Last reviewed June 2026 by Lori Lowell, E-RYT 500, YACEP · Director, Drishti Beats School of Yoga
This training prepares you to teach yoga. It is educational, and it is not a substitute for medical care or physical therapy, for you or for the students you will one day teach. Completing the program makes you eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as an RYT‑200, a step you complete yourself after you finish. Teaching others is a real responsibility, and we treat it that way throughout the training.
Welcome to the beginning of your teaching.
This is a complete 200-hour foundation, the training that prepares you to teach yoga and to register with Yoga Alliance as an RYT‑200.
You will learn how to move through a practice with understanding, and how to hold space for others in one. You will study the body, the breath, the philosophy underneath the postures, and the craft of sequencing that turns a class into an experience. You will do this at your own pace, from wherever you are, and you will not do it alone.
This training is for the person who wants to teach, and for the person who simply wants to understand their practice all the way down. You do not need to be flexible. You do not need years of practice. You need the willingness to look closely, and to keep showing up.
When you are ready, begin.
We got you covered.
Yoga Alliance asks every school to teach four areas. We teach seven. The three we add are not extra credit. They are the parts of teaching that decide whether your students come back.
Technique, Training & Practice
Asana from the inside. What makes a posture yogic rather than athletic, how breath organizes a pose, and how to practice with the quiet attention the Sutras ask for. You build your own practice first, because that is what you will teach from.
Teaching Methodology
How to sequence a class, hold a room, and find your own voice instead of borrowing someone else's. You learn to observe, to assist, to correct without taking over, and to teach to the way a person in front of you actually learns.
Anatomy & Physiology
The body explained plainly, with CGI that lets you see inside a pose. What each asana asks of the joints and tissues, where it helps, and where it can harm. You leave able to keep a student safe, which is the first job of a teacher.
Philosophy, Lifestyle & Ethics
Yoga's roots and where they lead. The Yoga Sutras, Sanskrit you can actually pronounce, meditation, mantra, and a daily journal that turns the study inward. Ethics here means the real questions a teacher faces, not a page to sign.
Practicum
You teach, and you are seen. Real sequences, taught on live calls, with detailed feedback from a mentor that is saved to your account for as long as you teach. This is the part most online trainings skip. It is the part that makes you a teacher.
The Business of Yoga
How to make a living at this. Finding a space, building a brand that sounds like you, the ethics of running a studio, and the practical steps from first class to full schedule. Taught by people who have built studios, not theorized about them.
Music & Sound
Sound is part of how a class is felt, not background to it. You learn how music shapes a room, how to build a playlist that carries a sequence, and how to use sound so a class lands in the body. This is ours alone, and you will not find it in a standard syllabus.
Is this training for you?
We would rather you know before you enrol than discover it three weeks in. So here is the honest version, both sides of it.
This is for you if
- You want to teach, or you want to understand your own practice all the way down.
- You learn best when someone is actually paying attention to your work, not just grading it.
- You are willing to be seen teaching before you feel ready. That is where the growth is.
- You want the body explained plainly, so you can keep a student safe.
- You are looking for a training you do not graduate out of, but stay part of.
This is not for you if
- You want a certificate as fast and as quietly as possible, with no one watching.
- You are not ready to record yourself teaching and hear honest feedback on it.
- You want a fixed weekly schedule with set class times. Ours is self-paced by design.
- You are looking for the cheapest option. We are priced for the depth of what is inside.
- You prefer to learn alone and would find a community more pressure than support.
Self-paced but never alone.
The whole curriculum is yours on demand, to move through at your own pace. What you do not do is disappear into it. There is always a call to join, a mentor who knows your name, and a global community that does not close.
Most online trainings hand you videos and leave. The lectures and masterclasses here are available 24/7, so you study when it suits your life. But the part that makes you a teacher is the part where someone is paying attention, and that runs through every week of the training.
While you train, you are held four ways.
Weekly Gather Round calls
Every Thursday we gather live. Some weeks we flow together, some weeks we meditate, some weeks we talk philosophy or a student teaches. These are not classes. They are conversations, and they are your standing reminder that you are walking this path alongside real people.
One-on-one mentor sessions
Time set aside for you and a mentor alone, for personal feedback and guidance. You ask what you need to ask, and you are met where you are.
Live web chat
A chat service is built into the platform, and a real person answers. We believe yoga is human connection, so when you reach out, you reach us, not a bot.
The Drishti Sangha
Our private, global community, open to every student and graduate across all our trainings. It is where you introduce yourself, ask your questions, and find a dozen others who felt exactly what you are feeling. It does not close between Thursdays. Step inside the Sangha.
Two Gather Round calls, every Thursday, so wherever you are in the world one of them is yours.
Thursday · Midday · 12 PM EST
- New York · Thu 12 PM
- Los Angeles · Thu 9 AM
- London · Thu 5 PM
- Sydney · Fri 4 AM
Thursday · Evening · 7 PM EST
- New York · Thu 7 PM
- Los Angeles · Thu 4 PM
- London · Fri 12 AM
- Sydney · Fri 11 AM
Times shown are for US standard time and shift by an hour or two around daylight saving. Your dashboard always shows the next call in your own timezone.
The Gather Round calls stay open to graduates. The Sangha stays yours. The mentors stay reachable. The relationship was never built to end at the certificate, because a community that disappears the moment you finish was never really a community.
It also moves off the screen. We host immersive retreats in beautiful places, from Bali to Colorado to Europe, where students and teachers finally meet face to face, practice together, and celebrate in flow. You will find us performing live at festivals, bringing yoga and original music to the same stage. These are the moments people remember for years, and you are invited to them as part of this family, long after your training is done.
Not only did I feel like part of the family during my course, but since graduating, I have been in contact with the team and feel connected with them more than ever.
Meet the family.
You are not enrolling in a platform. You are studying with people who have taught this work for more than twenty-five years. On the calls, in the feedback, and in the community the whole way through.
Lead Trainers
Lori LowellLead Trainer · E-RYT 500 · YACEP
Lori is the lead teacher and curriculum voice of Drishti Beats, and a Yoga Alliance school Director. She has spent over twenty-five years teaching yoga, and every lecture, every flow, and every word of feedback in this training carries her voice. She built the way we teach here, where Sanskrit unfolds gently, where you grow from practitioner to teacher, and where perfection is never the goal. When you record your first flow, hers is the response you will read. She believes teaching is learned by doing, and she will meet you exactly where you are.
Jeremy LowellLead Trainer · E-RYT 500 · Co-Founder
Jeremy is co-founder of Drishti Beats and Lori's husband of thirty-nine years. He is the reason this training sounds the way it does. Every piece of music you hear was originally composed in-house, written to guide breath, emotion, and rhythm, because we believe yoga and music are one creative language. Jeremy also built the platform you will learn on, designed from 2018 to connect students and mentors in real time. He brings the music, the art, and the steady hand behind everything that makes this school feel like a family rather than a course.
Your Teaching Team
What holds this school together is simple. It is a family. Three of your teachers grew up, or grew into, the same practice and the same music, and they meet you at specific points along the journey, in the masterclasses, in the practice of every chapter, and in the workshops that go deeper.
Ariel LowellE-RYT 500 · Masterclasses
Ariel leads the masterclasses — the deeper-dive sessions that sit alongside the core curriculum. When a subject calls for a teacher who lives inside it, Ariel is the voice that takes you further than the syllabus alone can, and shows you what mastery of a single practice looks like. She is Lori and Jeremy's daughter. She did not find this practice. She was raised inside it.
Alysia LowellE-RYT 500 · Practice & Workshops
Alysia is with you in the doing. She leads the practical practice in every chapter, where knowledge becomes movement in your own body, and she teaches both 200h and 300h masterclasses as well. She also guides the workshops that go deeper still: yin, restorative, and inversions, each one an invitation to slow down, open, or turn upside down under a teacher who has been there many times before. Alysia married into this family, and into its music and its practice. It is home to her now.
Asaf B. GoldfridE-RYT 500 · Platform Architect
Asaf appears throughout the training rather than in one place. As Platform Architect he also built and tends the experience you learn inside, so the technology stays quiet and the practice stays in front. He is the through-line who keeps the whole path connected, so there is always a familiar voice walking beside you.
Sent by post · Worldwide
Because your 200-hour journey deserves to be celebrated.
Your certificate is more than a file in your inbox.
The Drishti Beats 200-hour yoga teacher training certificate is foil-stamped, sealed in wax, and sent to you by post. Anywhere in the world.
Something to hold. A way to honour the study, the practice, and the courage that brought you here.
18 pt Super stock·Raised gold foil·Wax-sealed·Posted worldwide
Begin the path
One price, paid once or over time. No discount to chase, no countdown running. The same training either way.
Pay in full
$594
One payment. Lifetime access.
- The complete 200-hour Yoga Alliance registered training
- Personal feedback from your mentors on every recorded class
- Live calls and the Drishti Sangha community, for life
- Seven areas of study where Yoga Alliance asks for four
Payment plan
$148.50 / payment
Four payments. $594 total, the same as paying once.
- Everything in the full-payment option
- Spread across four equal payments
- Start today, at no extra cost to pay over time
- Lifetime access from the moment you begin
Your enrollment is protected. Begin the training, and if it is not the right path for you, request a full refund within seven days of registration. No forms to argue with, and no risk in beginning.
Student voices
Not written testimonials. Real graduates, in their own words, talking honestly about what the training was actually like.
Arti · Ohio
On finding the yoga beneath the poses, and carrying it off the mat.
Stefan · London
A gymnast who came for the movement and stayed for the philosophy.
Chaz · Florida
On why he chose Drishti after comparing four trainings side by side.
Amparo · Argentina
Training at her own pace, in her second language, from across the world.
Questions before you enrol
The honest answers, so you can decide with a clear head.
- Is this training Yoga Alliance certified?
- Yes. Drishti Beats is a Registered Yoga School with Yoga Alliance. When you complete the 200 hours, you register as an RYT 200 and can teach worldwide.
- Is it fully self-paced, and how long do I have?
- It is self-paced. You move at your own rhythm, and most students finish within about six months. There is no schedule to keep up with, and no one rushing you.
- Does my access ever expire?
- No. There is no clock, and no expiration date. When you enrol, the training is yours to keep, and you can return to any lecture for the rest of your life. When we refine or add to the curriculum, those updates come to you too, at no extra cost. You are not renting a course. You are keeping a body of work that grows with you.
- Do I need experience to start?
- No prior teaching experience is required. It is built for committed beginners. A steady personal practice will help you get the most from it.
- What do I need to take part?
- Not much. A mat, a little space to move, and a way to record yourself so your mentors can see you teach. Props help, but you can begin with what you have.
- How does feedback actually work?
- You record yourself teaching and submit your flows, and your mentors respond to you personally. You are seen and answered, not just graded.
- What are the live calls?
- Weekly Gather Round calls with the group, plus one-on-one mentor sessions and live web chat when you need it. You are held four ways while you train.
- Do I stay part of the community after I finish?
- Yes, for life. Your place in the Drishti Sangha does not end when your training does. The private community stays open to you, so you keep the people, the practice, and the support long after your certificate is issued. You do not graduate away from us. You graduate into us.
- What does it cost, and is there a payment plan?
- $594 in one payment, or four payments of $148.50, the same total. Our pricing is flat and honest, with no fake discounts or countdowns.
- What if it is not right for me?
- Begin the training, and if it is not your path, request a full refund within seven days of registration. No forms to argue with.