Awakening the Inner Life of Teaching: A Journey of Inspiration, Understanding, Experience, and Integration

A Live 8-Week Online Mentorship with Christina Sell

Yoga, at its essence, is not a commodity to be consumed but a path of education, self-inquiry, and transformation. In this 8-session online training, Christina Sell invites you to explore yoga as a living, educational process—one that draws forth wisdom from within through four interrelated stages: Inspiration and Aim, Information and Theory, Practice and Experience, and Integration and Articulation.

Drawing from her essay “The Four-Fold Educational Process of Yoga”, Christina illuminates how these stages interweave to create a holistic and sustainable yoga journey. Participants will study the psychological, philosophical, and practical dimensions of yoga as both students and teachers, moving beyond consumer-oriented approaches toward an empowered, educational relationship with practice.

Each session blends lecture, discussion, guided practice, reflection, and writing, fostering a learning environment that is at once grounded, heartfelt, and transformative. You will be invited to inquire deeply, to meet both comfort and challenge with curiosity, and to discover how your own direct experience becomes the teacher over time.

Join live – if you need to miss a session or two, that’s ok! You’ll be able to watch the recording and join in again live after.

Course Overview

Week 1, February 19th: Reframing Yoga as Education
Explore the distinction between consumerism and education in modern yoga. Learn how an educational framework can bring depth, integrity, and empowerment to practice and teaching.
Week 2, February 26th: Inspiration and Aim: The Heart of the Path
Engage with the emotional and intuitive aspects of practice. Examine what inspires you, how to cultivate authentic aim, and how inspiration connects you to the animating spirit of yoga.
Week 3, March 5th: Feeling, Emotion, and Inner Wisdom
Develop a mature relationship with emotions as sources of discernment, compassion, and strength. Learn how feeling supports spiritual growth without sentimentality or repression.
Week 4, March 12th: The Power of Understanding
Investigate how knowledge—of anatomy, philosophy, and sequencing—supports your practice. Learn how clear information and theory protect against projection, confusion, and blind trust.
Week 5, March 19th: Practice and Experience: The Practice of the Practice
Deepen your direct experience through asana, meditation, and contemplation. Explore how practice itself is the bridge between ideas and realization—and how to meet both sweetness and struggle with awareness.
Week 6, March 26th: Teaching as Facilitation, Not Conversion
Reflect on your role as a teacher or guide. Learn how to create empowering, consent-based learning environments that honor each student’s inner wisdom and self-agency.
Week 7: April 2nd: Integration and Articulation: From Learning to Wisdom
Discover how articulation—through language, writing, or embodied expression—anchors and integrates experience. Practice articulating insights to strengthen clarity, humility, and understanding.
Week 8, April 9th: Living the Process: Inner Wisdom in Troubled Times
Bring it all together. Explore how inspiration, knowledge, experience, and integration help us navigate modern life with resilience, discernment, and grace. Conclude with a guided integration practice and group reflection.

Who This Training Is For

Yoga teachers seeking to deepen their educational and ethical framework.
Dedicated practitioners longing for more meaning and coherence in their study.
Anyone interested in reconnecting yoga to its heart as a living, transformative process.

Format and Materials

8 live online sessions (90 minutes each)
Includes guided asana, meditation, and writing exercises
Readings and reflection prompts provided weekly
Optional discussion group for shared exploration

Studying with Christina

“A deep reservoir of philosophy, yoga history, and human learning patterns. Christina’s mastery in the various aspects of teaching yoga became apparent to me during my 300-hr teacher training. Christina’s dedication to learning and teaching is infused in each class, and each module or area of focus is organized and designed for her students to both learn the information while also absorbing what each principle feels like in the body. Christina is a unique treasure in the world of yoga teacher training with her deep reservoir of philosophy, yoga history, and human learning patterns, along with refined teaching techniques such as specificity and economy of language, demos, props and sequencing. I highly recommend Christina Sell as a wonderful and masterful teacher of teachers.”

My teaching has already improved. This training was fantastic and covered so much material, including communication and language, philosophy, approaches to asana and more. Christina did an amazing job leading the training and managed to create cohesion and community in an online-only training. She also brought in several outstanding experts for guest lectures. My teaching has already improved from the techniques, approaches, and ideas from this training that I’ve started to incorporate into my classes over the past year.”

“I can’t recommend her highly enough. Christina is an amazing teacher. There aren’t words to describe how grateful I am that I studied with her this past year. She was incredibly understanding and knowledgeable. My perspective on yoga and on my whole life has been expanded. I can’t recommend her highly enough.”

“I feel spacious, confident, integrated, and inspired. Christina transcends ‘next-level’ as a teacher, mentor, and guide. She embodies grace, wisdom, and compassion. Christina builds a container that is brave and encourages vulnerability. She took me beyond the depths of courageous introspection and led me to self-compassion. After immersing myself in her loving instruction, I feel spacious, confident, integrated, and inspired. I went into this training looking for a safe place to become a better teacher, find a diverse community, and take a deep dive into myself. I came out of the year of study with the grace of great things assimilating into the tissues of my body. Spend some time in this safe harbor studying, practicing, and in community with Christina Sell. It’s a portal to self-love, transformation, transcendence, and awakening.”

$ ~~$349~~ $249 Early Registration

Live Participation, Lectures, & Collective Learning
Lifetime Access to Recordings of Live Sessions
Guided Asana & Meditation Practices
Optional Opportunities for Discussion, Readings, & Reflections

SAVE $100

Continuing Education

Students who complete the course will receive a certificate and will be eligible for 18+ Hours of continuing education credits.

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Week 1 (2/19 12PM ET) – Reframing Yoga as Education

Week 2 (2/26 12PM ET) – Inspiration and Aim: The Heart of the Path

Week 3 (3/5 12PM ET) – Feeling, Emotion, and Inner Wisdom

Week 4 (3/12 12PM ET) – Information and Theory: The Power of Understanding

Week 5 (3/19 12PM ET) – Practice and Experience: The Practice of the Practice

Week 6 (3/26 12PM ET) – Teaching as Facilitation, Not Conversion

Week 7 (4/2 12PM ET) – Integration and Articulation: From Learning to Wisdom

Week 8 (4/9 12PM ET) – Living the Process: Inner Wisdom in Troubled Times

About Instructor

Christina Sell

Christina Sell i has been practicing yoga since 1991, teaching since 1998, and training yoga teachers since 2005. Her work is known for its clarity, depth, and emphasis on sustainable, intelligent approaches to asana, sequencing, and pedagogy. In addition to her extensive teaching experience, Christina holds a master’s degree in Integrative Education, which informs her nuanced, student-centered approach to teacher education. She is widely respected for her ability to translate complex ideas into practical, accessible tools that support both personal practice and professional teaching development. Through her work with Yogaversity and trainings worldwide, Christina continues to mentor teachers in cultivating clarity, confidence, and longevity in their teaching and practice. She resides in Bellingham, WA where she lives with her husband and the world's best dog, Locket.

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