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Radiant Warrior 200 hour Hatha/Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training

Established 2025

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Yoga Farm Ithaca

509 North Meadow Street, Ithaca, NY, USA

Ithaca, NY

Purpose

Radiant Warrior Teacher Training teachers learn how to teach trauma-informed Vinyasa yoga, Hatha yoga and Mindfulness

What to expect

For sincere students looking to deepen their practice and share their passion, this program provides a comprehensive immersion into the wide world of yoga. You will deepen your understanding of core concepts from the Gita and Sutras, while learning to make them practical to your own life. This is a self-paced online program that can be completed in as little as six weeks or up to one year. Students get instant access to unlimited daily yoga and meditation classes, an online community, and indefinite access to all course materials. You will also have a full year of access to live classes, office hours, and cue rehearsals.

Style/Lineage

The Radiant Warrior program is a modern synthesis designed to meet the needs of today's practitioners by encouraging self-exploration over rigid dogma. We call this lineage a trauma-informed approach to Hatha and Vinyasa, which blends the dynamic flow of Vinyasa with the energy-based practices of Kundalini and the contemplative wisdom of meditation and mindfulness. This practice is designed to help individuals find their own unique alignment and discover their true inner balance.

Additional Information

Required books: - Teaching Yoga, by Mark Stephens - The Way of Liberation, by Adyashanti - Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World, by Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Core competencies

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

General Knowledge

Describe the core concepts of Gita, the Sutras, and the 8-fold path, specifically the yamas and niyamas and their personal ethics.
Explain the difference between mindfulness and meditation, and their restorative effects

Professional Knowledge

Examine and discuss ethical perspectives around "right action" and the importance of the yoga teacher's role in society.
Articulate ethical responsibilities of a yoga teacher (consent for hands-on assists, safety, boundaries), and integrate principles of accessibility, diversity and inclusion into class planning and delivery.

Practice Skills

Integrate mindfulness and meditation practices into their own lifestyle and movement-practice, showing increased capacity for self-regulation, stress and anxiety management.
Maintain and reflect on a consistent personal yoga practice (postures, breathwork, meditation) demonstrating growth in self-awareness, resilience and embodiment of the training’s ethos.

Teaching Skills

Use trauma-informed language, inclusive cueing and offer appropriate modifications/props so that yoga classes are accessible and safe for diverse populations.
Teach a sequence of 36 common poses, including sun salutations, standing poses, seated poses, back and core strengtheners, and reclined restorative poses.
Utilize online teaching technologies (video recording, streaming platforms) and share yoga classes via online formats, adapting to remote learning modalities.
Teach 3 breathwork practices that soothe stress and anxiety and increase energy
Teach mindful-movement practices, breathwork (at least five specific practices for calming anxiety/increasing energy) and meditation effectively in a class setting.

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
Special project

(1) Watch all of the teaching videos (or audio) in our online classroom (requires internet connection). (2) Read the manual and required textbook chapters (3) Take 30 yoga classes with us (included) or with other teachers (4) 30 days of daily (5-10 minutes) meditation or mindfulness practice (doesn’t need to be consecutive) (5) Prepare final pose sheets with cues to lead all 36 Radiant Warrior Poses (6) Practice teach the yoga poses for a total of 10 hours to friends, family or fellow students (online or in-person) (7) Deliver a final 1-hour video of you teaching to one or more ‘students’ (8) Complete the final self-reflective exam (2 pages)