200 hour Yoga Teacher training in leeds 2026
In-Person Yoga Teacher Training in Leeds
Have you ever thought about becoming a yoga teacher - to share something that’s transformed your life, with others?
Our 200-hour Vinyasa Flow Yoga Teacher Training in Leeds is designed for those who feel called to explore teaching, or who want to deepen their understanding and practice of yoga in a fully immersive, in-person environment. Delivered entirely in person in Leeds, this training allows you to learn through embodied practice and direct mentorship.
At The Yoga Solution, we blend the ancient wisdom of yoga with modern neuroscience to help you not only teach yoga with confidence - but to live it.
This training is built on three solid foundations
safety first
In person, you’ll learn to teach yoga in a way that’s safe, accessible and supportive to every body, and every nervous system. Through anatomy exploration, and live feedback, you can expect to develop strong skills to adapt your yoga offerings for varying energy levels, strengths and emotional states.
science-informed
In Leeds, you can expect to learn WHY yoga is so impactful on how we feel, through exploring the neuroscience of stress, and how yoga regulates the mind and body, including the relationship between the amygdala and the pre-frontal cortex, the two stress responses and more.
embodiment and growth
Underpinning all aspects of teaching yoga absolutely has to come from embodiment. This training supports your personal practice of yoga, and your personal journey (it’s cheesy, but it’s true!)
what you’ll learn
Philosophy, mantra and meditation
Including study of the Yoga Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita
The importance of Mantra
Meditation techniques
Establishing a sustainable personal practice
Asana - the poses of yoga
Setting up, refining and coming out of key asanas
Teaching alignment with awareness, not rigidity
Modifications, variations and hands-on adjustments
Building safe, progressive sequences
Anatomy and physiology
Understand ‘safety first’
Functional anatomy for safe sequencing
How our Yoga practice and specifically the breath affects our nervous system
Key muscles, bones, joints, actions in the body
The biomechanics of key joints
Understanding fascia, and it’s importance in our yoga practice
Pranayama - breathing techniques
Teaching pranayama (breathing) techniques
Developing a pranayama practice
Using breath to regulate the nervous system
Teaching methodology
Determining the most effective learning methodology for you
Script development for key poses and sequences
Learning how to demonstrate key poses
Managing mixed ability classes
Confidently integrating pregnant students in to your classes
The business of being a yoga teacher
Understanding insurance
Being self-employed and organised
Making a living
Being business-like and yogic!
Social media for yoga teachers
the neuroscience of stress and yoga
Stress isn’t just a feeling - it’s a full-body physiological response. Chronic activation of the stress system can affect sleep, digestion, focus and mood.
Through this training, you’ll explore how yoga supports recovery and resilience by working directly with the nervous system, including how the breath calms the amygdala (part of the fear detection network) and strengthens the prefrontal cortex (responsible for rational and calm thinking).
We’ll also deeply explore how mindful movement and interoception (the awareness of internal sensations) help release stored tension in the mind and body, and of course, how yoga calms the stress responses - with evidence.
By the end of this training, you won’t just know how to teach yoga — you’ll understand why yoga works to improve mental and physical wellbeing.
a typical yoga teacher training day in Leeds
Yoga teacher training is a dream for many people, and many people make it a reality - and rightly so! Sharing yoga is one of the most rewarding, warming jobs you can have and it can really help you deepen your yoga practice too. With that in mind, we thought we'd share some insight in to a day of yoga teacher training at The Yoga Solution... Here we go!
8:30 - sadhana
The day starts with our sadhana, a daily practice of chanting (don't worry, you can chant under your breath if you'd prefer!) pranayama - breathing techniques and meditation. This gets us set up for a day of learning, and it's amazing how the day-on-day practice compounds to bring peace and calm.
9:00 - yoga teaching practice!
Right from day 2, you'll teach your fellow trainees a yoga class. This is beyond daunting at first, it really is, but it means that by graduation teaching yoga is second nature, and you're confident stepping out and teaching your own classes, if you wish to!
10:30 - breakfast break
Lovely long break, including time for breakfast (needed after the morning sadhana and yoga practice!)
11:00 - anatomy lectures.
Practicing and teaching yoga can really be taken to a whole new level with a basic understanding of musculoskeletal anatomy. Knowing how the joints move, what might help us to go deeper in to a pose and what might cause an injury is so useful in keeping you, and others, safe. For example, the lower back is effectively already in a backbend shape, so it's really easy - and really common - to rely on this area of the spine in backbends. However, we want to distribute the backbend along the whole spine, so a yoga class could help make space across the chest, build awareness of the body and make backbends as safe and beneficial as possible.
12:30 - lunch break
1:30 - philosophy lectures
Taking a concept, a key text or a yoga teacher as inspiration, and breaking down the learnings, how this fits with wider philosophy, how we can share this in an accessible but enjoyable and inspiring way with others. For example, in the text the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the second statement is 'yoga is the settling of the mind in to silence' - which reminds us that our yoga goes beyond the physical practice. So, if hamstrings are tight or the back is a bit sore, we can still practice yoga in an incredibly beneficial way (which might be sitting and breathing!)
3:00 - asana clinic
Taking an asana and breaking it down; adding another layer on to our anatomy studies from the morning, practicing verbal instructions, physical adjustments and much more.
4:30 - practise
Either more teaching practice, or be led through a class. Either way, this is a gorgeous way to round up a day of learning!
If you’d prefer your training to be from your home, or you’d love to graduate in the sunshine, explore our hybrid 2027 training here
the details
Dates
Block 1: Saturday 11th - Wednesday 15th April
Block 2: Thursday 7th - Sunday 10th May
Block 3: Thursday 28th - Sunday 31st May
Block 4: Thursday 11th - Sunday 14th June
Block 5: Thursday 25th - Sunday 28th June
All days are 8:30 - 17:30
Location
Our training is held at 3 South Brook Street, Aire Park, Leeds.
It’s less than 10 minutes’ walk from Leeds Train Station, and has plenty of parking nearby.
Investment
The training is £2,950.
“Making the decision to do this training was one of the scariest things I’ve ever done, but from the first day, Holly and the whole team made me feel at ease, welcome, and held by such a wonderful sense of community.
The content of the training explores all aspects of yoga in an in-depth yet accessible way. The topics are so well rounded, interesting and put forward in a way that makes them digestible and non-intimidating. Everything is constantly recapped and explained through various lenses, so the knowledge really sinks in.
Having just finished this training, I feel so excited about the future possibilities of teaching, and it’s largely because of the encouragement from Holly. Thank you so much!”
Kaitlyn B
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faq - in person training in leeds
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You certainly don’t! We’ve had previous graduates travel to Leeds to complete our training, from the Isle of Man, Kent, Devon, Aberdeen and more (and of course, some much closer places, too!)
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It goes without saying that for an in-person training, the ideal is to be in attendance throughout. However, life happens! If you already know you won’t be able to make some of the dates, or if you were to need to be absent, we have a robust catch up policy to catch you up. This might include extra reading, a small assignment or some extra time with Holly (which may be chargeable). But we can talk through any questions you have in your 1:1 call as part of the application process.
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Yes absolutely, Aire Park is super close to the train station, and there’s plenty of parking nearby, too.
meet your teacher
Hi, I’m Holly!
I’ve been teaching on yoga teacher trainings since 2018, and in that time, I have learnt, experienced and studied how someone not only takes in the information required to teach a safe and beneficial yoga class, but also what it takes to give someone the self-belief that they can do it.
Spoiler alert: The self belief that you can teach yoga, comes from teaching yoga. That’s why, on our training, you teach from Day 2! Yes, really. It’s flipping nerve-wracking, but by the end of the training, you’ll thank me.
I’m more than happy to be a cheerleader, standing on the side lines shouting ‘you can do this!’, but you're knowing that you can comes from the doing.
Aside from that, I absolutely love to share evidence-based research as to why yoga is powerful helping us with so many things, including managing stress and anxiety, overcoming pain including chronic pain, improving the connection with our bodies and so, so much more.
In short, teaching yoga teacher trainings is a joy, I absolutely love every moment, I love to see the bonds forming between the group, I love seeing people break down barriers of ‘I can’t…’ that have been built up over their lives. I love it all, and I hope you will, too!
