200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training
Uniting the Spiritual Depths of an Authentic Yoga Ashram with the Cutting-Edge Breakthroughs of Modern Movement Science.
Next In-Person 200 Hour Training Starts Soon! January 14-24
40% discounts available this week only!
What Makes Konalani Yoga Ashram So Unique?
Weave Ancient with Active
Founded on over a hundred years of meditation mastery and informed by the latest breakthroughs in functional movement methodologies, Shambhavananda Yoga seamlessly weaves the ancient with the active—making meditation and movement both blissful and sustainable for modern life.
Create Synergy not Injury
Experience a holistic approach to movement that aligns and harmonizes your body’s natural mechanics. Our methods unite muscles across their “movement teams,” creating synergy instead of injury. Through increased interoceptive awareness, you’ll develop a genuine appetite for movement—feeling your way into health, vitality, and freedom. This isn’t just a metaphor; it’s a methodology embedded into every cue in our classes.
Put the Spring Back in your Step
Picture yourself running around the playground with your child instead of watching from the sidelines. Completing a marathon without the fear of injury. Or finishing a day of yard work feeling strong and energized rather than nursing a sore back. Yoga with Konalani is based on supporting the natural spring in your connective tissue, creating a true appetite for movement.
Restore Balance Through Breath
Study after study reveals that many of us are over-breathing, living in a mild state of hyperventilation that contributes to a host of stress-related issues. At Konalani, our pranayama practices are designed to harmonize your breath, offering relief from the overstimulated and up-regulated nervous systems so common today. Rooted in ancient yogic traditions and informed by the latest advancements in pulmonology, our approach bridges timeless wisdom with modern science to help you restore balance and well-being.
Be a Buddha at the Bustop
Discover a meditation practice that transmutes daily life into a path of spiritual growth—the true essence of tantric practice. Empowered by four generations of realized teachers and sustained by the everyday efforts of ashram living and Sangha, this tradition offers a powerful and grounded approach to awakening.
Discover A Sangha of Support
Beyond movement, immerse yourself in the intangible joy of community—a supportive and inspiring network of practitioners dedicated to growth, connection, and evolution. At Konalani Yoga Ashram, you’ll discover a safe, nurturing space focused on helping individuals find health, consciousness, and bliss through the profound practices of the yogic tradition.
Feel Results Today
While you may not be healed on day one, you’ll clearly see the path to that lifelong destination. Our approach is grounded in thousands of years of meditation mastery, over a hundred years of lineage teachings, 60 years of thriving community building, and decades of excellence in yoga teacher training. Whether you’re new to yoga or looking to deepen your practice, we’re here to guide you every step of the way.
Ready to Begin Your Journey?!
Take the first step toward a healthier, more vibrant, and spiritually enriched life. Whether you’re new to yoga or ready to deepen your practice, Shambhavananda Yoga will guide you every step of the way.
The Problem: Fitness Yoga Causes Injury
Modern yoga’s emphasis on achieving specific shapes, isolating muscles, and mimicking fitness routines has created an ‘outside-in’ approach that lacks internal focus. This leads to dysfunctional movement and all too common yoga injuries (30,000 documented from 2001-2014), which develop slowly and silently, and can take years, or even a lifetime, to reverse:
Hamstring Tendonitis, “Yoga Butt”
One of the most common injuries in yoga, involves a tearing of the hamstring from the sit bone from an over-emphasis to the hamstring in flat-backed forward folds. Solution: Micro Bend knees and fold forward fluidly to engage the entire posterior chain.
Labral Tears in Hips
One of the most dangerous injuries featured in a New York Times Expose— a tear in the labrum of the hip socket due to stretching too deeply in Warrior postures without buoyant core support. Solution: Generate buoyant hip support through deep core engagement.
Compressed Spinal Discs
Reaching back in postures like Ustrasana can put the weight of our bends in the discs of our spine, instead of strengthening the muscles that support the spine. Solution: Elevate your backbends by lifting up, not back.
The Solution: Feeling is Healing
Cultivating Internal Awareness Through Natural Movement and Meditative Focus
Konalani combines an informed functional movement approach to yoga with a rich, authentic meditation tradition. Together, these practices provide a holistic solution to both the physical and spiritual challenges of modern yoga.
Your Body’s Built to Feel
Your nervous system prioritizes sensory awareness over action, with 20 times more neurons devoted to sensing your environment than controlling it. As David Lesondak explains, “The body’s need for sensory awareness and refinement is greater than its need for motor control.” At Konalani, we help you cultivate this awareness, because studies show that reduced proprioception leads to injury. Building this foundation is at the heart of your training.
Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast
Once you’ve cultivated inner sensation, the next step is maintaining that awareness as you move. This is why you’ll find yourself moving slowly, and repetitiously, through your asana practice at Konalani, rewiring both the neurological as well as muscular pathways. As they say in the Marines: “Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.” Moving slowly is the foundation of speed, strength, and health, allowing you to feel every movement with precision. Yoga isn’t a workout; it’s a reset button—for your physical body and your nervous system.
An Upward Spiral of Spiritual Growth
Yoga is only the beginning—a stepping stone toward pranayama and meditation, practices that exponentially accelerate spiritual growth. That’s why every yoga class at Konalani culminates in one of our empowered and transformative meditation practices. We come from a lineage of realized Siddhas, and our methods are designed to create transformation at the deepest level.
“The purpose of meditation in yoga is to turn our attention in an inward direction and to become aware of and established in that state of divinity that exists inside us. Yogis believe that this divine consciousness is the substance of the creation of the whole universe, that this consciousness is all-pervasive, and that we can attain this state. They believe we can become not just one with God–we can actually experience that state of divinity within ourselves. It is not an ego trip, like “I’m God and you’re not.” It is a state of cosmic consciousness. The things that we see as unique and individual things are just a manifestation of karma. As we get closer to this state of clarity or of pure consciousness, we begin to see the unity of everything and eventually our consciousness becomes that all-pervasive conscious- ness. That is called enlightenment.”
- Sri Shambhavananda, Founder and Living Teacher of Shambhavananda Yoga
Welcome Home
Enlightenment is an aspiration that requires a unique form of dedication as well as the right tools to do it with. If you’re ready to open your heart and dive deeply into your spiritual practice, then you’ve found your home. At Konalani, we’re excited to grow and train alongside you.
Two Ways to Train with Konalani:
Online & In Person
Hawaii Immersion
Yoga Teacher Training with Personalized Post-Training Integration
Begin your journey with an 11-day, all-inclusive immersion in Hawaii, just minutes from the ocean, where you’ll enjoy nourishing vegetarian meals, daily beach outings, and twice-daily guided meditations led by resident Yoga Acharyas. With a small class size, this program offers personalized workshops combining functional movement, holistic physiology, and meditation philosophy. You’ll be supported by a 500-page textbook and 300-slide workbook—one of the first in the world to merge the 5,000-year-old tradition of yoga with cutting-edge natural movement science. This isn’t just a research manual; it’s a practical guide offering a comprehensive path towards a healthier body, mind and spirit.
Engage in daily teaching workshops, personal explorations, and group sharing, with professional feedback on your practice and teaching. Dive into philosophy, mantra practice, and chanting, while experienced instructors answer your questions. Connect within a supportive community and build lifetime bonds.
After the immersion, transition into a mentorship phase to deepen your practice with personalized feedback and one-on-one guidance as you refine your teaching skills. Weekly yoga and meditation classes ensure ongoing growth, integrating your practice into daily life.
Customized Online
Customized Online Yoga Teacher Training with One-on-One Support
This online program offers a flexible, self-paced approach combined with one-on-one mentorship to support your success. With lifetime access to professionally produced video and audio lessons, you’ll move through sixteen modules broken into 30-minute to one-hour sections. Each module includes guided meditations, yoga classes, and interactive workshops, ending with a teaching project where you’ll receive personalized feedback.
You’ll be supported by a 500-page textbook and 300-slide workbook—one of the first in the world to merge the 5,000-year-old tradition of yoga with cutting-edge natural movement science. This isn’t just a research manual; it’s a practical guide offering a comprehensive path to a healthier body, mind and spirit, incorporating visual aids and personal explorations to help you discover your unique teaching voice.
Weekly live-online classes with experienced Acharyas and Swamis keep you connected to a vibrant community, so you never feel like you’re learning alone. Unlike typical online programs, where the average graduation rate hovers around 13%, our approach has resulted in a 98% graduation rate. Our graduates continue to train with us year after year, forming lasting bonds and joining our extended community. This is more than just a certification; it’s an opportunity to connect deeply with others on the same path and be part of a supportive, lifelong network.
Course Overview
Course Curriculum
Hour by Hour, what you learn during your 200 hour teacher training with Konalani
Meet your instructors
Your instructors are not only E-RYT 500 teachers, and honors graduates in academia, but are empowered Yoga Acharyas in the ShambhavAnanda yoga tradition, a connection to thousands of years of yoga mastery.
Resident Yoga Acharyas, Satyam & Abhaya
With over a 100 Yoga Teacher Trainings of experience and 35+ years of Ashram Living Combined, you can be sure you’ll be in good hands and guided in the right direction.
Acharya Satyam
Satyam has been a dedicated teacher and practitioner of ShambhavAnanda Yoga for over 20 years. Known for his passion for teaching and exceptional communication skills, he holds the designation of E-RYT 500 and serves as an Acharya in the ShambhavAnanda tradition. Satyam directs the ShambhavAnanda Yoga Philosophy Program and is an Honors Graduate of DePaul University’s Philosophy program, blending his deep academic foundation with decades of yogic wisdom.
Acharya Abhaya
While studying political science at Georgetown University, Abhaya discovered meditation and quickly became the student director of the campus meditation center. After graduating Magna Cum Laude, her dedication and talent led her to begin leading ShambhavAnanda Yoga Teacher Trainings within just a year—a role typically reserved for those with extensive experience. With over 100 teacher trainings under her belt, Abhaya brings unmatched passion, insight, and a sense of joy to every aspect of her work.
Benefits of live online yoga teacher training
“It’s not just about the poses,
it’s about the spirit and the mantras they’ve given me. I can feel that I am starting to break open and grow.”
Lori, pharmacist, Canada
“I couldn’t be happier and more fulfilled from the experience I had here.”
Alicia DeCastro, college student, USA
“The curriculum and teaching methodologies couldn’t have been better. I’m more prepared than I ever expected I could be.
Jeanne, school teacher, USA
“I have a whole new perspective and outlook on life, I’m so grateful to have had this experience.”
Grace, USA
What’s Included?
You will be guided through 42 fundamental yoga asanas with personal attention from your instructor
Accompanying every yoga asana section is the anatomy relating to those asanas, ensuring that your understanding of yoga anatomy will always be rooted in a genuine physical experience.
Lifetime access to 30 day online training prep audio/video series
Original textbooks and workbooks for interactive learning
Access to live online weekly yoga and philosophy classes
What you’ll learn
We have developed and refined our 200 hour yoga teacher course for over 30 years, with a comprehensive curriculum. See some examples of the teacher training manual below.
