Applications for Cohort XII close 30 November · Apply now
A training group in a studio, mid-practice in warrior pose

Learn to teach what you practise.

200-hour teacher training · Yoga Alliance RYT-200

Eleven months, weekends and two residentials, with the same three teachers from the first day to the last.

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Next cohort16 Jan 2027
Places24
Format11 weekends
Graduates412

Six modules, one long apprenticeship

You won't be handed scripts. You'll learn why a class is built the way it is, then build your own and teach it to the group every month.

I

Foundations of practice

Daily practice, the standing sequence, how to observe a body before you adjust it.

36 hrs
II

Anatomy in movement

The spine, hips and shoulders as a teacher needs them. Taught with a physiotherapist.

30 hrs
III

Breath and nervous system

Pranayama, rest, and teaching breath to people who are anxious about it.

24 hrs
IV

Texts and lineage

The Yoga Sutras and Hatha Yoga Pradipika, read slowly, in small groups.

28 hrs
V

Sequencing and voice

Building a class from a single idea. Cueing, pacing, silence.

40 hrs
VI

The practicum

You teach real classes in our studio, observed, with written feedback after each one.

42 hrs
Total contact hours200
A group practising tree pose together on a beach at dawn
Residential weeks · Cornwall, May and September

A day at the residential

The faculty

Helen Ward

Director · E-RYT 500

Has led every Northfield cohort since 2009. Teaches modules I, V and VI.

Dr. Sam Okafor

Anatomy · MCSP physiotherapist

Clinical physiotherapist who teaches anatomy through the practice, not the textbook.

Priya Nair

Texts & breath · MA Sanskrit

Reads the source texts with you in translation and in the original, line by line.

Dates & fees

CohortStartsFormatFeePlaces
XII · Weekends16 Jan 202711 weekends + 2 residentials£3,4504 left
XIII · Intensive5 Jul 20274 weeks, residential£3,900Open
XI · WeekendsSep 2026In progress—Full

Pay in full or across ten monthly instalments. Two bursary places each cohort.

How to apply

1

Write to us

A short form: your practice, why now, and what you hope to teach.

2

A conversation

Thirty minutes with Helen, on video or in the studio. Questions both ways.

3

Your place

A £450 deposit holds it. The reading list arrives the same week.

Cohort XII · four places left

The teacher you'll become starts in January.

Applications close 30 November. Most applicants hear back within a week.

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