6:00 PM Llegada
The room filled before the ceremony did
Bouquets still in their paper, diploma folders already in hand, and the studio kitchen full of hugs and introductions before anyone sat down.
Yoga Teacher Training · Pilsen, Chicago
In honor of the YTT Class of 2025 + 2026
Friday, August 7, 2026 · 6:00 PM
LSP Studio · Pilsen, Chicago
One candlelit Friday: a sound bath, guided breathwork with a hand over every heart, and two cohorts of new yoga teachers.
Casi 100 maestras y contando.
La noche, en fotos
Two cohorts of teachers, many already leading classes of their own, were formally celebrated at last. Here is how it went, in order.
6:00 PM Llegada
Bouquets still in their paper, diploma folders already in hand, and the studio kitchen full of hugs and introductions before anyone sat down.
The opening Respiración guiada · Guided breathwork
A sound bath opened the ceremony. Then the whole room, graduates, familias and friends together, breathed through a guided practice with a hand resting over the heart.
The Latina Sweat Project was never these walls. It was never an address. It has always been the people standing in this room.
The ceremony Diplomas
Diplomas were presented at the front of the studio, and almost nobody made it back to their spot without being pulled into a hug first.
The mic Speeches
Our founders spoke. So did our Junior Board and our graduates, several of them reading from notes on their phones, with the rest of the room sitting on the floor around them.
After Flores y celebración
Bouquets went around, everyone piled into a group selfie, and the night closed with the whole graduating group together, certificates in the frame.
The full album
Every moment from the night
Flip through all of it right here: find yourself, find your cohort, and take home anything you want.
Revive la noche de graduación.
Una formación como ninguna
Community rooted and Latina led, taught in Pilsen, and built so that the people who grew up in these neighborhoods are the ones leading the room.
We were never trying to create simply more yoga teachers. We were always building leaders and a pipeline of teachers.
Where these teachers go on to teach
“In our neighborhoods, where we belong.” Margarita Quiñones-Peña, Founder
The lineage
2025 + 2026
The cohorts honored this August
Nearly 100
Teachers certified through LSP so far
Hundreds more
Still to come, taught by the ones in this room
Someday hundreds of teachers will trace their lineage back to the people who stood in this room.
Voces de la noche
You are not simply graduating from the Latina Sweat Project. You are building its future.
Continue to lead with courage, service, and compassion.
And please, dream bigger.
Gracias, maestras
Thank you to the 2025 and 2026 graduates for the hours, the work, and the trust. Thank you to the families and friends who filled the room, and to everyone who came to stand with them. Nearly 100 people have now been certified through this program, and every one of them started exactly where this cohort is standing.
Te esperamos
If this page made you want to be in the photos next time, there are two open doors between now and the fall. Consider this your invitation.
LSP's first-ever all-day festival
Movement Is Ours
Start with a sunrise 5K, move through classes and wellbeing experiences, then close the night at the Pachanga. It is exactly the kind of day these new teachers get to lead.
The Latina Sweat Project presents
A black-tie evening for art, movement, and community. It is the night that funds the scholarships, the trainings, and the next studio, so the room you just scrolled through keeps growing.
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