POST-GRADUATE STUDY FOR YOGA TEACHERS
One-on-one Yoga Australia–certified 150-hour Post-Graduate Yoga Teacher Training for current yoga teachers, who want to deepen their knowledge and gain more experience.
Can commence at any time — completed over 6 months — facilitated by Mick Barnes
This training allows 200-hour certified teachers to become 350-hour Level 1 Yoga Australia–registered, and 350-hour teachers to upgrade to 500-hour Level 2 registration.
The program is made up of three 50-hour modules focused on teaching skills, safe and intelligent sequencing, hands-on assisting, and developing a practical understanding of how to teach all levels. It requires a weekly commitment of at least 8.5 hours, including one-on-one sessions with Mick, assisting in public classes, and co-teaching.
The training is structured as a mentorship. You’ll work closely with Mick for the full 150 hours—observing, assisting, refining your teaching. The goal is not just to learn more sequences, but to learn how to teach clearly, effectively, and inclusively.
Mick Barnes is a Level 3 Senior Teacher and Advanced Certified Jivamukti teacher. He’s been teaching for over 17 years and has directed a number of schools, including Samadhi Yoga Newtown, Jivamukti Yoga in various Sydney locations, and The Yoga Factory in Annandale. He has also taught internationally in Germany, the US, Italy, the UK and Asia.
This program is subject to our Terms and Conditions which outline the full details of our policies, including cancellations, refunds, and other important guidelines. Please review them before enrolling.
Mick Barnes has been involved with yoga for over two decades. His first love was the practice. It was the heat, the challenge, the sweat, and the toil that first drew him in. Nothing about the practice was easy. The old body was busted from years of living life in the fast lane. Realizing early on that a commitment to practice was essential, he attended classes every day, twice a day. It wasn’t long until he realized that yoga works and that the root of suffering is intrinsically linked to the mind. The more he practiced the more he learned; the more he came to know how this suffering manifests.
What came next was teaching. He understood the how and why, and his purpose became to share this joy with as many people as possible. Opening yoga schools gave Mick the freedom to make himself a conduit for the practice, to keep it real, to get out of the way of it all and share the yoga how it has been for thousands of years.
His style is unorthodox. Why? Because he knows the only way to learn yoga is to do it: you can’t just read about it, catch it, if you hang around it, or just flirt with it. It only comes to the brave, those who know words like endurance and perseverance. Mick is tough love. He knows how to get the most out of us and sometimes we kick and scream and resist, but when we surrender, it works.
He has taught teachers from the very start of their teaching journeys and mentored seasoned teachers for years. The Yoga Factory's 350hr Teacher Training has delivered many exceptional students to the industry and Mick's mentees can be found all over the world. They stand out because they actually teach. Their classes are taught with the confidence and safety of a seasoned teacher. They can teach to whoever is in front of them, knowing how to structure the class around the ability of the students and not their class plan from last night or someone else’s class (which they happened to think was nice).
Mick's gift is his ability to get teachers and students to believe that if they practice, they can teach. It is just about articulating the experiences and finding verbal cues for others to follow.
