500hr Yoga Teacher Training

with Christopher Gladwell

This 500hr Teacher Training covers the breadth and depth of yoga practice and engages you with its’ methods in a whole new way.

Looking to take your practice to the next level?

Our 500hr TYF Yoga Teacher Training takes a deep dive into traditional yogic practices with a modern & scientific approach.

The course is designed for regular yoga practitioners, existing yoga teachers and anyone who wants to take their practice to the next level.

Overview

We want to encourage a generation of teachers who are clear and empowered in their practice and teaching, courageously remaining in enquiry past qualification. We are looking for people with a willingness to serve their own wellbeing and the wellbeing of all, and we will equip you with the tools to effectively do this.

Yogic Principles ૐ Systemic Yoga ૐ Philosophy

This 500hr teacher training covers the breadth and depth of practice and engages you with the methods of yoga in a whole new way. Our YTTC blends traditional practice with contemporary science so that you will graduate as a yoga teacher and practitioner who understands both the roots and the evolutionary wings of yoga.

Included:

ૐ Yoga of the body, the mind, the heart and the breath

ૐ Yoga philosophy and ethics

ૐ Vibrational practices of mantra, meditation

ૐ Building yogic community

ૐ Yoga as medicine and the therapeutic possibilities of yoga

This powerful, life-changing, developmental journey of exploration and integration is for you to dive deep into your heart, your mind, your soul. You will emerge as an inspired and informed teacher, ready to contribute towards a better world.

Teaching Principles

  • Yoga of the Body.

    Yoga of the body teaches how to understand, care, develop and thrive in incarnation.

  • Yoga of the Heart

    Understand, transform and liberate your emotional realm. Learn the power of devotion and inspiration.

  • Yoga of the Mind.

    The mind is your worst enemy or your best friend as it says in the Bhagavad Gita.

    Understanding the mind via neuroscience and the yogic lens and discovering how certain practices can change your mind from being destructive to being a powerful tool of co-creation and wellbeing

  • Yoga of the Breath.

    The breath is the gateway between stress and resilience, between creativity and destruction and is also the vehicle for prana.

    Like a magic key it gives access to deeper levels of awareness, deeper levels of the subconscious mind, the connection between mind and life-energy and to the environment.

  • Yogic Philosophy.

    Yogic philosophy is a pragmatic approach on how to live well. It seeks to answer lifes’ questions with a deep devotional dimension that engages the heart.

  • The Obstacles.

    Exploring the barriers we put up to limit our own self growth.

  • Yogic Community.

    Understanding what yogic community is and how to cultivate it is enabling, supportive, challenging and liberating.

  • Consciousness

    What is the difference between conscious and subconscious, subconscious and unconscious? What is the relationship between consciousness and awareness, awareness and attention?

    What do the yogic texts say about consciousness? What does contemporary science say about consciousness? Let’s find out and grow together in consciousness.

  • Science of Yoga.

    How does the body actually work? How does meditation affect the brain? Why do we feel good when we do certain practices? What are the areas we need to pay attention to, what might be compromising our wellbeing if we are not aware of it?

  • Yoga as Medicine.

    Traditionally yoga was to elevate beyond the the physical dimension, however its modern day usage is somewhat more therapeutic. We will explore this in depth.

 Additional training components

ૐ 100 additional class or workshop/course hours for your own practice development (discounted classes at YF venues) 

ૐ 13 hours class observing (minimum)

ૐ Class assisting 

ૐ First aid training (external)

ૐ 1 hour personal tuition/feedback with tutor (min)

ૐ 2 hours observed class teaching (with teacher buddy) 

ૐ 10 hours meeting (minimum) with your group’s teaching assistant (can be group or individual and via zoom) 

ૐ Additional hours for study, study groups and self-practice

Check out the T&Cs

“I want to deepen my practice”

Starting January 2025

PAYMENT PLANS AVAILABLE

More infomation

  • Created for regular yoga practitioners, yoga teachers and anyone wanting to take their practice and teaching to the next level.

  • The prerequisites for joining the course are a minimum 1 year of regular practice (min 4x a week) including classes, workshops, retreat attendance or regular 1:1’s with TYF teachers.

  • The course represents 513 hours of CPD continued education.

    The course is certified with Yoga Alliance UK

  • Dates:

    Jan 17-19th

    Feb 22nd-23rd

    March 29th - 30th

    April 25-27th

    June 6-8th

    July 11-13th

    Sept 5-12th

    Timings:

    Fri - 6-8pm

    Sat - 8am-6pm

    Sun - 8am - 5pm

    Please take note of the above dates. Although sessions will be recorded we ask students for full commitment and at least 80% attendance in person.

    If a date can’t be made please let us know where possible prior to the course.

    (If you have child care issues/commitments please indicate this in the form there might be ways we can help you navigate this.)

  • £2900 total price (payment plan available, deposit of £500 required to save your place

Investment: £2900

ADD ON:

6 day Yin & 5 Elements Teacher Training

for Yoga Teachers, Holistic Therapists & Yin Practitioners

Our 50 hour Yin Yoga training is a deep dive into the elements using the 5 Elements and Meridian Theory, rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine. This is an immersive, 6 day programme with class practicums, small group and partner-led posture clinics, daily Yin, Qi Gong & Meditation sessions and lectures.

500hr Yoga Teacher Training

£2,900.00

“I’m ready to live a more fulfilled live and serve others ”

Starting April 2024

at Yoga Factory, Southend, Essex

PAYMENT PLANS AVAILABLE

Meet the Facilitators

Christopher Gladwell

Yoga Master, Certified Breath-work Practitioner, and Founder of Evolutionary Breath-work

Deep practice, study and living the vision of non-dual yoga and tantra in its manifold facets (physical practice-asana, bodywork, breath-work and pranayama, meditation and mindfulness, vibration and mantra, devotion and bhakti for nearly 40 years. I was initiated into the Vedic Dasnami Sanyass, have worked for 15 years with Shamanic teachers, and was an apprentice in a Vajrayana lineage.

I have received initiation into core practices of deep mantra, meditation and teachings that have inspired and directed my life.

Christopher Gladwell 500hrYTT

I’ve taught internationally for twenty years around Europe, Africa and Asia.

I’m also a trained biologist and multi qualified in contemporary psychotherapy, clinical hypnotherapy, NLP, conscious breathwork, fascial bodywork and functional anatomy.

My teachings are rippling with the relationships between us as biology, our bodies, minds, emotions, psychology and more. The practices derived from the worlds of yoga, shamanism, meditation and mindfulness through Holokinesis help us find peace of mind, clarity, optimal flow, peak performance and spiritual depth and realisation.

Liberating practices from the accretions of culture and religion we can access a secular base to practice rooted in biology, psychology and neuroscience and find our unique way of connecting to all that is through direct experience.

Josh Lipscombe

Yoga Teacher, TYF Founder

Josh discovered various yogic practices as a teen and knew from the very beginning he had found something that would be a life’s journey. Eager to deepen and further develop his understanding of the yogic practices Josh trained with his first teacher Conrad Paul in the UK. He was inspired to continue his journey of learning and sharing the yogic practices. This led him to The Sivananda Organisation where he immersed himself in living within spiritual communities in India, France and London. He strives to cultivate the great sense of community he discovered in his travels, only in the home Josh grew up in. Now working on growing his own yoga centre - The Yoga Factory

Josh’s message is strong and clear. A goal of harmonious living through exploration, play & authenticity. Merging tradition with evidence based practices.