Yoga Teacher Training
Desert Zen Yoga School is offering 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training beginning January 2025. The training will be taught by Lori Fitzpatrick and Shay Pedersen. The training will be held exclusively on weekends and span a four month period. While you will be able to teach a yoga class after our training, our main focus will be on deepening your understanding of yoga and expanding your personal practice.
Yoga Alliance Accredited
Desert Zen Yoga Schools 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training is Yoga Alliance accredited. After completing our training you will be able to join membership as a Registered Yoga Teacher, a certification many studios look for when hiring teachers.
Training Details
Training will be held on weekends only, from 8am-4pm. Training is scheduled for the following dates:
January 11/12
January 18/19
February 1/2
February 8/9
February 22/23
March 1/2
March 8/9
March 29/30
April 12/13
April 18/19
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Training will be held at the yoga studio in Civano at 5318 S Civano Blvd.
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Cost is $3100 if paid in full
A payment plan is available for $3100 total​
All books and materials will be provided.
Content Covered
Your 200 hours training will cover all of the following topics:
-asanas
-pranayama
-chakras
-meditation, mantras and mudras
-anatomy and physiology
-history of yoga
-philosophy
-Ayurveda
-yoga teacher ethics
-creative sequencing
-Sanskrit
-unlocking your voice
-professional development
-yoga business
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Special Guest teachers will also introduce students to different types of yoga.
Meet Your Trainers
Lori Fitzpatrick E-RYT200, RYT500 is the co-leading for your YTT. Lori received her training from Session Yoga and advanced training from Yoga Oasis. She is also certified in Buti Yoga, 11:11 and Children's Yoga. Although Lori gravitates toward power yoga styles, she also has a love of Yin and Restorative yoga. Lori's main goal for this training is that all students will be able to teach an all levels yoga class confidently upon graduation. Lori feels that Yoga Teacher Training was life changing and hopes that our students feel the same.
Shay Pedersen E-CYT200, CYT500 will be co-leading your YTT. After teaching mat Pilates exclusively, Shay was invited to do a yoga teacher training by her favorite teacher, who became her mentor, in 2010. Shay immediately began teaching a multitude of classes at different locations and different styles in 2010. Shay followed that training with an intensive and comprehensive 200 hour yoga teacher training in Costa Rica with Marianne Wells Yoga School, and subsequently completed her 300 hour advanced teacher training with My Vinyasa Practice and a certification in Thai Yoga Massage and Yoga Trapeze. Shay has a strong desire to connect with her students through yoga, to offer training for many styles of yoga, and to offer skills and insight acquired over the past 12 years of teaching to aspiring yoga teachers.