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Explore Yoga’s Ancient Wisdom for our Modern Lives
Whether you study to better understand the depths of yoga for your own self-discovery, to become a certified yoga teacher, or to hone your craft once you become a teacher, Alchemy will change you.
three programs to transform your life
Yoga Teacher Certification Training
If you love yoga and want to share it, our 5-Star Yoga Alliance Certified Training is where you should look.
100% in-person, Hybrid, and Fully Online training available.
Enrolling: Summer Intensive Yoga Teacher Certification Training.
Hybrid, 6-month YTT begins 1/26
Deep Yoga
Get past your once or twice a week class. Learn everything that yoga has to offer your body, mind and heart. Get on a yoga path to improve your life.
No teaching involved.
Begin Fall 2025
Advanced YTT, Mentorship, & Community
Looking to freshen up your skills, learn more through advanced trainings, get one-on-one guidance, and recapture the community of your YTT? This is it
Module 3: 10/25
Module 1: 11/25
Mentorship:Personalized
You need yoga. The world needs you.
When I opened my studio, Shine Yoga, in 2015, all I knew was that yoga had guided me through recovery from stage 3 breast cancer and transformed my life in ways nothing else could.
During that time, I became more attuned to other people’s suffering—people in pain, overwhelmed, and disconnected from their potential. I realized that yoga could offer the same healing and transformation to others that it had given me.
And I thought, why not me?
So I opened a yoga studio and started teacher trainings.
A decade later, that suffering has deepened. My students come to me with grief, anxiety, depression, loneliness, and burnout.
We all need a path.
Every day at my studio, Shine Yoga, I see how powerfully yoga helps people reconnect with themselves and discover their innate capacity for healing.
Yoga is transformative
Alchemy, a division of Shine dedicated to deeper learning, is a response to our need for a guide, a path, a way forward and out.
For some of us, that path is through a deeper understanding of yoga. For me, teaching yoga was that transformative moment, and in the 17 years since my certification, maintaining my curiosity, knowledge, heart, and teacher community has kept me on that path.
Alchemy will help you navigate your path
Find what you most need through the three programs we offer.
What are you doing with your July? Come out the other side of the summer changed.
Currently enrolling: Summer Intensive Yoga Teacher Certification Training.
In Studio, M-F 10:30am-6:30pm, Saturdays 12-5pm, July 1-31.
Meet Your teacher
I opened Shine in 2015, when I was 41 years old, 3 years out from stage 3 breast cancer treatment. Yoga changed my life, allowing me to heal in ways nothing else did.
Shine is built on proof that yoga works.
Prior to cancer, my path took me through careers in Off Broadway and London's Fringe Theater, and as a professor of Comparative Literature and Writing at Rutgers University, University of Oklahoma, and Texas Tech.
In my 30s, I worked as a professional writer across public relations and marketing before landing in program development, implementation, and strategy. I spent eight years creating programs for Community Behavioral Health and Health Centers, serving as a liaison between federal government, university researchers, and healthcare providers.
My passion has always been developing programs that meet people exactly where they are, addressing their specific needs while honoring their unique journeys—just as I do with each student at Shine Yoga.
If you are in transition ( emotionally or practically), are an educator, or a student, our Summer Intensive yoga teacher training might be just what you need to find your path, and gain tools that can help you manage stress while gaining a second income doing something you love.
Check out how the training can especially help you, what people who have taken the training (and were in transition, or are students or teachers) gained from it, and the special elements that we’ve added to the program just for you.
Our graduate’s experience
“Easily one of the best decisions of my life!
The Yoga Teacher Training program was the perfect balance of building a solid foundation in the history and anatomy of yoga, yoga postures/sequences, and bringing heart into your teaching so that your students can take their experiences off of the mat and into their lives.
Not only did I feel confident and prepared enough to start teaching right after graduation, but I truly feel
changed as a person for the better after immersing myself in Alchemy: Shine Yoga's YTT.
The community Sara builds throughout the training assures that you are supported by the entire
group in your endeavors, and becomes a family by graduation!”
- Jackie H. Yoga Teacher Training Graduate class of 2024
On the Blog
Keep Learning! These are some of the things we cover in trainings.
Your Nervous System and Yoga: A Path to Balance and Healing
When the ancient yogis developed practices to calm the mind and energize the body, they didn't have MRI machines or knowledge of neurotransmitters. Yet somehow, they created a sophisticated system that modern science now confirms directly influences our nervous system in profound and healing ways.
Beyond the Shape: Discovering the True Essence of Asana
In a world where yoga is often reduced to impressive poses on Instagram, it's easy to forget that asana—the physical postures of yoga—were never intended to be destinations in themselves.
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Ready to take the next step in your yoga journey? Whether you're interested in deepening your practice, becoming a certified teacher, or advancing your teaching skills, I'm here to help you find the perfect path forward.