East Millcreek, Salt Lake City · Spring 2027
The practice you’ve loved,
finally, understood from the inside out.
You’ve been practicing for a while now, and something in you keeps asking: is there more to this than I know? Yoga taught as fitness strips out the very things that make it yoga. Most trainings follow suit; this one doesn’t. Over seven weekend immersions, you’ll move beyond postures into the full depth of the practice, breath, philosophy, meditation, anatomy, and the art of teaching others.
The YogaSoul Experience
Built on 18+ years of teacher training and shaped by intentionally small class sizes, YogaSoul’s 200-Hour program transforms both how you teach and how you practice.
Rooted in the direct lineage of Sri T. Krishnamacharya, the father of modern yoga, this program weaves the full spectrum of the practice across seven immersive weekends. You won’t just study asana. You’ll explore pranayama, meditation, philosophy, anatomy, ethics, and the art of sequencing a class that genuinely serves your students.
Rachel leads every immersion personally. She won’t just lecture at you, she’ll have you teaching from Day One. As she’s learned over nearly three decades: the best way to ensure you’re not afraid to teach is to learn by doing.
Our graduates describe this as comparable to graduate degrees, major life transitions, and decades of personal practice.
Clarity Before You Commit
You don’t need to be an advanced practitioner. You do need to be ready to go deep.
Every year you wait is another year practicing without the philosophy that would change how the asana feels, and without the community that would change how you feel about the practice itself.
Not sure this is your moment? Email Rachel, she responds personally and will tell you honestly.
Your Teacher
Rachel knows what it’s like to feel called to teach before you feel ready. She built this training to be the program she wished had existed for her: one that treats you as a serious practitioner from the first weekend, not a certification candidate to be processed.
She has been training teachers for more than 18 years and has certified over 300 of them. She is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and a World Yoga Federation Grandmaster, and her lineage runs directly to Sri T. Krishnamacharya through years of study with Manju Jois and Srivatsa Ramaswami, whom YogaSoul hosted in Salt Lake City in 2025.
She designed this curriculum and she leads every immersion. Guest teachers add to it. None of them replace her. In a cohort this small, that means she works with the practice you actually have, not the room’s average.
The fastest way to find out whether this is your training is to ask her directly.
How This Works
Full Curriculum
Nothing hidden. This is what 200 hours of lineage-rooted yoga education holds, every topic visible before you commit.
This is the ethical foundation woven into every weekend of your training, not as a lecture, but as a lived practice.
Spring 2027 Dates
Dates subject to slight adjustment. Independent work, reading, observation hours, practice teaching, is completed between sessions at your own pace.
Month by Month
Each month is structured to let you integrate before the next immersion begins. The pace is intentional.
From Our Graduates
Your Investment
Questions? Contact Rachel →
Common Questions
The questions we hear most often, answered honestly.
No. While a consistent yoga practice helps, Rachel works with the practice you have now. What matters most is genuine commitment to practicing regularly and staying open to the philosophical and personal dimensions of yoga alongside the physical practice.
Not at all. Many of our most transformed graduates had no intention of teaching. They came because yoga had changed their life and they wanted to understand why, and go deeper. If teaching does call you, we’ll prepare you fully, and Rachel actively helps graduates find teaching opportunities.
YogaSoul keeps class sizes intentionally small. You will know Rachel personally and she will know you. This isn’t a cohort of 40 students watching pre-recorded videos. It’s a living immersion where you practice teaching from Week One, where philosophy is discussed rather than just delivered, and where Rachel walks alongside you throughout.
Plan for yoga practice 4–6× weekly, reading (about 20 minutes daily), observation hours, and your Seva and Special Project work. Between immersions you’ll also begin practice teaching, which Rachel considers the most important part of your development. The program is designed to integrate into your life, not consume it.
Upon successful completion, you receive a 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Certification from the World Yoga Federation, an internationally respected credentialing body rooted in lineage and integrity. This also positions you to continue into the 300-Hour Advanced Training toward a 500-Hour designation.
Immersion weekends are required, but Rachel is communicative and flexible when life intervenes. If you need to miss a session, reach out to her directly as early as possible. She will work with you to find a path forward. She believes in the full humanity of this work.
Yes. You can pay in full or secure your place with a $500 deposit, with the balance due before the program begins. If you have specific needs, contact Rachel directly. She wants this training to be accessible to those who are genuinely called to it.
Who You Become
You stop practicing poses and start practicing yoga: breath, philosophy, and movement as one thing instead of three.
You guide a room through a class you built, and your voice doesn’t shake the way you thought it would. And the first time someone calls you a teacher, you notice you don’t flinch, because by then, you already know it’s true.
More From Our Graduates
This program has changed me and changed my life. I appreciate that the emphasis is on teaching. I was blessed with lifelong friends.
Your Teacher & Mentor
Rachel knows what it’s like to feel called to teach before you feel ready. She built this training to be the program she wished had existed for her, one that treats students as serious practitioners, not just certification candidates.
She has been training teachers for over 18 years and practicing yoga for nearly three decades. She is one of a small number of Certified Yoga Therapists (C-IAYT) practicing in Utah, and a World Yoga Federation Grandmaster. What her graduates say about her is more useful than either credential, and there is a lot of it on this page.
Her lineage traces directly to Sri T. Krishnamacharya, the father of modern yoga. She teaches the full spectrum, asana, pranayama, meditation, philosophy, and the ethical life yoga asks us to live, not as separate disciplines, but as one unified path.
Rachel and Eric co-founded YogaSoul in 2013 to offer something increasingly rare: a training small enough that Rachel knows every student by name. Her graduates describe her as patient, vulnerable, and deeply heart-led. She doesn’t just teach yoga, she lives it.
Eric contributes select sessions throughout the training, adding depth where the curriculum calls for it.
Required Reading
A curated library that will serve you long after this training ends. Not included in tuition.
Optional: Light on Pranayama by B.K.S. Iyengar, purchase here
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You’ll leave with more than a certificate. You’ll leave knowing your voice belongs at the front of the room, and with a cohort that stays in your life long after the training ends.
Spots in our 200-Hour Training are intentionally limited. Small classes are how we do our best work together. You’ve felt the pull long enough. Act on it.
Most of our graduates say the same thing: they wish they hadn’t waited as long as they did.
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