What Makes the Black Boys OM 200HR Yoga Teacher Training Different?

There are a lot of yoga teacher trainings out there. The 200-hour certification has become something of a standard in the wellness industry, and programs exist at every price point, in every format, across every style of yoga. So the real question for anyone considering this path is not whether a training exists. The question is whether the training was built with you in mind.

The Black Boys OM 200HR Yoga Teacher Training was.

The program is an 18-week, self-paced, Yoga Alliance-accredited training built on three pillars: Personal Practice, Effective Teaching, and Collective Care. That third pillar is where this training separates itself. Most 200-hour programs train you to teach yoga. This one trains you to teach yoga in community, with an understanding of what healing actually requires in the communities we come from.

The curriculum covers yoga history, philosophy and practice with a focus on Hatha and Krama Yoga, mind-body health, mental health and neuroscience, trauma-informed movement, meditation, Ayurveda, Black wellness, accessible yoga, breathwork, somatic movement, and social equity and healing justice. That is not a standard 200-hour curriculum. Neuroscience, somatic movement, healing justice, and Black wellness in the same program is a specific vision of what yoga education can be.

The training is designed to empower professionals and community leaders with the tools to integrate yoga, mindfulness, and culturally responsive practices into their work. That means the program is built for people who already care about their communities and want yoga to be part of how they serve them. Teachers, counselors, organizers, healers, parents, mental health professionals. 

The self-paced, on-demand format makes it accessible in a way that residential and intensive programs are not. You do not have to take a month off work or travel anywhere. You complete the training on your timeline, inside your life.

And the community that forms around it is real. Graduates consistently describe it as transformative, citing the integration of healing, liberation, and empowerment throughout the coursework, and the experience of being taught by Black men and practitioners who understood what it meant to create a genuinely safe space.

The training is open to all ethnicities and genders, with a specific focus on serving the healing of Black communities. That clarity of mission is something you feel throughout the program. 

If you are ready to deepen your practice, earn your Yoga Alliance certification, and learn to teach in a way that actually meets people where they are, this is the training for you.

Applications are open.