Early Registration Pricing: $276 if Registered & Paid in Full by September 17

Regular Registration Pricing: $299 if Registered & Paid in Full after September 17

Late Registration Pricing: $322 at the Door

There will be a $25 enrollment fee for those wishing to work toward the 500-hr, Vinyasa Yoga Immersion. Student’s may include this fee to their Cultivate Your Practice program payment.

To make your payment & secure your space,

1.) Please bring a check or cash to the studio and slide it under Leah’s office door, clearly labeled with your name. Payments can be mailed as well, postmarked by due date to:

Barefoot Movement
1635 Broadway, 3rd Floor
Oakland, CA 94612

2.) Fill out the Registration Form

“Is this a teacher training program?”, “What happened to the Flow Yoga Teacher Training (FYTT)?”

Many yoga students come to a place where they want to take their practice to the next level. They feel the benefits of their practice and want a bigger understanding of what’s behind the content of the classes they attend, a deeper embodiment of the practice as a whole. Teacher training programs have become the default place to go for such students. Barefoot Movement’s Cultivate Your Practice and Vinyasa Yoga Immersion programs are meant to satisfy that need without the constraints of ‘becoming a teacher’.

Barefoot Movement used to offer “Flow Yoga Teacher Training” (FYTT), with levels I and II. Yet, we found that structuring our deepest level of study as a teacher training meant that we had to emphasize the “minimum you need to know” to teach public classes, instead of supporting practitioners to go deeper in their own practice.

The FYTT I teachers began to feel that the emphasis on minimum preparation for teaching was a disservice to the FYTT I participants and to the community of yoga practitioners in general, and even sometimes felt like we were rushing practitioners into teaching.

‘Becoming a yoga teacher’ is best when it comes as an organic evolution out of the student’s practice, and when their teacher suggests or agrees that they are ready. For those who are interested in pursuing this path, the VYI will help ground you in a depth of practice that is an authentic foundation for teaching.

“Will I be able to be certified to teach yoga?”

In the United States, there is no government regulation for yoga teachers’ qualifications. There have been yoga teachers since long before there were yoga teacher training programs. Some employers, particularly those who are not familiar with the practice of yoga themselves, require their yoga teachers to be registered with Yoga Alliance. Yoga Alliance holds a bare minimum standard for their registrants. Barefoot Movement is discontinuing our relationship with Yoga Alliance because we find these standards to be low and arbitrary. We will continue to offer certificates of completion for our full 500 hour Vinyasa Yoga Immersion. We believe that, in most cases, these certificates will satisfy potential employers’ need to verify a minimum level of training. They will not, however, make it possible to register with Yoga Alliance.

How do I know if my practice is advanced enough for the Cultivation Your Practice to be a good fit for me?

This program is for ALL INTERESTED STUDENTS. Chances are good that if the program is appealing to you, that you’re ready. Speak with one of the CYP faculty if you’d like to check in more thoroughly on this, send an email to set up a meeting or just catch one of us at the studio.

Arrive on Time

For your personal safety and as a courtesy to others, we encourage our students to arrive to class on time, to participate in the warm up, and to stay until the end. We usually lock the door at the top of the stairs 10 minutes into class for security reasons, and instructors are not available to let anyone in after that time since they are in the middle of leading their classes.

Stay for the Entire Class

If you do need to leave early for any reason, please inform the teacher before class begins. However, we do recommend planning to stay for the entirety of the class to receive the most benefit from your practice and to pay respect to to the practice itself, your commitment to your own practice, to the teacher and to your fellow students.

Cell Phones & Devices

Please do not use your cell phone during class to talk, text, etc.. We encourage you to silence your phone, rather than set to vibrate mode, or even turn it off entirely. That said, if you need to silence (no vibrate) your phone and leave it near your mat because you need to be ‘on call’ for whatever reason, we understand. Please check with the instructor first, before doing that, to let her/him know of your circumstance.

- For our Workshops & Programs

If you would like to take notes, please stick with pen and paper. We have found that it causes too much of a distraction both to the teacher and to the other students to use devices such as phones, tablets, computers for note taking. (It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly why it is more distracting than paper, perhaps because these devices are portals into the wide world web, regardless, thank you for honoring this request).

Scents and Smells

Practice good hygiene, please come to class clean. Also, because of other students’ allergies and/or sensitivities, we ask that you refrain from using any sort of scent including: lotions, essential oils, etc. before coming to class.

Do Not Chew Gum During Class

Attire

Be sure that your clothes actually clothe you. Shorts need to be long enough to cover ‘private parts’ no matter what the asana. It is appreciated when waist bands are high enough to keep the buttock region under wraps, even when in full forward bends. Holes located in unfortunate places need to be mended.

The Reception Area is a Quiet Zone

Use a soft voice while in the reception area, the sound does carry into the studios.

Avoid Drinking Water During Class

If you need to drink water during class, for any reason, by all means, please do so. As your practice becomes more advanced, more refined, water consumption during class will impede the benefits of the practice and, hence, your progress. Drinking water, or anything else, during class, falsely affects your temperature, gives the body something more to digest (really, the practice is enough), and serves as a distraction. Please do drink water after class!

Studio Mats and Props

You are welcome to use the mats and props in the studio. Please put them away ready for the next person to use; we provide mat cleaner and towels in each studio to wipe down the mats after use. Please put props away in an orderly way, for example laying blankets flat so that they stack easily. If you borrow a drinking glass, please clean and hang it to dry when you’re finished.