Our program meets (and exceeds) the requirements set up by the Yoga Alliance and when you graduate from TULA, you will be able to use the ‘RYT-200®” (registered trademark) designation.

Yoga goes beyond the physical postures and beyond the mat. Will we teach you to lead a great yoga class? Of course! But beyond that, we will teach you to learn about yourself, to embody the teachings of yoga, in and outside the studio, through yoga philosophy, through formal (meditation) and informal mindfulness practices and you will learn how to integrate these ancient teachings into and apply them to your modern life.

When you join our training, you are also joining a community 14+ years in the making. We offer many, many opportunities to socialize and gather (book clubs, happy hours, volunteer opportunities, sound-baths & many other special events) so that we can continue to learn and grow from each other within this beautiful, special neighborhood space.

We were the first yoga studio to offer one of the ONLY partial scholarships for self-identified people of color in Chicago. We are serious about our role in helping to make yoga more diverse and more accessible to all. To be able to continue do this, we rely on full-paying people to join our program as well.

We have created a program that includes many timely and relevant topics to the industry today that are not always covered in typical 200-hour trainings such as: Trauma-Informed Yoga, Yoga Accessibility and the Business of Yoga.

We aim to stay informed about new developments, new science, and new yoga history that is always being discovered and are able to add to and change topics, as appropriate, to be most relevant and timely. This is why we tend to change our Book list from year to year - to ensure you get the most accurate and up-to-date information.

If you look at our current team, many of them were trained here. Just about all of our subs were trained here. We offer you an opportunity to teach here as soon as you graduate. Not yet ready to teach a public class? We will mentor you, until you are.

As a TULA training graduate, we will be life-long supporters of your individual yoga journey.

Our training sessions are held on evenings and weekends to be accessible to working professionals. We also offer payment plans and the aforementioned BIPOC scholarships.

We have a built-in mentorship program within the training where you will have the opportunity to learn from real, live public classes and work one-on-one with professional yoga teachers on sequencing and class management and we will never ask you to teach classes for free.

We keep the trainings small and intimate by design. We believe in quality over quantity. You will have plenty of opportunities to work one-on-one with our teachers, throughout the program and beyond.

Here are a few quotes from some of our graduates:…

"Tula Yoga Studio is a GREAT place to complete the yoga teacher training. The staff was always available to help/answer questions. The amount of resources made available to the trainees is wonderful. The studio owner is beyond amazing and I would recommend that anyone in the Chicagoland area complete their training at Tula."

"At the end of the 6-month training, I personally felt nervous but also that I had the building blocks to teach a class. Our class was also diverse in many ways. If you're looking for diversity, this program offers a limited amount of scholarships for people of color. I would definitely recommend to others."

"Tula is wonderful studio that has fostered a supportive, welcoming community of teachers and students. My time/energy were well spent and I look forward to an ongoing fruitful relationship with the studio!"

"Tula Yoga Studio's teacher training program is an amazing experience! You learn so much about yoga history, anatomy, how to safely teach poses, and how to be a yoga teacher. The teachers in the program are amazing - they have a large knowledge base and are very supportive and available to the teacher trainees throughout the training. The community at Tula is warm and open and you feel that throughout the program. I'm so grateful to have been a part of the teaching training at Tula!"

(Full Reviews of our program at Yoga Alliance)