200 hour registered yoga teacher training:
living & leading an aligned, authentic & accessible practice
Whether your intention is to become a yoga teacher or you feel called to deepen your understanding, knowledge, and relationship with the practice of yoga, please know this space welcomes you with open arms and open possibilities to all this path and practice can create for you.
Our aligned, authentic and accessible yoga teacher training offers the skillsets, frameworks and integrity of yoga all with the intention to best prepare our future leaders and teachers on how to show up and share space with love, tenderness, confidence and courageous truth with room & welcome for all.
Training begins in person on Saturday, September 23rd at 9am in Midland, MI
We will meet for 14 Saturdays in person from 9am - 5:30pm with a 30 minute break
and virtually on the first Wednesday of each month (October - March) from 6-8pm EST
Saturday training dates:
September 23rd
October 7th & 21st
November 4th & 18th
December 2nd & 16th
January 6th & 20th
February 3rd & 17th
March 2nd & 16th
March 30th Graduation
Wednesday training dates
virtually through zoom 6-8pm EST:
October 4th
November 1st
December 6th
January 3rd
February 7th
March 6th
All In person Yoga Teacher Training's will be held at Creative 360 in Midland, MI. We will begin our morning downtown at 144 Ashman (across from Proper Taco) and move to 5501 Jefferson Ave after meditation practice. All Yoga blocks, blankets, bolsters, and straps are provided, yet always encouraged for each student to bring their own if they so feel called.
space is led & created by keri kenney, trauma informed registered ERYT500, YACEP
Investment for training - we kindly ask to please consider where you land in proximity to resources, privilige and power when choosing which pricing option works best for you and your circumstances:
$2300 (community rate supported by peers)
$2700 (sustainer rate covers enrollment)
$3200 (supporter rate covers enrollment + supports peers)
*payment plans are possible through personal discretion and discernment - if a payment plan would be a benefit to you and the undertaking of this investment in your education, we can absolutely come up with a plan and clear conditions that are mutually supportive to our exchange - Payment plans must be discussed, agreed upon, and put into a written agreement signed by both student and Keri Kenney one week prior to the start date of the program.
$200 Registration Fee – due at time of acceptance into the program - this saves your space and seat and is applied to the total tuition investment owed.
All tuition is due one week in advance of teacher training start date payments can be made by check, cash and through venmo @keri-kenney-A8, Credit card payments are subject to an additional processing fee
*You will be contacted by email or phone call within two weeks of receiving your application to schedule an interview. Acceptance into the Teacher Training will be determined immediately following this interview. Your $200 registration fee is required upon acceptance to reserve your space. This deposit will be applied to tuition.
A limited number of students will be accepted to assure the quality and individual support of this program.
The intention of the Alignment 8 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training is to provide solid ground and integral support aligned to the full depth, scope and practice of all 8 limbs of yoga through an accessible and equitable lens. Our mission is to instill confidence, courage and connection to each of our students so they can lead, liberate and extend love in all that they share, offer and teach as lifelong students, teachers and leaders.
What we will be sharing, discussing, digesting and learning together during our 200 hour journey
all in alignment with Yoga Alliance's 200 Hour registration standards:
What is yoga?
The history of yoga
The 8 Limbed Path of Yoga
Yogic Science of Social Justice
What it means to be in alignment, authentic and accessible as a space holder and human
Asana: Vinyasa, Restorative, Hatha, Yin & Yoga Nidra
Pranayama: Ujjayi, Sama Vritti, Viloma I and II, Nadi Shodhana, kapalabhati
Pratyahara
Dharana
Dhyana
Samadhi
Drishti
Teaching Methodology/The service of teaching yoga
Chanting / Mantra / Mudras
Yoga props 101
anatomy and alignment of body
physiology of yoga
chakra system & trauma + grief
Dharma
Koshas + Kleshas
Samskaras
The business of Yoga
the intersections of inclusion & accessibility with our practice
The Framework for Space Holding
Rest and Resiliency practices
How to re imagine & dream
and so much more...
Yoga has provided me with ground and breath during moments when I could not find or feel either one. I am forever transformed and transpired by this practice of wholeness, fullness, connection and love. I have been given renewal and revision to what life is and can be by the grace of somehow, some way, this practice finding me.
Yet, I feel it is no accident.
When the student is ready,
the teacher has a way of presenting themselves.
For me,
that greatest teacher and revelation of the practice
was, is and forever will be,
ahimsa - compassion for myself & all living things
and satya - that which is, radical and reclaiming truth
these practices and principles
are what shaped me
and showed me,
where there is will
there is always a way.
On July 4th, 2013, I found my mom murdered by my father and was the succesor of initiating the chain of reactions that led to the police taking his. I found her lifeless and I found him soulless. That moment and the ripple of harmful reactions throughout my relationships, reality and world are what catalyzed me into a journey that led me heart and gut instinct first towards fullness, forgiveness and freedom - little did I know then, that was, is, and always will be, yoga.
Through acknowledging the wound,
somehow I found this way -
the Yogic way of holding our suffering tenderly and truthfully and reflecting that same compassion and honesty back into all the ways in which we get to cohabitat and experience our lives and world.
I am no stranger to the suffering and reality of our world and find it to be no accident that here we are, ready, willing and able to offer tools, testimony and transcendence of mud into emergence.
As a teacher of teachers, it is my utmost intention and responsibility to ensure we each are living into the frameworks, ethics, morality and Sacred ground that our practice so graciously offers us. Teachers who recognize the lineage, sacrifice and discipline of the practice and offer that same honesty and humility in all their teachings and spaces.
It is my mission to move our bodies with authenticity and awareness,
ignite our breath with both fullness and release,
and inspire leaders of liberation to ignite the way back to and towards samadhi.
yours in leadership,
yours in yoga,
yours in love,
keri kenney
Keri has taught me so many lessons in the six years I have known her, both as a leader and a friend. When I was new to Midland and fresh out of yoga teacher training in 2016, I was lucky to land in a 'yoga home' like Alignment 8 and it immediately felt like I was part of a family there, especially with Keri's welcoming energy. She put so much faith in me when I was just starting out, and has continued to be a source of support and encouragement as I've grown as a yoga teacher . Even as our life journeys began to take different paths, we've cheered each other on.
Her approach as a leader - and as a person -is with an intention (as I see it from my outside perspective) of uplifting those around her, fostering a sense of community and inclusion, and connecting to others through humility and compassion. She has managed the A8 team by treating us all as equals, and making sure we each felt seen and appreciated for our unique skills and experience.
She's never one to shy away from standing up for what she believes in, or speaking her truth about both the beauty and the messes of the human experience. She is bravely transparent in sharing her own inner work and "perfectly imperfect human"-ness (as she so often says), and she has taught me how to be more brave in having the difficult conversations, how to be more honest about how I'm feeling, and how to better flow through and grow through changes and challenges.
Keri's ability to own her story and process of healing from trauma is an inspiration to me personally, as well as surely countless others through her community outreach work and Circle of Hope groups. I have no doubt that the ripple effects of her positive impact on the local community will continue to grow far and wide to help make this world a better place.”
- Sarah Nelson (she/her)
E-RYT200 Yoga teacher, specializing in Forrest Yoga
