Welcome to Contemporary Yoga Teacher Training
Yoga Alliance and Yoga New Zealand Registered Programmes 200-hour TrainingLearn MorePassionate about yoga? Inspired to share and teach?
Passionate about yoga?
Inspired to share and teach?
Dive into the foundations of anatomy, alignment and movement in a way that is safe, stable, easeful and empowering with a faculty of passionate, experienced and inspiring teachers.
With every breath and movement, you’ll be supported to find your own feet, resource strength from within, and give voice to the passion that calls you to share.
“The amount of knowledge and understanding, experience and love that has gone into the teacher training is truly epic and has enabled such a deep and rich learning experience.”
Caroline Bindon, 2020
The 200+ hours of Yoga teaching training is truly to an exceptional high quality standard of teaching. The guidance and support during my training with you all has been a once in a lifetime experience.
Vicki Beatty 2022
… diverse, enlightening and empowering. The course exceeded my highest expectations and has equipped me with a toolbox of yoga teachings that I could apply in many circumstances to a wide variety of students.
Cam McLeay, 2021
Our next 200-hour courses:
January 2024
6th - 23rd January
(break days on 12th and 18th)
2xIntensives 2024
Dates to be confirmed
Likely to be July and October
The 200 hour trainings includes up to 40 hours of teacher directed and supported online learning.
Why go Contemporary?
It’s like going back to when your body first moved and first breathed.
Step by step, we’ll reintroduce you to the wisdom and resources already within and give you the tools to bring your inner teacher out.
It’s a rediscovery of how to move, breathe, feel and teach, the way you were born to.

Go Beyond Asana
Understand and experience the very foundation of natural, functional movement.
Each posture, transition and philosophy is a process that you’re lovingly and personally guided through to discover ease, stability, clarity and joy.
You’ll take profound life skills away with you, along with a personal resilience to support every part of your life.

Passionate Teachers
It’s our greatest joy to offer you the decades of experience between us.
We honour and encourage the process of curiosity, enquiry and discovery, and we’re here to support you every step of the way. Each of us brings a highly specialist background and a whole lot of soul.
And we can’t wait to meet you!

Be Moved
We’ll take you deep into essential anatomy, physiology, biomechanics and postural analysis, and uncover how our natural developmental movement patterns grow into naturally aligned and easeful asana.
Get ready to go inward.
You’ll rediscover how you were meant to move and breathe in the most balanced and enjoyable way.

Live Well
Feel into the true depth of the Yoga tradition to develop skills that support and enhance your wellness as a human, and as a teacher.
This is a sustainable and nourishing training, designed to put you deeply in touch with inner resources that help you flourish on and off the mat.

Grow Your Yoga
Our vision is for you to leave confident to begin teaching safely and skillfully out in the community with a passionate sense of your own unique offering.
We’re registered with two major yoga communities - Yoga Alliance, and Yoga New Zealand.
Plus our specialised training programmes and mentorships are there to help advance you on your path.

Affordable and Flexible
This comprehensive Yoga training is designed to be within reach for students of all levels.
Choose from three formats of our 200 hour yoga teacher training throughout each year, and modules of your choice within our ongoing and specialised 300 hour training.
Early bird pricing and payment plans are on offer for all programs.
Advanced Yoga Teacher Training, Retreats and Events

The campus is nice too
Join us in beautiful St. Heliers, Auckland. All our 200-hour yoga teacher trainings take place a short stroll from the beach.
Light, spacious, comfortable and an easy location for public transport as well as cafes and shops, the purpose-built workshop space is extensive, modern, with every mod-con.
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This was a really warm, exciting, encouraging and profound learning experience. The facilitation was awesome and there was such a wonderful sense of community amongst the practitioners.
A beautiful balance of life-to-life and individual learning. I am so inspired to continue with the practice and to find ways to integrate it into other areas of my life and to share it with others.
Emma Willis
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Meet Your Teachers

Karla Brodie
Core Faculty / Programme Director
Intuitive, honest, attentive, creative, joyful and full of expression — there’s something about Karla that speaks directly to your insides, and suddenly you realise you have a newfound conversation with your inner world as well as you gain a deeper understanding of balanced posture and integrated movement.
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Neal Ghoshal
Core Faculty / Programme Director
When someone loves what they do with all of their heart, it emanates to everyone they work with. Neal is one of these people.
His teaching focuses on exploring and refining natural movement and alignment principles, and to embody these in a way that takes our spiritual practice into our everyday lives.
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Haidee Stairmand
Core Faculty
Haidee brings a pragmatic approach to her teaching and offers students a clear, approachable and understandable way to develop their Yoga through self-sensing, and awareness.
She is passionate about making yoga accessible for all, enabling an individualistic approach.
She has a unique ability to connect to others in a simple but profound way and sees Yoga as a holistic therapeutic modality that encompasses traditional and contemporary approaches to the Practice.
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Sam Loe
Core Faculty
Sam’s Yoga practice and teaching come from a somatic place of listening deeply within. She is passionate about sharing Yoga in a way that empowers and gives agency to her students through creating safe learning environments, invitational and choice based practices and ultimately supporting people to develop their own self-practice.
Sam is a certified iRest Teacher and in addition shares functional, therapeutic and restorative practices in her community, via classes, workshops and retreats.
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Sandra Palmer
Guest Faculty
As a certified psychologist I have always been interested in the relationship between the body and the mind and my masters thesis was in the field of psychoneuroimmunology.
I have a particular interest in the way Yoga can be used to provide balance and stillness (and consequently energy) in this fast-paced world we live in.
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Vanessa Bailey
Guest Faculty | Marketing & visual communication
Vanessa Bailey has worked in marketing and communications for 18 years and held senior roles in New Zealand, Australia and England.
Vanessa has accrued wide experience and in-depth knowledge of customer-driven marketing communications and branding with specialist knowledge of how to bring brands and communications to life in the physical space.

Suzanne Day
Guest Faculty | Marketing & visual communication
I often wonder about stars. About trees. About the mysteries of the universe; about creativity, beauty, the gossamer web of a spider, a single drop of dew.
This sense of wonderment has enticed me along many paths: from an aspiring art student, to studying graphic design, working in advertising as an illustrator then art director, a sojourn as a jeweller, an immersion in painting, a return to design, a foray into creative writing, studying astrology, tarot, plant medicine, alchemy, and magic.
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Graduate Interview Update with Lucy Tofield
Lucy Tofield is a graduate, associate and friend of the Contemporary Yoga community. We last interviewed her in July 2021 and asked her to join us again because she does fabulous stuff and we wanted her to share her ongoing yoga journey with you.
In this interview she shares her evolution as a teacher and informs us that it does get easier. Ever the learner – Lucy has plans and new directions … all of which she intends to bring to her Yoga work.
Graduate Interview: Katie Rudd
This week’s interview is with Katie Rudd. One of our recent graduates, contemporary dancer Katie Rudd talks about the power of Yoga to bring us home to our bodies.
Katie graciously shares her passion for movement with us and suggests that advanced Yoga is doing less ‘with a deeper focus on intention’. We love it – and think you will too, so read on…
Yoga and Cacao: Part 4: Integrating Cacao (conversations with Steph Le Gros)
“I am living today as someone I had not yet become yesterday. And tonight I’ll only borrow pieces of who I am today, to carry with me to tomorrow.”
Andrea Gibson
Closing the ritual is as essential as the beginning. Welcoming in the circularity of the practice or an integrational interlude giving space for all that needs to land, to land. Integrating all that has surfaced and moved you to ‘shape your soul’.1 Think of integrating Cacao as savasana – a closing ritual that keeps on giving.
Graduate Interview Update with Lucy Tofield
Lucy Tofield is a graduate, associate and friend of the Contemporary Yoga community. We last interviewed her in July 2021 and asked her to join us again because she does fabulous stuff and we wanted her to share her ongoing yoga journey with you.
In this interview she shares her evolution as a teacher and informs us that it does get easier. Ever the learner – Lucy has plans and new directions … all of which she intends to bring to her Yoga work.
Graduate Interview: Katie Rudd
This week’s interview is with Katie Rudd. One of our recent graduates, contemporary dancer Katie Rudd talks about the power of Yoga to bring us home to our bodies.
Katie graciously shares her passion for movement with us and suggests that advanced Yoga is doing less ‘with a deeper focus on intention’. We love it – and think you will too, so read on…
Yoga and Cacao: Part 4: Integrating Cacao (conversations with Steph Le Gros)
“I am living today as someone I had not yet become yesterday. And tonight I’ll only borrow pieces of who I am today, to carry with me to tomorrow.”
Andrea Gibson
Closing the ritual is as essential as the beginning. Welcoming in the circularity of the practice or an integrational interlude giving space for all that needs to land, to land. Integrating all that has surfaced and moved you to ‘shape your soul’.1 Think of integrating Cacao as savasana – a closing ritual that keeps on giving.
Yoga and Cacao: Part 3: Learning the Spirit of Cacao (conversations with Steph Le Gros)
Cacao helps us restore and remember our connection to nature, to earth, to the ancestors that have lived before us. And to the ancestors that we are yet to become.
I could write about the history of cacao, of traditions and legends told through lineages of Peruvian tribes. And yet I question whether it is my voice that should be speaking to it.
Graduate Interview Update with Lucy Tofield
Lucy Tofield is a graduate, associate and friend of the Contemporary Yoga community. We last interviewed her in July 2021 and asked her to join us again because she does fabulous stuff and we wanted her to share her ongoing yoga journey with you.
In this interview she shares her evolution as a teacher and informs us that it does get easier. Ever the learner – Lucy has plans and new directions … all of which she intends to bring to her Yoga work.
Graduate Interview: Katie Rudd
This week’s interview is with Katie Rudd. One of our recent graduates, contemporary dancer Katie Rudd talks about the power of Yoga to bring us home to our bodies.
Katie graciously shares her passion for movement with us and suggests that advanced Yoga is doing less ‘with a deeper focus on intention’. We love it – and think you will too, so read on…
The Body-Mind Approach
We’re dedicated to excellence in body-mind approaches to Yoga.
The main focus of the Yoga tradition is a very personal journey. It’s always been about self exploration, discovery and healing.
There’s a common trunk to this tradition, rooted deep in the universal desire for freedom, and over millennia it branched in many directions, flowering into a multitude of insights and revelations about life, the body and our true nature that we still study and explore today.
Yoga teacher training with Contemporary Yoga embodies yoga philosophy and supports deep personal investigation with leading edge learnings and technologies as tools.
All throughout history, the yoga tradition has honoured the past and transcended its limits at the same time.
Our specialist teachers follow the latest investigations in fields of movement, body-mind centering and yoga therapeutics.
You’ll study the natural sciences with us from the smallest building blocks of life to the biggest theories in biomechanics, along with Patanjali’s Sutras, Buddhist teachings and the Bhagavad Gita.
Yoga offers personal experience and personal accountability. We support students in their own explorations and teaching styles with humour, wisdom and passion.
To us, the mark of a masterful teacher is to fully support the student’s independence, inner resources and wisdom so they step forward on this path with a clear idea of their own voice and offering as a teacher themselves.
Our next 200-hour courses:
January 2024
6th - 23rd January
(break days on 12th and 18th)
The 200 hour trainings includes up to 40 hours of teacher directed and supported online learning.
Advanced Yoga Teacher Training and Ongoing Professional Training
What You'll Learn
The 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training provides excellent foundations in human anatomy and movement, increases your awareness and understanding of the postures, and explores the philosophy of underlying yoga traditions.
Our 200-hour Yoga Alliance Registered Teacher Training is an indepth and comprehensive foundation for teaching yoga.
The 350-hour Yoga New Zealand Registered Training further extends and deepens the foundation set by the 200-hour training.
The 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training refines and expands your expertise and proficiency in teaching and deepens your personal practice.
Fully explore how developmental movement patterns grow into naturally aligned asana.
Discuss groundbreaking research into human anatomy & physiology and its relevance to yoga.
Hands on with bones and muscles and how they work together in an asana practice.
Investigate the biomechanics of Yoga with a focus on containment and stability.
Understand postural analysis, using yoga to restore natural balance and your full range of motion.
Work with the subtle energies of the body to purify the nadis and touch the natural mind.
Yoga philosophy has the power to reshape your daily life
Gain confidence in your teaching skills and teaching practice.
Yoga Teacher Registration Pathway
We are delighted and proud to be registered with two major Yoga organisations - Yoga New Zealand and Yoga Alliance.