Yoga Teacher Training - 200 Hours
Begins: January 2025!

January 2025  200 hr. Yoga Teacher Training
Practice Yoga, Love Yoga, Study Yoga, Share Yoga
Come be a part of this tremendous opportunity to further your yoga journey!
We are a 5 star Yoga Alliance registered school for YTT. 
9 weekends over 6 months 

Hosted by the beautiful Prescott downtown local store and studio Earth and Herbs Arizona Yoga and Healing Arts Studio

Lotus Bloom Yoga & Cheryl Walters teacher training Program upholds the highest standards of yoga instruction and practice. The Program includes in-depth study of the following areas: yoga asana, pranayama, bandha, mudra, mantra, meditation, yogic/tantric philosophy, yogic texts, anatomy/physiology, ayurveda, therapeutic applications of yoga, basic Sanskrit…and so much more. Lotus Bloom Yoga is a registered 5 star Yoga School with Yoga Alliance.  This program will enhance your knowledge and skills in order to build your confidence as a yoga instructor. Students will receive hands on teaching experience in a supportive environment allowing them to practice verbal and physical adjustments, skillful language, effective demonstrations and sequencing. This training will bring together all aspects of great teaching and will support you as you build confidence to express your authentic voice in the world of yoga.

There are truly many reasons a student seeks out a yoga studies program, within the first weekend you soon discover that is not just a program but an authentic journey of self-discovery. Deepening your knowledge through study, discussion and practice of the yogic arts & sciences a student can’t stop the expansion within their hearts, giving them permission to go beyond their expectations and limitations. Like a flowing current of Grace, this program will light the way to true transformation, allowing the opportunity time and time again to dive deep into the path of yoga. Ultimately, the study of yoga will bring you back home to your true intrinsic potential.

This Yoga studies program is in accordance with the Yoga Alliance National standards and includes in-depth Study and practice in:

• Practice and Training in Asana, Pranayama and Meditation
• Philosophy and Ethics including Yama and Niyama
• Anatomy and Physiology – Physical and Energetic
• Effective Teaching Methodology
• Patanjali’s 8 Limbs path of yoga

*Therapeutic application of postures

• Subtle Body Anatomy – Chakras & Nadis
• Alignment Principles, Modifications, Contraindications & Benefits of Numerous Postures
• Designing, Sequencing & Pacing a Yoga Class 
• Ethical Aspects of the Yoga Profession
• Assisting & Adjusting Students
• Effective Communication Skills
• How to Create a Safe Learning Environment
• Processes for Self Study, Enhanced Personal Practice
• Practice Teaching, Giving and Receiving Feedback

The 200 Hour Yoga Studies program infuses The belief that Yoga is for everybody!!!

What sets this training apart from other teacher training programs is the years of skills and experience from the lead instructor and guest instructors who are all certified yoga therapists. And have years of successfully teaching to a variety of different populations.

In this training we will also Share our knowledge of some of the below special methods and populations.

• Restorative Yoga.
• Chair, Gentle and Senior Yoga.
• Trauma Sensitivity Yoga.
• Kids/Teen Yoga.
• Refinement and Alignment Yoga.
• 12 Step Yoga.

Lead Instructor
Cheryl Walters – CYI, E-500RYT, YACEP, BHT

Cheryl Walters has been teaching and sharing the gifts of yoga since 2001. She is a Yoga Therapist, certified by the International Association of Yoga Therapists and has been the director and lead instructor for Yoga Intensive Studies Programs and Yoga teacher training for Yoga Alliance locally for over 13 years. She has trained over 160 yoga students to become yoga teachers and continues to mentor yoga teachers and yoga students Worldwide.

What separates Cheryl from other yoga mentor’s is her credibility & 20 years of experience with teaching yoga to different populations (Yoga for Vets, 12 Step Yoga, Yoga for M.S, PTSD & Trauma survivors, Healing from Body Image & Disordered Eating through yoga) and her years of being a successful professional yoga teacher and studio owner. Her guidance is rooted deeply in the belief of everyone’s infinite potential for greatness, never doubting the power of LOVE and never forgetting that our birthright is JOY!

Cheryl’s life has been deeply enriched by the many gifts of yoga and has studied several styles of yoga, she is a master at blending her trainings effortlessly so each student walks away learning Something unique for themselves and ways to continue on their individual practices. Cheryl’s knowledge is expansive covering yoga therapy, physical adjustments, universal principles of alignments, asanas and yogic philosophy. EVER YOGA CLASS WITH CHERYL FEELS LIKE A MASTER CLASS. She has been in the field of integrated therapies and body-centered therapies along with addiction counseling for more than 35 years. She has impacted hundreds of people’s lives on and off the mat.

Her teaching style is straight from her heart and full of compassion, depth and Grace. Cheryl shines with her joy for life and love of people. She is passionate about the transformation that exists for everyone within the practice of yoga. Cheryl has a remarkable gift for inspiring everyone around her to live and be their fullest potential, celebrating the beauty of life in all its diversity.