Our 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training will help you become an extraordinary teacher, explore your edges, and live a healthier, more conscious life!
If you love yoga, you will love this training! If you want to share that passion, or simply want to immerse yourself into a community of like-minded individuals, the WHY 200-hour Power Yoga teacher training is for you.Our 200-hour Yoga Alliance® certified teacher training is a unique experience designed to guide you in becoming a dynamic, passionate, intuitive teacher.
The training is led by Barbara Ruzansky, Jen Leavitt, Jude Russell, Dr. Peter Meadow, and Kelly Bay. Encompassing a variety of yogic traditions, this training will include both daily meditation and challenging asana practices.
Strengthen your intuition and inner wisdom. Learn to support your students' spiritual growth. Develop healthier eating practices to create a strong body and clear mind. Practice living and teaching from a space of compassion and integrity while establishing a strong foundation in intelligent vinyasa flow practice. WHY's Teacher Training will transform your practice and your teaching, and support you in transforming your life.
“Your greatest asset is not how much you know, or how much technical experience you have, but how you connect with others.”
WHY Power Yoga Teacher Training 2025:
A Foundation for Holistic Living
February 7 - 9 / March 7 - 9 / April 4 - 6
May 2 - 4 / June 6 - 8
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What is WHY Power Yoga?
WHY Power is a style of yoga created by Barbara Ruzansky, integrating her 35 years experience with many styles of yoga. These include Ashtanga, Vinyasa Flow, Forrest Yoga, Kripalu, and Bikram Yoga. WHY Power, a thoughtful and precise vinyasa style practice, speaks to all body types and all levels of practice. It challenges body and mind, builds core power, brings energy to the legs, ignites internal heat, promotes a cleansing sweat, and offers the opportunity for deep healing and release. WHY Power is spiritually nourishing, and carefully respects your physical and emotional limitations while gently guiding you to your edges.
What will I gain from the training?
1) A deeper understanding of your own practice
No matter how long you’ve been practicing yoga, our teacher training program can help you increase body awareness, flexibility, and focus while exploring your edges. As you study poses and learn about alignment, modifications, and proper breathing, you will grow stronger in a safe, supported environment.
2) Self-discovery
Our well-crafted teacher training program can bring you closer to understanding yourself while recognizing how to be present both on and off the mat. As you work your way through physical and mental challenges, you will learn how to help others through theirs.
3) Leadership skills
Break free from inhibitions and discover your true voice! The training not only guides you into becoming an effective yoga teacher, but also gives you skills you can take back to your daily job.
4) Support + friendship
Be a part of the amazing yoga family that develops during the training. Together, you will learn to break down barriers, give and receive support, and accept each other for who you are, creating a powerful bond that can last years, if not a lifetime.
5) The tools to become an incredible teacher
You will be taught how to modify postures for specific injuries and sequence postures for both beginners and intermediate students. Our unique training emphasizes holistic principles and practices to help develop your intuition, empathy, and compassion. Ethics, philosophy, pranayama, meditation, and nutritional awareness are integral parts of our work together.
Training Components
Our teacher training consists of daily meditation and a strong asana practice, followed by an exploration of the principles of WHY Power Yoga — practice teaching, teaching to multiple levels, sequencing, working with injuries — and nutritional guidance.
2025 Training Weekends:
Weekend 1 / February 7-9
Weekend 2 / March 7-9
Weekend 3 / April 4-6
Weekend 4 / May 2-4
Weekend 6 / June 6-8
Pranayama Workshop
Details TBD
- Learn traditional breathing techniques that will enhance and enrich your life
- This workshop will provide instruction and practice of pranayama techniques
Essential Anatomy and Physiology for Yoga Teachers
June 13 - 15, 2025 - more info
- Enhance your understanding of the human body in static and dynamic asana
- Satisfies the 20-hour Yoga Alliance requirement
Tuition
200-hour WHY Yoga Teacher Training: $2950
- Total cost of training is $2950 plus 6.35% sales tax ($187.33) due by January 31, 2025
- $500 non-refundable deposit plus 6.35% sales tax ($31.75) due with application
Tuition includes the six weekend modules, Pranayama Workshop, WHY teacher training manual, and monthly handouts.
Early-Bird Discount Option: $2750
- $500 nonrefundable deposit with your application to hold your place in the training
- $2250 due by January 6, 2025
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Unlimited in-house and online classes are also available for $60/month from February 2025-June 2025
Additional expenses include the anatomy workshop and independent study materials. An estimate of these expenses is:
- Anatomy Workshop ... $375 plus 6.35% sales tax ($23.81)
- Independent Study Materials ... $50 - $200
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Please include the following with your completed (and typed) application:
- $500 non-refundable deposit plus 6.35% sales tax ($31.75)
- Recent photo (headshot)
INFORMATION FOR VETERANS
West Hartford Yoga offers the only qualified yoga teacher training program in CT recognized by the VA. Qualified veterans and their dependents can use their Post-911 GI Bill benefits to cover tuition and fees. Email info @ westhartfordyoga.com for more information.
cancellation policy (for the five foundational modules)
A refund of tuition paid, less the non‐refundable deposit, will be issued for cancellations made no later than February 1, 2025. No refunds, credits or transfers are available for cancellations after February 1, 2025. Please understand our cancellation policy is firm and we cannot make exceptions.
“The gifts of love, consciousness, health and connection that I received from the training will always stay with me... learning about how to teach yoga was a bonus.”
“I feel grateful to be a part of a community of trainees that have different backgrounds, stories, problems, advantages, and yoga practices, yet we all have been supportive of one another and worked through our setbacks and challenges to practice yoga, which benefits ourselves and the people around us.”
“The WHY Teacher Training taught me so much more than how to be a good yoga teacher, I learned a lot about myself and the person I want to be. I will never forget this experience or the amazing group of people in which I shared it with. It was magical.”