Our next Rasayana School of Yoga 200-hr Teacher Training in Kennewick & Leavenworth will be starting January 2020.
AND we’ll also be offering it as a 500-hr program!
OR you can join the 300-hr program in the Fall of 2020!
This is a joint venture between Joanna Dunn (Evolve::Local Yoga in Leavenworth) and Heather Anastos (Yoga Community in Kennewick). For full details on our 200-hr programs, see our website at www.rasayana-yoga.com.
The 500-hr and 300-hr options are new additions, and details will be released soon. The 200-hr program is the foundation of the Yoga Alliance-based training programs, but if you already have a 200-hr certificate (from any qualified school), you know that it only scratches the surface of yoga learning. The 300-hr programs are the next step! Enhance your knowledge and understanding with 300 hours of additional training in advanced topics. The 300-hr program will start in the fall of 2020 and run for about one year. Students will also have the option of completing both the 200- and 300-hr programs in sequence (500-hr program) starting January 2020 and running through 2021.
Rasayana School of Yoga focuses on balancing all eight limbs of the practice of yoga by starting with a mindful, alignment-based approach to asana that takes into account modifications for injury and illness. Meditation, pranayama, and the study of yoga philosophies are incorporated into a curriculum that will provide a well-rounded introduction to the art of teaching yoga. Advanced study course can be completed at a discounted rate for students who choose not to pursue teaching (must be designated at time of registration).
Advanced study will include:
- physical postures,
- alignment,
- modifications,
- vinyasa,
- restorative yoga,
- pranayama,
- yoga philosophy,
- anatomy/subtle body anatomy,
- and Ayurveda.

Heather Anastos in Purvottanasana Prep. Photo Credit: Theresa Elliott/Dale PetersonTeaching curriculum will include:
Teaching curriculum with include:
- teaching techniques,
- sequencing,
- verbal cues,
- teaching special populations,
- ethics
- and business topics.
For additional information, call 509.470.0542 or email info@rasayana-yoga.com.
Information on our previous YTT Programs:
Rasayana School of Yoga 200-hr Teacher Training: Class of 2018!
Our inaugural 200-hr program took place over ten selected weekends in 2018. Classes were held in Kennewick, Leavenworth, and Roslyn (weekend retreat).
Rasayana School of Yoga 200-hr Teacher Training: Class of 2016-2017!
Our inaugural 200-hr program took place over ten selected weekends in 2016-2017. Classes were held in Kennewick, Leavenworth, and Cle Elum (weekend retreat).
- Meet our graduating class of 2017!
- Learning anatomy.
- Practicing Garudasana.
- Seated candle meditation.
- Garudasana pose at the wall.
- Small group project.
- Discussing sequencing during the weekend retreat.
- Morning meditation during the weekend retreat.
- Rasayana textbooks.
- Salabhasana variation at the weekend retreat.
- Joanna assisting a student demonstrating Parvokonasana.
- Joanna demonstrating alignment in Virabhadrasana III.
- Students practicing Virabhadrasana III.
Pacific Yoga 200-hr Teacher Training in Kennewick in 2013!
This program took place over eight selected weekends in 2013 with Pacific Yoga instructors, Theresa Elliott and Kathryn Payne. They taught this program in Seattle for 14 years, but only once in eastern Washington!
- Meditation and Pranayama
- Theresa demonstrating movements of scapula
- Virabhadrasana I (Warrior I)
- Virabhadrasana II (Warrior II)
- 2013 Graduates of PYTT in Kennewick
- First Headstand!
- Standing Twists