In our 10-month program, get 50 classes included in your tuition to learn as a participant and observer.
Our program will teach you how to make your yoga asana practice progressive, sustainable and resilience-building for yourself and your students for years to come.
Through experiential anatomy and nervous system exploration, you’ll gain appreciation for the incredible complexity and elegance of the moving, feeling human body.
Explore the spaces where asana, functional movement, mobility and strength training overlap and diverge.
Develop an appreciation for the purpose and limitations of yoga asana, and how to seamlessly incorporate other modalities and perspectives into your classes and make them intelligent, well-balanced, and fun.
Innovative & Diverse Perspectives
Hearing a range of voices is important for a well-rounded education. Our program features a lineup of knowledgeable and expert guest faculty: authors, activists and practitioners sharing their lifetimes of study.
Meaningful Feedback & Mentorship
Learning to teach effectively requires constant feedback within a caring and trusting relationship. Expect to receive actionable suggestions on how to evolve your teaching skills in each progressive module.
Community Integration
In our 10-month program, get 50 classes included in your tuition to learn as a participant and observer.
Get real-life experience in our New Teachers Class, and receive ongoing support from your teacher trainers.
Soul of Practice & Yogic Philosophy
Learn about the historical context of yoga and participate in dynamic discussions about the relevance of fundamental Yogic texts such as the Yoga Sutra and the Bhagavad Gita to our modern context.
While our guidance is not overtly spiritual, our program will support you in cultivating a nourishing practice for your whole self - mind, body and soul.
There’ll be ample opportunities to dig deep, cultivate mindfulness and reflect on how you want to show up and share with your students through Yoga.
Whether you want to focus on values of self-acceptance, body-positivity, mindfulness practice, or spiritual philosophy, your self-inquiry process will be supported, and guided towards teaching with integrity and thoughtfulness.
Anti-Oppression in the Yoga Industry
Since our first teacher training in 2014, we’ve been discussing cultural appropriation, consent, power, privilege, oppression, and trauma-awareness in our training.
Engage in brave, meaningful self-reflection and discussion about inclusion, accessibility, and representation.
Excavate your biases and practice articulating your worldview through contemplation and self-reflection.
There will be no easy answers or conclusions here; we aim to ask critical questions, listen with humility to diverse perspectives, and begin to discover ways that each of us can be a leader in reforming the yoga industry.
Concrete Teaching Strategies & Experience
Great teaching is a learnable skill. Our tried and tested process will support you to feel confident and equipped to teach a diverse range of students, including brand-new beginners.
Learn classic and creative sequencing strategies, how to use your voice and body, and soft skills for holding space.
You’ll have opportunities to practice your teaching skills on a regular basis, including New Teachers Classes run through our studio.
Begin the process of reflective self-development, and receive continuous feedback from faculty and peers to develop your teaching skills from the ground up.
The Branches was founded in 2021, having operated as Queen Street Yoga from 2005-2020. Leena Miller Cressman is the owner of The Branches, and works with co-directors Emma Dines and Leslie Stokman to lead the community. We share Yoga and movement as a way to build community, and create a better world. These are our values, the various branches that make up our approach to Yoga and community.
Rooted In Practice Movement Education & Mindfulness
Our approach to movement and mindfulness is informed both by wisdom traditions and modern research. Our classes are an evolving blend of yoga, strength training, functional movement and inner awareness. At The Branches we endeavour to honour the deep and broad roots of Yoga that originate in South Asian wisdom traditions. Movement and postures are just one of Yoga's branches, and we are devoted to sharing other branches of Yoga such as meditation, contemplation, study, and service.
Growing Resilience Self-Care & Befriending Our Bodies
We take refuge in Yoga, and regard it as sustenance for the journey of creating a better world for humans, all beings and the Earth itself. We practice to expand our capacity, to heal from harms, and to rest, play and find joy. We uphold body positivity/neutrality and we teach with accessibility and trauma awareness in mind.
Widening The Canopy Community Care & Social Change
We see our practice as a stepping stone to meaningful action. We aim to expand access to Yoga as a form of Community Care. We are committed to the ongoing work of anti-oppression including interrupting the delusion of white supremacy. We care deeply about the existential threat of climate change and we actively seek ways to support climate justice in the way we live and operate.
Our Yoga teacher training program focuses on: integrating ancient wisdom and modern science in the practice of Hatha, Vinyasa and Restorative Yoga as well as meditation.Â
The Lost ‘n Found Yoga 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training Program is fresh and up to date, reflecting modern scientific research and emerging trends in the field of yoga.
The 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training program is a combination of asana, meditation, and self-inquiry.
Yoga Teacher Training isn’t just yoga theories, lesson plans, and poses. It’s a practical, in-person course (that can be done virtually) that will take you from yoga enthusiast to confident yoga teacher, even if you're only a novice.
Immerse yourself in this teacher training.
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