Spring 2027
East Millcreek, Salt Lake City
You have been practicing for a while now, and something in you keeps asking whether there is more to this than you have been shown. There is. Most trainings will not carry you to it, because most trainings teach the postures and leave the actual yoga behind.
Every year you wait is another year of practicing without the underlying philosophy that would change how the postures feel, and without the authentic teachers who would open your eyes to the true purposes of practicing at all. There is more in yoga than you have been able to reach.
What you are agreeing to
Not at the end, once you feel ready. The first weekend. It is uncomfortable, and it is the reason the training works, because no one has ever reasoned their way out of being afraid of the front of a room. You transform and find your voice by sharing in a space with people who believe in you and who wish for your success.
Seven weekends across four months: āsana, prāṇāyāma, meditation, anatomy, ethics, sequencing, and the philosophy that weaves all of it together.
Your teacher
That is where I began, and it is why this training exists. I built it to be the one I went looking for and could not find, which means you will be treated as a human being and practitioner, rather than as a certificate in progress.
I designed the curriculum and I lead every immersion. Guest teachers add to it, while I hold the space.
Rachel Cieslewicz · Lead Teacher
World Yoga Federation Grandmaster. The lineage runs directly to Sri T. Krishnamacharya, through years of study with Manju Jois and Srivatsa Ramaswami.
How to begin
No form and no queue. She reads every one herself and answers within a day or two.
Whether this is right for where you are now. Sometimes the answer is not yet, and she will say so.
The first weekend begins the work. Everything after it follows from there.
Before you go further
You do not need to be an advanced practitioner. That is the thing people most often get wrong, and it talks good candidates out of applying.
All 200 hours
Spring 2027
Between weekends you are practicing four to six times a week, reading for about twenty minutes a day, observing classes, and beginning to teach. It is built to fit within a life rather than to take one over.
Still deciding
No. Some of the people who received the most from this had no intention of teaching. They came because yoga had changed something and they wanted to understand why. If teaching does become the thing, Rachel helps graduates find places to do it.
Twelve at most, and often fewer. That is not a marketing word, it is the cap. Twelve is the number at which Rachel can still watch every person teach, remember what you were working on last month, and adjust what she is doing because of it.
Rachel will know you by name and you will know her. You teach from the first week rather than watching recordings. Philosophy is discussed rather than delivered. The cohort is small enough that none of that is a slogan.
A 200-Hour certification from the World Yoga Federation, a lineage-rooted body rather than a registry. It also opens the path to the 300-Hour and to a 500-Hour designation.
The immersions 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 it. This has come up in most cohorts.
The Art of Vinyasa, the Bhagavad Gītā, The Heart of Yoga, Yoga Anatomy, the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali, and the Sāṃkhya Kārikā. Roughly $120 in all, and they will serve you long after the training ends.
Most graduates begin teaching somewhere within a few months, and Rachel helps with that. Some continue straight into the 300-Hour. A few never teach at all, and still say it was the most useful thing they have done.
Before you pay anyone
Most people choose a training on price and schedule, and then discover in the third month what they might have asked in the first week, after it is too late. Ask these of us, and ask them of everyone else you are considering.
Send it to me
All seven open on the next page, and a copy arrives by email so you have it later. You also join Rachel’s newsletter, which you leave in one click.
Who you become
You stop practicing postures and begin practicing yoga, which turns out to be breath, philosophy, and movement arriving together, rather than not at all. You lead a room through something you built yourself with the foundation of lineage, and your voice holds. And by the time someone calls you a teacher, you will already know it to be true.
From graduates
“I came into this training thinking I’d learn to cue better. I left understanding why yoga works, on every level. Rachel does not just teach the practice, she transmits it.”
Dana K. · 200-Hour Graduate
“I’d done other trainings before. This one was different. The depth of the philosophy, the intimacy of the cohort, Rachel’s presence as a teacher, nothing else has come close.”
Lori B. · 200-Hour Graduate
“YogaSoul keeps class sizes intentionally small. You will know Rachel personally and she will know you. That changed everything for me.”
Fi Fierce · 300-Hour Graduate
“I am so grateful to Rachel and the safe, nurturing space she created for us all. Rachel embodies humility, grace, and immense strength.”
Lauren · 300-Hour Graduate
“I almost didn’t apply because I didn’t feel advanced enough. That was the wrong question.”
Jess T. · 200-Hour Graduate
“Rachel had us teaching from Day 1. She helped me find my voice and step into my light.”
L.F. · 200-Hour Graduate
“I felt truly set up for success in the industry, and peace in my heart.”
Cydney T. · 200-Hour Graduate
“Three years later, I still draw on what I learned in this training every single week.”
Sarah M. · 200-Hour Graduate, now teaching
“My husband and I both did the training in the same cohort. It changed our practice, our relationship, and our home.”
Andrea & Tom W. · 200-Hour Graduates
“Rachel is a kind-hearted, patient teacher who truly meets each student where they are.”
Scott H. · 200 & 300-Hour Graduate
Required reading
A curated library that will serve you long after the training ends. Every text is read and discussed, not assigned and forgotten.
Optional: Light on Pranayama by B.K.S. Iyengar, available here. Books are not included in tuition, roughly $120 in all.
There is more in yoga than you have been able to reach.
Pay in full, or hold your place with $500 and settle the rest before February. What graduates say most often afterward is that they wish they had stopped waiting sooner.
Secure checkout through Stripe. If you would rather ask something first, write to Rachel and she will answer honestly.