A flexible, module-based online teacher training taught live on Zoom with 1:1 mentorship.
Are you looking for a yoga teacher training that goes beyond the foundations and explores meaningful, functional applications of yoga? Are you ready to earn your 200-hour certification, but need a training experience that can actually work within your life and schedule?
MelMarie Yoga's Live Online 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training offers a flexible, module-based pathway taught live through Zoom and supported by individualized mentorship throughout your training. Rather than moving through a fixed cohort schedule or relying on prerecorded coursework, you'll attend interactive workshops that cycle throughout the year, allowing you to work your training pathway around your availability and complete the program over 6–12 months.
The module format is intentionally designed to be both flexible and connected. Alongside your required workshops, you'll participate in monthly 1:1 mentoring with Mel or a mentor of your choice, weekly practice teaching and implementation sessions, monthly integration experiences, and ongoing Voxer support. These pieces work together as part of the training, giving you opportunities to ask questions, apply what you're learning, receive feedback, and develop your craft between workshops.
With over 100 five-star reviews on Yoga Alliance, MelMarie Yoga's teacher trainings are known for adaptive education, individualized mentorship, professional development, and preparing teachers to meaningfully apply yoga within their communities and careers.
Training Overview
1. Begin With Your Personal Training Pathway
Once you enroll, we will mail you your supplies, schedule your start date for an enrollment session and begin Voxer. Your enrollment session 1:1 with Mel will provide you your pathway plan outlining the workshops and experiences you'll complete throughout your 200 hours. These workshops cycle every three months adapted based on scheduling requests to allow the pathway to work for your schedule. From there, you begin joining the Zoom workshops and classes.
2. Attend Live Zoom Workshops
Attend live online workshops offered throughout the week. If you are unable to attend a required class, classes cycle regularly, giving you multiple opportunities to complete required coursework while learning directly with faculty and fellow trainees.
3. Integrate Through Mentorship
Meet 1:1 each month for mentoring sessions to practice teaching, deepen what you learn and apply it into your life. You’ll also have ongoing access to Mel through Voxer for walkie-talkie-style support for mentoring between workshops, giving you space to explore questions, application, and integration as they arise in real time. In addition, monthly integration sessions with fellow trainees offer another opportunity to deepen and apply what you’re learning.
4. Develop Your Teaching Through Practice
Participate in weekly practice teaching experiences designed to develop your craft and confidence as a teacher. Weekly implementation sessions also provide space for professional development, business-focused dialogue, and practical activities to support your growth within the profession. Discussion, breakout experiences, assignments, and applied learning are woven throughout your live Zoom workshops to deepen your training experience.
5. Complete Your Training in 4–12 Months
Progress through your pathway at a pace that works within your life. Once you complete the course requirements for graduation, you will present your final project to Mel and graduate from there.
What You Will Study
Teaching Methodology & Adaptive Yoga
- Teaching Adaptive Flow, Vinyasa, and other styles
- Vision and Potential of Yoga in Health Care
- Asana Applications, Variations and Modification
- Verbal Instruction and Intelligent Cueing
- The Art of Sequencing, Foundations and Intuitive Sequencing
Anatomy, Biomechanics & Functional Movement
- Biomechanics, Alignment and Structural Teaching Techniques
- Hands On Assist and Person Centered Practices
- Yoga Anatomy, Assessments, Fascia and Mobility
- Improving Functional Potential + Kinesthetic Literacy
- The Nervous System and Physiology
- Yoga for Structural Rehabilitation
Yoga Philosophy & Vedic Foundations
- The Subtle Body and Biophysics
- Working with the Prana Vayus
- The Chakra Modality
- Foundations in Vedic Counseling
- Yoga Nidra, Sound Bowls, and Sound Healing
- History, Yoga Sutras, and Vedic Wisdom Foundations
- Yoga Styles and Yoga Lineages
- The Bhagavad Gita, Mantra, and Vedic Philosophy
- The Sister Sciences of Yoga: Ayurveda, Jyotish, Vastu
- Energy Medicine and Quantum Biology
- Mala Making and Tradition
Applied Yoga & Special Populations
- Yoga as Integrative Care
- Yoga for Stress Related Illness
- Restorative Yoga, Yin Yoga, Chair Yoga, Senior Yoga
- Ayurveda and Teaching Ayurvedic Informed Yoga
- Doshas, Maha Gunas, and Assessments
- Tailoring Ayurvedic Classes and Lifestyle Guidance
- Prenatal and Postpartum Yoga, Teaching & Application
- Kid’s Yoga, Mindful Coping for Kids & Application
Mindfulness, Mental Health & Whole-Person Wellbeing
- Intention Setting and the Eight Limbs of Yoga
- Trauma Sensitive Teaching and Inclusivity
- Teaching Meditation, Pranayama, and Mindfulness
- Yoga for Chronic Pain, Sleep Hygiene, and Addiction Recovery
- Yoga for Behavioral Health and Adjunct to Care
Professional Development & Teaching Identity
- Embodiment and Leadership Skills
- Cultivating Your Soul Signature Teaching Style
- The Art of Private Instruction and working 1:1
- Professionalism and Scope of Practice
- The Business of Yoga, Building Your Profession
- Self Care and Self Development through Yoga
- Pioneering the Future of Yoga and Mindfulness
Your training is supported by MelMarie Yoga's multidisciplinary teaching team, bringing experience across yoga education, yoga therapy, healthcare, integrative health, mindful movement, mindfulness, and professional practice. Throughout the program, you'll learn from educators whose different backgrounds bring depth and real-world perspective to your training.
Learn About Mel, Your Program Director | Learn About Our Team Here
What Makes This Unique?
The Flexibility of Online Learning. The Connection of Live Education.
The Module 200 was designed for students who appreciate flexibility but learn best through conversation, interaction, and real-time connection. Workshops are taught live rather than delivered through prerecorded coursework, creating space to ask questions, participate in discussion, practice teaching, receive feedback, and integrate what you're learning alongside faculty and fellow trainees.
Mentoring + Our Person Centered Approach
We believe becoming a yoga teacher is about more than completing curriculum but that it is also about discovering how you uniquely understand, embody, and communicate what you've learned. Through 1:1 mentorship, reflection, practice teaching, and ongoing conversation, students are supported in developing their own voice rather than being taught to reproduce someone else's.
The module structure gives us space to know our students individually, understand their goals, and help them apply their education to the populations, communities, and professional directions that matter to them.
Accessible Scheduling
Workshops cycle every three months, allowing students to catch required class on the next round of classes if they cannot make the appointed time giving students flexibility in completing their individual training pathway. Students have up to 12 months to complete the program along with individually scheduled mentoring session, access to monthly integration sessions, weekly practice teaching, weekly professional development and ongoing support between classes and sessions through Voxer.
Your mentoring sessions are scheduled directly with you and your access to the walkie talkie mentoring app (Voxer) allows you to be coached, guided, and mentored throughout the week at your convenience. Students do not have to wait until class or sessions to ask questions or deepen their study for real time support.
Tuition
Pay In Full (Save $150): $3450 Pay in Full
Payment Plan Options: $3600
Or custom Payment Plan Option: Pay $500 to Reserve Spot Start for $500 and we can customize installments that work best for you on the remaining balance.
15% off Military Discount & Military Spouse Scholarship Eligible Please contact us directly for coupon code for military and special discounts or for MYCAA/SpouseWorks Scholarships.
Once you reserve your spot above, we will be in touch to get you started with mentoring and your Enrollment Session Scheduled. Contact below for more information.
You Receive
- Live Zoom Workshops Our full weekly workshop schedule allows you may be available based on the training calendar and your individualized pathway. Also, Monday with Mel email that keeps you updated on what classes are on your pathway for the week ahead and tools to nourish your journey of learning.
- 1:1 Mentorship Monthly Regular private mentoring to integrate your education, explore your goals, and develop your teaching craft.
- Ongoing Voxer Support Stay connected between classes through voice-note coaching and conversation with Mel.
- Practice Teaching Join our weekly practice teaching sessions to develop confidence, communication, sequencing, and your authentic teaching voice. We also provide weekly Implementation sessions to apply and develop your tools as a professional.
- Monthly Integration Sessions Connect with other trainees to reflect, integrate, ask questions, and deepen your learning.
- Training Manual + Resources At enrollment, we mail you your comprehensive training manual, educational materials, and access to MelMarie Yoga's On-Demand Studio.
- Graduate Community + Continued Resources Continue developing your craft through alumni resources and the broader MelMarie Yoga community after graduation.
Why Train with Us?
PERSON-CENTERED
We design our training experiences to be inclusive and person centered so nobody gets 'lost' in the training- even with scheduling and attending classes. All of our training provides support that elevates how students can stand in their authentic voice as a teacher while sourcing wisdom directly from the philosophical and psychological framework of Yoga. Because MelMarie Yoga holds a profession-forward vision for our students, we believe that well-trained teachers strengthen the expansion and access to yoga for communities as a whole. We equip students to carve their own path in the yoga industry with a focus on real-world application and professional progression taking experiences beyond just teaching a class for a studio but embodying the innovation and leadership as a practitioner.
FLEXIBILITY
Our program provides a flexible learning environment that can be adaptable with the trainee's personal schedules and needs. The module workshops are scheduled based on student requests and availability making it very adaptive and accessible for all walks of life. Our courses are available also through live stream on zoom creating access from anywhere. After over a decade of leading trainings- we have learned that delivering education in digestible ways is imperative to application and developing their craft as practitioners.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Our programs are designed to equip you in applying adaptive yoga into career fields or as adjunct into many professions including medical, military, corporate, mental health, education, hospitality and more. Unlike traditional training models that can unintentionally create barriers to entry or limit opportunities, we operate from a philosophy of innovation, collaboration and embracing personal goals around a students professional ambitions. We actively support our graduates in stepping into the field with confidence, clarity, and the skills needed to grow.
By training with MelMarie Yoga, you’re stepping into a professional ecosystem that values your evolution and expansion.
Our graduates go on to teach in studios and private settings, work in health care, academia, support aging populations, work with the military and veteran populations, build online or independent yoga businesses and partner collaboratively with organizations, mental health professionals and nonprofits. For a peak, follow @melmariestudio as we feature our grads and continue supporting our community beyond graduation.
COMMUNITY
Our programs provide access to resources and communities around the world to inspire, nourish and support your personal and professional goals. MelMarie Yoga nourishes students into deeper ways to serve communities and opportunities that provide our graduates unique ways to apply their training. We also offer post-graduate communities and resources and prioritize our graduates in filling community requests and jobs. Even after someone graduates, they are able to still attend practice teaching and other resources we provide for the alumni community.
Remote Module 200 Hour Yoga Training Reading List
- The Yoga Tool Box by Joseph and Lilian Le Page
- The Yamas & Niyamas by Deborah Adele
- The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Sri Swami Satchidananda
- Yogabody: Anatomy, Kinesiology, and Asana by Judith Hanson Lasater
- The Innate Design by Melissa Aguirre and Dr. Kyle Hoedebecke
- Light on Yoga by B.K.S. Iyengar
- Yoga for Depression by Amy Weintraub
- Yoga as Medicine by Timothy McCall
- Bhagavad Gita by Stephen Mitchell
- Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
This list does not need to purchased before training begins. Books are assigned throughout the program as we go. The Yamas and Niyamas are the first book we will begin with. Manual and other supplies are included in your tuition.
Love Notes from Graduates
"The training program not only helped me learn more about the practice of yoga but helped me tap in and learn about myself. I loved being surrounded by other like minded individuals and having the opportunity to watch everyone else grow on this journey as well. The personalized aspect of being able to talk to Mel really helped me get comfortable in my practice and helped me navigate the steps after the training had ended." -Coral, RYT 200
"Melissa has a great way of making the 8 limbs of yoga come to life. Her knowledge is beautiful and she seems to really enjoy and love sharing with others. We laughed, teared, connected together. If you are looking for a whole body, mind and spiritual connection- see Melissa!" Lynn, RYT 200
"Melissa's passion and care for others is apparent and shines through whether she is facilitating asanas or delivering theory. She is diligent in her research so her students understand how yoga fits into our communities, in our healthcare system and every day lives. She is kind, thoughtful and her door is always open. Because of Melissa's desire that her students have a well-rounded education I feel my path as a teacher has a solid foundation. I look forward to following in her footsteps helping others lead healthier lives the yogic way." Amber, RYT 200
"This has truly been a wonderful experience. I have learned so much and have the tools to continue my learning and teach others. I have gained confidence in myself and abilities as a yoga teacher. I came into this very interested in the adaptive side of yoga, but had little understanding but now feel passionate about it helping others. I'm thankful for the lessons, the way you teach. I will cherish this experience throughout my life." Kimberly, RYT 200
"I loved Melissa’s 200YTT so much that I rolled straight into her 300 hour program. The breadth and depth of information covered was phenomenal. YTT helped me rediscover myself after a long road of cancer treatment. Melissa’s passion and guidance helped me cultivate my own unique teaching style and left me feeling empowered to go out and share my gifts." - Natalie H
"This training was such a breakthrough in my life. I feel like a completely different woman as if I was just woken up, that I'm just shining so bright in this light of just shining my light and just being me. I apply this in my professional work, so successfully. I see it impacting my patients so positively. I am so thankful for this training and the Lord for bringing Mel into my life because from the moment that we met, I fell in love. I want to say thank you thank you thank you thank you to Mel and for her holding a container in a safe space for us to become who we are meant to be and to walk this journey." - Maria, RYT 200
MelMarie Yoga is a Registered Yoga School (RYS) with Yoga Alliance. Students who successfully complete the full 200-hour training receive their 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training certificate and are eligible to apply for registration with Yoga Alliance at the RYT-200 level, subject to Yoga Alliance's current registration requirements.
Therapeutically informed education: The integrative and therapeutic components of this training are informed by the professional backgrounds and expertise of our faculty, including certified Yoga Therapists (C-IAYT), and are not derived from MelMarie Yoga's status as a Registered Yoga School (RYS) with Yoga Alliance.