Be Inclusive Yoga
Teacher Training

Vermont 2025

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What’s special

We are a yoga and well-being teacher training program focused on restoration justice and liberation. Our program explores cultivating inclusive environments for all humans and all bodies. Learn to teach yoga and meditation, engage in community dialogue, and develop your home practice with an intersectional lens. Create accessible practices for yourself, friends, clients, and students. 

  • Cultivate flexibility for life's up and downs

    Creating safety

    Building a home practice

    Breathing and stress reduction techniques

    Present-moment awareness

    Remedies to work from home posture

    Accessible sequencing

    Build strength for arm balances

    Craft language for all bodies

    All bodies are good bodies

    Gender affirmation

    Claiming your voice

    Trauma-informed practice

    Learning when to step up and when to step back

  • Attaining a certain body shape or size

    Diet culture

    Achieving a perfect posture/pose

    Pushing without inner awareness

    Competition and comparisons

    Modifications as “less than” versions of poses

    A "typical" mainstream yoga class

  • You will connect with like minded people

    Be supported with lots of one-on-one instruction along the way

    Find a version of yoga and wellness that works for you

    Your voice is important and none of your questions are silly

    You will be supported as you transition out of the training program to apply what you have learned. We have graduates that go on to teach in yoga studios but many incorporate the program into their lives through coaching, fitness, corporate workplace, volunteer, or speciality niche communities. We are here to support you achieve your dreams, not to mold you into one of “our” yoga teachers.

    You will be celebrated

  • We seek to understand how sexism, racism, and other forms of oppression get internalized in our bodies and how to use the practice of yoga to help you heal.

Deepen your practice with other like-minded individuals and/or learn to teach with an intersectional lens.

An opportunity of a lifetime! Spend a week in August and a weekend in October in Vermont, surrounded by nature, new friends, and top notch faculty. We only accept eight to ten humans into this program. Your teacher to student ratio means you will have an immense amount of support.

Initial 200-hour program can also count for teachers working towards a 300 hour program. Set up a free consultation call with one of our team members.

Where: The Black Door Barn Retreat in Brattleboro, Vermont 
Includes:

  • 1 x 8-day in-person Teacher Training immersive

  • 4 x weekly Zoom classes

  • Virtual suite with class recordings, playlists, pose descriptions, sequences, manual. 

Sleeping Arrangements

Option 1

A complimentary space at The Black Door Barn Retreat. First come, First choice. Space is limited. Upon registration, you have the option to pick your top sleeping space preferences if you wish to stay onsite. The sooner you register, the more likely you are to receive a space and your top choice!

If you are signing up with a friend with whom you’d like to room, you both should note that in your registration room choice. 

Option 2

A sleeping arrangement of your choice, whether you’re a local and wish to sleep at home or stay offsite nearby in accommodations of your choosing.

Land Acknowledgement

The Black Door Barn Retreat home was built on Abenaki land, stolen from the tribe by European settlers in the 17th and 18th centuries. As part of our acknowledgement a portion of the proceeds will go to the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi in Swanton, VT.

Arrival Times

If you are staying at the Black Door Barn Retreat or traveling a distance, we request that you arrive at the August Immersion I at 5 p.m. ET on Saturday, August 10th. We request that you arrive at Immersion II at any time on Thursday, October 3rd. If you are staying at The Black Door Barn Retreat, doors open at 6 p.m. that day.

Accomodations

Blackdoor Barn Retreat Arrangements* 

Room One: King Bedroom (Sleeps 1-2)

Room Two: Twin Bunk (Sleeps 2)

Room Three: Twin Bunk + Single Twin (not pictured) (Sleeps 3)

Option Four: Tent in locally made Vermont Cottage Camp Structure (2 individual tents, sleeps 1 in each)

*This is a brand new retreat home. Photos are approximate; details subject to change.

Faculty

FAQs

  • The training will take place in West Brattleboro, Vermont; you will receive the exact address upon registration.

  • Local airports:

    Worcester, MA (ORH) [71 miles]
    Albany, New York (ALB) [81 miles]
    Bradley International Airport in Hartford, Connecticut (BDL) [82 miles]
    Manchester, New Hampshire (MHT) [91 miles]
    Boston Logan International Airport (BOS). [112 miles]

    Once you reach the airport, you will need to rent a car or find other transportation to The Black Door Barn Retreat in Brattleboro, Vermont.

  • No, you do not have to be “good” at yoga. The requirement to apply for this program is a willingness to learn. Especially to learn how systems of oppression keep us from achieving our true potential, how diet culture holds us back from body acceptance, and how to align your yoga practice with social and restorative justice.