At Portland Yoga Collective, one of our core values is lifelong learning for both students and teachers. We offer ongoing opportunities to explore, reflect, and grow, designed to deepen your connection with yourself and the practices we cultivate together.

Our 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT), offered each Fall, supports students in developing a multifaceted understanding of yoga while gaining the tools to guide others in ways that are empowering, responsive, and rooted in presence. For those who want to deepen their own practice without pursuing teaching, our 150-hour Yoga Student Training (YST) provides access to the same rich philosophy, theory, and practices explored in the YTT, allowing students to explore yoga more deeply for personal growth, insight, and embodied understanding.

Our continued education programs go beyond the 150-hour YST and 200-hour YTT, offering focused areas of study that reflect our students’ interests. Unlike traditional 300-hour Yoga Teacher Trainings, which can be costly, time-prohibitive, and exclusive to certified teachers, our immersive mini-trainings are accessible to both students and teachers. For example, our Yin Yoga Training welcomes certified instructors who want to teach Yin as well as students who wish to deepen their understanding of Yin Yoga theory, philosophy, and practice. Full and partial scholarships are offered for all trainings as part of our commitment to making yoga teachings widely accessible.

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In addition, we invest in the growth and development of our teaching team through quarterly educational meetings, mentorship, ongoing feedback, and an annual education stipend that supports teachers in exploring their interests and deepening their skills. These opportunities are designed to create spaces for reflection, learning, and sharing insights, recognizing that teachers are always students, and students are also teachers. Through this active dismantling of hierarchies, we aim to cultivate a community rooted in curiosity, mutual growth, and mindful presence, where learning is reciprocal and everyone has the opportunity to learn from and with one another.