Yoga Alliance Registered 200 Hour Teacher Training
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training
14-Day Intensive
A Yoga Alliance registered 200 hour teacher training in Vinyasa, Waterfall Sequencing, nervous system informed teaching, and embodied leadership. Begin with self paced online foundations, then join us in Las Vegas for a 14 day in person immersion.
April 4th-18th, 2027 | Las Vegas, NV
This is not a memorize and repeat yoga training.
Root Yoga School teaches you how to understand the structure underneath a powerful yoga class.
You will learn how to build intelligent sequences, read the room, support different bodies, use your voice, create safer spaces, and teach from a place that feels grounded, clear, and fully your own.
This is where yoga teacher training becomes more than learning poses.
It becomes learning how to hold a room.
What Makes This Training Different
You will learn how to build a complete class from the ground up, including opening, warm up, progressive sequencing, peak structure, cooldown, integration, and closing. You will understand why each piece is there and how to adapt it.
Class Architecture
Real Teaching Practice
You will teach throughout the training, not just at the end. You will practice cueing, timing, transitions, voice, demonstrations, modifications, and receive feedback so you leave with actual teaching experience.
Waterfall Sequencing Method
Root teaches a progressive sequencing method where postures, transitions, breath, and themes build on each other instead of feeling random. This gives your classes a clear arc, rhythm, and purpose.
Nervous System Based Facilitation
You will learn how to teach with pacing, consent, choice, regulation, grounding, and awareness of activation and shutdown. This is not just about teaching poses. It is about understanding the people in the room.
What You’ll Learn
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Somatic Vinyasa
Breath led movement, foundational postures, somatic cueing, accessible transitions, and regulation through practice.
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Waterfall Sequencing
Class arcs, peak pose preparation, layered movement patterns, creative transitions, and hidden themes.
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Anatomy and Functional Movement
Alignment, major muscles and joints, safe transitions, modifications, prop use, and accessibility.
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Nervous System Informed Teaching
Stress response basics, window of tolerance, trauma informed language, consent, choice, and grounding tools.
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Yoga Philosophy and Practice
The 8 limbs, yoga history, ethics, meditation, pranayama, and how to weave meaning into modern classes.
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Teaching Practicum
Cueing, class planning, voice, presence, practice teaching, feedback, and refinement.
What You’ll Master
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Teach a complete Vinyasa class
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Build intelligent sequences using Waterfall Sequencing
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Cue clearly and confidently
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Offer modifications for different bodies
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Lead breathwork, meditation, and grounding practices
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Understand basic anatomy and nervous system principles
Graduate with a Yoga Alliance registered 200 hour yoga teacher certification
Your training doesn't just end with a certificate. It ends with credentials recognized by the world's largest international yoga credentialing organization. Opening doors on every continent.
Meet Your Lead Instructor
Danielle McCafferty
Founder
Danielle McCafferty is the founder of Root and Root Yoga School, an E RYT 500, YACEP, published author, trauma informed yoga and breathwork educator, and creator of the Root 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training and Root 20 Hour Breathwork CEU.
With over 10 years of teaching experience, Danielle has taught in studios, behavioral health facilities, private sessions, community events, and professional trainings. Her 200 hour curriculum is the culmination of a decade of teaching, studying, traveling, facilitating, and working with real people in real rooms. She began writing the official Root Yoga School textbook 4 years ago, weaving together years of global study across Costa Rica, Greece, Bali, Italy, India, Thailand, Ireland, and beyond.
Her work blends yoga, somatics, breathwork, sequencing, nervous system education, trauma informed care, and embodied leadership. Danielle believes yoga is not a performance. It is a relationship with yourself. All bodies are welcome in the room: the flexible bodies, the stiff bodies, the nervous bodies, the grieving bodies, the strong bodies, and the “what the hell am I doing here?” bodies.
Her teaching style is grounded, direct, science informed, emotionally intelligent, and deeply human, with humor, grace, love, and the occasional swear word. She helps students learn how to teach real people in real rooms with confidence, clarity, care, and authenticity.
Learn how to lead a class with structure, presence, and confidence.
Sample Daily ScheduleArrive & Meet
As everyone arrives, we take time to settle in, get comfortable, and begin connecting with those around us. The journey starts here.
Morning Practice8:00am
Training Lecture/Anatomy Lab9:30am
Lunch Break12:30pm
Sequencing Lab/Philosophy2:00pm
Closing practice/Reflection5:30pm
*Sample schedule. Exact timing may shift slightly by day.
How It Works
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Tell us about your yoga background, your interest in the training, and why Root Yoga School feels aligned.
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If your application feels like a fit, we will connect to answer questions and make sure the training is right for you.
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Once accepted, you will receive next steps to reserve your place in the Founding Circle.
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Complete your online modules, live classes, readings, and assignments before arriving in Las Vegas.
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Step into the in person training ready to practice, teach, learn, and become certified.
Ready to Apply?
Root Yoga Teacher Training is application based so we can make sure the training is aligned with your goals, schedule, and the learning container we are creating.
Submit your application below. If accepted, you will receive a private deposit link to reserve your space.