1,000-Hour JOY CERTIFICATION

Overview

In our JOY 200-Hour Training, students are provided core competencies to be safe and effective yoga instructors.

In our JOY 300-Hour Training, JOY students become effective, inspiring teachers through learning how to weave their unique understanding of the practice of yoga into dynamic and transformational classes and workshops, culminating in 500 hours of training.

The JOY 1,000-Hour Training is for those 500-hour certified who want to work with Jennifer and a select group of colleagues in a concentrated way to 1) build their own curriculum, 2) refine a specific career path, 3) meaningfully contribute to underserved populations, and/or 4) craft their professional future.

The landscape of yoga and mind-body practices continues to evolve as the world faces a plethora of challenges. There is the need for courses, programs, and trainings that integrate a variety of mind-body, evidence-based practices into peoples’ daily lives so that we can all contribute to creating a culture of well-being. You have something important to offer.

How It Works

This program consists of 500 hours of required curriculum.
This program provides direct mentorship in inspired leadership and service, course and training creation, and execution. Depending upon you, this may involve honing and expanding your skills on the mat, writing course content, creating videos, developing curriculum, making your work available on social media, and/or interfacing with business, education, and non-profits.
If you are accepted into this program, you will work with Jennifer and a small group of colleagues (limited to 20) to develop your skills.
The 1,000-Hour program is open to 20 students per year.
1,000-Hour students are eligible for 20% off contract memberships. Exclusions apply.
While additional hours after the 500-Hour are not yet recognized by Yoga Alliance, this program will transform your teaching practice.

Registration Requirements & Application

Must have a 500-Hour Yoga Teacher Training certification.
Must be at least 21 years of age.
Must be teaching a class at least once a week.
Apply and gain acceptance in the JOY of Yoga 1,000-Hour program.
Pay a $300 non-refundable registration fee upon acceptance.

Required Courses

Those completing the JOY 1,000-Hour will have completed:

All of the 300-Hour Core Curriculum (applicable to those coming from outside the JOY program)
Any of our JOY 300-Hour electives
The JOY MAP program (consisting of four meditation courses)
The 200-Hour Qigong Training (Foundations of Daoist Yoga and Foundations of Qigong)
Participation in 1 of Jennifer Prugh’s retreats created by Breathe Together Yoga to a country where yoga was originally practiced: India, Bali, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and Japan. One retreat will apply. A one week retreat to the described destination is worth 45 Hours; a two week retreat is worth 90 Hours.
All courses and workshops with Jennifer Prugh (excluding weekly classes) will count towards your 1,000 hours.

Graduation Requirements

You will create a program that you will deliver to a group of students. Together we’ll create your individualized plan. It may be a workshop series, training, retreat, or extended workshop. You will submit the outline for the course and the feedback from your students.

Investment

$300 non-refundable fee upon registering.
Elective courses are paid separately, giving you the ability to work at a pace that suits their individual schedule and resources.

Breathe Together Yoga and the JOY of Yoga School of Integrative Learning is known for its commitment to a variety of expressions of yoga and mind-body practices, based on the understanding that we are both part of the great web of creation, and each diverse ecosystems in and of ourselves.

As we learn to take care of ourselves in ways that are unique to each of us, the greater contribution we can make to others. In fact, within the context of the practice, we can recognize ourselves in the other. It is this recognition that inspires our desire to contribute to our world. We recognize that yoga is not mat-centered, but exists at the center of every aspect of our lives. We feel motivated to support our students and clients in living life itself as a practice, in exploring their potential, in being useful to the world around them, and in having the refuge of daily practice in which to return.

Every teacher has a unique lens through which they view the practice. Each one of us has so much potential. The JOY 1000-hour program supports you to create programs, trainings, and course content of your own that utilizes the vast landscape of mind-body practices to benefit others in your own unique way. While this might mean being a full-time yoga teacher, it can also mean integrating your understanding of the practice into an already existing career.

In the language of yoga, this program is about living your dharma.

“Engaged practice” in the context of yoga, is the intention to skillfully apply the values and teachings of yoga to the world’s contemporary challenges, motivated by concern for others’ welfare, and as an expression of one’s own mind-body and breath-based practice. The JOY 1000-hour program focuses on how to make a meaningful contribution as an educator and a leader, whatever our individual circumstances may be and wherever our interests may lie.

For questions, contact JOY@BreatheTogetherYoga.com. To apply, submit an application here.