Yoga Teacher Training Scholarship

SPONSORED BY SEA CHANGE YOGA

applications FOR OUR SCHOLARSHIPs are Currently CLOSED

until May-June 2024

This scholarship was created to further support Sea Change Yoga students, partners, and our greater community. We recognize a responsibility to remove barriers to diversify the yoga teaching community and promote equity within the yoga and wellness communities.

Two scholarships are available:

• One scholarship to a former/current Sea Change Yoga student or community member identifying as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color (BIPOC). Candidates not selected for the BIPOC scholarship will subsequently be considered for the Community Scholarship.

• One scholarship to a former/current Sea Change Yoga student, a community member who reflects our student population in any way (learn more about our students here), or anyone who identifies with a community that has been historically excluded and oppressed.

A scholarship includes:

• Tuition for a 200-hour foundational yoga teacher training (YTT) program.

• Support identifying a YTT that is a good fit for you and Sea Change’s teaching methodology and organizational values.

• Built-in mentorship from an experienced Sea Change Yoga teacher. 

• Following completion of the YTT, an opportunity to teach for Sea Change Yoga future/current programs.

Sea Change Yoga commits to evolving the yoga teaching population of Greater Portland, elevating community leaders and facilitating opportunities for our students to work within their own communities. Our aim is to increase peer support and mutuality within the yoga and wellness community by helping train teachers with the same shared and lived experiences as their students.

TO APPLY

  • Complete the online application by clicking this link. You can download the application here so you can preview and prepare the questions in advance (the application form does not allow you to pause and save).

  • Accessibility is important to us. If you would like to fill out your application over the phone or in another way please let us know.

  • Applications will be open until 11:59 pm on June 15, 2023. Once applications have been reviewed, in-person interviews will be conducted for selected candidates. All recipients will be notified by July 15 of their final application status.

  • Sea Change Yoga staff is happy to walk through this application with you and answer any questions you may have along the way.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Scholarship recipients must be enrolled in a 200-hour YTT by January 1, 2024. The actual start date of the training is flexible. Scholarship recipients’ names will be announced publicly through Sea Change Yoga communication channels unless doing so would be harmful to the individual. Recipients will also occasionally be asked to reflect on their experience for the purposes of sharing with our funding partners who make this scholarship possible.

All applications will be reviewed and considered based on:

• Your shared motivation for entering into this process

• What you've communicated about your self-mentoring skills and openness to being mentored by a SCY Affiliated teacher

• What you share is happening in life right now and how this Yoga Teacher Training could fit in

• A demonstrated commitment to your yoga practice

Please contact Sea Change Yoga Executive Director Elise Boyson at elise@seachangeyoga.org/ (207) 200-5130 with any questions, concerns, comments, etc..