When the body flows like running water, it is always renewed, always fresh. This is true freedom.
Yoga of Energy Flow 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training
September 20, 2025 – April 26, 2026
Daniel, Jen, Andrea, and Chip are a wonderful team that lead with a commitment to the practice and the community. They go beyond sharing their wealth of knowledge to challenge you to develop and follow your yogic path. I can’t recommend this program enough. ~ Jen D, Natick , MA
With 189 reviews on The Yoga Alliance Yoga of Energy Flow Teacher Trainings have a five star rating.
The 2025-2026 Yoga of Energy Flow 200-Hour Teacher Training at Boston University will be held at Boston University’s Fitness and Recreation Center, 915 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA.
The core study in The Yoga of Energy Flow 200-Hour Teacher Training is vinyasa flow yoga, in which breath, movement, and asana are combined with physical and energetic alignments to create a transformational practice.
• Upon successful completion of the training, students will be fully prepared to teach vinyasa-style yoga classes and will graduate with a well-rounded understanding of yoga asana, pranayama, anatomy, hands-on assisting, yogic philosophy, mudras, and meditation techniques.
• We pride ourselves on having a passionate, experienced, and caring staff dedicated to the yogic values of self-growth, peace, and a green lifestyle.
• The Yoga Alliance of America approves this 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training. Students who complete this training are qualified to register with Yoga Alliance as a Registered Yoga Teacher at the 200-hour level (RYT 200).
What You Will Learn
The Yoga of Energy Flow Flow 200-Hour Teacher Training follows the Yoga Alliance guidelines:
• Techniques, Training and Practice: 100 Hours
• Teaching Methodology: 25 Hours
• Anatomy and Physiology: 20 Hours
• Yoga Philosophy, Lifestyle and Ethics for Yoga Teachers: 30 hours
• Student Practicum: 10 Hours
• Home Study: 15 hours
Subjects Covered:
• The History and Philosophy of Yoga a
• Meditation
• Intensive study and practice of Asanas (postures)
• Sanskrit names of yoga postures
• Assisting and modification of poses
• Pranayama
• Anatomy
• Yogic Lifestyle
• The Business of Teaching Yoga
• Class Sequencing and Planning
• Hands-On Assisting
• Practice Teaching
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Schedule
Program Schedule
This 8-month training meets one weekend per month, with additional weekly sessions on Zoom. All in-person sessions take place at Boston University’s Fitness and Recreation Center, 915 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA.
Weekend Sessions (In-Person) ~ Saturdays & Sundays, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
• Saturdays are led by Jennifer Harvey and Andrea Fotopoulos, with a focus on asana alignment and modifications, hands-on assists, teaching methodology, and yoga anatomy.
• Sundays are led by Daniel Orlansky and begin with a full Yoga of Energy Flow practice, followed by explorations of the specific monthly theme and teaching methodology.
• Chip Hartranft, our yoga philosophy teacher, will be joining us for the January sessions.
Weekly Zoom Sessions ~ Monday evenings, 6:00-8:00 PM
• These sessions will support integration of the material, group discussion, and continued learning between the in-person meetings.
• September 22 – December 8 (no class October 13), and January 26 – April 13 (no classes February 16 and March 9.)
Part I: September 20 – December 7, 2025
September 20 – 21 ~ The Yoga of Energy Flow: Inner Fire, Outer Radiance
October 18 – 19 ~ Covering the Basics/ Yoga Anatomy I
November 8 – 9 ~ Kundalini Yoga & Pranayama: Breathing the Inner Body of Light/ Yoga Anatomy II
December 6 – 7 ~ Meridian Yoga: Opening the Energy Pathways/ Hands-On: Skillful Assists for Yoga Asana
Part II: January 24 – April 26, 2026
January 24 – 25 ~ Yoga Philosopy: Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras/ Energetic Alignments in Yoga Asana
February 28 – March 1 ~ The Art of Vinyasa Sequencing/ Restorative Yoga
March 21 – 22 ~ The Yoga of Energy Flow: Uniting Heaven and Earth/ Student Practicum
April 25 – 26 ~ Student Teaching/ Teaching Well Rounded Yoga Classes/ The Business and Ethics of Yoga / Graduation
Cost: $3250, including teacher training manual.
What Our Students Say
The discriminating yogi and yogini will be impressed by this extraordinary yoga teacher training….. Extremely well organized, magnificently yet compassionately taught, with first-rate guest teachers, this program manages to convey great joy, wisdom, and energy to its participants.
~ Barbara F, Arlington, MA
This intellectually rigorous, well-thought-out and balanced training offers substantial exposure to slow flow vinyasa, intensive attention to asana alignment, pranayama breath work and chanting. The training group is small enough for individual attention and big enough to create a sustained community. The lead teachers and guest presenters care deeply and bring decades of experience. The teaching is flexible and creative. This training promises to make you fall in love with yoga and deepen your respect for yourself and the earth.
~ Becky T, Boston, MA
Through the Yoga of Energy Flow training, I have become grounded both physically and mentally. Most importantly, I have learned to breath deeper, on and off the mat. With a unique blend of styles including Vinyasa, Iyengar, Kundalini, Kali Ray, and Meridian, I now feel prepared to teach a wide range of classes, and I am excited for what my future in Yoga will bring.
~ Renne A, Andover, MA
Our Faculty
DANIEL ORLANSKY
Director, E-RYT 500
Daniel has been a yoga teacher since 1992 and conducts workshops and 200 and 500-hour yoga teacher certifications in America and Europe. Certified in Jnana Yoga, Kali Ray TriYoga and Kundalini Yoga, he is the originator of Meridian Yoga. He holds a masters degree in Expressive Art Therapy/Dance Therapy from Lesley University, has been a visiting lecturer in movement studies at Tufts University, and teaches in many locations, including the Kripalu Center and the Omega Institute, where he has been Core Yoga Faculty for 15 years.
Daniel has co-directed two yoga DVDs, and offers workshops with these thematics: Hands-On! Skillful Assists for Yoga Asana & Yoga and Vision Improvement.
ANDREA FOTOPOULOS
RYT 200
Andrea Fotopoulos has been practicing asana since 1996 and teaching since 2004. Known for her skill, clarity and authenticity, Andrea’s teaching style is a blend of functional alignment, dynamic movement and inspiration that creates a bridge between the hard work on the mat and off.
Dedicated to making yoga accessible for everybody by making the difficult doable and the doable difficult, Andrea’s personal practice and teaching style are heavily shaped by the Anusara yoga methodology, Tantric yoga philosophy and her ongoing studies with her highly skilled and deeply inspiring teachers: Christina Sell, Desiree Rumbaugh, Darren Rhodes, Noah Maze, Douglas Brooks and all of their teachers and their teachers’ teachers.
CHIP HARTRANFT
E-RYT 500
Chip Hartranft’s work bridges the traditions of yoga and Buddhism. He is the founding director of The Arlington Center, uniting yoga and dharma practice, and has taught an integration of yoga movement and meditation in the Boston area since 1978. Chip is the yoga philosophy teacher in the Yoga of Energy Flow 200-Hour Teacher Training.
An independent scholar of early Indian Buddhism and yoga, Chip is the author of The Yoga-Sutra of Patañjali: A New Translation with Commentary (Shambhala Publications), and teaches at Lesley University.
JENNIFER HARVEY
E-RYT 500
Jennifer Harvey has been sharing her love of yoga for over 20 years. In her classes, she provide a space for self-discovery, where students can connect to the voice of their hearts, the optimal strength and suppleness of their bodies, the gift of life and the creativity of the moment. Prior to opening Laughing Dog Yoga, Jen was a full time body/mind psychotherapist. Currently she is a facilitator for TIMBo (trauma-informed mind/body) program, and part of a team that offers trainings and workshops nationally and internationally.
Jennifer has owned Laughing Dog Yoga in Wellesley for 15 years, which offers over 50 classes a week in yoga, movement, and other healing arts.
