offer choice, tools, and balance of body, breath, and mind in her classes.
She stays busy with group sessions, privates, workshops and teacher trainings. When not teaching, you can find Kelley deep in a garden, walking her dog, or fiddling with watercolors. Visit kelvoeyoga.com to learn more about Kelley and her offerings.
Victoria Rutledge
Lead Facilitator
Victoria (she/her) has been practicing yoga since 2008, and teaching since 2010. Her goal in teaching is to resource each student to find the root of their own practice so that they can find what they need in every class. Empowering others and guiding students back to the truth of their practice is her full time job.
Victoria believes that yoga can be a potent tool to dismantle the harmful and internalized social structures that keep us from true union. Her classes are a warm and inclusive atmosphere for all people to practice rigorous self-study with kindness and gratitude toward body and soul. The strength and power of her lineage is one of her greatest inspirations. She plans to make Yoga her lifelong work.
When she’s not teaching yoga, Victoria is a death doula and grief worker. She provides 1:1 peer support for those who have experienced death as well as those navigating the generalized grief of living in our current world. In both her grief and yoga work, creating enough spaciousness to feel into the wisdom of our bodies is work she joyfully turns to again and again. Learn more about Victoria and her offerings here.
Erin Ehlers
Lead Facilitator
Erin (she/her) has taught yoga for over 23 years. In these decades of devotion, she has been lucky to own a studio, teach as a freelancer and to connect with many students online.
In her classes and trainings, it’s evident that she values understanding more than achievement. She weaves the details of movement science into clear ideas about a yoga practice. She believes that a modern understanding of movement does not oppose the philosophical traditions of yoga, but rather that these two elements combine to create deep self-inquiry.
Erin is also a yoga therapist and a licensed massage therapist. She leads classes and courses online and in Maine. She’s semi-retired from flower farming, and is often daydreaming about her garden. Visit erinehlersyoga.com to learn more about Erin and her offerings.
Lauren Znachko
Support Facilitator
Lauren (she/they) has taught yoga for 15 years. Her yoga classes use specificity and focus to develop curiosity, practice inquiry, and extent welcome toward the subtler facets of body and being. Lauren’s work as a co-owner of PYP community fills their days with cultivating community, contributing to business operations, and teaching yoga. All of this work is supported by their belief that the practice of yoga is a collective pursuit of healing and radical welcome, and that we can find ways of being and living that are generative, creative, and good for ourselves and each other.
In the life long work of balancing work and leisure, ease and effort, solitude and connection, Lauren is invested in gardening food and flowers, taking naps, and being in love with the animals she shares her home with.