Embodied Healer: 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training

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

Starting October 2026 | Open Way Yoga

What Makes This Training Special

This isn’t a training that teaches you to replicate someone else’s yoga. It’s a training that teaches you to share from the depth of your own practice and lived experience.

We’re not churning out cookie-cutter teachers who memorize scripts and sequences. We’re yoga teachers who understand nervous system regulation, who can work skillfully with pain and trauma, who teach from embodiment rather than performance.

This is post-lineage yoga. Trauma-centered. Grounded in polyvagal theory, somatic practices, and the art of meeting people exactly where they are.

If you want to teach yoga that actually heals, physically, mentally, emotionally, this training will give you the foundation to do that work.

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What You’ll Learn

Healing Physical Pain

- Anatomy and biomechanics that serve real bodies, not ideal ones

- How to work with chronic pain, injury, and limitation

- Movement practices that restore function and reduce suffering

- When to refer students to other practitioners

Mental & Emotional Health Through Yoga

- Polyvagal theory and nervous system regulation

- Breathwork and somatic practices for anxiety, depression, and trauma

- How to hold space for emotional processing without becoming a therapist

- Staying within your scope of practice while offering genuine support

Trauma-Informed Teaching

- What trauma actually is and how it lives in the body

- Creating safety through invitational language and student autonomy

- Recognizing signs of dysregulation and knowing how to respond

- Teaching practices that support healing without retraumatizing

Post-Lineage Yoga Philosophy

- Understanding yoga’s roots, honoring lineage without diefying lineage founders

- Critiquing appropriation, colonization, and guru culture

- Building your own practice and teaching philosophy

- Teaching yoga that serves contemporary bodies and lives

The Art of Teaching

- How to sequence intelligently for different goals and populations

- Cueing that creates clarity without controlling

- Reading a room and adapting in real time

- Teaching from your voice, not someone else’s script

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How This Training Works

Group Immersion Sessions

Intensive weekend trainings where we dive deep into philosophy, anatomy, teaching methodology, polyvagal theory, and hands-on practice. You’ll be in the presence of bodies—learning to see, adjust, and teach real people, not just theory.

Individual Mentoring

One-on-one sessions with lead trainers to explore your unique interests, work through challenges, and develop your personal teaching voice. This isn’t a one-size-fits-all program. We tailor the training to what you need.

Peer-Reviewed Teaching Experience

You’ll teach. A lot. With feedback from instructors and fellow trainees. Every graduate leaves with solid, reviewed teaching hours under their belt—not just a certificate they bought online.

Flexibility to Go Deep

Want to focus more on restorative practices? Breathwork? Working with chronic pain populations? We build space for you to specialize in what calls to you while still covering the full 200-hour curriculum.

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This training is for people who want to do healing work in the world. If that’s you, we want you here.

You don’t need to be an advanced practitioner. You need to be someone who:

- Wants to teach yoga that addresses real pain and real healing

- Values trauma-informed, nervous-system-centered approaches

- Is committed to doing your own work—physically, mentally, emotionally

- Wants to teach from lived experience, not scripts

- Believes yoga should serve people, not egos

- Is ready to show up, practice, learn, and teach in community

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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 September 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.

Starting June 1, 2026 All regularly scheduled classes and select workshops are free from the date the program is paid-in-full through the end of the Group Training Sessions.
Pay in full now and start coming to classes for free June 1!

Ready to Begin?

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

Accepting Applications Now

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?

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:

Shannon 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.

Owner of Open Way Yoga and lead trainer. Shannon has been teaching yoga for 12 years. She has thousands of hours of teaching experience and has specialized in trauma-informed practice, nervous system regulation, the pelvic floor and somatic healing. She teaches from the experience of her own healing journey and believes yoga should empower people to reclaim agency over their bodies and lives.

Mary Folger

April Halm

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 of Hatha Yoga  
  By H. David Coulter

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

• My Grandmother’s Hands
  By Resmaa Menakem

POLICY FOR MISSED CLASSES

As teacher training is an investment in yourself, we don’t allow for cancellations. We want to encourage those who are ready and willing to make the commitment to change their life for the better. That said, we understand illnesses and life situations happen, so if you are unable to complete the program by the final weekend, you will have through December 31, 2024 to complete all requirements.