Upcoming In-Person Trainings
A Framework for Teaching Trauma-Sensitive Yoga
with Joe-Paul Naughton-Travers and Sage Rountree
May 17–18, 2025
18 CEUs
Study with Sage Rountree
Our co-owner and director of our continuing education yoga teacher trainings is Sage Rountree, PhD, E-RYT500. Sage’s work gives teachers everything they need to plan each minute of their class—and the entire arc of their career.
Sage is an expert on yoga pedagogy and has long specialized in teaching yoga to athletes. Basketball Hall-of-Fame Coach Roy Williams was her private student for over a decade, until his retirement.
Yoga Teacher Mentorship
Not sure what your next steps are after your 200-hour yoga teacher training? You’re not alone. We’re here to help.
Get Sage’s direct support in a welcoming online community experience in Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing: A Mentorship Membership.
This yoga teacher mentorship group program helps you build confidence in your sequencing, theming, voice, and profession.
It includes:
- done-for-you lesson plans keyed to The Art of Yoga Sequencing
- done-for-you yoga class themes keyed to Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses
- monthly group live calls where we workshop how to adapt these classes to serve your unique student groups
- ongoing support helping you move out of your 200-hour yoga teacher training and into your brilliant career helping your students grow
Continuing Education for Yoga Teachers
Learn to specialize—and by getting specific, broaden your appeal and. your ability to help your students!
Sage’s signature specialty course, Teaching Yoga to Athletes, helps you double your income and impact while turning athletes into champions. (And while earning 30 CEUs, all you need for the Yoga Alliance yearly renewal.)
300- or 500-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Online
Put Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing: A Mentorship Membership together with Teaching Yoga to Athletes or Sage’s other speciality trainings to earn your 300-hour yoga teacher training certificate. (With your 200-hour program, this will qualify you to apply as RYT500.)
Enhance your online work by joining us for a live in-person training module. We offer several this spring in North Carolina!
Next Steps from 200-Hour to 500-Hour Yoga Teacher Training
- Join Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing, the required portion of our 300-hour YTT
- Explore Teaching Yoga to Athletes and the in-person modules here at Carrboro Yoga Company
- Express your interest in the 300 and Sage will walk you through your next steps from there. For example, you can complete the mentorship membership and Teaching Yoga to Athletes to earn your 300-hour degree, or work through electives of your choice. This is customizable, individual, and modular so you can become (almost) everyone’s favorite yoga teacher and feel like you’re making a big difference for your students and your career. Read more at sagerountree.com.
Join our continuing education list to be the first to know when new trainings are scheduled.
Tell Your Friends: Our 200-Hour Foundational Yoga Teacher Training Is Back
We are delighted to again offer a 200-hour foundational yoga teacher training (aka 200YTT) at Carrboro Yoga! Your lead teacher is the inspiring Alexandra DeSiato—a professional educator who is herself a graduate of this program. Click over to our 200YTT page to read all about it.
Hear the Secrets to Becoming a Great Yoga Teacher at Yoga Teacher Confidential
Sage’s new podcast, Yoga Teacher Confidential, shares secrets from her 20+ years teaching yoga, so you can be a better teacher to your students.
watch on Youtube
listen on your favorite podcast app
Read Your Way to Better Teaching
Sage is author (and coauthor, with Carrboro Yoga Co. 200YTT lead teacher Alexandra DeSiato) of several books on yoga practice and teaching. Reading these books will help you help your students better.
- The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook
- Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses
- Everyday Yoga
- Lifelong Yoga
- The Art of Yoga Sequencing
Improve Your Teaching Dramatically
Unhappy with your class numbers? Want to feel like you are helping your students to the very best of your ability?
We offer a free guide that details how you can level up your teaching ASAP using tools you already own. It’s called “The Fastest, Cheapest, and Best Way to Improve Your Teaching.” Sign up here and we will send it right over!
Use this totally free, extremely fast way to improve your teaching and fill your classes.
- Discover how the one thing everyone avoids is the very thing that will make you better
- Maximize your income by leading full classes
- Get out of your own way and use only the words you need so students can focus on themselves, not on you
- Radiate confidence
- Appreciate all the things you are already doing right!
Just pop your details in this form and we will send it over directly!
