Reclaim your Identity & release Chronic Burnout with our Non-performative Yoga® Methodology
Learn how 50+ legacy-driven Yoga Leaders are reclaiming their time & identity to build their dream career
Non-performative Yoga® Teacher Training
Presence > Performance
Stop sacrificing your mental & physical health hustling your way through life, keeping you chronically burnt out and disempowered.
Your reset starts now, with our 6-month, self-paced Online Training with LIVE COACHING to master mindfulness practices to recover, release chronic tension and prioritize your wellbeing as a High-Value Achieving Professional & Service Provider.
The Rest Revolution: How Taylor Used Non-performative Yoga® to Build a Thriving DEI Brand Rooted in Mindful Workplace Models and Partner with Insight Timer
Hustle culture is keeping you in chronic pain, urgency & daily fatigue, taking time off of your life & deteriorating your mental health. It's time to put yourself first.
No Work-Life Harmony:
Your body is operating in a constant state of fight/flight, keeping your chronically tight. You know how to deliver results—but not how to rest without guilt. As a result, your personal relationships are effected, and you’re in constant pain.
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 or your family, disconnecting you from your body and putting your health and happiness at risk.
Stuck in Survival:
You’re scaling your impact but your bank account is solely dependent on your productivity—causing you to work overtime, instead of less, to sustain your income & keeping you feeling stuck in the rat race.
You can’t afford to sacrifice your wellbeing for work anymore. Reclaim your energy & agency through the practice of yoga to become the driver of your mental & physical health for generational wellbeing.
Why Our Non-performative Yoga® Methodology Works
Our 3-part framework positions you to reclaim your identity & personal values, so that your wellbeing becomes the foundation of your legacy-driven work, not an afterthought
Non-performative Yoga®:
Strip yoga back to its original function: mental mastery, not performance.
You’ll learn functional movement, breath mechanics, and trauma-informed yoga that help you get out of your head and into your body for daily connection and de-escalation techniques. Translate that embodied knowledge into your work that delivers sought after transformation.
Non-performative Leadership:
Leadership isn’t about hierarchy—it’s about being present. This pillar trains you in nervous system regulation, emotional intelligence and self-inquiry practices that strengthens your capacity to compassionately lead yourself and others , for greater influence, impact and trust, so you never abandon yourself again.
Non-performative Business:
Build a wellness business that works with your body, not against it.
You’ll learn how to regulate your nervous to receive wealth. Leverage your current skills to create a profitable brand that allows you to work less while delivering the greatest impact and transformation.
Rest as Revenue
If you’re a high-performing Professional, Consultant, or Service Provider who’s ready to redefine success through rest and nervous system regulation, this Non-Performative Yoga® Teacher Training was designed for you.
Unlike traditional yoga teacher trainings, this inclusivity-focused certification teaches you how to integrate nervous system regulation, breathwork and modern business practices into your current strategy—so you can enhance your personal wellbeing, expand your client results 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 brands that prioritize their rest and generational wellbeing.
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 and vulnerable populations 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 social change our grads are scaling sustainably!
In This Training You’ll Learn from Expert Facilitators with 3 Decades of Experience Combined…
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 an authentic approach to leadership and business development that helps you scale regulated, while providing signature offerings for your target demo.
What’s You Will Experience…
Non-performative Yoga® Methodology – ($9,600 Value)
Master our methodology in only 6 months with pre-recorded practice modules that will position you as a Yoga & Wellness Leader.
7-Day In-person Immersive – ($3,200 Value)
Elevate your sequencing to teach to ABSOLUTELY anyone with our in-person Intro to Yoga & Hands on Assist immersion in Houston, TX.
6- Months Live Coaching – ($4,200 Value)
Expedite your learning through exclusive access to live weekly coaching with expert facilitators with over a decade of experience to receive actionable feedback in realtime.
Lifetime Access to On Demand Resources – ($3,200 Value)
Lifetime access to our Non-performative Yoga® manual & resource library to provide a roadmap for your Yoga career success through this training & beyond.
Non-performative Business Integration – ($5,000 Value)
Performance-free Business Coaching to leverage your current skills to create a profitable online wellness business in less time while delivering the greatest transformation.
Access to Private Alumni Network – ($2,000 Value)
Free access to The Well Online Inner Circle to connect with wealth-minded Yoga Leaders & grads plus receive priority access to private events, workshops, retreats & more!
$27,675 Value For Only...
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 how our methodology positioned our graduates to lead in active rest
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.