The Heart of Practice:
Practical tools for the mystical teacher, mystical insights for the practical teacher
Choose your path: Begin with the Yin Immersion in August 2025, or with the Vinyasa Immersion in January 2026
A Training with Soul and Scope
As teachers, we are always students. We always feel the quiet pull toward something deeper: more clarity, more connection, more meaning in the way we offer our teaching.
The Heart of Practice is a 300-hour Advanced Training for teachers ready to move beyond surface-level instruction—toward confident leadership that reflects your lived experience and values, so that the way you teach feels honest, informed, and true to the heart of yoga.
In this program, you’ll explore the full arc of yoga: deeper philosophy and meditation, subtle body awareness, applied anatomy, advanced sequencing, cueing, and inclusive teaching. Your 300-hour Teaching Certification will also include a 65-hour Yin Yoga Teaching Certification. Every part of the curriculum is designed to support your voice, your insight, and your ability to teach others with depth and care. Study the full wisdom of yoga while redefining what it means to be a teacher in the modern world.
You’ll be guided by a faculty of deeply experienced and respected teachers, including Suzanna Spring (E-RYT500, YACEP, Dragonfly Yoga Studio Owner), Laurie Johnson Gallagher (E-RYT500, author of the books Asana and Mindful Sequencing, YACEP), Samantha Okumura (E-RYT500, YACEP), Winter Brown (E-RYT800, PRYT, YACEP), and acclaimed guest instructors.
Two Ways to Begin – Either path leads to your 300-hour Yoga Teaching Certification
OPTION ONE:
OPTION 2: Start in January 2026 with a leap into the Vinyasa Teacher’s Deep Dive led by Laurie Gallagher and team as your first module – a journey that builds progressively, and finish with the grounded calm of the Yin Yoga Immersion that will offered again with Suzanna Spring in Fall 2026.
65-Hour Yin Yoga Immersion & Certification
with Instructor Suzanna Spring, E-RYT 500, YACEPExplore the origins and concepts of Yin: a practice that targets joints, fascia and connective tissues to stimulate the flow of Qi, improve flexibility, maintain healthy joints, and cultivate mindfulness. This immersion includes experiential anatomy, breathwork, and meditation in a space where time slows and you can explore a deeper sense of yourself.What You’ll Learn:● Traditional Chinese Medicine Five Elements system
● Organ pairs and their emotional qualities
● Meridians and the subtle body
● Intelligent sequencing and prop usage
● Yin qualities of stillness, receptivity, and acceptance
Weekends Program – Saturdays 12:00-6:00pm, Sundays 12:45-4:45pm● August 9/10, 30/31● September 6/7, 20/21● October 18/19
● November 1/2
● Includes a Yin Yoga/Sound Bath session
The Vinyasa Teacher’s Deep Dive
Sundays 12:45 – 4:45 PM
This program guides teachers through a clear path from training to mastery:
Illuminate: Understand and absorb the core principles and methods of a truly embodied practice.Integrate: Teach with confidence and clarity, drawing from your knowledge and experience.Innovate & Inspire: Develop your own signature method and business plan and your personal, embodied wisdom.Illuminate (3 weekends)
January 9/10/11, January 30/31/February 1,
● Deepen your understanding of yoga’s history, context, and core teachings● Pranayama. Learn to confidently teach the primary methods of breath work, an essential wellness practice and the fourth limb of yoga in the Yoga Sutra.● Applied anatomy. Explore the full function, action, and intention of each posture and asana family.● Deeper peak pose sequencing and clear teaching language
● Recognize unconscious teaching habits and repeat phrases, refine your teaching
Integrate (3 weekends)
How to practice● Yoga Sutras deep dive. Internal practice, and the path to self-realization
● Physiology, bio-mechanics and functional movement – teaching techniques that make all classes inclusive classes
● Meditation. Explore ancient and modern meditation methods, and the benefits of developing a regular practice.
● Sequencing techniques that create healthy movement patterns
● Develop your own poetic language, the concept of bhava, and inquiry-based teaching
A bigger picture● The Upanishads: non-dual philosophy and the nature of Self
SI Joints, Ilio-psoas, QL.● The rise of modern postural yoga, and ethical considerations for yoga teachersInspire (3 weekends)
July17/ 18/19, August 7/8/9 & August 28/29/30
Walking your own true path as a practical mystic
● Bhagavad Gita: action, devotion and your personal dharma
● Creating a sustainable yoga teaching career path. Define your teaching ethos/ determine your specialty, build a business plan● Best practices for stress relief through yoga and Yoga Nidra
● Therapeutic considerations for asana and trauma informed teaching practices
● Teaching special populations, private instruction, further exploration of class levels
Our 300-hour Program includes: 8 required public classes, mentorship, readings & homework
Tuition Overview
If beginning in August 2025 (Yin + Vinyasa)
$4,995 after
non-refundable and non-transferable.
Our Cancellation Policy
Once registered, if you cancel before 90 days prior to the start of the training, the amount you have paid minus a $500 processing fee will be refunded. Once registered, if you cancel between 90 and 60 days prior to the start of the training, 60% of the training fee will be refunded. If you cancel between 59 and 30 days prior to start of the training, 40% of the training fee will be refunded. If you cancel within 30 days of the training, no money will be refunded.
Studio Cancellation Policy: In the event that Dragonfly Yoga + Wellness cancels the training for any reason, students who have paid their deposit or paid the entire enrollment fee will receive a full refund, or can apply their deposit or entire enrollment fee to a future training.