The PYP Foundational Yoga Teacher Training might be for you if…
you want to teach yoga
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Teaching yoga can look like many different things! Maybe you want to build a career as a full time or part time teacher, or you want to teach to family and friends, or to your colleagues or clients in another profession. We would love to hear about how you hope to integrate teaching yoga into your future.
You have at least one year of consistent asana practice.
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We understand that practice ebbs flows. If you’ve had a consistent practice in the past, but less consistent recently, we’d love to hear about your experience and how you’d like to recommit to your practice ahead of and during this training.
You thrive in a collaborative learning environment.
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The bulk of this training will take place in a large group setting, with opportunities to work in smaller groups for practice teaching and discussion. All participants are expected to contribute to group learning by bringing your questions and perspectives with a commitment to listening to and honoring the questions and perspectives of others. We take mutual respect very seriously. Our staff is skilled at holding multiple perspectives with grace, and we expect all of our participants to do the same. We seek to decenter without disregarding the impact of white supremacy, heteronormativity, ableism, and cisgendered experiences.
Please note: any collaborative learning environment will activate feelings of discomfort, deconstruct assumptions and learned beliefs, and prompt deep vulnerability. We will always uphold the safety of the group over the comfort of individuals while seeking to create a space in which both personal and interpersonal cycles of rupture and repair are experienced with grace and generosity.
You can confidently commit to 6 months of weekly investment in this training.
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In addition to the expectation that you will be present for the entirety of all our shared time together, you will be expected to attend at least one yoga class per week (ideally at PYP, though it may be elsewhere), to reflect and journal about your experience, to complete occasional homework and reading assignments, and to be flexible enough to observe classes, and to schedule meetings and zoom calls with your mentorship cohort (for a total of 18 hours over the course of the 6 months).
We understand that the financial and time commitment to this training is a privilege, and it is out of a desire to steward that privilege that we have these expectations.