For students who have completed an approved 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training program, the 300 hour program will offer detailed depths that build on that foundation. The 300 hour program is comprised of 270+ contact hours and 30 non-contact hours distributed between modules and their corresponding homework that can be completed at your chosen pace.

Many participants take the long view, though you could complete the program in a little over two years, if you chose. Modules are offered regularly in 2 and 4 day formats, and occasionally with online components. The full details of the format are available in the Information Package, which you can request by email.

Get all of the details here: https://myyogatown.com/300-hour-yoga-teacher-training/

Calling all runners! Social distancing doesn't mean we can’t run and do yoga! We just need to do it “together” from a distance.

 

Let’s connect virtually to support, inspire and motivate one another. Now is a great time to grow your fitness and prepare for future races. 

We are partnering with Run Ottawa to offer a unique run and yoga program - Virtual Run Club.

Ian Fraser, the Race Director for Run Ottawa will be your coach. Tracy Billows, avid runner & yogi, will be your yoga guide.

What's included?

• A customized training plan, delivered online.

Whether you're a new runner working up to a 5k, or a seasoned runner looking to improve your 1/2 marathon time, your training program will be customized to meet your goals.

• Online run presentations & Q&A.

Each week, Run Coach Ian Fraser will do a 20-30min presentation on a topic related to running (eg - nutrition tips, cross training, motivation, psychology of running, and more) Following each presentation Ian will host a Q&A session to answer all of your running and training questions. (Hosted online via Zoom)

• Yoga For Runners Class

Each week Tracy Billows will guide you through a private, 50 minute Yoga For Runners class. (Hosted online via Zoom)

• Entry To Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend’s Virtual Running Event

Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend has been cancelled, but you will receive a free entry to a virtual running event they will be hosting. More detail on this very cool concept and event to follow.

Details:

• 8 weeks
• Tuesday April 7th - Thursday May 28th
• Every Tuesday night 7pm, with run coach Ian Fraser
• Every Thursday night 7pm, Yoga for Runners with Tracy Billows
• Investment: $100

Some of the best ways to stay healthy, both mentally and physically, during these unprecedented times are: get your body moving, spend time outdoors, practice yoga, stay connected. 

Hope you'll join us!

Join Dana for breath-focused practices that will explore pranayama techniques, gentle movement and meditation. Each week will encompass a different theme which will be woven through the specific movements, breath techniques and meditation. Let’s take this journey together and explore the powerful capacity for transformation and change in uncertain times.

Week 1: Compassionate Presence in Unpredictable Times
Week 2: Deepening the Well - Finding your inner resources for strength
Week 3: Journey to Joy
Week 4: The Guidance of Gratitude

Online offering via Zoom. 

Link for sign in will be emailed to you a couple hours before the workshop.

Dates: Saturday's April 11, 18, 25, May 2
Time: 11am - 12pm
Investment: $60 full series, $20 for single drop in.

Ready to get intentional about your evolution this year?

 

Inspired by the cycles of nature, each season we have an opportunity to shed layers of past and grow in new ways. Join Alex Ure for this 2-hour class to reflect and release the first part of 2020 and get inspired for what lies ahead.

 

The practice will start with an expansive flow to get out of our heads and into our bodies. Alex will then lead you through guided journalling to let go of the past, and get inspired for what is next. Workshop will conclude with a meditation to get clear and connected to your intentions for Spring. An intentional continuation of the evolution of you!

Suitable for all levels, please bring your yoga gear, a journal and pen.

Date: Friday May 1st
Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Investment: $40 / $30 member
Location: Stittsville

Learn the benefits and methods of adapting yoga into a chair-based practice for seniors, including those with specific conditions.

 

This weekend training includes…

• Who are seniors? Looking at the aging population and general overviews of statistics, health, and wellness challenges relevant to seniors
• Evidence-based approach to the benefits of yoga for these groups
• The Ayurvedic lens on ageing and supportive practices
• Exploring challenges of aging – mechanical and functional, including outlines of the condition, risk factors, and how yoga practice can intervene
• Guidelines related to pain and restrictions
• What to expect in a chair yoga class, how to set up, and how to approach teaching

This course is for everyone and counts as one credit in the 300 hour yoga teacher training program.

 

**Please bring your own folding chair.

 

Date: Sat. May 30th & Sun May 31st
Time: 9am - 5pm
Investment: $275 + hst
Location: Stittsville

Available for Yoga Alliance CEP credits.

Core work and pranayama are so beautifully linked that after this weekend you may overhaul your whole approach to practice.

This weekend we will…

• Examine the anatomy of breath work and core, from the diaphragm to the pelvic floor
• Explore various pranayama techniques and identify challenges to practice and how to overcome them
• Explore complementary approaches, including self-massage, to breathing and moving skillfully
• Move through practices that support skillful pranayama, and go through the many, many therapeutic benefits to skillful pranayama
• Chart a practical progression for ourselves to take home and work on

Core work and skillful pranayama are two of the most important and most misunderstood elements of a yoga practice. With proximity to the fitness industry, yoga often borrows from Pilates and gym culture, because the classical abdominal strengthening work of yoga was deemed too fringe or advanced. What’s resulted is the continued belief that a hard, flat abdomen is desirable, when we want our abdominal muscles to be both strong and supple. Join us to get steady and calm at centre!

Date: September 19 & 20, 2020
Time: 9am – 5pm
Investment: $275 + HST
Location: Stittsville
Available for Yoga Alliance CEP credits.
*No refunds.

Runs September 25, 2020 - April 30, 2021

 

YOU LOVE YOGA! and whether you’ve been practicing 9 months or 9 years, you may want to keep exploring yoga in new ways - both on and off your mat.

 

The Yogatown 200hr Hatha Yoga Teacher Training may be the perfect way to do that. If you want to expand your practice, start a new career, or connect with your yoga family in a deeper way, teacher training is an incredible personal growth experience.

 

SCHEDULE  

 

All days run approx. 8am - 5pm

• Sept. 25, 26, 27, 28
• Oct. 24, 25
• Nov. 14, 15, 28, 29
• Dec. 12, 13
• Jan 9, 10, 30, 31
• Feb. 20, 21
• March 27, 28
• April 17, 18, 24, 25
• April 30th - evening

TUITION

 

$2900 + HST if paid in full by May 31st

$3200 + HST if paid in full by Sept. 15th

$3500 + HST for monthly payment plan. (please inquire)

 

$500 + hst non-refundable deposit is due with application.

 

No refunds on balance of tuition after Sept. 1st, 2020

 

Yogatown 10 class card is included. 

 

LOCATION

 

Yogatown Stittsville

 

Registration Details found at: www.myyogatown.com/yogatown-200hr-teacher-training

Knowing something for the sake of knowing something only has benefits while playing Trivial Pursuit. Yoga philosophy is only practical if it provides us guidance for living well and helping us navigate the difficulties of life with greater ease and less suffering. This weekend offers you space to work through philosophy, stories, and perspectives on yoga within community for synthesis that’s harder to achieve on our own.

Yoga has a rich history of multiple threads of thought, and contemporary yogis get to draw on all of this history in addition to contemporary theories on yoga. We are lucky to have so much to study!

This course will…

• Have pre-requisite reading so yogis show up ready to dive into informed discussion along four themes
• Your reading will include selections from source texts, including The Bhagavad Gita, as well as commentary and modern scholarship, such as Michael Stone’s work.
• Invigorate your passion for yoga “off the mat”

Expect a weekend of cozy conversation, tea, and occasional movement and meditation breaks to care for your bodymind during our course of study.

Date: November 21 & 22, 2020
Time: 9am – 5pm
Investment: $275 + HST
Location: Stittsville
Available for Yoga Alliance CEP credits.
*No refunds.

Yoga sheds light into the depth of our inextricable mind-body connection, so when we are willing to be still in our bodies, we better cultivate stillness for our minds. Yin Yoga is a young yoga practice that draws on ancient wisdom, and this training honours both old and new knowledge so you can practice with greater clarity and purpose.

This weekend is for practitioners and teachers looking to taste yin practice, complementary practices (including self-massage), and some history and philosophy.

We will….

• Ask “why yin?”: the physiology of stretch and biotensegrity
• History, culture + players of Yin Yoga
• Introduction to meridians theory
• Ayurvedic lens on Yin Yoga
• Supportive + advanced posture prop use, so you have options to practice with in the future

For participants who also do the Teach Yin Yoga weekend, you will receive a 32 hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training certificate and can use these hours as your Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Units.

Date: December 5 & 6, 2020
Time: 9am – 5pm
Investment: $275 + HST
Location: Stittsville
Available for Yoga Alliance CEP credits.
*No refunds.

Suitable for yoga teachers looking to delve into offering Yin Yoga or to further refine their understanding of why, when and how to Yin, we will explore Yin and complementary practices over the course of two weekends.

This second weekend devoted to teaching Yin covers…

• Muscular-Skeletal anatomy relevant to yin
• Teaching methods for a supportive atmosphere
• Yin sequences for beginners and advanced practices
• Complementary practices, including gentle, mellow movements for a well-rounded Yin Yoga experience
• Reflective homework for practice and teaching development

For participants who also do the Experience Yin Yoga weekend, you will receive a 32 hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training certificate and can use these hours as your Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Units.

Date: January 16 & 17, 2021
Time: 9am – 5pm
Investment: $275 + HST
Location: Stittsville
Available for Yoga Alliance CEP credits.
*No refunds.

You dove into Ayurveda, you got excited about these concepts, but there’s a lot more to know. Every list and concept in yoga and Ayurveda is the beginning of a new list that refines our understanding, and on the path of Ayurveda, there’s no end to the refinement.

 

This weekend will explore…

• Secondary sites of dosha accumulation and practices for their balancing
• Exploration of all principles of Sankya, as they relate to Ayurveda
• Bodily tissues (dhatus), channels and systems (srotamsi) and their relationship to the chakras
• Ayurvedic digestion (agni) and nutrition (soma)

This continuing Ayurveda education builds on Ayurveda Foundations to carry those concepts into greater detail and depth, while providing space and guidance for you to apply them to your life. Participants will have homework to examine the effects of lifestyle and dietary changes. Changes made are entirely up to the practitioner, and will be selected in consultation with the trainer during the course of training.

 

Date: February 27 & 28, 2021

Time: 9am - 5pm

Investment: $275 + HST

Location: Stittsville

Available for Yoga Alliance CEP credits.
*No refunds.