Build your Remote Wellness Business with our Non-performative Yoga® Methodology
The #1 Online Yoga Training for Established Service Providers
Non-performative Yoga® Teacher Training
Self-paced, 6-month Online Training with LIVE COACHING
You’ve built a sustainable career serving others—but a 6 figure salary with NO peace is still poverty
No Work-Life Harmony:
Your body is operating in a constant state of fight/flight. You know how to deliver results—but not how to rest without guilt. As a result, your personal relationships and pleasure suffer.
No Time Freedom:
You’ve invested in the degrees, certifications and frameworks that society told you to acquire but you have 0 time for yourself, putting your health and happiness at risk.
Disconnection:
You’re scaling your impact but losing connection—to your body, to your clients and to your purpose, causing emotional overwhelm that keeps you feeling stuck.
This training is for established service providers and professionals ready to step into their sacred-CEO identity, where your business becomes an extension of your dharma
Why Our Non-performative Yoga® Methodology Works
Our 3-part framework creates expansion through regulation, not pressure. Success becomes sustainable when your body feels safe holding it.
Non-performative Yoga®:
Strip yoga back to its original function: regulation, not performance.
You’ll master functional movement, breath mechanics, and trauma-informed sequencing that help you get out of your head and into your body for daily connection. Translate that embodied knowledge into your coaching, workshops, or client programs.
Non-performative Leadership:
Leadership isn’t about doing more—it’s about being present. This pillar trains you in nervous system regulation, emotional intelligence and self-leadership practices that strengthen your capacity to lead others—and guiltlessly slow down so you can show up present for yourself & those you love.
Non-performative Business:
Build a wellness business that works with your body, not against it.
You’ll learn how to prioritize your embodiment & lead regulated. Leverage your current skills with online offers to implement a profitable strategy that allows you to work from anywhere while delivering the greatest impact.
Rest as Revenue
If you’re a high-performing Coach, Consultant, or Service Provider who’s ready to redefine success through nervous system regulation, this Non-Performative Yoga® Teacher Training was designed for you.
Unlike traditional yoga teacher trainings, this certification teaches you how to integrate nervous system regulation, functional movement and modern business practices into your current strategy—so you can expand your client results, enhance your personal wellbeing and scale sustainably.
Over 50+ coaches, consultants, and service providers have been certified through this training and are now using our Non-Performative Yoga® Methodology to lead high-impact wellness offerings, attract aligned premium clients and increase their revenue with embodied awareness.
What is Non-performative Yoga?
Non-performative Yoga® is recovery-based yoga for active rest and nervous system regulation. This form of yoga promotes the social and emotional wellbeing of modern practitioners experiencing high levels of stress and burnout.
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.
See the businesses our grads have founded!
In This Training You’ll Learn…
Learn
Learn as a student, grow as a leader
How to regulate your nervous system and apply evidence-based mindfulness techniques to help clients ground, focus, and sustain change—without burnout.
Live
Live out the practice in your body
How to integrate yoga philosophy, movement, and neuroscience into your classes and programs—so you can deliver embodied transformation that differentiates your business and amplifies client retention.
Teach
Create container for your offerings
Discover a nervous system–supported approach to leadership and business development that helps you scale regulated, while providing signature offerings for your target demo.
What’s Included…
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.
Resources
Lifetime access to 300-page Non-performative Yoga® manual, additional workbooks, reading material and journal prompts to guide you through training and beyond.
Access to Online Community
Receive free access to The iya Well private Online Community to ask questions, interact with fellow trainees, receive priority access to Masterclasses, business coaching and more!
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This training requires an emotional commitment and willingness to meet yourself beyond your comfort zone.
To experience success here, you must be ready to examine the identities and survival patterns that have shaped how you lead and serve.
This process is intentional—and it’s where your greatest transformation begins.
We encourage you to read this page fully and reflect before applying to ensure this level of transformation serves you.
Testimonials:
Hear from our graduates!
This Training Is For You If You Are Ready To…
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Expand your business with integrity and embodiment
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Reduce burnout while increasing your impact
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Differentiate your brand with science-backed yoga integration
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Reconnect to your body as the foundation of your success
You’re an ambitious, service-driven professional ready to lead regulated. You have 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 regulation and wealth creation.
This training is not for those:
Seeking performative healing or trauma bonding. It is for those ready to step into an empowered identity and shift from managing stress to metabolizing it—so you can thrive, lead and live fully!
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.