Feel the Aloha!
Train in Hawaii
Hawaii’s Best & Most Experienced Yoga Teacher Training
Reconnect with Your Spirit through Expert In-Person Guidance on the Path of Your Practice. Awaken Your Heart every Moment of your Open-Air Training with the Explosive Beauty and Natural Wonder of Hawaii. Take a second to Scroll through a day in the life of your yoga teacher training here in Hawaii.
“I couldn’t be happier or more fulfilled than I do from the experience I had at Konalani.”
-Alicia DeCastro, Veterinarian
Scroll Through A Day in Your Hawaii Yoga Teacher Training…
Sunrise Personal Practice & Guided Meditation
At dawn, the birds sing and we move into our Conscious Hatha yoga practice, stilling the mind and awakening inner awareness. We are the guided into an empowered meditation practices of the ShambhavAnanda Tradition by skilled Resident Yogacharayas. Meditating on mantra, the heart and the breath, with practices handed through 4 generations of Mastery.
Breakfast & Seva
Breakfast ranges from fresh hawaiian fruit to scrambled eggs and toast. We can work with any food allergies you may have, just let us know ahead of time. And yes! we serve coffee :) After breakfast, we all practice 30 minutes of Karma Yoga, the practice of working outside with our attention ‘inside’. This is often one of the greatest gifts you can bring home with you, as it transforms any task into spiritual growth.
“Satyam & Abhaya are always there for you.”
Yoga & Movement Workshops
Solar Powered by the Hawaiian Sunshine, we propel ourselves each morning into a new and unique exploration of asana, facial and functional movement anatomy, and personal growth. We believe that you can only teach what you have yourself experienced, so we spend plenty of time, and give lots of personal attention, in order to ensure your own personal movement transformation.
“You’re amazed how much information you’ve absorbed, and how you’ve transformed as a teacher”
Embodied Yoga Classes
Is there anything better than doing yoga in Hawaii? One thing might make it better— embodied yoga in Hawaii. Yoga experience takes you through a facially informed, awareness based, movement practice allowing you to find your internal flow and smooth out the waves of body and mind. Konalani’s meditation and facially informed approach repatterns our movement and alignment from the inside out, creating lasting transformation that is truly the result of a body and mind properly aligned.
Practice Teaching
We keep the afternoons in Hawaii moving with Practice Teaching, as well as peer and teacher based feedback. We are big believers in teaching itself being the greatest teacher, but also know how to accelerate your learning curve with intelligent templates, sequences and approaches to help you feel cool and confident when you start teaching back home.
Sunset Philosophy & Meditation
The Konalani Yoga Ashram in Hawaii is alot more than a yoga training, it’s a rich meditation tradition spanning 4 generations of realized masters. The philosophical tradition itself reaches back 1,000 years to the Shiva Sutras of Kashmir Shaivism. We take time everyday to bring these teachings into the context of our life through study, discussion and most importantly, meditation itself.
“They taught you things you just didn’t know.”
Vegetarian Meals in a Community Setting
Eating Fresh Vegetarian cuisine is even sweeter when you eat it together after a great day of spiritual growth. Sometimes we even take our meals to the beach for a fun picnic break to keep the Aloha flowing.
Sacred Arts & Crafts
Once a week during your training, you will be guided through a Sacred Art Project, such as Mala making (Yogic prayer beads), or Rudraksha Seed earrings, or Thangka Painting, and more. It’s a time to relax, open up, and just connect with your creative flow.
Learn More About Konalani’s 200 Hour Hawaii Online Yoga Teacher Training!
REDISCOVER your body’s Innate Intelligence and Natural Alignment through an Embodied Practice that Cultivates Inner Awareness. CLICK PICTURE FOR MORE INFO:
• EMBODIED YOGA PRACTICE
• CREATIVE SEQUENCING
• YOGA IS MEDITATION
CULITIVATE Profound Inner Awareness through Transformative Meditation Practices, Passed Down through 4 GENERATIONS of Mastery. CLICK PICTURE FOR MORE INFO:
• AUTHENTIC SPIRITUAL TRADITION
• EMPOWERED MEDITATION PRACTICES
• TEACHING YOGA FROM THE HEART
ACCELERATE Your Learning Curve through Dynamic Teaching Methodologies Refined over the Past 30 Years of our Yoga Teacher Training. CLICK PICTURE FOR MORE INFO:
•ACCREDITED TEACHERS
•ORIGINAL TEXTBOOKS
•HOUR FOR HOUR BREAKDOWN
PROPEL Yourself to new heights by Preparing for Your Training with Our Unique 30 Day Online Journey! CLICK PICTURE FOR MORE INFO:
• MOBILE FRIENDLY FORMAT
• LIST OF TOPICS COVERED
• GUIDED MEDITATION & JOURNALING
RISE to a New Level in Your Personal Practice with a Dawn to Dusk Spiritual Awakening Based on Ashram Tradition. CLICK PICTURE FOR MORE INFO:
•ASHRAM DAILY SCHEDULE
•VEGETARIAN CUISINE
• TRIPS TO THE OCEAN
EMPOWERED Yoga Acharyas in the ShambhavAnanda Tradition will be your Guide through the Journey of Your 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training. CLICK PICTURE FOR MORE INFO:
• 500 E-RYT CERTIFIED INSTRUCTORS
• 80 TRAININGS OF EXPERIENCE
• SMALL CLASS SIZES
ShambhavAnanda Yoga is a Registered 200 Hr., 300 Hr., 500 Hr. and Continuing Education Provider with Yoga Alliance. Yoga & Meditation Trainings are taught at different facilities across the Big Island. Ask your instructor for more information about the location of your training.
Konalani Yoga Ashram’s 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Hawaii balances the depth of an Authentic Spiritual Tradition with the breadth of complete yogic education. Based on the teachings of it’s 100-year old ashram lineage, the training itself is led by Acharya’s (Empowered spiritual teachers) in the Shambhavananda Yoga tradition who are also E-RYT 500 Yoga Alliance trainers.
The teacher training program is one of the the most experienced in the country, with over 30 years of expertise. Your training leaders themselves have led a combined 80+ yoga and meditation teacher trainings. Konalani Yoga Ashram’s Yoga and Meditation Teacher Training Curriculum is also one of the most innovative training programs in the world, publishing original textbooks, workbooks, online seminars, and even creating a 30-day “online Journey” to help students prepare for their training from home.
Konalani’s style of yoga teaches traditional asanas from a contemporary perspective of functional movement and fascia-based anatomy, to help every level of practitioner reconnect with natural movement patterns. All aspiring teachers are taught foundational meditation practices and breathing exercises handed down over 4 generations in the Shambhavananda lineage. All of this just a half mile from white sand beaches of the Big Island of Hawaii, as well as a short drive to rainforests, Jurassic hiking trails, active volcanos and dolphin adventures. Click here to check out the daily schedule.
Konalani Yoga Ashram always keeps their trainings under 12 students to ensure that each individual receives the utmost personal attention, while also creating a safe and warm family-like atmosphere in which to embark on the path to Self-discovery.
Questions? Call, text or email us and we will be happy to discuss our training with you and make sure it’s the right fit. Aloha & Namaste!
An Embodied Yoga (R)Evolution
to Ignite the Innate Intelligence of your Body and Breath.
We should all “Embody” the poses a little differently…
Your body is an intelligent machine, complete with sensors, processors and connective tissue that navigate you through life with ease and joy. An Embodied Yoga Practice helps awaken this intelligence, allowing it to start participating in your life again. The current “shape-based” yoga paradigm that stretches the body according to angles to ‘achieve’ a certain pose has led to an epidemic in yoga injuries and a misunderstanding of yoga’s innate purpose. New research in fascia and functional movement patterns are validating what Yogi’s have always known— the practice of yoga is a fluid experience of exploration that requires constant inner attention, and simply can’t be commanded from the outside-in. Simply put: You as a student have to participate in every moment of your practice to make it a practice— your teacher can’t tell you exactly what to do. The result of such attentive work yields increases in range of motion, injury prevention, functional strength, mental awareness, and more.
Yoga is Creativity
We believe that each posture of your yoga practice, as well as the overall sequence itself, is a work of art, not a memorized script. Stepping on your mat generates a creative spark when you approach yoga in this way, and paves the way for a life long practice in all settings and scenarios. Your 200 Hour Hawaii Ashram Yoga Teacher Training at Konalani will show you how to make each of your postures new all through, every time you do them, and to create infinitely unique sequences that will inspire you and your students for a lifetime.
Yoga is Meditation
It’s something alot of people say, but very few know how to do. To make Yoga a Meditative Practice requires more than just reading a quote, or ringing a bell— The instructor must have a deep and consistent meditation practice herself, derived from a living spiritual tradition. She must also learn how to incorporate her practice skillfully into her cueing strategy. Your 200 Hour Ashram Yoga Training will empower you with this gift through guided meditation and yoga philosophy, as well as workshops and techniques specifically geared to help you teach from the heart, not the head.The path may be challenging, but the rewards are Cosmic.
An Authentic Spiritual Tradition
The ShambhavAnanda Yoga Tradition spans 4 generations of meditation masters and over a century of living tradition. The roots of ShambhavAnanda Meditation are in the Kashmir Shaivite tradition of Northern India, which sees every living thing as an expression of God Consciousness— a sentiment often summarized as “there is nothing that exists that is not Shiva (The Inner Self)”. Your 200 hour yoga ashram teacher training will show you how to use your meditation practice to transmute your daily challenges into fuel for your spiritual growth by establishing a daily meditation practice, and learning to use that practice as you work, teach and enjoy your life.
“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 H., Pharamacist, Vancouver
A Living Practices You Can Trust
The meditation practices you learn in your 200 hour yoga ashram teacher training here in Hawaii are Chaitanya practices, which in Sanskrit means ‘living practices’. They were handed down from teacher to student, and empowered with Shakti, over years of focused practice. Your instructors are Yoga Acharyas, empowered by ShambhavAnanda himself to teach you the practice. You will be given the lineage mantra of ShambhavAnanda Yoga, a mantra handed down through 4 generations of Siddha Yogis. You will be taught how to meditate on your breath in order to access the pulsing life force within, and to open your heart through visualization and inner focus. Most importantly, though, you can rest assured that the practices you receive in your 200 hour yoga teacher training have stood the test of time, and are worth the time it takes to master them.
Teaching from the Heart
As a yoga teacher, the most powerful thing you can give your future students isn’t your words, but your state of being. ShambhavAnanda Yoga believes that a teacher’s inner focus and spiritual depth is what really nourishes their class, and establishing a meditation practice is the most fundamental thing you can do to achieve that. Meditation is absolutely possible for everyone, you just need a safe space to practice, empowered teachings and the guidance of true spiritual practitioners— all of which await you here at Konalani Yoga Ashram in your 200 hour Hawaii yoga teacher training.
Decades of Curriculum Refined over Thousands of Trainings.
Talented Teachers Yield Talented Teachers
Your Instructors, Abhaya and Satyam, are Honors graduates from Georgetown and Depaul University, and are particularly good at communicating complex ideas in a simple way. They work hard to break concepts down to the bare essentials, and build up comprehension layer by layer. They believe that each training should surpass the previous training, becoming more efficient and clearer every step of the way. They are also Acharya’s in the ShambhavAnanda Yoga tradition, a very special title that was bestowed on them by ShambhavAnanda that enables them to pass down the teachings of the lineage, and ensures the quality of their presence.
“The curriculum and teaching methodologies couldn’t have been better. I’m more prepared than I ever expected I could be.
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Jeanne V., School Teacher, New Orleans
+See Curriculum Hour for Hour (click for more info)
- 100 Hours Techniques, Training and Practice
- 25 Hours Teaching Methodology
- 20 Hours Anatomy
- 20 Hours Philosophy, Lifestyle & Ethics
- 10 Hours Practicum
+Yoga, Anatomy & Movement
• You will be guided through 42 fundamental asanas with hands-on workshops and personal attention from your instructor. Each day focuses on a new family of asanas, which you study in the evening and practice teach the following day.
• You will practice-teach fellow students every single day of your teacher training. We feel it’s imperative because it’s the most effective way to learn.
• Accompanying every asana section is the anatomy relating to those asanas, ensuring that your understanding of anatomy will always be rooted in a genuine physical experience.
• You will create a full-body warmup based on anatomical principles and creative movements. You will have the opportunity to practice teach this warm up multiple times, as well as receive personalized feedback from your course instructors on how to refine and improve it.
+Creative Sequencing & Class Planning
• You will learn the art of sequencing known as Vinyasa. You will also receive insightful worksheets that teach you the internal structure of class planning, accelerating your potential as a professional teacher.
• The second half of your training also opens the door to physical and verbal adjustments, teaching off the mat, improvisational teaching, Ayurveda, in-depth philosophy discussions, and more.
• You will receive personalized constructive feedback from your training leader on each of the 4 Finished Classes that you Create, allowing you to teach with confidence immediately upon graduation.
• You will also receive one-on-one guidance following your final teaching practicum to help you see how to continue to improve after graduation.
+Meditation, Sacred Art & Philosophy
• Your training leaders will instruct you in the 3 primary meditation practices of the Shambhava Tradition: Heart, Mantra, and Breath-based meditation.
• You will study Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, as translated from the original Sanskrit text by the ShambhavAnanda Yoga school, as well as the Shiva Sutras.
• You will have the opportunity to participate in Kirtan, devotional chanting, with ShambhavAnanda yoga practitioners.
• You will also do Sacred art projects, such as making a Mala for Mantra repetition or earrings from our Sacred Rudraksha tree. Sacred Art brings the teachings of yoga to life!
• Every day begins and ends with a 30-minute guided meditation practice. Meditation is at the heart of our lineage and we strive to bring it into everything we do.
• There are weekly Satsangs (question and answer periods) with Acharya’s of the ShambhavAnanda Lineage, where you can ask questions you may have about your spiritual practice.
• Each day you also participate in 30 minutes of Karma Yoga, selfless service. This practice helps you bridge the gap between the meditation cushion and your life.
Press Play Once A Day, and You’re on your way!
ShambhavAnanda Yoga’s Original 30-Day Online Training Preparation program not only prepares you, but PROPELS YOU, to new heights!
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The 30 Day Online Training Preparation Program:
200 Hours goes fast, which is why we developed our 30 day Online Prep Curriculum.
All you have to do is press play once a day, and we’ll guide you through everything you need to know to be completely prepared for your training.
Imagine arriving at your training with all of your Sanskrit postures memorized, the ability to sit comfortably in meditation, an understanding of yogic philosophy and the ability to do and teach pranayama!
Includes: 30 Guided Meditation podcasts, 30 Journal prompts,17 In-depth Pranayama (Breathing Exercise) Videos, 5 Online Sanskrit Pronunciation Tutorials, 2 Published E-books, and more!
Your Partners in Growth
The Teacher Student Connection is a critical part of the Yogic Tradition, and something that we take to Heart.
Your training instructors, Abhaya and Satyam, are not only 500 hour E-RYT Yoga Alliance registered teachers, but are also Acharyas in the ShambhavAnanda Yogic Tradition. This means that their spiritual teacher has recognized in them a maturity and ability to teach the subtle and valuable aspects of the ShambhavAnanda Tradition. They are also Honors graduates from their respective Universities and truly love the art of clear communication and take great joy in being effective teachers. They make incredible efforts to reach all learning styles and generate the most efficient and heart opening teacher training on the planet. It’s their life’s work, and their daily passion.
The tradition of the Ashram always prioritizes the sacredness of the student teacher relationship. This means that we keep the classes small, give personalized feedback, take time for mentoring talks during the training, and remain available always for that level of communication after graduation. It’s the Ashram way— the teacher student relationship is a sacred vessel, and it’s one we take very seriously and strive to hold to the highest possible standards.
Acharya Satyam Ehinger
A dedicated Ashram resident, teacher, and practitioner of ShambhavAnanda Yoga for the last 15 years. Satyam loves teaching and is a gifted communicator. He is an E-RYT 500 Instructor of Yoga, an Acharya in the ShambhavAnanda tradition, and Director of the ShambhavAnanda Yoga Philosophy program. He also drew the fun cartoons at the top of this webpage!
Satyam discovered yoga while in college, finding it not only to be a relief for his scoliosis, but also for his busy mind— and after graduating with Honors from DePaul University in 2005, he moved into the ashram and never looked back. He has a healthy sense of humor, but “doesn’t know how to prove that in this particular online setting.” He also loves dance and movement practices, having practiced ballet, contemporary dance, and improvisational movement. He is supremely grateful to be able to study under his teacher, Sri Shambhavananda, and to be able to live in the ashram where hard work, heart work and art work go hand in hand, and one’s inner growth is always at the forefront.
In His Own Words…
“I am supremely grateful to be able to study under my teacher, Sri Shambhavananda, and to be able to live in his ashram where hard work, heart work and art work go hand in hand in hand, lol, and one’s inner growth is always at the forefront.”
Acharya Abhaya Goldstein
Beginning her yoga practice, moving into the ashram, and becoming a teacher have been the three most pivotal experiences in Abhaya’s life, and each continues to influence her tremendously on a daily basis.
She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Political Science from Georgetown University and brings that level of precision and intelligence to the yoga teacher training environment. She has made an incredible journey from the realm of the mind to the realm of the body and spirit, and seeks to help her students along that path themselves, and to have a little fun along the way. She has lead over Thirty 200-Hr yoga teacher trainings! She loves practicing yoga outside with music, playing her Ukulele, swimming in the ocean, and cooking without any recipes.
In Her Own Words
“Each time I practice Yoga, I feel the gift it is to be embodied, it is truly JOYOUS to experience breath and movement in the present moment.”