Dragonfly Yoga Restoration Teacher Study at The Shāla

200-Hour Teacher Certification, launch February 2027

A seven-month journey into the art of therapeutic movement, mindful teaching, and embodied restoration.

A Different Way to Experience Yoga

This is not simply a teacher training.

It is an immersion into understanding the body as a living, intelligent system that is naturally designed for adaptation, healing, and longevity.

Over seven monthly weekends, students will blend self-paced online study with weekly in-person mentorship sessions at The Shāla. This intimate format allows time to absorb, practice, question, and embody the teachings rather than rushing through them.

Whether your intention is to become a yoga teacher, deepen your own practice, or serve others with greater confidence and compassion, this training offers a foundation built upon observation, precision, and care.

Who Is This Training For?

• Aspiring yoga teachers seeking a 200-hour certification.
• Existing teachers wishing to expand into therapeutic and restorative approaches.
• Bodyworkers, massage therapists, healthcare professionals, and wellness practitioners who want to better understand yoga teachings and movement, and the body's myofascial system.
• Dedicated students who desire a deeper understanding of yoga beyond postures alone.

This unique program is designed as a private training limited to four participants. 

No matter where you begin, you will be guided toward teaching with clarity, confidence, and presence.

Philosophy

Restoration is not the absence of effort; it is the presence of profound listening. This training honors the body's innate capacity to heal by creating the conditions for balance, resilience, and ease. Through therapeutic alignment, myofascial awareness, breath, mindful presence, and timeless yoga philosophy, students learn to support nervous system regulation while cultivating compassion for themselves and others. 

Rooted in both ancient wisdom and modern science, this seven-month journey prepares teachers to guide with confidence, authenticity, and presence, helping others return to the quiet place within where healing naturally begins.

What is The Shāla?

A private yoga space in an urban setting.  Yoga sessions that embody a grounded, poetic, and spacious vibe. These sessions are limited to four participants. Opening Fall 2027

Contact Laura via text for an application to be sent to your email.

Text your request at 850-642-1015

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Transitioning and Evolving

"My favorite part of the asana practice is that slow sinking inward.  The busy mind gets left on the bus, thank God, and the timeless aspect of Being rises.  It may not happen every time, but I feel the effects always.  The deep pause within a hurried day.  The quiet realization of a direction to take.  Even in my most stressful times, that inward journey fortifies my system.  Don't mistake that I have some crazy wild practice either. The standing poses and common asanas all carry lifetimes of information and healing.   So go to your mat.  Find your slow sinking inward. Yogi.  Heal thy self."   

Laura Tyree

Dragonfly Yoga Studies Est 1999 is a traditional yoga studio in downtown Fort Walton Beach.   For 26 years she provided Southeastern yoga community a training center, bringing renowned instructors to the beautiful Emerald Coast.  Dragonfly's public yoga classes offered therapeutic classes with a relaxing effect on all who enter.  Her motto is Revitalize - Stabilize - Energize.  Dragonfly Yoga Studies included a range of gifted and wonderful teachers who brought their soul to the mat. 

Hot Yoga Om Est 2015 is Dragonfly Yoga's Hot Little Sister (heehee) also in downtown Fort Walton Beach. Hot Yoga Om served the young and energetic crowd of yoga enthusiast with hot yoga classes for all fitness levels.  Her Far-Infared Healing Heat Panels were a hallmark of the studio and a bonus to the practicing hot yogi and yogini. Just a few door from Dragonfly these two sisters bought a fuller range of the yoga experience. 

These two lovely sister studios merged into a single location in 2025 and became evolveYoga.studio and cool...and hot! space for both communities, continuing their journey together.

Laura's Bio

I started out on this yoga path in 1986.  I had fallen from my bike while training for a triathlon. It was a silly fall, trying to negotiate the new clip-less pedals at a stop light.  Over I went and slid a bit down a gravel embankment, twisting as I landed.  I managed to extract myself, and, of course, headed out for the 30 mile ride.  The next day my back was cramping and my legs ached.  College backpack, waiting tables, continuing to train all took their toll.  I came limping into my first yoga class.  Very hopeful it would fix me, so I could get back on the swim/bike/run merry-go-round. I cried through my first class.  Looking back I think it was the sting of my pride.  Here were all these women who could have passed for my Mom, doing far more than I was.  And that hurt as much as my back!

I cried on the drive home.  But then something amazing happened.  I slept. For the first time in months, I slept.  I woke up after the first 4 hour chunk of sleep feeling like Supergirl.  OMG I was sore.  But I SLEPT!!  I went back to class that next day.  Years later Jan Campbell told me she was shocked to see me return, after my shameless display of groans and tears.

That started a lifelong relationship with the practice.  That same year I met Erich Schiffmann, and in 1990 Rodney Yee.  It took 8 years before I could begin pranayama, and another 2 years to quiet me enough to start meditating.  It was a slow and often painful practice, but it revealed to me the heart of the practice, the one that is the foundation for the asana.  

The practice of the mind.