“Even the Master, in one way or another, is a student throughout life.”― Fakeer Ishavardas
Yoga Teacher Training: Continuing Education Opportunities
Choosing a career as a yoga teacher can be lonely. We lack in ‘water cooler’ time, the debrief, the peer connect, that so many other professions take for granted. We can work in a fair bit of isolation with only our clients for feedback. This is where continuing education is so key. Yes, hone your skills, beef up your knowledge and widen your expertise AND, build community, and find allies and peers! Take time for you to remember you.
When you chose this career, you chose you. Remember that. Yoga is a transformative practice and more so when you step into the role of teacher. But it is easy to get lost in the swirl of income generation and branding. It is easy to lose the heart of why you started. Get the heart back. Come home to you through soul-nourishing continuing education opportunities with Allie.
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
The Power of Touch, A Workshop for Hands-on Assisting
Touch has the capacity to give your yoga students a sense of true belonging within your class and within their own bodies. It can guide a pose to a deeper, more healing space. As a teacher, learning the language of hands-on assisting, can open up ways to connect with your students and adjust them without actually ever touching them!
Touch can communicate where words fail, and using words to describe touch can reach your students in ways you never imagined.
This workshop flows between lecture style with demonstrations, followed by practice with feedback, and finally a debrief. We will explore various ways to touch plus the language needed to make an assist safe and powerful. From light sensory touch, to stabilizing alignment, to touch that shows rotation, you will have the opportunity to experience all of it in a variety of poses.
If you are ready to deepen your capacity for connection
If you want your classes to be safe havens of healing
If you are ready to step fully into your true calling as a powerful leader…
Meet me here.
Saturday Apr. 25 1-5pm
Sensitize yourself to how breath moves the body and how you, as an instructor, can enhance this experience.
Explore 5 core postures that will enable you to assist in any pose!
Get feedback and practice to hone your efficacy in both pressure and presence.
Day 2 Sunday Apr 26 9am-3pm
Now let’s take this further!
We will explore ways to assist in more challenging postures like Camel pose or Thread-the-Needle.
But what if you are teaching a flow class? How are you going to practice effective assists with speed?
Inversions can be made, not only more delicious, but safer and more accessible through assists! What if you could help a naysayer into a powerful inversion?
Cost one day: $88
Both days: $124
The Power of Private Yoga Sessions
Have you been wondering if one-on-one sessions might be the missing link for you? Private sessions have the capacity to increase your income; deepen your impact with clients; and potentially reach those who are not comfortable with coming into a group class.
In this workshop, we are going to discuss
Why? What are the benefits of this format?
Who? What clients might be right for this?
What? How might you structure sessions? Payment schedules? Promotion?
Private sessions can be completely different from group classes! From infusing the sessions with more assists like a massage to navigating the inevitable moments when trauma or old stories arise and your client needs to release, this workshop will set you up to be ready for all of it.
May 7th 7-9pm Online
Cost: $88 (20% discount for any grads or current trainees)
Course Instructors: Allie Chisholm-Smith & Pam Ferner
Intro to Thai Yoga Massage
In this intro workshop, Andrea and Allie will walk you through many of the elements of a full Thai yoga massage plus explore ways that this method can be moved to a massage table. Whether working on the floor or on a table, there are incredible techniques to enable a client’s body to release of its own accord as opposed to, or along with, palpation.
This workshop is open to massage therapists who want to add manual stretching and fascial awareness to their sessions. Also to yoga teachers who want either to add to their roster of assist methods or deepen their private yoga sessions.
Sat. June 13 1-5, Sun. June 14 10am-3pm
Cost: $165
Kids Yoga Training
This training is for anyone who loves working with kids and youth and is passionate about yoga, mindfulness & healthy living. Whether or not you're an experienced yoga instructor, this course is perfect for anyone who works with kids, including educators, caregivers, and community leaders!
In this comprehensive training, you'll explore creative and effective ways to teach yoga to children of all ages. You’ll gain a deep understanding of the physical, mental, and emotional benefits that yoga can offer children at every developmental stage. Through a combination of theory, hands-on practice, and mindfulness techniques, you'll learn how to adapt yoga poses, breathing exercises, and relaxation techniques to suit young people. You'll explore child-centered teaching strategies, creative movement, games, and storytelling, all while fostering a positive, inclusive space for children to grow physically, emotionally, and socially.
By the end of the course, you'll be equipped with a toolkit of techniques, strategies, and activities to create fun, interactive, and meaningful yoga and mindfulness experiences and classes.
Course Details:
20 hour program, Full Price $699,
Price includes a workbook and a certificate of completion
16 hours of in class instruction & 4 hours of self-study and assignments
Feb 27-29, 2026
Flow
Learn how to map amazing vinyasa flows to meet all levels of yoga practice. From Power Vinyasa to gentle flows, discover the art of “putting things in a special way.”
Course Details:
6 hour program, Full Price $125,
March 22, 2026
Chair Yoga
Nadine will teach you to see chair yoga as more than just an easy yoga for those that are less able! Yes, you will explore the way in which chair includes everyone, but you will also experience the ways in which it can be a fantastic strengthener!
Course Details:
4 hour program, Full Price $88,
Course time 1-3pm, qualifies for 4 hours YACEP including homework and yoga practices.
May 3, 2026
Corporate , Events & Yoga for business
Teaching in a professional setting is very different from a yoga studio setting. Learn tricks of the trade to shift people out of ‘work mode’ and into a place of relaxation and self-reflection. This workshop will also help you with marketing terms to make your offering stand out to the corporate world.
Course Details:
4 hour program, Full Price $88,
This will be an online workshop
Course time 1-3pm, qualifies for 4 hours YACEP including homework and yoga practices.
June 10, 2026
Disaster Proofing your business
No one wants to think about another pandemic but let’s be real. There are lots of reasons why you might have to go online to teach including your own injuries or life issues. So, let’s disaster proof your business.
4 hour program, Full Price $88,
This will be an online workshop
Course time 1-3pm, qualifies for 4 hours YACEP including homework and yoga practices.
June 24, 2026
Yoga Massage: A Workshop With Allie Chisholm-Smith & Andrea Johnston
Winter 2025, TBA
This workshop is designed for certified Yoga Instructors, RMT's & other bodyworkers
Yoga Massage combines the traditional method of palpation with deep stretching to affect fascial restrictions and patterns of holding. This powerful modality allows both therapist and client to experience the benefits of yoga postures while being assisted and held to release. We will explore traditional Thai massage and an adaptive approach to work on a massage table.
By the end of the weekend you will have:
The ability to conduct a one-hour massage session
A certificate of completion with the caveat that hours of practice are needed
An ability to perform a massage both on a table and on the floor
A series of movements and palpations to address multiple needs for your clients
The information shared in this workshop is a culmination of our experience and training as both yoga instructors and massage practitioners.
Together, Allie and Andrea have created a series of movements and palpation techniques that have helped our clients to both feel better and embrace yoga as a means of creating less pain and greater freedom in their lives.
$475+HST
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