200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Program
Deepen Your Practice. Strengthen Your Voice. Share Yoga with Heart.
The Twillow Lifestyle Academy 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training is designed for students who want to deepen their personal yoga practice, explore the roots and philosophy of yoga, understand the body with greater confidence, and learn how to guide safe, meaningful, and supportive yoga experiences.
This training supports both those who wish to teach and those who simply feel called to study yoga in a deeper, more intentional way.
You will be guided through posture, breath work, meditation, anatomy, philosophy, sequencing, teaching methodology, ethics, trauma-aware facilitation, and personal integration. Throughout the journey, you will be encouraged to grow at your own pace while building the knowledge, confidence, and presence needed to share yoga with others.
This Program May Be for You If You Feel Called to…
• Explore yoga beyond the physical postures
• Learn how to safely guide others through yoga classes
• Build confidence in your voice, presence, and teaching style
• Understand basic anatomy, alignment, breath, and movement
• Study yoga philosophy, ethics, meditation, and lifestyle practices
• Develop a trauma-aware, compassionate approach to teaching
• Become part of a supportive learning community
• Begin or expand your path as a yoga teacher, wellness practitioner, or spiritual guide
You will explore grounded business tools that help your work become more organized, sustainable, and clear.
This may include pricing, scheduling, basic planning, simple systems, income streams, policies, content planning, client communication, and business structure..
What You Will Explore
Postures, breath work, meditation, relaxation, grounding practices, and embodied awareness.
A practical understanding of the body, movement patterns, alignment, safety, accessibility, and modifications.
Foundational teachings, yogic principles, ethics, self-reflection, and the deeper purpose of yoga practice.
Compassionate facilitation, choice-based language, nervous system awareness, accessibility, and creating safer spaces.
Sequencing, cueing, class planning, voice, pacing, student support, class themes, and creating meaningful experiences.
Practice teaching, feedback, reflection, mentorship, and integration of your learning into real-life teaching or personal practice.
Program Structure
This 200-hour training is offered through a supportive blend of live instruction, guided practice, personal study, reflection, mentorship, and practicum experience. You will receive structured learning, opportunities to practise teaching, and space to integrate the teachings into your own body, life, and spiritual path.
What Makes This Training Unique
A Heart-Led Approach to Yoga Teacher Training
This training brings together grounded yoga education with emotional awareness, spiritual development, nervous system care, and heart-centred leadership. Students are supported as whole people, with space for learning, reflection, healing, confidence-building, and authentic expression.
This is a training for people who want to teach with care, live with greater awareness, and share yoga in a way that feels meaningful, inclusive, and aligned.
Lead Trainer Section
Jacqueline Richards Lead Yoga Trainer, Twillow Lifestyle Academy
Jacqueline brings deep experience in yoga, breathwork, movement, nervous system awareness, meditation, and embodied wellness.
Her teaching style is grounded, compassionate, accessible, and supportive. She helps students understand yoga from the inside out while building confidence.
Graduates will leave with a strong foundation in yoga practice, teaching skills, class planning, student support, personal reflection, and heart-centred facilitation.
