Program Overview
The Study of Yoga
Yoga can help you build strength, move with more awareness, and pay closer attention to how breath and movement work together. Yoga teacher training focuses on understanding the practice as a whole, including its history, traditions, and the basics of guiding others.
Parker’s 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certificate combines yoga study with anatomy, physiology, and movement education from a health sciences university. You’ll learn more about how the body moves during yoga while beginning to plan, cue, and lead instruction.
- Degree Level
- 200-Hour Yoga Teaching Certificate
- Duration
- 15 Weeks
- Location
- Dallas, Texas
- Format
- Hybrid
Program Overview
The Study of Yoga
Yoga can help you build strength, move with more awareness, and pay closer attention to how breath and movement work together. Yoga teacher training focuses on understanding the practice as a whole, including its history, traditions, and the basics of guiding others.
Parker’s 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certificate combines yoga study with anatomy, physiology, and movement education from a health sciences university. You’ll learn more about how the body moves during yoga while beginning to plan, cue, and lead instruction.
- Degree Level
- 200-Hour Yoga Teaching Certificate
- Duration
- 15 Weeks
- Location
- Dallas, Texas
- Format
- Hybrid
Program Highlights
Why Parker?
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Yoga Tradition & Philosophy
Connect your training to traditional yoga through Parker’s partnership with S-VYASA University in Bengaluru, India.
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Health Sciences Foundation
Study anatomy, physiology, and movement to better understand the body behind the practice.
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Flexible Hybrid Training
Complete online coursework between five in-person weekend intensives on Parker’s Dallas campus throughout the 15-week program.
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Yoga for Any Body
Develop a more thoughtful approach to guiding different bodies, abilities, and levels of experience.
Your Goals
Who Is Yoga Teacher Training For?
Students come to yoga teacher training with different goals, and they often overlap. Your reason may be personal, professional, or somewhere in between.
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Deepen Your Practice
Learn more about yoga’s traditions, philosophy, movement, breath, and how your body moves throughout practice.
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Complement Your Work
Apply what you learn across healthcare, fitness, wellness, education, and related fields to complement your current work.
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Begin to Teach
Develop skills in planning, cueing, and leading yoga instruction as you begin shaping your own teaching approach.
S-VYASA University Partnership
Know the Practice Behind the Poses
Parker’s ongoing partnership with S-VYASA University in Bangalore, India, brings direct input from an Indian university focused on yoga education into the 200-hour program, giving students meaningful context for yoga’s history and development. S-VYASA helps shape Parker’s coverage of yoga history, philosophy, and traditional teachings and reviews the curriculum for accuracy and authenticity.
Curriculum
What You’ll Learn
Strengthen your knowledge of yoga and the human body while developing the skills behind thoughtful instruction.
Yoga Tradition & Philosophy
History, philosophy, ethics, and meditation provide context for the ideas and traditions that have shaped yoga over time.
Movement
The physical side of the curriculum focuses on poses, breathing techniques, and the relationship between movement and breath throughout a yoga session.
Anatomy and Physiology
Anatomy and physiology connect the study of the body with how it moves during yoga.
Teaching Methodology
Class planning, cueing, sequencing, and inclusive instruction prepare you to organize and lead a yoga class.
Professional Preparation
The business side of teaching includes mission development, business planning, and expectations for working as an instructor.
Inclusive Teaching
Yoga for Any Body
Mobility, strength, age, and experience can all affect how a pose feels and how instruction is approached.
Parker brings anatomy, physiology, and movement education into yoga teacher training to help you recognize how bodies can move differently through practice. Greater familiarity with the human body can inform more thoughtful choices around alignment, modifications, pacing, and cueing.
Meet Program Director
About Sheri Cherokee
Sheri’s training spans Traditional Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Meditation, Pranayama, Ayurveda, Yoga Therapy, and other complementary wellness disciplines. As Program Director, she brings that background to Parker’s 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training program.
Her approach centers on authentic yoga education that supports personal growth and prepares students who may choose to teach.
- 50+ YearsPracticing and Teaching Yoga
- 20 YearsLeading yoga teaching training programs
- 3 CountriesTeaching across the U.S., Mexico, and India
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SACSCOC Accreditation
Parker University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) to award associate, baccalaureate, masters, and doctorate degrees. Parker University also may offer credentials such as certificates and diplomas at approved degree levels. Questions about the accreditation of Parker University may be directed in writing to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033-4097, by calling (404) 679-4500, or by using information available on SACSCOC’s website (www.sacscoc.org).
Yoga Teacher Training FAQs
What is a 200-hour yoga teacher training program?
A 200-hour yoga teacher training program provides structured education in yoga practice, philosophy, movement, anatomy, teaching methodology, and professional preparation. Parker’s program leads to a 200-Hour Yoga Teaching Certificate.
Do I need yoga experience before enrolling?
No previous yoga experience is required. Parker’s program begins with core concepts in yoga, its traditions, and its practice before moving further into the curriculum.
Do I have to want to become a yoga teacher?
No. Some students pursue yoga teacher training to prepare for instruction, while others want to deepen their own practice or apply what they learn in their current work.
How is Parker’s 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training structured?
The 15-week program uses a hybrid format with online coursework and five in-person weekend intensives on Parker University’s Dallas campus.
Why complete yoga teacher training at a health sciences university?
At Parker, yoga teacher training includes anatomy, physiology, and movement education within a health sciences setting, adding a body-focused perspective to traditional yoga study.
