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.
Spring 2027
East Millcreek, Salt Lake City
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 in yoga than you have been able to reach.
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 worked into the texture of a daily life rather than studied as theory.
You teach every week throughout, which is the part that does the work. By the time you finish, teaching from your own understanding is simply how you teach.
Your teacher
What it takes to move past competent into something that is unmistakably your own. I have spent eighteen years watching capable teachers arrive at exactly this point, and I built this program for that teacher.
I lead every immersion and hold the space throughout. Senior faculty and visiting master teachers add to it, in sacred geometry, Sanskrit, prenatal yoga and trauma-informed teaching. They add. They do not stand in for me.
My lineage runs directly to Sri T. Krishnamacharya, through years of study with Manju Jois and Srivatsa Ramaswami. What you learn here is what was handed to me.
Rachel Cieslewicz · Lead TeacherWorld Yoga Federation Grandmaster. She is joined by senior faculty and visiting master teachers in sacred geometry, Sanskrit, prenatal yoga and trauma-informed teaching.
How to begin
Tell her where you are in your practice and your teaching. She reads every one herself.
Whether 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.
All 300 hours
Program breakdown
Every hour is intentional and counted toward your World Yoga Federation certification. Nothing here is padding.
Spring 2027
Still deciding
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, the 200-Hour 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.
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.
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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 came into this program a competent teacher borrowing other people’s sequences. I left building my own, and my students felt the difference before I did.”
Danielle R. · 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 was skeptical that any program could meaningfully deepen a 200-hour foundation. I was wrong.”
James L. · 300-Hour Graduate
“Rachel teaches you how to think about yoga, how to hold a room, read a student, and trust your own voice.”
Kara S. · 300-Hour Graduate
“I finished this program and finally felt like I’d earned the right to call myself a yoga teacher.”
Renata V. · 300-Hour Graduate
“The faculty Rachel assembled is extraordinary. I studied with teachers I never would have accessed otherwise.”
Paul N. · 300-Hour Graduate
“I’ve been teaching for six years. This gave me the depth I didn’t know I was missing.”
Michelle A. · 300-Hour Graduate
“I completed both my 200-Hour and my 300-Hour under her guidance. She teaches from the heart.”
Scott H. · 200 & 300-Hour Graduate
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.
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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. You already know whether you are ready. Trust that.
Secure checkout through Stripe. Not sure you are ready? Write to Rachel and she will tell you honestly.