200 hour Yoga Teacher Training

Name: Create Power Yoga
Price range: $$

OUR NEXT TRAINING BEGINS SEPTEMBER 2, 2025

At Create Power Yoga, our Yoga Alliance certified 200-Hour Teacher Training program goes beyond the basics to equip you with the skills, confidence, and hands-on experience you need to teach yoga effectively and authentically. From the very first weekend, you’ll dive into live teaching opportunities, explore the nuances of pose alignment and communication, and deepen your understanding of Power Yoga. With an emphasis on inclusivity, functional movement, and real-world teaching techniques, this program is designed to help you thrive. This program is designed to build a solid foundation for your teaching career and to prepare & support you every step of the way.

To apply for training, please submit our online teacher training application, and submit your $500 deposit. Your deposit will be fully refunded if you're not accepted into the program.

The deadline to apply for and submit a deposit to our Fall 2025 training is August 15, 2025.

Do you identify as BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+? Learn about our Equity in Yoga Scholarship

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What our graduates say...

"Create Power Yoga’s teacher training program gave me the confidence to teach live classes from the start. The hands-on experience and supportive environment were unparalleled."

Jackie N. 2023 Graduate

"This training changed my life. I left feeling fully prepared to teach with a strong understanding of yoga, anatomy, and how to adapt to different students’ needs."

Eunice D. 2021 Grad

"The program was brilliantly organized and went way beyond what I expected. I felt supported, inspired, and ready to teach with confidence."

Rosie H. 2022 Grad

"The CPY community was so involved and welcoming. Practicing with real students early on gave me invaluable experience as I developed my teaching skills."

Maegan A. 2018 Grad

"Petra and the team created a truly inclusive and personalized experience. This training was as much about growing as a person as it was about becoming a teacher."

Jerrica M 2020 Grad

"I couldn’t have asked for a better teacher training experience. Every aspect of the program was thoughtfully designed to help us succeed as confident, capable yoga instructors."

Lynette S 2018 Grad

Who should apply? Are there prerequisites?

We work with very new yogis as well as very experienced yoga teachers. All are welcome. If you have a passion for yoga and a desire to change lives (including yours!), you are ready to apply for yoga teacher training. In this training, we will coach you in how to teach an effective, safe, and meaningful yoga class in a way that is authentically you. As a side effect, you’ll become an amazing yoga teacher through a comprehensive program that gives you the information, practice, and support to succeed. We are committed to your success & will do our part to support you in any way we can.

Unlike other training schools, we keep our training small - no more than 10 people - to ensure that we have time to get to know you and coach directly to your needs. This allows for greater bonding between training participants and plenty of individual time to teach and practice crucial skills.

Prerequisites:

While we do not require a certain length of yoga practice prior to training, to ensure that our trainees recieve the the best possible experience we do have a few requirements for our trainees:

Be comfortable with and physically able to practice heated vinyasa
Have a vinyasa yoga practice (this is a vinyasa yoga training)
Had a yoga practice long enough to be familiar with all basic poses (not expertise, but familiarity)
Attend at least one month of classes at Create Power Yoga. If you haven't been before, take advantage of our Intro Offer (30 days unlimited for $30)
Be able to commit to our weekend training schedule as well as home study between training weekends

What style of yoga will I be certified to teach?

The Create Power Yoga Teaching Methodology will prepare you to teach power vinyasa classes, but strives to give you the skills and understanding to comfortable teach movement to students in a variety of settings.

Our methodology is based on Baron Baptiste's Power Yoga class series, and adds emphasis on powerful and dynamic movement, breath, and the connection and communication between students and teacher. You will learn how to teach yoga classes that are based in breath, alignment, and meditative movement.

Here are just a few of the local studios with teachers trained at Create Power Yoga:
- The Woods Yoga, Lincoln, RI
- Ritual Sweat Society, Dartmouth, MA
- West Side Yoga, Providence, RI
- Artemis Yoga, Newton, MA
- Moonflower Wellness, Warwick, RI
- Sport Yoga Spot, Wareham, MA
- HYP Studios, Boston, MA

Our curriculum has been registered with Yoga Alliance and meets their strict guidelines for teacher training. Upon completion of your training, we encourage you to register with Yoga Alliance as a "RYT-200."

Curriculum

What will be covered in this training?

Create Power Yoga's teacher training includes an emphasis on teaching early & often, with additional bonus opportunities to teach in live classes at our studio. Students will teach a full hour class & lead a one hour workshop before graduation, as well as teach in small groups & partners each day we meet.

Curriculum includes, but isn't limited to:

Pose and posture breakdowns
Anatomy and physiology
Hands on assisting
Yoga Philosophy (yamas and niyamas, sutras, koshas)
Meditation
Mastering the sequence, flow, and arc of the class
Teaching methodology and communication skills
Practice teaching and giving/receiving feedback
Teaching inclusively
Bringing yoga teachings outside of the yoga studio

We provide the following materials:

You will be provided with a comprehensive teacher training manual
Appropriate hand-outs and extras as the training moves forward

You will need to purchase the required books (on the book list to the right)

Cost & Payment Plans

What is the cost of training and what is included?

Training is $3,200, but you can get $500 off if you pay in full by November 15, 2024.

A $500 non-refundable deposit is required at the time of registration.

If you have previously completed another 200 Hour teacher training program with another school, we will allow you to attend training for the discounted rate of only $2,000.

Cost includes all instruction, teacher training manual, and unlimited yoga classes during your training.

What payment plans are available?

Payment amounts and dates are entirely flexible as long as you are paid in full prior to the start of training.

If you wish to get the early bird discount, or if you are accepted for a scholarship, you will need to be paid in full by November 15, 2024. We can help you to schedule your payments so that you are complete by November 15.

Crowdsource your financing:
Trainees have had success financing all or part of training cost on crowdsourcing platforms. You might be surprised at how many family, friends and strangers are happy to support your yoga journey in the hope of yoga classes when you graduate! If you start a crowdfunding campaign, let us know and we are happy to boost it in our community to help you meet your goals.

Equity in Yoga Scholarship

The Equity in Yoga scholarship program at Create Power Yoga is a brand new (2020) initiative to create better representation of BIPOC in the yoga community. We believe representation matters, and BIPOC are under-represented in the yoga community and especially as yoga teachers. Our Equity in Yoga scholarship program aims to create equity in the accessibility of yoga training and help BIPOC to overcome barriers to yoga trainings.
We now offer two partial (50%) scholarships for our 200hr teacher training. This is the first step in our goal to increase accessibility and diversity in yoga and we hope to continue to expand our scholarship program in the future.View full scholarship details & apply

When should I register for training?

Register for training as soon as you know you want to attend. This program is considered sold out at 10 participants, so early registration is recommended to guarantee your spot. If you are paid in full by November 15, 2023, you will get $500 off your tuition.

A non-refundable deposit of $500 is required at the time of registration. You must be paid in full by November 15, 2024 to receive the early bird discount. Payment plans are available (see below in "cost and payment plans").

To register, you must submit an application along with a non-refundable $500 deposit. If you are not accepted into training, you will receive a full refund for your deposit.

What can I do to prepare for training?

Prepare for training by purchasing & skimming the required books (see "curriculum"), attending classes at Create Power Yoga to understand the style you will learn to teach in and feel our practice in your own body, and learning what poses comprise Sun Salutations A & B in a power vinyasa class. Upon registration, you will be sent all of the information you need to get started. Our training is chock-full of knowledge and self-study; please be prepared for 5-10 hours of homework outside of training weekends.

About your trainer, Petra Lehman-Brauer

Petra Lehman-Brauer began yoga as part of her college dance program. She discovered quickly that yoga asana was helping to relieve pain from old injuries and dysfunction movement patterns created through years of dance. In addition, it helped calm the anxiety and need-for-control that she had experienced for as long as she could remember. Moving forward, Petra practiced more and more, and completed her teacher training in 2013 with Deborah Williamson of Wild Abundant Life.

Petra and her husband, Billy, founded Create Power Yoga in 2014, after an unexpected life-change and a realization that it was now-or-never. Petra's former career included community-building as a programming director for non-profits, and she saw in a yoga studio the opportunity to build connection and family within a yoga practice. When she created Create Power Yoga, her mission was to create a community that would have a life of its own, in and out of yoga classes. Her focus in her classes, and in running her business, is for students to feel safe, connected, welcomed, and powerful.

Petra is a 500hr-E-RYT Yoga Alliance instructor. She was trained in the LIVE LOVE TEACH® methodology with original co-founder, Deborah Williamson. Petra was mentored by Terry Munnelly of Newport Power Yoga, and Phillip Urso and Renee Delauries of Rhode Island Power Yoga. She holds a 500hr yoga certification, focused in functional movement, from Stacy Dockins of The Yoga Project, author of Embodied Posture.

Petra is dedicated to educating incredible teachers, well-versed in a variety of yoga topics and seeped in relevancy to life. Petra's favorite thing to tell trainees is "ask questions - you get what you ask for." Her curriculum is supplemented with relevant information about communication skills, learning styles, the mental and physical effects of experiences on the body, evidence-based information, and other accumulated knowledge. Tangents are held in high regard, while never distracting from the training.

Petra's other certifications and advanced trainings include:
Certified Children's Yoga Instructor (Karma Kids); Certified Hands-on Assistant (Wild Abundant Life); Barre Instructor; Trauma Sensitive Yoga (Bessel Van De Kolk and the Brookline Trauma Institute); Merge the Practice Fascial Body training; Teaching Spirituality (Live Love Teach); and various anatomy teachings from Leslie Kaminoff and Paul Grilley.

2025 Training Dates

Fall 2025 training schedule:

Tuesday, September 2, 6-8pm: mandatory training kickoff
Weekends:
September 5-8
September 19-22
October 3-5
October 17-19
October 24-26 (note back-to-back weekend)
November 7-9
November 21-23
December 5-7
December 19-20 (shortened weekend with practical class assessment & graduation)

Training also includes optional "open office hours" with trainers to ask questions and practice skills. These office hours take place on weekday evenings. Dates are decided at the start of training.

All training weekends are Fridays 5pm - 10pm; Saturdays 7am-6pm; and Sunday: 7am - 4pm, with breaks for meals.

Trainees must be in attendance for all 9 weekends in order to graduate from the program. We offer up to 12-hours of make up sessions for trainees as needed; however, these make-up hours are paid separately outside of training costs and billed at $20/hour. We do our best to utilize Zoom and/or recordings to minimize the need make up hours where appropriate. Although we do our best, we cannot guarantee that make-up hours will be completed by the end of training. Please assume that being present on training weekends is your top priority.

Yoga Teacher Training Book List

The following books are required for our Yoga Teacher Training. Each book is used throughout training for both primary and supplementary learning. Note: these are affiliate links.

Embodied Posture by Stacy Dockins

Skill in Action by Michelle Johnson

The Path of the Yoga Sutras: A Practical Guide to the Core of Yoga by Nicolai Bachman

The following books are recommended for our Yoga Teacher Training as supplementary information to have through your entire yoga teaching journey. Note: these are affiliate links.

Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff

40 Days to Personal Revolution by Baron Baptiste

Journey Into Power by Baron Baptiste

Loving What Is by Byron Katie

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