Urban Asanas: Heart Forward Foundations Yoga Teacher Training

Established 2025

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Urban Asanas

843 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Brooklyn, NY

Hybrid (Kings County)

Cohort, Retreat

150 hours

3- 5 months

Purpose

Our goal is to train authentic heart-forward yoga teachers who can lead both power and yin style classes while embracing touch, embodiment, and inclusivity.

What to expect

The training takes place over 3.5 months. It's a time to devote yourself to deepening your practice, learning new skills, and also applying those learnings in your life.

FORMAT: 6 Weekends and 5 Friday Nights over a 3.5 Month Period. (see website for exact schedule)

This training has a strong focus on the following core areas:

- Posture Clinics & Practice Teach
- Learning to teach from your authentic self
- Hands on Assists and Deep Familiarity with Appropriate Touch
- Teaching in conversation
- Teachers intuition
- 5 Part sequencing
- Urban Asanas Power Flow
- Urban Asanas Restorative
- Mantras & Self Talk
- Altars and Ancestry
- Essential A+P for Teachers
- Intro to the Yoga Sutras/Bhagavad Gita
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective Chakras: Business of Yoga

Style/Lineage

Urban Asanas teacher training flows from the 30+ year practice of Jyll Hubbard-Salk, pulling threads from many lineages to offer a unique expression of American Yoga. The threads which have influenced her style the most are classical Hatha Yoga with alignment cues rooted in the Iyengar Method, studied both in India and with Nikki Costello. Her flowing style and sequencing methodology have roots in the Baptiste method, as well as Kula Yoga, and study with Ossi Raveh. Finally, the Philosophy taught in the training taps into both the yoga sutras as a guide towards personal evolution, while also acknowledging that our unique ancestral background is always with us and should be brought into the present.

Program Emphasis

Core competencies

AYC allows each school to state and evaluate the competencies each student acquires

By the end of this program, graduates will be able to…

General Knowledge

Apply the ethical and philosophical teachings of the Eight Limbs of Yoga, Yoga Sutra and Bhagavad Gita for personal reflection, clarity, and self-healing.
Apply knowledge of the 7-chakra system of hatha yoga for their personal development

Professional Knowledge

List the Purpose, Benefits, Risk Factors, and Sanskrit names of 20+ Foundational Asanas
Understand the ethical, legal, and financial essentials of being a yoga teacher and a simple way to market your teachings with authenticity
List and describe the key components of the skeletal system, including major bones, joints, and muscle groups, relevant to yoga postures.

Practice Skills

Meditate using a personalized altar based on their spiritual path.

Teaching Skills

Teach a 60-90 Power Flow class using the Urban Asanas methodology
Lead Students through a 5 Part Practice consisting of: Foundational Intention, Warm Up, Sequence Building to a Peak, Cool Down and Savasana
Guide students through a 30-min Yin Yoga and Meditation Practice using Intuitive Sequencing, Somatic Awareness, and Hands on Assists.
Skillfully and Safely apply 5-7 Hands on Assisting techniques to students in foundational yoga postures.

Requirements

Program evaluation

Written exam
Teaching evaluation

Throughout the program students will be receiving feedback on their teaching at various stages. Certification requires passing a written exam and a graded practice teach session based on the Core Competencies above.

AYC Verification

This program will grant the following AYC CE badge after you verify your credential.

Level 1 Yoga Teacher

Urban Asanas: Heart Forward Foundations Yoga Teacher Training

Shashi Mair, Lauren Haythe, GuRubee Ruben Blackriver, Andrew Tanner, T’ai Jamar Hanna, jyll hubbard-salk

150 hours

Additional Information

Pricing and Payment Plan Options:

First 5 People: $2,500 (paid in full) $250 extra for payment plans
Next 5 People: $2,800
Next 5 People: $3,000
Last 3 People: $3,333

Payment Plan: (Add $250 to the price)
$500 non-refundable deposit
3 Equal Payments every 30 days. Must be paid in full by Jan 30th 2026
First 5: $500 + 3 payments of $750 = Total $2,750
Next 5: $500 + 3 payments of $850 = Total $3,050
Next 5: $500 + 3 payments of $916 = Total $3,250
Last 3 People: $500 + 3 payments of $1,000 = $3,500