200 HOUR CERTIFIED
YOGA TEACHER TRAINING 2025
Learn from an experienced teaching team, the owners of Yoga Shala Sacramento
January 16 - April 27
with Annie Fox & Biffy Cotter
If you want to learn something deeply, learn to teach it. Immerse yourself into the practice of yoga, and have fun while learning the valuable wisdom of yoga. Whether or not you see yourself teaching yoga, this in-person program will help you live a more integrated and balanced life, while giving you tools to master your personal practice.
The Yoga Shala 200 Hour certified educational course is about wellness proficiency in mind-body-spirit, and development that acknowledges the whole self. This program will inspire your Spirit and strengthen your body and mind! Join us on this powerful journey into the heart of You.
Program Content:
Mind
Learn the power of the present moment awareness
Tame the monkey mind
Witness and practice mastering your thoughts
Guided meditations
Powerful affirmations
Inspiring reading written from the spiritual masters
Yoga philosophy, the sacred teachings and applying it to your modern life
Body
In-depth understanding and practice of yoga postures
Physical and energetic alignment and why that matters
Full Function and form of asana, how it works in the body
Sequencing, how you build an effective set of postures that feels good
Anatomy and physiology
Healing through yoga
Pranayama, learn how to breath and open the body through breathing practices
Learn how to relax, reset and recharge your body with knowledge of styles of yoga -yin, hatha, vinyasa
Develop your authentic healthy practice for your body type
Share and teach the practice with others. Know how to teach a classes from 10 min. to a full 1 hour class
Spirit
Energy Body, Chi, Meridians
Unblocking energy, getting energy flowing
Learn the Chakra System, how chakras relate to the emotions and organs, balance the chakras
Explore depths of the Heart and the Laws of the Universe
Strengthening and trusting your intuition
Development daily rituals and gratitude practices, journaling
Power of music, how to use music in a class, heart opening chants
The art of communication: learning how to share your voice, authentically, powerfully and directly
The art of "holding Space" and clear conscious boundaries
Becoming natural to silence, and the act of being
Practicing yoga and meditation in nature
Self exploration & Self inquiry
Diving into and exploring who you are and what you're made of. Through the practice of svadyaya (self study) we will explore core beliefs, mental & emotional filters (our lens of perception), what holds us back and liberates us.
Personal development
Why are we here? What do we want our legacy to be? What gives our life meaning? What is the vision for ourself and our life?
Yoga Shala Sacramento is a Certified School of Yoga through the Yoga Alliance
2025 Dates
January 16-19
January 30-February 2
February 20-23
March 6-9
March 20-23
April 3-6
April 24-47
Weekend Hours:
Thursdays & Fridays: 4:30-9pm
Saturday & Sunday 10am-4pm
Tuition:
Cash or Check $3395
Credit Card $3495
Early Bird Disount! save $250 with deposit by Dec 31,2024
GET YOUR SPOT Deposit $500
YES! Payment Plans Available: complete balance paid by 3/23/2025
Questions? email yogashalasac@gmail.com
Previous participants say:
“The program was authentic, holistic, filled with incredible information, the binder is amazing and surpassed any expectations that I had!”
“ The teachers exude warmth, humility and openness while sharing the knowledge they have gained.”
“Acceptance, love and safe place. Three different teachers and three different styles. Expansive knowledge taught with humor and humility. I was surprised by the in-depth personal awareness and mental workout.”
“I learned so much more than physical yoga.”
“I loved learning more about the postures and sequencing. I loved getting stronger and becoming more committed to my practice and seeing the positive effects of my more regular practice.”
“Inner peace - this process has opened my eyes, heart and soul to my deeper purpose and helped me balance so much of what was causing inner chaos. I was surprised by the absolute calmness and joy I have in my life now because of the training.”
“Immersive experience: the back to back days allowed me to fill up on the content, the 3 styles of instruction kept it interesting and balanced, the low pressure, respectful and warm environment gave me the freedom to try new things.”
“Felt like a retreat.”
Annie Fox
ERYT 200
Annie has worked in the healing arts her entire adult life. For the past 20 years, She has been working with clients supporting them on their healing journey and offering guidance and encouragement during life’s transitions and challenges. She is an intuitive healer, body worker and yoga teacher. She is the co-owner of Yoga Shala Sacramento and for over 10 years has been teaching yoga, workshops, leading yoga teacher trainings and Radical Retreats all over the world. Her work as a yoga teacher is to help foster a deeper relationship between the student and their bodymind. The body talks and holds infinite wisdom and refuge if we can learn to listen and trust its messages. She believes her role as the teacher is to hold space for that profound relationship to occur. She holds a bachelor’s degree in somatic psychology from Naropa University and has countless hours in yoga training, bodywork modalities, trauma therapy, reiki, cranial sacral therapy, somatic practices and in depth studies in spirituality of where the body and psyche meet. She is first and foremost a student and is dedicated to her own transformation and ongoing evolution. She is a mother to a beautiful soul, Gabriel, and has been absolutely inspired through the journey of motherhood.
Biffy Fox Cotter
ERYT 200
For over 2 decades Biffy has been on a spiritual journey that has led to an awakening. Her journey began with yoga. With this awakening she receives healing energy, visions and guidance from Spirit and Angels. Biffy is a certified yoga teacher and shamanic healer.
She began following the unknown path of Soul-led and Spirit-guided ways of life many years ago. Biffy says that the woman she is today was shaped by taking deep dives into teacher training. Whether you want to teach yoga or not, yoga teacher training will enhance your life!
Biffy has had many inspiring teachers along the way including Sharon Gannon, David Life, Jonas Westring, Thich Nhat Hanh, Jana Din, Joyti Ma, and her mom Carol Fox MFT, who has been leading groups for decades and helping families heal.
Biffy’s connection to Spirit is unique to her way of teaching yoga. She teaches classic hatha postures, meditations and breath work that opens energy channels to the universal field of energy.
Biffy is a shamanic healer seeing clients individually and offers drum circles and yoga retreats during auspicious times of the year.