Make a difference
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Diploma
January 2025 - December 2025
There has never been a better time to become a yoga teacher
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More than ever we are needed by our communities, our workplaces, our schools, our families. You will make a real difference to people’s health; physically, energetically, mentally and emotionally, and of course, for yourself too.
This 12-month long training includes over 200 hours of inspirational training, workshops and classes. On completion you will gain a 200 hour yoga diploma and be a fully trained insurable yoga teacher, able to register with instituitions like Yoga Alliance Professionals if desired.
Your yoga training will be thorough and deep, with work-books and full support. Our aim is to inspire you to become diligent, thoughtful, inspiring teachers of yoga.
Jackie is a 500-hour senior yoga teacher with over 15 years of experience running successful wellbeing centers. Her journey into wellbeing followed a career in the television industry, where she worked as an Executive Producer. In 2024, Jackie graduated with distinction from the prestigious University of East Anglia, earning an MA in Global Social Development.
Jackie’s teaching philosophy is deeply rooted in honouring the traditional practices of the Far East while integrating the Western lens of science and reason. She believes in respecting the origins of yoga transparently and authentically while adapting its teachings to be meaningful and practical in our modern, daily lives.
As the founder of Freedom Wellbeing Projects, a Community Interest Company (not-for-profit), Jackie is committed to delivering free yoga and wellbeing services to vulnerable communities. The organisation’s latest initiative, Yoga in Action, continues this mission, aiming to expand access to yoga and set up pathways for promoting social wellbeing on an international scale.
Jackie’s passion lies in empowering others—whether through asana practice, community projects, or academic insight—to embrace the transformative power of yoga in a way that resonates with their unique journey and circumstances.
Our mission is to guide you toward becoming the yoga practitioner or teacher you truly aspire to be. Whether your focus is on deepening your asana practice, exploring yoga therapy for mental health, or connecting with ceremony and the subtle body, our training is uniquely tailored to honour your individuality. We’re not here to produce one-size-fits-all graduates who follow one rigid discipline; we’re here to nurture your journey, empowering you to embody the practice or teaching style that aligns with your authentic self.
Yantra Studio
Our trainings take place at Yantra Studios, a beautiful and welcoming space located in the heart of Norwich. This independent studio, housed in a charming listed building, is filled with natural light and retains its stunning original period features, creating a warm and inspiring environment for learning.
Yantra Studios provides an ideal setting for trainees to immerse themselves in their yoga journey, surrounded by a vibrant community of teachers and a diverse range of classes to complement their training. It’s more than a venue—it’s a space to grow, connect, and thrive in the heart of Norwich’s yoga community.
“My 200hr YTT with Jackie has been incredible. She provides such a wealth of in-depth teachings and background knowledge which have helped me to develop. Her enthusiasm for yoga (and life in general) is infectious! The course is delivered in a broad range of formats (including group work, teaching practice, studying of yogic texts and general discussion) which makes it really engaging. I have genuinely looked forward to every teacher training weekend and am sad when they come to an end. With Jackie’s guidance my personal practice has deepened greatly during the training and yoga has more profound influence on my everyday life”
Sarah Ellero, Freedom Yoga Training Graduate 2023
Why train with Freedom Yoga?
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10 month, in-person training
Our training includes over 200 hours of inspirational training, workshops, retreats and classes to help you embed your learning long term.
Community
We are an independent business that cares about getting it right for you. We are a family, a community, a tribe, here to help you find your personal and professional practise.
Our Work Supports…
Our Foundation Community Interest Company (not-for-profit) Freedom Wellbeing Project which delivers yoga to vulnerable communities for free.
Accredited and professional
Our diploma training is fully recognised by BGI.uk insurers and Yoga Alliance Professionals, amongst others.
Ongoing support
Graduates have the opportunity to become a Freedom Yoga license holder to access brand and marketing materials to support you in launching a successful yoga business, this is only on request.
We recognise the complexities of our interpretation of yoga in the West. That’s why we teach with an awareness of the roots, history and philosophy of yoga and explore how you can share yoga in a way that is authentic to you and your journey within our cultural context.
An MA graduate in Global Social Development at the prestigous UEA our lead teacher Jackie is interested in examining the cultural referencing of yoga as it travels from Asia to The West, making sure we stay authentic to text, but able to appropriately transport this practise which can serve anyone in their daily life.
Guided by authenticity
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We support Freedom Wellbeing Project, our sister social enterprise non-for-profit company on a mission to make wellbeing accessible to those who need it by providing free classes and workshops for the local Norfolk community. When you choose us for your training, you are not only choosing a transformative personal experience, you are choosing to give back.
Supporting local communities
Join our January 2025 - December 2025 Training, or apply for October 2025 - July 2026
Please apply to info@jackieheffercooke.com
Start date: Next intake: January 11th and 12th, then monthly weekends until December 2025. This training runs to term times (no training in August or September)
Apply for October 2025 intake to July 2026 now.
Course cost: £2200 if paid annually, or £2400 if paying in monthly instalments
Deposit: If paying in instalments a non-refundable and non-transferable £200 deposit at time of booking is required.
Venue: Monthly trainings at Yantra Studios in Norwich
Your course leader and personal tutor
Jackie Heffer-Cooke
A social analyst and a pragmatic yogi with a deep practice firmly planted in the soils of real life. Jackie a Masters graduate has been teaching yoga for 15 years and is an expert in massage bodywork, a senior yogi, a hypnobirthing trainer, a stress management and mindfulness coach as well as a former TV executive producer, and a writer for Om amongst others.
Jackie will be joined by her respected professional network of teachers throughout the course to deliver experience and knowledge, including psychotherapist, somatic bodywork teacher and sports massage specialist, Nicola Stroud.
Freedom Yoga is here to support you to learn, understand, and become the best yoga teacher possible. We are on hand to help, guide and support you.
About Jackie
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Education
A first-class English Literature and Sociology graduate, an MA scholar with distinction at the prestigious UEA, with rooting’s also in psychology, and biology, Jackie has always found the relationship between art and science, content and form, breath and body, yin and yang, interesting and invaluable – with a tendency to explore the spaces in-between, to find and inhabit the connection, the yoke.
Current projects
2017 saw the launch of the specialised yoga teacher training school ZenMuma and ZenKids, 2020 saw the loving nurture and launch of Freedom Yoga and Retreats and the 200 Yoga Teacher Training. 2022 saw the launch of the social enterprise company called Freedom Wellbeing Project where we take classes to the community in need.
Jackie also serves as a consultant for businesses setting up wellbeing and yoga companies, centres and retreats. She writes for OM magazine and has appeared in various media articles and is often found at public speaking events and on Radio.
When people speak of Jackie they use words like humanness, approachable, community, knowledgeable, abundant.
Early career
Jackie spent 11 years working in TV as an executive, when she decided in 2009 to feed her soul and take her attentions to matters of – health, wellbeing, education and connectivity.
After consistently training from 2009 with many healers and thought leaders, Jackie placed herself into service by setting up and launching the award winning The Orange Grove complementary health care centre, and taught 6-8 classes of yoga a week for many years.
Jackie started teaching yoga retreats in Asia and Europe in 2016, supporting those looking for transformation and a sense of freedom within themselves.
A unique approach
Jackie teaches the eight limbs of yoga, with an emphasis on meditation, and the witnessing of what it means to be human. She believes in yoga on, and off, the mat and teaches thorough, mindful and traditional Hatha.
Each posture is carefully deconstructed, taught and embodied in our teachings so you feel totally confident, ready and able to teach each asana after you have completed your training. Peer teaching has an emphasis, rather than using a ‘banking’ style of teaching, Jackie uses dialogic teaching. Yoga theory encapsulates the study experience and enables holistic teaching of interesting and engaging classes, true to the fundamental spirit of yoga practise and journey.
“Yoga is my ultimate therapy, my peace, my comfort, my saviour. It has been with me throughout, and is deeply rooted as part of life. It just is. If I need answers, I ask yoga. My only aim is to share this love in yoga with others and to help assist the source of where to find it. The beauty of sharing this understanding and knowledge of where to source it is, in itself, happiness.”
Jackie
Learning outcomes
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The ability to teach yoga classes confidently and competently, through using the 8-limb approach of yoga - Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi.
Good awareness of safe practice for both teacher and student and cultural referencing
The ability to construct thoughtful, interesting, safe and varied lesson plans and the confidence to teach them
An enriching foundation in the history and philosophy of yoga
An exploration into anatomy and physiology for yoga and safe teaching
The course is designed to guide you towards being the best yoga teacher, and the best version of yourself, so you feel ready to teach and serve others.
An insight into the subtle body and how to teach with intention.
How to use props for yoga and safe adjustments
Teaching methodology, best practise, a professional and ethical framework from which to practice
An awareness of the issues that can arise for you as a teacher and self-care
Marketing and business insight from people who have created successful businesses themselves
How to use, and teach, yoga on and off the mat and translate it with cultural appropriateness and respect.
Eligibility & pre-requisites
Applicants should have a minimum of two years consistent yoga practice.
Assessment
This 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Diploma is all about continuous assessment.
Towards the end of each module, and throughout, there are appropriate assessments. There will also be daily home practice and further reading.
2025 and 2026 dates
Next intake: January to December 2025. Following intake: October 2025 to July 2026
Weekend trainings 10am until 5.30pm Sat and 5pm Sun at Yantra Yoga Studios, Norwich
January ‘25 - 11th and 12th
February ‘25 - 8th and 9th
March ‘25 - 8th and 9th
April ‘25 - 26th and 27th
May ‘25 - 17th and 18th
June ‘25 - 14th and 15th
July ‘25 - 12th and 13th
October ‘25 - 4th and 5th
November ‘25 - 8th and 9th
December ‘25 - 6th and 7th
Terms & conditions
All course fees are non-refundable and non-transferable, and include all tuition, mentoring, course manuals and handouts.
Required texts and accommodation are not included.
Apply today
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