Skill in Action
75hr online continuing education
with Michelle C. Johnson
& guests
This training is full. Please join the interest list to be notified for future opportunity.
The Skill in Action 75hr Online Continuing Education Program for Yoga Teachers is designed for 200hr and 300hr-trained teachers looking to deepen their spiritual practice and teaching and learn more about the intersection of justice and yoga.
This 75hr continuing education program will offer a comprehensive, inspired approach to transformational social change work. Throughout this training, you will gain knowledge and skills to connect the transformation on the mat to the change that is possible off of the mat. Many people come to their yoga mats to escape the larger cultural context. While there is value in resetting and self-care, we cannot forget our connection to the collective. Skill in Action pushes yoga teachers and practitioners to consider how their transformation on the mat can change how they are in the world. Skill in Action has the capacity to change how we work, live and build community across lines of difference.
Michelle will be joined by a number of guest teachers who will bring the lens of justice to each training module. The nature of suffering is one that can often lead us to feel stuck, alone, and disconnected. This training will be centered on the themes of liberation and connection, and how to create liberation individually and collectively. How do we use our spiritual practice to offer us resiliency during overwhelming times.
This continuing education program is unique in that it is centered around radicalizing wellness and spiritual spaces; it’s centered around what it takes to stay engaged in a movement for social change, how to build relationships across lines of difference, and how to take collective action.
Curriculum
& Guest Teaching Modules
The Skill in Action 75hr continuing education program will be held entirely online, via pre-recorded sessions, live Zoom meetings, and independent assignments, reading, and homework.
Past Guest teachers include:
Act Against Appropriation, with Jesal Parikh & Tejal Patel
The Sacred Song: Wisdom from the Gita for Individual and Collective Transformation, with Anjali Rao
Spiritual Activism: Serving Humanity from a Sense of Peace, Love and Devotion, with Reggie Hubbard
Rest: a Practice for Liberation, with Garrett Jurss
Mats Like Mirrors: Creating Inclusive Spaces, with Kate Mosher
Beyond the Binary: a gender exploration within yoga, with Rebby Kern
Anatomy of the Heart, with Shakira Bethea
Creating Community with Authenticity, with Asami Martens
Justice and Equity-focused Marketing, with Tristan Katz
Living Ancestry in Action, with Stephanie Ghoston Paul
Join the interest list to be notified of future 75-hr training opportunities.
sliding scale pricing options
$575 Community Rate (discounted)
$650 Sustainer Rate (pays for you)
$725 Supporter Rate (supports others as well as yourself)
Payment plans available.
We have a select number of scholarships available.
Send an email to info@michellecjohnson.com if you would like to request a payment plan or are interested in a scholarship.
“We begin by breathing with the awareness that some people aren’t afforded the space to breathe. We begin by waking up and cutting through the illusion that whiteness has created. We begin by feeling heartbroken enough to take action. We begin by being willing to see our lives as a practice of trying to move our culture back into alignment. We begin by talking to our family members, friends, yoga students, and the people closest to us about what matters to us, and inspiring them to change.”
— Michelle Cassandra Johnson