300-hour advanced yoga teacher training

“Sarahjoy has the gift to bring her deep, broad knowledge to her students through her language, her voice, and her genuine, integrated self. As she often says: 'We are to be a vessel of all of our previous teachers.'
It is indeed her art. She combines the western science beautifully with the ancient science of yoga."

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A Comprehensive, Trauma-Informed,
Neuro-Biologically Grounded Training

This training is open to both yoga teachers and allied health professionals who are eager to broaden their scope of practice. We integrate ancient yoga psychology, philosophy, and Ayurveda with contemporary, research-based understandings from neuroscience, mindfulness, psychology, physiology, and contemplative practices.

This 300-hr training is registered with the Yoga Alliance and qualifies you for a 500hr RYT Certification with the Yoga Alliance. This is also the first 300 hours of our 800-hr Yoga Therapy Training with the IAYT, International Association of Yoga Therapists.

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Are you a yoga teacher looking to incorporate therapeutic tools into your classes?
Are you wanting to bring trauma-informed yoga into your current work?
Would you like to widen your view, expand your toolkit, and feel more confident with a more diverse student population?
Are you a mental health professional who would like to weave yogic principles into your practice with clients?
Are you curious about how yoga promotes psychological, physical and spiritual vitality?

Our training methodology develops each individual practitioner and creates a sense of community in the process. This is both a professional and personal journey. Who we become as Yoga Professionals relies both on what we bring to our training and development and the teachers, communities, and environments in which we study. As well, the depth of support, encouragement, compassion, and discerning input provided to each trainee is intentionally designed to nourish every participant to become the strongest, most clear, and most compassionate provider they can be. Graduates go on to develop their private practice, providing individual sessions for their students; as well as offering small group yoga series for therapeutic benefit to their students.

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“Sarahjoy's compassionate and understanding presence, from her lived experience of trauma-recovery, resilience, and professional decades of work and volunteerism shines through in everything she offers to us in these training modules. It is clear that she believes in us."

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PROGRAM SEQUENCE BETWEEN 300HR AND 800HR TRAININGS:

This course prepares you to enter our IAYT 800-hr Yoga Therapy Training Program. Upon completion of the 300hr YA Training, students can begin the 150-hours of Mentored Practicum that are required as part of the 800-hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training. Students can begin their 800-hr IAYT training after completing the modules from the 300hr YA Professional Yoga Training.

Please note: Graduates of our 300hr YA training are qualified to enter the 800hr IAYT program. Graduates of other 300hr training programs will need to apply and submit the curriculum training records (ie. transcripts) from their 300hr training program. Learn more...

PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS:

You want to become a Yoga Professional, including teaching private lessons, specialty series + workshops.
You have completed a 200-hour Yoga Alliance registered teacher training or an equivalent professional training in your field (please inquire with us specifically).
You want to deepen your study and become certified at the 500-hour Yoga Alliance level.
You may be interested in continuing to 800-hour certification as a yoga therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)

CURRICULUM OVERVIEW:
The full program includes Parts 1 + 2

Therapeutic Yoga	Yoga Psychology	Trauma-Informed	Inner Development
Mindfulness-Based Yoga	Yoga Sutras	The Impact of Trauma	Yogic Self-Inquiry
Adaptive Yoga	PanchaMaya Model	Neuroscience of Yoga	Personal Sadhana
Yoga Rehab + Conditioning	Gunas Model	Window of Tolerance	Dinacharya: Self-Care
Ayurvedic Restorative Yoga	6 Stations of the Mind	Triune + Hemispheric Brain	Mindful Listening
Pranayama + Meditation	5 Kleshas	Polyvagal Theory	Ventral Vagal Presence
Yoga based on Koshas, Vayus + Doshas	Bhagavad Gita + The Paths to Awakening	Interpersonal Neurobiology	Compassionate Attention + Inquiry for Clients
Yoga Mechanics	Psychology of the Chakras	Attachment Theory	Somatic Well-Being
Myofacial Release Techniques	26 Qualities of the Sattvic Heart	The Essential Self + Inner Parts	Ecological Well-Being + Climate Awareness
Physiology + Endocrinology	Somatic + Sensory Tools	Empathetic Resonance	Equanimity + Resilience

PART 1: Tools for Promoting Vibrant Health
(Physical, Neurological, & Subtle Body)

Three Synchronous Modules (Monday-Thursday)
Plus Asynchronous Learning in our Online Learning Management System

PART 1 SPRING 2023 - WINTER 2024 DATES	PART 1 FALL 2023 - SPRING 2024 COHORT DATES
May 8 - 11, 2023	Oct 16 - 19, 2023
June 5 - 8, 2023	Nov 14 - 17, 2023
July 10 - 13, 2023	Jan 22 - 25, 2024

Module Schedule	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
🙏	🔴	7 - 8:15 am Morning Sadhana	8:30 - 9:30 am Mentoring	7 - 8:15 am Morning Sadhana
🔴	10 am - 1 pm Theory, Methodology, & Practicum	10 am - 1 pm Theory, Methodology, & Practicum	10:30 am - 1 pm Theory, Methodology, & Practicum	10 am - 1 pm Theory, Methodology, & Practicum

🟤 Yoga Teacher Training Mentorship 🟤

Your curriculum includes bi-weekly mentoring in our 300hr and 800hr Training Programs.
Mondays 6:30 - 7:30 pm PST | Wednesday 830 - 930 am PST
This is included in your training program and extends beyond your formal curriculum modules.
Enrolled students and alumni are welcome to attend.

PART 2: Yoga for Vitality & Wholeness
(Mental, Psychological, & Spiritual)

Six Synchronous Modules (Saturday - Sunday)
Plus Asynchronous Learning in our Online Learning Management System

PART 2 FALL 2022 - SPRING 2023 COHORT DATES	PART 2 SPRING 2023 - WINTER 2024 COHORT DATES
February 18 - 19, 2023	September 16 - 17, 2023
March 18 - 19, 2023	October 14 - 15, 2023
April 15 - 16, 2023	November 18 - 19, 2023
May 27 - 28, 2023	December 9 - 10, 2023
June 24 - 25, 2023	January 13 - 14, 2024
July 15 - 16, 2023	February 17 - 18, 2024

Weekend Schedule	Saturday	Sunday
🙏	7 - 8 am Pranayama + Meditation	7 - 8 am Pranayama + Meditation
🔴	10 - 11:30 am Active Practice	10 - 11:30 am Active Practice
🟠	11:45 am - 1 pm Theory, Methodology, & Practicum	11:45 am - 1 pm Theory, Methodology, & Practicum
🟡	2:30 - 4 pm Practicum & Mentoring	3 - 4 pm Practicum & Mentoring
🟣	🟤	4:30 - 6 pm Climate Awareness Group

Application + Registration

SPRING 2023 - WINTER 2024	Fall 2023 - Spring 2024
$3700 with registration by February 8	$3700 with registration by July 16
$4600 with registration by March 8	$4600 with registration by July 16
$5100 with registration by April 8	$5100 with registration by August 16
$5500 with registration after April 8	$5500 with registration by September 16

You can pay for the program in full, or via payment plans.
$500 of your initial payment will be held as a non-refundable deposit.

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Scholarships
Yogajoy strives to make teacher trainings accessible for all. Therefore, we provide selective scholarship assistance. To determine your eligibility for financial assistance, please FIRST complete the training application above, then complete the scholarship request below.

Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity Statement + Scholarships

We are dedicated to celebrating diversity across cultures, race, ethnicities, belief systems, sexual orientations, ages, abilities, and body types. There has been a lack of diverse representation in yoga in the West due to commercialism, colonialism, and appropriation. We are committed to doing our part. In addition to teaching yoga in prisons and other settings for people marginalized by the inequities in our society, we also provide scholarships for our training programs. We have been dedicated to extending the healing potential of yoga in communities of need and throughout marginalized populations since 1998. As a training institution, the best way we can commit to increasing diversity in yoga is to grow a community of students and teachers that is represented by people of diverse backgrounds and ethnicities.

In support of diversifying yoga leadership, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color registering for our trainings are invited to apply for scholarships with our school.

We don’t assume that all who identify as BIPOC require or want financial support to access yoga. For those who do, we see this as step we can take towards offering reparations within a healthcare system that has predominantly failed communities of color.

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Our Guiding Teachers

Teachers whose teachings and books we integrate into our 200hr amrita yoga teacher training:
A More Ardent Fire by Eknath Easwaran, The Sacred Tradition of Yoga by Dr. Shankaranarayana Jois,
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron, The Way to Love by Anthony DeMello

Eknath Easwaran

Dr. Shankaranarayana Jois

Pema Chodron

Anthony De Mello

In our 300hr Yoga Teacher Training, we integrate the teachings Western therapeutic modalities of Gabor Mate, Compassionate Inquiry Approach, Bonnie Badenoch: Being A Brain-Wise Therapist, Dick Schwartz: Internal Family Systems, Diane Poole Heller: Healing Shame + Attachment Wounds, Janina Fisher: Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, Dan Siegel: Interpersonal Neurobiology, and Thich Nhat Hanh: The 4 Abodes, all of whom Sarahjoy has studied with directly. We have an extensive book list for your home library.