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Deepen Your Purpose + Your Practice.

Discover authentic yoga teaching with Folk Yoga Certification Training. Honor tradition, learn to share its benefits, and grow as a teacher.

BECOME A YOGA TEACHER

LEARN FROM THE BEST

Study under San Francisco’s most experienced yoga teachers; Folk yoga teacher trainers have on average more than 15 years of yoga training experience.

create COMMUNITY

You will be studying, teaching, learning, and growing in an intimate group of fellow students in a supportive space held by seasoned professionals. Your personal transformation and relationships will have life-time impacts.

Make it personal

By learning from a varied teaching staff from different styles, you will learn to tap into your own practice as the source for your teaching. This training ignites the life-long study of yoga--we don't teach scripts!

With a varied curriculum, you can choose programs that meet your unique interests.

BUILD A QUALITY FOUNDATION

Learn the foundations of human anatomy, yoga philosophy, and the cultural context of yoga. Folk pedagogy reinforces what you learn by asking you to practice teaching it almost from the first day!

Yoga Programs

Find the right yoga teacher training program for you. Whether you’re just beginning or a seasoned instructor, you’re in the right place. With more than 50 yoga-related offerings throughout the year, the Folk Yoga Teacher Training School is designed to fit your lifestyle and expand your knowledge.

LEARN TO TEACH
YOUR PRACTICE.

Integrity + Experience

Folk is committed to educating the whole person. At the Folk Yoga School, you’ll learn from San Francisco’s most experienced teachers, who support you to cultivate a practice that applies on and off the mat, and is rooted in a deep knowledge and respect for the practice of yoga and its origins.

Innovation + Expansion

Choose from a wide variety of professional yoga education through our Yoga Alliance®® registered 200-Hour and 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training programs, specialty trainings, and workshops. You can specialize in teaching Trauma-Informed, Prenatal, Kids + Teens, and more to share your love of yoga with the specific students you hope to better serve.

NOTE FROM A TEACHER

I love being part of the Folk Yoga School. The Folk programs do a great job of fully embracing & teaching all the aspects of yoga, not just asana but all the wonderful facets that Yoga encompasses! As a teacher, I can say that this program comes from a place of true integrity and honors YOGA. -Martin Scott, E-RYT 500