
HELLO AND WELCOME.
We’re so pleased you’re here.
I’m Shelly Thorn, founder of Wellness Resource Center and Yoga Teacher Central. It’s a pleasure to meet you.
I understand that true wealth is the power that comes from a sense of well-being and wholeness. With my whole heart, I believe that supporting others in reclaiming their inherent power is vital to creating a healthy planet. A healed and healthy person acts with compassion, power and wisdom.
Health professionals, yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and other wellness providers offer vital gifts to our world — reaching people in a way that inspires and empowers them, activating positive transformation that sets off a cascade of positive effects. That’s the work I’m committed to, and it’s my honor to support you.
Learn more about me and my background here. See below for more about Wellness Resource Center and Yoga Teacher Central.
Maximize your impact.
Have more time and energy to focus on clients.
Organized, verifiable research.
Deep knowledge made accessible, practical, and inspiring.
Professional communication tools and presentation support.
Whether you’re a coach, therapist, teacher, or holistic practitioner, your clients often lack the knowledge and individualized considerations that they need to succeed. You fill that role—but it takes effort to stay current, organize material, and present it effectively amidst overwhelming and conflicting information.
That’s where we come in.
We want you to spend less time researching and preparing materials and more on what you do best: guiding and empowering your clients.
You don’t have to create everything from scratch. Access professional, customizable, and well-sourced knowledge and communication tools. You can even download customizable formats that you can make your own for presentations, handouts, trainings and marketing content.
People come to you because you can help. And they need your help. You know your work gets results. It’s backed by research and reflected in your clients’ success. That’s your greatest reward.
You’re not here to “fix” people—you empower them. That takes knowledge: practical, inspiring, and evidence-based. But working at the forefront of wellness takes time, and time is limited.
Since 2012, we’ve supported wellness professionals and yoga teachers with organized, compelling, evidence-based materials—from full curricula to quick lessons—on anatomy, physiology, clinical research, and conditions like anxiety, chronic pain, hormonal issues, and more.
We learned early on: content needs to be not just accurate, but practical and shareable. That’s why our Download Library offers thousands of editable Word, PowerPoint, and PDF resources—ready for you to brand, customize, and share at the click of a button.
We make evidence-based research and teachings accessible and practical, helping you to spend less time growing your toolkit and more time personalizing your services, developing your unique specialties, and connecting with clients.
After you’ve attended an excellent training or workshop, and you leave inspired, what happens afterward? You may feel committed to incorporating what you’ve learned into your service work or teaching, and eventually, a few bits of what you learned tend to make their way into your offerings. But it can be surprisingly difficult to piece everything together in a cohesive way and to translate what you’ve learned into an advancement of your services.
Working in the real world, questions and needs arise all the time… What’s the difference in absorption rates between vitamin D2 and D3? What style of yoga was used in clinical research that was effective for chronic pain? What yoga pose adaptations are best for students with knee issues, neck pain, sciatica, or SI joint issues? What yoga practices can help to balance the effects of autumn?
How long does it take you to find reliable, expert sources to answer your questions?
We specialize in making evidence-based sources organized, accessible and practical. You can quickly find exactly what you need without going through the dark alleys of the web or spending time going through videos and articles to learn they’re too superficial or that what you need is buried within stuff you don’t.
Just as importantly, you’ll find that all information is presented in context, a vital missing component in the modern Internet age. Having context is vital for integrating knowledge and applying it in the real-world.
With every single topic, the structure and organization enable you to quickly jump to what you need, whether that’s foundational knowledge and terminology or a specific application or detail. You can efficiently follow a progressive pathway to increase your knowledge on any subject. Every subject has quick links to expert sources where you can verify information and go deeper.
Wellness Resource Center houses tremendous volumes (thousands of pages) of information and offers it in a clean and organized format (with no advertising clutter). We’ve consulted thousands of expert sources from diverse backgrounds. All material is carefully sourced and professionally presented in a clear and practical way.
The site is organized meticulously within an uncluttered, graceful navigation without ads or other interference.
In addition to the online library, wellness professionals and yoga teacher trainers have access to an extensive library of downloadable items that may be customized and distributed as your own.
- Yoga teacher trainers and yoga therapist trainers — You can guarantee that your trainees will have the highest-quality curriculum and knowledge base. We offer you complete freedom to build, edit, brand and distribute excellent manuals and other learning materials such as quizzes and presentations. Trainer membership includes a detailed and flexible curriculum and lessons for a foundation level training (including 200-hour) and for advanced teacher trainings (including 300-hour and 500-hour trainings plus immersions and specialized emphases). Details and free samples here.
- Wellness professionals — Get downloadable, customizable materials for distribution to clients, presentations, workshop handouts, and marketing content.
In the past you’ve likely had to prove the value of your work in a world that overlooked or even disparaged it. But times have changed. More can now see that the old ways failed them, and they have a new interest and openness to learning about subjects they weren’t previously inspired by. Thank you for being there for them, and please let us know if there’s more we can do to support you.
Join a thriving teaching community.
Yoga Teacher Central was born in 2012, and quickly became known among teachers around the world. Thousands of teachers and trainers have joined as paying members.
The vision for a support site was far surpassed. With this site, teachers and trainers have been able to effectively act on the spark of their passion. Armed with reliable, applicable information, they are able to get out the gate faster, equipped to design and teach excellent classes and trainings. And with the depth and breadth of tools provided here, teachers and trainers get the support and inspiration they need to stay motivated, deepen their offerings and quickly find what they’re looking for.
With a reliable support tool, all teachers and trainers can naturally be more powerful. They’re lighting fires of transformation in more places, with more people.
That lights my own fire of passion and motivates me on so many levels. I’m driven everyday to keep bringing teachers the support and inspiration they need.

Assists, Partner Poses, Variations, Props

Mudras, Bandhas & Drishti

Breathing Practices & Pranayama

Meditation, Philosophy & More
Support for Continuous Growth
Get round-the-clock access to a professional resource for continued learning and growing.
When you’re looking for something specific, you don’t have to search multiple books, go on wild web site goose chases, or flip through unorganized notes from workshops and trainings.
The compiling, categorizing and summarizing have been done for you. Now you can efficiently leverage what’s already been discovered, leaving you more energy for your own creativity.

Quick & Clear Teachings

When you want to adapt or adjust a pose, quickly viewing photos is far more efficient than finding the appropriate place in a video or book. Here you can quickly review a dozen or more photos for a single pose. You can peruse a whole range of variations for beginners, special conditions and advanced challenges. Choose from variations with no props or those using bolsters, blankets and straps to highlight actions of a pose.
We constantly think of how to make your preparation quick and straight-forward. One example is how we summarize verbal cues. We scour dozens of sources to gather up long lists of ideas. Then we cull the cues down to their essence and organize them by focus area. This makes it easy to quickly peruse options for new ways to verbalize teachings.
Save Time, Share Your Uniqueness
With this information now so easily accessible, you can target specific aspects of your teaching you’d like to expand or change up before each class. Whether you’d like more options for various experience levels, fresh languaging to guide students deeper into a pose, or more awareness of contraindications, you can find what you need quickly.
Now you can spend less time growing your teaching or training toolkit and more time and energy personalizing your teaching.

Tap Your Passion, Make a Difference

Stop spending your precious time reinventing the wheel, or wading through off-the-mark information. Now you can streamline the way you expand your teaching repertoire and research topics in order to help your students. We invite you to leverage the learning of a hundreds of experts that span lineages. Free up your energy for working more closely and creatively with students.
By making access to information less competitive and more immediate, we offer a new generation of yoga teachers an opportunity to raise the bar and evolve the field and service of yoga. We are here to ease your research and planning, to keep you growing and inspired, and to free up your time to focus on your specialties and passions.
KUDOS FOR THE TEAM
The Yoga Teacher Central team is a small and talented group of outsourced experts in yoga teaching and adjustments, web development, design, photography and other expertise. I love working with smart and passionate people on tangible, beautiful and useful creations and I recommend all of the people I’ve worked with.
Char Davidson
Back in 2011, Char designed the sweet logo and branding and it has aged beautifully.
Cami Maston
Cami spent hours and hours over many years taking and editing photos. Back in 2011, when we held our first photo shoot, her patience and skill allowed us to deliver well-aligned images of adjustments and variations at a time when they simply weren’t available.
Britnie O’Farrell, Laura Hand, Claudette Evans, Dawn Jansen, Jay Holby, Matt Nadler, Melinda Fisher, Laura Humpf, Teresa Wang and Gita Mehrotra
These kind and excellent yogis were fun and professional on set, performing beautifully as yoga models. Additionally, Dawn and Teresa provided immeasurable help in directing and aligning models during photo shoots.
Anej Mehadzic
Anej strategically planned the user experience – a very challenging task due to the volume of content – and designed the beautiful and clean look-and-feel of our new site that launched in 2017.
Yoga Teacher Central is a labor of love, one I hope can support other teachers as they give their hearts and souls to share, inspire, and support others in their personal transformation.
FAQ
Yes, it sure is! Yoga is a hot topic and it seems to be everywhere. Yoga teachers and trainers, however, need much more than superficial coverage, opinions and "tips." Since 2012, we have been focused on the particular, specialized needs of teachers and trainers.
Our site is different from other sites so we can't really compare. We provide tools that help teachers save time, plan excellent classes that meet their objectives, and systematically explore deep teaching wisdom. And we offer an unparalleled library of training materials for Teacher Trainers.
We draw from all styles and curate content from all yoga lineages.
We accept all major credit cards. Get the best rate by paying up-front, or choose a monthly pay option, if you prefer.
Write us with any question at all. We love to hear from teachers and trainers and are happy to personally support you.
Trainer memberships automatically cancel after one year. Teachers, however, can select auto-renew or auto-cancelation. If you choose to auto-renew, we will refund 20% of your renewal payment.
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Not a single page of our thousands includes an ad or promoted content.
We have never obtained advertising revenue and never will. If clients won’t pay enough for what we’re offering, then it’s not valuable enough to be offering. We dedicate all our attention and resources to providing real value to teachers and trainers.
Take three days to check things out. If you aren’t fully satisfied, we will refund 100% of your payment.