“If you want to master something, teach it. The more you teach, the better you learn. Teaching is a powerful tool to learning.”
WOULD YOU LIKE BUILD ON YOUR 200-Hour YOGA TEACHER TRAINING EXPERIENCE WITH A YOGA INTERNSHIP? ARE YOU DRAWN TO really livING yoga in a way that opens you up to deep intimacy with life itself?
The 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training is an opportunity to really live yoga in a way that opens you up to deep intimacy with life itself - by feeling into all that is. It’s an opportunity to more fully experience yoga as a living force that helps us remember and connect with what’s most meaningful. The 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training is centered around a “learn by doing” experience through a yoga internship at Community Yoga Center. This training builds on the 12 touchpoints at the core of our 200-Hour Foundational Yoga Teacher Training and includes three additional program practices:
YOGA INTERNSHIP
Practice facilitating yoga as both an assistant and lead facilitator at Community Yoga Center to gain experience sharing yoga in inclusive and accessible ways.
50 Hours Assistant FACILITATING
20 Hours Lead FACILITATING
Community service
Community service of your choice, serving in ways that feel meaningful to you and practicing yoga karma-yogicly.
15 Hours
Capstone project
A capstone project of your choice, exploring one of the perennial aspects of yoga and practicing yoga jnana-yogicly.
15 Hours
What MAKES THIS TRAINING DIFFERENT?
This is a pragmatic hands-on yoga teacher training where you consistently shadow experienced mentor facilitators, observing yoga concepts and practices they share, and eventually sharing your own yoga offerings with mentor guidance in a supportive environment. This yoga internship give you firsthand knowledge of and practice in what’s involved in sharing yoga in community. This yoga teacher training is designed to give you the experience necessary share yoga with awareness, honesty, and love in ways serve our modern world.
WhO ARE THE TEACHERS?
Inga Buchbinder, Allison Hagen Kennedy, Tobias Moyneur, Cherie Robinson, and Kristin Varner facilitate the yoga teacher trainings. They also serve as the Board of Directors for Community Yoga Center. They are guided by what bell hooks describes as a love ethic - heart values that embrace all the dimensions of love - including kindness, compassion, joy, and trust. They recognize the grace that yoga is and prioritize sharing yoga wisely and respectfully for the benefit of all.
WHAT’S INVOLVED?
Our accredited 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training runs concurrently with the nine-month 200-Hour Foundational Yoga Teacher Training. Orientation happens in September and the curriculum is organized in eight monthly modules beginning in October and ending in May. Each module is grounded in immersive weekend learnshops emphasizing a perennial aspect of yoga through a variety of learning modalities, including educational presentations, hands on demonstrations, large group discussions, small group collaboration, experiential yoga practice, and creative art making. Each monthly module also includes a mentor group meeting, self-paced readings and study guides, an optional on-line study session, self-reflective journaling, regular opportunities to practice yoga in community, and assistant and lead facilitating opportunities. The 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training emphasizes the subtleties of yoga practice as well as the nuances of sharing yoga in ways that are increasingly inclusive and accessible.
LEARNSHOPS
MENTOR GROUP MEETINGS
PEER GROUP MEETINGS
SELF-PACED READINGS & STUDY GUIDES
OPTIONAL ON-LINE STUDY SESSIONS
SELF-REFLECTIVE JOURNALING
REGULAR PRACTICE OPPORTUNITIES
COMPREHENSIVE GUIDEBOOK
ASSISTANT AND LEAD FACILITATING OPPORTUNITIES
ADVANCED TEACHING RESOURCES
WHO SHOULD APPLY?
Anyone who loves yoga, has completed the 200-Hour Foundational Yoga Teacher Training, is dedicated to an honest and loving yoga practice, is willing to co-create conscious community, and is commitment to participate fully in the 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training is invited to apply for admission to this learning opportunity.
WHAT’S REQUIRED TO COMPLETE THE TRAINING?
The training culminates in your mentoring other with their in-class practicum (asana and pranayama focused), creation and sharing of a yantra, completion of a take-home final exam, presentation of a capstone project, assistant and lead facilitating, and service in community. At the conclusion of the 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training, you’ll receive a certification letter and diploma evidencing your completion of the course.
You will be eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as a 500-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher.
To receive your certification letter and diploma from Community Yoga Center, 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training candidates are required to:
ATTEND AT LEAST 80% OF THE LEARNSHOPS AND MENTOR GROUP MEETINGS
MENTOR OTHERS DURING THE PRACTICUM PROCESS
CREATE AND SHARE A YANTRA
COMPLETE A TAKE-HOME FINAL EXAM
PRESENT A CAPSTONE PROJECT
FACILITATE 50 HOURS OF YOGA AS ASSISTANT FACILITATOR
FACILITATe 20 HOURS OF YOGA AS LEAD FACILITATOR
SERVE IN COMMUNITY FOR 15 HOURS
WhEN are the training dates FOR THE 2026 COHORT?
Orientation happens in September and the curriculum is organized in eight monthly modules beginning in October and ending in May. These are the training dates for the 2026 Cohort:
Orientation
Saturday, September 13th from 10:00am to 1:00pm
Module 1 Learnshops
Friday, October 10th from 5:30pm to 9:00pm + Saturday, October 11th from 10:00am to 4:00pm
Module 2 Learnshops
Friday, November 7th from 5:30pm to 9:00pm + Saturday, November 8th from 10:00am to 4:00pm
Module 3 Learnshops
Friday, December 12th from 5:30pm to 9:00pm + Saturday, December 13th from 10:00am to 4:00pm
Module 4 Learnshops
Friday, January 9th from 5:30pm to 9:00pm + Saturday, January 10th from 10:00am to 4:00pm + Saturday, January 24th from 10:00am to 1:00pm
Module 5 Learnshops
Friday, February 13th from 5:30pm to 9:00pm + Saturday, February 14th from 10:00am to 4:00pm + Saturday, February 28th from 10:00am to 1:00pm
Module 6 Learnshops
Friday, March 13th from 5:30pm to 9:00pm + Saturday, March 14th from 10:00am to 4:00pm + Saturday, March 28th from 10:00am to 1:00pm
Module 7 Learnshops
Friday, April 10th from 5:30pm to 9:00pm + Saturday, April 11th from 10:00am to 4:00pm
Module 8 Learnshops
Friday, May 8th from 5:30pm to 9:00pm + Saturday, May 9th from 10:00am to 4:00pm
GRADUATION
Saturday, May 16th from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
HOW MUCH DOES THE TRAINING COST?
We offer three tiers of tuition for the 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training. If you choose the supporter or benefactor option, a tax-deductible donation is included ($300 donation for supporters and $900 donation for benefactors).
Community $1,125
Supporter $1,425
Benefactor $2,025
As a gesture of sincere commitment to attend the 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training, we ask applicants to offer a $200 non-refundable deposit by July 1, 2025.
For folks experiencing constrained finances, we offer a limited number of scholarships based on economic need and the likelihood of applying the knowledge and skills learned in service to others. Tuition is due at or before Orientation on September 13th. Personalized payment plans are also available. Please don't let cost be a reason you don't consider training. We are always open to consider all possibilities. If you’re concerned about the cost of yoga teacher training tuition, please reach out to Kristin to talk more.
