Waking Yoga 200 Hour YTT (Hybrid)
This training is a hybrid model which means you can attend 100% virtually live from anywhere in the world or attend in person in Central Austin.
“Peace requires everyone to be in the circle — wholeness, inclusion.”
- Isabel Allende
Vision
*Message Jenn at [email protected] or DM @wakingyoga to receive an invitation to the 200-hour info sessions.*
Waking Yoga is a foundational 200-hour yoga training that fosters inclusion, self-authority, and body positivity. We are a collaborative of seasoned yoga educators, therapists, and community activists. We believe that yoga can be a powerful tool for personal healing and liberation as well as for the healing and liberation of society.
Our vision is to nurture trauma-informed yoga teachers who are active in their communities and beyond, guiding them to work mindfully with privilege and oppression and understand the nuances of their students’ races, genders, sexual orientations, bodies, and overall lived experiences as deep sources of individual and collective wisdom.
We will support you through four months of self-inquiry, yoga, and evidence-based mindfulness and somatic practices that will lead you deeper into self-knowledge and enrich your work in the world. In doing so, we will safely yet honestly explore raw conversations about our relationships with society, ourselves, and each other.
This training is an opportunity to make your healing and growth as a human your priority for four months. This experience will leave you more awakened to the world within you and the world around you.
IN OUR TRAINING YOU WILL LEARN TO:
- Cultivate a strong, safe, and intuitive personal practice
- Use yoga and mindfulness as a tool for self-awareness, self-care, and healing
- Regulate your nervous system and build resilience
- Live courageously and compassionately in the face of difficulty
- Deepen your personal and community relationships
- Become a safe and healing presence for others
- Teach Hatha, Hatha Flow and Adaptive yoga classes in multiple public environments
- Develop a trauma-informed approach to teaching yoga in any setting
- Teach yoga to marginalized groups and special populations
- Hold space for all members of society
- Use yoga as a tool for social healing and progress
CURRICULUM
- The eight limbs of yoga
- An exploration of embodiment through Hatha, Hatha flow and Yoga breathing
- An exploration of embodiment through evidence-based mindfulness practices
- Functional anatomy through embodied experience
- The fascial network and its relationship to well-being
- Intuitive alignment principles
- Subtle anatomy and the energy body
- Somatic skills for discharging stress
- Somatic skills for grounding, creating boundaries and growing resilience
- Body-positive and inclusive yoga offerings
- Ayurveda and self-care
- An understanding of the brain and nervous system
- Polyvagal theory and how it relates to stress, trauma, and resilience
- An in-depth, trauma-informed approach to teaching yoga
- An understanding of collective and ancestral trauma and its effects on society
- Yoga philosophy for modern society
- Yoga for social change
ADMISSIONS & PREREQUISITES
Students should have a minimum of one year of yoga practice (or permission of lead guide). Once enrolled, students must complete a training questionnaire.
This training is limited to 28 students.
AFTER COMPLETING THIS 200 HOUR TRAINING, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
- Become a nationally Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT 200) through Yoga Alliance®
- Teach Hatha, Hatha Flow and Adaptive yoga classes in multiple public environments
- Offer yoga to specialized populations or in conjunction with your own healing modality
Register for 300-hour Advanced Courses and specialize in a variety of styles including Yin, Restorative, Prenatal, Children, Vinyasa, and more
LOCATION & SCHEDULE
This training is a hybrid model which means you can attend 100% virtually live from anywhere in the world or attend in person in Central Austin.
Training begins September 2022 - February 2023
Tuesdays & Thursdays
9am - 2:45pm
Program Dates
September
9/6, 9/8, 9/13, 9/15, 9/20, 9/22, 9/27, 9/29
October
10/4, 10/6, 10/11, 10/13, 10/18, 10/20, 10/25, 10/27
November
11/1, 11/3, 11/8, 11/10, 11/15, 11/17, 11/29
December
12/1, 12/6, 12/8, 12/13, 12/15
January/February
1/3, 1/5, 1/10, 1/12, 1/17, 1/19, 1/24, 1/26, 1/31, 2/2
PROGRAM INVESTMENT
Our payment calendar is arranged on a monthly basis:
- Deposit due upon enrollment $295
- 5 monthly payments of $600 (Sep - Jan)
Total Investment $3,295
This training is limited to 28 students.
Message Jenn at [email protected] or DM @wakingyoga to receive an invitation to the 200-hour info sessions.
*Contact us if you need an alternative payment plan.
SCHOLARSHIP
The Waking Yoga training is committed to diversifying representation in yoga education by providing a scholarship to students who are typically under-represented in the yoga community. The Waking Yoga Scholarship is a full training scholarship for the Waking Yoga 200-hour yoga teacher training. Scholarship recipients will be responsible for purchasing their own training books and materials.
The deadline for scholarships is August 1st, 2022
Scholarships will be awarded by September 1st, 2022
LEARN MORE
For More information email: [email protected]
ATTEND AND INFO SESSION
All info sessions will be held over Zoom on the dates listed below:
https://zoom.us/j/97741996919
Meeting ID: 977 4199 6919
- July 26th 6pm
- July 29th 6pm
- August 16th 6pm
- August 19th 6pm
Please note that the actual training will be an in person/virtual hybrid.
WHO'S TEACHING?
Jenn Wooten (she/her) C-IAYT, E-RYT 200, YACEP
Jenn is a certified yoga therapist and yoga educator who has studied yoga and mindfulness for over 20 years. She has been a teacher, mentor, and group facilitator in the Austin yoga community since 2004. Her teaching style focuses on body awareness, functional movement, and resilience. The core of her teaching is helping people cultivate a yoga and mindfulness practice as a pathway for healing and wellbeing. She founded Waking Yoga which creates heart-centered and trauma-aware spaces to practice yoga in Austin and around the world.
Susan Somers-Willett Ph.D., (she/her/they/their) RYT 500, E-RYT 200, PYRT, TIYT
A writer, professor, yogini, mom, and global traveler, Susan Somers-Willett has many roles, but one of her most compelling is helping yoga practitioners embrace the wisdom of their own experience. She is currently a Lecturer in Gender Studies at The University of Texas at Austin and joins yoga and social justice through her passion project, Yoga in Bold™. Susan offers yoga as an act of radical self-acceptance, and she is passionate about making yoga accessible to everyone.
Kewal Hausmann (He, Him) ERYT 500, CIAYT, LMT
With over 18 years of teaching experience, Kewal Hausmann is dedicated to helping inspire students towards their own happiness and personal satisfaction. Kewal is a certified yoga therapist, who brings his big heart and signature humor to every class, no matter the style. His teaching is grounded in creating spaces where all people feel welcome and celebrated and helping students feel empowered in their practice and comfortable in their bodies.
Fatima Mann JD, 200 Hour Yoga Guide, TIYT
Fatima Mann’s life’s mission is to be a vessel for others to experience the full joy of loving and accepting themselves. Fatima founded two Austin based social justice organizations, the Austin Justice Coalition and Counter Balance: ATX. After graduating from law school she birthed Community Advocacy and Healing Project, an organization dedicated to cultivating culturally mindful, human-centered advocacy and healing experiences.
Raina Gradford RYT 500
Raina has always been connected to the idea of liberation through movement. She believes that once we become attuned to our bodies we can figure out what’s needed to make them feel good and whole. Her enthusiasm for yoga and life is contagious – she was named in Austin FIT Magazine as The Best Yoga Instructor for 2018. She supports diverse and accessible yoga communities that embrace, encompass, and uplift all people and all cultures.
Kelly Marshall (they/them) C-IAYT, RYT 500, LMT
Kelly Marshall (they/them) is a wellness educator and has worked in varying capacities as a massage therapist since 2007; clinically alongside chiropractors and physical therapists as well as in various spa environments. A registered yoga teacher since 2012, and a certified Yoga Therapist since 2016, they specialize in facilitating a safer space for clients and students to reconnect with their bodies and drop into a deeper state of awareness in order to heal. With Spectrum Wellness, they offer individual and corporate education, mindfulness coaching, individual and group yoga instruction and Yoga Therapy. They focus upon creating a safer space of healing and empowerment for individuals in the LGBTQIA+ population, and those whom are addressing trauma, anxiety/depression, body and gender issues, and more.