Goals and Curriculum


Goals of the Training

The BZHY training is dedicated to creating competent and mindful yoga teachers. Our training emphasizes skills and knowledge directly applicable to teaching Vinyasa or "flow" yoga. 

Learn to Teach Vinyasa Yoga

As a teacher training course, our first priority is to make sure that you receive the best possible training in preparation for teaching asana. Upon graduation, you will be prepared to:

  • teach a creative, thoughtfully designed vinyasa yoga class

  • describe the traditional lineage of vinyasa yoga

  • modify postures and sequences to make yoga accessible for all

  • create a safe and welcoming space for every practitioner

Create Sangha

Sangha, Sanskrit for “community”, is an inspired collective of individuals that supports one another - both in our yoga endeavors and in our lives off the mat. Your teacher training sangha awaits!

 

Strengthen Personal Practice 

The foundation of strong teaching is a strong personal practice. The lectures, the curriculum, and the practices are all created so that you can go deep into the experience of your yoga practice.

 

Inspire Inquiry 

There is an ocean of knowledge available in this yoga teacher training, in the yoga universe, and in life! One of the best ways to stay humble, awake, and connected is to realize how much we do NOT know. We aspire to enliven a sense of continued inquiry to awaken your innate sense of curiosity and desire for life-long learning.

Program Curriculum
200 Hour Yoga Alliance Approved RYS 200 Hour Program at Bend and Zen Hot Yoga

Teaching Techniques

(posture alignment, class design & sequencing)

100 hours

Teaching Methodology & Ethical Teaching Practices​

(practice teaching, class management, ethical teaching)

45 hours

Anatomy and Physiology​​​​​

(10 hours online, self-study, 10 hours in-person labs)

20 hours

Yoga History & Philosophy, Mindfulness Meditation​​​

(History of the Buddha & the Buddha’s Yoga)

20 hours

Practicum​​​​​​​

(teaching live classes and small groups)

20 hours

Homework and Assigned Reading

10 hours
Total Hours 215 hours

 

Required Readings

  • ‘Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation’ by Stephen Mitchell
  • ‘Living Your Yoga’ by Judith Lasater
  • ‘Mindfulness Yoga: The Awakened Union of Breath, Body and Mind’ by Frank Jude Boccio
  • ‘Threads of Yoga’ by Matthew Remski
  • ‘The Key Muscles of Yoga’ by Ray Long, MD, FRCSC
  • ‘The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali’ translation by Edwin F. Bryant

 

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