300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training

ADVANCED Teacher Training WINTER/SPRING 2021

Want to be back in the "work", the rigor, of a training program, where you have discoveries in your personal practice, life and leading? 

Are you feeling stagnant in your teaching and want access to new ways of delivering alignment and themes to your students?

Do you want your own GURU MANTRA?!?!

Or maybe the anatomy portion of your 200 hour training feels like a blur and you want to actually learn how your muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones move in and out of poses to create safer creative sequences for you and your students.

This program WILL transform your PRACTICES, TEACHING, and LEADING.

What you will learn:

• Advanced asana, pranayama, mudra & meditation techniques
• Refine your personal practice
• How to powerfully lead in class demonstrations/workshops
• Advanced anatomy & self-assisting
• How to effectively lead a yin yoga class
• How powerfully theme a yoga asana class
• Gain a deeper understanding of the energetic anatomy
• Dive deeper into the yoga sutras, ahimsa, dharma, & karma
• Yoga Ethics
• Create a service (Seva) project
• Learn the art of giving & receiving feedback
• Study why yoga is a powerful tool for trauma survivors
• Design & facilitate a full length workshop
• Skillfully guide students in meditation
• Lead inspiring & effective yoga classes/workshops every time

***This training CAN BE a in person or live online to fit your location/scheduling needs***

THE TEAM

Lead Facilitator
Brittany Hopkins

Brittany is a Tier 3, 1200 Hour, ERYT 500 Certified Baptiste Power Yoga Teacher, mindfulness program facilitator, and owner/teacher at Container Collective Yoga in Lakewood, CO. She leads trainings across the country and retreats around the world. Brittany founded Container Collective Yoga in 2004 and has grown her team to 20+ since then. She has traveled and lived around the world and is a social impact leader with the Baptiste Foundation. Brittany is a professional dancer turned yogi. She has danced professionally with companies in Chicago, Colorado, Utah, and Beijing. She is passionate about sharing the tools of yoga with as many people as possible. ​

Co-Facilitator
Julie Mathers

Julie is a 500 hour Yoga Alliance/Certified Baptiste Power Yoga Teacher and co-founder of ON MY MAT, a not for profit organization for Girls leading girls into greatness - one pose at a time! She co-owned a Baptiste Affiliate yoga studio, has a Masters Degree in Early Childhood Education and holds a Group Fitness / Personal Training Certification through NESTA as well as a spin certification through cycling fusion. She has taught over 2,000 hours of yoga and has been teaching group fitness classes of all types since 1997 and offers one on one personal coaching at The Next Right Thing. And throughout it all, I am a full-time mom to three kids, a wife, a daughter, and friend She is on the board of directors for Eating Disorders Anonymous, loves summer, warm weather, anything pink – and her favorite singer is Debbie Gibson.

Guest Facilitator
Afia Yunus 

Afia Yunus is an immigration attorney and certified yoga teacher. She started Yoga by Afia with the intention to make yoga accessible to traditionally marginalized communities. She is a Baptiste Foundation certified Social Impact Leader and has spent her professional career advocating for immigrant and racial justice. Afia is uniquely qualified to combine her yoga teacher training with her anti-racism and grassroots organizing training to bring to your studio Developing Awareness.

Guest Facilitator
Mollie Busby

Owner, Yoga Hive Montana + Yoga Hive Wisconsin Sattva Yoga Master Teacher Hailing originally from Wisconsin, Mollie brings to Montana her warm, midwestern hospitality mixed with a wide range of yoga training. Her teaching draws inspiration from the Baptiste Yoga community, Unnata Aerial Yoga, and a mix of Tantric Kriya and mantra-based meditation from Sattva Yoga Academy at the foothills of the Himalayas in India. This unique mix gives her classes a magical feel, with a love for teaching the basics to anyone willing to learn, layered with a profound gift of teaching for transformation.

Guest Facilitator
AJ Bishop 

AJ is a Tier Two Certified Baptiste Power Yoga Educator and owns Baptiste Power Yoga San Diego. She has completed Level 1,2,3 and is a graduate of the Fit To Lead program. She was recently appointed as the Treasurer on the Board of Directors for the Baptiste Foundation. She loves to have an active and balanced lifestyle with yoga and her financial background. She is currently a Managing Director for Union Banc Investment Services. She leads a team of financial professionals in the San Diego and Palm Springs region. With over 14 years of experience in the investment industry, AJ has held various roles such as Financial Advisor, Investment Manager, Market Director and Regional Brokerage Manager with JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo. AJ completed her B.A. degree in Organizational Communications, an A.A degree in Biology and A.A degree in Portuguese at Purdue University. She then completed her M.A. degree in Organizational Development at Seattle University.

Guest Facilitator
Gina Ward

Gina is a Tier 3 1200-hr Certified Baptiste Influencer and a graduate of the FIT-to LEAD program with the Baptiste Yoga Institute. Gina has assisted several Baptiste Institute programs and has led the #unstoppable program for the Baptiste Foundation. Gina has a Masters Degree in Exercise Science and has been instructing fitness classes since 2001 and yoga since 2013. She is the founder of HEART & GRIT Power Yoga, a Baptiste Affiliate in New Jersey and SHIFT2LEAD a Yoga Teacher Coaching Firm.

Guest Instructor
Elouise Thomas

Elouise is an E-RYT 200/500 hour certified yoga instructor with over 1,500 hours of teaching experience. She lives in South Bend, Indiana with her husband, Jeff and dog, Stella. She is a Registered Dietitian and Yin Teacher. ​ ​Fun fact, her sense of humor rocks and she likes for her Yin students to find their "Goldilocks" while practicing so they can surrender into total stillness.

Guest Instructor
Catherine Moede

Cat is an ERYT200, RYT500 Instructor and YACEP through Yoga Alliance. She currently serves as the Yoga Director at TruFusion Colorado. Cat has taught and facilitated well over 1500 hours of yoga classes, workshops, and teacher training programs. Cat is a founding board member of Unity in the Community, a Colorado non-profit focused on providing yoga access to BIPOC. Her teachings are primarily influenced by Baron Baptiste of Baptiste Power Yoga and Anand Mehotra of the Sattva Yoga Academy in Rishikesh. Cat believes in the transformative power of yoga on and off the mat. In asana practice, Cat encourages students to move their bodies with vigor in order to find freedom in the mind. In meditation practice, Cat uses breath to facilitate the movement of energy within the physical body. When not practicing yoga, Cat enjoys all that the outdoors has to offer! She is an avid skier, hiker and explorer!

Guest Instructor
Brandy Berlin

A lifelong educator, E-RYT 500, Tier 3 Baptiste Yoga Influencer and Reiki Master, Brandy Berlin has a heart for authentic connection. Co-owner of Namaspa Yoga Community, she believes together the teacher and the taught do the teaching. Notorious for her radically authentic, playfully powerful and comically introspective classes, workshops, trainings and retreats, she invites all humans to break open their forbidden happiness and lead more empowered lives.

Schedule
​Hours: 7am-7pm MST

January 14–17: Presence | Seek the Truth | Be Willing to Come Apart (Can be in person or live online weekend.)
February 12–14: Vitality | Step Out of Your Comfort Zone | Commit to Growth (all live online weekend)
March 11–14: Equanimity | Shift Your Vision | Drop What You Know (Can be in person or live online weekend.)
April 8–11: Restoration | Relax with What Is | Remove the Rocks (all live online weekend)
MAY 6–9: Centering | Don't Rush the Process | Be True to Yourself (Can be in person or live online weekend.)
June 3–6: Triumph | Be Still & Know | Understand that the Whole is the Goal (Can be in person or live online weekend.)

This is a Yoga Alliance approved LIVE training which means you will have the opportunity to ask questions in real time, get personalized feedback, connect with other participants, and grow in your teaching and practice with the guidance of the incredible team of facilitators.

To see each week's modules and all the curriculum that is covered, click the button below.

MODULES

Brittany is a thoughtful and purposeful leader. I throughly enjoyed training with her and could not imagine any other experience. She communicated effectively with the group before, during and after the training and provided support throughout the process. She brought together a diverse group of guest facilitators that added so much perspective and value to the training. I appreciated her deep respect for the roots of yoga and honoring where yoga began. The training also included a diversity and inclusion workshop which was incredibly impactful and should be required content for all teacher training programs. It is clear that Brittany practices yoga on and off her mat and is personally committed to showing up, doing the work, and growing out of all experiences.
~Catherine Moede, E-RYT 200 and 500 RYT

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12 Month Payment Plans & Scholarships Available 

Hey Brit! I feel so much more prepared to lead 200 hour trainings after the 300 with you than all the ones I lead before. My ability to hold space and facilitate changed so much after studying with you. Grateful for the example you provided and your support! 💛 Thank you for sharing your wisdom! ~Cat