About the School of Yoga — School of Yoga

Welcome to the Schoolof.yoga™

The Schoolof .yoga™ (SOY) is a professional path for inspiring yogis who want to deepen their understanding of the yoga practice and take their teaching to the next level. Complete your 300 Hour Teacher Training under the guidance of experienced teachers who are experts in their field of study. Here you can find all the courses and workshops that you would like to specialize in and that work with your schedule.

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Your Led Teacher Joan Hyman

Joan Hyman leads the Schoolof. yoga™ and has collaborated with Cristina Holopainen who has been an amazing business mentor to many yoga teachers and wellness professionals over the years.

Joan has practiced the methods of Ashtanga and Iyengar yoga for well over twenty years. She is passionate about spreading the benefits of these ancient practices and wants to encourage yoga teachers to find their authentic path.

Joan’s intention is to create a level of excellence that helps to raise the bar and maintain a high level of quality in the yoga world. She believes this will create a more authentic place for students to grow their paths as teachers and for their own practice to continue to evolve. She also partners with yoga schools in various corners of the world on developing their teacher training programs.

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Why you can trust the SOY?

You will be guided and mentored by highly experienced teachers from all around the globe. The SOY’s Faculty is composed of teachers and trainers that have at least twenty years of experience in teaching yoga, building communities and are authentic modern-day yogis. Joan has diligently selected a lineup of teachers who have their own unique style of teaching and are leaders in the world of yoga including Annie Carpenter, Marla Apt, Lisa Walford, Jeanne Heileman. She has included guest teachers like Simon Park, Jill Ippolito (Trauma Informed), and JP Cox (Prenatal).
Our intention is to bridge the gap between the classical lineages of yoga as taught by Krishnamacharya and his disciples Iyengar and Pattabhi Jois. These styles taught together create what most of us know as vinyasa flow. Our intention is to keep these lineages alive in the growing yoga communities today.

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Why Join the SOY?

Led by Joan Hyman; you will learn how to make Yoga teaching a sustainable, enriching, and rewarding vocation and/or profession.

Find the courses and workshops that you would like to specialize in and that work with your schedule.
For dedicated students who want to sharpen their confidence, competence, and skills necessary to begin a formal yoga teaching career;
For teachers who want to learn from those who have come before and shorten the learning curve in making Yoga teaching a sustainable, manageable, and long-lasting profession.
Be part of an inspiring and empowering global yoga community

Meet our Alumni

The Business of Yoga

In this modern-day age, a professional perspective is needed to thrive as both a yoga teacher and entrepreneur. Joan Hyman has collaborated with Cristina Holopainen who has been an amazing business mentor to many yoga teachers and wellness professionals over the years. Tina Schmelzer has joined the team at SOY and offers as a former COO 15+ years of professional experience in business development, marketing, and coaching.

Joan helps guide students to the next level and ultimately find their own professional path with her online mentorship and coaching.
Cristina leads the business of yoga modules and offers coaching on developing a business plan after you graduate from SOY.
Tina supports you to put your plan into action. She offers services and courses to help you with the branding and marketing side of yoga.

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Begin your SOY journey today

Welcome to the Schoolof.yoga™ where Joan Hyman takes you traveling from the outside in, we are thrilled for you to be part of our growing global SOY yoga community.

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On the School of Yoga Students and Community

" Thank you all at the Schoolof.yoga for such a sweet platform to teach on! These days we are all looking at unique business models that support community engagement over a larger corporate model, and what you are doing is very special and filled with love!"

- Lisa Walford

What Students Are Saying

“Joan Hyman is a magnificent teacher. A teacher’s teacher. She walks her talk and lives as she leads. She’s done the real work long enough to offer a potent and genuine transmission of deep practice. As a mentor, she helped fortify my commitment, not just to focused and aligned asana but also to daily meditation. She commands a high-level of concentrated attention -in a strong yet kind, disciplined yet generous way- that delivers a transformative effect. Attuned to both the sacred and the secular, Joan brings the best qualities to the practice and to her students. It has been a tremendous gift to learn and grow from Joan’s teachings. Enjoy this opportunity to study with one of the best!”
- Clio Manueian
“It was a wonderful experience and the training was well organized. Joan refreshed our old learnings and added new insights as she taught us how to deepen our knowledge in yoga and move towards more advanced postures. Joan’s teachings are clear and concise and what took her years to study, she simplified for us to learn in a short period of time. After completing this course, I feel confident to teach classes to a broad range of students, how to provide modifications and adjust different people in different postures. I have a better understanding of the business side of yoga and how to navigate the future as yoga expands into the mainstream. I recommend this course to anyone looking to learn more about yoga and especially for teachers who want to teach.”
- Sky Yang
“My 300 hour teacher training with Joan Hyman produced a blue print of how I approach my yoga practice as well as creating intelligent sequences when I teach. Her yoga lingo, encouragement of self practice as well as a profound interest in providing information to feel-for-yourself and articulate-to-your-students mindset generated a deep internal ability to feel an external form for me. Training was not just a theory: you see and hear and feel that she is doing it, hence you shall.”
- Daryoush Aflatooni
“Going through the School of Yoga was well worth the effort, sweat and time, since all that was necessary to birth someone new; someone with more confidence not just to teach, but to navigate through life; and, most importantly, someone with the discipline, insight and self-love to integrate all those lessons learned into daily life. All I needed was 300 hours with Joan Hyman.”
- Troy Bernardo
“Joan is one of my most inspirational mentors. She was so supportive of all her mentees in my 300 hr group and has a very poignant way of making Yoga accessible and applicable to each individual student’s life. Her own passion and conviction for the practice of Yoga and its effectiveness is palpable: Joan is always inspiring. I am so grateful to have her as a teacher and a cornerstone for my evolution in my Yoga practice and as a student and as a teacher.”
- Julia Garroflower
“Joan’s professional, supportive and open-hearted approach coupled with her empathy, intelligence and high level of experience enabled her to go fast to my inner heart. I wanted to grow on a personal and professional level and to dive deeper to accessing also my subtle layers. And I found exactly that. Joan provided always helpful instructions to bring focus into my practice and to realize my potentials – outlining clear and manageable steps to growth and development, so I was able to continuously involve. I couldn’t be more grateful. I loved her amazingly positive energy throughout the whole yoga teacher training journey. Joan’s Teacher Training has had a profound positive impact on my life. I highly recommend her and her Yoga School – she is simply a delightful human being!”
- Tina Schmelzer

Frequently Asked Questions

Anyone who has the desire to deepen their yoga practice and take their practice to the next level. The first step is to complete the 200 Hour Teacher Training. If you have already completed a 200 Hour Training, please email Joan and let her know which training you've completed so you can begin to embark on your 300 Hour Teacher Training and Continuing Education. If you would like to teach yoga, this is the path for you because you will be guided by some of the best teachers in the world! For students who have completed their 500 Hour Teacher Training, this school continues to offer the highest quality trainings in the world you can include in your continuing education for Yoga Alliance.
Join Joan in India for her 150 Hour Teacher Training! This training will run every other year and you can take the other hours online or in person. Most in person trainings aside from Goa are 50 Hours and online modules run from 15 - 30 Hour. If you continue taking a course once a month for a year along with the 150 Hours, you will graduate in less then two years.
As long as you like! We encourage you to take your time and choose modules that interest you and fit your schedule. The learning process takes times and we find if you learn at a relaxed rate, you will retain the information better and it helps you integrate the practice deeper into your Being.
Yes of course! Email Joan and let her know which courses and with which teachers you have taken. As long as it meets our guidelines we can carry over some hours.
Yes, it's recommended. SOY runs about two two hundred hour trainings a year. Even though we have had some students take some modules of the 300 hour first, it's much more cohesive to start at the beginning. That said, we are flexible and if a module in the 300 Hour interest you, you are welcome to take that module and do the 200 hour after.