Asana Details: Refine your postures with precision and mindfulness. Through guided practice, detailed instruction, and asana break downs you’ll enhance your alignment, strength, flexibility, and learn to tailor asana to fit your body and your practice. Work with props and modifications to adapt postures for your practice needs day to day. 

Anatomy Insights: Gain a comprehensive understanding of the body’s mechanics using the latest science. Our sessions will cover the anatomy essential for safe and effective practice, helping you to better connect with your own physicality. Apply your understanding to support intelligent sequencing and injury management, setting your students up to minimize injury and find more freedom to move. Source your cuing from an understanding of good alignment and the anatomy that governs it. 

Diverse Yoga Lineages: Sample from a variety of styles and traditions that have shaped modern yoga. Think Yin, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Hatha, Restorative, Kundalini, Vinyasa; touch on the unique philosophies and practices that each lineage offers.

Subtle Body Practices: Delve into the world of pranayama (breath control), bandhas (body locks), and other techniques (chakras, chanting, Ayurveda, etc.)  that harness the energy within. Learn how these practices can transform your physical and mental state as well as be integrated into your asana practice. 

Yoga Philosophy: What IS yoga actually though? (The question no yoga teacher wants you to ask)… We will take a look at the history of yoga, foundational texts, and the modern application of yoga philosophies. We will look to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and the Bhagavad Gita to inform our appreciation of the practice of yoga to provide a deeper sense of understanding, purpose and clarity. Develop your own practice of yoga “off the mat”, integrating philosophical principles with modern application to help you live more intentionally. 

Meditation Techniques: Develop a meditation practice through homework and guided sessions. Explore different meditation styles to find what resonates most with you and supports your inner journey.

Intelligent Sequencing: Often what makes a class feel good (or not) comes down to sequencing. Using equal parts science and art, learn how to develop class sequences that prepares the body for the concepts being taught, while at the same time flowing postures seamlessly together to create an immersive experience. 

Teaching Methods: Here we will cover the practical aspects of teaching including how to structure a class, managing tempo, clear and concise cueing, and finding your seat as a teacher, using your voice, body language, and adjustments as tools to guide a class. As well as the intentional use of music (or not). 

Diversity and Inclusion: Embrace the richness of diverse perspectives within the yoga community. Engage in discussions and practices that promote inclusivity, understanding, and respect for all.

Practicum: We believe that anyone can become a great teacher. It just takes humbleness, a mindset of studentship, courage, and practice, practice, practice, practice. So we will offer up plenty of that. Expect assignments and small group mentor work to practice developing sequences, sharing them in a small or large group setting and getting supportive feedback and structure all the way through.

• 200-hour RYT Yoga Alliance Certification.

• Peak Hot Yoga YTT Manual

• 8 months Unlimited Yoga at Peak during your training months (Sept-May). (>$800 value) 

• Community Class Practicum: The opportunity to teach public classes at Peak and receive lead instructor feedback as well as the opportunity to teach ongoing community classes for practice. 

• High-Touch Mentorship: Weekly small-group mentor calls from January to April.

To complete this training program, you will be required to:

• Attend all training dates. Approved absences or sick days will need to be made up at the discretion of the lead instructors

• Log 30 in-class practice hours and 10 class observation hours

• Complete all homework assignments (readings, sequence design, exercises, practice teaching in a timely manner)

• Teach one public class (practicum)
  

*To honour your commitment and get the most out of this training, expect to allocate at least 3 hrs per week of self study/practice above and beyond training hours during the course of this training.

• The Business of Yoga

• Teaching Prenatal Students

• Trauma Informed Methods

• Teaching Yin 

• Teaching Mobility

• Heidi Erdle 500hr RYT, 200hr E-RYT: Asana, Philosophy, History, Teaching Methodology, Sequencing, Adjustments

• Kara Foley 500hr RYT, 200hr E-RYT, Physiotherapist: Anatomy, Biomechanics, Physiology, Meditation, Sequencing, Adjustments

• Elke Johnson 200hr E-YRT: Subtle body, Pranayama, Yoga Nidra, Yin, Trama Informed Yoga

• Guest Teachers – to be announced : Prenatal yoga, the business of yoga, diversity and inclusion

We all have imposter syndrome to some degree or another, but don’t let that hold you back. The single most important thing you need to make the most of this training is a willingness to commit your time and attention.

For our 200hr Yoga Teacher Training – We require a minimum of 1 year of regular practice (in any yoga style). Again, you don’t need to do all of the things (yoga has very little to do with “advanced postures”), but you do need to have a baseline of practice from which to build your knowledge and teaching.

Whether or not you go on to teach is ultimately up to you. We do require that you teach a live class at the end of the the training as part of your 200hr Yoga Teacher Training graduation requirements.

If you know you cannot make a session please let the instructors know as soon as possible. You are required to complete all of the hours of the training so you will be required to complete make up assignments/practices for any sessions missed.

Yes, our 200hr Yoga Teacher Training is Registered with the Yoga Alliance so upon completion you can register to be a 200hr Registered Yoga Teacher.

Yes, we have two scholarships available for our 200Hr YTT program that provide partial funding for tuition.

Our Equal Opportunity Scholarship is for anyone in the BIPOC community to help increase the representation of minorities as yoga instructors.

Our Karma Scholarship is for someone who does not have the financial resources to complete the training otherwise.

Please email team@peakhotyoga.com to request more information and the application form.

Please review our cancellation policy here.

Yes, you can do a payment plan. Enquire with us during your application process to set that up. 

Define good at yoga. We don’t really even know what this means.

If you mean do I need to be able to do all of the yoga poses in Light on Yoga? No, you do not. If you mean do you need to have mastered stilling the mind? No, you do not.

Think of this training like enrolling in any other training. We are teaching the foundations, and you are coming here to learn. So all you need to be “good” at is adopting an attitude of studentship.

Outside of our in person sessions you should plan to commit at least 3 hrs weekly of self practice, study, readings, and homework when our modules are in session to make the most of this training.

All of our in person training hours will be unheated (including practices). However you may be asked to take part in open classes as part of your training and these will be heated in keeping with our regular schedule offering. 

*If you have trouble with heated classes let us know and we can arrange for alternate sessions for you. 

You do not need to be into “hot” yoga to take this training. 

Yes, upon being accepted into the program we will provide you with a reading list of required and supplementary resources to complete as part of your training. 

While the schedule may vary some what day to day and weekend to weekend, you can expect to start sessions off with practice (often relating to the content to be taught that weekend). Practice will be followed by discussion where you will have the chance to share and ask questions.

We will then move into lecture/discussion/and workshopping of the key topics being taught that day (expect to listen to lecture, try on techniques, perhaps work in a small group, be guided in targeted practice, and discuss and share your thoughts and experiences).

Sessions will typically end with subtle practice (meditation, pranayama, yin or restorative) threading in any relavent philosophical or thematic topics from the day/weekend.

*The cirriculum will be shared with you prior to the training start date.

You’re an unconventional thinker, we love it. Get in touch at team@peakhotyoga.com and we will do our best to answer any questions you have.