tools for today’s teachers : 60 hr advanced training


Take your teaching to the next level with a 4 weekend intensive training lead by Jason Orrell and Julie Dohrman. Open to teachers of all experience levels and anyone with at least a 200-hour certification, this continuing education program will help you bring greater intentionality, creativity and sensitivity to your teaching in today’s yoga landscape. Apply modern biomechanics to your practice and teaching of asana, inspire students with illuminating, accessible sequencing, learn to work with common back issues, and study yoga’s wisdom tradition and its lessons for teaching in service of a more just world.

In this program you will:

  • Refine your understanding of asana through a biomechanical/kinesiological approach

  • Learn advanced sequencing strategies that infuse your classes with intention, address anatomical themes, and provide variations for success in all bodies

  • Learn the basics of yoga for spine health including yoga for herniation, scoliosis and osteoporosis, making your teaching more accessible

  • Expand your understanding of yoga’s ethical tradition and apply these principles to your role as a teacher in today’s world

  • Elevate your creativity through theme building and weaving, use of metaphor, and clarity of cues and instructions

  • Explore a deepening meditation practice and learn simple techniques to teach in your classes

  • Gain feedback from mentors and peers to refine your voice as a teacher

  • Redefine your goals as a teacher and your how you aim to serve in the modern yoga landscape.

Training Overview:

Weekend 1: Introduction & Biomechanics Intensive

Move beyond basic alignment instruction to deeper biomechanical principles as they function in the major asana categories. Develop a more nuanced understanding of the asanas in your body and begin to teach from this understanding.

Weekend 2: Sequencing Lab & Meditation

Infuse your embodied understanding of asana into intentional sequences that create real moments of learning for your students. Learn to prepare postures progressively and offer meaningful variations to a broader spectrum of bodies. Explore the philosophical foundations of meditation and learn accessible, effective practices that guide students to the sublime quiet of themselves.

Weekend 3: Yoga for Spine Health and Educating to Inspire

Up to 80% of Americans will experience back pain in their life, and yoga is the most commonly recommended exercise for patients with back issues. Expand the population you serve and create value for your students by learning basic principles of yoga for common back conditions including herniation, arthritis, osteoporosis and scoliosis. Learn to weave philosophical themes into your classes in grounded, inspiring ways that reflect your experience of yoga as an ethical practice and guide students toward stronger relationships with themselves and their community.

Weekend 4: Mentoring Weekend & Yoga as Service

In the final weekend you will have the opportunity to present your teaching to the group. Share what you’ve learned and contribute to a supportive, growth-oriented discussion that will clarify your direction as you move forward with your teaching. Consider your mission as a teacher in light of your unique experience of yoga and your values in sharing the practice with others.

Training Schedule:

Friday evening 6-8:30pm

Saturday and Sunday 1-8pm

October 18, 19, 20

November 1, 2, 3

November 15, 16, 17

December 6, 7, 8

Cost: $1750

Early bird before September 1 - $1575

Tuition includes free mat rental. Payment plans are available.

Please email hello@brooklynflow.com with any questions.

Jason Orrell Jason (he/him) has been teaching yoga since 2009 and has over 1000 hours of training, specializing in yoga for back health, strength and mobility training, anatomy and biomechanics. With clear instruction, humor and innovation, he aims to make yoga fun and accessible to students of all ages and abilities while imparting a sense of wonder about the body and mind. He believes that in teaching us to strengthen and align our bodies, yoga helps us also to strengthen and align our relationship to the social and natural world. Jason holds certifications from Kula Yoga with Schuyler Grant, David Regelin Yoga, Yoga Union with Alison West, Functional Range Conditioning, Kinstretch, and Animal Flow among others. He leads the anatomy intensive for the ShaktiYoga/Brooklyn Flow teacher training and teaches Mindful Strength, Align and Vinyasa classes.

Julie Dohrman Julie (she/her) has been teaching locally and internationally for over 20 years and is one of New York’s most sought after teachers. Widely known for her inspiring and practical approach to yoga, Julie conveys sage teachings in a useful way, makes the difficult accessible, and creates an environment for everyone to connect the practice of yoga to the path of collective awareness and personal growth. Her classes are a living mix of a continuous wonder of yoga, extensive training in yoga therapeutics, deep meditation, philosophy, and understanding that yoga needs a practical approach to take root. Classes with Julie offer clear instruction and smart sequencing for students to feel integrated, strong, balanced, inspired about life, and remembering of Spirit. 

Julie is Certified in Anusara Yoga®, Yoga for All, and ERYT-500/YACEP. She leads the registered Shaktiyoga New York 200 hour Teacher Training programs at Brooklyn Flow, as well as teaching Yoga Immersions, meditation, Yoga Therapeutics, and international retreats. Find Julie at www.shaktiyogany.com.