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In partnership with Beloved Yoga

The Breathe/Beloved 200-hour Yoga & Ayurveda Teacher Training.

Two modules, one or both. Stay tuned for 2027 dates to be announced.

Currently full

You can add yourself to the waitlist, or ask us about our next session or the next session at Beloved Yoga.

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200

hours; graduates are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance

100

hours in Module 1, open to all yoga practitioners

Up to 20

hours of one-on-one mentorship with your assigned mentor

The program

What the training is.

We're excited to offer our 200-HR Yoga and Ayurveda Teacher Training program in partnership with Beloved Yoga and their renowned and respected Yoga Teacher Training School.

This program will offer a comprehensive experience drawing from Beloved's excellence in teaching methodology based in classical yoga influenced by Sri Krishnamacharya and Svastha Yoga, which includes an inclusive mentoring program.

Expect a safe, nurturing, and creative environment which will allow you to grow and deepen your practice.

It is from this place of deep personal practice/sadhana that you become a teacher.

One module or both
Participants can opt to do just module one or the full two-module program.
To qualify as a 200-HR RYT
To obtain a 200-HR RYT, one must complete both modules and fulfill all the requirements of the program including reflective homework and mentorship.
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Two modules

What each module covers.

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:

Open to all practitioners

What Module 1 covers
  • Meet a supportive community of like-minded practitioners
  • Be Introduced to the Yoga lifestyle & 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

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:

For those going on to teach

What Module 2 covers
  • 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

How you’re supported

One-on-one mentoring and trauma-informed training.

Both are part of the program, alongside the scheduled classes, lectures and practicum.

From the Breathe teaching team

Mentorship

In addition to our scheduled classes, lectures, and practicum, we offer a unique mentoring model for those interested in cultivating their seat as teachers.

How the mentoring works

The program includes up to 20 hours of one-on-one mentorship with your assigned mentor from the Breathe teaching team. 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.

Safe, accessible spaces

Trauma-informed training

Breathe Body & Mind and Beloved Yoga both recognize the necessity of sensitivity in creating safe and accessible spaces in a group setting.

What that means in practice

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.

Schedule

The 2027 dates.

Stay tuned for 2027 dates to be announced.

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The details

Requirements, reading and the teaching team.

Completion requirements

  1. Attend live hours of training weekends, and complete homework & 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.

Required reading

  • The Yamas and Niyamas Deborah Adele
  • Science of Yoga Anne Swanson
  • The Bhagavad Gita Graham Schweig
  • Yoga Sutra (free download)
  • Krishnamacharya: His Life and Teachings the Mohans optional

Teaching team

  • Maryam Ovissi E-RYT 500, RPYT, RCYT, C-IAYT
  • Ileana Gonzalez board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, 200hr YT
  • Teaching & mentoring team Karin Landrum, Rebecca Oliveira, Susan Knoblauch, Dante Baker and others TBA

Alongside the training

Karma Yoga practicum.

Our free Karma Yoga classes offer an opportunity for new and less experienced instructors to earn practicum time for their certification requirements.

All Levels

FREE Karma Yoga

Karma Yoga classes are available to the community at large. Donations to the instructor are always appreciated but never required.

Space is limited, so please reserve

See Karma Yoga times

While you train

Class passes included

The full program includes a Breathe 20-class pass and a 10-class pass at Beloved. Module 1 on its own includes a 10-class pass.

Online and in-person classes

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After the training

Teach at Breathe

We’re a small, locally owned and operated studio, so you’ll have more autonomy over your class structure.

No “cookie-cutter” format

About teaching here

Next steps

How to apply.

  1. Send us your questions

    Use the contact form, or email info@breathebodymind.com, and we will get them to Lynne.

  2. We follow up

    We will follow up to set up a time to connect and discuss the training.

Ask about the training

Training location

Breathe Body & Mind, Main Studio

6350 Rolling Mill Place, Suite 103
West Springfield, VA 22152

Directions and parking

Introductory offer

Brand new to Breathe?

$32 for two weeks of unlimited classes, once per person, first-time visitors

As many classes as you’d like, in the studio or live on Zoom. Specialty classes, workshops and special events aren’t included.

Try 2 weeks for $32 Find your class
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