Internationally Accredited
200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Program
Yoga is for
EVERY BODY
The 200-Hour yoga and meditation teacher training at The Studio Cleveland is designed for the dedicated, curious, and open-minded yogi who is willing to do "the work" to dive deeper into their own personal practice, learn about the depths of yoga as an ancient science, and for those wishing to become registered and certified yoga instructors upon completion through the Yoga Alliance.
The Mindful Cleveland Yoga and Meditation Teacher Training goes above and beyond to ensure that each student has a working understanding and knowledge of the ancient science of yoga in a practical and applicable way. This teacher training program offers some of the most inclusive, accessible, extensive and authentic information available in the area. We utilize the area's leaders in certain subject fields to teach their content of expertise so you can receive the best educational experience possible. Inspiration from this course has been taken form the lineages of Hatha Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Vipassana Meditation, with content brought directly from India and Costa Rica. This course heavily focuses on the yin and yang aspects of the yogic practices, as well as philosophy and the unraveling of the spiritual journey in our modern society.
This training will provide its students with proper foundation for teaching yoga and meditation safely, confidently and knowledgeably with its comprehensive and hands-on curriculum. You will gain the tools and experiences needed to carry the torch of yoga into the world.
This course is equally appropriate for this who wish to teach yoga as well as for those who just want to deepen their practice and understanding of yoga and meditation.
Upon completion of the training, you will earn a 200-hour certificate and you will be eligible to register with Yoga Alliance, the international yoga accreditation board for yoga teachers. This program will also prepare you for future study within a 300- or 500-hour advanced yoga teacher training. Participants of this teacher training program will receive unlimited access to yoga classes at The Studio Cleveland for the duration of the program. Students will receive life-long mentoring and guidance from Sara Syed, E-RYT 700, lead teacher of this teacher training program.
Read on to learn more about Mindful Cleveland's 200 hour curriculum and requirements for registration.
The Mindful Cleveland Yoga and Meditation Teacher Training goes above and beyond to ensure that each student has a working understanding and knowledge of the ancient science of yoga in a practical and applicable way. This teacher training program offers some of the most inclusive, accessible, extensive and authentic information available in the area. We utilize the area's leaders in certain subject fields to teach their content of expertise so you can receive the best educational experience possible. Inspiration from this course has been taken form the lineages of Hatha Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Vipassana Meditation, with content brought directly from India and Costa Rica. This course heavily focuses on the yin and yang aspects of the yogic practices, as well as philosophy and the unraveling of the spiritual journey in our modern society.
This training will provide its students with proper foundation for teaching yoga and meditation safely, confidently and knowledgeably with its comprehensive and hands-on curriculum. You will gain the tools and experiences needed to carry the torch of yoga into the world.
This course is equally appropriate for this who wish to teach yoga as well as for those who just want to deepen their practice and understanding of yoga and meditation.
Upon completion of the training, you will earn a 200-hour certificate and you will be eligible to register with Yoga Alliance, the international yoga accreditation board for yoga teachers. This program will also prepare you for future study within a 300- or 500-hour advanced yoga teacher training. Participants of this teacher training program will receive unlimited access to yoga classes at The Studio Cleveland for the duration of the program. Students will receive life-long mentoring and guidance from Sara Syed, E-RYT 700, lead teacher of this teacher training program.
Read on to learn more about Mindful Cleveland's 200 hour curriculum and requirements for registration.
"Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go”
Swami Satchidananda
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Yoga Alliance Approved 200 Hour Curriculum
Yoga Philosophy, Yoga Lifestyle and Ethics
Techniques, Training, & Practice
Teaching Methods & Styles
Anatomy & Physiology
Practicum
The Spiritual Entrepreneur - The Business of Yoga
Beyond the Yoga Alliance - Additional Areas of Study:
- In-depth study of the Yamas & Niyamas, the ethical guidelines for living a healthy and more peaceful life
- Study and learn how to incorporate the philosophy of India's medical system, Ayurveda, into your life and teaching
- Create a diet and lifestyle that will create optimal health in your life based on the gunas and Ayurveda
- Study the Yoga Sutras by Patanjali, the founder of modern yoga (2,500 BC)
- Discuss ethics of being a yoga teacher, including the teacher's role as a community leader, the value of selfless service, and practicing honesty and non-harm
- Learn how to live a healthy, vibrant, and spiritually-aligned life that benefits yourself and the relationship in your life
Techniques, Training, & Practice
- Safely practice and teach yoga postures (asanas)
- Learn the therapeutic and healing benefits of the various asanas
- Explore modifications for poses and the use of props to make yoga safe & accessible to all students
- Identify and cue proper alignment
- Offer safe and consentual hands-on adjustments and assistance
- Practice and teach various breathing exercises (pranayama) and meditation
- Create balanced, safe, fun and meaningful class sequences that emphasize your talents
Teaching Methods & Styles
- Experience various styles of yogic practices through experience: Hatha, Ashtanga Primary Series, Kundalini, Yin, Restorative, Pranayama, Yoga Nidra, and Meditation
- Teaching yoga for children, pre / post natal students.
- Find your voice; practice articulation, word choice, and mindful communication
- Customize your teaching to serve special niches or population of choice
- Practice savasana massage
- Hold space for a class and others; learn how to be the best teacher you can be
Anatomy & Physiology
- Explore the subtle body energy systems in-depth including the chakra systems, nadis, masculine/feminine energy and more
- Study anatomy and physiology of the physical body
- Learn how to be enhance your teaching with an understanding of the unseen body and how it works
- Therapeutics of yoga: learn how to work with pain, injuries, and many health conditions
Practicum
- Practice structuring, sequencing, and teaching yoga classes
- Give and receive constructive feedback to and from peers (in the program and outside of program) to enhance your teaching awareness and ability
- Receive personalized feedback from lead instructor on how to teach your best class
- Plenty of practice teaching!
The Spiritual Entrepreneur - The Business of Yoga
- Legal requirements as a yoga teacher
- Basic tax information related to yoga teaching income
- Learn marketing techniques, business exploration and more to help start a spiritually-focused and conscientious business model
- Learn about the Yoga Alliance registry and membership
Beyond the Yoga Alliance - Additional Areas of Study:
- Teaching silent and guided meditation (Anapana)
- Basics of Sanskrit & Sanskrit names of asanas
- Sound Healing Mini-Course
- Seva - Selfless Service
- Create a sadhana that supports your life and practice
Requirements
It is important to realize the responsibility each student takes on upon completing a yoga teacher training. Being a yoga teacher is a full-time lifestyle choice; the yoga teacher does not simply "clock-out" and live a "regular" life and then "clock in" to teach yoga. Identifying as a yoga teacher is a commitment to living the yogi lifestyle (with best effort). It's a commitment to continuous learning, practicing daily healthy habits, increasing your awareness and consciousness, practicing seva and so much more. It's a commitment to a life of continual practice so you have experiential knowledge to pass down to the people you will one day call your students. If you are inspired and guided to take this course, please be mindful of our requirements for serious students:
- You have experienced the healing and transformative benefits of yoga and meditation first-hand in your own life.
- You can work diligently and be self-directed. Although you will be guided throughout this program, it is up to each individual student to show up and do the work. You will get out of this program what you put into this program. It is an investment in yourself.
- Make sure this is the right program for you! Read about our yoga teacher training and see if it resonates with you. Read about the lead teacher, Sara Syed; meet and speak with Sara. Make sure everything fits with you, including the time commitment to yourself and this program.
- Be open-minded. If we are lucky, not everything will go according to plan throughout this yoga teacher training! Our human plan can not compare to the Divine plan in store for us.
- You can communicate effectively. As the old adage goes, "ask and you shall receive." It is only when we communicate our needs, challenges, and intent that change and transformation can occur. The teacher can help you along your journey, but you must meet the teacher halfway.
- Read as many of the books from the text list as you can. Take as many yoga classes as you can (at least 100 throughout the program), with as many different instructors and varieties as possible. This will help you on your journey of becoming a yoga teacher.
Book List
Required Books:
Recommended Books:
(To be read during this lifetime)
- The Yamas & Niyamas - Exploring Yoga’s Ethical Practice - Deborah Adele
- Yoga Sutras of Patanjali – Swami Satchidananda
- Yoga Sequencing - Designing Transformative Yoga Classes - Mark Stephens
- The Key Muscles of Yoga - Ray Long
Recommended Books:
(To be read during this lifetime)
- Yoga Body - Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D., P.T.
- Light on Yoga - BKS Iyengar
- The Yogi Entrepreneur: A Guide to Earning a Mindful Living through Yoga - Darren Main
- The Subtle Body Coloring Book - Cyndi Dale & Richard Wehrman
- The Bhagavad Gita - Introduction and Translated - Eknath Easwaran
- The Art and Business of Teaching Yoga - Amy Ippoliti & Taro Smith
- Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul - Sharon Gannon & David Life
- Yogi Assignment - Kino Macgregor
- You Can Heal Your Life - Louise Hay
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo
- The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success - Deepak Chopra
- The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
- Myths of the Asanas - Alanna Kaivalya & Arjuna van Der Kooji
- Ayurveda The Science of Self Healing - Dr. Vasant Lad
- Yoga & Ayurveda - Dr. David Frawley
- Eatern Mind, Western Body - Anodea Judith
- A Course in Miracles
Get away to one the most biodiverse places on earth, where you will enjoy warm weather, mountain views, sounds of the jungle filled with birds and monkeys, and lush palm trees along miles of unspoiled beaches. Study yoga in a tropical paradise that will sooth your senses and rejuvenate your soul.
WHEN
Saturday April 23 - Saturday May 7, 2022
WHERE
The Goddess Garden Eco-Resort
Playa Grande
70403 Cahuita
Costa Rica
Retreat Location Website:
https://thegoddessgarden.com/
Saturday April 23 - Saturday May 7, 2022
WHERE
The Goddess Garden Eco-Resort
Playa Grande
70403 Cahuita
Costa Rica
Retreat Location Website:
https://thegoddessgarden.com/
Attendance and Participation Expectations:
Students are required to attend 100% of scheduled class meeting times. Students are expected to not use their phones excessively throughout the training and save phone use for free time. Students are expected to remain present and attentive. Students will arrive on-time for classes. This is an interactive and immersive course and students are expected to participate in discussions.
Students are required to attend 100% of scheduled class meeting times. Students are expected to not use their phones excessively throughout the training and save phone use for free time. Students are expected to remain present and attentive. Students will arrive on-time for classes. This is an interactive and immersive course and students are expected to participate in discussions.
Tuition Options
Tuition Includes
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Graduation
To qualify for graduation, students will:
Cancellation Policy
We can refund your payment minus the $500 deposit up to 45 days prior to the course start date. 45 days prior to the scheduled course start date, there will be no refunds issued. If for some reason you cannot complete the course, we can roll your payment over to be used for a future teaching training course at The Studio Cleveland or its international retreats.
**Please email info@thestudiocleveland.com with any questions and inquiries or call
- $2,995 - Dorm
- $3,599 - Triple
- $4,129 - Double
- $5,299 - Single
Tuition Includes
- Accommodations for 14 nights
- Healthy and delicious vegetarian food prepared with love and care. Food is fresh and is prepared daily from scratch with fresh organic ingredients and fruits locally grown. Upon request we serve vegan and gluten free options, as well.
- Use of all amenities on site, including both yoga shalas and the swimming pool
- Transportation to and from the airport (must be ready for pick-up at SJO for 1pm pick-up on first day of course, otherwise you may be responsible for your own transportation costs).
- Access to one of the most inclusive, extensive and authentic yoga teacher training educational experiences available in the world
- 200-hour yoga teacher training education and Yoga Alliance certificate eligible for Yoga Alliance registration upon completion of course
- 200 hour Yoga and Meditation Teacher Training Manual
- Two weeks of fresh, clean Costa Rican air and healing, natural jungle environment
- Mentoring from Sara Syed, E-RYT 700, lead teacher of this program
- Healing
- New, lifelong friendships
- Unforgettable memories
Venmo:@thestudiocleveland
PayPal.Me/MeditationandYoga
(Please select to send as 'Friends and Family' to save the fee)
Graduation
To qualify for graduation, students will:
- Attend all classes (unless when there is a permitted, excused absence)
- Be punctual for classes (unless when there is a permitted, excused tardy)
- Complete the final exam
- Teach a yoga class
- Balance paid in full
Cancellation Policy
We can refund your payment minus the $500 deposit up to 45 days prior to the course start date. 45 days prior to the scheduled course start date, there will be no refunds issued. If for some reason you cannot complete the course, we can roll your payment over to be used for a future teaching training course at The Studio Cleveland or its international retreats.
**Please email info@thestudiocleveland.com with any questions and inquiries or call
Teachers
Lead Instructor:
Sara Syed, Owner, The Studio Cleveland, 700 E-RYT, Masters in Education in Curriculum & Instruction, Bachelors of Science in Psychology, Thai Yoga Massage
Philosophy
History
Chakras
Meditation
Teaching Methodology
Sequencing
Sanskrit
& More
Sara Syed is the owner of The Studio Cleveland, a holistic wellness center in downtown Cleveland. She is an experienced Vipassana meditator with 5 years of intensive meditation practice. She has attended 10-day silent meditation retreats almost every year since 2017 to deepen her own, personal meditation practice. She is an experienced and registered yoga instructor (700-ERYT), hosts her own Internationally Accredited Yoga and Meditation Teacher Trainings (200 Hour Registered Yoga School) through the Yoga Alliance and semi-annual retreats to peaceful and inspiring locations throughout America and the world. Sara has been practicing yoga since the tender age of 17 and has completed yoga teacher trainings in Costa Rica (2014) and in India (2016), prior to diving deep into her meditation training. Sara has graduated over 100 students in her 200 Hour Yoga and Meditation Teacher Trainings since 2019.
Her graduate training to obtain her Master's in Science in Curriculum & Instruction provided her with experience to effectively and efficiently teach large groups of students in meaningful and engaging ways.
Sara Syed started practicing yoga during high school in 2008. She found the gift of yoga while she was struggling with addiction, anxiety, eating-disorders and depression. She soon discovered the benefits of yoga and meditation and noticed that these practices provided a sense of peace and relief.
Sara practiced throughout Cleveland, Ohio, until she attended her first yoga teacher training in Cahuita, Costa Rica, in 2014, in the lineage of Hatha yoga with a strong influence from BKS Iyengar. Since, Sara has traveled the world practicing, learning, and teaching the subtle art and ancient science of yoga. She has spent hundreds of hours teaching yoga and meditation at universities, fitness centers, local festivals, in public schools, private schools, mental health facilities, juvenile detention centers, and in yoga studios.
Sara completed her 300-hour teaching training program in India in 2016, where she attended Yogadarshanam Ashtanga/Hatha yoga school. While in Mysore, India, Sara also attended the K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute under Saraswathi Jois.
Sara took an additional 200 hours of training with Kino Macgregor through Miami Life Center in 2020.
For meditation, Sara attends 10-day silent meditation retreats in the lineage of the Buddha known as Vipassana. These retreats have greatly attributed to her deep style of meditation practice.
Sara takes a holistic approach to living and believes our entire lifestyle should follow healthy and spiritual guidelines.
Sara makes her classes accessible to students of all experience levels. Her classes focus on synchronizing the breath and body movement to balance the nervous system and the mind. Students leave her class feeling renewed, inspired, empowered and full of love.
East Meets West:
Sara believes in teaching the ancient science and arts of yoga and meditation in their original form to help maintain its integrity here in the west.
Assistant Instructor: Shannon Carlin, RYT 500
Shannon Carlin, 500 RYT
Prenatal Yoga
Restorative Yoga
Trauma Sensitive Yoga
Anatomy and Physiology
Shannon visited ashrams with her parents as a child and then many years later, found herself in a yoga class one day.
Though unfamiliar with the poses, the breath, and of course-sanskrit, she immediately felt a sense of belonging and of coming home.
The experience resonated so deeply with her that she knew she had taken her first steps on a life-long path of study, practice and devotion.
She has completed her 200hr certification with Bernadette Birney, Restorative training with Jillian Pranksy, Prenatal Certification with Sue Elkind and her 500hr advanced training with Tiffany Cruikshank of Yoga Medicine. She also continues to study yoga philosophy with Dr. Douglas Brooks and is working on her 1,000 hour training with Yoga Medicine.
Shannon is also a certified lifeguard, PaddleFit and Stand Up Paddle Board Yoga Teacher. She has also completed Trauma Informed and Yoga Activist training with Off The Mat and Into The World with Sean Corne, Suzanne Sterling and Hala Khoury. She is a also Lululemon Ambassador.
Restorative Yoga
Trauma Sensitive Yoga
Anatomy and Physiology
Shannon visited ashrams with her parents as a child and then many years later, found herself in a yoga class one day.
Though unfamiliar with the poses, the breath, and of course-sanskrit, she immediately felt a sense of belonging and of coming home.
The experience resonated so deeply with her that she knew she had taken her first steps on a life-long path of study, practice and devotion.
She has completed her 200hr certification with Bernadette Birney, Restorative training with Jillian Pranksy, Prenatal Certification with Sue Elkind and her 500hr advanced training with Tiffany Cruikshank of Yoga Medicine. She also continues to study yoga philosophy with Dr. Douglas Brooks and is working on her 1,000 hour training with Yoga Medicine.
Shannon is also a certified lifeguard, PaddleFit and Stand Up Paddle Board Yoga Teacher. She has also completed Trauma Informed and Yoga Activist training with Off The Mat and Into The World with Sean Corne, Suzanne Sterling and Hala Khoury. She is a also Lululemon Ambassador.
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