300 HOUR TEACHER TRAINING / CONTINUING EDUCATION
Yogaspace is an International Yoga Alliance Registered Teacher Training School that has developed a solid and longstanding reputation for excellence over twenty nine years. We honour the historic roots of yoga alongside a modern, evidence based foundation. We are proud to see our graduates preferentially hired and a notable prominence of our alumni who have become yoga leaders and educators locally and internationally. We have worked hard to develop an outstanding curriculum and to sustain the most excellent faculty possible. Our lead trainers are among the most experienced and accomplished 500 hour ERYT yoga educators in Canada.ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The 300 hour program is a comprehensive skills training for 200 hour graduates interested in advancing their teaching skills and developing specialization in the active and contemplative practices of Hatha Yoga. Led by a faculty of esteemed Canadian lead trainers teaching in their area’s of expertise, the program is offered through a series a courses that run annually and can be taken as time and budget permits until 300 hours are completed. Our 300 hour graduates command greater employment opportunities in a wide variety of settings.
TEACHING THROUGH TOUCH:
A HANDS-ON ASSISTS TRAINING FOR YOGA INSTRUCTORS
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2 Saturdays, 11:30am - 6 pm
2 Sundays, 11:30am - 3pm20 hours - $700
Early Bird - $650 (If paid by September 12)
Hands-on assists are an important part of the yoga teacher’s toolkit. Skillful touch communicates volumes about the form and essence of each yoga pose while establishing a safe learning environment and building trust with students. Assisting with clarity and compassion not only benefits students but it also enlivens your experience as a teacher and expands your ability to serve the people in your classes as unique individuals with diverse needs.
During this intimate and in-depth training, you will learn the value of hands-on teaching rooted in consent. You will assist yoga poses that are common to a number of yoga traditions, explore ways to personally embody the principles of steadiness and sweetness, and develop confidence in your own individual approach to touch. You will learn how to:assist standing poses, balancing poses, seated forward bends, twists, backbends, inversions, vinyasa flow and savasana
assess the physical and energetic alignment of asanas
develop a sensitive, grounded, and effective touch
protect yourself from injury and preserve your own vitality by using props and techniques for leveraging your own body weight
You will cultivate your skills in a practical, hands-on environment where you will watch, photograph and make notes on detailed demonstrations before giving and receiving touch with a variety of partners.
Includes a beautiful, comprehensive training manual.
YIN YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
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2 Fridays, 9:30am – 4pm
2 Saturdays, 11:30am – 6pm
2 Sundays, 11:30am – 4pm50 Hours - $1750
Early Bird - $1625 (If paid by October 20)Yin Yoga is an integrative practice that combines observation, sensation and stillness. Positions are held for 3-5 minutes in a passive way. The weight of the body and the force of gravity do all the work. With each exhale, there is the potential to do less, to let go, to relax into the shape.
In these suspended moments, the student has the opportunity to listen to their body. Sensation is the language of the body and with practiced attention the student has the potential to tune into what the body really needs. When we attend to sensation with no agenda or expectation, we can re-establish healthy movement patterns, release negativity and awaken to the peaceful truth that underlies all reality.
Benefits of Yin Yoga
Soothes reactive tendencies
Builds the capacity to be patient and tolerant
Relationships become more harmonious
Improves interception (the ability to listen and interpret inner sensations)
Improves neuroception (the ability to detect danger in your environment)
Improves proprioception (how you orient yourself in time and space)
Realigns bones at joints, reducing pain
Redistributes tension through the fascial net
Excellent for facilitating detoxification as fascial adhesions are removed
Restored shearing (the glide between tissues)
Is often a stepping stone into the world of meditation
Training Content:
Develop a strong foundation in the psychology of yoga.
Learn three concise and easy to follow body maps, from which you will learn to build thoughtful, therapeutic and engaging classes.
Chakra Theory (Psychology of Indian yoga)
Meridian Theory (Psychology of traditional Chinese Medicine)
Myofascial Trains (The hardware that carries the mental and emotional vibrations through our physical make-up)Theory
What is Yin Yoga
History of Yin Yoga
Yin and Yang Theory – The Fundamental Principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Organ Meridian Theory – The physical, mental and emotional qualities of the twelve main organ meridians
Chakra Theory – Explore the qualities and attributes of the seven main chakras that reside along the main energetic channel
Analyze the nature of fascia and the location of the twelve myofscial lines. Compare how fascial trains correspond to both the meridian system in Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Chakra System of traditional yoga
Learn the defining principles of Yin Yoga which enable the safe manipulation of fascial fabric
Practice
Learn all 37 Yin Postures, their variations and how to prop them
Meditation – To safely manipulate fascia, Yin postures are held for 3 – 10 minutes. Here the student has an opportunity to explore the art of stillness amid physical intensity. Yin Yoga can be an effective bridge into a steady meditation practice, even for the busiest of minds.
Pranayama – Introduction to the Abandha Breath and how to work with the bandpass in a Yin way.
Sequencing
Learn to sequence classes that take into consideration your students mental, physical and emotional condition by applying your knowledge of meridians and chakras to the manipulation of myofascial trains.
Posture Assessment
Learn how to gather information about your clients emotional and mental state by assessing their posture.
One-on-One
Yin Yoga therapy is a very effective way to work with people who have autoimmune dysfunction. Conditions like arthritis, asthma, psoriasis, anxiety, panic disorders, high blood pressure, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, acid reflux, poor circulation and depression can be helped significantly with one-on-one instruction. Learn how to do proper intakes and design programs for
your students unique circumstances.Classes
For those who teach in classroom settings, Yin Yoga is a highly effective way to work with diverse groups. People who are new to yoga, experienced practitioners, students of various ages and different levels of fitness can effectively work together. Learn to design sequences that are applicable to, and easy to adjust for varying abilities and capabilities.
Who Would Benefit from this Training?
Understanding the science behind Yin Yoga compliments many unique and diverse backgrounds.
Yoga Teachers, Massage Therapists, Psychotherapists, Chiropractors, Reiki Practitioners and Life Coaches are just some of the many healers who can apply the knowledge of Yin Yoga to expand their understanding of the psychosomatic relationship
and their offerings.Hours and Certification
This training is a six day + homework, 50 hour intensive and counts as Continuing Education with the Yoga Alliance, for certified Yoga Teachers seeking to further their studies and accreditations.
The Venue
Building resilience requires a safe and supportive environment. As one of Toronto’s oldest and most established yoga studios, Yogaspace is the perfect venue for this type of exploration.
What’s Included
200 page training Manual – PDF Format
1 Month Complimentary In Studio Class Pass
All fees are subject to HST and are in Canadian Dollars
TRAUMA INFORMED SOMATIC YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
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2 Fridays, 9:30am - 4pm
2 Saturdays, 11:30am - 6pm
2 Sundays, 11:30am - 4pm50 Hours - $1750
Early Bird - $1625 (if paid by December 29)This 50 hour program weaves together contemporary somatic education with trauma informed yoga to support both personal healing and safe, skillful facilitation. You will learn how the body stores experience, how behaviour is shaped by the nervous system, and how embodied practice can restore regulation, agency and self connection.
Across five days of practice and study you will explore three interconnected streams of learning:
Yoga
In this stream you will learn how to create classrooms and one to one environments that feel respectful, inclusive and trauma informed. We also look at the science behind why yoga supports healing. This includes an exploration of the vagus nerve, PNIE education, and a clear understanding of how breathwork influences physiology, perception and state.
Contemporary Somatics
Here we explore how to gently reconnect people to their inner world with safety and care. You will be introduced to Fluid Focusing as a trauma informed approach to mindfulness. We will work with basic somatic principles such as resourcing and pendulation, along with Clinical Somatic Exercises that support nervous system regulation and embodiment.
Applied Neurology
In this stream we look at how the brain interprets threat and how targeted nervous system input can support healing. You will develop an understanding of C fibres and their relationship to soothing and connection, along with how the vestibular and ocular systems influence nervous system state. We also explore the role of the insula and the brainstem in regulation and dissociation and how this informs therapeutic practice.
Throughout the program there will be theory as well as practical exercises that you can weave into a yoga class or use as stand alone tools in a clinical or therapeutic environment.
Who is This Training For?
This training is ideal for yoga teachers, clinicians, therapists, counsellors, bodyworkers and anyone supporting people who have experienced trauma. No previous yoga experience is required. The purpose of this work is to deepen understanding of how physiology changes after traumatic events and how embodiment practices can gently reconnect people to themselves.
All fees are subject to HST and are in Canadian Dollars.
FLOWYOGA TEACHER TRAINING
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2 Saturdays 11:30 - 6pm
2 Sundays 11:30-4pm30 hours - $1350.00
Early Bird - $1250 (If paid by November 21)
(Limited to 10 Participants)A Flowyoga class with Bibi Rahim-Hahn is a journey through a sequence of 34 postures, breathing practices, meditation and chanting, designed to bring awareness to the seven main chakras and create a practice that is grounding, meditative and deeply restorative.
Developed and refined by Bibi over more than 30 years of teaching, Flowyoga reflects a lifetime of practice and an approach to teaching that has become distinctly her own. At its heart is a belief in slowing down: giving students the time and space to breathe, feel, pay attention and become more present to their experience.
In this training, Bibi will share the complete Flowyoga sequence along with the intentions, methodology and teaching principles that have shaped her work. Students will learn not simply how to reproduce a sequence, but how to understand what they are teaching and why — and ultimately how to make the practice their own.
What you will learn:
The complete Flowyoga sequence of 34 primary postures.
How to link the Flowyoga postures together deliberately, fluidly and with awareness.
The seven main chakras and the postures Bibi uses to explore and stimulate each energetic centre.
The language and cueing particular to the Flowyoga method.
How to access and develop your own unique teaching voice rather than simply imitate your teacher.
The role of chanting, meditation, pranayama and relaxation within a Flowyoga practice.
How to thoughtfully incorporate these practices into a class.
How to slow students down and guide them toward greater awareness of breath, sensation and experience.
How to hold space for a class with simplicity, presence and care.
Format:
Lectures and group discussion.
Group exploration and practice.
In-class teaching practice. Students will practise chanting and leading the flow in front of the group, gradually adding postures until they can confidently lead the complete 34-posture sequence.
Participate in 10 hours, (7 Recordings) of Flowyoga classes with Bibi and hand in a written reflection of each.
Includes:
10 hours of recorded Flowyoga classes with Bibi. (7 Recordings)
Bibi’s Flowyoga manual, including her personal collection of meditations developed over more than 30 years of teaching.
THE ART OF STORY- BASED SEQUENCING: CREATING MEANINGFUL AND MEMORABLE VINYASA CLASSES
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1 Saturday, 11:30am - 6pm
1 Sunday, 11:30am - 4pm15 Hours - $500.00
Early Bird - $450.00 (if paid by February 6)What if your yoga classes could tell a story?
In this 15-hour immersive training, you’ll explore a writers approach to designing vinyasa classes that are intelligent, intentional, and memorable.
Using storytelling as a framework, you’ll learn how to take an initial spark—an idea, image, question, teaching, or story—and develop it into a fully realized yoga class with a cohesive journey that leads to a meaningful resolution. We’ll explore how inspiration drawn from ancient mythology and yoga philosophy, as well as contemporary stories and lived experience, can inform movement, breath, mindfulness, language, and peak poses.
You’ll learn to storyboard a class from the opening breath through final savasana, creating a deliberate physical, emotional, and energetic arc. Each element of the practice becomes part of the larger story, with sequencing, pacing, cueing, pranayama, music, and moments of stillness working together to create a unified experience.
Together, we’ll explore:
Storytelling as a springboard for class design
Transforming an initial idea or inspiration into a complete practice
Building compelling physical, energetic, and emotional arcs
Developing peak-pose sequences around a story or central idea
Weaving pranayama, mindfulness, philosophy, and themes organically into movement
Using cueing and language to deepen the experience without over-explaining
Selecting music that supports the arc and atmosphere of the class
Moving beyond formulaic and predictable sequencing patterns
Designing classes that feel cohesive, purposeful, and distinctly your own
This training is a 2 day + homework, 15 hour intensive. By the end of the training, you’ll have a practical and adaptable framework for transforming inspiration into intentional class design. More importantly, you’ll begin to move beyond simply planning sequences toward crafting experiences—classes with a clear point of view, a meaningful arc, and a teaching voice that feels authentically your own.
Included:
A comprehensive and interactive sequencing workbook.
All fees are subject to HST and are in Canadian Dollars.
A VISUAL HISTORY OF YOGA: FROM ANCIENT ASCETIC TO MODERN POSTURAL PRACTICE
with Nicky Poole
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6 Wednesday Nights, Online, 6:30 - 8pm
10 Hours - $250.00
Early Bird - $225.00 (if paid by February 7)Yoga’s history does not live in texts alone. It is carved into temple walls, embodied in bronze figures, mapped through sacred diagrams, illuminated in manuscripts and captured in photographs.
In this richly illustrated course, Nicky Poole brings the history of yoga vividly to life through its images, objects, architecture and people. Moving from the ancient Indian world through Buddhism, Tantra, temple culture and Haṭha Yoga to colonial photography and modern postural practice, Nicky trace’s how yoga has been continually debated, exchanged, reimagined and transformed.
Together, these visual histories reveal where contemporary yoga came from - and invites us to consider our own place within its continuing story.
Nicky teaches where scholarship meets embodiment, weaving history, imagination and decades of lived practice into every session.
Course Format
Six weekly 100-minute live online sessions
Five hours of independent reading and study
Open to the public
May be applied toward Yogaspace’s 300-Hour Teacher Training Program
Week One: Ancient Origins
Ascetics, Seekers and the Beginnings of Yoga
Our journey begins in the ancient Indian world, where new questions about existence, liberation and the nature of the self gave rise to powerful spiritual movements. We will explore the early development of yoga alongside Buddhism and Jainism, examining the ascetic traditions and ideas that would profoundly shape its future.
Week Two: The Tantric Imagination
Sacred Diagrams, Subtle Bodies and Divine Forms
Through sacred images, illuminated manuscripts and bronze figures, we enter the imaginative world of Tantra. We will explore Śiva and Śakti, yoginīs, chakras, nāḍīs and the subtle body, tracing the emergence of practices that understood the human body not as something to transcend, but as a vehicle for awakening.
Week Three: Yoga in Stone
Temples, Sacred Bodies and Stories Carved in Time
What can an image tell us that a written text cannot? Looking closely at temple architecture and sculptural representations of yogis, deities and sacred bodies, we will consider how posture, gesture, mythology and ritual bring the history of yoga to life.
Week Four: Yoga Across Cultures
From India to Southeast Asia
Yoga has never developed in isolation. As ideas, people and practices travelled, they were interpreted and transformed by the cultures they encountered. Through the temples and visual traditions of South and Southeast Asia, we will explore how yoga, Buddhism and Tantra moved across geographic and cultural boundaries.
Week Five: The Rise of Haṭha Yoga
Bodies, Breath and Practice
Turning to illustrated manuscripts and early textual sources, we will examine the development of Haṭha Yoga and its distinctive practices of āsana, prāṇāyāma, mudrā and subtle-body cultivation. What emerges is a yoga at once strangely familiar and remarkably different from the practice we know today.
Week Six: The Making of Modern Yoga
Colonialism, Photography and the Global Āsana Class
How did yoga become what millions of people now practise around the world? Beginning with colonial photography and early images of Indian yogis, we will trace the influence of physical culture, nationalism, modernity and the pioneering teachers of the twentieth century. We will conclude by considering yoga’s global expansion—and the new forms it continues to take.
What You Will Learn
By the end of this course, you will:
Understand the broad historical development of yoga from the ancient Indian world to contemporary global practice.
Recognize how images, objects, architecture and other forms of material culture can illuminate aspects of yoga’s history that written texts alone cannot.
Explore the influence of ascetic traditions, Buddhism, Tantra, temple culture and Haṭha Yoga on the evolution of yoga.
Understand how colonialism, nationalism, physical culture and modernity contributed to the development of modern postural yoga.
Become familiar with important teachers, movements and turning points in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century history of yoga.
Develop greater confidence and sensitivity when speaking about yoga’s history and cultural context in your own teaching.
Learn where to find trustworthy further reading and become familiar with leading contemporary scholars in the field of yoga studies.
Who is this training for:This training can be used towards Yoga Alliance Continuing Education credits and/or The Yogaspace 300 hour Teacher Training Program and is also for everyone interested in the history of yoga
All fees are subject to HST and are in Canadian Dollars.
THE ART OF MANDALA VINYASA SEQUENCING: STEPPING OFF THE LINEAR PATH INTO THE CIRCLE
with Nicky Poole
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1 Saturday, 11:30am - 6pm
1 Sunday, 11:30am - 4pm15 Hours - $500.00
Early Bird - $450.00 (if paid by February 6)The Art of Mandala Vinyasa Sequencing explores a rich history of non-linear movement that traces back to the pioneering work of Shiva Rea. In the early 2000s, Shiva developed the Prana Flow system to liberate practitioners from static geometry, introducing organic, circular movement patterns that mirror the cycles of nature. This 300 hour module is helmed by Nicky Poole, who serves as Toronto's most direct bridge to the lineage. As a dedicated student and international teaching assistant to Shiva Rea for two decades, Nicky formally introduced these fluid sequencing methodologies to Toronto's yoga community during her influential tenure directing teacher trainings at 889 Yoga. Under her expert guidance, you will study the precise mechanics, energetics, and history required to intelligently guide students through a 360-degree practice.
Explore the spiritual symbolism of the mandala and mandala-making as a meditative practice, alongside embodied inspiration from the 360-degree spatial awareness and circularity of the Indian martial art form - Kalarippayat. This course brings these ideas into practice through learning two forms of Mandala Namaskar, a circular Sun Salutation, with the opportunity to develop your own sequence and hone your communication and teaching skills alongside plenty of real time feedback.
This training is a 2 day + homework, 15 hour intensive. By the end, you’ll have a practical and adaptable model for transforming inspiration into intentional class design. More importantly, you’ll begin to move beyond simply planning sequences toward crafting experiences specifically from the Mandala Vinyasa point of view.
Included:
This is a highly practical and embodied training that includes supplementary material and readings.
Who is this Training for:
This training is for 200 hour YTT graduates and advanced students, (at Nicky’s descretion).
All fees are subject to HST and are in Canadian Dollars.
CHAKRA KRIYA: AN EXPLORATION OF THE ESOTERIC PHYSIOLOGY OF YOGA AND ITS APPLICATION TO PERSONAL PRACTICE AND TEACHING
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2 Saturdays - 11:30am - 5pm
2 Sunday s- 11:30 - 4pm20 Hours
Training Content
Just as the the practice of asana fosters a deeper connection to the physical body, the aim of kriya yoga is to cultivate an awareness of the subtle body. The subtle body is the internal landscape which houses our spiritual essence, and is where our spiritual energy centres, the chakras, reside. Through the various practices of kriya yoga, these energy centres are brought to light, balanced and ultimately awakened. In this training, we will study, practice and learn how to effectively share these transformative practices with others.
What you will learn
• Mudras used to aid in deepening meditation our practice
• Bandhas and how they are used in kriya yoga
• Chants and mantras used in kriya yoga
• Advanced pranayam practices in combination with:
• Mudrā
• Bandha
• Chanting
• Specific asana based movements
• Meditation techniques
• Chakra visualizations
• Short kriya yogasequences for each of the six chakras from mūladhāra to ajñā
• The skills necessary to safely and effectively offer these practices to others in class settings
Who is this training for?
• Yoga teachers of all disciplines who wish to gain a deeper insight into the chakras and the kriya yoga system
• Practitioners who wish to explore another dimension of their practice
• 200 hour graduates who are ready to go to the next level of education and practice
CRAFTING TRANSFORMATIONAL EXPERIENCES: EVENT AND RETREAT MASTERY FOR YOGA TEACHERS
with Jessica Ullathorne
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Friday, 11am - 5pm Online
Saturday, 11:30am - 5pm In-Studio
Sunday, 11:30am - 4pm in Studio20 Hours
This training is designed for yoga teachers, movement educators, wellness practitioners, and anyone ready to create meaningful experiences that go beyond the typical class format.
Whether you're drawn to intimate 2-hour workshops, transformative day-long retreats, or week-long international immersions, this program gives you the complete framework to design, price, market, and facilitate offerings that feel aligned with your authentic teaching voice.
You'll leave with three fully developed retreat concepts—a workshop, a day retreat, and an international retreat—plus the practical skills to launch them confidently. We move beyond inspiration into implementation, covering everything from experience design and nervous system-aware facilitation to venue contracts and profit planning.
Rather than overwhelming you with theory, this training focuses on building real offerings you can launch immediately. Through hands-on creation labs, peer feedback sessions, and step-by-step business planning, you'll develop both the creative vision and the logistical mastery needed to host transformational experiences that serve your community while supporting your growth as an entrepreneur.
What You'll Create:
A complete 90-120 minute workshop with structure, pricing, and marketing copy
A full day retreat design with schedule, budget, and logistics plan
A week-long international retreat concept with venue considerations and financial projections
Marketing and launch strategies including social media planning and email campaigns
Practical tools for holding space, managing group dynamics, and facilitating transformation
Business frameworks for contracts, insurance, deposits, and profit planning
Who is this Course for:
This course is for teachers ready to expand beyond regular classes, seasoned facilitators looking to refine their approach, and anyone called to create deeper containers for growth and connection.
Included:
An Interactive creative & business strategy workbook
All fees are subject to HST and are in Canadian Dollars.
RESTORATIVE YOGA
AND THE CHAKRA’S:
TEACHING AN INNER PRACTICE
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2 Fridays, 10:30am - 4pm
2 Saturdays, 11:30am - 5pm
2 Sundays, 11:30am - 4pm30 Hours
In the complexity of today’s shifting world, and all the uncertainty that goes along with it, our innate skills for inner awareness and letting go, often fall by the wayside. Restorative yoga, which has been called ‘the yoga for the 21st century’ is a practice which restores wellness, ease and harmony in a system that has become overloaded and hyper stimulated. The restorative practice adapts many of the fundamental postures of the hatha yoga system bringing about their healing properties by cultivating our ability to yield to the force of gravity. Practiced predominantly in a reclined or a sitting position with the support of props to achieve varying effects, restorative yoga aims to transport the practitioner into a state of deep rest and inner quiet where the body and the mind can release accumulated tension. In this course, students will develop the skills required to lead a safe and effective restorative yoga practice for both in-class as well as online learning.
Training Content:
The full body of work that comprises the restorative yoga practice as originally developed by BKS Iyengar.
How to create and develop intelligently crafted restorative yoga sequences for various settings and circumstances.
The specific use of the many yoga props that are used to support and sustain long held postures.
How to use props to adapt and modify each posture in the curriculum for every level of student and varying circumstances.
Common injuries and chronic conditions that relate to the muscular/skeletal system and the nervous system.
Postures that are both indicated and counter-indicated for the above conditions.
All aspects of how to create a restorative yoga practice that fosters meditative inner awareness.
How the breath can be used to bring about physical and mental balance and well-being.
Interweaving the key elements of yoga philosophy, as it pertains to restorative yoga, into your teaching.
Using language effectively to both instruct and impart the more subtle and meditative aspect of the the practice.
Basic set up, full execution, modifications, vocal assists, inspiring communication & language, vocal quality, demonstration and timing of each pose and full sequences.
Includes:
4 Monday night Restorative Yoga & Meditation Classes online with Hali.
A comprehensive training manual with photographs of all poses and props – PDF Format.
All fees are subject to HST and are in Canadian Dollars.
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Payment is due upon registration to secure your spot in a course. Once payment has been made, refunds may occur up until 1 month prior to the start date of a course. No refunds or exchanges will be given within the final month before a course begins. There are no refunds for missed classes within a training course.
