300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training
in Hawaii & Online

Rise transforms the way you understand the upper body — unlocking the connections between hands, breath, shoulders, and deep core that most yoga trainings never address. You'll explore scapular mobility, fascia-release techniques, Invisible Plank progressions, Dharanas of the heart, and the devotional energy of Hanuman as both a movement and meditation practice. By the end, you'll know how to help your students find ease where they once found strain — and strength where they once found tension.

Shakti liberates your teaching from the constraints of linear sequencing — inviting you into a living, feeling-based approach to building classes that is as spontaneous as it is skillful. You'll explore Spanda, Unmesha, Shakti Flows, and cellular hydration techniques that transform the way you teach, sequence, and experience movement. By the end, you'll have a toolkit of practices that are as grounded in science as they are alive with creativity.

Roots grounds you in the intelligence of the lower body — teaching you to rebuild movement from the ground up through the feet, arches, glutes, and hips. You'll explore barefoot training, gluteal activation, psoas release, walking meditation, and the Shambhavi Mudra in ways that transform how you and your students experience grounding, stability, and presence. By the end, you'll have a foundation that makes every posture above it more easeful, more connected, and more alive.

Resilience reframes your yoga practice as a daily act of nervous system healing — giving you tools in pranayama, functional breathwork, and restorative movement that belong in every class you teach. You'll explore diaphragmatic breathing, intra-abdominal pressure, spanda-based movement, and down-regulating pranayamas drawn from both modern pulmonology and the yogic tradition. By the end, your students will know what it feels like to shift from depletion to steadiness — on the mat and in their lives.

Wisdom awakens the body's innate intelligence by teaching movement along the four major fascial lines — front, back, spiral, and lateral. You'll explore spiraling transitions, breath-driven elasticity, somatic repatterning, and movement as meditation through the lens of fascial awareness and yogic philosophy. By the end, you'll teach from a place of wholeness — and your students will feel the difference in every class.

Most days of your training begin with a guided yoga practice that integrates the teachings of your training into a flowing, Hatha-based style designed to rebuild your capacity for holistic movement. These sessions are more than just physical — they are an opportunity to embody what you are learning, quiet the thought waves of the mind, and reconnect with the deeper current of your practice.

Every morning and evening of your training, you'll be guided through empowered lineage practices taught by resident Acharyas — drawing from the breath, mantra, heart awareness, and the deeper currents of the ShambhavAnanda tradition. These are not generic meditations — they are living practices passed down through an unbroken lineage and offered here with the full intention of awakening your inner life.

The practice of translating inner experience into outer reflection is a skill that can transform your daily life — sharpening your capacity to understand your own inner landscape and watch it evolve. Each day you'll be guided through a reflective journaling practice and invited to share with the group, creating a living dialogue between inner and outer worlds. The play of Shiva and Shakti, made visible on the page.

Craft your own Rudraksha mala from sacred seeds grown right here at the ashram. Then learn to use it with a living lineage mantra — vibrating your energetic system from the inside out and bringing the transformative power of Shakti down to its subtlest level. A practice you'll carry long after the retreat ends.

Greet the dawn and participate in one of yoga's oldest and most beloved rituals — offering mantra into a sacred fire as the sun rises over the Pacific. The Vedic fire ceremony was empowered into the ShambhavAnanda tradition over thirty years ago, and we have practiced it every morning since. It is a powerful way of transforming tension into energy and deepening your understanding of the inner alchemy at the heart of all meditation practice.

Immerse yourself in the energy of Kirtan — devotional chanting with live music and call-and-response community singing that draws your meditation practice up into a lively, heartfelt expression. Chanting ancient mantras to live music is one of the fastest paths to an open heart, dissolving the boundaries between practice and joy in a way that is both spontaneous and deeply transformative.

Explore Kaloko-Honokohau National Park — some say the best snorkeling on the Big Island of Hawaii. Relax in the Queen’s bath, spot dozens of fish, octopus, and of course sea turtles floating above the vibrant coral reef. All in a protected bay, in shallow accessible water, that everyone can enjoy.

Float above colorful coral reefs and swim alongside brilliant Hawaiian fish at one of the Kona coast's most beautiful snorkel spots. No experience needed — just curiosity and a sense of wonder.

Visit a stunning white-sand beach and explore the shops, cafés, and coastline of historic Kailua-Kona. Swim, paddle, wander, or simply rest in the sun.

Share your experiences, honor your growth, and celebrate the week in a heartfelt closing circle with the group. A meaningful seal on everything you've moved through together.

Each training is guided by a focus on one principal deity that shapes the teachings, meditations, and inner work of that particular module. From Hanuman to Tara, Saraswati, Lakshmi, and more, these are not merely mythological figures but doorways into the deepest wisdom of the Hindu and Buddhist traditions. Working with a deity over the course of a training is an opportunity to cultivate a genuine inner relationship.