Yoga Medicine 200hr Yoga Teacher Training

Established 2026

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Yoga Medicine LLC

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Purpose

The Yoga Medicine 200HR yoga teacher training is a Yoga Alliance certified program that provides students with a powerful base in the technical, traditional, and business sides of yoga so they can begin teaching right away with clarity and confidence.

What to expect

You Will Learn

How to plan well-rounded vinyasa and alignment-based yoga classes based on applied anatomy, kinesiology, and therapeutic considerations
Yoga history and philosophy, including origins and influences as well as the integration of present day science and research into the practice
How to modify, assist and adjust with respect to each student’s individuality and uniqueness
The tools and techniques to craft intelligent, creative sequences and effectively guide students through practices that educate, inspire, and heal
How to hold space for inclusivity in yoga through your teaching style, marketing approach, and more
Yoga ethics, PLUS best practices to show up with integrity and transparency and build students’ trust
How to use props to better support students, as well as regress and progress the difficulty of yoga poses and movement

Style/Lineage

The Yoga Medicine® 200HR yoga teacher training provides a solid foundation to teach yoga and deepen one’s own personal practice. The focus of our 200HR yoga teacher trainings is to provide students with a sound knowledge of anatomy, alignment and adjustments. This foundation will serve as a powerful base from which to teach and guide your students through a practice that educates, inspires and heals.

Additional Information

The Yoga Medicine 200HR training constitutes classroom hours in the following areas:

82 of practical techniques training, including asana sequencing, pranayama, meditation, and more
32 of teaching methodology
32 of anatomy, physiology, and biomechanics
32 of yoga history, philosophy, and ethics
22 of practicum

In addition to these hours, this training program also provides a powerful community experience during interactive group sessions and mentoring provided by lead teachers.

Training Highlights

Anatomy & Physiology
Application of Anatomy to Yoga
Alignment
Adjusting
Sequencing
Sanskrit
Yoga Philosophy
Pranayama & Meditation
Chakras
Ayurveda
Inspiring & Motivating Your Students
Business & Ethics
Observation & Practice Teaching

Pre-requisites & Application

A passion for continuous learning, as well as a minimum of two years of consistent practice (3-6 days per week). We carefully select our applicants so that we can work closely with our teachers to guarantee a high level of proficiency.

Core competencies

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

Anatomy, Physiology, Biomechanics	Use skeletal anatomy knowledge to identify bony landmarks on a student's body and apply that awareness to alignment cueing and hands-on assists in key poses. Identify the primary muscles and muscle groups across the trunk, hip/thigh, shoulder, and arm regions — including their actions, attachments, and key functional imbalances. Explain how applying anatomy to yoga shifts teaching from prescriptive ("everyone does the pose this way") to responsive ("this pose serves this student in this way today"). Identify the CNS/PNS divisions (somatic, autonomic; sympathetic "fight or flight" and parasympathetic "rest and digest"), the respiratory pathway from nose/mouth through bronchi to alveoli, and the basic cardiovascular circuit. Explain how yoga practices (inversions, forward folds, pranayama, Savasana) selectively activate the parasympathetic nervous system, and how breath mechanics produce the physiological rationale for pranayama's therapeutic effects.
Practice Skills	Identify core alignment principles for major pose families, recall the three modes of adjusting (verbal cue, visual demonstration, hands-on assist), and name the key consent and communication protocols required before physical adjustment. Explain the physiological and pedagogical purpose of warm-ups and Sun Salutations as the hatha vinyasa foundation — how they build heat, coordinate breath and movement, and systematically prepare the body for more demanding standing and balancing poses. Practice Sun Salutations and a standing/balancing pose sequence with precise breath synchronization, ground-up systematic alignment cues, real-time modification offers, and clear integration of props where needed. Identify the backbend, inversion, hip-opening, and supine/seated pose families with correct names, primary benefits, key alignment points, and main contraindications
Teaching Skills	Deliver verbal cues and demonstrations that are timely, precise, and appropriately dosed — offering one key correction at a time rather than overwhelming the student with simultaneous input. Integrate props into teaching across all major pose families, offering clear setup instructions and regressions and progressions for each key pose in a class. Explain how intelligent, creative sequencing differs from random choreography: a purposeful sequence uses earlier poses to create the joint mobility, muscular activation, and nervous system state to prepare for the middle portion of class and uses later poses to integrate and counter its demands. Build a complete hatha vinyasa class plan with a clearly identified beginning, middle and end, and sequencing choices that educate students to modify and adapt their practice as necessary for their ability or injuries while also inspiring beyond the merely physical . Deliver a class segment that demonstrates your emerging teaching voice: choosing language, themes, and sequencing pacing that reflect your authentic perspective rather than a generic yoga script. Identify the key dimensions of inclusive yoga teaching covered in the program: body diversity, ability, cultural and racial identity, age, and gender — and recall the three arenas in which inclusivity must be actively cultivated: teaching style, studio/class environment, and marketing approach. Identify the primary prenatal yoga contraindications (poses to avoid across trimesters), key modification categories (supine limits, twist depth, abdominal compression, inversion contraindications), and the physiological changes across trimesters that drive each modification. Guide students through multiple pranayama practices with correct technique, appropriate session duration, clear contraindication screening, and accessible language that bridges classical intention and modern physiological experience. Guide students through a seated meditation with clear setup, technique instruction, appropriate duration, and grounded integration — while maintaining your own consistent daily practice throughout the training and beyond.
Lifestyle & Ethics	Identify the core yoga principles of the Yamas and Niyamas as an ethical foundation, professional boundaries and scope of practice, informed consent for adjustments, transparency in teaching, and the standards expected of a teacher operating with integrity.
Yoga History & Theory	Identify Patanjali's Eight Limbs of Yoga (Yama through Samadhi) with the key principles of each limb, the primary Yamas and Niyamas, and the major historical origins and influences of yoga — including classical Indian roots, key texts (Yoga Sutras, Hatha Yoga Pradipika), and how yoga moves west.

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

Oral Exam
Written Submission
Direct Observation
Graded Skill Demonstration
Group Project Or Presentation
Solo Project Or Presentation

Students will be evaluated through a combination of oral and written exams/submissions, solo projects, and direct observation

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Program Faculty

Featured Faculty

Tiffany Cruikshank

Teacher, student, author, and educator, Tiffany’s passion lies in helping people feel their best with a combination of research-based approaches, traditional practices, and experience.

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Denver, CO, US