Fall in love with your practice
& inspire others to do the same.
Reserve your spot for Annie’s SmartFLOW 200 Hour Training Today.
Annie’s renowned 200-hour training is back!
Whether you are at the beginning of your teaching path, or have years of teaching experience, this training is for you. This rigorous and beloved training will change your life. Join Annie, enrich your skills and knowledge, and leave feeling inspired and deeply connected to yourself and our heartwarming community.
“Annie’s SMARTFLOW Teacher Training was one of the hardest, profound, intense and joyful experience of my life.”
Karin L.
Meet Annie Carpenter
Annie has been practicing yoga since 1975, teaching yoga for over 30 years, and leading 200-hour trainings since 2003.
She’s been teaching dance, movement and anatomy for 40 years. She understands the moving body, from the most subtle to essential functional anatomical concepts and has an uncanny ability to communicate “how” to sense, place and move body, breath and attention.
With over 40 years of experience, she’s known as a “teacher’s teacher”.
Annie sees you…the places you are tight, the places you are sleepy, the places you are open, the places you forget. With loving eyes she invites you to wake up, expand into your practice and step into your life, your dharma, fully.
Widely recognized for her expertise, Annie has created an intelligent and evolved methodology: SmartFlow Yoga.
Over the last 20+ years, Annie has trained 100s of very talented and successful teachers in the U.S., Europe and Australia
Annie continues to travel internationally, leading workshops and trainings. You can join here for this acclaimed Training at her home studio, NEST YOGA in the SF Bay Area.
SmartFlow Teacher, Britni Serou will be teaching alongside Annie in this 200-hour Training.
E-RYT 500, YACEP
Britni is one of five Certified SmartFLOW Trainers internationally, and has been leading SmartFLOW trainings since 2017 in Hammond, LA at Downtown Yoga, where she is also Co-Owner. She has been teaching yoga in her local community for over 20 years, and has studied with and assisted Annie in California as well. Britni has additional training in Pre/Post-Natal Yoga, Yin Yoga and Restorative Yoga. Graduating from Southeastern Louisiana University with a BA in Visual Arts, Britni is a very creative person, light-hearted and fun, and she likes her yoga that way too! She believes in the power of a deeply transformative yoga practice and is inspired by taking lessons learned on the mat and applying them to everyday life.
It’s time to invest in yourself.
You will experience your own body-mind vividly and begin to sense your intelligence and strength, and uncover and unravel inner-obstacles as they arise.
This 200-Hour Teacher training is for you if…
you've been thinking about becoming a yoga teacher
you want to deepen your practice
you are looking for a highly experienced leader to focus, expand and Inspire your teaching abilities
You want to Adapt your teaching for effective online and hybrid classes
How This Training Works
It’s SMART. Smart Cueing - Intelligent Sequencing - Profound Inter-weaving of philosophy and practice
It’s DEEP. Challenge your own practice - Apply philosophical principles - Be Transformed
It’s FUN. Getaway to Tulum, MX. Yes, you read that right - a Mexico Retreat!
The Details
Over the span of 2 months, In Person or via Zoom, this training is divided into two sections: Abhyasa and Vairagya.
4 extended weekend sessions
7 Day Mexico Retreat
As the culmination of this training, this retreat in Tulum, MX will refresh and renew your spirit and fine tune your teaching skills.
Access to a selection of Annie’s classes on Glo and the Nest Library to enrich your practice and study anytime, but especially in the weeks between training sessions.
High-quality, recorded lectures
This comprehensive training is fully recognized by Yoga Alliance and you will be eligible to register with YA at the 200 Hour level.
Course Completion
Composed of Two Sections
Part One: Abhyasa
The Path of the Sadhana – Do your Practice!
This first section establishes you in the roots and rituals of Yoga. Abhyasa means practice, or the effort towards aligning and re-aligning one’s attention to the present moment.
We will employ the yogic practices of asana, pranayama (breathwork), chanting, and various methods of meditation as our elemental practice. You will gain a profound understanding of the foundational asanas as alignment tools for safe physical practice, and for yoking the mind to this moment. Asanas are presented as elemental, sustaining, deepening and as a means to return to center to illuminate the path of creative sequencing.
Asana practice engaging body, mind and spirit.
The deconstruction of asana into primary movement principles for clarity of alignment and sequencing
Functional Anatomy and Physiology: presented in short segments to support the movement and breath principles with relevance and meaning.
Movement inquiries for evolving a keen and subtle awareness of Proprioception that you can awaken in your students
History and Philosophical concepts of classical Yoga
Pranayama practices to refine attention and shift vital energy
Dharana: multiple paths to focus your mind for contemplation
Part Two: Vairagya
The Path of Radical Acceptance – All is Coming!
Vairagya is the ability to accept everything that arises with evenness and equanimity. It is the basis for the cultivation of community and the essence of every teacher who wishes to inspire her students. Vairagya reveals and celebrates the present moment in all its unpredictabilty and originality.
As we delve deeper into the practices, we encounter everything on the spiritual path: strength and flexibility as well as weakness and pain; we find the greatest joy as well as fear and doubt. As spiritual aspirants and guides we gather and balance our energies and intentions to become the light embodied, beacons on this path.
Advanced Asana: bringing multiple movement principles together in a playful, balanced way
Creative sequencing that encourages you to find your voice and vary your focus and themes
Pranayama, guided meditation and philosophical themes as integral elements of the practice
Learn modifications for injury prevention and rehabilitation
Cultivating clear languaging with its basis in structural awareness and thematic development
Hands-on adjustments that educate your students
Teacher student relationships: inspire without enmeshing
When do we start?
The Schedule:
EXTENDED WEEKENDS
Available In person, Livestream, & Recorded Videos
Feb 2 - 4
Feb 16 - 19
March 8 - 10
March 22 - 24
Fridays—10:30AM-5:30PM Saturdays—10:30AM- 5:30PM Sundays— 9:30AM-4:30PM Mondays— 9:00AM-4:00PM
TuesDAY ANATOMY SESSIONS VIA ZOOM
Tuesday, February 13, 6-7:30 pm
Tuesday, March 5, 6-7:30 pm & Tuesday, March 19, 6-7:30 PM
Mexico Retreat
April 7 - 13 In person and Required
Invest in your practice
Pricing Options
$3900 Full Price (Training Only) Pay $1000 to reserve your spot today!
Training
(All Inclusive Retreat Only)
Room Prices Range from $2600 - $4450 *
*Prices are per person and are estimates only; prices vary according to room selection and number of occupants. Rooms are selected by student in order of signup and payment in full for training.
Deposit Required For Discount: $1000 deposit required to receive the Early Bird Rate of $3595 (plus additional for Mexico retreat) before midnight November 30, 2023.
Cancellation policy: Your $1000 Deposit is non-refundable after November 30, 2023. No credits back less than 14 days before start.