Yoga Teacher Training
Since 2010, Yoga Garden SF has become San Francisco’s premier center for yoga teacher training and yoga teacher certification. Yoga teacher training at Yoga Garden SF is derived from the deep tradition and technical excellence of the great yoga lineages. But we don’t just train yoga teachers; rather, we strive to awaken the next great innovators. We do this by laying a solid foundation of technical and academic competence and igniting a passion for self discovery and service to others.
Our graduates become yoga teachers and studio owners around the globe.
Click here to hear David Nelson, YGSF Teacher Training Director, talk about who takes our training.
Program Format and Schedule
Yoga Garden SF is a Registered Yoga School at the 200-hour level with Yoga Alliance. Graduates of our 200-hour program may register with Yoga Alliance to be Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT).
We offer a 200-hour Yoga Alliance®-registered yoga teacher certification in two formats: an extended series of 12 weeks during evenings and weekend afternoons, or an intensive of 28 days.
Our yoga teacher training includes a solid foundation in yoga history, yoga philosophy, yoga practice, and teaching skills. Even if you don’t plan to teach you will find that this structured curriculum will be personally transformative and forever deepen your relationship to yoga.
Click on one of our next 200-hour trainings to learn more about our program:
- January 31-February 26, 2012 (28-day intensive)
- April 3-June 24, 2012 (12-week, part-time)
- May 1-May 27 (28-day intensive)
- September 11-December 9, 2012 (12-week, part-time)
- October 2-28, 2012 (28-day intensive)
The Yoga Garden SF Difference: How Yoga Works
Our program synthesizes the integrity of Iyengar yoga, the fire of Ashtanga yoga, and the flowing grace of Vinyasa yoga, and unlocks the mystery of how yoga works. We don’t just give you a script to teach, but the tools to share your own practice in a way that delivers the benefits of yoga to everyone. Even if you don’t plan to teach, you will understand how yoga works in your own life.
Our teachers bring decades of experience teaching, practicing, studying, and living yoga to mentor you in your practice and teaching.
Study, Learn, Practice, Teach
At its heart, hatha yoga is a spiritual practice explored through the body, mind, senses. By deepening your own experience of yoga, our programs make you better prepared to share with others.
We also offer Yoga Alliance-registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher Certification (RPYT), Kids’ Yoga or Childrens’ Yoga Teacher Training. Continuing education credits are available throughout the year.
