200-hr Teacher Training
Looking to deepen your knowledge of yoga? Or share the benefits?
The practice of yoga can be life changing, it has been for our faculty and our teachers. This is real reason that most people join a yoga teacher training program.
Westchester Yoga’s program is an upleveled Yoga Alliance registered program with a commitment to being inclusive, diverse and of service to humanity.
Learn the alignment, physiology and philosophy behind the asanas (yoga poses). Find your inner power, become empowered to lead, teach and share the practice.
START YOUR JOURNEY TODAY
Find out how to become a yoga teacher from the comfort of your own home. WYoga’s virtual program has strived to provide a rich curriculum with a personal connection with your classmates and teachers. Our online yoga teacher certifications provides students who want to deepen their practice and learn to teach yoga confidently.
If you’re looking to become a yoga teacher, look no further. The process is simple:
Click on the link below, register and log in. If you have any questions about the pricing of the packages, potential scholarships and grants email admin@westchesteryogaarts.com.
Once you are logged in, you have access to all of the materials and access (personal access) to a team of teachers and mentors available 7 days a week.
Read the introduction packet. Many like to print it up, it makes it easier to follow the steps and track your own progress. Move through the content at your own pace. Unless you have a discounted deal which has an expiration date for access to the content.
The zoom classes are held sequentially, twice per month starting at Module 1 to the end. You have access to a mentor and equally the direct contact information for the the lead teachers for any questions you may have, you can even meet up in person locally for coffee.
OPTIONS FOR THE TRAINING
Fully IN PERSON in New York, Westchester and Rockland County. $3200 with a 4-part payment plan, access to all the online content is included for 12months. In person sessions happen 2x per month usually on a Sunday 8.30am to 5.30pm. The course lasts 6months the next cohort starts February 2024. One afternoon per month is in Rockland County, the other sessions are in Westchester, NY.
Hybrid 3 full days in Person in NY, calls once per month for 12months, online videos sessions and quizzes. $1500 with a 3-part payment plan, access to all the online content is included for 12months.
Hybrid 3 full days in JAMAICA 2024 included are calls once per month for 12months, online videos sessions and quizzes. (see the tab for the Yoga Retreats for the pricing depends on the housing but the training itself in Jamaica is $2,000 excluding the lodging,
$500 if you sign up October 2023
$250 off if you sign up November 2023 and
$150 off if you sign up December 2023
Westchester Yoga’s focus is on our students and that they graduate fully confident teachers. We strive to offer the best quality online AND in-person training. For the online students there is a supportive community of peers and teachers, available to you.
WHY CHOSE WYOGA TEACHER TRAINING?
WYoga’s focus is YOU the student. We offer authentic, accessible, and affordable yoga teacher training both in-person, virtually or a hybrid version. All of our one-on-one virtual, telephone sessions with the lead teacher, the mentors are included in the price of the training.
We have seen our yoga teacher training transform lives, create leaders and healers who change the world on a daily basis one yoga class at a time. Some of the best yoga teachers in Westchester NY graduated from our program.
We teach in an integrated way when we teach physiology we do so WITH the asana alignment AND philosophy. Instead of compartmentalizing we have found that teaching e.g. the standing poses while explaining the chakras that are associated with them, and how to teach safely with the joints and muscles TOGETHER the trainees remember more.
WYoga is developing it’s online offering with our youtube channel. Perhaps you can help us level up our digital offerings? The program is a grassroots movement and was created by Wendy, our owner. She created all of this without having any professional experience in media production. She’s proud of what she created knowing fully well that is can be better. If partnering with Wendy to continue to offer and improve content email her wendywyoga@gmail.com
We have free content on youtube and on Instagram!
Curriculum
History
Yoga is many millenia young… learn the main lineages in the West where they come from and equally the timeline of the ancient texts that are the foundation of yoga.
Philosophy & Science
Understanding yogic philosophy is one thing, but making it applicable to the our daily lives is what makes it truly transformative. Our program seeks to make these texts meaningful and miraculous in our daily lives.
WYoga’s trainings all have a Trauma informed component, how to teach Trauma informed Yoga. What Trauma is, what it does to the mind and how we can teach with this awareness for the safety of our students.
Postures
Learn the alignment of the basic postures (we tackle the advanced asanas in the RYT300) and how to teach, keeping the student safe and enthusiastic about yoga. Our program gives you a class plan, so that you are ready to go and teach even before you graduate.
Anatomy
Understanding the systems of the body, how the skeletal system works in tandem with the muscles, ligaments and joints - is key to being a good yoga teacher. Our program overlaps the chakras with the systems of the body, with the asanas for an integrative holistic learning experience.
Sequencing
In our lineage the order of the class has a specific role, it is in the order of the chakras… beyond that understanding how to teach one pose to the next so that it flows seamlessly and prepares the body for the next set of poses is a key part our training. For advanced sequencing join our RYT300 program
Pranayama and Meditation
Breath practice and Meditation are essential elements to the yoga practionner and teacher. Our RYT200 program teaches how to instruct pranayama and its importance merged with recent research. Learn how mediation can actually shape our genes… this is the introductory level. We delve deeper into this in the RYT300.
Travel with us and Get your Yoga Teacher Certification Wendywyoga@gmail.com
Our Training includes Virtual, Livestream AND in Person Sessions
Spend 5 days, 4 nights in a Gorgeous Property in near Montego Bay, Jamaica or in Portugal.
12 Months to Complete all the Course Criteria
Each instructor brings their own expertise and perspective
Wendy
Is the lead trainer, ERYT200, ERYT500 - she created both the RYT200 and RYT300 Curriculum
Wendy Vigroux is a multifaceted entrepreneur whose professional life started in finance. Proud UPenn grad, she’s bilingual in English and French, trilingual if you include Jamaican Patois. She earned two master’s degrees and MBA and in Contemporary Art History. Wendy has the highest designation given by Yoga Alliance ERYT500. She is currently hosting Yoga Retreats, teaching across Westchester and Rockland County NY and is the lead faculty of WYoga’s RYT200. She is currently writing an irreverent, but easily understandable book on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
Born and raised in Jamaica W.I. Wendy now lives in Westchester NY, where her Dad grew up and also owns a Yoga School, certifying students to become yoga teachers. She passionately believes that yoga and yoga teacher training is to be equitable and accessible.
Wendy loves to read, paint, cook, spend time with her loved ones including her fur baby, enjoy the cultural offering in NYC, she is a lifelong learner and is taking up learning new languages.
Read this interview with Wendy!
ttps://www.mysticmag.com/psychic-reading/interview-wendyvigroux/
Liza
Co-teaches the virtual and online version of the RYT200
Samantha
Co-teaches the in-person Yoga teacher Training in Westchester NY
Katie
Katie is a multifaceted entrepreneur whose business endeavors include teacher, author, and fine jewelry designer. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education from SUNY New Paltz and a Master’s in Education, with concentrations in special education and literacy from Mount Saint Mary College. Last year, Katie completed her 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training at Stone Wave Yoga. She is currently deepening her personal and professional mindfulness practices by becoming a fully-certified teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction through the Mindfulness Center at Brown University.
Raised in Ellenville, Katie now lives in Piermont, New York and owns a mindfulness studio, Peace in Piermont (PiP). At PiP, Katie teaches children, adults, and families ways of de-stressing and living in the present moment. After noticing the impact of her teachings and feeling inspired to share them with a broader audience, Katie began creating a book series with her dear friend, Sara Martin. The Give Your Brain A Bath Book series aims to teach readers both the importance of practicing self-care and various methods of doing so to increase self-awareness and one’s ability to self-regulate. So far, she’s published three books: Let’s Sit Down and Meditate, How Yoga Saved Christmas, and Let’s Have an Attitude of Gratitude.
Katie is actively working to make self-care more accessible by expanding her books into a television series and by developing an elementary-based curriculum. In her spare time, Katie enjoys reading, catching up with friends, going for walks with her pup, Marshmallow, and traveling with her family!
