Satya Meditation and Yoga School is  delighted to offer our internationally acclaimed and accredited  200-hour yoga and meditation teacher training at The Studio Cleveland in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.

Come for healing, personal development, professional development, and overall growth and transformation in your life. 

Meet like-minded people from the area with an interest in spirituality, healing and yoga. 

Satya means truth.  Connect to your own inner truth through this sacred container for spiritual exploration.

This 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training offers true and effective immersive learning. 

Upon completion of this 200 hour professional certification, will be eligible to register with the Yoga Alliance as an internationally recognized 200 hour yoga and meditation instructor. 

YOGA & MEDITATION TEACHING CERTIFICATION 

 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSE

HEALING & COMMUNITY  

This internationally acclaimed and accredited 200-Hour yoga and meditation teacher training is curated for the  dedicated, spiritual, and open-minded yogi.  In this training you will dive deep into your personal spiritual practices; learn about the depths of yoga as an ancient science; and you will practice and study teaching  methodologies to safely and effectively share these practices anywhere  in the world as a registered and certified yoga instructor.   

This  program doubles as both a teacher certification course, as well as an  in-depth personal development, self-healing and quantum growth course.  

This 200 hour yoga and meditation teacher training heavily emphasizes the practices and teaching of yoga asana, pranayama, and meditation.  

With meditation being a significant focus throughout this training, this 200 hour program includes a minimum of one hour of meditation per day.  The ancient sages such as the Buddha and Patanjali strongly believed in the practice of meditation as a means to help people realize their True Nature.  Both Patanjali and the Buddha heavily emphasized concepts of awareness of breath, focused concentration of mind, and maintaining a balanced and equanimous mind.  We will practice this daily together. 

Yoga postures, also known as yoga asanas, help keep the body healthy, pure, clean and strong.  The postures aid in the detoxification process of the spiritual journey.  The postures help us to clear our body of physical, emotional, and energetic build-up. 

Intentional breathing exercises, also known as pranayama, help us to regulate our energy, focus, concentration, and awareness.  Breathing exercises are detoxifying in nature and prepare the mind to become more attuned to our true, subtle nature.

The  Satya Meditation and Yoga Teacher Training goes above and beyond to  ensure that each student has a working understanding and knowledge of  the ancient sciences of both meditation and yoga in practical and  applicable ways.  

This teacher training program offers some of  the most inclusive, accessible, extensive and authentic information  available on this side of the globe.  Inspiration from this course has been taken from the lineages of Hatha Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Vipassana  Meditation, with content brought directly from India and Costa Rica.  This course heavily focuses on the yin and yang aspects of the yogic  practices, as well as philosophy and the experience living as a  spiritual human on a spiritual journey in our modern society.    

This  training offers a proper foundation for teaching yoga and meditation  safely, confidently and knowledgeably with its comprehensive and  hands-on curriculum.  You will gain the tools and experiences needed to  carry the torch of yoga into the world. 

This course is  equally appropriate for this who wish to teach yoga as well as for  those who just want to deepen their practice and understanding of yoga and meditation.   

Upon completion of the training, you will  earn a 200-hour certificate and you will be eligible to register with  Yoga Alliance, the international yoga accreditation board for yoga  teachers, in the traditions of Hatha/Vinyasa yoga.   This program will also prepare you for future study within a 300- or  500-hour advanced yoga teacher training.  Students will receive  life-long mentoring and guidance from Sara Syed, E-RYT 1000+, lead teacher of this teacher training program.    

Read on to learn more about Satya Meditation and Yoga School's 200 hour curriculum and requirements for registration.

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Classes meet on Sundays from 8am - 5pm 

at The Studio Cleveland:

Class Meeting Dates:

November  - 12, 19

December - 3, 10, 17

January - 14, 21, 28
February - 4, 11, 18, 25

March -3, 10, 17, 24, 31

Lunch break from 10:45-12:30pm 

Address:

The Studio Cleveland

1395 W. 10th St. 

Cleveland, OH 44113

Yoga Philosophy, Yoga Lifestyle and Ethics 

• In-depth study of the Yamas & Niyamas, the ethical guidelines for living a healthy and more peaceful life
• Study and learn how to incorporate the philosophy of India's medical system, Ayurveda, into your life and teaching
• Create a diet and lifestyle that will create optimal health in your life based on the gunas and Ayurveda 
• Study the Yoga Sutras by Patanjali, the founder of modern yoga (2,500 BC)  
• Discuss ethics of being a yoga teacher, including the teacher's role as a community leader, the value of selfless service, and practicing honesty and non-harm
• Learn how to live a healthy, vibrant, and spiritually-aligned life that benefits yourself and the relationship in your life 

Techniques, Training, & Practice

• Safely practice and teach yoga postures (asanas)
• Learn the therapeutic and healing benefits of the various asanas 
• Explore modifications for poses and the use of props to make yoga safe & accessible to all students 
• Identify and cue proper alignment
• Offer safe and consentual hands-on adjustments and assistance
• Practice and teach various breathing exercises (pranayama) and meditation 
• Create balanced, safe, fun and meaningful class sequences that emphasize your talents 

Teaching Methods & Styles

• Experience various styles of yogic practices through experience: Hatha, Ashtanga Primary Series, Kundalini, Yin, Restorative, Pranayama, Yoga Nidra, and Meditation
• Teaching yoga for children, pre / post natal students.
• Find your voice; practice articulation, word choice, and mindful communication  
• Customize your teaching to serve special niches or population of choice 
• Practice savasana massage 
• Hold space for a class and others; learn how to be the best teacher you can be

Anatomy & Physiology

• Explore the subtle body energy systems in-depth including the chakra systems, nadis, masculine/feminine energy and more
• Study anatomy and physiology of the physical body 
• Learn how to be enhance your teaching with an understanding of the unseen body and how it works 
• Therapeutics of yoga: learn how to work with pain, injuries, and many health conditions

Practicum

• Practice structuring, sequencing, and teaching yoga classes
• Give and receive constructive feedback to and from peers (in the program and outside of program) to enhance your teaching awareness and ability 
• Receive personalized feedback from lead instructor on how to teach your best class 
• Plenty of practice teaching! 

The Spiritual Entrepreneur - The Business of Yoga

• Legal requirements as a yoga teacher 
• Basic tax information related to yoga teaching income 
• Learn marketing techniques, business exploration and more to help start a spiritually-focused and conscientious business model  
• Learn about the Yoga Alliance registry and membership 

Beyond the Yoga Alliance - Additional Areas of Study: 

• Teaching silent and guided meditation (Anapana)
• Basics of Sanskrit & Sanskrit names of asanas
• Astrology 101 and how to incorporate moon cycles, retrogrades and eclipses into your teaching
• Sound Healing Mini-Course 
• Seva - Selfless Service 
• Create a sadhana that supports your life and practice

Option 1 **Best Price**

$2,950 - Early Bird - Register and pay in-full before May 28, 2023

• Pay in-full with cash, check or Venmo (@thestudiocleveland)
  OR
• $500 Deposit (non-refundable; goes towards balance) 
• Four payments of $612.50
• Payments to be complete prior to early-bird end date (May 28, 2023) 

Option 2

$3,300 - Normal Rate - Register and pay in-full before November 12, 2023 (first day of class)

• Pay in-full with cash, check or Venmo (@thestudiocleveland)
  OR
• $500 Deposit (non-refundable; goes towards balance) 
• Seven payments of $400 
• To be paid in-full prior to the course start date (November 12, 2023) 

Option 3

$3,500 - Payment Plan - Register and pay in-full before March 31, 2024 (graduation day)

• $500 Deposit (non-refundable; goes towards balance) 
• Six payments of $500 
• To be paid in-full prior to graduation (March 31, 2024) 
• You may be removed from course if monthly payments are not received.

***You can register directly on this website****

It is important to realize the responsibility each student takes on upon completing a yoga teacher training.  Being a yoga teacher is a full-time lifestyle choice; the yoga teacher does not simply "clock-out" and live a "regular" life and then "clock in" to teach yoga.  Identifying as a yoga teacher is a commitment to living the yogi lifestyle (with best effort).  It's a commitment to continuous learning, practicing daily healthy habits, increasing your awareness and consciousness, practicing seva and so much more.  It's a commitment to a life of continual practice so you have experiential knowledge to pass down to the people you will one day call your students.  If you are inspired and guided to take this course, please be mindful of our requirements for serious students:

• You have experienced the healing and transformative benefits of yoga and meditation first-hand in your own life.
• You can work diligently and be self-directed.  Although you will be guided throughout this program, it is up to each individual student to show up and do the work.  You will get out of this program what you put into this program.  It is an investment in yourself.
• Make sure this is the right program for you! Read about our yoga teacher training and see if it resonates with you.  Read about the lead teacher, Sara Syed; meet and speak with Sara.  Make sure everything fits with you, including the time commitment to yourself and this program.  
• Be open-minded.  If we are lucky, not everything will go according to plan throughout this yoga teacher training!  Our human plan can not compare to the Divine plan in store for us.
• You can communicate effectively.  As the old adage goes, "ask and you shall receive."  It is only when we communicate our needs, challenges, and intent that change and transformation can occur.  The teacher can help you along your journey, but you must meet the teacher halfway.  
• Read as many of the books from the text list as you can.  Take as many yoga classes as you can (at least 100 throughout the program), with as many different instructors and varieties as possible.  This will help you on your journey of becoming a yoga teacher. 

Please bring these books to the training either in physical or electronic form.  I recommend reading these books as early as you can to start preparing for the training.  You will also receive a 350+ page digital copy of our 200 hour teacher training manual.  This manual will be sent to you via email before the course.  You will have the option to print the manual via FedEx (or any printing service) in your home town and bring to class with you. I will email you more information about the manual. 

• The Yamas & Niyamas - Exploring Yoga’s Ethical Practice - Deborah Adele 
• Yoga Sutras of Patanjali – Swami Satchidananda
• Yoga Sequencing - Designing Transformative Yoga Classes - Mark Stephens
• The Key Muscles of Yoga - Ray Long 

Books available for purchase at The Studio Cleveland.  You may also access these books from the library or elsewhere.

Recommended Books:
(To be read during this lifetime)

• Teaching Yoga - Mark Stephens
• Light on Yoga - BKS Iyengar 
• The Yogi Entrepreneur: A Guide to Earning a Mindful Living through Yoga - Darren Main
• The Subtle Body Coloring Book - Cyndi Dale & Richard Wehrman
• The Bhagavad Gita - Introduction and Translated - Eknath Easwaran
• The Art and Business of Teaching Yoga - Amy Ippoliti & Taro Smith  
• Yoga Body - Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D., P.T.
• Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul - Sharon Gannon & David Life
• Yogi Assignment - Kino Macgregor 
• You Can Heal Your Life - Louise Hay
• The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo
• The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success - Deepak Chopra 
• The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield 
• Myths of the Asanas - Alanna Kaivalya & Arjuna van Der Kooji 
• Ayurveda The Science of Self Healing - Dr. Vasant Lad 
• Yoga & Ayurveda - Dr. David Frawley 
• Eatern Mind, Western Body - Anodea Judith 
• A Course in Miracles
  

• 1000+ Hour Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher, Since 2014
• Completed six, 10-day silent meditation retreats (including service) 
• Owner, Lakewood Yoga - Yoga Studio, Lakewood, Ohio, 2022
• 300 Hour Registered Yoga School Lead Instructor, 2022 
• 200 Hour Registered Yoga School Lead Instructor, 2018
• Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider - YACEP, 2018
• Owner, The Studio Cleveland - Yoga Studio & Wellness Center, Cleveland, Ohio, 2018 
• Attended first 10-day silent meditation retreat in the Buddhist lineage (Vipassana), 2017
• 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Graduate - Yoga Darshanam, Mysore, India, 2016
• Master's of Science in Education; Curriculum & Instruction - The University of Akron, 2016
• 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Graduate - Costa Rica, 2014 
• Bachelor's of Science in Psychology - John Carroll University, 2013

Sara started her yoga practice during high school in 2008, while struggling with drug & alcohol addiction, anxiety, eating-disorders, childhood trauma and depression. 

After a few years of consistent meditation and yoga, Sara discovered a glimpse of healing while meditating on her chakras and practicing yoga.  This glimpse of healing inspired Sara to pursue her yogic endeavors whole-heartedly.  Sara knew she was healing when she found herself crying in savasana after every yoga class; finally able to process repressed emotions left unacknowledged for so long.   

Sara learned how to use crystals and studied the chakras intensively on her own (she had no chakra teachers as this was not mainstream information yet). Through her study of the chakras, Sara learned how to access the root cause of her addiction, mental disorders and overall mental chaos and suffering.   

Sara discovered that her addiction was simply a symptom for an inability to cope, process and handle hard emotions.  Sara realized she had not allowed herself to feel up until this point in her life.   

She truly experienced an ego death; what she thought was her truth and her life crumbled before her eyes. She used imagery of the transformative process of the life cycle of a butterfly to give her strength--she knew she was evolving from her centipede self to a beautiful butterfly, but at this time, she felt very much like she was in a dark and scary cocoon of the unknown.  

Sara realized that yoga helped silence her problematic ego. She used yoga as a means to clear out the baggage she had been carrying around for her entire life. She emptied herself and her vessel to carry out the higher power's will instead of her own.  Sara realized that not being able to do certain poses in yoga was humbling.  She learned about ethical living, making amends with her past and the people she had hurt (including herself). She learned to live authentically and with integrity.   

It was a long, arduous and deep inner journey.  

This path eventually led Sara to attend her first yoga teacher training in Cahuita, Costa Rica, in 2014.  She shared yoga freely (without charge) for a solid year after yoga teacher training to the students and staff at The University of Akron. This helped her immensely as a new teacher so she could have students to practice her newfound skill of teaching what she had learned. Sara believed in giving back what yoga gave to her.  Since then, Sara has spent thousands of hours teaching yoga and meditation at elementary schools, high schools, universities, fitness centers, local festivals, and at yoga studios. Her most meaningful experience has been teaching under-served populations such as in inner city schools in Akron and in Cleveland, at juvenile detention centers, drug and alcohol treatment centers, and at mental health facilities.   

Professionally, Sara worked as a mental health case worker for two different organizations.  She saw that yoga would be a viable solution to help the clients, but these organizations were not yet open to offering holistically-oriented solutions so Sara instead pursued teaching High School English.  Sara found that the high school students suffered from mental disorders such as anxiety, depression and low self-esteem. The public schools at the time were more concerned with the common core and standardized testing than with helping the students develop real-life personal development skills, so she left the public sector to study yoga more in-depth.    

Sara knew self-study was an important factor in being able to help and serve others, and she knew she had a lot more she needed to learn still, despite her already adventurous travels and studies throughout Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Sara had spent all of her free time volunteering with children in these countries, teaching English, volunteering with animal rehabilitation sanctuaries, and of course, teaching yoga to locals and other travelers. in 2016, Sara left for a three-month solo journey to India where she completed an advanced 300-hour yoga teaching training program at Yogadarshanam Ashtanga/Hatha yoga school in Mysore, India. Sara also studied at the K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute under Saraswathi Jois for half of a month. She spent the rest of her time in India studying the culture and practicing to surrender to the divine.   

In 2017, Sara's spiritual development took a whole new route; she started practicing Vipassana meditation in the lineage of the Buddha as taught by S.N Goenka. These courses require its students to practice silent meditation from 4:30am - 9pm, with few breaks throughout the day. This is a completely silent course with the last meal being at 11:00am. Sara lived like a partial monk at these retreats. Since, she has completed three 10-day courses, one 8-day Satipatthana Suta course, and she has selflessly served for two 10-day course, spending a total of almost 60 days of her life in complete silence, introspection and meditation (in this practice alone).   

Sara purchased The Studio Cleveland, a wellness center located in the heart of Downtown Cleveland, in September, 2018.  Sara's goal was to extend The Studio Cleveland's existing reach so that more people could benefit from its spiritual and healing offerings. Sara strives to make The Studio Cleveland an inclusive and authentic resource for any human seeking inner peace.  

Sara started hosting 200 hour yoga and meditation teacher trainings in April 2019. Since then, her trainings continue to grow and evolve with each cohort. She now offers a 50 meditation intensive and teacher training continuing education program as well as various other workshops & events throughout the year. Sara has a special place in her heart for traveling so she honors that by hosting regular, semi-annual wellness retreats both locally and internationally.   

Since 2022, Sara has been approved to also host 300 hour yoga and meditation teacher trainings via the Yoga Alliance, and purchased her second yoga studio called Lakewood Yoga.

Sara has also grown and developed an accessible, donation-based yoga for every BODY beach yoga offering throughout the summer months in Cleveland, Ohio, where thousands of students receive donation-based teachings outside in nature in the most beautiful parks throughout Cleveland, where Sara lives.

On her free time, Sara enjoys spending time in nature with her husband, traveling, and being at home with her cat.

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• Students are required to attend 100% of scheduled class meeting times**
• Phone usage should be limited to break periods so that you can remain focused and aware on the content and practices during our time together.
• Students will arrive on-time for classes.  
• This is an interactive course and students are expected to participate in discussions.
• Homework will be given periodically to review the content previously studied.  
• Students will be required to track and record 100 practice hours (any style of yoga, including asana, meditation, seva, kirtan, jnana, pranayama, etc.). 100 Practice hours can be completed at our studio free of cost, or at a studio of your choice (you would be responsible for paying for out-of-studio costs), or at home.  The 100 practice hours requirement will be discussed more in person.  Students will also be required to practice teach for 50 hours outside of the course.  
• **(Although 100% attendance is strongly recommended, we understand that life is real and things happen;  If there are any scheduling conflicts that arise during the course, discuss with the lead instructor, Sara Syed, as soon as possible to discuss modifications.  If you are running late, you are expected to inform Sara as soon as possible).   

To qualify for graduation, students will: 

• Attend all classes (unless when there is a permitted, excused absence)
• Be punctual for classes (unless when there is a permitted, excused tardy)
• Complete the final exam  
• Teach a yoga class 
• Balance paid in full prior to graduation

• We can refund your payment 100% up to one month prior to the course start date.  One month prior to the scheduled course start date, there will be no refunds issued.  
• If for some reason you cannot complete the course, we can roll your payment over to be used for a future teaching training course at The Studio Cleveland 
• **Please email info@thestudiocleveland.com with any questions and inquiries or call/text Sara at 440-429-6914