Creating Heart-ful and Sincere Yoga Spaces: A 50 hour Advanced Teacher Training

Spring 2023

Check Back for More Information on Joining the Spring 2024 Cohort!

The Spring 2023 Advanced Teacher Training Program at Bellingham Yoga Collective has concluded.
Check back in the fall for more information on our advanced studies offerings for 2024.


 April 21 - May 21, 2023

Join BYC for a very special and collaborative advanced teacher training. This 50 hour program spans 5 consecutive weeks with our advanced training faculty to study an array of practices and teaching techniques centered around the art and methodologies of creating heart-ful, sincere and spirited yoga spaces. Anyone with a desire to deepen their personal practice and explore teaching offerings including mantra, meditation, philosophy, storytelling, supportive assists in asana, and breath is encouraged to attend. This training will oscillate between practice, lecture, and time for integrating new techniques within a supportive community of peers and trainers.

 

Modules

  • Yoga of the Heart: Mantra and Kirtan

    with Claire Stetina Zurbrugg

    This module will examine various practices of Bhakti Yoga including Kirtan, mantra as meditation, and heart centered philosophy. From study into these heart practices, together we’ll look at ways of integrating these tools into our regular teaching offerings. Join Claire for a musical exploration into Bhakti yoga and the practice of yoga as devotion, handed down and adapted from teacher to student for thousands of years.

    APRIL 21, 22 & 23

  • Prana: An Art and Science of Breath

    with Liza Higbee-Robinson

    This experiential module is a deep dive into the most essential and life sustaining force passing through us at all times, the breath (prana). Whether or not we take the time to understand how respiration works, breath passes in, breath passes out. Yet, understanding how breath interweaves with other nervous system functions, we can learn to engage with breath to benefit our health and well-being, on and off the mat.

    APRIL 22, 28 & 30

  • Energetic Spaces: Contemplating the Impact of Atmosphere and Intention

    with Lauren Pisano

    Through a deep and conscious dive into our inner world, we will investigate the relationship between our actions as teachers and the energetic responses they invite in those around us. We will learn to navigate these realms with confidence and skill, which strengthens our ability to hold space with subtlety and grace.

    MAY 5, 6 & 7

  • Intuitive Alignment: Energetics of Assisting

    MODULE CANCELLED

    Communication and connection are a vital part of the human experience. This training is designed to clarify and establish a foundation in energetic alignment and supportive assisting for all bodies. Using the framework of the Vayus (the directions of Prana) we will explore the relationship between non-verbal communication, compassionate touch, energetic anatomy and our own journey of healing.

    MAY 12, 13 & 14

  • Heart Muse: Develop and Encapsulate Class Inspiration

    with Jacque Sweet
    MODULE POSTPONED

    What does it mean to teach heart centric yoga and how do we as teachers execute that in our class plans? This training will support teachers to tap into the infinite source of their hearts and develop class plans that emulate their inspiration at play. Learn how to express your passion of yoga with a clear and focused intention that can create a greater impact.

    CHECK BACK FOR NEW DATES!

 

Schedule

Fridays 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Saturdays 12:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Sundays 12:15 - 4:15 p.m.

Investment: $979 standard pricing*
[ $925 BYC grads ]

While this training is offered as a 5-week immersion style program with a set cohort of students and a rotating faculty of trainers, some exceptions will be made for interested yoga teachers that are unable to attend all modules.

To enquire about possibilities of prorated attendance, or to set up a payment plan, email claire@bellinghamyogacollective.com

*Payment plans available!

 
 

Detailed Training Schedule:

  • April 21 6-9p Claire (3)
    April 22 12:30-5:30p Liza (5)
    April 23 12:15-4:15p Claire (4)

  • April 28 6-9p Liza (3)
    April 29 12:30-5:30p Claire (5)
    April 30 12:15-4:15p Liza (4)

  • May 5 6-9p Lauren (3)
    May 612:30-5:30p Lauren (5)
    May 7 12:15-4:15p Lauren (4)

  • This module has been cancelled.

    May 12 6-9p
    May 13 12:30-5:30p
    May 14 12:15-4:15p

  • This module has been postponed. Check back soon for new dates!

    May 19 6-9p
    May 20 12:30-5:30p
    May 21 12:15-4:15p

 

Faculty

  • CLAIRE STETINA ZURBRUGG

    Claire Stetina is a yoga educator, yoga teacher (E-RYT 500, YACEP) and Certified Massage Therapist offering public classes, workshops, retreats and trainings throughout the West Coast and beyond. Claire has completed over 500 hours of massage therapy and formal anatomy training as well as over 1500 hours of yoga teacher trainings.

  • LIZA HIGBEE ROBINSON

    Liza Higbee-Robinson (MA, E-RYT 500, YACEP) is a Pacific Northwest-grown yoga teacher who lives and teaches in Bellingham, WA. She experiences yoga as a creative, generative, and healing practice that opens the channels for us to live from a place of connection and wholeness.

  • JACQUE SWEET

    Jacque Sweet is an E-RYT 500 yoga teacher, yoga educator and a teacher mentor for BYC. Her teachings stem from her extensive study of the Anusara Yoga Methodology, a Hatha style of yoga with strong emphasis on alignment starting in the foundation of a pose, a deep connection with our breath and upholding quality of the heart while meditatively moving.

Guest Teachers

Curious about BYC’s 300 hour advanced studies program?