500 Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training Program 2024/2025
Combining a talented faculty with the opportunity to train with master teachers, Indigo’s 500 Hour Advanced Teacher Training program is a path to self-discovery and radical expansion of your practice and teaching. Students will delve into an authentic tradition of Yoga that combines the 8 limbs of yoga with its sister sciences of Tantra and Ayurveda. This program is available to all dedicated students, who wish to dive deeply into study and practice. One year of dedicated practice is the prerequisite for this training – students do not need to have prior certification or teacher training experience.
Admission to this program takes place prior to students beginning their study in September, but students may take up to 2 years to complete program requirements. Students will help to design their own course of study to take place in one year or longer, depending upon their personal circumstances and needs. Emphasis, for example, may be placed upon philosophy, Ayurveda, therapeutics or another area of focus. Study is completed in units, at each student’s individual pace.
*In customizing their curriculum, students will work directly with a faculty mentor to chart a course of study, choosing units from the entire training calendar over a 1 or 2 year period in accordance with curriculum guidelines as well as their own unique interests.
The 500 Hour Advanced Teacher Training program involves intensive study and practice in a closed group. All units of study take place at our beautiful studio space in Beavercreek (Dayton), Ohio. The program is designed to allow students to commit to in-depth learning, while maintaining the balance of work and family commitments. We also believe it is important for students to have time between units to assimilate and practice the material they are learning.
Teacher Trainees Will Learn
Upon successful completion of the 500 Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training program, graduates will be eligible to register with Yoga Alliance at the RYT-500 level. Teacher Trainees will review and expand their knowledge in the following categories with options to customize their course of study and to focus on a particular area or areas of interest:
- Alignment Principles, Benefits, and Potential Risks of Yoga Asanas
- Yoga Anatomy & Physiology
- Modifications for Foundational Asanas & Effective Use of Props
- Science and Energetics of Intelligent Sequencing (Vinyasa Krama)
- Simple Restorative and Relaxation Practices (Savasana & Yoga Nidra)
- Pranayama & Meditation
- Verbal & Hands-On Adjustments
- How to Observe and See Bodies
- Finding an Authentic Voice
- Classical Yogic and Tantric Philosophy
- Introduction to Ayurveda
- Introduction to the Subtle Body – Koshas, Chakras, Doshas, Nadis, & Prana Vayus
- Introduction to Sanskrit
- Business, Ethics, & Yoga Entrepreneurship
- Yoga Therapeutics
- Restorative Yoga & Pranayama
- Yin Yoga
- Yoga Philosophy
- Reiki Attunement
- Yoga for Specialty Populations
Program Schedule
Weekend Hours are Fridays from 5-8:30 pm, Saturdays and Sundays from 9-5 pm Hours may vary.
September 8 -10 Opening Weekend with Amy Fecher
Home faculty Amy Fecher open the YTT sangha with an inspiring weekend to lay the foundation and roadmap of the training. Through asana, pranayama and meditation we will prepare to embark upon the journey to know oneself through the deeper levels of yoga practice. We will explore the history of yoga, its journey to the west and its many current incarnations. Students will be introduced to Tantra philosophy and the “gunas” (attributes of the physical world) and will receive an introduction to the science and energetics of sequencing and the blueprint of a successful yoga class. This weekend will also include practice teaching hours. Randy Boyd will present The Courage to Follow Your Heart and a Meditation and Breathwork practice.
October 18 – 20 Subtle body and asana alignment with Amy Fecher
The Koshas and Chakras will be explored along with the precision and refinement of yoga practice with proper asana alignment fully detailed. Randy Boyd will present, Worthiness is Your Birth Rite and a Meditation and Breathwork practice.
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November 15 – 17 Vinyasa Krama Sequencing Intensive with Amy Fecher and The Yoga of Pulsation with Randy Boyd
The art and science of intelligent yoga sequencing for all levels including sequencing for an apex pose or poses, for energetic effect, for a seasonal or philosophical theme and for all around effect. This weekend will include practice teaching hours. Randy Boyd will also present a Meditation and Breathwork practice.
* Required for all advanced-level students.
December 6 – 8 Ashaya Yoga Intensive with Randy Boyd – The Gods and Goddesses
Balance the elements in your body and mind in this weekend that weaves asana, pranayama, yoga philosophy and chakras. Practice a powerful rainbow of grounding, flowing, exhilarating, and expansive postures that bring you back home to your heart.
January 10 -12
Somatic Inspired Yoga – The Heart of Yoga with Kristen Luna Ray
Bhakti is loving devotion and surrender to what is- to this embodiment, to each moment, to the ever-changing nature around and within. We practice, chant and surrender to the pure essence of the mantra, the source, the sound, each other, and then slowly but inevitably, to every moment of our life. Sustained bliss is what reveals itself. In this immersion, we will delve in to accessible techniques, mythology and yoga and mantra practice to awaken our hearts.
January 26 -28 Yoga for Radiant Aging Bone Health Training with Randy Boyd
January 31 – February 2 -Yoga Anatomy with Kim Korson & Teaching Techniques/Practice Teaching Hours with Amy Fecher
March 7 – 9 Yoga Anatomy & Therapeutics Intensive – with Amy Fecher and Kim Korson
Incorporating yoga anatomy into asana practice and teaching with an emphasis on therapeutic applications.
* Required for all advanced-level students
April 4 – 6 Business of Yoga, Ethics for Business, Practice teaching and Alignments with Amy Fecher
April 13-14 Pranayama Intensive with Ross Stambaugh – Incorporating Pranayama and Meditation into your daily life, practice and teachings.
Our Teachers
Amy Fecher, B.S, ERYT500, YACEP
Co-founder of Indigo Yoga, Amy has taught yoga for nearly eleven years. Her intention is to inspire students on a daily basis with her dynamic, highly creative instruction. The hallmark of her teaching is a sense of challenge balanced with the support and nurturing needed to enliven, uplift and promote personal growth and a positive shift of perspective. Amy completed her 500-Hour RYT certification at Yoga on High in Columbus, Ohio. She maintains a dedicated personal practice from which she draws the inspiration and energy evident in all of her classes. Amy’s goal is to help students to take their yoga practice beyond the mat to embrace personal transformation one breath at a time.
Randy Boyd, ERYT500
Randy teaches Ashaya Yoga, which is heart centered, alignment based, and life transforming. He was first registered as a 500 hour hatha yoga teacher through the Anusara Yoga school. He also completed his 300 hour Ashaya Yoga training. He is a certified as a Yoga Therapist by the International Association of Yoga Therapists* and as a certified yoga teacher for osteoporosis in the Loren Fishman method. He has a private yoga therapy practice. He trains yoga
teachers at both the 200 hour and 300 hour level.
*Note: The yoga therapy components of Randy’s teaching are based on his extensive training in alignment-based yoga therapy. These techniques are not derived from his status as an ERYT-500 with Yoga Alliance Registry.
Kim Korson, RYT500
Kim Korson, RYT500, a lifelong athlete discovered the transformative power of yoga shortly after her husband passed in early 2008. Kim’s passion for the practice led her to complete a 200-hour teacher training course at It’s Yoga in Cincinnati. Since this time she has become an anatomy nerd! Kim successfully complete her 500-hour RYT certification in 2021 through Indigo Yoga’s Teacher Training Program
