300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training
Advance Your Practice. Expand Your Teaching.
Take your yoga journey to the next level with Lift Yoga’s 300-Hour Advanced Teacher Training
— a flexible, community-driven program designed to refine your skills and deepen your teaching mastery.
Join us for a FREE VIRTUAL info session to meet Akasha and ask any questions you have about the program.
Zoom details will be emailed after registering below.
Why Choose Lift Yoga’s 300-Hour Training
This program is more than advanced poses or philosophy — it’s an exploration of how to embody yoga as a teacher, leader, and lifelong student.
You’ll learn from experienced lead trainers, connect with a supportive community, and choose from electives that align with your unique teaching path.
This program is for Yoga Teachers who have a 200-hour Yoga Alliance certification and want to deepen their understanding of the practice and develop further as a teacher. Designed to be flexible enough to work with your schedule with a variety of electives to fit your interests, but also structured enough to create a community of peers for support throughout the program.
The core content is divided between three 80-hour semesters. The remaining hours will be covered by attending three electives, chosen from a variety of topics offered throughout the year.
Modules typically run on the weekends, but some are longer or shorter depending on subject matter. Most modules will be held in our Johns Creek studio. Exceptions are noted.
Upon graduation, students will have completed all coursework necessary to register as RYT500 with the National Yoga Alliance.
300-Hour Course Information
SEMESTER PRICING: The tuition for each 80-hour semester is $1,200. Payment plans are available.
ELECTIVE PRICING: Each module is priced individually and varies depending on duration of the module and location. Payment plans are also available for all electives.
All three semesters and three electives must be completed within three years in order to graduate. Semesters can be attended in any order. Semesters will continue to rotate between the fall and winter timeframes beyond the dates listed below. Unless otherwise noted, hours for each weekend will be Saturday and Sunday 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Semester One:
The Inner Path — Ayurveda, Mantras, and Healing
- January 10-11, 2026: Mudras + Mantras, Intro to Ayurveda
- January 31-February 1, 2026: Ayurveda deep dive
- February 7-8, 2026: Trauma + Yoga with Holle Black
- March 7-8, 2026: Meditation + Pranayama
- April 18-19, 2026: Review, integration and wrap-up
Semester Two:
The Teaching Path — Functional Anatomy, Alignment, and Vinyasa
- September 12-13, 2026: Subtle Body + Chakra System
- October 3-4, 2026: Functional Movement + Anatomy
- October 5, 13, 21, 29, 2026: Understanding the Bhagavad Gita Virtual Training with Sheila Ewers
- November 7-8, 2026: Vinyasa Intensive + Art of alignment
- December 5-6, 2026: Review, integration and wrap-up
Semester Three:
The Leadership Path — Theming, Assisting, and Business of Yoga
- Jan 9-10, 2027: Theming + Sequencing
- February 6-7, 2027: Workshops + Retreats, Business of Yoga
- March 6-7, 2027: Assisting + Adjusting
- March 8, 26, 24, April 1, 2027: Exploring Sacred Texts: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Virtual Training with Sheila Ewers
- April 17-18, 2027: Review, integration and wrap-up
Electives
Choose 3 electives to customize your training — explore specialized modalities such as:
Electives will be added as needed and requested by our 300 YTT students.
meet THE YOGA TEACHER TRAINING FACULTY
Akasha Searcey, Lead Instructor
E-RYT500
Student of life, teacher of light. Devoted to the exploration of what it means to be human and present, to every single day of your life. She harnesses the gifts of yoga, nutrition, mindfulness, culture, adventure, emotion and life experience, to illuminate both where we are (not where we perceive ourselves to be) and where we can be (without our self imposed limitations). This truth is what Akasha calls: your level best and she is committed to helping her clients identify, achieve, and maintain it.
Sheila Ewers, Lead Instructor
E-RYT500
Sheila Ewers is an ERYT 500 and YACEP teacher certified through Yoga Alliance. She trained at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and has been practicing and teaching for more than 20 years. In 2011, she created Blue Lotus Yoga, LLC which operated in two physical location in Johns Creek and Duluth, GA, Under Blue Lotus, she also launched a comprehensive online studio platform and developed Sweet Tea Yoga Festival in Alpharetta, GA. She is a published author and served as Yoga Editor for Natural Awakenings Atlanta Magazine from 2019 through 2021.
Today, Sheila owns and operates SEEK Yoga and Travel, a full service yoga platform designed to help students and seekers of all sorts develop tools for deepening consciousness, developing connection and living lives of joyful embodiment. Sheila holds additional certifications in Meditation, Yin Yoga, Thai Yoga, Bodywork, and Yoga Nidra and has trained with dozens of internationally known yoga and meditation teachers. She leads Yoga Teacher Training at both the 200 and 300-hour levels, hosts retreats and workshops both domestically and internationally and provides spiritual and professional coaching. As a former Professor of American literature, Sheila loves to explore the intersection between philosophy, poetry, religion, nature, and yoga and often brings that synthesis into her work. She continues to take advantage of every opportunity to train and learn and will forever consider herself a student of this ancient and beautiful practice.
Holle Black
E-RYT500
Holle Black is the co-founder of Centering Youth, which empowers traumatized, abused, homeless, at-risk and underserved persons through Yoga and Mindfulness; and is also a co-founder and co-director the Center for Integrative Yoga Studies, which provides 200 and 500 hour therapeutic yoga teacher training programs that combine the latest research and methods
of yoga and therapy with traditional and innovative applications of meditation, biomedical and pain science. Holle is a 500 hour Certified Yoga Teacher( Yoga Alliance E-RYT500) and also has completed a 75 hour therapeutic internship of contact and non-contact hours with Pranakriya Yoga. In addition, she has completed trauma sensitive yoga training with Pranakriya Yoga and Street Yoga, along with 300 additional hours of trauma sensitive yoga training with David Emerson and the Trauma Center in Brookline, MA. Holle is a certified prenatal yoga teacher and certified kids yoga teacher. Holle is a Certified Yoga Therapist through IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists).