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This Choose Your Own Dates Option is designed for those who cannot attend all 4 weeks of the 200 Hour Yoga Alliance Approved Teacher Training Courses in succession. These training weeks are offered 3 times in 2019 3 times, in March, July, and September, and 2 times in 2020.

Those who Select The Choose Your Own Option can attend the Four, 6-Day Module Trainings over the course of 17 months in the Months that are Best for Your Schedule.

You Choose which dates will work for your schedule in 2019, and 2020 but you must take the 4 courses in the correct sequence.

  • Module 2 can only be taken after Module 1 has been completed.
  • Module 3, only after Module 1 and 2.
  • Module 4 only after Modules 1, 2, & 3.

You can even take 2,3 or even 4 Modules in the same teacher training if this fits your schedule.

This 4-week training allows students to be recognized as a 200 HR Registered Yoga Teacher. It is Approved by Yoga Alliance and has had over 125 graduates over the past several years.

We will focus on understanding, practicing and teaching Asana in the great yoga tradition of BKS Iyengar, author of Light on Yoga, Light on Pranayama, and Light on The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

The course also includes Yoga Philosophy, Anatomy For Yoga, Theory and Teaching Methodology, Pranayama, Student Teaching, Ethics of Teaching Yoga and Much More!

The Fee for the Choose Your Own Dates Teacher Training is $3450.

We are currently offering A Special This Week For Those That Begins On MARCH 4th, of Only $1998. Please check our website if this special is still available.

Students learn a great deal about yoga practice, yoga theory, and about teaching in this Foundational Teacher Trainings.

Iyengar Yoga is known for its immaculate attention to detail, with a strong emphasis on precision and alignment.
Its teachers are trained to make yoga accessible to a wide range of students. Millions of students and teachers worldwide have been influenced by this method of yoga.

The Daily schedule for the teacher training is as follows:

  • Mondays 1:15pm-7:45pm
  • (Week One of the September Training Start on Tuesday at 2pm)
  • Tuesdays 1:15pm-10:00pm
  • Wednesdays 1:15pm-10:00pm
  • Thursdays 10:00am-7:45pm
  • Fridays 11:15am-8:00pm
  • Saturdays 10:45am-7:00pm
  • Sundays Off

Module 1 can be taken :

  • March 4-9, 2019
  • July 8-13, 2019
  • September 3-9, 2019
  • March 9-14, 2020

Module 2 can be taken:

  • March 11-16, 2019
  • July 15-20, 2019
  • September 9-14, 2019
  • March 16-21, 2020
  • July 13-18, 2020
  • Module 3 can be taken:
  • March 18-23, 2019
  • July 22-27, 2019
  • September 16-21, 2019
  • March 23-28, 2020
  • July 20-25, 2020

Module 4 can be taken:

  • March 25-30, 2019
  • July 29-August 3, 2019
  • September 23-28, 2019
  • March 30-April 4, 2020
  • July 27-August 1, 2020

Please go to our website for more information.

About the instructor:           Richard Schachtel

Richard Schachtel

Richard Schachtel is one of the most experienced yoga teacher trainers in the USA. He has been giving teacher training courses in Seattle since 1986.

Richard founded The Center For Yoga of Seattle in 1980 and continues to serve as its Director. Since 1980 he has traveled 23 times to India to Train with BKS Iyengar, Geeta Iyengar and Prashant Iyengar at their Institute in Poona, most recently in December 2017.

Richard has been a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher since 1984. He also earned a Sivananda Yoga Teaching Certificate in 1974.

Richard worked as one of the 60 Plus Assessors for the BKS Iyengar Association of the United Stated to Certify Teachers in Iyengar Yoga for 20 years.

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