200 hour yoga teacher training- Fall 2025
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Yoga is a journey of awakening where you awaken to your highest potential of living, loving, and leading. By stepping into a YTT you are stepping onto a new path that will bring forth parts of yourself and potentials that will ignite and invigorate your life. A YTT isn't just about becoming a yoga teacher. It is about aligning your body, mind, and heart with your spirit through the ancient practices of yoga. After this training, you will trust your abilities as a teacher but also trust your inner guidance, purpose, and ability to lead your own life.
200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training led by Ashley Holland, with additional training from Chloe Watkins and Samantha Weisner
In our heart-centered 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Program, you’ll learn from passionate instructors with a variety of backgrounds making for one of the most well-rounded programs in VA!
This transformational experience will give you a deeper understanding of yoga philosophy, asana, anatomy, subtle body, energetics, and so much more!
WHO IS THIS TRAINING FOR?
Are you a yoga student seeking to become a teacher? In love with yoga and want to understand the practice and philosophy at a deeper level? Want to start your own personal practice at home? Are you already a yoga teacher who wants to find their voice more fully and discover creative and effective teaching methods? If any or all of these apply, this teacher training will serve and support you in your personal yoga journey!
Our well rounded training drawing from various experienced teachers combines fundamental yogic concepts and traditional asana with a modern and creative touch. We strive to help you explore the traditional framework of yoga, poses and beyond and apply it to your modern life. You will learn to teach vinyasa yoga in a supportive and constructive environment and you will leave with a better understanding of yourself, lifelong friends, and a deep appreciation for yoga and what it can offer yourself and others!
This comprehensive training will cover:
-Traditional Yoga Philosophy
-Meditation Practices
-Pranayama (breath work) Practices
-Subtle body (energetics/ayurveda/chakra system)
-Anatomy and safe principles of movement and physical alignment
-Adjustments and Assists in poses for different bodies, common physical issues & limitations
-Practical Teaching Skills- how to use your voice and language for effective teaching
-Sequencing of a Vinyasa Yoga class
-Skillful communication and Mindful Listening
-Business of Yoga- learn to market and promote yourself as a yoga teacher
-Modules on Yin, Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra and peeks into other niche styles of
yoga and the benefits of each
Non Contact Hours:
Anatomy Online 20 hours (we recommend between December and Jan meetings)
Practicing Yoga (taking classes) and Observing a Class
Independent Study: create a class plan based on one area of interest/focus that we've talked about during the training. One of the sutras, philosophy, asana and teach it to your pod final assignment 4 hours
Book Club: One person per meeting leads/brings questions and leads a short meditation / centering to begin Bringing Yoga to Life, Donna Farhi
Home Meditation Practice
Practice teaching
Our priority in this training is to teach you how to find your voice. As a yoga teacher and if teaching yoga isn’t your priority, we will teach you to find your voice and communicate clearly in a group setting. We want to open the gates of yoga for you and allow you to dive deeper into this transformative practice!
SAMPLE Dates FROM PAST TRAINING:
Sept 29-Oct 1 - immersive yoga retreat locally
(9/29 starts 5:00pm- Sunday 10/1 at noon)
Oct 7-10, 21-22
Nov 4-7, 11-12
Dec 2-3
Jan 4-7, 20-23
Feb 3-6, 17-18
Saturdays/Sundays: 11:30-4
Mondays/Tuesdays: 6-9p
Thursday 1/4 6-9pm, Friday 1/5 5:30-8:30
200 Hour RYT Training Program Information:
Perks:
Unlimited yoga membership at Santosha for the duration of the training!
Tuition:
$2800
Payment plans are available and we are seeking one organized and detail oriented individual in need of financial assistance to serve as our Training Facilitator in exchange for a partial program scholarship.
FIRST 5 REGISTRANTS RECEIVE A ONE ON ONE MENTORSHIP SESSION WITH EITHER LYNSIE OR ASHLEY DURING THE PROGRAM! (SOLD OUT)
Admission Requirements:
All applicants must submit a completed application with non-refundable $500 deposit with payment in full by 9/29.
Official entrance into the program will be at the discretion of Santosha Yoga Faculty.
All applicants should have a regular yoga practice at least 1 year prior to the training and be physically able to attend all trainings.
Attendance Requirements:
In addition to the in person learning, 30 hours consist of taking yoga classes, assisting and observing classes and a personal project based on your interest. Practice hours can be started as soon as Candidate is accepted into the program. We encourage you to experience different techniques, styles, and methodologies.
Attendance is expected at each meeting during the training. If a module is missed it is required that the candidate schedule makeup or watch a recording if the session was recorded via zoom.
Location: Santosha Yoga, Crozet VA
Our yoga studio is a gorgeous shala at the base of the blue ridge mountains!
About the Teachers:
Ashley Holland - Ashley has been practicing yoga regularly for over 14 years. A native of Virginia, she first found yoga in college at VCU as a way to reduce stress and fulfill a need for creative, dance like movement. She quickly realized that yoga was much more than that and began her personal transformation through yoga to a place of more peace both physically and mentally. Ashley has studied with many teachers, completing her 200 hour in Bali under Vidya Heisel and later studying with many renowned teachers across the country. After teaching for a few years she found her current teacher Cyndi Lee and completed her 500hr RYT with her in 2015. Ashley is also a student of Buddhism, energy work and healing through affirmation and mixes these principals in her yoga classes to create a dynamic, challenging yet accessible, introspective class for her students. She uses her own life and spiritual practice as a template for classes and hopes that what she shares from her own journey helps those she meets find more peace. She co-opened Santosha Yoga in Crozet in 2017 with the intention of bringing a place to learn, practice and grow with yoga, West of Charlottesville. She strives to share the benefits of yoga with all and encourages students to begin again, to be kind to yourself and to have fun.
Chloe Watkins - Jay Brown says, “family life is the yogic cave” and it is this idea that echos in Chloe’s personal practice and in her teaching. Drawing inspiration from everyday activities - raising a small family, juggling jobs and tasks and making ends meet - Chloe seeks the wisdom in our mundane experiences, which when observed serve to make our lives richer. Her aim is to provide her students the tools with which they can begin to notice the intricacies and joys of their lives as they are today - not as they are on instagram or social media - the good, the bad, and the indifferent.
Chloe was trained in 2012 at PURE Yoga in New York City under Yogi Charu and KayKay Clivio. She has been blessed by many incredible teachers over the years including Terrence Monte, Tiffany Cruikshank, and Kathryn Templeton. Inspired to help build a yoga community in her beloved hometown of Crozet, VA, Chloe co-founded Santosha Yoga with Ashley Holland in 2017. She cherishes Santosha as a "home" open to all seeking well-being in body, mind and spirit and strives to help her students discover the contentment in the entirety of their life experience.
