TRAINING LOCATION

BELOVED YOGA
11109 Sunset HIlls Road
Reston, VA 20190
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OUR CONTACT NUMBER

703-860-9642

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200 HR Yoga & Ayurveda Teacher Training 2025

1/18/2025 - 6/29/2025

Early Bird Special Until 12/1/2024 $2,800

The Beloved Yoga School offers a unique 200HR Yoga and Ayurveda Teacher Training that provides a safe, nurturing, and creative environment in which to grow and deepen your practice. It is from this place of deep personal practice/sadhana that you become a teacher. Our program offers a comprehensive experience combining our excellence in teaching methodology and an inclusive mentoring program. Participants can opt to do just module one or the full two-module program. To obtain a 200HR RYT, one must complete both modules and fulfill all the requirements of the program including reflective homework and mentorship.

Module 1: 100 Hours - Immersion into Yoga Lifestyle

The first 100 hours of the program are open to all yoga practitioners interested in learning more about yoga.

In this module, you will: 

  • Intro to lifestyle Yoga & Ayurvedic practices supporting daily breath, meditation and asana practice to support well-being, or svastha
  • Find your unique alignment in the most common yoga postures and understand their benefits
  • Dive into the foundational philosophy behind the practice of yoga, including the Yoga Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita
  • Learn about the history of yoga and its various paths
  • Cultivate deeper levels of awareness in your mind and body
  • Explore energetic and subtle body anatomy
  • Learn functional biomechanical anatomy
  • Dive into the fundamentals of Ayurveda and daily lifestyle habits
  • Meet a supportive community of like-minded practitioners

Module 2: 100 Hours - The Seat of the Teacher

If interested in becoming a certified yoga teacher, you will continue for an additional 100 hours where you will learn:

  • How to incorporate the Ayurvedic lens into teaching methodology: elemental body
  • How to incorporate the energetic framework of the chakras and the gunas into teaching methodology
  • Teaching methodology (learning to teach online and in-person classes)
  • How to sequence a well-rounded yoga class that can be adapted for multiple populations
  • Discuss considerations for trauma sensitivity in group yoga classes
  • Professional development
  • Ethics and how to expand your path as a teacher

Mentorship

In addition to our scheduled classes, lectures, and practicum, the Beloved Yoga School offers a unique mentoring model for those interested in cultivating their seat as teachers. The program includes up to 20 hours of one-on-one mentorship with your assigned mentor. Each trainee will also receive one mentoring session with Ileana Gonzalez, a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, and one mentoring session with our pranayama mentor, Susan Knoblauch.

Upon completion of the live weekend hours, a final 1-hour class, completion of your 30-class pass, homework assignments, final project, self-examination and mentorship, you will be eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as a 200HR yoga teacher.

Trauma-Informed Training

Beloved Yoga School recognizes the necessity of sensitivity in creating safe and accessible spaces in a group setting. The Beloved Yoga Trauma-Informed Toolkit is intrinsic to our teacher training program. You will develop skills in languaging, cultivating safe spaces, assisting, and learning the tools to respect individual exploration and expression.

Teaching Team

Maryam Ovissi, E-RYT 500, RPYT, RCYT, C-IAYT

Ileana Gonzalez, board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, 200hr YT, https://apurvawellness.com/

Teaching & Mentoring Team: Joelle Van Over, Heather Hagaman, Susan Knoblauch, Susan Muir, Dante Baker, Doug Keller, Allison Tomson and Dr. Graham Schweig 

Schedule

Weekend hours (in-person/online, Eastern time zone EDT/EST): 10 am - 1 pm & 2 - 5 pm (some weekends may have a time variation)

Wednesday hours (mostly online): 6 - 8 pm


You will also be asked to register for the Svastha Yoga ON-DEMAND Course:

17 hours of Study with the Mohans, Svastha Yoga School 

https://online.svastha.net/bundles/pranayamas-of-classical-yoga


Module 1

January 18 & 19

February 8 & 9

February 19

February 22 & 23

March 5

March 8 & 9


Module 2

March 29 & 30

April 5 & 6 

April 16

April 26 & 27

May 7

May 17 & 18

May 31 & June 1

June 11

June 28 & 29 (Graduation) 


Cost

Full Program (modules 1 and 2): $3200*

Early bird discount: $2800 if paid in full by December 1, 2024

Module 1 only: $1600*


Payment plans are available. After you are accepted into the training, please speak with Maryam about setting up a plan.

Scholarships are also available. If needed, please fill out this form (THIS FORM IS ONLY FOR SCHOLARSHIPS) to explain why participation in this training is important to you. We will follow up to connect. 

* Includes a manual, up to 20 hours of mentoring (10 hours for Mod. 1 ONLY), a 30-class pass (online and in-person classes), and 6-month access to our on-demand library.


Completion requirements
1) Attend live hours of training weekends, and complete HW & mentoring sessions.
2) Complete observations and reflections.
3) Complete a final project.
4) Complete a 1-hour class (your mentor will review the sequence with you ahead of time). Teach your sequence live to others and record it for review, or your mentor can attend live to provide feedback.
5) A final reflection on teaching and mentoring.

How to Apply

Fill out the online application and pay the non-refundable $30 application fee. The fee will be applied to your balance. We will follow up within 2 days to set up a time to connect and discuss the training. Feel free to reach out to Maryam (maryam@belovedyoga.com) with further questions.

Required Reading

The following 4 books (all available for purchase at the studio and can be borrowed from our library) are required reading as part of the Beloved Yoga 200HR Yoga & Ayurveda Teacher Training program: