300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training & Mentorship Program

Established 2015

Carlsbad, CA

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Purpose

Early in our teaching career, most of us realize that we need additional, higher-level training to be more confident and skillful.

This training deepens your knowledge and gives you practical tools you can immediately use in your classes.

What to expect

Most advanced teacher trainings give you information.
This program is designed to support you throughout your entire teaching career.

Here are just a few things that make this training unique:

Ongoing Mentorship with Jason
Graduates are invited to monthly live mentoring sessions where you can ask Jason questions about teaching, sequencing, anatomy, and the real challenges of being a yoga teacher.
Flexible Modular Structure
The program is divided into three 100-hour modules that can be taken in any order and completed at your own pace.
Modern Approach to Strength & Longevity
Each module includes bonus content on strength and resistance training so you can help students build resilient, balanced bodies.
25+ Years of Teaching Experience
Jason brings decades of experience training teachers around the world.

Style/Lineage

This program is for you if...

You're excited to gain a more profound understanding of yoga beyond a 200-hour foundational training.
You're looking for support! You want ongoing guidance and mentorship as you continue developing as a teacher.
You’re interested in a modern approach to yoga practice that includes strength, longevity, and injury-aware movement.
You are a student or teacher of any yoga lineage looking for more depth, skill, and inspiration in your yoga practice.

Additional Information

Yoga Anatomy

The 15 hours of anatomy that you receive in foundational trainings simply isn’t enough. You will learn contemporary, functional anatomy that you can immediately use in your classes. As you gain knowledge and trust in your anatomical expertise, you will teach with more ease and confidence.

Yoga Philosophy

Unpacking the complex nuances and remarkable beauty of yoga philosophy requires an experienced, knowledgeable teacher who can make the teachings relevant. This course will help you understand yoga philosophy in an accessible way so that you can share its transformational wisdom with your students.

Verbal Communication

Your ability to skillfully cue your students in everything from Sun Salutations to Savasana will improve dramatically in this training. Your ability to convey details and concepts to your students will help you embody your role as a teacher with more poise and self-assurance.

Yoga Sequencing

Authentic, inspired, and skillful sequencing is the most important aspect of being a professional teacher. From learning to create sequences for every posture group to sequencing for workshops, retreats, online classes, and public classes, this course has you covered. You’ll even reduce burnout and teach more effectively by developing a curriculum of your own.

Asana Technique

In the modern era, it’s extremely difficult to know which asana techniques are safe, sustainable and effective. This training -- rooted in decades of experience and anatomy overseen by doctors of Sports Medicine -- will teach you the most up-to-date, contemporary asana techniques.

Strength & Longevity

Learn how modern strength training complements yoga practice. This module demystifies resistance training and teaches you how to safely incorporate strength work to support mobility, injury prevention, and long-term physical resilience.

Core competencies

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

Anatomy, Physiology, Biomechanics	Identify lumbar, thoracic, and cervical curves and explain how pelvic position, rib orientation, and head placement regulate spinal integrity and stress distribution Describe the structure, attachments, and actions of the respiratory diaphragm and describe the diaphagms role in respiration. Identify the primary structural features and functional purposes of major joints used in yoga practice (foot, ankle, knee, hip, si joint, spine, shoulders), and primary movement capacities. Describe the structure, attachments, and actions of the respiratory diaphragm and describe the diaphagms role in respiration. Identify the four joints of the shoulder complex (sternoclavicular, acromioclavicular, glenohumeral, scapulothoracic) and their roles in arm elevation and load bearing Describe describe the basic characteristics of common shoulder pathologies, including frozen shoulder, labral tears, impingement, and rotator cuff injuries and apply this awareness to inform safe modifications, appropriate precautions, and referrals within a yoga teaching context Explain glenohumeral rhythm and why full arm elevation requires lateral rotation and elevation of the scapula rather than fixation of the shoulder blades Identify the four joints of the shoulder complex (sternoclavicular, acromioclavicular, glenohumeral, scapulothoracic) and their roles in arm elevation and load bearing Describe describe the basic characteristics of common shoulder pathologies, including frozen shoulder, labral tears, impingement, and rotator cuff injuries and apply this awareness to inform safe modifications, appropriate precautions, and referrals within a yoga teaching context Explain glenohumeral rhythm and why full arm elevation requires lateral rotation and elevation of the scapula rather than fixation of the shoulder blades Identify lumbar, thoracic, and cervical curves and explain how pelvic position, rib orientation, and head placement regulate spinal integrity and stress distribution Identify the primary structural features and functional purposes of major joints used in yoga practice (foot, ankle, knee, hip, si joint, spine, shoulders), and primary movement capacities.
Teaching Skills	Create anatomically coherent class sequences that progressively prepare the the joints of the body for load bearing work Describe the central learning objective or thematic intent of a yoga class before creating a sequence (e.g., what physical, mental, or emotional qualities are you focusing on) Use backward design by determining the desired outcomes first and then structuring the sequence to lead students toward that intention logically and progressively Critically assess alignment “rules” as adaptable tools rather than absolutes, adjusting them based on anatomy, intention, and class context Create a 4–6 week thematic focus that evolves complexity while reinforcing consistent language and actions Create and deliver class sequences based on clear learning objectives rather than pose variety or choreography Design cohesive class sequences that reflect a clear anatomical and experiential intention using purposeful pose selection, repetition, and progression rather than random variety. Explain the rationale behind sequencing progressions (openers → salutations → peak → resolution) based on tissue preparation and fatigue management
Practice Skills	Demonstrate safe and consistent shoulder-wrist-cervical integration in plank, chaturanga, arm balances, inversions, and jump-backs Explain the purpose of preparatory actions and slow openers in developing strength, coordination, and neuromuscular awareness without excessive load Practice backbends, forward folds, twists and sidebends with a functional understanding of how the spine and core work Practice backbends, forward folds, twists and sidebends based on the functional movements of the hip joint.
Yoga History & Theory	Explain the bhagavad gita’s teaching of action without attachment to outcomes by demonstrating non-attachment in personal practice and teaching Explain the eight limbs of yoga as an interconnected, cyclical framework rather than a strictly linear progression, and describe how multiple limbs may be cultivated simultaneously through asana practice Apply non-dogmatic language when teaching philosophy, avoiding prescriptive emotional outcomes and allowing students to have their own subjective experiences of practice Apply the philosophical principle of equanimity (sama) by teaching in ways that prioritize regulation, restraint, and even distribution of effort over intensity or achievement Apply yogic ethical principles (yama and niyama) to professional boundaries, student relationships, and scope of practice Explain the yogic concept of the “ocean and waves” metaphor by describing its representation of the relationship between individual experience and universal consciousness