DENESE CAVANAUGH
200 Hr. Unified Therapeutic Yoga
Teacher Training
Oct 25, 2025 - Mar 15, 2026
Transformation awaits. Build a solid foundation for your practice or enhance your skills to become the therapeutic yoga teacher you've aspired to be. Connect with a caring community of practitioners and explore a warm, embodied approach to yoga. Our inclusive, inquiry-focused Unified Therapeutic Yoga certification programs will empower, nurture, and guide you on your journey.
Our Ethos
As Director of this program, I'm joined by a circle of three distinguished yoga leaders: to guide every practitioner toward healing and resilience through a thoughtful, evidence-informed 200-hour Unified Therapeutic Yoga journey. We honor diverse body stories by weaving together multiple Hatha-inspired pathways with compassionate alignment, mindfulness, and breath-led sequencing, inviting teachers to hold space for safe, transformative practice across all levels. Through inclusive education, trauma-informed awareness, and ongoing growth, we cultivate confident instructors who nurture well-being and foster a warm, luminous yoga community.
-In Spirit Denese Cavanaugh
Vision
Transformation is here. With over 50 years of collective experience, our 200 Hr. Unified Therapeutic Yoga School with authentic teaching arises from personal experience. Build your practice or enhance your skills to become the yoga teacher you’re meant to be. As a UTY graduate, you'll confidently embark on your teaching journey, equipped to lead safe and empowering therapeutic yoga classes.
Accredited with Yoga Alliance
Our Teachers
Join us on an exciting, transformative journey that blends a variety of Hatha-inspired styles with compassionate, therapeutic-focused instruction! Together, we offer enriching 200-hour experience designed to elevate your embodiment, breath, and create a safe inclusive practice for all. Our passionate team, united in purpose and approach, invites you a vibrant learning community where presence, integrity, and meaningful impact radiate.
Information Sessions // get to know more
Our
Curriculum
Upcoming 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Weekends
Week 1 Oct 25-26
Week 2 Nov 8-9–
Week 3 Nov 22-23-
Week 4 Dec 6-7
Week 5 Dec 20 -
Week 6 Jan 10-11
Week 7 Jan 24-25
Week 8 Feb 7-8
Week 9 Feb 21-22
Week 10 Mar 7-8
Week 11 Mar 14-15 ( prep & testing )
Graduation Saturday March 15 after morning practice
200 HR. Unified Therapeutic Yoga
A grounded approach to the ancient practice of yoga adapted for therapeutic practitioners
An overview of the Hatha Yoga lineage, the ancient traditions that most strongly influence UTY, Restorative practice for today. Somatic Yin, Mediation, and IPATH Yoga.
Transformative practice across all levels. Through inclusive education, trauma-informed awareness, and ongoing growth, we cultivate confident instructors who nurture well-being and foster a warm, luminous yoga community.
Empowering students to determine what's right for them
What you will learn
Asana
At UTY, We teach asanas through a therapeutic lens, prioritizing pain-informed movement, safety, and accessibility. Our trauma-informed, supportive learning environment empowers every teacher to guide compassionate, effective practice for diverse bodies.
Elevate your teaching with asanas grounded in Restorative, Yin,Meditation, IPATH, with trauma-informed care, and a nurturing, inclusive community.
200 HR. Core Standards
minimum hours as determined by Yoga Alliance
Techniques: Instruction in Yoga Asana, Pranayama, and Meditation
75
HOURS
Anatomy & Physiology
30
HOURS
Yoga Humanities
30
HOURS
Professional
Essentials
50
HOURS
Practicum 15 HOURS
Meditation
& Relaxation
Develop skills to center yourself and your students. Establish a safe environment that encourages inward focus, facilitates meditation, and promotes deep relaxation (Savasana).
Anatomy
&
Physiology
Prioritize safety, joint mobility, range of motion, and a practical understanding of skeletomuscular systems and structures. Integral Postural Alignment for pain management and comfort all bodies. Gain a deeper personal relationship to yoga philosophy, with an emphasis on integrating Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and The Eight Limbs of Yoga.
Interactive Experience
Yin
Embrace stillness, with postures, typically held for two to five minutes,so that your practice allows time to draw your awareness inward. Witness your students surrender.
Restorative
Enhancing kosha energy and promoting healing in areas of stress through the use of bolsters, props, and the ground, while fostering whole-body mindfulness in purposeful supine positions.
IPATH
Integral Postural Alignment Therapeutics focuses on balancing the nervous system to promote overall body healing, starting with myofascial release and culminating in musculoskeletal balance.
Pranayama
Learn the five core pranayama (yogic-breathing) techniques and enable students to experience body-mind integration and purification through yogic breathing and Vagus nerve stimulation.
Unlock the healing potential of embodied yoga. Our 200-hour Unified Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training blends diverse Hatha-inspired styles into a single cohesive program, opening doors to a compassionate, evidence-informed practice suitable for every body. This first-of-its-kind curriculum (2025–2026) centers alignment, breath, and therapeutic application, empowering you to teach with clarity, confidence, and heart.