Do I need to be teaching already?
You must hold a 200-hour certification, but you do not need to be teaching now. Weekly teaching is a requirement of the program, and Rachel will help you find a venue or a format if you do not have one.
You are a good teacher and you know it. Something in you keeps asking whether good is enough. Most advanced trainings hand experienced teachers more technique to borrow. This one asks you to stop borrowing and become it.
The gap between the teacher you are and the teacher you sense you could be does not close on its own. Another year of teaching from your current foundation is another year that gap stays exactly where it is. There is more depth in yoga than you have been able to reach.
Nine immersions across five months, for depth, not speed, eight people at most, and you practice teaching new knowledge every week of it.
What this actually is
Nine weekend immersions across five months. Advanced prāṇāyāma and meditation, the basics of Sanskrit, āsana refined through sacred geometry, and philosophy lived rather than studied as theory. A yoga therapist leads it, and therapeutic applications, advanced assists and intake forms are part of the work.
You practice teaching every week throughout, which is the part that does the work. By the time you finish, teaching from your own understanding and growing wisdom is simply how you teach.
Your teacher
What it takes to move past competent into something that is unmistakably your own. I have spent twenty-five years watching capable teachers arrive at exactly this point, and I built this program for that teacher.
I lead the training and hold the space throughout. Senior faculty and visiting master teachers add to it, in sacred geometry, Sanskrit, Ayurveda, the art of business and yoga history.
My lineage runs directly to Sri T. Krishnamacharya. Eric and I are both authorized by Manju Jois to teach Ashtanga primary and second series, and we both studied Vinyasa Krama with Srivatsa Ramaswami, and have his permission to teach it. What you learn here is what was handed to me.
Rachel Cieslewicz · Lead Teacher
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Ashtanga via Manju JoisWorld Yoga Federation Grandmaster.
How to begin
Tell her where you are in your practice and your teaching. She reads every one herself.
Write to RachelWhether this is right for where you are in your teaching right now. Not a pitch, just clarity.
Alongside a small cohort who are as serious about this as you are.
Before you go further
This program asks a great deal and gives back in the same measure. It is not a continuation of your 200-hour. It is a different chapter.
Program breakdown
Every hour is intentional and counted toward your World Yoga Federation certification. Nothing here is padding.
Secures one of only eight seats, applied to your $4,700 tuition. Settle the balance any time before February.
Or pay in full · $4,700Payment plans are set individually with Rachel, based on your needs. For example: $500 to hold your place, then four payments of $1,050, October through January. Checkout takes card, Apple Pay, Amazon Pay, Cash App Pay, bank transfer, or Klarna if you would rather pay over time.
Eight seats, and yours comes off the list the moment you place it. Your $500 deposit is due when you sign the enrollment agreement, goes toward tuition, and is not refundable. If you are not accepted into the program, everything you paid is refunded. Cancel in writing within 3 business days of signing and everything beyond the deposit is refunded. After that, you are responsible for the full tuition, even on a payment plan, but you can defer once to the next training if you tell Rachel in writing at least a month before the start ($200 fee). A deferral is good for the next training only. Once the training begins there are no refunds or deferrals, though you can finish within the next year. Tuition must be paid in full to receive your certificate. If anything is unclear, write to Rachel before you pay →
You must hold a 200-hour certification, but you do not need to be teaching now. Weekly teaching is a requirement of the program, and Rachel will help you find a venue or a format if you do not have one.
Eight at most. At this level the work is close enough that a larger room would change what is possible. Eight is the number at which Rachel can track where each of you is in your teaching and shape the immersions around it.
They are required, but life happens and Rachel is flexible when it does. Tell her as early as you are able and she will find a way through. This has come up in most cohorts.
Yes. This program is built for certified 200-hour teachers, from us or from anywhere. If you are not yet certified, our 200-hour yoga teacher training in Salt Lake City is where to begin.
Welcome. Rachel takes teachers from other lineages and programs, and the range of experience makes the cohort better. Write to her first so she can confirm it is the right fit.
Yes. YogaSoul’s teacher training began in 2013. From 2017 to 2025 its trainings, the 300-Hour included, ran at Centered City Yoga (CCY), which Rachel and Eric owned, and when they sold CCY in 2025, the trainings left with them. Every teacher training at CCY in those years was YogaSoul’s. If you trained with Rachel at CCY, this is the same program. Any teacher training offered at CCY since then is a separate program, not YogaSoul’s.
No. YogaSoul’s training has run since 2013 and has certified more than 300 teachers, with Rachel leading it. A program that began at CCY after 2025 is a new program. If you are comparing the two, ask each how many cohorts it has graduated and who will lead your weekends.
No. It is certified by the World Yoga Federation. Yoga Alliance is a membership registry, not an accrediting body, and listing with it is optional. World Yoga Federation graduates get insured and get hired to teach. The two are separate systems: one doesn’t transfer into the other, in either direction. If a studio you have in mind asks for Yoga Alliance by name, write to Rachel before you enroll and she’ll give you a straight answer.
You receive a World Yoga Federation 300-Hour certification. Combined with your 200-hour, that positions you to apply for a 500-Hour designation. Rachel guides you through it during your mentorship sessions.
Daily practice four to six times a week, about twenty minutes of reading a day, weekly teaching, observation classes, and your workshop development. Intensive, but built to deepen a life rather than strain one.
One class a week, anywhere. A studio, a gym, your living room, online, a community setting. This is the single most important developmental piece of the whole program.
Two hours, one to one with Rachel, on your teaching voice and where you are heading with it. They are scheduled around the phases so they land when they will be most useful.
Before you pay anyone
They hold just as well for an advanced program as for a first one. Ask these of us, and ask them of everyone else you are considering.
…and four more that most schools would rather you did not ask.
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Who you become
You reach for your own understanding instead of someone else’s sequence, because by then the philosophy lives in your body rather than in your notes. You read a student mid-posture and assist before they ask. You hold a difficult room without tightening. And the first time a newer teacher asks how you did that, you realize you have become the teacher you once studied under.
From graduates
I am so grateful to Rachel and the safe, nurturing space she created for us all. Rachel embodies humility, grace, and immense strength.
“I completed both my 200-Hour and my 300-Hour under her guidance. She teaches from the heart.”
“I was skeptical that any program could meaningfully deepen a 200-hour foundation. I was wrong.”
“Rachel teaches you how to think about yoga, how to hold a room, read a student, and trust your own voice.”
“I finished this program and finally felt like I’d earned the right to call myself a yoga teacher.”
“The faculty Rachel assembled is extraordinary. I studied with teachers I never would have accessed otherwise.”
“I’ve been teaching for six years. This gave me the depth I didn’t know I was missing.”
Required reading
The same core library as the 200-Hour, read again at a different depth. What changed is not the books. It is what you bring to them.
Optional: Light on Pranayama by B.K.S. Iyengar, available here. Books are not included in tuition, roughly $120 in all.
There is more depth in yoga than you have been able to reach.
Hold your place with $500 and settle the rest before February, or pay in full today. You already know whether you are ready. Trust that.
Secure checkout through Stripe, or pay in full · $4,700. Not sure you are ready? Write to Rachel and she will tell you honestly.