Is this Your Why?
Deepen your life
This training is kind of a big deal.
To do our program you have to be dedicated and courageous.
But, if you take the leap and join us, you will surprise yourself. You will empower yourself. You will overcome your fears and worries and sadness and find a different path.
Why does this program have this kind of impact on students?
Because we do have high expectations, but we also know that the only way people can make real change is if they feel safe and cared for.
“Completing Shine's YTT program gave me the confidence to do something I needed to do, but had been scared to-resign from my job.
I never planned to teach when I started, but the confidence I gained from the program has made me into a yoga teacher today.
To say this program and the kind, supportive community of Shine has changed my life for the better is an understatement. ”
-Amanda F
P.S. Chat with Amanda about her experience after one of her classes. She teaches 4 classes at Shine each week.
“To be a Yoga Teacher is to be a Vulnerability Leader, to make people feel safe enough to be vulnerable and to allow your vulnerability to be a strength. We need more people like that in our world.”
— Sara, YTT creator and teacher
How we help you deepen your life through Shine’s Yoga Teacher Training
Daily Yoga, which slowly builds physical, mental, and emotional awareness.
A comprehensive book club and reading list that applies Yoga’s ancient teachings to our modern world.
Small steps towards courage. You will begin teaching right away. The very first thing you will teach a partner is mountain pose, mimicking Sara’s cues. Gradually we will add more and more steps until finally, you teach a 45 minute class. This is the way to empowerment, this is the way to harness courage.
Monthly one-on-one mentoring with Sara
Support from a community of people who also want to shift their lives.
We are here. Where your life is. In the yoga field, there is something called retreat lag. It’s when you make big decisions while at a retreat. You leave determined, but when you get home. Your life is just the same and slowly that determination dwindles until you’ve lost your way. This happens with Yoga Teacher trainings too. We integrate your life with the training so you don’t lose ground.
“Ten years ago, I took the time to look at my life. I looked at the bone-deep stress that was keeping me up at night, the drive and ambition that kept me working long, deadline-driven hours with little reward.
When I decided to let go of expectations and live my life, I had just gone through a year of cancer treatment. I didn’t have a choice. If I kept living this way, I was pretty sure I wouldn’t keep living.
I want everyone to give themselves time and attention, to really make a choice about the way they live, before they don’t have a choice. ”
-Why Sara is committed to making this program life changing
Is this your why?
Community.
One of the things that deepens the lives of students who take our Yoga Teacher Training is the life-long friendships they gain. And the kindness and support they receive and give during the training.
Who takes the training? People from every walk of life.
We’ve had 18 year olds and 70 year olds in our training. Professors, mothers, medical people of all sorts, retired people, lawyers, writers, managers, waiters, marketers, school teachers, an engineer, an accountant, artists, a welder, and a chef to name a few.
We’ve had students with serious anxiety and depression, people dealing with grief, and every year we’ve had at least one pregnancy during our training.
What draws people to this training is a desire to go deep, find heart and teach from their hearts. All the students who come to this training are looking for meaning and support.
That’s why it works.
How Shine’s YTT has impacted our students.
On the first day of the training, we share why we decided to do the training and almost everyone says they want to do it for themselves, to deepen their practice or to make a shift in their lives. On average, it’s about 90%.
After graduation, those numbers are flipped. Close to 95% of students in every one of our classes is teaching.
Their lives have been changed. So much in fact, that students have the confidence to want to change other people’s.
In their own words.
Listen in to a discussion with dozens of graduates talking about how the training impacted them.
Why Choose Shine?
There are now a lot of 200-hour trainings out there, online, at exotic places, and at studios everywhere. So why take ours? There are a few reasons you can trust that this training will be transformational for you.
THE FIRST, is that we set out to make it that way. This program is unapologetically, a lot. It’s very comprehensive and it’s challenging. It isn’t a vacation and it isn’t cookie cutter.
This program is personal and designed to support you—both where you are and where you want to go, every step of the way.
THE SECOND, is that Sara, your teacher, Shine studio owner, and the developer of the program, has spent every second of the last 10 years obsessed with yoga and making this program. It’s personal for her too.
THE THIRD, is our graduates. The most common feedback we get about our program is that it was life changing.
Because we are the longest running training in the area, that’s a lot of people.
FINALLY, the word has gotten out, in our 2022 class of 12, 10, were in the medical field.
Many of them, like Wendy, are teaching other nurses, doctors, or paramedics. We have seen this over and over, students joining the program because they want to change the way their lives are going. They come out on the other side, inspired to teach other people who are where they once were.
