



Introducing our 300hr Yoga Advanced Teacher Training Program
Taking your knowledge to the next level- now is the time to lead the way towards greater awareness, greater knowledge and greater wellness. We welcome you to join us in the 300 hr Yoga Training program as a springboard from your 200 hr level, whether completed with us at the Yogashala wellness centre or elsewhere. As an instructor or wellness/healthcare professional, you have seen and experienced the beneficial impact of yoga and now more than ever, we need to continue to offer an informed and insightful pathway for people to move through their lives with greater wellness in mind, body and spirit. At The Yogashala Wellness Centre, we bring global and current knowledge from an experienced faculty that will inform and support your learnings professional and personally.
offered at: The Yogashala Wellness Centre, Waterdown, Ontario
Email:
Address:
937 Centre Road
Hamilton, ON, Canada L8N 2Z7
About the course
Our 300 HR online YTT builds on the foundation of a 200 hour yoga teacher training by going further into the practice of yoga, both in the classroom, on our mat and off as a lifestyle.
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Expand your knowledge at your own pace, both in person and online — Our 300 hr yoga teacher training course covers advanced levels of yoga, developing your knowledge of your own practice, enabling you to pass this on to your students.

Schedule
This program offers a variety of options in how you receive each course and how you would like to schedule and structure the time frame for how to move through the program. Listed with each course description is the delivery mode: in-person, live zoom or pre-recorded. Courses can be chosen based on your availability and electives on your area of interest. Core curriculum course are mandatory, but can be done in any order and only one is a prerequisite to Electives ( see below).
Curriculum
Core Curriculum
Philosophies of Yoga Then and Now- winter schedule
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Using Yoga philosophies to explore the unfolding of yoga through the various ages of mankind’s conscious development and how yoga has gained a needed popularity for where we have arrived in our current society.
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Understanding how our involution through the practice of yoga will assist in the continued evolution of humankind.
The Inward Journey: Fascial Yin - Fall offering TBA
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This insightful training will bring a clear understanding to the approach, the effects and the benefits of yin yoga. Understanding the outcome of long-term stress on our systems, we will journey inwardly, exploring how a yin approach can be part of the solution to a much needed recovery period in our modern day stress paradigm.
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This unique approach will give you all the in-depth tools you need to be a successful and profoundly effective yin instructor to keep your students coming back again and again.
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This study takes you on a deep dive in understanding fascia, embodiment, trauma, and yin yoga as a platform for healing in a holistic approach that you will experience in your own body and in turn share with students and clients.
Sensory Awareness & Yoga: The Missing Link for Trauma - Fall
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Trauma is not an event, but a lasting response of the nervous system when we face an experience that overwhelms us. As a yoga practitioner, instructor, clinician, this course will offer you a foundational understanding of how the trauma response shapes us and our life experience.
As we begin to understand and identify the effects of traumatic stress in our own being, we become better able to support ourselves and others dealing with it's impact on our lives. Please note: this course is a prerequisite to the elective course of Trauma-Informed Yoga:Beyond Calm to Resilience with Dr Jackie Ang
Anatomy of Connection - Spring TBD
Advancing Technique with Wall work- Late Spring
Somatic Anatomy - Spring TBD
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The Art of Hands on Assisting - TBD
Electives
The electives list will continue to be developed to offer over above the required hours as a means of customizing courses to support your areas of interest in learning. These courses can be used as part of 300hr program or as separate CEC accumulation.
Ayurveda and Yoga - Matthew Remski - pre-recorded
Trauma-Informed Yoga:Beyond Calm to Resilience with Dr Jackie Ang - Winter
Advanced Asana: How, When and Why
Restorative Yoga with Jackie Gaulton- winter
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Relevant yoga philosophy, technical physiological, energetic and practical considerations, and specific applications, will be discussed. You will gain a greater knowledge of the science of relaxation and the role of Restorative Yoga practice in the downregulation of the nervous system stress response.
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Restorative Yoga has been found to reduce the physical and emotional impact of stress and anxiety, promotes deep sleep, calms the sympathetic nervous system, and supports healing and overall wellness of those who practice regularly. We will consider the scientific findings in relation to the philosophy and psychology of yoga, and how we as teachers can incorporate this learning into our teaching.
Pain Care Aware Yoga Foundation Course - pre-recorded- Neil Pearson PT, MSc, BA-BPHE, C-IAYT, ERYT500, YACEP
& Lisa Pearson C-IAYT, ERYT500, YACEP
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Gain confidence and knowledge in effective pain care! Learn to guide students/clients with proven, science informed pain care skills, rooted in traditional yoga teachings. In this 30-hour online professional development program, you will dive deep into yoga teachings and pain science, explore pain as a human condition and learn how to foster fearlessness, hope and resilience in yourself and your students when there is pain.