200 Hour Teacher Training
Overview
Tapas Yoga’s 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training is a Yoga Alliance-certified program that offer the opportunity for an immersive yoga experience, learning and refining the crucial tools for sharing yoga with others while deepening each trainees personal practice and knowledge of the yoga tradition.
Limited to 15 trainees and aimed at both teaching skills and personal growth, this course is an immersive yoga experience. This program is not specific to Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga, but a general yoga training touching on many traditions and styles.

Curriculum
Expect to learn all the skills essential to successfully teaching yoga to others
- postures, anatomy, sequencing, adjustments—as well as the origins, philosophy, schools, and gurus of yoga’s long history and profound, contemplative roots.
- Posture instruction, modification, & use of props
- Therapeutic posture application
- Postures: names, types, meanings, etc
- How to compose a class
- Adjustments: physical, verbal, visual
- Anatomy and physiology
- Yoga: philosophy, history, culture and context
- Meditation & pranayama (breath exercises)
- Develop your personal yoga practice
- Guest instructors & unlimited classes
- Weekly public teaching experience
- Most thorough & complete training in the area
- Two 500 hour E-RYT instructors
Schedule – Quad Cities
FALL 2021 TRAINING DATES:
September 25-26, 2021
October 16-17, 2021
November 13-14, 2021
December 4-5, 2021
January 8-9, 2022
February 5-6, 2022
March 5-6, 2022
April 2-3, 2022
May 7-8, 2022
June 4-5, 2022 Retreat (TBD)

Schedule – Peoria
FALL 2021 TRAINING DATES:
October 1-3, 2021
October 29-31, 2021
November 19-21, 2021
December 17-19, 2021
January 21-23, 2022
February 18-20, 2022
March 18-20, 2022
April 22-24, 2022
May 20-22, 2022
June 25-26, 2022 Retreat (TBD)
Tuition
Tapas Yoga trainees receive 200+ hours of training hours, the 200 Hour Training Manual, and unlimited access to all in-person, livestreamed, and on-demand classes at Tapas Yoga Shala and Tapas Hot Yoga. Graduates will be fully equipped to teach a yoga public yoga class at nearly any facility and will have all the materials necessary to register with Yoga Alliance.


This is a 200-hr Yoga Alliance registered yoga teacher training program. Check out our profile and read reviews here. All graduates are qualified to register as Registered Yoga Teachers, which continues to be the industry standard.
