Recovery-based Yoga for Rest & Nervous System Regulation
200hr Non-performative Yoga® Teacher Training
Virtual Cohort: August-December, 2025
Self-paced, 6-month Online Training with LIVE COACHING!
Go at your own pace!
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Welcome to The iya Well Yoga & Embodiment School—where wellness meets leadership!
Our signature 200-Hour Non-Performative Yoga® Teacher Training is designed for High-Achieving Career Women, Coaches, Entrepreneurs and Service Providers who are ready to lead with more embodiment, resilience and ease.
Created by a 3x wellness business owner, Yoga Teacher Trainer, and Functional Movement Coach, this trauma-sensitive certification teaches you how to regulate your nervous system, optimize your recovery and build a sustainable wellbeing practice that supports how you work and lead—to reduce burnout.
This is yoga reimagined for the modern leader:
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Learn functional movement, mobility and rest practices to relieve pain and occupational stress.
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Shift from burnout and overextension into embodied leadership and mindful productivity.
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Lead your team, clients and company with nervous system-informed strategies that prioritize regulation, peer-to-peer collaboration and sustainable output.
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Move beyond performative yoga trends and into a lifestyle that centers regulation, emotional intelligence, and embodied leadership.
Though rooted in the ancient wisdom of yoga, this training integrates modern tools—such as somatic psychology, nervous system regulation and post-traumatic growth—to meet the real-time demands of high-pressure careers and businesses.
We don’t ask you to perfect your poses. We teach you to decondition from overperforming in your body, and instead, come home to it—so you can show up with more presence, power and vitality.
You’ll walk away with a proven toolkit for emotional regulation, somatic self-care, and leadership development—on and off the mat. Whether you’re seeking personal restoration or professional expansion, this program gives you the knowledge and embodiment to lead yourself and others through recovery, regulation and receptivity.
What is Non-performative Yoga?
Non-performative Yoga® is recovery-based yoga for occupational stress management, burnout and nervous system regulation. This form of yoga promotes the social and emotional wellbeing of modern practitioners living and working through fight or flight response patterns.
While commercial yoga focuses on fitness-based poses, we provide education on the practice beyond the poses so clients can experience the benefits from multiple entry points, free of performance.
Learn how to practice and lead recovery-based yoga classes for nervous system support with expert educators with over 3 decades of experience!
This training is ideal for corporate professionals, service providers, wellness entrepreneurs and coaches looking to deepen their personal practice and support their clients with service-based yoga that aligns with their core values!
Already 200hr certified but want to learn Non-performative Yoga®? Choose any of our YTT modules a-la-carte to continue your education with us.
Our curriculum
Learn
Learn as students to grow as leaders
Origins & Evolution of Yoga
+ Kemetic Yoga origins
Philosophy
The Gita for Modern Times
Sanskrit 101
8 Limbs of Personal Development
Intuitive Sequencing Infrastructure
+more
Live
Live out the practice in your body
Non-performative Yoga® Elements + Posture Clinics
Kinesiology
Pranayama & the Nervous System
Buddhism Meditation 101
Intro to Restoratives & Yin for Parasympathetic States
+more
Teach
Create the container for your teachings
Post-Traumatic Growth Strategies
Nervous System + Patterns of Engagement
Business of Yoga for Generational Wellbeing
Wellness Frameworks for Orgs.
+more
Self-Guided Learning
This YTT is a 6 month, self-gudied journey. All modules are delivered via pre-recorded lectures and practices + live, weekly coaching, homework and study. This program is fully virtual.
Live Coaching
Live weekly coaching with expert facilitators will be provided throughout your 6-month training to deepen your studies and personal practice.
Attendance
Yoga training requires a deep commitment, and your participation is required to complete the full training. If you miss a live coaching module, the recording will be provided for you to rewatch.
Office Hours
Weekly online office hours will be offered with our advisor as a support for trainees to ask any questions that arise.
This training may be an emotional and mental undertaking, which is why we suggest taking time to reflect and read this page in its entirety before you apply.
As a result, this program will bump up against your identity to potentially uncover what holds it together and keeps you in patterns of fight/flight. If that does not resonate, we invite you to continue your search. No hard feelings.
Testimonials:
Hear from our graduates!
Is this Training For You?
This 200-Hour Non-Performative Yoga® Teacher Training is designed for ambitious, service-driven professionals who are ready to lead from a place of embodiment, not burnout. Whether you’re a wellness practitioner, therapist, coach, educator, nurse, creative, entrepreneur, or executive—this program will support you in integrating nervous system regulation into your personal practice and your leadership.
You’re a humble, curious learner with a desire to deepen your self-awareness and emotional intelligence through the lens of yoga—not just as a movement practice, but as a full-bodied system for sustainable wellbeing, nervous system literacy, and leadership development.
This training is for those who:
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Are ready to take radical responsibility for their self-regulation, recovery, and emotional care.
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Want to lead clients, teams, or communities through more mindful, nervous system-informed strategies.
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Seek yoga education rooted in historical integrity and modern relevance.
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Desire a deeper relationship with their body—beyond performance, productivity, or perfection.
While this is a trauma-sensitive space, it is not a trauma-healing or processing container. If you’re navigating acute trauma, we recommend working with licensed mental health professionals alongside—or prior to—joining this experience.
This training is not for those seeking to intellectualize or perform healing while remaining in survival mode. It is for those ready to step into empowered embodiment and shift from managing stress to metabolizing it—so you can thrive, lead, and live more fully.
If you’re brand new to yoga or not yet ready to explore the practice beyond physical poses, we lovingly encourage you to begin with our online studio library to build a foundation before diving deeper into teacher training.
Requirements:
- Minimal yoga practice
- A completed YTT application
- Satisfactory YTT interview and acceptance into program
- Responsive to emails and able to complete homework and pre-recordings on time
- Participate in all asana curriculum
- Engage and contribute to live coaching discussions
- Fulfill tuition payment
- Completion of required readings, weekly pre-recordings, homework and practicum
- Complete final exam
- Complete non-contact observation and practice hours
- Uphold brave space agreements
- Display safe teaching and space holding skills during final practicum
You will receive:
- Receive a thorough education of the origins, philosophies, practices and how they connect to your lived experience
- Deepen your understanding of your energetic body and identity
- Uphold equitable practices within the yoga space
- Develop skills that advocate for the well-being of different bodies
- Learn intuitive asana in the form of Vinyasa, Hatha, and other styles of yoga
- Develop a beginner knowledge of the human anatomy via kinesiology
- Cultivate a strong personal practice while defining your teaching style
- Lead inclusive yoga classes with clarity, confidence and skill
- Join a lifelong yoga collective committed to agency, education and self study
A Note From our Founder & Director:
Hey! My name is Abiola Akanni. I’m the Director of the iyaKIN ytt and founder of iya. I’m an e-ryt certified yoga instructor with 7+ years of experience. I’ve created yoga programs and retreats such as Trap Flow (previously known as Trap Vinyasa) and the Divine Feminine Yoga Workshop, as well as taught as an Alo Moves coach and built programs for several institutions, including the Institute of Functional Medicine, Stanford, Hulu, Nordstrom Corporate, Boeing, and Nike.
Over the years I’ve noticed how teacher training standards have decreased. Offering a performative perspective that focuses solely on asana and Eurocentric values. This provides a mediocre understanding of the practice that results in biased instructors unable to support different bodies.
This inspired me to create a Non-performative yoga space that taught the facets of yoga beyond asana. Participants in this training are breaking the mold of performative yoga with critical thinking, adaptability, and deep self study.
FAQ
How do I know if I’m ready to become a yoga teacher?
Take our free quiz HERE to find out! It takes less than 2 minutes.
What is non-performative yoga?
While performative or fitness-based yoga focuses on postures, non-performative yoga extends beyond just asana (poses), which lends itself to learning the other facets of the practice, including yoga philosophy, pranayama, meditation, chanting and more. Here, we also approach the practice from an inclusive lens so students never have to abandon their body to experience this practice. This style focuses on compassion, education beyond the poses, non-hierarchical language, adaptability, representation of different bodies, self inquiry, and enlightenment.
Is this a trauma healing yoga teacher training?
While it is expected that we will personally process elements of trauma through the deeper studies of yoga held within this training, it is not a trauma-healing focused ytt.
Our facilitators utilize trauma-sensitive language although we are not trauma-informed and recommend that you integrate support systems in place during the training to help you process what arises within the container we create.
As a 200hr yoga teacher training we will be teaching you the foundational skills necessary to facilitate non-performative yoga classes while deepening your personal study. We highly recommend you pursue trauma-informed trainings to further bolster your wellness practice after you graduate from this ytt.
I’m new to yoga and have only practiced a few YouTube videos, should I take this training?
This teacher training is geared towards seasoned yoga students and wellness professionals with at least 1 year of consistent yoga experience beyond online practices.
If you have no to minimal experience and aren’t sure about applying, we encourage you to expand your practice via our online studio library, your local yoga community or with our facilitators to meet our requirements.
Can I take this training if I’m pregnant?
Although prenatal yoga is taught in this training, we also teach several other styles of yoga that are intensive and not recommended for individuals who are pregnant.
We recommend keeping up with your personal practice and joining us in the future.
Is iyaKIN affiliated with Yoga Alliance?
We have chosen not to be affiliated with Yoga Alliance. Upon completion of our program students will receive a 200hr yoga certification from iyaKIN.
What does YTT mean?
YTT stands for Yoga Teacher Training. It is a certification that students must complete in order to safely teach the practice of yoga to others as a certified yoga instructor.
How do I become a yoga teacher?
Before you become a yoga teacher it’s important that you have a personal practice for at least a year to begin to experience the practice within your body while becoming acquainted with the different styles of yoga. It’s within your personal practice that your yoga journey begins.
Our focus is non-performative yoga, which explores the facets of yoga beyond just the postures. This approach welcomes different bodies and lived experience. Once you’ve committed to a personal practice and chosen your path, you will be led to complete a Yoga Teacher Training program like the iyaKIN 200hr ytt to formally teach.
Are their payment plans available?
Yes, payment plans are offered once you are accepted into our program.
Are scholarships available?
Yes, we offer a select number of scholarships for each yoga teacher training cohort. Please note scholarship deadlines.
What can I do after my training?
After graduating from iyaKIN you can teach and facilitate yoga classes for your community in the style of your choosing.