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Best Online Yoga Teacher Training
Our Mission
Accessibility, Affordability & Authenticity™
Our mission at Online Yoga School is to make online yoga teacher training affordable and accessible to anyone who wants to deepen their knowledge in yoga or become a yoga teacher while preserving the authenticity of ancient yogic wisdom.
Not only do we have thousands of hours of training behind us, but we practice and teach regularly. Finding inner peace while building inner and outer strength is something that we hold true to ourselves. It has been our honor to train and certify thousands of yoga teachers internationally over the past decade.
Online Yoga School's Teaching Philosophy
Accessible Yoga
At Online Yoga School, we are all about accessible yoga. We believe that yoga poses aren't one-size-fits-all. In fact, we take the opposite approach. All bodies are unique and everyone's story is different. This is why we all move in our own ways and we aren't meant to all look the same in any given yoga posture. We believe in supporting our yoga practice with all the necessary tools to experience the benefits of the posture. When you take our 200 hour, 300 hour, 500 hour, prenatal or children's yoga teacher training, you will learn the importance of accessibility in yoga and how to adapt the postures in appropriate ways.
Founder and Lead Trainer of Online Yoga School and Yoga & Ayurveda Center
Steph Ball-Mitchell
E-RYT-500, RPYT, RCYT, YACEP, CAADC
Steph has 25 years of experience in yoga and movement. Her understanding of yoga and the human body has been influenced by lifelong dancing and holistic health. She found her life's purpose in helping people become happier and healthier through her own healing journey. Steph assists her students in knowing the joy and wonderment of integrating the mind and body. She encourages an authentic and life-nurturing practice, one that brings greater consciousness to each moment and every movement of the body with a heavy emphasis on breath.
With a masters degree in counseling, Steph brings awareness, acceptance and a down to earth approach to her classes. She completed her second 200-hour training with Nancy Candea at Yoga Impact in New Jersey and her 300-hour training with Chris Loebsack at Boundless Yoga Studio in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. The perpetual student, Steph has studied with Leslie Howard, Travis Eliot, Bryan Kest, Maty Ezraty, Donna Farhi and countless others. She has extensive training in pelvic floor yoga, restorative yoga, yin yoga, power yoga and accessible yoga. Most recently, Steph was certified as a Grand Master of Meditation through Swami Vidyanand.
Steph founded Yoga and Ayurveda Center with her husband. They launched Online Yoga School to support their local trainings and have recently launched a virtual yoga studio to accommodate the international community of trainees.
When she isn't on her mat, Steph can be found volunteering, enjoying her husband and children, dancing and cooking. She previously enjoyed serving on the Education Committee of Yoga Alliance and places a strong emphasis on inclusivity in her teacher trainings.
Registered Yoga School
Yoga Alliance
Our yoga school is Yoga Alliance registered which means that as a graduate of our school, you can register as a Yoga Alliance teacher. We are approved for the RYS-200 (200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training), RYS-300 (300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training), RPYS (85-Hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training) and RCYS (95-Hour Children's Yoga Teacher Training).
We also offer continuing education hours for yoga teachers that are registered with Yoga Alliance. (All Courses are open to everyone). Get certified in yin, restorative, ayurveda, meditation and more.
About Online Yoga School
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ONLINE YOGA SCHOOL'S HISTORY
Our Story
Online Yoga School is the Original Online Yoga School! Long before the pandemic and global shift to online spaces in the yoga community, we've been offering our yoga teacher training programs online. It's always been our mission to make yoga teacher training affordable and accessible to people and populations that haven't had access to yoga teacher training historically.
Yoga comes to us from India. Traditionally, students would stay at the ashram with their guru for an unspecified period of time to study yoga. It often took many years for the guru to decide that the student was ready to teach. Students would pay for their yoga teacher training in service during these times, possibly taking care of the animals or the land in exchange for the guru's time and mentorship.
Yoga started migrating to the Western Hemisphere and yoga teacher training started to change. Krishnamacharya, the father of modern yoga, had three pupils that brought yoga to the U.S.. BKS lyengar brought the alignment and prop-based lyengar style of yoga, K. Pattabhi Jois brought Ashtanga and Indra Devi brought a Hatha-based classical style of yoga to the U.S.. Eventually, the students of lyengar, Jois and Devi wanted to become yoga teachers and began training under their guidance.
In 1999, the official 200 hour yoga teacher training model emerged. An article published by a doctor found that yoga and meditation were helpful in revising damage from heart disease. There were suddenly many doctors and nurses who wanted to become certified as yoga teachers and a model was put into place for them to get their certification in 200 hours. They already had significant knowledge of the human body and lots of prior anatomy. Yoga Alliance adopted the model and made that the standard for anyone and everyone who wanted to become certified as a yoga teacher.
From there, yoga was commoditized in this part of the world. Yoga teacher training programs cost thousands and thousands of dollars which meant that a prerequisite to become a yoga teacher was having disposable income. This acreated an accessibility issue for a larger percentage of the population. Marginalized communities did not have access to yoga teacher training and therefore these communities lacked yoga classes. As a result, there were a lot of underrepresented populations in the yoga community.
This is why we put our yoga teacher training programs online at such affordable prices. We want everyone who wants to become a yoga instructor to have the opportunity to get certified as a yoga teacher. It's been an honor to bring accessibility and affordability to yoga teacher training while upholding the authentic ancient wisdom of this sacred practice.
Online Yoga School is also connected with
World Yoga Federation
World Yoga Federation provides International Certification, recognition, registration to Yoga Teacher, Yoga Studios, Yoga Schools, Yoga Organizations, Yoga Federations and Yoga Institutes, worldwide.
As well as being aligned with
BYTA Black Yoga Teachers Alliance
BYAT is a collective of yoga teachers who share the peace and power of yoga to support better physical and emotional health and well-being for all.
See What Our Students Are Saying
Online Yoga School Reviews
Amazing
My favorite part, aside from being able to work thru the program at my own pace were her webinar Q & A sessions. So many thoughtful questions under so many topic headings, she took the time to explain things, often from technical as well as philosophical point of view. I am already looking at what else is offered and am working on a chair yoga continuing education class.
Elizabeth Schmidt
Highly recommend
Excellent course with knowledgeable and empathetic instructors!
Vickie S Ives
AMAZING
I've learnt so much from doing this course, and continuing to use this and go back to when I need any questions answered. Steph and her team are amazing, and really helped along the way.
Isabel Tucker
Grateful
This was the best thing that came our of 2020 and COVID-19. I can not be more thankful for Steph and her staff. I know I still have a lot to learn but I have learned an amazing amount from taking this course and I can not wait to share and teach. I am forever grateful to my family and friends for all their support and extremely grateful to Steph for giving me this opportunity. I am looking forward to taking more courses with Steph. Thank you.
