Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) 2024-2025 

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We will welcome up to 10 online students and 12 in-studio students.

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Experience the Difference!

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Our goal is to provide you with the best possible 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) experience we can offer by combining our passion for the eight limbs of yoga with our extensive background in developing and delivering learning programs and curriculum over the past few decades. Certified under Yoga Alliance’s Elevated Standards in 2020, Down Dog Sedona was one of the first Registered Yoga Studios (RYS) to receive this accreditation.

 

What does this mean for you?

 

• A well-organized, well-led, robust, and engaging curriculum aligned with Yoga Alliance’s core competencies under the Elevated Standards:

  • Focusing on all eight-limbs of yoga throughout the YTT experience.

  • Integrating Ayurveda throughout the YTT experience, ensuring the sister-sciences of Ayurveda and Yoga are embedded throughout the program thereby supporting your own ability to recognize the balances and imbalances of the mind and the physical body.

  • Emphasizing All-levels Vinyasa Flow teaching.*

  • Emphasizing teaching asana biomechanics and alignment principles tailored to individual mobility and stability needs.

  • Where you will learn and develop an extensive cueing vocabulary and languaging to confidently, and seamlessly sequence basic asanas through more advanced asana expansions.

  • Steeped in yogic philosophy, history and ethics, as well maintaining a strict adherence to educational psychology research and adult learning theory.

 

*We define All-levels Vinyasa Flow teaching as being confident and competent in teaching a safe, sensible and well-sequenced yoga practice to a class mixed with beginner through advanced yoga practitioners.

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Benefits

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• Deepen your personal yoga journey.

• Opportunities made available post-graduation:

  • Teach in a yoga studio.

  • Independent teacher with community organizations or groups.

  • Private teacher opportunities.

• Certified 200-Hour RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher) through Yoga Alliance.

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Investment

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• Cost - $3200 (Application Fee and Deposit included)

• Early-bird Special - $2800 (Application Fee and Deposit included if paid in full or financed through affirm by August 15, 2024)

• Non-refundable Application Fee - $100

• Non-refundable Deposit - $400 

• Payment options:

  • Pay in full or finance using affirm during checkout.

  • Negotiate payment terms with Down Dog Sedona

• Refunds Contingent on Date and Progress in Program.*

 

*Details in the YTT Student Manual.

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Expectations

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• In-studio or live online weekly practice 2-3 times a week.

• Meditation at least five times a week.

• Incorporate Ayurvedic principles and practices into daily routine.

• Journaling

• Etiquette

• Adherence to the Student-Instructor Code of Conduct

• Student practice teaching (to fellow students)

• Homework

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Schedule

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Friday, Saturday and Sunday in studio or online.

• Fridays: 5:30pm – 8:30pm*

• Saturdays: 9:00am – 5:00pm

• Sundays: 9:00am – 5:00pm

 

*The time for our Friday night sessions may change depending on where our virtual students are located.

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Typical Day

• Centering, meditation, pranayama and check-in

• Group practice

• Guided discussions

• Student practice teaching

• Mid-day lunch

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Students will also have the opportunity to participate in Beach Yoga, Standup Paddleboard (SUP) Yoga, Yoga Hikes, Vortex Tours, and other outdoor activities.

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Location

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1785 West State Route 89A, Suite 1B, Sedona, AZ 86336

 

Dates 

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• September 6-8

• September 27-29

• October 25-27

• November 15-17

• December 13-15

• January 10-12

• February 7-9

• March 7-9

 

Curriculum

 

Modules:

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1. Program Administration 

2. Pranayama and The Subtle Body

3. Meditation

4. Anatomy and Physiology

5. Ayurveda

6. Ethics

7. History and Philosophy

8. Asana

9. Teaching Yoga

10. Energetic Body

11. The Business of Yoga

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Contact us for more information.