This Land Yoga’s 300-Hour Teacher Training

This Land Yoga’s 300-Hour Advanced Teacher Training offers a rich and comprehensive curriculum designed to deepen your understanding and expand your capacity as a teacher. Our program weaves traditional yoga lineages with contemporary research, creating an integrative and holistic approach to teaching and living yoga.

Through a rich and diverse curriculum, you’ll explore both the gross and subtle body, study anatomy, physiology, and energetic systems, and immerse yourself in yoga philosophy and skillful teaching methodology. By the end of each module, you’ll have the tools and confidence to lead with authenticity, creating inclusive environments, designing layered and purposeful classes, and serving as a compassionate, knowledgeable resource within your community.

Our program consists of immersive modules, each ranging from 10–30 hours in length. Each module is taught in person and led by our team of experienced teachers, offering a rich blend of embodied practice, academic study, and mentorship. This modular approach provides both depth and flexibility, allowing you to explore specific areas of interest while continuing to grow as a teacher, practitioner, and student of yoga.

TUITION

  • Rates vary depending on the length and location of each training. You’ll find pricing listed at the top of every module description.

  • TLY Alumni and Bundle Pricing: Graduates of This Land’s 200-Hour YTT, as well as anyone enrolling in more than one module, receive 15% off.

2027 Modules and Dates

  • 25-Hours | Led by Holly Bray

    $600

    In this 25-hour immersion, we will explore the subtle body through the doorway of embodied awareness. Using the five senses as our guide, we will investigate the relationship between sensation, perception, consciousness, and energy. Drawing from Tantric philosophy, along with yogic and contemporary understandings of embodiment, we'll learn how awareness refines our capacity to sense what lies beneath habitual patterns of posture, breath and thought.

    Together we'll explore the five great elements (Pancha Mahabhutas) and their relationship to the senses, discovering how the physical world serves as a bridge into subtler dimensions of experience. From this foundation, we'll trace the historical roots of the chakra system within the Tantric tradition and examine how these teachings evolved as maps of human consciousness and transformation.

    Rather than approaching the chakras as concepts to memorize, we will engage them as lived experiences. Through movement, breath, meditation, mantra, visualization, and sensory inquiry, we'll explore how each chakra expresses itself through the body, the mind, and our lived experience. Along the way, we'll investigate how habitual patterns, protective tension, and embodied samskaras influence our perception and shape the way energy moves through us.

    This training invites you to rediscover yoga as a practice of sensing, listening, and direct experience. Through the cultivation of awareness, the subtle body shifts from an idea we study to a reality we can begin to perceive.

    What You’ll Learn

    • How awareness refines and strengthens interoceptive and proprioceptive capacity

    • The yogic principles of Pratyahara, Svādhyāya, and Śākṣī Bhāva as tools for embodied inquiry

    • Understanding Samskara as patterned impressions that live in both the physical and subtle body

    • How to experience and work skillfully with the chakras as living centers of awareness and energy

    • How energetic imbalances can manifest physically and how embodied movement supports release and rebalance

    • How to integrate visualization, embodied movement, and sensory awareness into your teaching

    • Language and cueing that cultivate safety, sensation, and embodiment

    • How to translate your own direct experience of awareness into an authentic and intuitive teaching style

    What to Expect

    Our time together blends education, exploration, and embodied experience. Each session includes embodied movement, conscious breath awareness, mantra practice, meditation, visualization, and reflective inquiry designed to deepen sensory awareness and refine perception.

    Expect to slow down, tune in, and experience yoga as a practice of embodied awareness and inner listening.

    By the end of this module, you’ll be equipped to:

    • Teach from direct experience with greater confidence, authenticity, and presence

    • Integrate the five elements, sensory awareness, and subtle body teachings into your classes

    • Understand the historical and Tantric roots of the chakra system

    • Guide students through practices that cultivate presence, perception, and self-inquiry

    • Use embodied and breath-based movement as tools for subtle body exploration

    • Support students in developing a deeper relationship with their own inner experience

    • How to translate your own lived experience into a grounded and intuitive teaching style

    At completion, participants will receive 25 hours of continuing education applicable toward This Land Yoga’s 300-hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training or as Yoga Alliance CE hours.

    SCHEDULE:

    Sunday, January 10 | 1–5 PM
    Saturday, January 16 | 9 AM–4 PM
    Sunday, January 17 | 9 AM–4 PM
    Sunday, January 24 | 1–5 PM
    Sunday, January 31 | 1–5 PM

    Enroll HERE

  • 15-Hours | Led by Shannon Stephens

    $400

    In Traditional Chinese Medicine, we are more than our physical bodies. Our emotions, thoughts, consciousness, and spirit are deeply interconnected, shaping how we experience ourselves and the world around us.

    The Five Spirits, or Wu Shen, offer a profound framework for understanding our inner landscape. Rooted in Five Element Theory, each spirit is associated with a Yin organ and represents a unique aspect of our human experience.

    In this 15-hour training, we'll explore the Five Spirits through the lens of Chinese medicine, weaving together ancient philosophy, meridian theory, meditation, movement, and self-inquiry.

    We'll study the Shen (Heart), Hun (Liver), Po (Lungs), Yi (Spleen), and Zhi (Kidneys), examining their relationships to our emotions, instincts, imagination, intellect, and will. We'll explore how these aspects of ourselves interact, how imbalances may manifest, and how practices rooted in yoga and Chinese medicine can support greater harmony.

    Throughout this training, we'll explore:

    • The foundations of Five Element Theory and the relationships between the elements, organs, and spirits.

    • The unique qualities and functions of the Shen, Hun, Po, Yi, and Zhi.

    • Emotional patterns and their relationship to the Five Spirits.

    • Meridian pathways and their connections to physical, emotional, and energetic well-being.

    • Yin yoga, meditation, breathwork, and embodied practices that support each spirit.

    • Practical ways to incorporate Five Element and Five Spirit philosophy into yoga classes, personal practice, and everyday life.

    This training combines thoughtful study with experiential practice, creating space for both intellectual understanding and personal exploration.

    Rather than approaching ourselves as something to fix, we'll use the wisdom of the Five Spirits to cultivate awareness, compassion, and a deeper relationship with our own nature.

    Open to yoga teachers, dedicated practitioners, and anyone interested in exploring the intersection of Traditional Chinese Medicine, yoga philosophy, and the subtle body. No prior knowledge of Chinese medicine is required.

    SCHEDULE:

    Saturday, April 17 from 9:00 AM-5:00 PM

    Sunday, April 18 from 9:00 AM-5:00 PM

    Recorded content included

    Enroll HERE

  • 20-Hours | Led by Holly Bray

    $400

    This advanced teacher training module explores the breath as both a physiological foundation for health and a powerful pathway toward energetic alignment and flow.

    You’ll dive into the functional anatomy and physiology of breathing, examining the primary and secondary muscles of respiration, common dysfunctional patterns, and how imbalances impact energy levels, nervous system regulation, and overall resilience.

    Through postural refinement, embodied movement, myofascial release, and conscious breath awareness, you’ll learn how to restore healthy breathing patterns in yourself and support your students in doing the same.

    We’ll also explore the classical teachings of the five Vayus and the principle of Spanda, and how these subtle currents shape the experience of breath and energy. From there, we’ll study how prāṇa can be supported and guided through the Suṣumṇā and the network of subtle channels known as the Nāḍīs. You’ll learn how work with the bandhas to stabilize and direct prāṇic flow, helping to refine the movement of breath and deepen energetic awareness.

    You’ll be introduced to foundational and advanced prāṇāyāma techniques and develop the skills to sequence and guide them safely and effectively within your teaching, with an emphasis on cultivating a breath-centric approach to yoga practice.

    What You’ll Learn

    • How the primary and secondary muscles of respiration function and how they shape breath patterns

    • How to identify and unwind dysfunctional breathing habits through postural refinement, embodied movement, conscious breath awareness, and myofascial release

    • How prāṇa moves through the five Vayus and the Nāḍīs, and how work with these pathways to promote balance in both the physical and subtle body

    • The role of the bandhas in supporting structural stability and directing the flow of prāṇa

    • How to safely sequence and teach foundational and advanced prāṇāyāma techniques

    • How to design and teach breath-centric yoga classes, where breath is the organizing principle for pacing, sequencing, and cueing

    What to Expect

    This series is designed to support a slower, more integrated learning process, allowing you to absorb the material gradually, embody the practices, and apply them with confidence in your teaching and personal practice.

    Each 3 hour session will include lecture, experiential breath labs, embodied movement, and time for reflection and discussion, all within a breath-centric framework.

    Each participant will also receive a collection of video practices and guided breath explorations to support continued study and integration during and beyond our time together.

    At the completion of this module, you’ll receive 20 hours of continuing education applicable toward This Land Yoga’s 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training or as Yoga Alliance CE hours.  

    SCHEDULE:

    Sunday, September 12 from 1-5 PM

    Sunday, September 19 from 1-5 PM

    Sunday, September 26 from 1-5 PM

    Sunday, October 3 from 1-5 PM

    Sunday, October 10 from 1-5 PM

    Enroll HERE

  • This training is off site!

    30-Hours | Led by Shannon Stephens

    Join Shannon Stephens for a deeply nourishing weekend retreat dedicated to the art and science of Yin Yoga. Nestled among the trees and winding paths of the Osage Forest of Peace, this 30-hour immersion invites you to slow down, soften, and study the subtler layers of body, mind, and energy.

    We’ll gather during a seasonal transition, when nature itself is in the midst of change, offering us the opportunity to experience the five elements first-hand. As the landscape shifts, we’ll explore how Yin Yoga supports our own inner transitions, helping us attune to the cycles of energy, rest, and renewal that move through all living things.

    Through a balance of movement, stillness, study, and silence, you’ll deepen your understanding of Yin Yoga as both a physical practice and an energetic art. Expect extended practices, experiential learning, and contemplative time to integrate what you learn within the natural rhythm of retreat life.

    Curriculum Overview

    • Yin / Yang Theory: The energetic foundation of Yin Yoga and how it complements more active (Yang) styles.

    • Yin Yoga Techniques & Principles: Targeting deep connective tissues and creating space for energetic balance.

    • Anatomy of Yin Yoga: Understanding fascia, connective tissue, and how Yin supports structural integrity and mobility.

    • Yin Yoga & the Nervous System: Cultivating parasympathetic regulation through stillness and breath.

    • Meridian Lines & 5 Element Theory: Exploring how Traditional Chinese Medicine informs Yin practice and how the elements show up in our own seasonal rhythms.

    • Yin Poses & Application: Posture breakdowns, variations, and prop use for accessibility.

    • Practicing & Teaching Yin Yoga: Sequencing, cueing, and holding space for restorative depth and release.

    SCHEDULE:

    • Thursday: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM check-in; 5:30 PM dinner; 6:30 PM Welcome Circle

    • Friday & Saturday: 7:00 AM - 8:00 PM (afternoon break + breakfast, lunch, and dinner included)

    • Sunday: 7:00 AM - 10:00 AM (breakfast included)

    • Departure: Sunday by 11:00 AM

      This module is open to teachers and dedicated students seeking to deepen their understanding of Yin Yoga. It counts as 30 hours toward This Land Yoga’s 300-hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training or may be taken as a stand-alone continuing education course.