Weekend Workshops for Yoga Teachers — Dates and Details
Yoga Alliance CEu’s. Electives towards 300-hour certification. Personal Growth and Specialization
$150-$299 per weekend | 5–12 CEU hours each | Hamburg, NY | Open to all 200-hour certified teachers & non-teachers | eligible for Yoga Alliance continuing education hours (CEUs).
Continuing education at the pace your life allows.
You don't need to commit to a year-long training to keep growing as a teacher.
Each of these weekend workshops is a self-contained deep-dive into a specialized topic. Take one when the topic calls to you. Take another when your schedule allows. Build your advanced education at the pace that fits your life.
A weekend every quarter plus one or two specialty modules a year adds up to serious professional development — without ever committing to more than you can give.
Who these workshops are for.
Practicing teachers who want to specialize.
You've been teaching for a while. You're ready to go deeper on the topics that matter to your students — pain, trauma, anxiety, aging, somatic work — without enrolling in a full advanced program.
Teachers who need CEUs.
Each workshop is Yoga Alliance CEU-eligible. Three weekends a year keeps you current with continuing education requirements.
Teachers exploring whether a longer certification is the right fit.
When you've taken a few workshops and decide you want the full credential, you can apply for the Advanced Certification. Once accepted, your completed workshop hours count toward the certification. No re-paying, no credit-conversion process — the hours you've already done are hours you've already done.
Healthcare providers integrating yoga into their work.
Many of our workshop participants are nurses, therapists, and physicians using yoga clinically. The evidence-based approach translates directly to professional practice.
Non-teachers looking to support themselves or others through yogic approaches
These electives are geared towards teachers and will include time practicing teaching techniques to a partner, but they are open to the curious non-teacher looking for deeper understanding.
Upcoming Trainings
Teaching Beginners
October 3–4, 2026 | Saturday and Sunday, 12–5 pm / 10 hours / $299
Enrollment closes Friday, September 25
At Shine, the beginners series goes to the most experienced teacher in the building. Since 2016, that's been me, and I've never handed it off.
A beginner has no reference for anything you say. Engage your core means nothing to a body that has never been asked.Root down through the four corners of your feet is a beautiful cue and a foreign language. Everything you learned to say to a room of experienced students rests on years of shared vocabulary. The person in front of you doesn't have yet. Teach her the way you teach your Tuesday flow, and she'll spend the hour looking around the room to see whether she's doing it right.
Teach her step by step, in language her body can follow, and she learns what she's doing and why. She stops watching the room.
And she stays — students who walked into my first beginners series ten years ago are still practicing with me. Teaching beginners well is the most reliable way I know to build a clientele, and it's the most direct way any of us grows yoga itself.
Over the weekend:
The structure. The shape of a series that lets someone who has never taken a class understand what her body is doing inside a specific posture — what to introduce, in what order, and what to leave out for now.
Cues that land for people who have never been cued. How to build vocabulary in a body that has none, so a beginner can find the action you're naming rather than guess at it.
Building confidence. The choices in language and pacing that let a new student stop checking the room and start feeling her own body.
Corrections that work. How to adjust and redirect without calling anyone out or making a new student uncomfortable — so she's helped rather than exposed.
Your own program, and the follow-up. Building a series you can run, and what to do in the days and weeks afterward, so new students come back.
You'll leave with a program you can teach and a way of speaking that works on the first day of someone's practice.
10 Yoga Alliance CEUs. 10 hours toward the 300-hour certification. Open to teachers with a 200-hour certification from any school; no application required.
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New to studying with us? This is a good place to start — one weekend, no application, and you'll see how we work. Our foundational module, Foundations: The Teacher's Guide To and Through the Body, begins two weeks later on October 17.
Yoga for healthy aging
November 7–8, 2026 | $299
Teaching students 50 and beyond — bone density, balance, mobility, cognition, and the pedagogical shifts that make a class serve aging bodies rather than mildly accommodate them.
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The Business of Yoga
January 17, 2027 | $150
Pricing, marketing, contracts, and building a sustainable business beyond the studio drop-in fee. Practical business skills for yoga teachers who want to make a living. Includes a checklist of all the elements needed to get started as a yoga business founder.
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Quieting the Mind
January 23-24, 2027 | $299
Practical, evidence-based approaches to teaching students managing anxiety, overwhelm, a busy mind, grief, and depression. Includes lecture on nervous system regulation along with the means of supporting students in need of a quiet mind from interpersonal skills through sequencing.
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Alignment & Hands-on Assists
February 27-28, 2027 | $299
Learn to safely support students alignment through trauma-informed energetic and hands-on assists. Alignment and cuing will be thoroughly taught for each posture that we provide hands-on assists for. A good amount of this training will be spent practicing hands-on assists with a partner.
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Creating a journey through presence, sequencing, and energetics
April 3-4, 2027 | $299
The teaching skills nobody trained you in. How to use your voice, choose your language, and hold a room — for new teachers building confidence and experienced teachers refining their craft. Included in this training will be practical sequencing —how to design intelligent, intentional class sequences that support and embody a concept. Theme development and energetic management will also be explored.
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Yoga Philosophy in Modern Practice Part 1—Yoga Sutras & Meditation Techniques
September 25–26, 2027 | $299
The Yoga Sutras and how to share them with modern students in a way that lands rather than alienates. Day two will be dedicated to the purpose of yoga teaching meditation.
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About the method behind the workshops
These workshops are part of the Deep Yoga Method — a pedagogically rigorous, evidence-based approach to teaching yoga developed over seventeen years. Learn more about the method
Workshops as a Pathway
Many teachers start with a weekend and end up applying to the Advanced Certification a year or two later. We built the structure to support that.
If you take a workshop and later apply for the Advanced Certification, your completed workshop hours count directly toward your certification hours. You don't pay twice, and you don't lose credit. The workshop you took because it called to you becomes part of the larger education you build over time.
You're never obligated to pursue a certification. Many teachers take workshops year after year purely for continuing education, and that's a perfectly good use of these offerings. But if the path takes you toward something larger, we've made sure it can.
FAQs
Do I need to be a current certification student to attend?
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No. Weekend workshops are open to anyone with a 200-hour yoga teacher certification, and to students who aren't teachers but understand the rigor of the program and that the focus will be on teaching.
Are these Yoga Alliance CEU-eligible?
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Yes. We are a YACEP ( Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider). All workshops are eligible for between 5 and 12 hours of CEU credit.
Can I take more than one workshop?
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Sure! You can take as many as you like. There’s no limit and they are not designed to be taken in any order.
Will my workshop hours count if I apply for the Advanced Certification?
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Yes. Workshop hours apply directly to certification hours once you've been accepted into the Advanced Certification — with no re-payment or conversion process. Workshops you've already taken count immediately upon acceptance.
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What's the difference between a workshop and a specialty module?
Workshops are 10–12 hours over one weekend, focused on a single specialized topic. Specialty modules are 30 hours over two weekends, designed as comprehensive deep-dives into a population or clinical area. Modules also teach a specific modality of yoga such as private sessions, designing retreats, creating integration programs, etc.