Self-Paced Online 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training

Learn on your schedule. Develop your craft with real mentorship.

MelMarie Yoga's Self-Paced Online 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training combines the freedom of pre-recorded learning with the mentorship, practice, and personal support of a guided training experience. Move through more than 100 hours of educational content on your own schedule while developing your teaching through monthly 1:1 mentorship, live integration sessions, weekly practice teaching, and ongoing support with Mel.

You'll explore the foundations of yoga through an adaptive and therapeutically informed lens while developing your own voice, teaching skills, and understanding of how to work thoughtfully with different people and populations. The curriculum is rooted in both tradition and real-world application, allowing you to deepen your personal practice while preparing to step into the profession of yoga teaching.

Start anytime · Learn from anywhere · Move at your own pace · Direct mentorship included

For FAQ, visit our FAQ page. Contact us below to connect directly to explore if this structure is right for you. 

Over 100 HRS of Pre-Recorded Content

Explore a rich library of thoughtfully curated video modules covering asana, anatomy, philosophy, trauma-informed teaching, subtle energy, and embodied integration practices. These lessons are designed for you to move through at your own pace, with the ability to revisit, reflect, and deepen your learning whenever you're ready.

Direct Mentoring and Support

Although the training is self-paced, you’re never alone. Access personalized guidance through 1:1 mentorship, Voxer Coaching, Q&A opportunities, and tech support. We’re here to walk beside you, guide you in developing your craft, answer questions, and help you personalize and integrate the teachings into both your practice and your life.

Comprehensive Resources

Enhance your learning with a complete digital training manual, guided exercises, activities, practice templates, and reflection tools. Throughout the training experience you will encounter several resources that are designed to support multiple learning styles and help you integrate the teachings with clarity, confidence, and personal meaning.

How It Works

1. Enroll & Begin Anytime

Receive immediate access to the training platform and begin with foundational material before progressing through teaching methodology, embodied practice, specialized applications, and integration.

2. Learn at Your Own Pace

Move through the pre-recorded modules on your schedule with downloadable resources, guided practices, reflection work, and the ability to revisit lessons whenever you need while using Voxer Mentoring as you journey through the videos and activities.

3. Stay Connected

Join monthly live integration sessions, meet 1:1 with Mel each month, participate in weekly Zoom practice teaching, and use Voxer coaching throughout your training. Develop confidence by applying what you're learning through practice teaching, reflection, feedback, and progressive integration throughout the program.

4. Complete Your Practicum & Graduate

Once you've completed the program requirements, you'll meet with Mel for your final graduation session, deliver your practicum, and complete your 200-hour training journey.

What You Will Learn

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 Philosophy & Vedic Foundations

  • The Subtle Body and Biophysics
  • Working with the Prana Vayus
  • The Chakra Modality 
  • Foundations in Vedic Counseling 
  • 25 Hours Yoga Nidra and Sound Bowls
  • 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
  • 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 Informed 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

Begin Today

PAY IN FULL | $2000 PURCHASE HERE

Begin your training immediately with full access to the self-paced learning platform and included mentorship experience.

4 MONTH PAYMENT PLAN  PURCHASE HERE

Spread tuition across four monthly payments while receiving access to begin your training.

Is Self-Paced Training Right for You?

This format may be especially supportive if you:

  • Need your training to work around family, career, military, travel, health, or changing schedules
  • Prefer having time to pause, revisit, and integrate material
  • Want the freedom of asynchronous education without losing access to a real mentor
  • Learn well independently but still value accountability and community
  • Desire more one on one experience through training journey
  • Want flexibility without sacrificing depth or professional development

Meet Your Teachers

Melissa Aguirre, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500 Program Director. You will cozy with Mel through Voxer Mentoring and most of the training videos. Her light hearted and grounded approach provides students with real-world applications of the ancient wisdom of yoga and its multi-faceted ways to be applied in our modern world. 

 Learn More About Mel Here

Eva ZobianWolf, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, is a Registered Nurse and Certified Yoga Therapist with more than two decades of experience in the healing arts. She brings expertise in nervous-system regulation, trauma-informed yoga, burnout recovery, and somatic approaches to wellbeing.

Megan Rose Brown, RYT-500, is a retired U.S. Army Master Sergeant with a background in integrative health, adaptive yoga, mindfulness, and human performance. She brings a whole-person approach shaped by her experiences and education.

MelMarie Yoga is a Registered Yoga School (RYS) with Yoga Alliance. Students who successfully complete all requirements of the 200-hour program 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.

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