Embodied Yoga: 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training

Post-Lineage, Trauma-Informed, Rooted in Real Experience

Starting October 2026 | Open Way Yoga

-What You’ll Learn

Cultivate Vitality
Learn and practice skills that will support you in creating a sense of vitality and well being from the inside out.

Life Long Mobility
Movement, strength, and flexibility practices to support a healthy range of motion throughout life.

Heal Physical Pain
Anatomy for real bodies. Working with chronic pain, injury, and limitation. When to refer out.

Mental & Emotional Health
Nervous system regulation. Polyvagal theory. Breathwork and somatic practices for stress, anxiety, depression, overwhelm and trauma. How to stay in your scope of practice.

Trauma-Informed Teaching
What trauma is and how it lives in the body. Creating safety through language and autonomy. Recognizing dysregulation and responding skillfully.

Post-Lineage Philosophy
Understanding yoga’s roots without deifying lineage founders. Critiquing appropriation and guru culture. Building your own teaching philosophy.

The Art of Teaching
Sequencing for different populations. Cueing without controlling. Reading a room. Teaching from your voice, not a script.

What Makes This Training Different

Immersive Experience:
This is post-lineage, trauma-centered yoga. If you want to understand how yoga that actually heals physically, mentally, and emotionally, this training gives you the foundation to find that for yourself and if you choose to teach, help others do the same.

Practical Teaching Skills:
We don’t train teachers to replicate someone else’s yoga. We train teachers who share from their own practice and lived experience.

You won’t memorize scripts or follow formulas. You’ll learn to understand nervous system regulation, work skillfully with pain and trauma, and teach from embodiment instead of performance.

How It Works

Group Sessions:
Weekend intensives diving into philosophy, anatomy, polyvagal theory, and physical practice. You learn in the presence of actual bodies, not just theory.

Individual Mentoring:
One-on-one time with trainers to explore what matters to you and develop your teaching voice. This isn’t one-size-fits-all.

Peer-Reviewed Teaching:
You’ll teach a lot, with real feedback. Every graduate leaves with solid teaching hours, not just a certificate.

Flexibility of Focus:
Want to go deeper into restorative work? Breathwork? Chronic pain? We build space for you to focus on what calls you.

Who This Is For

You don’t need to be an advanced practitioner. You need to be someone who is interested in the deeper layers of yoga and wants to do healing work in yourself and the world.

If you want to go deeper in your own practice, understand how yoga can be used to address real pain, value trauma-informed practice, or are interested in being of service, we want you here.

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Program Details

When: October 2026 - March 2027

Certification: 200-Hour American Yoga Council Registered Teacher Training

Investment: $3,500

Early Bird (Register by August 1, 2026): $3,200

Earlier Bird (register by June 1, 2026): $3,000

Payment Structure:

- $500 non-refundable deposit due at registration

- Balance due in full 5 days before first training session

- Payment plans available—contact us to discuss options

Included Perks.

From the date your program is paid-in-full classes at the studio start counting towards your hours. Register early to make sure your attendance counts!

An unlimited pass at OWY is a required part of the training, your current unlimited will be discounted to $59 from October 2026 through March 2027.
Pay in full now and start accumulating your classroom hours.

Ready to Begin?

Space is limited to ensure personalized attention and deep mentoring relationships.

Enrollment is Open

Questions?

Email: openwayyoga@gmail.com

Phone: 440-477-4348

This isn’t just yoga teacher training.
This is learning to heal with yoga as the tool.

Are you ready?
Pay your initial deposit or pay in full today!

Training Dates & Requirements
250 Total Hours

50 OWY Class Hours: These hours are accumulated by attending classes at OWY in Huron, OWY Sandusky Rec, and any other public community classes offered by OWY

HERE’S WHAT PREVIOUS GRADUATES HAVE TO SAY:

"OWY's Teacher Training Prgram changed my life!"

"I entered Open Way Yoga teacher training primarily to deepen my own practice. I sincerely appreciated the philosophic and practice depth of this program." 

"Open Way Yoga provided quality instruction, guidance and the opportunity to explore personal yogic interests and ideas. The class curriculum was well rounded and, in fact, exceeded the 200 RYT requirements. I would recommend this teacher training program to anyone interested in gaining a greater understanding of yoga and the ability to confidently teach in a classroom setting."

Meet Your Teachers:

Lead Trainer: Shannon Thomas has been the owner of OWY for 12 years and has over 25 years of yoga of experience. She has been the leader trainer for some of the very best teachers in our area and beyond.

OWY has some of the best teachers in our area and for the first time ever, all of our Senior teachers will be teaching some hours for this training!

Andrea Petersen is one of our area’s leading massage therapists and the owner of Balanced Bodywork. She is also a graduate of OWY’s teacher training in 2018. She will be presenting on teaching from embodied anatomy and hyper-mobililty.

April Halm graduated from OWY’s 200 hour training in 2018. She is a gifted somatic yin teacher who is skilled at helping to tend pain the body.

Erin Astley is the owner of Grace & Grounding in Port Clinton. She is also a local dentist and a graduate of OWY’s TT in 2017. She has pursued her interest in bhakti yoga over the past years.

Mary Folger was a part of OWY’s first graduating class in 2014 and has decades of yoga experience. She is a skilled trauma-informed Certified Iyengar teacher.

Gina McCready graduated from OWY’s teacher training in 2019 and will be bringing her gift for creative sequencing to share.

Tondra Frisby is a community leader and culture builder. Her certification from OWY’s 2024 program is pending. She will be helping us work with the book My Grandmother’s Hands.

This training is in-person and immersive… it will change you from the inside out!

Book List

• Yoga for Everyone  
  By Dianne Bondy

• Yoga, Mind, Body and Spirit
  By Donna Farhi

• Anatomy book: PENDING

• The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali  Translation and Commentary By Chip Hartranft

• My Grandmother’s Hands
  By Resmaa Menakem

POLICY FOR MISSED CLASSES

We understand some travel plans are too important to miss and that illnesses and life situations happen, so if you need to miss a weekend or any of our group hours we do have ways for you to make up the material. If you are unable to complete the program by the final weekend, you will have through December 31, 2027 to complete all requirements.