YogaX 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training with Healthcare Setting Emphasis

The YogaX program offered through Stanford Psychiatry represents an innovative fusion of yoga's ancient wisdom and the latest insights from modern psychological research. This training blends yoga philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and social science, creating a holistic understanding of the mind-body connection.

Led by experienced and credentialed instructors registered with Yoga Alliance, this program guarantees a high standard of education and expertise. The structure of the training, conducted virtually over a span of months, ensures a total of 200 contact hours. These hours are a blend of interactive virtual sessions and personal engagement with experienced lead trainers, fostering a deep and practical learning experience.

In essence, this meticulously designed curriculum provides a unique opportunity for individuals passionate about exploring the profound correlations between yoga, psychology, and neuroscience in a dynamic and accessible format. 

Special Announcement

We will host two YTT200 programs in 2025. 

One is offered entirely synchronously online; the other offers a mixed format of approximately 80 hours in person at Stanford and the rest online. 

1.      From January to June 2025, we will host a YTT200 that will be fully synchronously online.  It will meet mostly on Saturdays, with the exception of once a month, when we will also meet on Sunday.  The Program will start the weekend of January 18 and will end the weekend of June 8.  More details will be announced soon; applications are now open (see link below).

2.      From late July or early August to early December 2025, we will host a YTT200 that will be offered in a hybrid format, with a long weekend (~50-hours) onsite at Stanford in summer and a final onsite weekend (~30 hours) in winter.  All sessions between these two weekend will be delivered synchronously online on Saturdays.  Check back in Fall 2024 for additional details about this 2025 hybrid program. 

  • “This training has really deepened and enriched my work as a trauma-informed psychologist. I have felt more readily able to attend to healing in different contexts (not just through talk therapy) and have felt more presence with my clients. Because this training really shifted ways that I think about myself, others, and yoga, I have experienced similar shifts in my work life.”

  • “This YTT has had an enormous impact on my personal life in illuminating how yoga is lived "off the mat." Through the intentional space provided by the YTT for me to learn and integrate different parts of myself, I have been able to show up more fully in all aspects of my personal and professional lives. I have found my experience in personal relationships with myself and with others to be richer and more fulfilling because this yoga training has helped me find my way toward experiencing reality as it is on the mat and, therefore, off the mat.”

  • “Thinking about the postures as ways to become centered, grounded, and calmer; to integrate the multiple layers of self; learning to use the asana as a focal point for meditation instead of mere physical exercises – that was all new to me.”

  • “I learned that a yoga teacher needs to be aware of visible and invisible disabilities and sensitivities of students. … A yoga teacher needs to be aware of her/his/their own cultural biases and forms of discrimination … A yoga teacher needs to be educated on racial justice/injustice.”

Total Tuition Cost $3,500

Tuition can be paid in two installments of $1,750. The first payment is due upon approved application (and reserves your spot); the second payment is due by the starting date of the second 100hr term. For YogaX payment procedures and refund policies, click here.

Stanford employees can use their STAP funds to help with tuition but our YTT does not qualify for tuition reimbursement programs because it is a certificate program not a degree program.

The 2025 Schedule is coming soon.

The 2025 200Hr YTT program will span across 6 months from February to July. It is a hybrid training with one to two in-person weekends on the Stanford campus. All other events are offered synchronously online.

The program requires a big time commitment and we ask that all trainees do their best to attend all sessions to optimize their take-away from the program.