"Yoga Teacher Training begins by granting you everything you would expect and want going into the program. You deepen your practice and knowledge and each person adds little sprinkles of sweetness to the community. Places that ooze this kind of genuine warmth and gratitude are rare or often fleeting. YTT is enduring in that it empowers you to help yourself in ways you never knew you needed. I am better now than I was before and I know you will be too."

~ YTT Graduate

UVM Campus Rec Annual Yoga Teacher Training 

This 200-hour yoga training was designed to help you deepen your knowledge of the yoga practice, provide training to teach professionally, and do so in a very supportive and positive environment. The UVM Campus Recreation Yoga Teacher Training program is open to students in the UVM or wider community. With special access to UVM facilities, trainees are granted the unique educational opportunity to visit the UVM cadaver lab to be able to marvel at the human body. Read more about UVM's Anatomical Gift Program and Professor Gary Mawe.

For UVM students, the training schedule is built around the UVM calendar, making it easy to integrate the program with your school schedule. The training is also a unique opportunity for students to receive a Yoga Alliance 200-Hour Teacher Training while making a deeper connection to their college learning experience.

For non-students, it’s a great opportunity to find shared connections and friendships with other teachers-in-training while expanding your knowledge of yoga and your talent as a yoga teacher.

The training is reasonably priced to make the training as accessible as possible to UVM students and the community at-large. Be part of a supportive community that will transform your practice and help you take on the distinguished role of a yoga teacher.

Learn more about the training from Director John McConnell in this YouTube video.

 

Why choose UVM Yoga Teacher Training?

  • Rare opportunity to visit the UVM cadaver lab, being able to see the incredible design and function of the human body.
  • Respected scholars from various disciplines of yoga participate in regular, casual conversations with students over video chat, answering questions and sharing their experiences with the yoga practice and teaching.
  • Ability to receive certification while pursuing an academic degree.
  • Training schedule works around the UVM academic schedule to make it easier to integrate the program with a school schedule.
  • Held on the UVM Campus.
  • Extensive teaching opportunities, including teaching an 6-week series to students and UVM community on the UVM campus or in your community.
  • Open to everyone, all ages, both students and non-students.
  • Focus of the training is “First, See the Good,” starting on the first day to first, see the good in yourself and others.
  • Life skills learned in the training can be directly used to make academic and personal life more manageable
  • Regular meetings to keep connections with other students in the training.
  • An wide variety of yogic texts are studied to create a solid foundation of yoga principles and yoga philosophy.
  • Creating a more fulfilling higher education experience by forming deeper connection to the university community.
  • Program can be paid through student loans or grants with VSAC.
  • Past graduates participate in mentoring sessions to assist current students.

Yoga Recess

The videos linked below are intended to give you a recess from your day, offering simple tools and practices you can use at anytime to enhance your day-to-day life . The Yoga Recess series is led by teachers-in-training of the UVM Yoga Teacher Training Program, along with the director of the program, John McConnell.

Images from Yoga Day 2024 - coming soon

QUESTIONS?
Program feedback, concerns, questions? Email Assistant Director Campus Recreation - Fitness Programs Justina Reichelt.
With registration and payment? Email campus.recreation@uvm.edu
Want to talk to the Yoga School Director? Email John McConnell.

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