Teacher training
Apprenticeship-grade training for the long road of teaching.
Our flagship 250-hour program runs over 10 months — not 4 weekends. Specialist trainings in Restorative, Trauma-Informed Yoga Nidra, and Continuing Education. Scholarships available.
Our approach
Training built on three commitments.
We train teachers the way we wish we'd been trained: slowly, with peers, with space to fail in low-stakes practice teaching, and with honest conversations about lineage, appropriation, and the responsibilities that come with leading a room.
Every Branches training carries three commitments: trauma-aware teaching from day one, accessibility-first sequencing as the default rather than the modification, and a refusal to gloss the harder parts of yoga's history.
Programs
Five programs, one ethic.
250-Hour Yoga Teacher Training
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YTT Prep
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Trauma-Informed Yoga Nidra Teacher Training
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Restorative Yoga Teacher Training
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Continuing Education for Yoga Teachers
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Need-based
Scholarships
We hold scholarship spots in every cohort. Funded by community supporters and an annual fundraiser. Application doesn't require financial documentation.
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Not sure which program fits?
Start with YTT Prep — the easy answer.
Eight weeks. One evening per week. You'll deepen your personal practice, get a real preview of the 250-hour syllabus, and find out whether teacher training is your next step. If you go on to enrol in YTT, your prep tuition is credited toward it.
Join us
Train the way you'd want your students taught.
Small cohorts, real apprenticeship, lifelong peer network. Applications open ahead of each cohort start.