Have you reached your teaching plateau?
Mastered your entry level skills, gained some experience, but still feeling the gap between your clients potential and your ability to reveal it?
Clients return, rooms, and schedules fill up….. when YOU make the difference.
The difference is different.
It is a disruption.
It is where clients progress.
And, it takes a strong, confident leader to initiate it.
If you are up for building these skills as a professional in the yoga, pilates, weight lifting, fitness industry, this is the course you’ve been looking for!
The Assisting Advancement Course is a 50-Hour continuing education course, credentialed by the Yoga Alliance, and led by me, Laurie Rinard.
I am the founder of Vital Tree Co., a Certified Baptiste Yoga Leader, Body Alignment Coach, Certified Personal Trainer, ERYT500 and authorized YCEP provider. I am trained by masters, and in addition to credentialed certifications, I have 15 years of full-time, hands-on experience in the yoga/fitness industry. I facilitate one of Central Pa’s top Power Yoga Teacher Trainings and am the content developer and lead of the Assisting Advancement Course.
My career began as a Hands on Assistant at a very successful yoga studio. Class sizes ranged from 30-70 people consistently, and daily! 1-2 classes per week, for about 2 years, you can do the math on the number of bodies assisted!
I went on to complete a specialized hands-on assisting training with The Baptiste Institute and have continued to utilize my training, experience, and skills to facilitate profound learning in both group and 1:1 settings.
I developed this course to initiate the ascent of entry level trained teachers and coaches to powerful advanced leaders.
You will learn to:
Identify alignment in the body of your clients.
What is alignment? What does it look like? What does it not look like?
How to use your words to cause alignment.
The ability to generate action in a body with your language.
How to cause alignment with your touch.
Hands-on assists.
As the owner and operator of a yoga studio, I have mentored a number of yoga teachers over the course of a decade. What separates the good from the greats is the ability to make informed, impeccable cues, and assists.
Who is the Assisting Advancement Course for?
The Assisting Advancement Course is a graduate program that works with already certified yoga and fitness professionals.
You have field experience!
You work with clients and/or small groups, in studios and gyms.
You are seeing bodies move!
If you have ever had the experience of wanting to help your client but you’re not sure how…. This course is for you!
If you have ever felt like you are just going through the motions, saying what you know, and losing interest in the people right in front of you…. This course is for you!
If you are ready to scale to be a sought after instructor/trainer/coach….. This course is for you!
Program Promise:
To deliver dynamic physical leaders that demonstrate competency in body alignment and therefore the ability to initiate client progress and results through verbal and hands on assists.
Our time together will be spent:
Connecting through group discussion and demonstrations.
Course content lectures.
Journaling.
Partner work including: verbal assists and hands on assists.
Executing various assisting methods in a studio setting.
Personalized mentoring from master facilitator Laurie Rinard.
Course Schedule: 50 Hours
August: 8th: 8am-5pm
September 12th 8am-5pm
October 3rd 8am-5pm
November 7th 8am-5pm
Asynchronous Content (14 Hours)
Course Investment:
$1550.00 paid in full.
This course is in demand and due to the size of our studio, I do anticipate a sell out! Please use the links below to ask questions and apply!
I can’t wait to work with you, advance your teaching, and progress your countless clients!
Are you ready to….
Explore expertise in both teaching and leading?
Gain clear communication skills?
Understand the practical application of yoga, inquiry, and meditation?
Expand personally and professionally?
Become a Registered Yoga Teacher through the Yoga Alliance?
Earn income as a yoga leader?
ACCESS is an entry level training. While the training is delivered as a Yoga Teacher Training, it's actually an access point for anyone who wants to have greater access to being powerful in their life as a whole.
While you'll become more effective at leading people through yoga practices, you’ll also become effective at leadership in your job, in your home life, AND with yourself!
MEET YOUR LEAD.
Laurie Rinard is a Body Alignment Coach, Founder of Vital Tree Co. and Certified Baptiste Yoga Leader. She brings high levels of training, thousands of experience hours and skilled leadership to the table. Her as lived understanding of the yoga business, yoga practices, and the general ability to lead others elevates the ACCESS training and all who participate.
Yoga Alliance Approved:
The ACCESS 250-Hour YTT certification meets the requirements set forth by Yoga Alliance. Graduates can apply for 200-RYT certification through Yoga Alliance upon completion of the program
ACCESS Program Manual:
The ACCESS program manual is a comprehensive 278-page one of a kind workbook style program supplement curated by Lisa Taylor. The manual is designed to be completed throughout your 250-Hour YTT as well as future training and teaching years to come.
ACCESS Anatomy of Yoga Course:
Included in your ACCESS 250-Hour YTT is the Anatomy of Yoga Course developed by Philomena Behmer, DEd. Teaching since 1997, Philomena has served as Anatomy and Physiology professor at a local Health College and earned her doctorate in adult education at Penn State University in 2019. Her dissertation, Anatomy and Physiology as an Embodied Learning in a Yoga Teacher Training Program: A Mixed-Methods Study, was based on her experience creating and teaching this Anatomy and Physiology Course.
ACCESS Hybrid Learning Environment:
Our ACCESS program is delivered in a hybrid-format; a combination of In-Person & Live-virtual learning as well as self-paced asynchronous video on demand content as a means to access high-quality and immersive learning from anywhere in the world.
Asynchronous Learning Component:
Years of leading in-person trainings allowed us the opportunity to refine our delivery and learning methods into formats that work best for all types of learners. Deep-dive portions of the program were reformatted as asynchronous on-demand video content so trainees have the ability to learn at a pace that works for them.
Job Training:
The ACCESS program delivers training to develop a marketable skill that can advance you on your career path; both as a yoga instructor or in your current non-yoga related job role. The skills gained in the ACCESS program will allow for universal application so you can create the yoga career you desire.
Program Promise:
This program was designed to be results-driven. When you do the work as delivered in the ACCESS 250-hour yoga teacher training program we guarantee the ability to successfully lead students through a yoga practice upon completion of the program.
Community:
Trainees are given access to discord to communicate and connect with fellow trainees and open support from training leaders
ACCESS Program Creator.
The ACCESS 250-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Program was written and designed by World Class Yoga Instructor, and Boutique Fitness Business Expert, Lisa Taylor. A renowned member of the Baptiste Yoga Community and Vital Tree Co. Instructor with thousands of training hours, teaching, and program-leadership experience, Lisa is on the cutting edge of mind-body exploration and new program development.
Program FAQs
Is your program registered with Yoga Alliance?
Yes, our ACCESS 250-Hour YTT is an approved yoga certification program by Yoga Alliance.
Can I earn my certification online?
Yes! We offer a 100% online certification option. The program will be delivered using a combination of live-virtual and asynchronous learning. You’ll have the ability to connect in real time with training leads and fellow trainees remotely.
Can I register with Yoga Alliance upon graduation?
Yes. Upon graduation you will be issued your certificate of completion. With this, you will have the opportunity to register for 200 RYT through Yoga Alliance.
Do you need yoga experience to enroll?
No. Our program was designed for yoga and non-yoga enrollments. Everything you need to learn about yoga is provided within the teacher training program. We’ve actually had quite a few past graduates who enrolled in the training after their first ever yoga class and even without ever taking a yoga class.
Will I be Baptiste certified upon graduation?
No. While our program incorporates pieces of Baptiste Methodology you do not earn a Baptiste Yoga certification upon graduation.
FRIDAY: Zoom Meeting 5:00-9:00pm
SATURDAY: In Person Meeting @ Vital Tree Co. 8:00am-5:00pm
ASYNCHRONOUS CONTENT: On- demand content complete between training weekends.
Tuition: $3,999.00
Financing available through our partnership with paypal.
ACCESS Program Coordinator.
Kate Emenheiser will work closely with you from enrollment to graduation! She is the Membership Director and an instructor at Vital Tree Co. AND a graduate of the Access Yoga Teacher Training.
Graduate Statistics
100% of the Vital Tree Co. Teaching Team are ACCESS graduates
100% pursuing a career in teaching yoga have been hired by a studio
100% of trainees who complete the work as delivered in the program earn their certification
25% pursue a full-time career as a yoga instructor
65% pursue some form of career as a yoga instructor
40% enroll to deepen their personal practice
1 in 3 enrollees have no desire to teach upon graduation
20% enroll specifically for leadership and career skill development
25% of graduates continue to open their own business
20% have opened their own studio
20% enroll to develop skills to enrich their current wellness-based career
25% have earned a promotion in the career as a result of their skills gained
30% have pursued a new career within a year of graduation