
DENNIS PORT YOGA
2025-2026
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training
We are thrilled to announce our 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training, beginning in September 2025. Whether you are looking to deepen your personal yoga practice or aspire to share your passion as a teacher, this foundational training provides an in-depth education paired with enriching experiences that foster personal growth and self-discovery.
Over the course of 9 weekends, across several months, you will be guided by seasoned Dennis Port Yoga teachers to explore various styles of yoga, and dive deep into anatomy, alignment, philosophy, pranayama, meditation, asana techniques, and so much more.
For more information and to learn about the schedule, tuition, and how to apply, click on the link below.
It would be an honor to have you embark on this life-changing journey with us!
SCHEDULE
2025: Sept 26-28 | Oct 17-19 | Nov 7-9 | Nov 21-23 | Dec 5-7
2026: Jan 9-11 | Feb 6-8 | Feb 27-Mar 1 | Mar 20-22
Fridays: 5:45-8:15pm
Saturdays: 8:30am-5pm
Sundays: 9am - 5pm
One Evening a Month on Zoom: 7-8:30pm

200 Hour Teacher Training Curriculum Topics
Lineage + History
Yoga Philosophy + Sanskrit
Physical Anatomy + Physiology
Asana + Alignment
Meditation + Pranayama
Energetic Anatomy
Sequencing + Holding Space
Hands-on Adjustments + Assists
Business + Ethics
Diversity, Equity + Inclusion
Meet the Faculty
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Leigh Alberti
As the owner/director of Dennis Port Yoga, Leigh has created a sacred community and home for thousands of students. She has been a teacher of the practice for over 15 years, with the intention to hold a safe and nourishing space for others to cultivate a deeper connection to self - mind, body, heart and soul.
Leigh's classes are deeply grounding, creative, and full of love, and her kind and compassionate approach makes others feel at ease and at home in her presence. Leigh finds deep joy and inspiration in witnessing others discover and grow their own personal yoga journey, and hopes to support, nurture and encourage them along their path.
In addition to teaching weekly classes, Leigh offers private instruction, and leads workshops, retreats and teacher trainings both within the U.S. and internationally. She remains forever grateful to all of her teachers and mentors along her path for their life-changing and ongoing contributions to her learning and growth.
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Joanna Benevides
Joanna is a Yoga Teacher, a Reiki Practitioner, a Women’s Circle Facilitator, and a forever curious and fascinated student and artist of life.
Jo’s dedication as a facilitator and guide is to meet you exactly where you are on your path and hold space for you to connect inward, and get to know yourself on a deep and true level. Her invitation is always to soften, to breathe, to feel, and come back home to yourself within your own heart. She is here to help you plant the seeds of your intentions, deepest desires, and prayers, and to help them grow, evolve and bloom in the most authentic and beautiful ways.
Jo’s offerings are soulful, explorative and creative, emphasizing intuitive movement, a deep listening, connection to oneself, to nature, to spirit and to the greater web of existence. In her classes, you will move with the rhythm of your breath, shake-it-out, use your voice, receive and release, and find quiet, stillness and deep rest. You will dive in deep into the depths of the soul and dance the spiral dance of life.
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Cristal Gould
Cristal Gould is a certified instructor influenced by many styles of yoga. She has practiced under various teachers, creating a balanced fusion fitting for first time yogis and seasoned ones alike. While living in Florida, in 2011 Cristal received her 200 hr and has been teaching full time since. She’s happy to be back on Cape the past few years teaching and offering sound baths. Cristal loves the chance to travel, allowing her to have shared at multiple wellness festivals, international conventions and retreat centers at some of her favorite places. Her experiences are fun, intentional and heartfelt. Cristal believes yoga is a gateway back to our true self and a powerful way to access spirit. “Yoga allows us to stimulate the physical, mental & emotional bodies and surrender completely to the moment.”
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Ayanna Freedom
Ayanna has been an integral part of the DPY community for many years, as both a student and teacher, sharing her knowledge and wisdom in workshops and special offerings. She is a powerful leader, teacher, speaker, and author, who is devoted to helping empower others to become a better version of themselves, in all aspects of their life. And she does just that, and more!
From years of research in restorative yoga, Yoga of 12 Step Recovery, and multiple trauma sensitive yoga informed programs, Ayanna has developed an approach to wellness that gives people an opportunity to release complex trauma out of the body using movement and holistic and mindful techniques. She is also an active contributor to the social justice movement and founder of “Love & Revolution,” an action based anti-racist social media group serving on Cape Cod and beyond.
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Susannah van der Wende
Susannah has been teaching yoga on Cape Cod since 2011. Susannah’s yoga practice and teaching mirrors the inner work she continues to explore and examine by slowing down, strengthening, and creating space. Her classes are thought provoking, serious yet playful, challenging but approachable. She leads a slow movement focused class, with an emphasis on understanding one’s own body through alignment and examination of how to create mobility through stability. Her teaching also explores pranayama and the more subtle aspects of yoga that moves beyond the physical to explore habitual patterns that interfere with maintaining a fluid and stable center off the mat. Susannah’s teaching encourages students to tap into the depths of their being by aligning the physical with a pragmatic approach to spirituality.
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Patricia Pinto
Patricia Pinto is the Co-Founder of Lila Flow Yoga, which we are so very grateful to be in collaboration with for this training. She has taught thousands of Yoga and Pilates classes and led more than 50 yoga retreats and trainings worldwide. With an interest in alternative therapies since 2001, her trainings include those in the traditions of Ashtanga, Vinyasa Power, Meditation, Mindfulness, Shamanic Healing, Reiki, Yin, Mobility, Pilates Mat, Pilates Apparatus, Neuroscience, Therapeutics, EMDR Therapies, Kundalini, Thai massage and so much more. Her extensive knowledge and casual demeanor is what makes Patricia so accessible; she is a seasoned professional yet approachable and friendly. She currently teaches Mindfulness and Meditation for the United Nations, University of Miami, Core by Hyperice, Teacher Trainings around the world and in Miami Beach for YoBk and Equinox.
Tuition + Registration
To apply, please submit the form below. We will be in touch with you within 48 hours of registration.
Early Tuition
$2995
Sign Up and Pay in Full by June 1st
Regular Tuition
$3495
Sign Up After June 1st
$500 of your payment is a non-refundable deposit.
Payment plans are available, with monthly payments charged on the 15th of the month.
BIPOC SPONSORSHIP AVAILABLE THROUGH OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH BFREE WELLNESS
We are committed to increasing diverse representation in yoga and wellness leadership. To support this mission, and with the generous support of BFree Wellness, we are offering two full financial sponsorships to support both BIPOC and bilingual individuals pursuing wellness certifications.
We recognize that not all BIPOC individuals seek financial assistance, but we are here to support those who do. If interested in our 200 Hour BFree Wellness Sponsorship, please let us know on your application and we will send you more information.