BIPOC - 200-Hour Basic Yoga Teacher Training
June 1 – October 5, 2021

with Rev. Kamala Itzel Hayward, Mukunda Marc Morozumi, Mia Velez, and Arturo Peal
Price: $1080.00
Additional Scholarships are available

Promoting the creation of a more inclusive Yoga community

The Integral Yoga Institute San Francisco recognizes the structural and institutional racism in Yoga and wellness communities, and acknowledges the lack of diverse representation in our Yoga classes.In an effort to work toward dismantling this systemic racism and injustice, IYI SF is offering a scholarship-based Yoga teacher training for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) who are interested in becoming yoga teachers. It is our hope that by encouraging a diverse range of teaching voices, we can create safe spaces where all students can feel represented and welcomed.

Schedule:

  • Tuesdays, Thursdays: 5:30-8:00 pm PDT
  • Sundays: 10am-12:30pm, 1:30pm-4pm PDT

Graduation and completion ceremony: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 | no classes 6/20, 7/4, 7/6, 8/12, 9/5, 9/7.

Yoga Alliance Hours: 200

This Integral Yoga Basic Yoga Teacher Training (TT) program would typically be priced at $2700. Our new BIPOC scholarship fund enables us to reduce the price of this all-BIPOC TT to $1080. Additional scholarships are available. Please consider what will make this commitment financially accessible to you and include that in your completed application. It is our goal to ensure that no one is turned away for lack of funds.

This teacher training will consist of 100% BIPOC teacher trainers and participants.
Our Yoga Teacher Training program has been training teachers and changing lives since 1981. The training provides a strong foundation for personal and spiritual development, as well as the skills necessary to become a confident, knowledgeable Yoga instructor. Whether you want to teach others or take your own practice to a deeper level, this training will provide you with an authentic experience of living Yoga.

This teacher training will consist of 100% BIPOC teacher trainers and participants.
Our Yoga Teacher Training program has been training teachers and changing lives since 1981. The training provides a strong foundation for personal and spiritual development, as well as the skills necessary to become a confident, knowledgeable Yoga instructor. Whether you want to teach others or take your own practice to a deeper level, this training will provide you with an authentic experience of living Yog

Program Details
Racism and oppression have detrimental impacts on the body, mind, and spirit. People of color living at the intersection of racism and sexism, homophobia, and/or heterosexism face unique challenges. The goal of this program is to work towards dismantling systemic racism and injustice by: training more women, men, queer, and genderqueer Yoga teachers of color; making the physical, mental, and spiritual benefits of Yoga more accessible to BIPOC communities; and promoting the creation of conscious, diverse and supportive Yoga communities.

Integral Yoga uses an inward, spiritually-focused form of Hatha Yoga to lead students to an experience of inner peace and greater awareness. To prepare teachers to lead students inward, our Yoga Teacher Training program offers a balance of theory and practice on a broad range of topics. Graduates are certified to teach Beginner Level Hatha Yoga and are qualified to register with Yoga Alliance as a RYT-200.

Support and Community
The trainees are supported as they develop skills to teach a full class. They receive weekly guidance during practice sessions from our mentoring staff. Graduates of our program may apply to teach at the Integral Yoga Institute. If accepted, they receive additional free training with a mentor and ongoing continuing education.

This training program includes free access to all Yoga classes offered at Integral Yoga San Francisco and free access to IYTV, a large and ever-expanding library of recorded Integral Yoga Teachings, throughout the duration of this training!

The Curriculum
The Teacher Training program offers thorough training in asana, pranayama, meditation, philosophy, anatomy and physiology. It also includes many hours of training in yoga teaching methodology, including how to make adjustments, teach yoga workshops, and more. Graduates receive a certificate to teach Beginner Level Hatha Yoga.

Online
We are committed to providing a safe and high quality program for all participants. Our graduates will develop skills to teach in person or online. The Yoga Alliance criteria about training teachers online is adapting as we move forward. We have dedicated staff to oversee the online coaching to have personal connections throughout the training.

Technological Requirements
Please be aware that you must have regular access to the Internet to participate in this online training. You must be able to run Zoom on your computer or tablet, and have an active email account for delivery of course materials. Running Zoom by your phone is too small of a screen for proper learning and we request that all students are clearly visible and audible for the live sessions.

For more information, please contact [email protected]

*PAYMENT INFORMATION & REFUND POLICY:
Full payment is required two weeks before the start of the program, unless a prior payment plan has been arranged.
For information on payment plans apply for scholarship and contact [email protected].
Important note: if you cancel before the start of the program you forfeit up to $125 of your deposit and the remaining balance will be refunded. Once you begin the program, the deposit and program tuition are non-refundable and non-transferable.

Help Support our BIPOC Scholarship Program

Donate or invite others to donate via our GoFundMe page.

Trainers

Kamala Itzel Hayward

E-RYT 500, C-IAYT

Kamala Itzel Hayward was a lawyer for over a decade before becoming a Yoga teacher and Yoga therapist specializing in trauma, addiction, and wellness. She is passionate about bringing Yoga and other healing modalities to adults facing chronic stress caused by living under oppression, such as racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, ableism, and more. She is founder of the Integral Yoga Institute’s Scholarship-Based Yoga Teacher Training for Black, Indigenous, People of Color. For the last 12 years, she has been sharing Yoga with individuals facing housing insecurity and related challenges, including systemic barriers; structural oppression; social dislocation; physical, emotional, and mental health challenges; substance abuse; and addiction. She sits on the Advisory Board for the Trauma Prevention and Recovery Certificate Program at the City College of San Francisco.

Mia Velez

E-RYT 500, YACEP

Mia Velez, E-RYT 500, YACEP entered Integral Yoga Institute in 2016 through the kitchen as a volunteer cook at their silent retreats, teacher trainings, and the weekly community lunches. In 2018 she certified as an Integral Yoga teacher to learn more of the IYI approach and be part of the lineage. Mia is a disciple of the Moy Yat Ving Tsun Kung Fu lineage and is highly influenced by her martial arts training. After completing her first 200 hour teacher training in 2008, she began to see undeniable parallel in Yoga and Kung Fu. When she began teaching Kung Fu in 2014, she incorporated Yoga insight and principles in her classes. Her goal in teaching is to facilitate a safer space for self inquiry that hopefully leads to liberation. She shares her joy and knowledge of yoga as a co-trainer for the Basic Teacher Trainings at IYI to include the BIPOC Yoga Teacher Training; teaches the healing properties of yoga to incarcerated men; and provides stress management techniques with new parents. Yoga and Kung Fu are integrated into her daily life as a mother, a preschool teacher, and an advocate for gender, race and class equality through multiple non-profits groups.

Marc M. Morozumi

E-RYT 500, CMT

Marc is a certified Integral Yoga Hatha, Raja, meditation and stress management teacher with over 5000 teaching hours and a CMT in the state of California. His diverse career history, which has varied from a life in the arts to working in a high-paced event world, unifies in one voice today as a health and wellness entrepreneur. He is a Lead Trainer for Integral Yoga Institute (IYI) and Accessible Yoga's 200-hour Yoga teacher training programs and helped design the first BIPOC YTT with the SF IYI in 2021. He has staffed IYI's silent retreats since 2011 and teaches public, private and corporate Yoga classes every week. He opened M Spa Yoga, The Yoga Loft @ MX3 Fitness and in 2020, opened and turned all focus to Mukunda Studio - Yoga and well-being in SOMA, SF, CA.

Arturo Peal

Has spent over 30 years inspiring and educating yoga teachers, bodyworkers, and movement specialists across the globe through his classes in Anatomy, Kinesiology, and Therapeutic Touch. With a unique gift for translating complex scientific concepts into tangible teachings for his students, he raises awareness of how the body works. Arturo holds a Master’s degree in Chinese medicine and has practiced therapeutic massage for over 40 years. He is a 5th-degree black belt in Aikido and is the Chief Instructor at Aikido of New Orleans.

Yoga Alliance Hours: 200

Integral Yoga uses an inward, spiritually-focused form of Hatha Yoga to lead students to an experience of inner peace and greater awareness. To prepare teachers to lead students inward, our Yoga Teacher Training program offers a balance of theory and practice on a broad range of topics. Graduates are certified to teach Beginner Level Hatha Yoga and are qualified to register with Yoga Alliance as a RYT-200. Get started by filling up the application form below.
Yoga Alliance Hours: 200

Tuition

Please Apply First with Application Form provided above or below
$1080.00
Additional Scholarships Available

Training Yoga teachers for over 50 years

With over 200 class hours, the training provides a strong foundation for personal and spiritual development, as well as the skills necessary to become a confident, knowledgeable Yoga instructor. Distinguished by years of personal practice and teaching experience, your teachers will support you as you learn to safely teach each portion of an Integral Yoga Level I class, offer modifications, and hold a nurturing space for your students. Whether you want to teach others or take your own practice to a deeper level, the 200-hour teacher training program will provide you with an authentic experience of living Yoga.