The Alberta Yoga Teacher Training College

The Alberta Yoga Teacher Training College was formed in April 2012 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, to provide yoga students for the first time locally with a training program with three start dates a year. Trainees are able to complete the course in as little as three months or as long as year, depending on their work and family schedules.
It is accredited with the US based Yoga Alliance and awards the trainees the Yoga Alliance 200-hour certification.
It was founded by Rob Walker and Cathy Shea, both accredited with the Yoga Alliance as experienced yoga teachers (c) who
bring together their experience and knowledge from
two different approaches to yoga practice, influenced and Iyengar-style yoga. Walker has four levels of certification in Iyengar Yoga and has studied with the Iyengar family in Pune, India,
on three month-long trips. Cathy Shea has studied in Mysore with the late Pattabi Jois, founder of Ashtanga Yoga. Her experience allows the program to offer Vinyasa training and meditation
as well as Iyengar-style yoga.
Walker founded the Yoga Studio South Teacher Training Program in Calgary in 2001 and co-directed the Yoga Studio College of Canada teacher training program from 2004 to 2012. He sits on the Yoga Alliance member benefits committee.
The Alberta Yoga Teacher Training College was seen as an opportunity to respond to an unmet demand for more flexibility from potential yoga teachers. The program allows them to start training right away, to space out their training depending on their schedules, or invest in parts of the training based on what they could afford. With training in the evenings and weekends, the program is also scheduled outside of the regular work week.
The college has a faculty of four other teachers, including a university philosophy professor and a physiotherapist.

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