200 Hour Training Overview
Tapas Yoga’s 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training is a Yoga Alliance-certified program that offer the opportunity for an immersive yoga experience, learning and refining the crucial tools for sharing yoga with others while deepening each trainees personal practice and knowledge of the yoga tradition.
Limited to 15 trainees and aimed at both teaching skills and personal growth, this course is an immersive yoga experience. This program is not specific to Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga, but a general yoga training touching on many traditions and styles.
What you will learn:
Curriculum
- Postures, anatomy, sequencing, adjustments—as well as the origins, philosophy, schools, and gurus of yoga’s long history and profound, contemplative roots
- Posture instruction, modification, & use of props
- Therapeutic posture application
- Posture names, types, meanings, etc
- How to compose a class
- Adjustments: physical, verbal, visual
- Origins, philosophy, schools, and gurus of yoga’s long history and profound, contemplative roots
- Anatomy and physiology
- Yoga philosophy, history, culture and context
- Meditation & pranayama (breath exercises)
- Develop your personal yoga practice
- Posture instruction, modification, & use of props
Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher Training Program
- 200+ hours of training
- 200 Hour Training Manual
- Unlimited access to all in-person, livestreamed, and on-demand classes at Tapas Yoga
- Graduate equipped to teach a public yoga class at nearly any facility
- Graduates are qualified to register as Registered Yoga Teachers
Quad Cities
200 Hour YTT Schedule
Saturday 8:30am-5:00pm, Sunday 8:30am-3:30pm
(1 hour lunch break each day)
2025 Dates
- September 27-28, 2025
- October 25-26, 2025
- November 22-23, 2025
- December 13-14, 2025
2026 Dates
- January 10-11, 2026
- February 7-8, 2026
- March 7-8, 2026
- April 11-12, 2026
- May 2-3, 2026
- June 6-7, 2026
300 Hour Training Overview
Advanced Yoga Teacher Training at tapas is a registered 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training program with Yoga Alliance, and graduates will be eligible to register at the RYT-500 hour level. Check out our profile and read reviews here.
The curriculum offers more depth, subtlety, skill, and elegance in all the elements of quality yoga instruction and yoga practice: anatomy, adjustments, sequencing, meditation, demonstration, introspection, presence, alignment, and more.
Additionally, a main thrust of this training is each trainee finding and developing her own voice as a yoga instructor. With patience, guidance, and inspiration, each instructor can harness her unique combination of traits and evolve them into something greater.
What you will learn:
Curriculum
The Advanced curriculum involves extensive time for practice, composition, instruction, feedback, refinement, and more. It also draws on small group work and community projects to teach content as well as integrating the very process of learning and development itself. Applicants must have completed an 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training program at tapas or elsewhere.
Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher Training Program
- 300+ hours of training
- 300 Hour Training Manual
- Unlimited access to all in-person, livestreamed, and on-demand classes at Tapas Yoga
- Graduate equipped to teach a public yoga class at nearly any facility
- Graduates are qualified to register as Registered Yoga Teachers
Quad Cities / Peoria
300 Hour YTT Schedule
Coming Fall of 2026
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