Could 2027 be the year you become a yoga teacher?
200-Hour Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training in Norwich
Architecture & Alchemy
The Architecture & Alchemy of Vinyasa Flow is a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training for students, practitioners and movement teachers ready to deepen their practice, develop their teaching voice and learn how to create intelligent, embodied yoga classes with confidence.
200-Hour Vinyasa Flow Teacher Training at Yantra
Learn to teach in a studio where yoga happens every day.
You can learn a sequence from a manual. Learning to teach a room full of real people takes practice, observation, good feedback and time.
Architecture & Alchemy of Vinyasa Flow is Yantra Academy’s 200-hour teacher training in Norwich, beginning in January 2027. Led by Dr Abby Hoffmann and Marie Williams, it brings together the practical craft of teaching and the creativity that makes a class feel alive.
You’ll train within Yantra Studio: a working studio with a full weekly timetable, a varied teaching team and an established community. You’ll have opportunities to observe, assist, practise teaching and develop your voice in the setting where you may one day teach.Be first to receive the full timetable, fees and application details. No commitment to enrol.
Already a qualified yoga teacher? There is an option to join selected modules as a 100-hour advanced pathway, designed for teachers wanting to deepen their Vinyasa sequencing, embodied teaching and confidence in the studio.
Find out more about the 100-hour pathway here.
Is this the beginning of your teaching journey?
Perhaps you’ve been practising for years and keep coming back to the thought of teaching. Perhaps you work in movement, dance, fitness or wellbeing and want to bring yoga into your work. Or perhaps you’re drawn to a deeper study of practice and want to discover where it leads.
You don’t need to arrive with an impressive pose collection or a polished teaching voice. We’re looking for curiosity, commitment, and a willingness to learn. We do expect you have a regular and committed practice, preferably in Vinyasa, Ashtanga but all styles are welcome.
What makes this training different?
You’ll learn inside a real studio
Yantra is an active studio, offering over 25 classes a week across different styles and levels. That gives you more than a place to attend training weekends. It gives you a community to learn from and real classes to observe as you begin to understand what teaching asks of you.
Vinyasa is at the heart of it
This is a training for people who love movement and want to understand how to teach it well. You’ll explore the foundations of Vinyasa Flow, with influences from Ashtanga and Rocket, and learn how breath, sequencing, rhythm, repetition and pacing shape the experience of a class.
You’ll be taught by people who teach
The course is led by Dr Abby Hoffmann, founder of Yantra Studio. Abby has over 35 years of yoga practice, more than two decades of teaching experience and has previously trained ten cohorts of yoga teachers. Her doctorate explored yoga and the dancer, bringing academic depth to a lifetime spent teaching bodies in motion.
Marie Williams leads the Alchemy modules, bringing her experiences from the world of theatre, and as a creative, embodied teacher, to the questions that matter once a sequence is on paper: How do you hold a room? How do you invite attention and connection? How do you teach in a way that feels like your own?
Specialist guest teachers will contribute to the training, including Janine Coughlan for the Philosophy module and other guest tutors to be announced soon.
You’ll practise the art of teaching
You’ll have teaching labs, feedback, observation and assisting opportunities throughout the course. We’ll also give proper attention to the parts of teaching that deserve care: adapting to different bodies, professional boundaries, ethics, touch and adjustments, and the decisions you make when a real class unfolds differently from your plan.
INVESTMENT
Early Bird - £2900 until 5th December 2026
£3200 thereafter
Payment plans are available to spread the cost
The Architecture. The Alchemy. Your voice.
You’ll study both, then put them into practice. The aim is for you to finish with the knowledge to make thoughtful choices and the confidence to teach as yourself.
The Architecture is how you build a class: its foundations, sequence, rhythm, progression and purpose.
The Alchemy is how you bring it to life: through attention, presence, creativity and your relationship with the people (and their nervous systems!) in front of you.
What Will You Study?
The 200-hour programme includes:
Vinyasa Flow foundations, sequencing and teaching labs
Flow Psychology and teaching practice
The building blocks of Ashtanga and Rocket
Two Alchemy modules with Marie Williams
Yoga Philosophy - beyond Patanjali and into Tantra
Applied & Embodied Anatomy
The art and professional practice of teaching, including ethics and boundaries & self-care for yoga teachers
Adjustments, touch and working with different bodies
Hot yoga principles and safety (optional module)
Observation, assisting and reflective practice
Training begins on the 8/9/10 January 2027. The first weekend includes a Friday evening; subsequent weekend modules run on Saturdays and Sundays. We’ll send the full schedule and course requirements to everyone on the interest list. Click the button below to download the brochure
We have two open afternoons where you can come and meet the tutors take part in a sample session and ask any questions
Sunday October 18th 2-4pm
Saturday November 14th 2-4pm
It’s free to come along - just book through the App ‘book a class’
Could this be for you?
If you can picture yourself teaching someday - even if you’re still nervous about saying it aloud - we’d love to hear from you!
Register your interest, and we’ll send you the full course information as soon as it’s ready. You can read it, ask questions and decide whether this is the right next step for you. We will also be holding a series of open afternoons where you can come, take class, ask questions and see if this is the right training for you.
By signing up for this waiting list you are consenting to being added to our database, you can opt out at any time. Registering your interest is free and doesn’t commit you to applying.
The Sri Yantra is a sacred symbol believed to align one's consciousness with the cosmic order and facilitate spiritual growth and enlightenment. It is considered a powerful tool for meditation, concentration, and manifestation of desires.
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The Sri Yantra is a sacred symbol believed to align one's consciousness with the cosmic order and facilitate spiritual growth and enlightenment. It is considered a powerful tool for meditation, concentration, and manifestation of desires. ♢
I completed my first 200 Hour teaching diploma with Abby in Cambridge in 2010. During that time I found Abby to be a fantastic and knowledgeable teacher and mentor, with endless energy and encouragement for her students. Her understanding of yoga asana, anatomy, movement and hands-on assists was clearly demonstrated with no question ever too difficult for her to answer. Abby was very kind, approachable and sensitive to everyone’s needs and she was able to inspire even the shyest members of the group to stand up and teach.
Since I graduated I have continued to practice and teach regularly in Cambridgeshire going on to complete further training in pregnancy yoga, CPD in yoga philosophy and hands-on assists and most recently John Scott’s Ashtanga Vinyasa 200 hour teaching diploma. Without Abby setting me off on what has become an amazing personal yoga journey I would never have had the confidence and skills to become a yoga teacher, passing on a tradition which has become an integral part of my life. I regularly recommend Abby to fellow yoga students who are interested in training to become a teacher.
Emma Pearson, Yoga teacher, Cambridge,
