East Millcreek, Salt Lake City · 2027
You’ve done the work.
Now become an instrument of it.
You’re a good teacher. You know it. And something in you keeps asking whether good is enough. Most advanced trainings give experienced teachers more techniques to borrow. This one asks you to stop borrowing and start teaching your own. Designed exclusively for 200-hour certified teachers, this five-month advanced immersion builds your path toward a 500-hour World Yoga Federation certification.
The Advanced YogaSoul Experience
This isn’t a continuation of your 200-hour training. It’s a different chapter, one that asks more of you and changes the kind of teacher you become.
This program is designed to take you beyond being a teacher or practitioner, into a deeper relationship with the practice itself.
Over nine weekend immersions across five months, you’ll refine your asana through the lens of sacred geometry, go deep into advanced pranayama and meditation, explore the basics of Sanskrit, and integrate yoga philosophy into the texture of your daily life, not as theory, but as practice.
Rachel will lead you alongside a faculty of Utah’s most experienced yoga instructors, including Eric, who co-founded YogaSoul with Rachel in 2013 and holds a World Yoga Federation Grandmaster certification, and select master teachers from outside the state, bringing diverse expertise in sacred geometry, prenatal yoga, trauma-informed teaching, yoga business ethics, and more. Past cohorts have hosted a nationally acclaimed teacher for a full weekend immersion.
Two private one-on-one mentorship sessions with Rachel ensure your training is personal, not just rigorous. And throughout the program, you’ll be teaching weekly, so by the time you graduate, mastery feels like your natural ground.
Clarity Before You Commit
This program demands genuine commitment. It gives back in equal measure.
The teachers who stay stuck at “good” are almost always the ones who kept waiting for the right moment. This cohort is yours.
Your Teacher
Rachel has sat with the question you are sitting with: what it actually takes to move past competent into something that is unmistakably your own. She has spent 18 years watching capable teachers arrive at exactly this point. She built this program for that teacher.
She has trained teachers for more than 18 years and certified over 300, which means a lot of 200-hour graduates have come back to her at precisely the stage you are at now. She is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and a World Yoga Federation Grandmaster, with a lineage running directly to Sri T. Krishnamacharya through study with Manju Jois and Srivatsa Ramaswami.
She leads every immersion, and she sits with you twice, one on one, on nothing but your teaching. The outside faculty she brings in are chosen for what they add to your cohort, not to fill a weekend she could not cover.
If you aren’t sure you’re ready, she will tell you. That is step one.
How This Works
Full Curriculum
The full curriculum, nothing hidden before you commit.
Program Breakdown
Every hour is intentional and counted toward your World Yoga Federation 500-hour certification pathway.
The 300-Hour is not just more training. It’s the program where you claim what you know, develop your unique voice, and teach the yoga only you can teach. You stop second-guessing your sequencing. You stop borrowing frameworks that never quite fit. You leave with a teaching presence that’s unmistakably yours, and students who can feel the difference.
2027 Dates
Dates subject to slight adjustment. Independent work, observation hours, self-study, workshop teaching, is completed between sessions on your own schedule.
Five Months · Three Phases
Each phase builds on the last, allowing depth and integration before the next phase begins.
From Our Graduates
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Common Questions
The questions we hear most often, answered honestly.
You must hold a 200-hour certification, but you don’t need to be currently teaching. One of the core requirements of this program is teaching weekly throughout. Rachel will help you find a venue or format if you don’t currently have one. This is part of the mentorship she provides.
Plan for daily yoga practice (4–6×/week), daily reading (about 20 minutes), weekly teaching, and periodic observation classes. There is also workshop development, Seva, and your mentored teaching module. The program is designed to be intensive but integrative, it should deepen your life, not add impossible strain to it.
Upon completion you receive a World Yoga Federation 300-Hour Certification. Combined with your 200-hour certificate, this positions you to apply for a World Yoga Federation 500-Hour designation, one of the most respected advanced credentials in yoga. Rachel will guide you through this process during your exit interview and mentorship sessions.
Yes. Rachel welcomes teachers trained in other lineages and programs, the diversity of experience enriches the cohort. Reach out to Rachel directly to discuss your background before enrolling so she can confirm it’s the right fit.
You’ll teach at least one class per week throughout the program, in a studio, a gym, at home, online, or in a community setting. Rachel will help you identify opportunities if needed. This is the most important developmental piece of the entire program: you learn yoga by living it, and you learn teaching by doing it.
Yes. You can pay in full or secure your place with a $500 deposit, with the balance due before the program begins. For specific arrangements, contact Rachel directly, she is committed to making this training accessible to those who are called to it.
Who You Become
You reach for your own understanding instead of someone else’s sequence, because by now the philosophy lives in your body, not just your notes.
You read a student mid-pose and adjust before they ask. You hold a hard room without tightening. And the first time a newer teacher asks how you did that, you realize you’ve become the teacher you once studied under.
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 has sat with the same questions her 300-Hour students bring to this program, what it means to move past competence into real mastery, and how to carry the practice into every part of how you teach and live. She built this program for the teacher who is serious about the tradition and ready to do the deeper work.
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. Both matter less than this: she has taken 300+ teachers through this work, and she can tell you in one email whether you’re ready for this one.
Her lineage traces directly to Sri T. Krishnamacharya, the father of modern yoga. She carries this lineage as a living practice, one she keeps refining and passing on to the teachers she trains.
She is joined in training by a faculty of Utah’s most experienced senior teachers, including Eric, who co-founded YogaSoul with Rachel in 2013, holds a World Yoga Federation Grandmaster certification, and contributes select sessions throughout the program, and select master instructors from outside the state, each offering deep mastery in their specialty: sacred geometry, Sanskrit, prenatal yoga, yoga history, yoga business, and more.
Rachel’s 300-Hour graduates leave as better teachers, and more like themselves, than when they came in.
Required Reading
These texts will serve you long after this training ends. Not included in tuition.
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2027 · Registration is Open
Spots in our 300-Hour Training are intentionally limited. This is where serious teachers come to do serious work. You already know whether you’re ready. Trust that.
You’ll teach from a place your 200-hour couldn’t reach. You stop second-guessing your sequencing, because now you understand why it works.
The gap between the teacher you are and the teacher you sense you could be doesn’t close on its own. Another year of teaching from your current foundation is another year that gap stays exactly where it is.
Our 300-Hour graduates consistently say the same thing: the mastery they found here was already inside them.
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