Next Training: FALLÂ 2025
Our Fall 2025 training announcement is coming soon. If you want to be the first to receive information about Living Soul's transformational, embodied-faith yoga teacher training, please Contact Us today.Â
What's YOUR yoga story?
Maybe you found yoga during a challenging life circumstance.
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 embody faith, hope, & love - heart, soul, mind, and body.
Now you're wondering if God could use YOU to teach yoga and 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... Ps. 46:10.
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 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:
Who Am I? What Am I Living For?Â
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.
A 200-hour holistic, Christ-centered, leadership training and a Yoga Alliance accredited teacher certification experience with everything you need to step into your calling.
Get The Certification
Earn your accredited RYT 200 yoga teacher certificate.
Build Your Confidence
Find YOUR teacher voice to lead yoga to any population or setting.
Go Deeper With God
Come alive w/Â breath, movement, & scripture meditation.
Establish Your Practice
Embody postures to honor the body that you are in.
Find Community
Find your "people!" Receive support & encouragement on this growth-journey.
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 I've 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. And, I'm continually learning through the ways in which Living Soul alumni are being called to serve, that It's More Than Just the Yoga. Â
Living Soul's 200-hr. Foundations Program 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 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 >
Let it Begin with Me.Â
The Living Soul Foundations Program is a holistic, Christian yoga leadership development and accredited yoga teacher certification experience that gives you more than yoga “head knowledge.” Our students are also equipped to develop a new lifestyle for themselves that prioritizes stress management, a healthy and functional body, and healthy rhythms for your soul. Through experienced mentors, confidence building experiences, and spiritual formation practices you’ll become a confident instructor that is ready to teach your first class.
Graduates of this program earn their RYS-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, run your first class, build a community, and much more.
Access To Mentors
Kristin and the rest of our world-class teacher trainers aren’t kept behind some sort of glass wall. We are 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
Our next 200-hr Training is limited to 40 students and the deadline to register is August 31st.
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Complete The 12-Week ProgramÂ
Engage in a mixture of live workshops, self-paced online content, mentorship groups and an optional immersive in-person retreat with your fellow classmates!
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.
Zoom Orientation on February 12, 2025
Standard & Online-Only Programs Available
Standard Program (Hybrid)
12Â Week Online Training + In-Person Training + Practicum
$2,799
There's nothing better than being getting to spend 3 days enjoying Christ-centered yoga practices, soul care exercises, and the power of community. Also called "The Teacher Tune-up," our in-person retreat includes workshops on sequencing, theme/word-weaving, hands-on assists, cueing for agency & empowerment, illuminating the practice through props, and more! For detailed information regarding the online portion of the training, see below.
$500 non-refundable deposit is required to hold your spot in training. Monthly payment plans available.Â
Online-Only Program
$2,400Â
Monthly payment plans available. If you are an international trainee, reach out to [email protected] for affordable exchange rates.
Online Training
Starts September 25, 2025 for 12 weeks + 4-week teaching practicum.Â
In addition to our live lectures & real time yoga practice via Zoom, expect weekly online course curriculum that includes reading assignments, Christ-centered meditation and yoga practices. The live Zoom calls are recorded & added each week to the online course. You will engage in your practicum teaching to friends & family or co-workers in preparation for your teaching journey.
Class Times + Dates:
FALL 2025 TBD
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the scope of the training?
What is covered in my teacher training content?
What is the difference between the Hybrid Training Program and Online-Only option?
Are there additional training materials I need to purchase?
Still have questions?
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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