Level 2 Yoga Teacher Training (50hrs)
Interested in our 2025 Level 2 Teacher Training? Please register your interest below and we will be in contact.
Picture yourself leading a yoga class after completing our Level 2 Yoga Teacher Training. You confidently guide students through a wide range of poses with clarity, supporting their unique journey and abilities, while experiencing a sense of fulfilment and accomplishment of your own yogic path.
- Empowered in your own self enquiry and ongoing learning
- A new extended knowledge of anatomy and asana modifications
- The ability to adapt sequences to suit varying abilities and bodies
- Capable of creating a safe and inclusive space for students to explore their practice
- An authentic embodied understanding of the 8 Limbs of Yoga.
This is our aim with the Level Two 50-Hour Teacher Training Module-to nurture the teacher and student exchange and relationship, where you both can realise the true power and transformation that a yoga practice and lifestyle can bring both on and off the mat.
Embark on a transformative journey, where we celebrate progress over perfection. A programme developed by the highly experienced Chai Deva, with over 30 years of yoga experience.
Why Upgrade Your Training?
In this training, you’ll dive deeper into more complex and nuanced poses, exploring their intricacies and benefits. But it’s not just about the poses.
It’s about understanding the unique bodies in front of you. Every student is different, and their skeletal structures and stage of life play a crucial role in what they can and want to achieve on the mat.
The Journey of Understanding
Through the training, you’ll learn to assess and understand these individual variations. Developing the assessment skills to determine what makes a pose accessible or challenging for each person. Using this knowledge to offer personalised guidance, making your classes more inclusive and supportive.
Confidence in Every Pose
One of the most powerful aspects of this training is learning to teach poses you might not be able to do yourself. We’ll equip you with techniques to effectively demonstrate and cue the poses, using props, demonstrations, and clear, confident instruction. This way, you can lead with more authority and inspire confidence, even if your personal practice is still evolving.
Teaching Beyond the Mat
Our comprehensive module includes hands-on practice and constructive feedback, ensuring you feel supported and confident in your new skills. You’ll practice teaching sequences, making real-time adjustments, and offering modifications to meet your students where they are. This will empower you to guide students safely and authentically, fostering a supportive environment where everyone can flourish at their own pace.
Expanding Your Reach
By upgrading your training, you’re not just enhancing your own practice; you’re expanding your reach as a teacher. You’ll be able to cater to a broader group of students, from those just beginning their journey, to those ready to explore more complicated postures. Your ability to offer nuanced, personalised guidance will help to set you apart and deepen the impact of your teaching.
Join Us
Join us in this journey of growth and discovery, where we prioritise your growth as both a practitioner and a teacher. Our Level Two 50-Hour Teacher Training Module is designed to elevate your teaching, expand your knowledge, and empower you to inspire more students. Together, we’ll unlock new potential, both in yourself and in those you guide.
This programme is certified by both Yoga New Zealand & Yoga Alliance International, our course offers a rigorous and comprehensive curriculum that will challenge you to unlock your full potential. But it's not just about personal growth - this program is also about inspiring others. For those wishing to gain their certificate for future teaching, an extra five hours of practical teaching work will be required by you to complete the training, we provide a log book to support this process document this evidence.
UPCOMING DATES: 27 September - 1 October 2024
What's involved
You will grow your kete of knowledge and leave the course feeling confident to teach. At Kindred, we thrive on continuously supporting you on your yoga journey. For students living in Nelson, we offer the opportunity to lead a koha class and provide mentorship.
Cultivate your ability to become an inspiring and skilled teacher. It will also deepen your practice. Connect with like-minded people walking the same path and deepen your knowledge of anatomy and physiology, the history and philosophy of Yin yoga and, ultimately, yourself.
The prerequisites to attend this course are; either, you have completed 200hrs yoga teacher training, or are an experienced yoga teacher. If you have no experience, but are interested, please email [email protected] to arrange an interview with Chai. Participants from all over New Zealand are invited – with cheap flights from Auckland and Wellington (and an easy drive from Christchurch), making sunny Nelson more accessible than ever before.
What you will learn
- Introduction to Level Two Poses:
- Overview of level two poses and their benefits.
- Importance of understanding individual anatomical variations.
- Assessing Skeletal Structure:
- How skeletal structure affects pose performance.
- Common skeletal limitations (e.g., hip joint variations, spine curvature).
- Tools and techniques for assessing students’ skeletal structures.
- Adaptations and Modifications:
- Adapting poses for different skeletal structures.
- Use of props and modifications to make poses accessible.
- Teaching Level 2 Poses:
- Detailed instructions and cues for level two poses.
- How to sequence poses for a balanced practice.
- Safely guiding students into and out of poses.
- Teaching Poses You Can't Perform:
- Techniques for demonstrating poses using students or props.
- Building confidence and knowledge to teach advanced poses.
- Strategies for effective verbal cues and hands-on adjustments.
- Practice and Feedback:
- Incorporating practice teaching sessions.
- Providing constructive feedback and encouragement.
- Encouraging self-assessment and peer assessment.
A typical day for you will include:
From 7:00 am to 6:30 pm each day, the course is a life-changing opportunity to completely immerse yourself in daily yoga practice.
- To begin - Meditation & Pranayama - creating a foundation that will support your yoga practice and explore yourself in daily life.
- Asana practice - to open and warm the body.
- A shared breakfast (provided)
- A theory session each morning when the brain is at its best.
- Practical / Physical / Practicum Group Work
- Practice Class - Archetype of the day
- Concluding the day with Nididhyaasa (intergration), using one or a combination of Mantra, Chanting, Meditation & Pranayama, Yoga Nidra, Circle Work, Journaling (the introspective practice of digesting information & experience) integrating the learnings from the sessions, leaving you relaxed yet curious.
There are breaks throughout each day, giving you space to eat, reflect and explore. Breakfast is included. Please provide your own lunch and dinner.
Venue
Dates and price
27TH SEPTEMBER TO 1ST OCTOBER 2024
Previous Teacher Trainees
(10% discount)
$1080 - Early bird special
$1350 - After 13 Sept
Early-bird
$1200 - purchased before 13 September
Full price
$1500 - purchased after 13 September
A non-refundable deposit of $200 upon booking with full payment due 12 September 2024 to confirm your place and the super/early-bird rates. *Payment options are available on request.
If you would like to avoid the credit card fees, then register as unpaid and contact us and we will send through the account details for internet banking.
Hear From Those Who Have Experienced It
"I loved every minute of my 200 hr Yoga teacher training at Kindred studio in Nelson. The course content is varied and comprehensive. Chai's depth of knowledge, insight and congruent engagement allowed for a deep connection to learning the eight limbs of yoga, the asanas, anatomy, and myself. It is easy to be inspired by Chai's enthusiasm.
Learn how Hafsa followed her intuition, cured her hormonal imbalance through yoga and created a full-time yoga and wellness career.
Before completing Kindred's 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, she describes her mindset as hopeless and her life felt disastrous. Now she feels in tune with her higher self. She quit her corporate job and now runs a successful wellness business in Auckland.
Hafsa Wilson
Certified Yoga Teacher, Personal Trainer & REIKI Master
Chai is an inspiring and dedicated yoga teacher. He has an amazing knowledge of anatomy and how each person can relate to yoga. He manages to motivate and entertain, and his classes are full of laughter. As well as laughter and knowledge, he has amazing energy and can induce a sense of calm and relaxation that leaves you floating away from a yoga class. One of the best yoga teachers that I have ever met in over 10 years of practice.
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The best journeys in life are full of new and exciting things, not all are what we expect, and some outright take us by surprise and teach us so much.
2021 was the year I finally completed my level 1 yoga teacher training. It had been a while in the planning. Many emails and calls traded with Chai helped me decide on Chai and the Kindred studio as the right place to embark on my journey further into Yoga.
The journey is the right word. The course was so well put together that it challenged me on so many levels to work on my personal yoga practise, teaching skills, yogic knowledge and understanding, breath, body and skeletal components, to name a few.
Chai created a supportive, caring environment from which deep learning evolved. Looking inward and outward, getting uncomfortable to develop as a person, was all part of this carefully planned and executed emersion over 17 days spent together in our group. Kindred teachers guide from the heart, with a sense of fun. I recommend this training to all still considering where and who to trust as you embark on this powerful learning and personal growth.
Chai is an amazing mentor, deeply passionate and knowledgeable about yoga, the body and mind, and everything related. His credibility and depth kept me in the room and focused.
There's are saying that goes, "you can only give to others when your cup is not only full but overflowing." This is something a 2019 Kindred Yoga Teacher graduate learnt the hard way. Meet Susze, who rebuilt a life overflowing with compassion from her darkest moments of depression.
Susze
Certified Yoga Instructor and Mindfulness Facilitator
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MEET YOUR TEACHER
Kindred Co-FOUNDER
Chai
Kindred Studio Co-Founder
Evolve Festival Co-Director
E RYT 500, YACEP, Dip Therapeutic Massage
Chai developed the course based on over 30 years of intensive endeavour that led him worldwide to study with numerous enlightened teachers and thousands of teaching hours.
Chai describes his "purpose in life is to be a guide for internal connection. The word teacher doesn’t resonate with me. I work as a conduit to help others discover who they are. I intend to speak from the heart. I trust the knowledge that has come before me to present itself through me at the right moment. I allow myself to be receptive and surprised by what is revealed for me to share with my students.
I teach from my embodied deep understanding and experience. My teaching style is particular and sensitive to the group I speak to at any specific time. I clear my mind and tune in to see what comes through."
General FAQs
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