DANCING DOGS YOGA · ATLANTA
220 Hour Yoga Immersion+ Yoga Teacher Training
Nine weekends · Begins November 13, 2026
2026-2027 COHORT DATES
Nine weekends, November to April
Nov 13, 2026 – Apr 18, 2027 · In person in Atlanta
Weekend hours: Fridays 6:30–9pm · Saturdays 8am–6pm · Sundays 8am–5pm
Yoga changed your life. Now come find out why.
For six months you’ll gather with a small crew of seekers, rebels, and future teachers to study yoga the way it was handed down: the breath, the philosophy, the ethics, the fight for a freer world.
You’ll laugh hard, cry a little, and leave with a voice you didn’t know you had.
This community will know your name, hold your questions, and cheer the first time you lead a room. You’ll study the old texts, learn the body, find your voice, and walk out a teacher, ready for a room full of students or the quiet of your own mat.
220 hours · 9 weekends · $3,500 · 0% payment plans · DEI scholarships up to $500 available
Yoga. All of it. Without the fitness trends.
All eight limbs
Asana is where most of us start. Here you'll go all the way: breath, meditation, ethics, devotion, and the Yoga Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita and the Hatha Yoga Pradipika in your own hands.
Decolonized, with love
This practice comes from South Asia, and we teach it with that gratitude front and center. Our reading list was chosen with care, and the voices of the tradition lead the way.
Justice on and off the mat
Ahimsa is a call to action. You'll learn to carry the ethics of yoga into your classes, your community and the streets.
Safe for every body
A licensed trauma therapist teaches alongside us, so you'll learn to hold space for every nervous system that walks through the door.
WHY DANCING DOGS YOGA
THE EXPERIENCE
Come for the training. Stay for your people.
Every few weeks you’ll walk back into the studio and find your people waiting. You’ll practice together, study together, share lunch, and teach each other with shaky voices that get steadier every single weekend.
Our training is based on a chakra arc, and each weekend we build. You’ll move through training in a way that is physiologically sound, and energetically intelligent.
And our room is one of the most diverse rooms you will walk into. DDY represents our lived community, with people of all different ages, bodies, backgrounds, and lifestyles. Our DEI scholarships help make sure this circle looks like Atlanta: every color, every identity, every body, every age.
Some of you will go on to teach. Some of you came to go deeper. All of you will leave changed.
Nine weekends. One journey through the body.
This training is built around the chakras, the seven energy centers that run from the base of your spine to the crown of your head. Each weekend lives in one of them. You'll start with the ground under your feet and rise, weekend by weekend, toward your voice, your intuition and your connection to something bigger.
Muladhara
Ground & belonging
Svadhisthana
Flow & creativity
Manipura
Fire & will
Anahata
Love & compassion
Vishuddha
Voice & truth
Ajna
Insight & intuition
Sahasara
Connection & spirit
Hands-On Adjustments
Skillful, consent-based touch
Graduation
Ritual, happy tears and a whole lot of celebrating
Between weekends you'll dive into reading, our online video portal and practice teaching.
HOW THIS TRAINING IS BUILT
YOUR LEAD TRAINER
Shelley Carroll, DDY Founder
I’ve been leading teacher trainings since 2010, and my favorite part is still the same: watching a room full of strangers become a community.
I’m with you from opening circle to graduation, alongside a support team and faculty who’ve given years to what they teach. Questions about a sutra, nerves before your first practice teach, a hard week that’s spilling onto your mat, bring it all to us. Holding you through this journey is the work, and we love it.
I’ve spent two decades studying vinyasa, including with Bryan Kest, Shiva Rea and Seane Corn. I trained in Yin with Bernie Clark and Sarah Powers, and in Yoga Nidra with Richard Miller. I hold an Ayurvedic certification, I’ve taught on six continents, and I’ve logged thousands of hours of my own training. My heart lives where the chakras meet social justice, and I’m writing a book about both.
Our standard
More hours. More depth. Our own standard.
Nine in-person weekends, plus reading, our online video portal and practice teaching between weekends, add up to 220 hours of training.
For years we were registered with Yoga Alliance, and for years we exceeded their standards. Their latest changes devalue the certification process and feel like a slap in the face to the yoga professionals who fund them. So we stepped away. As a leader in yoga education, we built our own 220-hour program on standards that go far beyond theirs. Your certificate comes from Dancing Dogs Yoga, exactly as it always has.
And yes, you can teach anywhere. Yoga in the US is unregulated, and most yoga insurers will happily cover you.
Is this you?
This training is for you if…
- You want to understand why we practice, along with how
- You're drawn to yoga as ritual, inquiry and liberation
- You want to teach, go deeper, or both
- You're ready to be challenged and held at the same time
- You believe yoga belongs to every body
- You learn best in a small, in-person community
What you'll learn
Everything you need to practice and teach with depth
Every subject is taught by someone who has given years of their life to it.
The chakras
The energetic map at the heart of this training, and a framework you can teach from for life.
Shelley Carroll
Asana, alignment & sequencing
Build safe, intelligent classes from the ground up, with variations for every body.
Shelley Carroll & faculty
Advanced arm balances & inversions
Strength, play and fearlessness, with smart progressions you can practice and teach safely.
Brandon Lee
Teaching methodology
Cueing, pacing, holding space and leading a room with confidence.
Shelley Carroll & Elizabeth Rowan
Yin & Yoga Nidra
The art of stillness, deep rest and guided awareness.
Shelley Carroll
Pranayama
Breath practices like ujjayi, nadi shodhana and kapalabhati, and how to teach them safely.
Shelley Carroll
Yoga is political
Social justice, equity and access: ethics in action and yoga as a practice of liberation.
Shelley Carroll
Yoga Sutras & philosophy
The Yoga Sutras, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika and yoga's history, from the Vedas to today.
Elizabeth Rowan
The Bhagavad Gita
Yoga's great poem of duty, devotion and action, and what it asks of us today.
Laura O'Byrne
The subtle body
Koshas, nadis, prana vayus and the energy beneath the physical form.
Elizabeth Rowan
Hands-on adjustments
Skillful, consent-based touch that supports students safely.
Elizabeth Rowan
Anatomy & physiology
Bones, muscles, joints, breath mechanics and how bodies really move.
Dr. Lauren McCullough
Trauma-informed teaching
The stress response, nervous system literacy and language that keeps every student safe.
Yeira DeLeon, trauma therapist
Yama & niyama
Yoga's ethical foundations, lived on and off the mat.
Lisa Rolf
Yoga for every body
Props, adaptations and inclusive teaching for every shape, size and ability.
Lisa Rolf
Restorative yoga
Supported, nourishing practice and the skill of teaching rest.
Lisa Rolf
Mantra & chanting
Sound, devotion and the voice as a doorway into practice.
Shonali Banerjee
Meditation
Mindfulness practices you'll deepen yourself and learn to guide.
Shannon Demko
Finding your voice
Presence, confidence and your own authentic teaching style.
Shannon Demko
The business of yoga
Scope of practice, insurance, professionalism and building a teaching life.
Elizabeth Rowan & Shelley Carroll
Practice teaching
Teach real classes and get mentorship and feedback all along the way.
The whole faculty
Your investment
$3,500, and ways to make it work
We want money to be the easiest part of saying yes.
Deposit
Holds your seat today and goes straight toward tuition.
Save my seatPayment plan
After your $300 deposit, spread the rest across monthly payments with us through the end of training. Zero interest, zero fees.
Start my planBuy now, pay later
Longer financing through a third-party provider, with terms set by the provider.
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Partial scholarships for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and other underrepresented folks. We trust you to know your own lived experience.
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