200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training

Teacher Trainings
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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