Avita Teacher Certification
Established 2018
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Hybrid Oct 25 – Apr 10, 2027 6 months • 200 hours • $ 4048.0+ Honesdale, PA, US |
Led by Jeff Bailey 
CYT-L3
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Purpose
Yoga means to join. And to join is to heal.
The Avita Yoga Teacher Training combines practical movement, therapeutic application, breathwork, and embodied awareness to support joint health, greater mobility, and peaceful self-awareness.
What to expect
You will learn how to use movements and shapes—not poses—to access restricted joints and tissues with greater awareness and precision.
With time, kind compression, movement, and breath, you will explore how to reduce compensation patterns, improve mobility, and discover what Avita Yoga calls healing sensation: a constructive, sustainable experience that supports change within the body and nervous system with time and practice
As your own understanding deepens, you will learn how to guide students in a safe, adaptable, and responsive way.
For many students, this process supports greater comfort, freedom of movement, confidence, and a deeper sense of connection to themselves.
Style/Lineage
Avita Yoga has roots in the work of Ida Rolf, whose study of yoga informed the development of Structural Integration.
Over time, Avita Yoga has evolved through the practical application of anatomical, physiological, and movement-based principles that use time, pressure, breath, and thoughtful movement to influence the fascial network, support joint function, strengthen bones, and improve neuromuscular coordination.
The method emphasizes adaptability, awareness, and sustainable change rather than performance or force.
Additional Information
There are no prerequisites for this training.
In many ways, the less conditioned you are by conventional yoga models, the easier it may be to experience Avita Yoga with fresh eyes and genuine curiosity.
For those with a strong yoga background, this training may feel like a meaningful reexamination of many common assumptions about movement, flexibility, and alignment.
In Avita Yoga, we do not use poses as performances to perfect. We use movements and shapes to generate awareness, constructive sensation, adaptability, and meaningful feedback from within.
Core competencies
By the end of this program, graduates will be able to…
- Identify the bones, ligaments, and joints of the shoulders, hips, and knees, and explain how they articulate.
- Apply Avita Yoga shapes to resolve joint restrictions, unwind compensation patterns, and promote lasting freedom.
- Describe the physiology of the parasympathetic nervous system and the vagal response, and explain their role in healing.
- Explain the anatomy and physiology of the lymphatic system and its relationship to joint health.
- The Avita Yoga method for how pressure and thoughtful movement stimulate healing physiology within the joints.
- Function (not physiology) of the flexors and extenders of major muscle groups including (Feet, Legs, Hips, and Arms)
- Avita Yoga Breathing as it relates to Boteyko Breathing Method and why less is more
- The concept of Joint restrictions and how they relate to hidden compensation patterns that work against us.
- Avita Yoga shapes and movements to restore joints
- The Boteyko breathing method
- An Avita private and semi private session as a means to healing and growing your classes
- Student assessments to ensure that their experience results in less pain and more health and mobility
- The primary Avita Yoga shapes and movements and how to teach them to any student to generate results.
- From your students... not to them.
- Guide a student to intuitively discern the difference between pain and helpful sensations.
AYC allows each school to state and evaluate the competencies each student acquires. Students rate how well the program delivered them.
Program Emphasis
Evaluation methods
Program evaluations
- Written exam
- Teaching evaluation
The reason we test is to inspire learning. There are five written quizzes throughout the program. Students practice teaching from the beginning and receive feedback from Jeff throughout the program. The goal is to learn how to conduct private and semi-private sessions, both online via Zoom and in-person. It's very focused because private teaching skills are easily generalized to larger groups.
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