YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
2021 Yoga Alliance-Certified 200 HR Yoga Teacher Training
Led by Tracie Zamiska:
ERYT200, YACEP, Yoga Medicine Teacher Reiki Master
FREE Virtual Information Sessions - Get $50 off Early Bird Pricing for Attending!
February 28, 2021 from 4:00 - 5:00 PM - Register Online
About Our Program
The Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) program is a incredibly transformative journey, often changing your life in unexpected ways. It’s a beautiful way to deepen your practice, deepen your relationship with yourself, and serve your community in a positive, informed, and healing way.
Our YTT Program is a Yoga Alliance-Certified 200 HR program designed to provide students with mastery of yoga foundations to ensure the highest level teacher. An anatomy-based program, our YTT is a practical and useful teacher training based in Ashtanga vinyasa-style yoga applied in accessible and therapeutic ways. You’ll emerge with the ability to tailor the practice of yoga to each of your students so that yoga fits the body - not the other way around. In addition to exploring the history of yoga, you’ll also learn how yoga can be applied as medicine to heal the nervous system and restore function in joints and muscles. The end result is finding your specific path to help heal and empower yourself and your students.
Why Yoga Alliance?
We have chosen to complete the rigorous certification process through Yoga Alliance, the only governing body of yoga, to ensure that our program meets the standards set by the worldwide yoga community. We want to properly prepare our teachers to teach safely to all populations and have a well-rounded educational experience that goes beyond the asana.
Program Dates:
Fridays 6:00-8:30pm; Saturdays and Sundays 9:00am-6:00pm
MARCH – 19-21
APRIL – 16-18
MAY – 14-16
JUNE – 11-13
JULY – 16-18
AUGUST – 20-22
SEPTEMBER – 17-19
OCTOBER – 23-24 Review, written test and practice class
What You’ll Learn:
Anatomy, alignment, and physiology
Developing your unique voice as a teacher
The business of yoga, including insurance, legal, and ethics
Class sequencing and theming
How to evaluate a body and provide mindful, appropriate adjustments
The art of therapeutic private sessions
Yoga tools to reduce stress and restore the nervous system
Creating workshops and online content
Yoga philosophy and Ayurveda
And more!
About Our Teachers
Tracie Zamiska
Program Leader
Tracie is a Yoga Medicine Therapist, Registered Yoga Teacher, Life Coach & Reiki Master. She draws upon her anatomy and alignment education to create safe, nurturing and healing experiences for her clients. By inviting her clients to rethink what their bodies are capable of and encourage a healthy dialogue with self, her classes offer challenge on physical, emotional and spiritual levels. All of her trainings and programs are built around healing and gaining a stronger connection with self. Through that connection she believes that every BODY can find a place of empowerment, strength and healing. You can learn more about Tracie and see what she's up to by visiting her website!
Guest Teachers and Special Sessions
Tracy Rinehart
Philosophy Sessions
Tracy, E-RYT 500, YACEP, CCYT appreciates yoga for its path to self-discovery. Her practice has taken her into the dark shadows within her body. And, her practice has revealed to her the light of her own sweet soul. Having experienced the healing, growth and transformation that a yoga practice provides, she became interested in and committed to connecting with others by teaching yoga. Her own inner work allows her to offer compassion, strength, patience, grace and love to those she teaches, guides and supports.
Megan Davis
Trauma Informed Teaching
Megan Davis RYT/500, LISW
Megan loves to teach! She loves to hold space, especially for women, teens and children. A clinical social worker turned yogi, her mission is to share yoga and mindfulness as resources toward healing from anxiety, grief and trauma (self included!). Megan has extensive training around trauma-informed yoga and facilitates trainings for yoga instructors, counselors and educators on teaching yoga and mindfulness practices through this lens.
Her teaching style is rooted in the elements, moving between earth, water and fire with every flow, breath, release, and connection. Music fuels her classes; don't be surprised if we end up singing, laughing or crying together...those are the cornerstones of true connection anyway, right? In every class, with any age yogi, Megan’s goal is always to create space for students to take ownership over their own experience and find moments to just BE.
Megan’s intention in this crazy beautiful life is to be a conduit of change; she truly believes that each of us has the capacity for resilience and grace, if given the opportunity to uncover it. When not teaching or practicing yoga, you can find her with her kiddos, obsessing over the perfect yoga playlist, warming up her coffee for the 20th time, or chasing the sunshine.
Betsy Black
Ayurveda
Betsy is a NAMA certified Ayurvedic Practitioner and Registered Yoga teacher. She studied Ayurveda under Dr. Vasant Lad in both New Mexico and India, and continues to study Yogic wisdom as a devoted student of Swami Ashutosh Muni. When she first discovered yoga, it immediately began to transform her from the inside out. Life became a journey; obstacles were no longer feared, but embraced as opportunities for personal and spiritual growth. Betsy believes that life is ultimately a path to Self-realization, and Yoga and Ayurveda are here to help us navigate the many twists and turns along the way. Betsy offers Ayurvedic consultations, treatments, and group workshops in the greater Akron area. You can visit her website: www.Ayurvedawithbetsy.com
Sandy Brotje
Yamas and Niyamas
Sandy found yoga when her three children were in middle school. She was looking for a way to become calmer, grounded and less stressed. Yoga provided that. It continues to help Sandy deal with the stress of living this modern life. It is her way of getting back to what matters – love and compassion for all beings.
Sandy has practice at many of the area’s yoga studios. She has also taken workshops on yoga, meditation and pranayama all over the country. She loves the diversity of the studios, teachings and instructors. Influences of many of those teachers can be seen in Sandys’s teaching style. Sandy believes that slow steady breathing, soft soothing music and holding poses a bit longer will cultivate a calm mind.
Lindsay Ridinger
Beginners
Lindsay graduated from Yoga Strong, LLC's RYT 200-hour program in January 2015. In addition to teaching for Akron Yoga and Wellness, Lindsay enjoys teaching friends and family yoga in her apartment. She enjoys taking yoga classes with different teachers, at different studios and in different spaces - the variety supports her growth as a teacher and a student. She encourages her students do the same. One of Lindsay's favorite quotes is Eleanor Roosevelt's "Do one thing every day that scares you" because challenging and surprising herself has helped Lindsay grow into a happier, more confident woman. She hopes her students discover new challenges in her classes and grow their practice as a result of trying something new to benefit the mind, body and soul.
Jen Hayes
Special Populations
Jen Griest Hayes, BS, MA, RYT, RCYT, spent 17 years in the classroom as an Intervention Specialist and team teacher, spanning grades K-12. As a yoga practitioner, she intuitively integrated yoga-based tools and techniques to help her students increase movement while learning self-regulation skills. Noticing the tremendous benefit her students were experiencing, Jen went on to obtain yoga teacher certifications for all ages and abilities, from birth through teens and into adulthood, including those with autism/special needs. She completed the 95 hour Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher certification through the ChildLight Yoga program (RCYS) and her RYT-200 through Nirvana Yoga. Jen is the owner of Afterlight Fitness and Educational Consulting, the Director of Pre/Postnatal, Early Development, and Specialty Programs at Grow With Me Yoga & Fitness Studio in Akron, and a Director of Programs and Teacher Development for ZENworks Yoga. As a trainer for Yoga 4 Classrooms, she inspires school professionals to integrate yoga and mindfulness throughout the school day to support self-regulation, learning and positive climate. Jen lives in the Akron/Cleveland area with her husband and son.
TUITION INFORMATION
Early bird tuition
$2,500 now through January 31, 2021
$2,700 February 1-14, 2021
Regular tuition price
(after February 15, 2021)
$3,000
Tuition includes your admission to regular weekly classes and any workshops led by Tracie. You will be responsible for purchasing several books for the training. A $200 deposit is due at acceptance into the program.
Payment plans are available. Prices above include $200 deposit.