300-hr Teacher Training
First group session begins January 20, 2024
Deepen your personal practice, expand your teaching skills, learn practical tools for expanding your offerings beyond public classes, and engage with a supportive learning community in which to grow and explore your personal and professional capacities.
“I found Christina during a time of personal transition and she left me absolutely changed as both a yoga teacher and person. I experienced profound breakthrough in my yoga practice, and I would often still be marinating on one cue or comment weeks later! Christina is truly a teacher of teachers. I found her ability to hold space and her deep self-awareness unmatched. Study with Christina when you are open to growth and ready to laugh!”
Christina Sell has been practicing yoga since 1991, teaching since 1998, and leading teacher training programs since 2005. With a Master’s degree in Integrative Education and over two decades of experience, Christina has created a dynamic program of advanced studies dedicated to helping sincere students and experienced teachers expand their knowledge in a collegial and respectful setting. If you have been looking for a way to continue to learn as a teacher without strict dogma, rigid trademarking, and licensing standards, this program is for you.
The year-long program has two primary components:
A comprehensive online program that covers resiliency building practices, teaching methods, and postural studies,
12-online weekends on Zoom for group discussion, philosophical study, mindfulness self-compassion, and community connection.
This format is perfect for anyone who is an experienced teacher, a good self-directed learner, a mature community member, and is willing to take one year to integrate their learning and deepen their understanding of yogic principles and practices. A long-form training of this nature, while rigorous, can have sustained and lasting results on the quality of your teaching.
Christina’s background and teaching style is an anatomy-informed, alignment-oriented yoga. She recognizes that sincere practitioners and great teachers come from a diversity of training experiences, and makes every effort to help students integrate their past learning with her (and their) current understanding so that each teacher is empowered to be creative, authentic, and informed in their unique teaching expression.
This particular training will focus on developing the inner life of the teacher through philosophical study, resiliency-building practices, and the integration of theory and experience inside a supportive, collegial learning community. Special attention will be given to helping teachers develop self-knowledge, self-acceptance, clear communication skills, critical thinking, and confidence. Learn and explore creative approaches to workshops, class series, and how to develop programs of your own.
“Christina’s mastery in the various aspects of teaching yoga became apparent to me during my 300 teacher training. Christina’s dedication to learning and teaching is infused in each class, and each module or area of focus is organized and designed for her students to both learn the information while also absorbing what each principle feels like in the body. Christina is a unique treasure in the world of yoga teacher training with her deep reservoir of philosophy, yoga history, and human learning patterns, along with refined teaching techniques such as specificity and economy of language, demos, props and sequencing. I highly recommend Christina Sell as a wonderful and masterful teacher of teachers.”
Component 1: Pre-recorded Weekly Lessons
This component provides structured weekly lessons— both theoretical and experiential— along with worksheets and empowerment reviews to help you integrate your learning. You can expect weekly lessons (~2hr/week) that build sequentially in the following primary areas:
Contemplative Practices: The first 6 weeks focus on resiliency-building practices such as basic pranayama, guided visualizations, mantra practices, writing exercises, and short asana lessons.
Teaching Methods and Modifications- There is an extensive teaching methods overview embedded in Christina’s signature course Teaching the Raw Beginner along with a sample 6-session beginning yoga course, complete with sequences and sequence notes to use in designing a program of your own. You will cover principles of effective cueing, sequencing strategies, curriculum design, observation, demonstration and more!
Themes, Metaphors & Teachable Moments- This section offers a deep dive into the art of creating themes, the conscious use of metaphor, teachable moments and will give you practical tools for integrating themes into your classes naturally.
Pose Knowledge- Light on Yoga, often referred to as the bible of modern postural yoga, can seem pretty outdated and obscure, even to the most seasoned practitioner. This segment of lectures helps you “crack the code” of this valuable resource in order to a gain deeper understanding of the postural forms, the relationships between poses, and provides the foundational knowledge for creating modified expressions to serve your students. This “pose knowledge” lives at the heart of Christina’s approach to sequencing.
Studies in Form & Flow- Extensive pre-recorded sequence reviews for 15 asana classes (5 flow and 10 alignment) that break down commonly practiced poses in both alignment-oriented approaches and flow approaches.
All materials are downloadable and yours to keep forever.
Component 2: Twelve Online Weekends
Due to the emphasis on community-based learning, you are required to these sessions live. Christina has scheduled each session for under 3 hours to help manage zoom fatigue. Each session will have some lecture, movement, and group discussion to help integrate your experience.
Although, she respectfully requests your live presence and participation, Christina recognizes that emergencies arise, exceptions need to be made, and unique circumstances need to be considered. Please discuss your particular situation with Christina as needed.
Dates:
January 19-21, 2024
February 16-18, 2024
March 22-24, 2023
April 26-28, 2024
May 31-June 2, 2024
June 28-30, 2024
July 26-28, 2024
August 23-25, 2024
September 20-22, 2024
October 25-27, 2024
November 22-24, 2024
December 13-15, 2023
Training Schedule:
Fridays, 4:00-6:00 PM (Pacific)
Saturdays, 12:00-6:00 PM (Pacific)
Sundays, 8:00-2:00 PM (Pacific)
Each weekend will begin with a period of check-in and guided self-inquiry through writing and optional sharing. Expect short asana sessions, experiential anatomy lessons, time for Q&A, a 12-week course in Mindfulness Self-Compassion based on the work of Kristen Neff and facilitated by Kelly Sell, philosophy studies in critical thinking, the history of yoga and sessions on the Bhagavad Gita, Patanjali Yoga Sutras and the underpinnings of tantric yoga philosophy. Every effort will be made to provide a holistic and integrated experience for you body, intellect, emotions, and spirit. Expect short breaks throughout the day.
How to get started
Step 1
Contact Christina to apply
Step 2
Schedule a zoom call with Christina to discuss your goals and interests.
Step 3
Register for The Courage to Teach.
Frequently Asked Questions
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This program is designed with the experienced teacher in mind. There are many introductory lessons that new teachers will not receive in this program. Christina does not currently have a 200-hour program with Yoga Alliance.
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The weekly lectures are designed to be completed in approximately 1.5-2 hours each week. Expect an additional one hour of reading each month in preparation for the live weekend.
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Students of all levels participate and benefit in this training program. Asana classes are meant to be informative and educational to help develop a solid understanding of the anatomy of the asana, not to unnecessarily challenge you. You do not have to do every pose offered or be a “super-fancy” yoga practitioner. However, a sense of humor, the capacity to challenge and respect your limits, and good communication skills are helpful.
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The tuition for 300-hour program is $4,800 to be paid in monthly installments of $400.
If you choose to drop out of the program, the tuition you have paid is non-refundable, but you will not be charged for the portion you do not complete. You will be given a week to download the materials from the weekends you purchased.