Inspire training group

INSPIRE

Not just a yoga teacher training.A complete transformation.

Inspire is a yoga teacher training like no other — yoga, breathwork, meditation, and story work as a single integrated methodology. Taught by someone who's spent 19+ years learning what actually changes people. You'll qualify as a yoga teacher. But you'll leave as a different person.

THE PROBLEM

Most yoga teacher trainings teach you poses. Not what to do when the body speaks.

You get certified. You learn the cues. You can name every muscle and every chakra. And then someone has an emotional experience in class — and you have no idea what to do. Because nobody taught you what to do when the body speaks.

Most trainings separate the modalities. Yoga in one module. Breathwork in another. Meditation somewhere else. Story work not at all. So you graduate with four separate toolkits and no idea how to weave them together in the moment when it matters.

Inspire is a yoga teacher training that teaches you to hold the room when the room gets real. Not with a script. With your body. With your breath. With the kind of presence you can only develop by doing the work yourself first.

IS THIS FOR ME?

This is for you if…

You’re a yoga teacher who knows there’s more to this than cues and corrections — you’ve felt it in your own body

You want to train as a yoga teacher but you’re looking for something deeper than anatomy and sequencing

You’ve been through your own transformation and people keep telling you “you should do this work”

You want to teach yoga, lead retreats, or hold workshops — but you want a methodology that actually changes people

You know you’re called to this — you just need someone to show you how without losing yourself in the process

THE DIFFERENCE

This isn't your typical yoga teacher training

Body-Based, Not Pose-Based

Most trainings teach you to instruct poses. Inspire teaches you to guide people into their bodies — where the real transformation happens. Half an inch of chest lift changes someone’s breath, which changes their emotion, which changes their thoughts. You’ll learn to see it and to guide it.

Story Work Included

Something is said or not said. The mind assigns meaning: “it must mean I’m not enough.” You’ll do the narrative work yourself: learning to see your own patterns from outside them and separate facts from interpretations. This personal work is what makes your yoga teaching real.

4 Modalities, One Methodology

Yoga, breathwork, meditation, and story work as a single integrated approach. You’ll learn how to move between them fluidly based on what the room needs, incorporated into your lesson plan so it becomes even more powerful.

You Go First

You can’t teach this depth of yoga without having done the work yourself. The whole programme is about doing the deep work on yourself: so you can hold space for others in your yoga classes through yoga. Most graduates say the personal transformation was worth the investment alone.

THE CURRICULUM

6 areas. One integrated methodology.

Delivered through online modules, live practice sessions, and immersive weekends. You learn at your own pace, then practice in real-time with real people.

Yoga & Movement

Alignment as a tool for emotional access, not aesthetics. Teaching half-inch adjustments that change breath patterns. Sequencing for emotional release. Hands-on assists that communicate safety.

Breathwork

Reading someone’s breath pattern as a diagnostic tool. Short inhale, long exhale — they’re literally giving more than they take in. You’ll learn to see it and to guide the shift.

Meditation & Presence

Guiding meditation that isn’t about emptying the mind. Creating a container where people can stop performing and someone is still there. Working with resistance and restlessness.

Story Work & Narrative Practices

You’ll do the story work yourself: finding the moment, separating facts from interpretations, watching your own operating system reconfigure. This personal work is what makes your yoga teaching transformational.

Presence & Group Dynamics

Who you are being in front of a room speaks louder than what you say. You’ll learn to be present, grounded, and hold a room so your students feel safe to go through their process.

Business & Practice Building

How to build a sustainable yoga practice. Pricing, positioning, and the mindset shifts that stop most graduates from ever actually teaching. Taught by someone who built a million-pound studio in South London over 20 years.

GRADUATE STORIES

What Inspire graduates say about the programme

She became a yoga teacher and never saw it coming

Even though I never thought I would want to be a yoga teacher, I have taken that path. My life is really full. It’s full of meaningful connection. It’s full of courage and joy.

Kate, Jan ’23 Cohort

Isobel

Jan ’23 Cohort

Lizzie

Jan ’23 Cohort

Possibilities are endless

It transforms how you think about yourself and how you feel about yourself and others and sets you up to exceed even your own expectations. It helps you believe that possibilities are endless.

Isobel, Jan ’23 Cohort

Manjit

Jan ’23 Cohort

Yasmin

Jan ’23 Cohort

She left a toxic relationship and found joy again

Before doing the work… it was a mess, really. I was in a toxic relationship and made to feel like it was all my fault. I’ve just been really happy and feeling peaceful and it’s nothing in particular, just everyday life, but I feel joyful.

Manjit, Jan ’23 Cohort

Kate

Jan ’23 Cohort

PK

Jan ’23 Cohort

A completely different person

I am a completely different person. I have different people around me. I have beautiful friends that have been from this community that are like my best friends now. And it’s just been the best investment ever that I could ever have bought myself or wanted, really. Just invest in yourself.

Katie

Viviana

Inspire Graduate

Emily

Inspire Graduate

She felt like she was sleepwalking through life

I felt like I was sleepwalking through life. This week has felt magical… allowing me to dream again. I don’t think I’ve done that for a lot of years.

Pauline

Graduates

The Inspire Experience

Graduates

Overcoming Obstacles

This work is absolutely addictive

I’m utterly obsessed because it’s addictive. This work is absolutely addictive. And as I say, when I prioritize this, everything else in my life seems to fall into place.

Lizzie

Katie

Inspire Graduate

Isobel

Inspire Graduate

Emma

Inspire Graduate

Anthony

TT Graduate

James

TT Graduate

Natasha

TT Graduate

Roxanne

TT Graduate

Sharnelle

TT Graduate

Charlotte

TT Graduate

PROGRAMME DATES

Two parts. One transformation.

Part 1 is online — 6 weekends of deep personal work and methodology training. Part 2 is a 9-day in-person intensive where everything comes together.

OCTOBER COHORT

Part 1: Online Weekends

24 October – 29 November 2026

6 weekends of deep personal work + methodology training

OCTOBER COHORT

Part 2: In-Person Intensive

16 – 24 January 2027

9-day in-person intensive

INCLUDED WITH YOUR PLACE

Your place includes more than the training

Everything below comes with your enrolment. No upsells, no add-ons: one investment, everything included.

3 Months of elev8 Premium

$375 value

Full membership of the elev8 Premium community while you train: live sessions, the complete session library, and support between weekends.

The Complete Meditation + Yoga Kit Bundle

$794 retail

All four Meditation Kits, Espresso Meditations, and the full Yoga Kit class library, unlocked inside the community from day one. Yours to keep.

Welcome Pack + Reading List

The INSPIRE welcome pack and curated reading list arrive when you're accepted, so the work starts before the first weekend does.

Thursday Practice Teach

Live practice-teaching sessions every Thursday: real students, real feedback, and a community of trainees and graduates around you.

Synergy Partner Programme

£200+ per referral

Graduate and you're eligible to join Synergy, our partner programme: earn £200 or more for every person you refer who completes the training.

THE INVESTMENT

One investment. A qualification for life.

The cohort is capped at 16 people, so every trainee gets real attention, real feedback, and a real relationship with the teacher. When it's full, it's full.

EARLY BIRD

£3,500

For places confirmed with your deposit by Wednesday 30 September 2026. Early bird is for payment in full.

FULL INVESTMENT

£3,800

From 1 October 2026 until applications close on Friday 16 October 2026, or when the cohort fills.

Cohort capped at 16 · Early bird closes Wednesday 30 September 2026 · Applications close Friday 16 October 2026

How enrolment works

1

Apply

£100 application fee with your application. It's how we make sure every place goes to someone serious about the work.

2

Accepted

A £500 deposit secures your place in the cohort once your application is accepted.

3

Begin

The balance is due before Part 1 begins on 24 October 2026. Then the work starts.

Prefer to spread the cost? A payment plan is available at the full investment of £3,800. A plan changes the payment terms, never the price: it's not a discount. The early bird rate is for payment in full.

THE FIRST-WEEKEND GUARANTEE

Attend the first weekend. Then decide.

Attend Weekend 1 of Part 1. If by the end of it you know INSPIRE is not for you, tell me within 48 hours and I'll refund everything except the £100 application fee. No forms, no hoops. You'll know by then: the body always does.

And when you complete the training, you qualify to register with Yoga Alliance as a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT 200), trained at a Registered Yoga School: a qualification you can teach with worldwide.

Ready to train as a yoga teacher?

Inspire is application-only: because we need to make sure the programme is the right fit for you, and you're the right fit for this work. This work isn't for everyone: not everyone's willing to go deep. Whether you're an established yoga teacher ready to go deeper: graduates have doubled and quadrupled their businesses after training. Or you're training for the first time and want to become a heartfelt, magnetic, inspiring yoga teacher people don't forget.

Apply for Inspire →

Next cohort: Part 1 starts 24 October 2026. Cohort capped at 16. Applications close Friday 16 October 2026.

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EXPLORE THE WORK

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WHO'S BEHIND THIS

Dylan Ayaloo — known to many as the Inner Work Guy — is a Malaysian junior Taekwondo champion who trained with the national squad for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, then built a corporate IT career before walking away from it. He founded Hot Power Yoga, one of London's first hot yoga studios, and has spent 19+ years and 5,600+ live sessions teaching yoga, meditation, and body-based transformation.

His framework is FEEL → HEAL → MANIFEST: feel what your body is actually holding, release the patterns stored there, and build what's next from that new state. Read Dylan's full story →

FAQ

Questions people ask

What is INSPIRE?

INSPIRE is an in-person yoga teacher training intensive in the UK led by Dylan Ayaloo. It's not just a 200hr certificate — it's a complete transformation. Where most trainings teach poses and cues, INSPIRE teaches you to hold the room when the room gets real: yoga, breathwork, meditation, and story work woven into one integrated methodology, drawn from 19+ years of practice.

What is the format, and when does the next cohort run?

Two parts, one transformation. Part 1 is online — 6 weekends of deep personal work and methodology training, running 24 October to 29 November 2026. Part 2 is a 9-day in-person intensive where everything comes together, running 16 to 24 January 2027.

Who is INSPIRE for?

For yoga teachers who know there's more to this work than cues and corrections, and for people training for the first time who want something deeper than anatomy and sequencing. If you want to teach yoga, lead retreats, or hold workshops with a methodology that actually changes people, this is that training.

Do I need to already be a yoga teacher?

No. INSPIRE is for both established yoga teachers ready to go deeper — graduates have doubled and quadrupled their businesses after training — and first-time trainees who want to become heartfelt, magnetic, inspiring yoga teachers people don't forget.

How do I join?

INSPIRE is application-only, to make sure the programme is the right fit for you and you're the right fit for this work. Apply via the INSPIRE page at dylanayaloo.com/programs/inspire — applications for the October 2026 cohort are open now.

INSPIRE — In-Person Yoga Teacher Training UK | Dylan Ayaloo