Are you interested in inclusive yoga teacher training but worried that you are too old, plus-size, inflexible, inexperienced, disabled or living with too many health challenges to become a yoga teacher?
Bertena understands that fear because she was once told that she was too sick to complete yoga teacher training.
In this heartfelt episode of The Spiritual Sanctuary: Wisdom for the Divine Feminine, Bertena shares her personal yoga journey, the pain of being excluded from her first yoga teacher training opportunity and how she found another teacher and another path. She explains how that experience eventually inspired her to create Rose Temple Yoga School and its 200-Hour Inclusive Yoga Teacher Training.
This episode explores why yoga and yoga teacher training must become more welcoming to older adults, people in larger bodies, beginners, people with disabilities or limited mobility, and those living with chronic illness.
Bertena discusses the difference between adapting yoga to support the individual and forcing the individual to fit a narrow image of yoga. She shares why accessible yoga is not “lesser” yoga and why using a chair, wall, bolster, blanket or bed can be a respected part of the practice.
You will also learn about:
- Bertena’s experience of being told she was too sick for yoga teacher training
- How she completed her 200-hour training while teaching college
- Why representation matters in yoga
- Inclusive, accessible and trauma-aware yoga teaching
- Gentle yoga, chair yoga, restorative yoga and Yin yoga
- Somatic movement, meditation and Yoga Nidra
- Yoga teacher training for older adults and changing bodies
- Yoga for people with chronic illness or limited mobility
- Rose Temple Yoga School’s professional teaching pathway
- The personal and spiritual enrichment pathway
- In-person and hybrid Zoom training options
- How to request information about the 2027 program
Rose Temple Yoga School believes that you do not have to be young, thin, athletic or exceptionally flexible to practice yoga or become a meaningful yoga teacher.
The inaugural Rose Temple 200-Hour Inclusive Yoga Teacher Training begins in January 2027. Students may participate in person at Cosmic Connections in Nashville or through the hybrid Zoom option when they cannot attend every session in person. Some live Zoom lectures and gatherings are required for all students.
Early-enrollment tuition is $2,500 through November 30, 2026. Tuition increases to $3,000 beginning December 1. A $250 nonrefundable deposit reserves your place and is applied toward tuition. Payment plans are available.
Books, supplies, yoga props, travel and lodging are not included.
Learn more and request information about the Rose Temple 200-Hour Inclusive Yoga Teacher Training:
https://www.bertena.org/en/yoga-teacher-training
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https://www.bertena.org/en
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