Become a Registered Yoga Teacher

with our home study online program

RYT 200 Online, Shin Somatics & Yoga Alliance

Eastwest Somatics is a Registered Yoga School

with Yoga Alliance

Sondra Fraleigh, director of the yoga certification program, is E-RYT 2000,

Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance at the advanced level with a minimum 1000 hours of teaching before 2002 and a minimum

of 1000 hours since then.

Catherine Schaeffer, an advisor of our yoga program, is E-RYT 500

and a yoga continuing education teacher through Yoga Alliance

and Eastwest.

Christina Marie Sears Etter, MFA & RYT 500, teaches our RYT 200 Program Online

with Flexible Home Study.

Inquire about adding 300 hours of advanced training at Eastwest to earn yoga 500.

man in meditation post looking out of the door at a horse

Photo: Eastwest Retreat at Ebbio in Tuscany

Special Features of Registered Yoga Teacher 500, Shin Somatics & Yoga Alliance

Shin Somatics and Yoga Alliance RYT 500 Certificate (200 + 300 hrs.)

First complete our online RYT 200 program.

RYT 500 requires eight levels of study at Eastwest and an experiential anatomy project. Yoga 500 is through Eastwest and Yoga Alliance. Students who complete Level 8 can be certified through Eastwest, ISMETA and Yoga Alliance. This certificate represents at least 200 + 300 contact hours, background studies, independent studies, and case studies. This level of study includes Yoga Restore Bodywork and the Home Study Program for 200 hrs.

*Inquire about becoming E-RYT, Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher through Eastwest and Yoga Alliance. This provides elegibility for becoming a teacher/trainer in certifying yoga teachers through Eastwest and Yoga Alliance.

RYT 200 Program on Zoom

Registration through Eastwest and Yoga Alliance

featuring online & flexible home study

This 8-month program begins in April of 202 with registration of new students at the beginning of each month.

Registered Yoga Teacher 200 with at least 200 hours of training in Shin Somatics® Yoga

Summary of hours:

180 Contact & Study hrs.

20 hrs of student teaching

Total of 200 Hours.

This program emphasizes several somatic forms: Land to Water Yoga, Adaptive Chair Yoga, and the challenges of Yoga Flow as conceived through somatic educational principles and therapeutic processes. It also includes the study of restorative yoga for trauma, yoga teaching methods, somatic leadership and interpersonal communication. Program teaches Yoga Techniques and Philosophy, as well as Experiential Yoga Anatomy. This program concentrates on somatic yoga and provides student teaching opportunities.

This concentrated program leads to RYT 200 with Eastwest Somatics and Yoga Alliance (Registered Yoga Teacher with at least 200 hours of training) The certificate for RYT 200 also qualifies students as - Shin Somatics Yoga 200 Teacher.

TUITION: $1750 for each 100 hrs.

Total Tuition $3500. Payment plans are available.

Non-Refundable Deposit of $349 to secure pricing.

Students in this specialized program for yoga qualify for RYT 200 and Shin Somatics Yoga Teacher 200 after completion of the program. Students can continue with Eastwest Somatics Institute for three certification workshops to add RYT 300 and quality for RYT 500 with Yoga Alliance.

The 200 hour certification option is oriented toward fulfilling Yoga Alliance requirements for those who wish to specialize and Register in Somatic Yoga.

young woman in yoga sitting pose, raching upward

Sondra Fraleigh in Yoga Cow Face

Christina Fraleigh in Tree Pose Seen from the front and standing on a rock in a lake

woman seen from the back, standing on one leg in yoga Tree Pose

DarbySheridan in Yoga Tree

Christina Fraleigh in Yoga Tree

Christina Marie Sears Etter, MFA & RYT 500, Offers RYT 200 on Zoom. Sondra Fraleigh, E-RYT 2000 Directs our Yoga Programs. Email, workshops@eastwestsomatics .com