200 HOUR TEACHER TRAINING
2024-2025 | yoga alliance certified
Directors: Heather Dacus, Beth Beaton Mausert and Kristen Zorda
Faculty: Ann Biasetti, Nini Gridley, and Keli Lalita
Earn your 200 Hour Yoga Alliance Yoga Teacher Certification with The Yoga Mandali 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training!
Learn from certified and qualified expert yoga instructors with decades of teaching and training experience. Enter into this ancient tradition of self-awareness, connection and transformation and learn how to inspire others. Become a Certified Yoga Teacher!
Bhakti
Mantra & Kirtan
Hatha & Vinyasa
Pranayama
Chakras
Anatomy
Philosophy
Mindfulness/Ethics
Meditation
200 HOUR SCHEDULE:
SEP 13-15: Intro to Bhakti Yoga & Yoga Teaching
SEP 27-29: The Ritual of Teaching & Sequencing
OCT 11-14: The Arc Structure of A Class. Sequencing & Yoga Philosophy
NOV 8-11: The Beauty of Sound/Mantra & Chakras
DEC 6-8: Sequencing & Integration
JAN 3-5: Meditation, Mindfullness/Teacher Boundaries, Yoga Philosophy & Integration.
JAN 24-26: Putting It All Together - Graduation Weekend
200 hour training includes:
Understand the biomechanics of forward bends, back bends, twists, hips openers, inversions, and arm balances. Learn the functions and benefits of the asana families, as well as the functional anatomy of the body.
Embody and then teach classical asana alignments. Deeply connect to the physical, spiritual and emotional function and benefit of each pose.
Receive the tools to create a safe, open and conscious environment in which your students feel completely supported and cared for on their yoga journey.
Explore the potency of connection to the breath in both movement and stillness.
Learn a variety of sun salutations and the art of dynamic vinyasa flow, becoming adept at how to sequence classes according to the classical system of "Vinyasa Krama", or intelligent pose progression.
Become confident in verbal alignment cues, guiding student's bodies and minds through postures in a safe, protected and sacred environment.
Learn the Chakra System from Nini Gridley, our area’s premiere teacher of this subtle body system.
Develop empathy and compassion for your students, and learn how to address their needs both physically and emotionally as Ann Biasetti, Ph.D leads you through an introduction into the embodied foundations of mindfulness practices.
Meditation, pranayama, mantra and kirtan will be part of every weekend. In this way you will develop your own spiritual strength and create a repertoire to share with your students.
Go deeper into Yoga Philosophy with Keli Lalita including an intro to the ancient yogic texts like the Yoga Sutras and The Bhagavad Gita!
self-investment includes:
200 hours of training with several experienced instructors—
Directed by: Heather Dacus, DO, MPH, ERYT-500; Kristen Zorda, ERYT-500, Beth Beaton Mausert, ERYT-500.
Assisted by: Ann Biasetti, PhD, ERYT-500, C-IAYT; Nini Gridley, MEd; and Keli Lalita ERYT-500.
Yoga Alliance Yoga Teacher Certification
In-depth manual, including class sequences, mantras and philosophy
Discounted classes at Yoga Mandali during period of study
Snacks & tea available throughout weekend
schedule
Seven long weekends:
See dates below
Typical weekend schedule (subject to change):
Friday: 5:30-9pm
Saturday: 8am-5pm
Sunday: 8am-4pm Monday: 8am-4pm
investment
EARLY BIRD—$3,050 (paid in full by 8/1/24)
AFTER 8/1/24—$3,250 (with $500 deposit due by 8/31/24)
PAYMENT PLANS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
Partial Scholarship Opportunities available!
Application
Download your application form here
or pick one up at the studio. Class size is limited to 20 people.
meet the teachers:
KRISTEN ZORDA, ERYT-500; Kristen came to yoga seeking a deeper connection to divinity and the world around her. After trying different styles of yoga, she found Bhakti Yoga - which felt like the missing piece she had always been looking for. Kristen began teaching yoga in 2014 – realizing the healing power of yoga and how it could help so many others like it helped her. Kristen became the owner of Yoga Mandali in Saratoga Springs NY. For over 20 years, Kristen has been studying and practicing yoga with teachers from all over the world. She honors her teachers, Gopi Kinnicutt (Bhakti Yoga D.C. ERYT 500) and Lal Maharajh (Vastu School of Yoga ERYT 500), Professor of Hindu Philosophy Edwin Bryant, PhD., as well as with her past and present yoga teachers. Kristen has her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Hartwick College – understanding at an early age that she wanted to help people.
HEATHER DACUS, DO; MPH; ERYT-500; has been teaching Vinyasa and Ashtanga Yoga since 2002. She has been with Yoga Mandali since its beginnings with Gopi Kinnicutt in 2005. She is a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance and has spent much time acquiring additional training with Seane Corn and Richard Freeman in the areas of Vinyasa and Ashtanga Yoga. Heather’s teaching style has often been described as inclusive, as she ensures all students feel welcome and at ease despite their level of experience. Heather encourages students to be attentive to the breath as the underlying thread of the posture practice and the means by which one calms the mind and eventually finds focus both on and off the mat. Off the mat, Heather is a board-certified, preventive medicine physician licensed with the State of New York. She is the Director of the Bureau of Cancer Prevention and Control at the New York State Department of Health.
BETH MAUSERT Having been a seeker for as long as she can remember, Beth found herself in her first yoga class with Swami Sudhir Saraswati in Kathmandu, Nepal at age 19. More than three decades later, Beth still considers herself a seeker.She has been joyfully teaching yoga since 2006. She weaves elements of the many paths she has travelled into her classes—including modern dance, cultural anthropology, kirtan, tantra, and bhakti yoga. Her playful classes offer strong, breath centered flows sprinkled with stories, songs, and music. Most importantly though, Beth is known for creating a safe space for her students to explore the transformative power of yoga.
The hardest part of the practice is definitely showing up. So, come as you are, as often as you can and simply do your best.
Hari Om Tat Sat (That Is Truth)
ANN SAFFI BIASETTI, PhD; LCSW-R; ERYT-500; C-IAYT; is a Registered Yoga Teacher, a practicing Psychotherapist specializing in embodied/somatic psychotherapy, author of Befriending Your Body: A Self-Compassionate Approach to Freeing Yourself From Disordered Eating, as well our resident IAYT Certified Yoga Therapist. After receiving her 200-hour Yoga Alliance certification, Ann became a certified Yoga Therapist through Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy in 2011. She is also certified in Restorative Yoga and Restorative Yoga Therapeutics through master teacher Judith Hanson Lasater, and offers An Embodied Life Restorative Yoga Teacher Training programs annually at Yoga Mandali. As a practicing Psychotherapist for over 27 years, she holds a PhD in Transpersonal Psychology and specializes in working with those with disordered eating, trauma, life transitions, and helping people reach their highest potential.
NINI GRIDLEY, ERYT-500; MS Ed; BFRP; is a Professional Level Kripalu Yoga Teacher with over 500 hours of training, and a dynamic workshop leader who has been teaching workshops on the chakras and healing through her private practice, Full Spectrum Healing™, since 1995. She is a founding faculty member of Sacred Centers, the premier training program on the chakras developed by Anodea Judith PhD, and has assisted Anodea with teaching the entire curriculum at national holistic learning centers, including Kripalu Center, Omega, Crossings (Austin, TX) and Pura Vida in Costa Rica. Nini is passionate about the chakras and how they help us recognize the unfolding process of the true Self. A trained healer and teacher, her intuitive guidance helps people understand the healing process and manage the openings that arise from practicing yoga. “The chakra system is a path to the soul that takes us to deeper understanding of our life path on all levels, including healing the body physically.”
KELI LALITA REDDY, ERYT-500; Certified CE Provider; Columnist for Mantra Magazine and Thrive; Owner of Mantralogy Records; was first introduced to yoga at age seven by her mother, who studied with the disciples of Sri Rama Krishna at the Vivikananda Vedanta Vihar, an ashram in the foothills of the Catskill mountains. She has been teaching yoga asana for over 14 years, although her dedicated study of Bhakti Yoga began when she was still a teenager. Keli is a student of Ayurvedic Body Work at Kripalu and works with Edwin Bryant, PhD, translator of Yoga Sutras, and Professor of Hinduism at Rutgers University. Keli has lead and assisted retreats here in the US, in Costa Rica, and in India, including a retreat with Robert Thurman and Krishna das. Keli’s students describe her as, “filled with knowledge, love, compassion and joy.” Her teaching specialty is yoga philosophy, though she is well loved as a teacher of Yin Yoga and Vinyasa flow as well.
