THE NO BULLSHIT TEACHING TUNE-UP
You're certified. You still don't feel ready to teach.
It isn't because you're not good enough. It's because your 200-hour skipped, rushed, or glossed over half of what teaching actually takes. This is where you get the other half.
Self-paced. Lifetime access. 100 hours of continuing education credit.
You have the certificate. You just don't have the thing the certificate was supposed to give you.
Let's talk about what it actually feels like to teach when your training left holes.
It's the three hours you spend planning a single class, and it still doesn't feel like a class, just a pile of poses you're hoping work together. It's Googling modifications in the car on the way to the studio or Chat GPT'ing your sequence at 3 am. It's the swing between clutching a memorized sequence like a life raft and completely winging it, with nothing in between. And it's the quiet thought you can't shake while everyone around you seems fine: how did they all figure this out so fast, and why didn't I?
You did the training. You have the certificate. And you still feel like this:
- You spend hours planning one class, and it still feels like a pile of poses instead of an intentional journey.
- You don't know what to say, so you either over-cue and talk the whole time, or freeze up and go quiet.
- You can name the muscles, but you can't connect the anatomy to the actual body in front of you.
- Someone shows up pregnant, or with a bad knee, or in a bigger body, and you silently panic about how to help them modify.
- Philosophy got crammed into one weekend, so you can't really teach the Eight Limbs, the Sutras or the Kleshas. You just gesture at them.
- You'd never lay hands on a student, because assists were barely covered and the best way to ask for consent wasn't covered at all.
Here's what nobody told you: that feeling doesn't mean you're bad at this.
It means the one thing your 200-hour was supposed to give you, the actual ability to walk in and teach, is the one thing it ran out of time for.
So you've been teaching around the gaps ever since, hoping nobody looks too closely, wondering if you need yet another training before you're allowed to feel like a teacher.
You don't need another certificate. You need the parts they skipped.
Here's what actually happened
200 hours was never enough time, and everyone knew it but you.
Two hundred hours sounds like a lot until you do the math. A chunk of it went to sitting in a circle. A chunk went to taking class. A weekend got handed to philosophy. Another to anatomy.
And the stuff that actually makes you a confident teacher; repeatable sequencing, effective cueing, applied anatomy, hands-on assists, got a fraction of the time they needed, if they got covered at all.
So you walked out certified... and unequipped. And you've probably been coping in one of a few ways since.
Maybe you're teaching from a script you're terrified to deviate from, because the second you go off plan you don't trust yourself to come up with what to say on the fly.
Maybe you're not teaching at all. The certificate is sitting in a drawer because you don't feel ready, and every month that passes makes it feel harder to start.
Or maybe you're doing the thing a lot of good teachers do: you're shopping for the next training, hoping the next 200 or 300 hours will finally make you feel legitimate.
It won't. Not because more education is bad, but because your gap isn't a knowledge-hours gap.
It's a specific set of skills nobody sat you down and taught.
Collecting another certificate you're too unsure to use is just an expensive way to keep avoiding getting in the room.
The fix isn't more hours. It's the right hours. The ones your first training skipped.
It's not like you haven't tried to fix this.
You bought the sequencing templates. You've saved four hundred reels you're (probably) never going to use.
You've followed the big Instagram teachers and borrowed their flows, and it still felt like wearing someone else's clothes.
You've queued up another YouTube class the night before, trying to reverse-engineer something you can call your own.
None of it stuck, because none of it taught you the thing underneath all of it: how to build and lead a class yourself, from your own two feet, without borrowing anyone's anything.
I didn't set out to build this course.
I built it because I couldn't ignore what I kept seeing.
For six years running Yogi Flight School, the same request has landed in my inbox over and over: when are you running a 300-hour training?
So in 2022, I did.
And within the first few sessions, I saw the problem... and it wasn't the one I expected.
Teachers showed up to a 300-hour training without the knowledge they were supposed to walk in with from their 200-hour.
Not because they were lazy or bad at this, but because their first training never gave it to them.
So we spent four months going backwards, filling in gaps that should have been filled years earlier. It held the entire training back.
And it wasn't just that group.
Every single week I get the emails and the DMs.
"I have my 200 hours but I don't know how to sequence."
"Can you help me cue this pose?"
"In side plank, is the bottom hand under the shoulder or in front of the shoulder?"
Real questions, from certified teachers, about things they should have already learned.
That's when it clicked.
Teachers don't need more certification. They need experience, and they need training on the specific things that actually show up in the room.
Nobody should walk into a 300-hour, or into a class they're teaching, like a deer in headlights.
So I stopped waiting for someone else to fix it, and I built the thing that fills the gap.
This is it.
The No Bullshit Teaching Tune-Up
This is my entire 200-hour teaching curriculum, the real teaching skills, rebuilt as a self-study course for people who are already certified.
You're not starting over. You're filling in.
It's the sequencing system, the no-bullshit Yogi Flight School style cueing, the anatomy you can actually use, the philosophy you'll can can learn how to weave into your classes, the pranayama and meditation you will feel confident leading, and the consent-based hands-on assists you were never shown.
Plus the business side that very few trainings explore in depth.
It's one thing to have a certificate and teach a few classes a week. But if you want to build an actual career teaching yoga? You'll need to do more than studio classes, and we go deep into that as well.
It's 100 hours of continuing education credit, so the hours you already need to log are hours that finally make you a better teacher instead of a box you tick.
Go at your own pace. Lifetime access. No cohort, no deadline, no retreat you have to fly to.
Just the material, broken down pose by pose and skill by skill, so you can close a gap on Tuesday and teach better on Wednesday.
What you'll actually walk away with
Every gap in your knowledge and teaching... closed. Here's how.
Build effective classes in a fraction of the time
The gap: "It takes me three hours to plan, and I start from zero every time."
Gain a full sequencing system for sequencing; not a folder of other people's flows. You'll learn to build class sequences towards a peak pose, including how to regress and progress a pose for different populations, how to recognize poses across pose families to make it easier to sequence, and how to build your classes so both beginners and more seasoned students can thrive.
- Building a Sequence, with fill-in templates
- Creating Regression and Progression
- Grouping Poses by Actions and Recognizing Shapes
- Teaching Transitions and Sequencing for Beginners
- A Sequencing Reference Manual you'll keep using
Know exactly what to say, and when to say nothing
The gap: "I don't know what to say, so I talk too much or freeze."
Cueing is an actual skill that has a methodology behind it: how do you communicate what someone needs to do clearly, in a way that helps them learn what they're doing (not just being a good student)? How do you cue to multiple levels in the room?
- Build cues so clear people could follow your class with their eyes closed
- How to cue anatomy, philosophy AND heart-based language in one class
- How to infuse creativity and variety so every class doesn't sound identical
Anatomy you can use on a live body, not just name on a test.
The gap: "I memorized the muscles but I can't apply any of it in the room."
You'll review a region-by-region breakdown of the body, learn what muscles do what and what muscles restrict people from certain movements, and you'll experience functional anatomy applied directly to over 90 poses, so you understand what you're actually looking at when a student moves.
- Anatomical breakdown of the spine, hips, pelvis, knee, lower leg and ankle, shoulder, arms and wrist
- How to teach anatomy to your students through your cueing
- How to pick apart a pose and know exactly what's happening in it, anatomically.
Teach the philosophy instead of gesturing at it
The gap: "Philosophy got one crammed weekend. I can't actually teach it."
This is the depth many trainings simply don't have time for. We'll dig into the history of yoga all the way back from The Vedas to modern times. We examine the texts, the lineages that have developed in Modern yoga, and how to communicate philosophical concepts in words that land with your students.
- The Darshanas, Samkhya, and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (all four padas)
- The Eight Limbs, with every Yama and Niyama broken down individually including how to weave them into classes
- The subtle body: Koshas, Chakras, Prana, Nadis, Kundalini energy, and how to bring that to life for your students.
Lead breath and meditation with confidence & authority
The gap: "Pranayama and meditation were barely touched. I don't feel qualified to lead them."
Pranayama and meditation are powerful tools, but we are often not given the knowledge we need to safely and intelligently guide students through these tansformational practices. You'll learn 11 Pranayama techniques, 9 meditation techniques and the science behind both so you can guide breathwork and meditation on purpose instead of improvising and hoping (or skipping them altogether).
- The four main Bandhas, plus 11 pranayama techniques including contraindications
- The Science of Breath
- Multiple meditation techniques broken down with theory AND practice (experience guided meditations you can then re-teach to your classes): mindfulness, Yoga Nidra, Japa, Mantra, Metta & Tratak meditations
Adjust your students with confidence and consent
The gap: "Assists were rushed or done badly, and consent wasn't covered at all."
Hands-on assists are a dying art, and one of the most powerful tools we have as yoga teachers. Where our language sometimes falls short, a hands-on assist can make a huge difference - AND - they be done properly, with consent. This is a foundation most trainings skip, but not here.
- Get step-by-step hands-on assists for 30+ poses
- A dedicated lesson on consent, appropriate touch, and boundaries
- How to know when hands-off is the right call, and how to manage when a student changes their mind mid-class.
Be ready for whoever walks in
The gap: "Someone shows up with an injury or a different body and I panic."
It's VERY normal to feel completely ill equipped to help someone who walks in to your class with a very different body, unless you were taught how. We include modifications and prop usage for over 90 poses, for the bodies that actually show up: more body to manage, limited range of motion, injuries, beginners. No guessing on your way to class.
- Props taught in 5 ways: as limb lengtheners, as angle changers, as action reinforcers, as progression tools, and as support
- Learn to modify for all kinds of injuries and limitations.
- A deep dive into common yoga injuries, and common conditions people will walk into the room with, so you're equipped to help them.
Teach from what actually lights you up
The gap: "I sound like a copy of my trainer."
Instead of handing you a personality, this training shows you how to build Dharma Talks and sequences around your own strengths, joys, and interests, so what comes through in your teaching is actually you.
- Where to get Dharma Talk inspiration (and what's a Dharma Talk anyway?)
- Theming your classes, and how theme and sequence work together
- Sequencing from what you care about, so you feel confident in what you're teaching. You don't have to be everything to everyone.
The part that matters if you want to make a living off of yoga
The gap: "Nobody told me how to actually get hired or make a living."
Getting certified is the first step, then what? We cover how to find work, how to price yourself, how to handle money and taxes as a a yoga teacher, how to get insured, and how to build something for yourself online so you are not at the mercy of a studio, and so the skills you're gaining can actually turn into a career that pays you WELL.
- Finding work and reframing how you think about charging your worth
- Money Management, Insurance and Certifications
- Creating Online Opportunities and Teaching Online
- Self-Care and Time Management so you don't burn out
- The difference between Yin and Restorative yoga
- Introduction to the Science of Ayurveda
- Important Mantras, how to chant them and how to bring mantra to your classes
- Important Mudras, how to practice them and weave them in to your flows
- Ethics, scope of practice and professionalism for yoga teachers (we are not doctors or therapists!)
Let's be straight about what this is
This is not a 300-hour. It's the stuff a really solid 200 hour training should have taught you.
And what I've recognized over the years is 200 hour teacher trainings are NOT created equal.
Where I believe a new teacher should have a solid foundation in ALL of the topics we discussed above, that's not the case for many trainings.
That's why some trainings let you graduate without ever having cued any poses out loud. Or let you graduate without having learned how to design a yoga sequence for yourself. Or without having learned what to do if someone walks into your power vinyasa class 7 months pregnant.
This course is designed to fill those gaps.
Afull 300-hour YTT is a bigger commitment in every direction: often a year of your life and several thousand dollars, and it earns you a different Yoga Alliance credential. That's a real thing, and if that's your goal, go do it.
But most teachers don't actually want another year-long program. They want their specific knowledge gaps closed. That's what this is.
Who you're learning from:
I'm not going to hand you my resume, so here's the short version and why it matters to you.
I'm an E-RYT 500. I've been teaching since 2015, with over 10,000 hours in front of real classes and more than 1,000 hours of training under my belt. This isn't theory for me.
I've run seven 200-hour teacher trainings and a 300-hour, and personally certified over 150 yoga teachers. I know exactly where 200-hour trainings leave people short, because I've spent years watching it happen and filling those gaps in person.
I ran a brick-and-mortar studio from 2015 to 2020, so I've done this in the real world, not just online. And I was the one hiring. I know what a studio owner is actually looking for when a new teacher auditions, because I sat in that chair.
Before any of that, I was a brand-new teacher hustling to get hired, cobbling together classes and hoping someone would give me a shot. So the business side of this course isn't recycled advice. It's the path I actually walked.
For the last six years I've run Yogi Flight School online, and built it into one of the larger online yoga schools out there. I say that not to impress you, but so you know the systems in this course are proven at scale, not scribbled on a napkin.
Bottom line: I've been the nervous new teacher, the studio owner doing the hiring, and the person training and certifying hundreds of teachers. This course is everything I've learned from all three seats.
And you won't just be learning from me. You'll also be learning from Abigail Aller, E-RYT 500 with a PhD in Sanskrit Studies and a deep knowledge of advanced yoga philosophy and Ayurveda.
Abigail has co-taught every single Yogi Flight School training alongside me since 2021, and she's right here in this course too. Two sets of eyes, two teaching voices, and twice the depth on everything from anatomy to assists.
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The full scope
This is everything a 200-hour rushes through, in the depth it always deserved.
Not a highlight reel. The complete curriculum, broken down piece by piece. Here's the scale of what's actually inside.
Foundations and History
- What is Yoga
- Yoga history across all six eras
- Asana Fundamentals
- Creating Space in the Joints
- Hasta and Pada Bandha
- Sanskrit School
Philosophy
- The Darshanas and Samkhya
- The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
- All four Padas & Key Sutras to Know
- The Eight Limbs of Yoga
- All five Yamas, taught individually
- All five Niyamas, taught individually
- Intro to Hinduism and Yoga
Anatomy
- Anatomy overview and terms
- Connective tissue, bones, muscles, joints
- The spine
- The hips and pelvis
- The knee
- The lower leg and ankle
- The shoulder
- The arms and wrists
- Functional anatomy
Asana: 90+ pose breakdowns
- Standing poses and balances
- Sun Salutations A, B and C
- Backbends
- Hip openers
- Seated poses and forward folds
- Twists
- Restorative and supine poses
- Modifications and props inside every one
Props and Modifications
- How to work with props
- Props as limb lengtheners
- Props as angle changers
- Props as action reinforcers
- Props as progression tools
- Props as support
Sequencing and Theming
- Effective Sequencing Methodology
- Regression and progression
- Grouping poses by Actions
- Recognizing Shapes in Different Orientations
- Teaching transitions
- Building a sequence, with templates
- Sequencing for beginners
- Sequencing reference manual
- Theming and Dharma Talks
- How theme and sequence work together
Cueing and Language
- Cueing methodology
- Effective language
- Creativity and variety
- Cueing anatomy
- Cueing to the heart
- Effective use of voice
Pranayama and Bandhas
- Intro to pranayama and the science of breath
- The Prana Vayus
- Contraindications
- The four primary Bandhas
- Sama Vritti
- Ujjayi
- Dirgha
- Nadi Shodhana
- Kapalabhati
- Sitali & Sitkari
- Bhramari
- Viloma 1, 2 and 3
Meditation
- Goals and benefits of meditation
- Mindfulness and breath awareness
- Yoga Nidra
- Japa Meditation
- Mantra meditation
- Loving Kindness (Metta)
- Tratak candle gazing
The Subtle Body
- Intro to the subtle body
- The Koshas
- Prana, Nadis and Kundalini Energy
- The Chakra system
Hands-on Assists
- Consent, touch and boundaries
- When and why to touch, and when not to
- Video breakdowns for how to assist over 30 poses
Mantra and Mudra
- What is Mantra
- The meaning of AUM
- Lokah Samastah Mantra
- Asato Ma Mantra
- Gayatri Mantra
- Saha Navavatu Mantra
- What is Mudra
- The Science of Mudra
- Popular Mudras & How to Teach with Them
Specialty and Safety
- Yin Yoga Overview
- Restorative Yoga Overview
- Intro to Ayurveda
- Injury overview and scope of practice
- Common injuries and conditions
- Yoga during pregnancy
Teaching and Ethics
- Best practices for teaching in person
- Teaching Online
- Ethics and scope of practice for yoga teachers
- Inclusiveness in the Studio
The Business of Yoga
- Reframing how you think
- Finding work
- Money management
- Insurance and certifications
- Creating your own opportunities
- Marketing & creating your own online presence
- Self care and time management
96 hours of training. 211 lessons. Yours for life. Learn at your own pace, in whatever order you want, and come back to any pose, any concept, any module whenever you need it. This isn't a course you cram once and forget. It's the reference library you'll teach from for the rest of your career.
How it works
The whole course is yours the moment you enroll. No waiting, no drip, no schedule.
Everything unlocks immediately and you go at your own pace.
Watch anywhere. Access it on your desktop, or from the Yogi Flight School app so you can learn from your phone or screencast the videos to your TV.
Build your own manual. Every slide deck is downloadable, so you can print the material and put together a physical manual to keep next to your mat, alongside the videos.
Ask questions as you go. Every lesson has a comments box built in. Ask anything, and our team answers. You're doing this at your own pace, but you're not doing it alone.
Earn your 100 CE hours. Work through the course, and when you finish, head to the certificate lesson to request your certificate of completion and claim your 100 hours of continuing education credit.
Yours for life. Lifetime access, so you can move through it slowly, revisit any pose before you teach it, and use it as your reference library for the rest of your teaching career.
Who this is for, and who it isn't
Be honest with yourself here.
This is for you if
- You're certified but you feel there is knowledge missing and you're tired of faking it
- You've got some teaching under your belt and want to level up without taking a full 300-hour training
- You're barely teaching, or not teaching, because you don't know how to structure a class or what to say
- You want depth in sequencing, cueing, anatomy, philosophy, assists, and the business of yoga, on your own schedule
This is not for you if
- You're looking for one more certificate to collect instead of getting in the room and teaching
- You think you need MORE credentials before gaining experience (this course will stretch you to go out there and teach what you're learning!)
- You are committed to the belief that you're not ready yet and something needs to give you permission to start
If you're on the fence about teaching, this gives you every tool to walk in prepared.
One price. Everything included.
The No Bullshit Teaching Tune-Up
One time payment. Lifetime access. 100 hours of CE credits once you complete the course.
The entire curriculum is yours to keep and return to for as long as you're teaching: 90-plus pose and Sun Salutation breakdowns, the sequencing system, the cueing, the anatomy, the philosophy, the pranayama and meditation, the consent-based assists, the subtle body, the mantras, the mudras and the business of yoga.
The do-the-work guarantee
Do the work. If it doesn't help, get your money back.
Here's the deal, and it's fair.
Go through the Sequencing module and any two pose breakdowns. Use them to plan and teach one class. If you don't walk away more confident and better equipped than you were, email us within 30 days, show us you did the work, and we'll refund you in full.
We're not going to promise you results if you buy this and never open it. But if you actually do the thing and it doesn't deliver, you shouldn't have to pay for it. Simple as that.
What's this gap actually costing you?
Here's where all of this leaves you.
Maybe it means you're not teaching yet.
The certificate sits in a drawer, the sub request comes in and you say no, and another season passes where the thing you trained for is still something you talk about in the past tense. "I did my training." Not "I teach."
Or maybe you are teaching, and that's its own quiet weight.
You're teaching, but you steer around the poses you're not sure how to cue.
You skip the arm balance because you don't know how to break it down.
You keep the philosophy vague because you aren't actually sure what asmita means.
You avoid physically adjusting students because WHAT IF you hurt them or WHAT IF they freak out?
You avoid including pranayama beyond Ujjayi breath in your classes because you're not sure where in class it goes, or how to lead it confidently.
You're leading a class, and half of it is you hoping nobody asks a question you can't answer.
Either way, it's the same gap.
And the quiet math underneath it is the same too: the longer you teach around what you don't know, or wait until you feel ready to start, the more permanent it all feels.
Because you don't close these gaps by planning more or subbing less.
You close them by actually learning the stuff, and until you do, you're either not teaching, or teaching with a knot in your stomach.
That's the real cost. Not that you feel underprepared.
That being underprepared is shaping what you teach, what you avoid, and whether you teach at all.
Questions you're probably asking
Is this a 300-hour teacher training?
How do I get my CE credits?
How long do I have, and how long does it take?
I just got certified. Is this for me?
What if it's not for me?
I've spent money on training that didn't deliver. Why is this any different?
I don't have time for another training right now.
What it feels like on the other side
Picture the version of you who's closed these gaps.
You sit down to plan and it takes you a fraction of the time, because you're not starting from zero. You have a system. The class holds together because you built it to.
A student asks why you're doing this pose, and you actually have the answer. Someone new shows up in a bigger body, or with a cranky knee, or seven months pregnant, and you don't panic, you already know the modification.
The pranayama you used to skip? You take 3 minutes at the start of class to break it down, and immediately see the energy in the room shift, and your students really arrive.
You put your hands on a student to help them deeper, with consent, without second-guessing whether you're allowed to or where your hands should go.
You cue less and say more. You can teach the eight limbs to a room without notes, and lead a guided meditation like you've been doing it for months.
And the knot in your stomach before class? It's gone.
Not because you got lucky that day, but because you actually know what you're doing now. You're not performing the role of a yoga teacher anymore. You're just teaching.
You didn't get certified to feel like a fraud.
You got certified to teach. The only thing standing between you and doing that with confidence is the stuff your training skipped. Go get it.
100 hours of CE. Lifetime access. Do-the-work money-back guarantee.