How To Abide 200 Hour YTT
2025 dates just announced!
Yoga is a vast practice that can help us humans adapt to and thrive in this always-changing world. If your yoga practice has helped to change you, and now you’re ready to learn more, here is the deep dive you’ve been waiting for. Join Hope Hamling, along with a variety of guest teachers to take this journey Abide style. We are not your typical yoga teacher training. We approach our teaching from trauma-informed and social justice oriented perspective, and believe that yoga should be for EVERYONE. Expect to learn the “rules” but then also why they must sometimes (OK…most of the time!) be broken. Expect to read ancient wisdom texts right alongside modern takes on yoga and trauma. Learn about Ayurveda, our nervous systems, and how we’re wired, alongside anatomy. Learn about best practices for trauma-informed classes as well as other modalities to help address trauma in the body. Learn how to share the practices that resonate with you in a heartfelt and authentic way. It’s your time!
What we’ll cover
The Eight Limbs of Yoga with a focus on the ethical tenets
What is trauma and how does it affect bodies / minds / communities?
Asana from anticolonialist perspective
Creative Sequencing, Practicum + Feedback
Learn to teach elements of creative Vinyasa, Slow Flow, Yin, Restorative, and Moving Forward yoga classes
Discover YOUR class offering
Adaptive and Body Positive Yoga
Kids Yoga
Prenatal Yoga
Anatomy, Human Variation and when hands on assists are OK
Yoga / Embodiment and Rest through a social justice lens
Teaching and practicing meditation
A dip into wisdom texts like The Yoga Sutras, Tao Te Ching, and more
A thoughtful and dynamic community
Intention setting and mantras
The subtle and energetic bodies through yogic and TCM lenses
Intro to Movement for Trauma
Intro to Ayurveda + Preventative Indian Medicine
Breathwork + Mudras
Creative practices like chanting, writing, mandala / altar building, and more
Explore within yourself and gain the tools for guiding and teaching others
2024 Training Dates
(in progress)
January 6 - 7
February 3 - 4
March 2 - 3
April 6 - 7
May 11 - 12
June 8 - 9
July 13 - 14
August 10 - 11
Final class presentations: September 7 - 8
2025 Training Dates
(now enrolling)
January 4 & 5
February 1 & 2
March 8 & 9
April 5 & 6
May 3 & 4
June 6 & 7
July 12 & 13
August 23 & 24
Final class presentations: September 13 & 14
Hours for the training: Saturdays & Sundays, 12 - 5 PM
Training will be held in person at Abide Yoga, Cleveland, OH, and can be accessed virtually via Zoom for all sessions for those wishing to attend from afar. Additionally, sessions are recorded for future access and in case of absence at a training session.
Students must attend 50 hours worth of yoga classes during the duration of the training, a personal reflection essay, and a final class presentation for certification.
An unlimited membership at Abide Yoga is included for the duration of the program.
Tuition: $3300
Non-refundable deposit of $500, application, and conversation with Hope are required prior to enrollment. If funds are a challenge, please don’t hesitate to reach out anyway. It’s important to us that this training is accessible, and occasionally the deposit can be rolled into a payment plan.
Payment plans, work/trade, and partial scholarships are available. We especially encourage BIPOC and LGTBQIA folx to apply to this training. We believe in equitable access to healing arts trainings. Please reach out!