Are you a Yoga Tune Up® graduate or experienced yoga teacher seeking to become a yoga therapist?

  • Thanks to our partnership with Jill Miller, C-IAYT, you can now transfer up to 75 hours of Yoga Tune Up®  trainings toward your certification at PYI - for no additional cost!
    As New York's premier IAYT-accredited yoga therapy certification, PYI combines:
    • Traditional yogic practices with evidence-informed techniques
    • Enriching online sessions with our expert faculty in an integrative learning community
    • Self study hours for scheduling flexibility 
    • Work credit hours during three diverse & meaningful practicums
              ... for an innovative hybrid program.
  • Plus, by joining the Yoga Tune Up® Track (YTU) at PYI, you receive a mentorship with Jill Miller - preparing you to integrate anatomy-based knowledge into your yoga therapist career.

 The YTU Yoga Therapy Certification Track at PYI features:

  • PYI's integrative, comprehensive, evidence-informed and IAYT-accredited Yoga Therapy Certification Program
  • A 300-hour Yoga Alliance Certification earned concurrently by completing PYI's core modules:
    • Therapeutic Essentials
    • Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy
    • Yoga in Healthcare  
  • Yogic, meditation, and mindfulness skills that can be used immediately in your yoga teaching and practice
  • Advanced yoga therapy training in Cancer Care, Back Care, trauma-informed yoga and more with the nation's leading yoga therapy doctors and therapists
  • A 75-hour Practicum with Jill Miller, C-IAYT - featuring four meaningful, live monthly sessions with Jill in a micro-group setting to review your hours delivering yoga therapy in a setting of your choice.
  • Up to 75 hours of transfer credits in Therapeutic Elective and/or Applied Anatomy Credits - up to $1455 in tuition value!*
  • Waive of Transfer Fees - up to $75 in value
  • Choice of two remaining Practicums with an emphasis in Mindfulness and Meditation for Stress Management, Yoga Research, Ayurveda and more

PREREQUISITES: 

Yoga Teacher Certification, one year of teaching, and one year of practice.

*Transfer hour credits are deducted from your tuition in the second year of training and prorated to your payment method of choice. Certificate submission is required at time of application.

Jill Miller, C-IAYT, introduces the program:

 

Ready to Begin Today?

Fantastic! Be sure that you have your prerequisites:
  • A 200 hour Yoga Teacher Certificate
  • One year teaching
  • One year practicing yoga
An application is required for formal acceptance - and so that we can get to know you, your preexisting training and experience, and your goals to best welcome you into the cohort.
Apply Today!
Have Questions? Book a Discovery Call with Admissions Manager Anita Vasan

Meet the Lead Faculty of Prema Yoga Institute’s YTU Yoga Therapy Program

Jill Miller, C-IAYT, ERYT

Jill Miller is the co-founder of Tune Up Fitness Worldwide and creator of the self-care fitness formats Yoga Tune Up® and The Roll Model® Method. With more than 30 years of study in anatomy and movement, she is a pioneer in forging relevant links between the worlds of fitness, yoga, massage, athletics, and pain management. Jill is known as the Teacher’s Teacher, and has trained thousands of movement educators, clinicians, and manual therapists to incorporate her paradigm-shifting self-care fitness programming into athletic and medical facility programs internationally. As the creator of some of the world’s best mobility tools, she has crafted original programs for Equinox, Golf Digest, 24 Hour Fitness, YogaWorks, and numerous professional sports teams. She and her team of 500+ teachers help you to live better in your body with an emphasis on proprioception, mobility, breath mechanics, and recovery.

Jill has presented at conferences and symposia worldwide in the fields of fitness, fascia, pain, athletic performance, yoga therapy and mental health. She has the rare ability to translate complex physiological and biomechanical information into accessible, relevant moves that help her students transform pain, dysfunction, and injury into robust fitness. Jill is a former anatomy columnist for Yoga Journal Magazine and has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Shape, Men’s Journal, Good Housekeeping, Women’s Health, Yoga Journal, and Self and on the TODAY, Good Morning America, and the Oprah Winfrey Network.

She is the creator of dozens of programs, including collaborations with Tom Myers, Katy Bowman, Kelly Starrett, DPT and Jen Esquer DPT. She is the author of the internationally bestselling book The Roll Model: A Step by Step Guide to Erase Pain, Improve Mobility, and Live Better in Your Body and her newest book, Body by Breath: The Science and Practice of Physical and Emotional Resilience. Jill is also a contributing author on the topic of self-myofascial release in the medical textbook Fascia, Function and Medical Applications. She lives in Los Angeles, CA, with her husband and two children.

For more information visit https://www.tuneupfitness.com/jill-miller-schedule

 

FAQ's

Yoga Tune Up®

Yoga Tune Up® (YTU) is comprehensive biomechanics, movement-based 7-Day Training built around a therapeutic style of conscious corrective exercise. The format is a unique merging between the worlds of yoga, fitness, pain management, and myofascial self-care. This training dives into integrated anatomy and biomechanics while helping you discover a fresh approach to teaching.

YTU is a complementary approach derived from multiple movement disciplines including yoga, fitness, pain management, massage therapy and athletics. Help your clients and students engage in best practices and guide them to creatively problem solve their own movement or pain challenges. Digestible for all movement and clinical backgrounds, foster a space for embodiment while differentiating your classes and private sessions by using innovative poses, stretches, self-massage and more.

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The Roll Model® Method

The Roll Model® Method teaches self-myofascial release (self-massage) principles and techniques using Roll Model® Therapy Balls for pinpoint accuracy and targeted relief from common aches and pains. This course gives you fact-based SMR application and strategies to eliminate pain and elevate performance. This training is broken into two main areas of focus: 

  • The Science of Rolling focuses on fascia science, bony landmarks, myofascial junctions, and pain physiology and includes 6 head-to-toe series covering the entire body using the original Yoga Tune Up® Therapy Balls.

Ball Sequencing and Innovation video segments and Zoom enhance your creative delivery while incorporating all 4 Therapy Ball types. Learn to effortlessly craft innovative rollouts and programs to differentiate your teaching for any individual or community.

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Body by Breath Immersion

The Body by Breath Immersion provides you with multiple embodied explorations that create the conditions needed for profound relaxation, increased body awareness, and mind-body connectivity. You’ll find a treasure chest of new practices to enhance your life.

This program is ideal for movement educators of every discipline, including yoga therapists, group fitness, coaches, manual therapists, and mental health professionals along with athletes or individuals looking to enhance their recovery toolkit. You’ll take away novel approaches that guide yourself and students from all backgrounds into downregulation with a focus on Interoceptive Anatomy, Diaphragm Discoveries, Meditation, Savasana Studies and “Rollaxation”

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**$225 Application Fee applies. In the event that you are not accepted, $175 of the application fee is refundable. However, we are usually able to ascertain if you will qualify with an interview before your application. Please note that you are required to produce proof of your prerequisites (a 200 hour yoga teacher training certificate and at least one year of practice and teaching) with your application.

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