300-Hour Teacher Training Course: A Haven Collaboration
Yoga Alliance Accredited
12 MONTHS IN-STUDIO TRAINING (300 hours)
Simpsonville, South Carolina
Our Certified 300hr YTT Program is a module-based, pay-as-you-learn program. Each module is a stand-alone training, with certificates and CEU’s provided for many of the workshops. In a module-based program you get to choose your areas of interest and create a training that is useful and meaningful to you.
June 2025 - July 2026
- One weekend per month (Friday, Saturday and Sunday)
PREREQUISITES
- Concluded a 200-hour TTC
TRAINING
- 100% attendance is required (make-up hour can be provided for extenuating circumstances)
- Friday: 8am – 5pm
- Saturday: 8am – 5pm
- Sunday: 8am – 4:30pm
The 300-hour program delves deeper into topics covered during 200-hour trainings and more. The course is based on traditional format of yoga education as practiced in India. It prepares you to take your practice and teaching to the next level.
At Acharya Yoga Academy we believe in authentic, traditional yoga, the one with power to transform lives. It’s our mission to share our knowledge and to create a nurturing community where you can learn, grow and be yourself. After completing this course, you will have gained more than a Yoga Alliance Certification; you will have the skills to create a healthy and fulfilling lifestyle for yourself, you will have learned to teach a class instead of just leading, which is The Art of Teaching.
Our highest goal is that our trainees end this course with an enriched mind, body, and spirit, still
with hunger for learning, for sharing, and for helping others through this amazing science called
Yoga. We hope that Acharya Yoga Academy be a life changing step along their path of self-
discovery!
200-Hour Teacher Training Course: A Haven Collaboration
Who is Archarya Yoga Academy?
Karla Benoit - E-RYT 500, RPYT and YACEP
Karla is a Certified Yoga Teacher and Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP) who teaches Vinyasa Krama, Hatha Yoga, Yin Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Pre/ Post Natal Yoga, Advanced Pranayama, Meditation, and Yoga for special population (seniors, high blood pressure, hip mobility etc.)
She is a Physiotherapist specialized in manual therapy and disfunctions of the spine, post graduated in Didactics on the High Education and a Shiatsu therapist who never imagined being a yoga teacher until she moved to India. She lived in India for 3 years and while there she dove into the Yoga practice, Yoga Philosophy, Mantras and Meditation, falling in love with the culture, history and Indian traditions she completed her traditional Hatha Yoga training and Pre/ Post Natal Yoga training in Chennai – India. She also learned Vedic Chants, Mantras, Sanskrit, Chakra purification practices and how to use the ancient Tibetan Bowls.
After she left India, she couldn't stay away from the traditional way of teachings from India. She keeps in contact with her master/ teacher from India, still learning about philosophy, spirituality and āsana practices what led her to complete her 500-hr Yoga Teacher Training Couse in Rishikesh, India. She is also an advanced Pranayama and Meditation teacher certified in Dubai with Yash Saran. Her specialization is to introduce students to the Traditional Yoga Teachings in the lineage of T. Krishnamacharya and Swami Satyananda Saraswati under the Bihar yoga school. She works creating individualized practices for students to enhance health and well-being, integrating yoga philosophy into the āsana practice and meditation.
Karla's passion for learning and sharing the wisdom of yoga has been the driving force behind the creation of Acharya Yoga Academy and she cannot wait to share her passion with YOU!
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