TEACHER TRAINING
Moonbird Yoga is a Registered Yoga School with Yoga Alliance. We offer 200-Hour and 300-Hour Teacher Training right here in O’Fallon, Illinois.
Yoga is subjective. There is not one finite yoga path. Yoga is all-encompassing. We are all yogis, in some way. It is truly a path to freedom, both within and also for the body.
Are you considering becoming a yoga teacher or just curious about yoga in general? There is so much more to yoga than what can be taught in one hour public class at the studio. And although teacher training will prepare you to teach a stellar vinyasa class, even more happens during the quiet moments of reflection throughout the six months of training.
Although some like to see yoga as a vehicle for transformation, we tend to offer a more expansive definition that is introduced to us throughout the teacher training curriculum. We begin to learn how yoga allows us to delve into an experience with ourselves, without asking that we radically change who we are. It deepens our experience of our true nature and allows us to connect to all thoughts, feelings, sensations, senses, stories, and, perhaps, memories.
What we may uncover during the process of our yoga journey may not be welcome or understood, but we are all complicated beings being asked to live extraordinary lives in some very difficult and complex environments. So, yoga is not truly an experience of transformation; rather, it is a journey into knowing.
CUSTOMIZED INSTRUCTION FOR EVERY ASPIRING TEACHER
Does this sound like a path you are interested in exploring? Do you want to share your passion for yoga with others? Are you curious about the roots of yoga and how it applies to our lives and faith practices today? Are you simply interested in delving deeper into your own physical or spiritual yoga practice?
Then perhaps consider that you are right where you need to be. Moonbird Yoga is a teaching studio, a safe space where you will be comfortable learning and practicing to teach.
Our Yoga Teacher Training Certifications
200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training:
Our training program will prepare you to lead a powerful vinyasa class and guide your students along a path toward transformation.
What will I learn?
- Yoga fundamentals, history, and philosophy
- Teaching techniques to guide others through their yoga practice
- A deeper self-awareness of body, mind, and spirit
Certification
Upon completion of the 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training, you will be certified and prepared to begin teaching private or public classes and will be eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as an RYT200.
Within this very body
Are many gateways to the infinite,
Where incarnation and immortality
Consummate their passion for each other.
From The Radiance Sutras by Loren Roche
Insight Verses 157-159
300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training
We are so very proud to offer 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training locally in O’Fallon.
Great teachers are not born the day they graduate with their 200 Hour RYT. They evolve over time as they yearn for greater understanding and find different ways to connect with their students, because they remain students themselves!
Our 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training consists of at least 12 modules plus self study.
RYT200s must attend at least 12 weekend modules or 11 modules plus two electives to graduate and become eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as an RYT 500.
Individual Modules
At Moonbird, we say that the best teachers are the best students. Once we fall out of the habit of seeking and learning, we start to drift from being authentic teachers. That’s why individual modules are open to non-teachers and RYT 200 teachers who are not pursuing RYT 500 certification. All modules count as continuing education hours with Yoga Alliance.
We believe that the world needs yoga teachers now more than ever before! Talk to us about your yoga training journey by calling or texting us at 618-632-5377. Or send us an email!