NEW STUDENT SPECIALS • $39 ONE WEEK UNLIMITED • $49 TWO WEEKS UNLIMITED
Harlem Yoga Studio Teacher Training Begins February 2025
200 Hour Yoga Alliance Certified
100% Life Changing
We at Harlem Yoga Studio believe Yoga can have a profound impact on the world, while remaining Joyful without the burden of conformity. The ability to share Yoga Asana with others is a gift. Whether it's helping one student through a stressful day or bringing a community together to release the anxiety of our times, teaching children body awareness or preparing prenatal folks for childbirth, or simply providing New Yorkers with a compliment to their workout regimen. Yoga brings people together.
What is equally as important (perhaps more so!) is Yoga's profound ability to guide us through releasing our own stress using asana, breath and awareness, while also helping us to be present mindfully with discomfort rather than react to it unconsciously. Yoga asks us to look inward and gives us the tools and support to do so with grace and kindness. Through practice Yoga deepens our understanding of ourselves.
Since 2016, Harlem Yoga Studio has offered one of the most in-depth and actionable trainings in New York City. Like all of our Studio offerings, our Teacher Training prioritizes community and ensures equity and anti-racism is forefront in the Yoga Room. Our TT is Trauma-Informed and practically applicable to the real world in both the facility to teach confidently and the ability to use the knowledge you gain of the 8 limbs of Yoga in your day-to-day life. It is also, quite simply, FUN!
Taught by Senior Teachers Erica Barth, Amy Tobin, and Vijai Wilanski we have one of lowest student-to-teacher ratios in the city (never more than 1 trainer to 6 students). This ensures each trainee receives ample attention and guidance throughout. Our training also incorporates the long held (and proven!) understanding that one of the best ways to learn is to teach. Trainees begin practice teaching from the beginning of the program to ensure that the material is truly within you.
Our training is weekly; this continuity helps the knowledge being gained has the time and space to become embodied. We also have weekend intensives to foster a safe and immersive community to grow together. You will go deep within your own practice and form life-long bonds with your fellow Teacher Trainees.
At the end of the training, you will feel prepared, competent and confident, ready to share the gift of yoga with others. If you choose to pursue teaching, Harlem Yoga Studio is one of the few studios to offer teaching opportunities to graduates. We currently have five TT graduates on our schedule!!
Included with your 200 hour Teacher Training:
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140 hours of In-Person Instruction (10% more in-person instruction than the average TT)
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A maximum Student to Teacher Ratio of 6 to 1
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Unlimited Yoga classes for the full four months of training
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15% OFF all workshops and Events at Harlem Yoga Studio
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3 Day Weekend at a beautiful Ashram Retreat Center in upstate NY - Rooms and Meals Fully Included!
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Use of HYS to practice teach, including a "Community Class" of your friends and Peers
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Multiple opportunities to teach, including a minimum of 1 full hour class to ensure your competency and confidence
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Your Own Teacher Training Manual with detailed alignment, pose benefits, a Full Script to come back to, and a practical and useful introduction to the 8 limbs of yoga.
Inspired!! Curious!! Excited!!
We'd love to hear from you & answer
any questions you may have.
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2025 HYS TEACHER TRAINING SCHEDULE
12 Thursdays: 6PM - 9PM, beginning 2.27.24 through 5.15.25
Weekend Intensives: Fridays 6-9PM, Saturday & Sundays 10-6PM
Intensive #1: Fri 2.28.25, Sat 3.1.25, Sun 3.2.25
Intensive #2: Fri 3.21.25, Sat 3.22.25, Sun 3.23.25
Intensive #3: Fri 4.11.25, 12PM through Sun 4.13.25, 6PM (Ashram Weekend, to be confirmed)
Intensive #4: Fri 5.9.25, Sat 5.10.25, Sun 5.11.25
Intensive #5: Fri 5.16.25, Sat 5.17.25, Sun 5.18.25
Share the Magic of Yoga with your Community
Deepen your Self-Knowledge
EARLY BIRD
$3300 Tuition
Full payment by December 15th to guarantee your spot.
STANDARD
$3600 Tuition
$600 Non-refundable deposit due by December 15th to reserve your spot. Must be paid in full by January 31st.
MONTHLY
$3900 Tuition
$600 Non-refundable deposit due by December 15th. $660 month auto-payment on the 5th of each month January – May.
Previous TT Testimonials...
"I entered teacher training at Harlem Yoga not only to solidify my practice and prepare to begin teaching, but also to deepen my commitment to a studio community where I saw my values reflected and put into action: kindness, strength, humility, and acceptance. Since taking that leap, I've been so grateful for the ongoing support of my teachers and peers. Their dedication to investigating and sharing wisdom and joy through the tools of yoga continues to inspire me, and I have nothing but fondness and appreciation for the three months we spent together during training and all that has come since."
Jess C. TT 2017
"I'm so happy I decided to pursue my 200 hour YTT at the Harlem Yoga Studio. Erica, Amy and Vijai are such incredible instructors: patient, hands-on, well versed in both the spiritual and practical aspects of yoga, open to being challenged and full of modifications that make practice accessible. The training resources are well chosen, the retreat is an incredible opportunity to step outside of your daily life and develop a deeper understanding of the meditative aspects of the practice. I've gone on to do my 30 hour Kids and Teens training and know there are many more trainings in my future. The 200 hour YTT at Harlem Yoga Studio is only the beginning of my journey, and it has been a wonderful way to start."
Corrine F. TT 2022
"My experience in the HYS TT was beyond what I expected. This training not only helped me learn everything I need to start my path as a yoga teacher, but it also connected me with extraordinary human beings. I felt part of a wonderful community."
Gaby H. TT 2018
"Yoga Teacher Training at Harlem Yoga Studio was a really unique and wonderful experience! Erica, Amy and Vijay provided so much personalized guidance during our “pandemic training,” and really went out of their way to make sure the flow of the training worked for everyone. Erica, Amy, and Vijay each provide a different lens to yoga which complements each other well and gives students the opportunity to learn varying styles. Upholding the integrity of the ancient practice was clear in the emphasis on Sanskrit and mediation being interwoven throughout the class, and the sutras as pillars of the practice. The social justice and trauma-informed yoga trainings were impactful and an important reason why I chose HYS - they practice what they preach. Humor, light, dedication, and community are fully present at Harlem Yoga Studio’s YTT. Hope this gives you an idea of how great this YTT is."
Danielle E. TT 2020
"Last fall I googled “yoga training NYC” and Harlem Yoga Studio popped up. It was meant to be. I live in the neighborhood, and I had taken my son to the toddler and me classes when the studio opened 10 years ago. I immediately signed up and the training was above and beyond what I expected. The teachers are aHHHmazing. I learned about yoga asanas (poses) and philosophy. In all my years of fitness, I always went to the fast, high-energy classes. This training taught me that the yoga my body needs was not the yoga I had been chasing. They have created a training that is a haven and a safe space. Erica, Amy, and Vijay along with the teachers that are brought in for the specials opened my eyes, mind and heart to so much beyond “fitness”. Yoga is a powerful tool for connecting people and Harlem Yoga Studio is dedicated to its students and the community."
Angela B. TT 2018
"Harlem Yoga Studio’s Yoga Teacher Training changed my life! No joke! I had just turned 50 and was in desperate need of a change of pace. Luckily, I had a friend who knew Amy, one of the teachers at HYS. I met with her and as soon as she described the HYS Training I knew it was for me. Aside from the regular asanas and terminology, we learned about trauma informed yoga, anti-racism, prenatal yoga, restorative and so, so much more. It was also a bonding experience with my fellow students and the teachers that built a whole new community for me. I cannot possibly recommend this training enough!!"
Wendell O. TT 2022