Take a deep breath, relax your shoulders, and soften your jaw.
If you have been called to learn more about YOU, your nervous system, and the ancient wisdom of Yoga, you are in the right place.
Say goodbye to stress headaches, women who wear a million hats and make the world go round (yes, you).
Get the peaceful, relaxed life you dream of, with energy for things that LIGHT you UP, in only 7 weekends.
You are driven and disciplined in your path towards your own health of your body, mind and soul, but you wish you had more time in your day to be reflective rather than reactive.
You crave a deeper connection with yourself, and you feel so INSPIRED when you have a chance to practice Yoga or meditation.
It is so easy to become wrapped up in our external roles as career women, caregivers, partners, and professionals. But you yearn to do less people-pleasing, and to spend more time getting to know who YOU are… again.
You feel pulled towards learning the root cause of why your nervous system functions on high-alert and how to tap into your sacred energy and your creativity.
Over twenty years ago, I turned to yoga and meditation as a refuge from the chaos of my thoughts, riddled with anxiety, panic attacks and eating disorders. A journey that transformed my understanding of mindfulness and health, yet fell out of my life during my early career and motherhood.
Once again finding myself constantly sick, dealing with adrenal fatigue, low energy, I was anxious and reactionary with my kids and partner, I knew I needed to come back to Yoga. I made a commitment to myself and I stuck to it. I woke up early every day, and went to a 6am hot yoga class to sweat, move and breathe. Because it felt like the ONLY time I COULD BREATHE. Before my family was even awake, I was re-energizing my cells and my SOUL.
I came home sweaty, ass kicked, yet feeling calm and grounded. I had found my calling.
In 2017, I took my 200 hour Yoga teacher training, got 100% on my exams, and started teaching right away, incorporating my background in Science and biological sciences, along with my minor in psychology into each class.
Since then, Yoga has become a way of living. It makes me a better mom, partner, and human. YOGA has allowed me to learn to observe my thoughts without judgment, and find peace in presence.
Are you a busy professional longing for less stress?
Are you dreaming of a healthy body and pain-free movement?
Do you wish you had more time in your day to be reflective rather than reactive?
Are you craving a deeper connection with yourself?
Has your yoga + meditation practice become the one thing that’s saving you from a total meltdown?
You shouldn't have to leave your life behind to come home to yourself. If you've been quietly circling teacher training, let’s chat.
Trust yourself.
Most yoga teacher trainings ask you to trust the teacher. To follow the method. To memorize the sequence and hope it holds when a real body is on the mat in front of you.
We built Yoga Science School to do the opposite. Because the whole inward turn of yoga, the part that matters most, was always about coming home to your own knowing.
So we teach you the anatomy, the physiology, the why beneath every pose, until the knowing lives in your own body. And two things start to happen at once.
You learn to trust yourself as a teacher. You can look at a real student, with a real history and a shoulder that doesn't move the way the book says it should, and trust your own eyes, your own hands, your own judgment.
And you learn to trust yourself for yourself. You begin to know what your body needs, what your life needs, without waiting for anyone to hand it to you. You come to know that you know. The knowledge and the power were never outside you. They were yours the whole time.
That's what the science is for. Not to make you defer to an expert. To return you to your own authority.
Seven weekends. Real bodies. Real science. Your own inner teacher, finally trusted.
What will this journey look like?
IN PERSON and in the OKANAGAN.
Our weekend-format training is made for real humans with real lives. 7 in-person, alternating-weekends, one textbook, and only a small amount of at-home study required. You will be certified before
We often hear questions like this:
“Will I be able to do this training even if my Yoga practice has fallen to the wayside?”
“I’m not sure I’m ‘advanced’ enough to take this training or to be a teacher. How will I know I’m ready?”
Please know that this is not about being an advanced Yogi or doing the splits or headstand or if your postures are ‘perfect’.
With this being a FULL BODY YES, mark the dates in your calendar, let work know, and be ready to devote this time.
Each day of your training starts with breathwork, movement and meditation. You’ll practice living the 8 limbs of Yoga. Conveniently scheduled to fit in with your daily life, the training allows you opportunity to integrate what you’ve learned into your patterns, habits and rhythms.
Our unique 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Program combines the science or the “why” behind postures, alignment, the nervous system, and stress reduction, with ancient wisdom of Yoga from all over the world.
There are many Yoga teachers out there who teach the practice but don’t understand the science behind it. With our program, you’ll understand the WHY on a deep level.
Most trainings ask you to trust the teacher. This one teaches you to trust yourself.
Learn science-backed information: Research published in Frontiers in Psychiatry (Schleinzer et al., 2024), confirms yoga as a clinically meaningful non-pharmacological intervention for stress.
This is what we’re teaching, and why it matters.
What makes our training unique:
Science Focused
Trauma Informed
In-person
Opportunity to teach Community Classes in a local studio for a charity of your choice
Connection with past grads and other Yoga teachers for mentorship and support in your journey
Collaboration with us and Yoga studios in the Valley for classes, events or workshops
Discounts on upcoming workshops with the Yoga Science School and the opportunity to attend any full or portion of a future 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training for free.
The curriculum. Built from the science up.
This is the part where most training programs hand you a syllabus. We are handing you a new way of understanding yourself.
Every module in this training was built to answer the questions you have been carrying around for years. About your body, your nervous system, your practice, and why you keep coming back to the mat, even when life gets in the way. By the time you finish this training, those questions will not just be answered, they will feel obvious.
What you learn:
Kinesiology and movement science. How skeletal and nervous system alignment creates new neural pathways in the brain, why the quality and intentionality of how you stretch and strengthen matters more than the stretch itself, and how slow, sustained loading stimulates the Golgi tendon organ and muscle spindle to activate your parasympathetic nervous system. Your body already knows how to heal, this training teaches you why.
Origins of meditation and mindfulness. The neuroscience of attention training, interoceptive awareness, and why a consistent practice measurably changes how your brain processes stress. This is not about emptying your mind (and it never was).
The history of yoga. Where the practice originates, how it has travelled across cultures and centuries, and how understanding its roots will permanently change the way you practice and teach it. The wooly mammoth went extinct, the great Pyramids of Giza were being built, and at the same time the earliest roots of yoga were embedded in the Vedas = Context is everything.
Fascia and the Autonomic Nervous System. The role of fascial tissue as a sensory organ and how mechanoreceptors within the fascial network communicate with the nervous system. This module makes people say "why did nobody ever teach me this before?"
Anatomy and Physiology from the cells up. Bones, joints, range of motion, major muscle groups, and the specific alignment cues that engage muscles with intention rather than habit.
Teaching methodology and trauma-informed philosophy. Inclusive language, how to offer understanding and compassion so that others can choose whether they feel safe enough to go inward, and the practical skills to lead a class with genuine confidence.
The path to Dharma. Your life's purpose as understood through yoga philosophy, held alongside the science that supports it. This one lands differently for everyone.
Mantras, Chakras, Bandhas and Mudras. Their historical and philosophical context, their relationship to nervous system regulation, and how to work with them in a way that honours both the tradition and your own intellectual integrity.
For those who choose to share this practice: the business of Yoga. A practical grounding in costs, pricing, and building a class, so that if you do step into a teaching role, you are genuinely prepared for what comes next.
No joke - You are going to finish this training and wonder what took you so long. And we are going to be right there when that moment arrives, because we have seen it happen in cohort after cohort, and it never gets old.
It is an absolute privilege to be a part of your Yoga journey.
We cannot wait for you to get started
As you begin your 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Journey, you can say goodbye to the daily hustle and grind and welcome in a heart-based, experience beyond intellectual learning.
“If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.”
Buddha
I get it. 200 Hours of ANYTHING is not easy.
If this were an easy journey everyone would do it.
But you have listened to the little voice inside your head that wants to know more.
You’ve probably heard the phrase, ‘let go of what is no longer serving you’ when in a yoga class, but what does that really mean? A concept of yoga through Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism is internal pain, or suffering called Dukkha.
Dukkha refers to feeling of being uneasy, or unsatisfied with everyday mundane life. This is caused by grasping on to thoughts of longing, not being good enough, comparisons, or fear of change. This is absolutely normal and happens to us all - “Even the wise suffer, for suffering is everywhere.” as stated in Yoga Sutra 2.15.
Think of it as an intentional acknowledgment and release of thoughts that are weighing you down. Things like jealousy, greed, unworthiness, fear of the unknown, clinging onto something/someone, aversions or cravings.
By releasing this, you create an opening for what we are ultimately meant for/seeking.
So you can just… be.
It's easier to put other people's needs first than our own, especially as a busy working human/business person/parent/student doing all the things but now is the time for something hard.
Now is the time to put yourself first.