Bohemia School of Yoga

a vinyasa style 200 - hour teacher training

with trainers Katie Ribsam, Loren Baker (Russo), Daniel Castro & Malia Murphy

Summer training STARTS: June 22nd

work study and financial aid packages available!

hybrid training designed to help you effectively learn while achieving work-life balance!

Our Summer Program meets every Saturday (in person) for specially themed hands-on modules and includes weekly online zoom sessions for lecture based content. In addition students complete select at-home modules with live Q&As that allow for you to complete coursework on your time.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT KATIE AT bohemiaschoolofyoga@gmail.com

By learning how to tap into your own inner harmony and wisdom, experience the raw and genuine beauty of the life changing practice of yoga. Dive deep into the ancient teachings including the fundamentals of practicing and teaching asana, pranayama and meditation, as well as our unique and modern method to develop creative, effective and safe asana classes designed to enliven and inspire the body, mind and spirit.

Our curriculum, designed with a healthy balance of personal enrichment combined with teaching methodology, covers such diverse topics as the history of yoga, ethics in modern times, physical and subtle anatomy, biomechanics and physiology, asana, pranayama and meditation techniques. Through our program, delve into the vast teachings of yoga from ancient to modern times, experience the life changing results and then learn how to effectively share your wisdom and experiences with others. 

Live more mindfully, bring you inner rhythm into focus, and then step into your power as yoga teacher. 

investment

$2400 for 200 hours of training

Scholarships

We offer partial need-based scholarships for those in financial need. Ask how you can apply!

Work Study Program

Join our work-study program! Spend time working for our studios and in exchange, earn credit towards your tuition. Many of our past students have work-exchanged their entire course!!

What you will learn

TECHNIQUES, TRAINING AND PRACTICE

• Meditation

  • Key Meditation Terms

  • Meditation methods by lineage

  • Ability to practice school's chosen meditation practice

  • Chanting, mantras, and mudras

• Pranayama and the Subtle Body

  • Historical Context 

  • Effects of pranayama on anatomy and subtle body

  • Complete sequencing of pranayama safely including alternatives and adaptations

  • Ujjayi, Nadi Shodhana, Kapalabhati, among others

  • Koshas, kleshas, chakras, nadis, and prana vayus

• Asana

  • Historical Context 

  • Poses specific to RYS's lineage- must include sukhasana and savasana

  • Complete sequencing (asana, pranayama, meditation) to achieve 

  • a particular effect safely 

  • Shared anatomical and alignment principles plus contraindications

ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY

• Anatomy

  • Skeletal System- Major Bones

  • Skeletal System- Types of Joints

  • Skeletal System- Major Muscles

  • Skeletal System- Types of Contractions

• Physiology

  • Nervous System including "fight, flight, or freeze" stress response; vagal theory; overall mind-body connection

  • Cardiovascular/circulatory, endocrine, digestive systems as they relate to yoga practice

  • Respiratory system, including muscles that affect breathing, involuntary vs. voluntary breath, and how air enters and leaves the body

• Biomechanics

  • Types of Joint Movement

  • Joint Stabilization

  • Safe movement as it pertains to balancing, stretching, awareness, and physical limitations?

  • Contraindications, misalignments, adaptations

YOGA HUMANITIES

• History

  • Term "yoga"

  • School's lineage, style and methodology

  • Dates, key ideas such as the Vedas, Vedanta, Hatha, Colonial and Modern

• Philosophy

  • Definition of yoga and key terms

  • Relationship between asana, pranayama, meditation per school's approach

  • Familiarity with major yoga texts (I.e., yoga sutras, gita, upanishads, hatha yoga pradipika)

  • Self-reflection on how philosophy relates to practice

• Ethics

  • Awareness of yoga sutras and similar yogic-ethical precepts

  • relationship to Yoga Alliances Ethical Commitment

  • Comprehension of and responsibility to increase equity in yoga

  • Accountability measures

  • Self-reflection on how yoga ethics relate to practice and teaching

PROFESSIONAL ESSENTIALS

• Teaching Methodology

  • Sequencing

  • Pace

  • Environment 

  • Cueing (verbal, visual, physical)

  • Class Management

• Professional Development

  • Yoga-related professional organizations, including yoga-alliance Credentialing Process

  • Ethical Commitment, including Scope of Practice, Code of Conduct, and Equity Position Statement

  • Lifetime of Learning and continuing education

  • General professionalism, including timeliness, consistency, cleanliness

  • Marketing and Promotion

  • Liability insurance, waivers, invoicing

• Practicum

  • Knowledge, skills, experience across key competency areas

  • Mentorship, apprenticeship, feedback

Meet Your Trainer: Katie Ribsam

A Bohemian at heart, Katie is a globe trotting, earth loving, cultural adventurer and spiritual explorer who has spent her life dreaming (and finding) ways to connect deeper with the people, planet and the infinite. With well over half of her life as a practicing yogi, Katie spent 3 years as an apprentice of the Power Yoga discipline and recently went “back to school” to study in India with internationally renowned teacher trainer Raghunath Cappo. As a yoga instructor, Katie draws from diverse styles such as Vinyasa, Yin, Restore and Hatha. As creator of the “Wave Method” for creative sequencing, Katie’s seamlessly teachers well balanced and creative flows designed to leave students with a holistic physical & energetic experience. This method of sequencing has also been applied to both Yin and Restore classes taking out the sometimes choppy or stale approach to how postures are woven together and replaced with seamless and fluid transitions in space. While physical asana is a core component of how Katie leads her classes, don’t be fooled. The physical practice is just the gateway to what lies beneath: the spiritual and emotional depth that sets this practice apart. With her main love being mama earth and with over well over a decade of environmental education experience under her belt; Katie has also developed an expertise in the up-and-coming Eco-Yoga field. Beach Yoga, SUP Yoga, Yoga Hikes, Yoga Retreats- you name it- connecting students to the environment through yoga is Katie’s specialty.

Katie has taught 10 classes of 200 hour trainees graduating over 100 students and is currently teaching her 2nd 300 hour advanced training program.

Meet Your Trainer: Loren Baker (Russo)

Loren has practiced classical yoga asanas for 30 years. It is how she holds a sense of confidence, inner strength, willpower, and discipline. 

Loren's main Sadhana is Ashtanga Yoga , Mysore style. Having completed 6 yoga trainings and authoring her own 200 and 300 yoga teacher training curriculums, she has taught all over the country and has spent most of her life studying Vedic philosophy, bhajans and pranayama. Loren is a steadfast and diciplined student of yoga currently studying Ashtanga Yoga under the guidance of Suresh Bhat of Mysore, India. With a passion for the practice of pranayama, Loren is currently enrolled and studying in India with the only living legend Guru BNS of Krishnamacharya’s original batch of students. Loren looks forward to bringing all she has learned from of lifetime of training to the students in our winter training series.

What Students are Saying!

I am so grateful that I chose Yoga Bohemia to do my 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training. My only wish- that it was longer. I have learned so much and grew so much in this time. Liz and Katie are super supportive and knowledgeable. They address any questions and concerns you may have to their fullest capability. I was so nervous starting this program but I am glad I did. Yoga Bohemia is super flexible with our schedules, too and that made it a no brainer for me. My goal was to learn more about the philosophy of yoga and get back into my asana practice. I managed to accomplish both. Katie and Liz also brought in so many amazing teachers like Cori, Madhu, Raghunath, Malia, and Sal. We worked on inversions, headstands, Thai Yoga, beach yoga, and even got a chance to experience Kirtan. It was a life changing journey and it doesn’t stop here. I hope to be doing Yoga Bohemia’s 300 Hour Teacher Training sometime in the near future. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your time, wisdom, patience and support.

-VP

Bohemia School of Yoga’s 200hr YTT program has been transformational in every explanation of the word. When I enrolled I assumed that at the end of 200 hours I would be able to instruct physical postures to a class of people. I was right, but this expectation was just skimming the surface. “200 hours” narrows this program down to a number, but those numbers of hours were spent with the highest quality discussion, realization, self discovery, and (personally) lots of emotional moments! This program was the most valuable investment of my time because it has truly changed my life in such a beautiful way. Katie and Lizzie are phenomenal guides and teachers, as a 200 hour class we agree that we trust them with everything. They are impressively knowledgeable, not only in all things yoga, but all things nature, science, life (the list goes on). After this program I felt fully confident and capable of teaching my own classes. But more importantly this program shed light on the life I want to lead and how I want my soul to shine in this lifetime! If I could spend every summer the way I spent this past summer I would in a heartbeat. Sign up and be ready to blossom! The journey is unimaginably beautiful, and difficult to narrow down into words, you would have to experience the magic yourself :)

-C.P

I wholeheartedly recommend Bohemia School of Yoga. Katie and Liz have crafted a teaching method that combines meticulous attention to academic detail with so much heart and love. The growth that the members of my cohort and I achieved was phenomenal in terms of yoga practice, yoga philosophy, physiology, self-knowledge, confidence and teaching skills. For me to come to this experience at the age of 54 and find so much support, encouragement, friendship and learning has been such a blessing. There are too many amazing moments to describe. I will forever hold Yoga Bohemia School of Yoga, the members of my cohort and this journey deep in my heart.

-C.L.

I would highly recommend that anyone who is aspiring to be a yoga teacher to earn their certification through Bohemia School of Yoga. Katie and Lizzy’s combined areas of expertise and knowledge provided the absolute perfect balance of yoga Asana, yoga philosophy, and anatomy for the program’s curriculum. The combination of each of their individual subject matter expertise gave me the confidence to learn and implement the teachings of yoga to my own yoga practice and to my own arsenal of knowledge which I will now be passing along to my yoga students. Although there were multiple yoga schools in Philadelphia, making the trip to LBI was worth it. The content, knowledge, and experience that Katie and Lizzy bring to the YTT200 program is like no other. You won’t find it anywhere else. My experience at Yoga Bohemia has been life changing and would recommend to anyone

-K.P.

I walked through the doors of Yoga Bohemia expecting to deepen my asana practice, and I left with so much more: an open heart and mind, a nourished soul, lifelong friends, and most importantly, a better understanding of who I am as a person and how I can achieve my dharma on this earth. During our ten weeks of deep study and self-reflection, I grew and flourished in places I did not previously realize even had room for further growth, and in the process, I achieved the highest level of self-awareness I have possessed to this date.

By setting a model and example of what it means to practice yoga not just in the studio but in all aspects of one’s life, we learned how to live mindfully, maintain integrity in our actions, and take care of our interwoven minds, bodies, and souls. I loved that our training covered a wide breadth of topics, including yoga basics such as the yamas, niyamas, and sutras, as well as topics unique to Yoga Bohemia, namely a weekend hiking and eco-yoga immersion. As a result of our study and growth, I observed myself and the other 13 members of my tribe raise our vibrations in a tangible, perceptible fashion; the energy of every space we entered was unparalleled, directly demonstrating to us the undeniable power of yoga.

Overall, our yoga teacher training was a formative, life changing experience, and if you are seeking to improve yourself in any regard, I cannot recommend it enough. I left graduation a better version of myself – mind, body, and soul – and feeling elated, fulfilled, and eager to spread all that I had gained. YTT ignited a spark within me, and through my continual practice and teaching of yoga, I will keep this fire burning.

-L.G.

It is so hard to put my experience with yoga teacher training into words! The first ones that come to mind are: life changing, soul filling, family, home, community, amazing memorable experiences, extremely experienced instructors, and pure fun! I wish I could go back and do it all over again. This was the absolute best investment in myself I have ever made.  I deepened my own practice in more ways than I ever thought possible! I learned so much about all aspects of yoga. But the thing I cherish the most are the memories and the friendships I made! These friendships are better described as family! My tribe!

If you are thinking about doing yoga teacher training this is the program for you! I can’t imagine doing it anywhere but on magical Long Beach Island surrounded by beautiful sunsets and beautiful souls!

-D.W.

When I signed up for yoga teacher training, I was expecting to further my asana practice and learn more about the philosophy and teachings of yoga. I entered into the training for my own personal growth and experience, not necessarily to become a yoga teacher. What I did not expect was to receive all this and learn so much more, both about yoga and myself.

The curriculum is intense but comprehensive. We learned about the chakra system, the 8 limbs of yoga, yoga anatomy, eco-yoga, asana practice, asana cuing, asana adjustments, ayurvedic medicine, different styles of practice, class sequencing and so so so much more.   Our teachers had a wealth of knowledge in many different areas of yoga and worked endlessly throughout the training to ensure we learned all we needed to know, and were available for extra support at any time. They provided us with valuable classroom instruction as well as experiences outside the classroom for our eco-yoga classes. We also learned from required reading of ancient yoga texts, meditation, yoga theory and asana.

I started the first class nervous but excited. My fellow classmates were warm and open and we all bonded immediately. I instantly felt comfortable and knew I was in the right place. At the end of the training, I had gained 13 friends that I will keep for life in my fellow students. Our graduation day is one I will never forget, as it was magical and brought closure to such an awesome experience. Through this training, I have deepened my asana practice, have a deeper understanding about the philosophical teachings and purpose of yoga and now have a desire to share my knowledge and teach others.

-C.D.

My YTT 200hr experience with Yoga Bohemia delivered way more value then I ever expected! I gained powerful insight and tools to help me continue my personal yogic journey, as well as be a guide to others! YB's class design is extremely well thought out and kept my attention through out the course. We were exposed to a vast array of topics and styles of yoga. I greatly appreciate the major focus on sequencing and class design, giving me a solid foundation to begin teaching right way. Lastly, I am so grateful for the amazing new friendships this training exposed me two, I learned so much from everyone!

- T.S

My experience with 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training with Yoga Bohemia has been transformed. I love the community that was built throughout this training. I have grown spiritually as a yoga practitioner, and spiritually. My teachers throughout this journey have been nothing but fantastic, from teaching us about philosophy to history to practice. They have all encouraged us to be just ourselves and carry ourselves with grace and mindfulness. I will forever be grateful for this experience as I have learned so much and am ready to continue sharing the beautiful practice of yoga. This 200-hour program is taught beautifully and prepares you to look inward, reflect, deepen your practice, and prepares you to guide others through this journey. I am so grateful for this experience and deeply love the studio yoga bohemia.

- T.C.

I had a powerful experience with the Yoga Bohemia 200hr YTT. Katie is a great teacher for those looking to start their yoga journey. I enjoyed each instructor and their different perspectives. And being able to integrate the training into my everyday life. I loved the journey, and had a lot of fun. I am forever grateful to have been a part of it all. It affirmed my confidence in myself as a teacher, and my truth in Yoga.

-O.O.

Being a student of Bohemia School of Yoga was a gift that happened to fall into my life just when I needed it and has transformed me and taught me so much. Not only is the curriculum and structure of the program beautiful, but so are the instructors and people that are a part of it. I am very grateful to have learned from this community.

-P.L.