300HR Teacher Training

Established 2025

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Chromatic Yoga

Roxbury, CT

Program Instances

On demand

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300 hours • $ 3800+

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Led by

Matthew Giordano

CYT-L3

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Purpose

The 300-hour training develops advanced practice and teaching skills through R.E.A.L. methodology

What to expect

For sincere yoga teachers seeking to refine and enhance their teaching with greater precision. By exploring anatomy, the Yoga Sutras, the chakras, Tantra philosophy, and the Chromatic System of Yoga, students build a strong knowledge base and learn to embody the practices for authentic teaching. The training combines self-paced online lessons with assignments, quizzes, and practice teaching, alongside 30 hours of required live sessions for real-time feedback. Mentorship is provided in small groups and individually, and most content can be completed on your own schedule, except for the synchronous sessions.

Style/Lineage

Chromatic Yoga is a modern system that Matt Giordano developed. He describes it as a systematic approach that values community and authentic self-expression. He further explains, "The one defining through-line that permeates the entire approach of Chromatic Yoga is our study and use of the Elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space." He also states that the philosophy is inclusive of various lineages.

Additional Information

If you are not yet a certified teacher, you should start with a 200 hour training. A 300 Hour training is designed specifically for certified teachers at the 200, 500 hour or above levels. Required materials: - Book: Tantra of The Yoga Sutras by Alan Finger - Book: Tantra Illuminated - Book: The Key Muscles of Yoga by Dr. Ray Long - Props: Yoga mat, 2 yoga blocks, 1-2 yoga blankets if possible - A Gmail and Facebook account (can be private or under a different name if privacy is preferred). Assistance will be provided if you need help setting these up. Your smartphone with a working camera, or else a video camera - A stand for your smartphone or camera Internet — this training is online, so you will need basic internet to view, download, and upload materials.

Core competencies

By the end of this program, graduates will be able to…

Anatomy, Physiology, Biomechanics	Integrate a more sophicated understanding of anatomy and biomechanics to the safe design and teaching of a complex chromatic yoga class.
Business Skills	Describe a heart aligned business vision plan that uses successful business tools to align your personal life with a career that fulfills your soul. Share current sustainable marketing and career strategies that include use of social media, a unique vision for your business, and skills to "sell out" workshops, retreats and courses. Describe how to market your teaching effectively and attract your ideal audience through community building, social media, and grass roots marketing.
Lifestyle & Ethics	Describe how the study of philosophical yoga texts and a consistent meditation practice have fostered transformational personal reflection and positive self-growth. Develop and describe the core purpose, mission or intention underlying your teaching offerings.
Practice Skills	Effectively create and demonstrate innovative postural actions and self-adjustment techniques that help improve confidence and clarity of actions for students. Describe how the practice of mindfulness, mantra, pranayama and meditation can specifically shift one's personal emotional, physical and mental state.
Teaching Skills	Integrate and apply the "masterful verbal cuing" methodology to complex postures to link anatomy with embodiment and effectively align your tone of voice with your class intention. Integrate and apply the chromatic yoga system of sequencing using more complex postures to build a safe class sequence to a peak pose through the layering of peak actions. Guide students skillfully step-by-step through pranayma and meditation practices using the chromatic yoga template and integrating effective vocal tone, volume, pacing and appropriate use of silence. Deliver an effective dharma talk that integrates philosophical wisdom with the class experience in a way that is relevant, inspiring and meaningful. Teach a class that begins to integrate the chromatic yoga system of cuing that utilizes the step-by-step approach of breaking down "big things into small things" for educational efficiency in a more complex format. Apply and begin to embody the chromatic yoga system and its core values of intention, action, and awareness to enhance your current teaching style and efficacy. Demonstrate a peak pose in the middle of the room that integrates masterful cuing and dynamic elements of voice with effective movement exaggeration for optimal teaching impact. Theme a class effectively by following a step-by-step format that supports students mentally and emotionally and infuses empowering teachings without "preaching."
Yoga History & Theory	Describe how the study of the yoga sutras, tantra philosophy, and the subtle body relate to your own personal experience and use these texts and concepts as a launch pad to align more authentically with your own values.

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
Special project

You will be quizzed as you progress to help you fully integrate what you are learning. By the end of the training, you will have already answered ALL the questions on the Final Exam. Your final class submission will not be the first — you will have submitted multiple teaching videos along the way, receiving personalized feedback as you go, so you are fully prepared and confident by the final class.