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200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training

Become a Certified Yoga Instructor

Welcome to the next step on your yoga journey!  VIDA’s 200-hour Yoga Alliance Registered Teacher Training Program is your launch pad for leading with purpose and expanding your capacity to live life more fully. Whether you are looking to teach or want to deepen your personal practice, this program will provide you with the tools, structure, and support to continue on your journey with confidence.

This course follows the path outlined in the Pancha Maya Kosha Model of Being, as laid out in the Taittiriya Upanishad, and the associated yoga practices for each layer.  Starting with the temporary physical (Asana or postures), we then move to the energetic system (Pranayama), the mind (Meditation), the Intellect (Philosophy), and finally the timeless Self or Atman (Awareness without object) that is the foundation of the manifest Universe.  Yeah, it’s deep!

Both Reston and Yards courses are led and developed by Chris Parkison, Julia Romano, and other Master instructors from the DMV Community.  You’ll learn to teach from Masters who have taught and shared what they learned from their Masters and their own experiences, continuing the unbroken and unbreakable chain of transmission that goes back thousands of years.

We hold two teacher trainings per year- one at our Yards location and one at our Reston location.  Each is 10 weekends (Saturday and Sunday) over 4 months.  Upon graduation, you will be a 200-hour certified Yoga Teacher, qualified to lead classes anywhere in the world.

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Q&A Open Houses

Sept 13 at 1:15 pm – Logan Circle
Oct 11 at 1:15 pm – Yards
Oct 25 at 1:30 pm – Reston
Dec 6 at 1:30 pm – Reston

Yards 2025-2026

November
15-16 and 22-23
December
6-7 and 13-14
January
3-4, 10-11, and 24-25
February
7-8 and 21-22
March
7-8

Registration Deadline

Early Bird – October 17th
Regular – November 14th

Reston 2026

January
3-4, 10-11, and 24-25
February
7-8 and 21-22
March
7-8, 21-22, and 28-29
April
11-12 and 25-26

Registration Deadline

Early Bird – December 12th
Regular – Janurary 2nd

Our Instructors

Chris Parkison
Chris Parkison
Yoga Alliance E-RYT 200, E-RYT 500
Caroline Obeng
Caroline Obeng
Yoga Alliance E-RYT 200

Studio Programs Manager
Reston Faculty
Adrianne Du’sauzay
Adrianne Du’sauzay
Yoga Alliance E-RYT 200
Reston/Yards Faculty
Minjung Seo
Minjung Seo
Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500
Reston Faculty
Lori Perkins
Lori Perkins
Yards Faculty

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