Awake Heart 200-Hour

Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher Training

2024-2025 Yoga Alliance Certification begins this Fall!

An In-Person, 200-Hour, 6-Month Journey Home to The Heart

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An In-Person, 200-Hour, 6-Month Journey Home to The Heart 💛

Would you like to…

Open your mind to possibility?
Increase your capacity to heal your body?
Fall in LOVE with life?
Serve humanity?
If so, then there’s no time like the present.

Schedule

The 6-month Awake Heart teacher training begins with a foundational 5-day training to establish the potent container for our journey, and continues with one weekend per month for a span of 6 months.

November 7th - 11th
December 13th - 15th
January 24th - 26th
February 21st - 23rd
March 14th - 16th
April 25th - 27th

@ Breath+Oneness, 708 Capitola Ave., Capitola, CA

November Immersion hours:

Thursday: 5:30pm to 7:15pm Registration & Opening Circle

Friday-Sunday: 8:30am to 5:30pm

Monday (Veteran’s Day): 8:30am to 4:30pm

Weekend Hours (December-April):

Friday 8:30am - 5:30pm
Saturday 8:30am - 5:30pm*
Sunday 8:30am - 5:30pm
*With some surprise bonus programming on select Saturday nights

Curriculum

  • Honoring the spiritual heritage of the yoga tradition

  • Practical tools for living your life with an awake heart, rooted in ancient philosophy and modern neuroscience

  • Vinyasa flow, hatha, yang + yin, inversions, restorative yoga, modifications and skillfully utilizing props to amplify the practice for each individual

  • Revealing sacred practices from an honored lineage passed down to you with evidence-based science and experiential understanding of their transformational power

  • Understand key texts of ancient yoga, Classical yoga, Patanjali’s 8-limbed path (Ashtanga), Nondual Tantra, Karma yoga, Bhakti yoga

  • Relevant mindfulness research, somatic psychology, contemporary neuroscience, functional anatomy, relevant application of ancient wisdom to modern life

  • Enrich your teaching with Ganesha, Shiva, Shakti, and other heroes + heroines’ journeys as mirrors for inner illumination and liberation

  • Holistic health through aligning intelligently with nature’s rhythms and understanding your unique constitution

  • Anatomy, physiology & body mechanics theory and exploratory movement to understand the form and function of the complex matrix of the human body

  • A map for the embodied understanding of the vayus, koshas, chakras, journey of kundalini and the energy of consciousness

  • How spiritual awareness helps to illuminate our conditioning, free up limiting beliefs and shift our relationship to self, each other and the world as we know it

  • Basic sanskrit, japa, kirtan, prayer & sacred sound vibration to elevate intention

  • Creating a safe learning environment, effective instructional strategies & communicating core values

  • Designing classes, effective verbal cuing, skillfully integrating movement with breath, sensible sequencing & creative theming

  • Path of devotion

  • Prenatal & Postnatal yoga

  • ... As a path to awakening

  • Energy flow at your fingertips

  • & the art of touch

  • Sharing with integrity, authenticity and cultural humility

  • Strategies for accessibility and inclusivity for people of differing abilities, backgrounds, and social locations; trauma-sensitive teaching

  • Yoga not only for personal healing, but also a powerful tool for collective change and social transformation (not for spiritual bypassing!)

  • Cultivating a daily practice for clarity, presence and opening to grace

What’s Included?

6-Months, 200-Hour, In Person, Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher Training
Bonus Online Portal
In-Depth Awake Heart Manual
Certification of Completion as a 200-Hour Yoga & Meditation Teacher

Invest in Your Life: The Yoga of Living

$3870

Monthly Payment Plan:
7 installments beginning at time of deposit

*The intimate class size of 30 students means we reach capacity each year, so be sure to put your deposit down soon if you are called to join us.

LIVE WITH AN AWAKE HEART
Join us for this epic soul quest.

Awake Heart 200 Hour YTT
$3,870.00
Pay in Full
Awake Heart 200 Hour YTT (Payment Plan)
$555.00 every month for 7 months
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If you can check ONE of the boxes below with a resounding YES in your heart…

Then Awake Heart is the training for you…

  • You are a student of yoga who has practiced for at least one year, and are seeking to deepen your understanding and experience of this powerful practice 

  • You are ready to fall in love with life! Through an integrated journey of personal empowerment and spiritual awareness

  • You are inspired to share the teachings of yoga in some capacity, whether as a yoga teacher or as a compliment the other gifts you share in your life

  • You are looking for a teacher training that goes beyond postures, and honors the spiritual heritage of this rich tradition

  • You are already teaching and wish to re-awaken your heart and serve your students by re-committing to the deeper foundations of yoga and expand your teaching toolbox

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.”

Alexandra K. Trenfor

Meet Your Guide

Hannah is an internationally-celebrated teacher of yoga and mindfulness. She serves as director and lead trainer of the widely hailed Awake Heart 200 and 300 hour Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher Training programs. She also directs Mount Madonna’s Prenatal + Postnatal training and serves on the faculty of several other revered yoga schools, teaching mindfulness theory, ayurveda, subtle energetics and somatics.

With deep devotion to social change and the spiritual path, Hannah is known for her profound ability to weave the opposites, integrating the mythical and practical, spiritual and physical, the intellectual and mystical. In retreats, trainings, workshops and online classes she has a rare gift of weaving ancient wisdom into the relevant realities of modern life, making practices accessible, applicable and meaningful to the lives and communities of those who find her.

Hannah is a faculty member at the Esalen Institute and has been a featured presenter at Wanderlust, Bhakti Fest, Shakti Fest, Symbiosis, Spirit Weavers, and Electric Forest. She leads classes, workshops and retreats globally and in Santa Cruz, California, where she was voted Best yoga teacher for 7 years in a row.

For over 20 years, Hannah has studied with masters in various fields including classical, nondual tantra and bhakti yoga, anatomy, pranayama (breathwork), ayurveda, embryology, neuropsychology, somatics, yogic psychology, mindfulness, mythology, and other related subjects. Her most influential teachers include Baba Hari Dass, her root teacher, and Buddhist teachers Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach and Tuere Sala.

With a background in social & environmental advocacy, Hannah’s spirituality is inspired by devotion to the path of service. Hannah serves as President of the Yoga for All Movement, an organization that shares yoga and mindfulness with individuals experiencing incarceration, people in recovery from substance abuse, survivors of domestic violence, and others who have historically not been served by the wellness industry.

An agent of fierce compassion for humanity and the earth, a mother, and a devoted practitioner, Hannah is known for weaving complex teachings into accessible, heart-opening, life-changing experiences. Her nickname is the "Midwife of Possibility" and her teachings have been called paradigm shifting.

Hannah lives and loves between the redwoods and the sea on the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe in Santa Cruz, California. There you can find her in the ocean with her greatest teacher/15 year-old daughter Ruby Bea, practicing with her online mindfulness sangha "Shelter in the Heart", organizing for equity and collective care, dancing wildly, or meditating quietly.

Find out more at HannahMuseYoga.com and Instagram.com/Hannah.J.Muse.

  • "In 13 years of yoga practice I have never felt so at home as I do in Hannah’s classes. Her ability to empower, calm, soothe, and educate are a balance like none other I have experienced. She uses the power of her words to help her students remember the sweetness inside ourselves, the wholeness of our hearts and the power of community. The outpouring of love and joy from her soul are infectious and delicious. She is love, she gives love and she encourages love. Her rich and vast knowledge of Asana, Prananyama, Myth, Song, History and Therapeutic Anatomical Alignment make her all the more powerful an instructor. I am eternally grateful for all I have learned from sweet sweet Hannah. Hannah's training has helped me manage depression and self doubt, heal physical pain and see the world with clearer more loving eyes. My sex life is better, my marriage is better and I am expecting a baby this summer - hooray for yoga and for the ever loving Hannah Muse."

    -D.E.

  • “Anyone who has taken a class with Hannah Muse knows what an amazing teacher she is, as they have felt her cultivated-heart transmitlove. As a yoga teacher and life coach myself, I have taken hundreds of yoga classes with teachers from all over the world, but Hannah leads by far the most powerful and potent yoga class I have ever experienced. Weaving in mantra, mudra, mythology, and pranayam, our singing Santa Cruz sangha is always eager to be led through her teachings. Hannah’s classes are the most heavily attended classes at multiple Santa Cruz studios as she is truly able guide her students into experiential understandings of the energetic and spiritual body. Due to her awesome alignment cues, I am often surprised at my body as it eases into deeper versions of poses that I practice every day! Hannah’s blazing beauty does not even compare to the magnificence that is emitted from her heart. She is graceful and contained, and powerfully potent. Hannah is a dedicated practitioner of asana and studier of philosophy and Eastern medicine, but her commitment to daily sadhana (seated meditation practice) is what I know makes her such a rare and effective teacher. Although she would never admit it, Hannah is famous in Santa Cruz and the role she plays here is invaluable. The wisdom she shares helps me experience and remember my heart and I am forever grateful I trained to become a teacher with her. It has impacted every aspect of my career and my life.”

    -A.G.

Questions about Awake Heart YTT?

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