Next Training: FALLÂ 2025
We have a new format for our next 200-hr. Christ-centered Yoga Teacher Training!  Download our information packet by clicking the link below.
DOWNLOAD AN INFORMATION PACKETWhat's YOUR yoga story?
Maybe you found yoga during a challenging life circumstance
Or the yoga mat became a sanctuary for you to catch your breath.
Perhaps you heard the call to live into your truest self, into your wholeness.
You want REAL - to love God, self, & others heart, soul, mind, and body.
You're wondering if God could use YOU to teach yoga & spread love.
Our yoga stories... it's more than just the yoga!
Maybe you found yourself on the mat after a diagnosis, a break-up, or a stressful season impacting your mental health? It's likely that the yoga practice helped you reconnect to your body after a traumatic experience or helped you rebuild strength after an injury. Perhaps, you've hit a wall in your spiritual-life, and want to be apart of authentic community pursuing tools for deeper intimacy and integration. One common denominator often found in our yoga stories is the shared experience of how we feel at the end of a class. You know, the moment where you can BE STILL AND KNOW...Â
There's plenty of science backing the positive effects of breath work, movement, and meditation. But even more importantly, yoga can be a powerful invitation to surrender the "old story" regularly and to rise up a new creation. With deeper awareness of ourselves and God's Presence, we are transformed each and every time we take up our mat and walk! Living Soul's Foundations Program begins with a yoga story and a call for deeper exploration. Our teacher training curriculum is not only designed to equip you to teach yoga with excellence, but to help you press into life's most beautiful questions:
Why am I here? Â Who am I becoming?
At Living Soul Institute, we take a "let it begin with me" approach to leadership. We believe the calling you’re sensing is too important to be ignored, and we want to equip you to pursue it.
Meet Our Founder
Kristin Gibowicz, LSI Founder + Lead Yoga Trainer + Spiritual Director
Like many of you, I found yoga in a stormy season of my life. My yoga journey has helped bridge the gap between what I believe (about God, about myself, about relationship with others) and what I experience.Â
Want to know my yoga story? Watch the video above or check out this feature of my story in Voyage Denver Magazine! Â
Certified in 2003, I've taught thousands of classes, gained mastery in many yoga class styles, served diverse populations, and led yoga and spiritual formation retreats internationally.  I've trained more than 1,000 teachers in over 17 years for CorePower Yoga, Holy Yoga, and Yogadownload. Since 2020, I've followed the call on my own heart to lead Living Soul Yoga Leadership Institute and watch God move in all the ways our alumni are being called to serve - It's More Than Just the Yoga. Â
Living Soul's 200-hr. Christian yoga teacher training prepares teachers to teach with proficiency AND with a holy confidence. Our trauma-informed approach recognizes that everyone is coming from somewhere and we can create safe spaces that make yoga accessible to ALL.  Yoga is more than just the postures, it's a lifestyle. Yoga means "to yoke." Embodying a lifestyle yoked to whole-health in Christ will help you connect the threads of your yoga story to the greater story of God's plan.  When we're connected to our call and purpose, we allow God to bring heaven to earth (bodies) through our teaching - whether it be in secular or faith-based settings. We are more than just a certification program - we are a program that will change the trajectory of your life and give you a community of down-to-earth, like-hearted friends to journey with you!
I invite you to join us for our next foundations program. Don’t let another year go by. If you want to become a yoga leader who is more present, holds space for others, and leads healing yoga experiences for others, then your next step is to enroll in our next program.
Have questions? You can book a discovery call with me here.
A 200-hour, holistic spiritual formation and leadership training accredited by the Yoga Alliance. Our contemplative Christian yoga approach will help you discern the next steps into your calling.
Get The Certification
Earn your accredited RYT 200 yoga teacher certificate.
Build Your Confidence
Find YOUR teacher voice  Learn to teach any population.
Go Deeper w/God
Come alive w/Â breath, movement, & scripture meditation.
Establish Your Practice
Embody postures by honoring YOUR body.Â
Find Community
Find "your people!" We'll support you on your journey.
Let it Begin with Me.Â
The Living Soul Foundations Program is more than yoga “head knowledge.” Our students are also equipped to develop a lifestyle for themselves that prioritizes stress management, a healthy and functional body, and intentional rhythms for your soul. Through experienced mentors, confidence building exercises, and spiritual formation practices you’ll become a confident instructor that is ready to teach your first class.
Graduates of this program earn their RYT 200 yoga teacher certificate, accredited by the Yoga Alliance. With this certification and skills learned throughout the program, you will have what you need to get hired, lead class with proficiency, build a community, and much more.
Access To Mentors
Kristin and the rest of our world-class teacher trainers are accessible and ready to engage with you as an individual and provide support and mentorship on your unique journey.Â
Faith-Based
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are foundational to what we teach in our class. We are intentional to be a safe space for people of all faith backgrounds and journeys as we explore and deepen our spiritual lives.
“Ready To Teach” Guarantee
Surprisingly, many training programs never prepare you to lead an actual class. By graduation, we guarantee you will know how to teach a 1-hour yoga class and audition at a studio.
Meet Your Trainers
We know there are many teacher training programs out there, and some are much cheaper than our program. However, our teacher training team has the most yoga teaching and training experience of any Christian yoga training out there! Our trainers not only teach yoga, but we are certified life coaches, spiritual directors, mind-body therapists, and spiritual formation pastors. Don't you want to learn from the best?
At Living Soul, you can expect a culture where:
- We believe yoga is for EVERY BODY.Â
- We create an environment of belonging - connecting with each trainee in a personal way.
- We have a trauma-informed approach to help our students feel safe, connected, and empowered through agency.
- We are down-to-earth, funny, and compassionate.
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We care deeply about justice, mercy, and living beyond ourselves.
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We lean into the questions and seek unity, not uniformity.
Kristin Gibowicz
Parker, CO
E-RYT 500 &Â Spiriitual Director, Motions of the Soul Enneagram Practitioner
Katie Pearson
Bainbridge Island, WA
E-RYT 500 & BeNew Lifestyle Coach (CPLC), Spiritual Formation Pastor
Hope Stockman
Brussels, Belgium
RYT 500 & Spiritual Director @Abundant Joy Wellness, Spiritual Exercises Facilitator
Jen Allbritton
Evergreen, CO
E-RYT 500 Yoga Medicine & Biomechanics; Mind-Body Somatic Coaching
Luci Davis
Tyler, TX
Trauma-informed Yoga Therapist, C-IAYT and TSY Yoga Teacher Trainer
Kali Gillespie
Victoria, BC Canada
RYT 500, Spiritual Director, Wellness Retreat Leader, Handstand Coach
Enroll In The Program
Choose HYBRID (Online + In-Person Training Retreat) OR ONLINE ONLY yoga teacher training option.
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Complete The 12-Week ProgramÂ
You will engage in a mixture of live workshops, self-paced online curriculum including practices and meditations, etc.
Step Into Your Calling
Start loving and leading others closer to God and themselves through yoga. Bring hope and healing to your community!
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Allison
RYT 200
"Excellent instruction, rich and challenging curriculum, lead instructor Kristin Gibowicz is all the things you want in a lead instructor: approachable, responsive, knowledgable and humble. From the anatomy to the yoga history to the pose breakdowns and cueing/sequencing how-to's this program was worth every penny and every hour I devoted to this training. Highly recommend!"
Tylor
RYT 200
"I can’t put into words how much I loved my training at Living Soul Yoga Leadership Institute. Kristin is a wealth of knowledge with a huge heart for the Lord. She is so personable and was always so accessible. I started this training strictly for my own knowledge with no desire to teach. Within a few classes my fire was lit to teach. Week after week I got more excited about my future in yoga and teaching. I can’t say enough about Living Soul. I recommend 1,000%!"
Nina
RYT 200
"I find myself extremely fortunate to have launched my yoga training journey with Living Soul Institute. The training was thorough, detailed, and left a lot of room for discovery. I feel incredibly prepared to continue my journey in learning and to begin teaching courses to others. This program was a beautiful blend of hands on and personal responsibility to learn. I would highly recommend, and plan to continue with their programing when I feel it’s right to set my sights on a 500 hour certification."
Amy
RYT 200
"My training with Living Soul gave me more confidence in my teaching and Kristin was so encouraging as I stepped into this calling. I'm grateful for the knowledge they taught, the depth of spiritual growth that was fostered, and for the fact that I feel equipped as I begin my teaching."
Ready to change your life... and the lives of others?
Don’t miss out on your calling. You can become a confident yoga leader ready to teach your first class.
Two Training Options Available: Standard Program & Online Only Program
Standard Program (Hybrid)
Online + In-Person TrainingÂ
$2,899
Part 1: The Embodied Life. The sooner you register, the sooner you will have access to The Embodied Life self-paced portion of the online training that includes Embodied Posture book reading, posture breakdown videos, teaching on yoga as a wholistic lifestyle, and video practices to prepare you over the summer.  We make this section of the online course available early for those who want to gain a strong foundation of anatomy, and to lighten the load during our Fall 2025 10-week Zoom training.
Part 2: The Immersion. As an option, trainees can choose our hybrid training that includes both the online curriculum AND an in-person training October 2-5, 2025 in Parker, CO. There's nothing better than being getting to spend 3 days enjoying Christ-centered yoga practices, soul care exercises, teacher training workshops, and the power of face-to-face community. For detailed information regarding the online portion of the training, see below.
Part 3:  The Equipping. The 10-week Live Zoom Training, September 29th - Dec. 12, 2025 (no live call Thanksgiving week), includes two Zooms per week: Mondays 5:30pm - 7:30pm MST (4:30pm PT, 6:30 CT, 7:30 ET) and Thursdays 11:00am - 12:00pm MST (10am PST, 1pm CST, 2pm EST). Optional office hours will be available throughout the training for additional mentorship time. Each week, trainees will have additional assignments in the online course including yoga practices, meditations, and articles that help you integrate the life curriculum.
Part 4: The Practicum. Trainees will choose a memorization sequence (gentle or vinyasa) that they will learn throughout the training. Each trainee is expected to practice teach four classes (to friends, colleagues, or family) in preparation for the final teacher showcase.
$500 non-refundable deposit is required to hold your spot in training. Monthly payment plans are available, and we offer affordable exchange rates for international trainees.Â
Online-Only Program
12-weeks online + Online Mentorship + 4-week Teaching Practicum
$2,650
The online only program is available for trainees unable to travel to the immersion in Colorado. We offer weekly online mentorship hours (optional), for anyone needing extra support throughout the training.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Want to talk this through?
This is a no-pressure call where you can ask questions about our programs and talk directly with Kristin.
Come with your questions, we'll have the answers!
Book a discovery call with Kristin today.
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