Best Yoga Teacher Trainings in San Fransisco
Haum Yoga Teacher Training
This Yoga Alliance certified 200-hour training is designed to provide you with the groundwork, knowledge and skills to begin teaching yoga. Their mission is to create an immersive experience of learning and self-inquiry that encourages you to show up confidently in your life with purpose and meaning.
The comprehensive curriculum will cover anatomy, asana, functional alignment, yoga history and philosophy, pranayama, meditation, intelligent vinyasa sequencing, hands-on assisting, teaching methodology, ethics and the business of yoga.
Their program is both teacher training and life training. You will learn how to navigate the totality of your human experience – physical, mental and emotional – with skillful awareness and curiosity. In getting to know yourself better, you will develop authentic ways to share the teachings of yoga with others.
- Price: $3400 (early bird)- $3,600
- Duration: 12 weekends + virtual sessions
- Website: https://haumsf.com/
- Yoga Style: Hatha, Vinyasa
FOLK Teacher Training
Folk offers Yoga Alliance registered teacher training programs in San Francisco, and places a high focus on ongoing mentorship and career advice well beyond program completion. You will begin to practice teaching early in the training so you will gain the confidence and ability to begin teaching yoga immediately upon graduation.
The syllabus of Yoga Garden is based on the teachings of ancient teachers as well as modern teachers like B.K.S. Iyengar, giving you the opportunity to find the style that’s closest to you. You can do the course over 3 months – weekends and a few evenings, or you can do a one-month intensive course with only Mondays off.
Included with your tuition, you will receive an unlimited membership for the month before, during, and after the training PLUS access to our online learning platform for one year.
The price of this course is fair in this area and there are payment plans available so everyone can find a good fit.
- Price: $3,450- $3,699 .
- Duration: 4 weeks: Tuesday to Sunday
- Website:https://folksf.com/
- Yoga Style: Hatha, Vinyasa, Ilyengar, Ashtanga
The Purusha Yoga 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training has a strong emphasis on health education, mental well-being, physical fitness, and classic yoga that is applicable to the modern world. Their teacher training program has a strongly holistic view of the human body, yoga, and the experience of teaching itself.
Upon completion of this training, you will qualify to register with Yoga Alliance as a 200 Hour Yoga Teacher. They offer in-person and live streamed options. Purusha Yoga has a special scholarship for those who can’t afford to pay the costs of training, they can offer their teaching services to underserved and/or at-risk populations. Details can be found on their website.
- Price: $2800-$3000
- Duration: 9 weekends over 4 months
- Website: https://www.purushayoga.org
- Yoga Style: Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin
Love Story Yoga is a dynamic group of teachers with great backgrounds. They came together to create comprehensive training that includes daily practice and meditation, practical anatomy, philosophy, strategic sequencing, finding your voice, practice teaching, interpersonal work, and technical alignment principles.
Throughout this program, you will dive into asana, learn basic breathing techniques, explore sacred texts such as the Yoga Sutras and Hatha Yoga Pradipika, and develop your authentic teaching voice. Love Story Yoga offers a short, 2 x 10-day intensive course and a one-month course that runs from Thursdays to Sundays.
These options are probably the shortest teacher training you can find in the area, so if you can’t dedicate months to the course, this might be the school for you.
- Price: $3500 – $3900
- Duration: 5 weekends + 1 week: Friday -Sunday
- Website: http://www.lovestoryyoga.com
- Yoga Style: Hatha, Vinyasa
The Integral Yoga Teacher Training program has been training Yoga teachers for over thirty-five years and offers a Yoga Alliance registered certification. This training prepares students to teach Hatha Yoga classes, providing the knowledge for Asanas (poses), guided relaxation (Savasana/Yoga Nidra), Pranayama (breathing practices), and seated silent meditation.
The founder of IYI is Sri Swami Satchidananda, a student of Sri Swami Sivananda, the great Indian Yoga master. In this training, you will find the focus on alignment and meditation. You can choose to complete your course over 5 months, dedicating only your Sundays to the course, or over 3 months, having 2 evenings per week apart from Sundays.
Both programs include a 3-day retreat in nature for you to deepen your own practice before qualifying.
- Price: $2775 in person / $1550 Online
- Duration: 9 weeks Online or in-person
- Website:http://integralyogasf.org/200-hour
- Yoga Style: Hatha
The 200-Hour Teacher Training at The Pad Studios offers a deeply spiritual journey for everyone who’s ready for this life-changing experience. You’ll explore the physical asana and methodology for teaching yoga but it also helps you to deepen your personal yoga practice, find a work/life balance, go beyond the physical, and follow your bliss.
They say this course will be a switch in your lifestyle rather than just a qualification. The course runs over 7 weekends and upon completion, you will receive a Yoga Alliance registered qualification of your basic yoga teacher certification.
- Price: $4295-4,595, payment plans available
- Duration: 7 weekends – Thur +Fri evenings, Saturdays, and Sundays
- Website: https://thepadstudios.com/
- Yoga Style: Hatha
Lotusland (formerly Laughing Lotus) has one of the earliest vinyasa training programs in the US, and their program is based on creative, dynamic, and devotional practice, merging body, breath, motion, and mindfulness. The teachers are highly knowledgeable with decades of experience in teaching yoga and training teachers.
You can choose to do the course over 3 weeks time with barely any time off, or you can sign up for a course that will last 14 weekends and you’ll only be busy Friday till Sunday every week. Payment options and early bird discounts are available for you to be able to choose the option best for you.
- Price: $3200 – payment plans available
- Duration: 13 weekends (Fri-Sun)
- Website: Lotusland
- Yoga Style: Hatha, Vinyasa
