Experiential Yoga Courses
Dive into a path of study. Learn and grow in an enriching educational environment that integrates mind, body, and spirit. Balance your course time with healthy meals, walks by the ocean, yoga classes, and community gatherings for meditation and inspiring talks. Experience the best in holistic learning.
We offer hundreds of courses a year on a variety of yoga and yoga-related topics, including integrated health, nutrition, spiritual studies, and sacred practices, as well as trainings in the healing arts and yoga teaching. Courses have specific start and end dates and meet daily. You should plan to arrive at least the day before the course start date and depart the day after the course end date; we encourage you to take a few days in our Yoga Vacation Program before or after your course as well. View the Full Calendar of Upcoming Programs (filterable by date, topic, and presenter).
Upcoming Experiential Yoga Courses
Hone in on your Ayurvedic Body Treatment skills and return home ready to expand your practice.
Manu will guide you on your journey to physical, mental, and spiritual wellness with raw food, juice, herbs, and supplements. Leave feeling rejuvenated, refreshed, and connected to your innermost self.
Discover how to replace limiting behaviors, thought patterns, self-sabotaging and addictive tendencies with the practices of Yoga of Recovery.
Increase energy and vitality, reduce inflammation, recalibrate the taste buds, and clear the mind with this 7-day fresh food detox.
Renew your balance and agility with venerable Ayurvedic cleanse techniques. Receive a daily routine, hydration protocol and stress-relieving practices to compliment your journey toward optimal health.
In a safe, confidential and intimate space, participants will be gently guided through the path of grief relief with effective yogic techniques to support the process.
Start manifesting now by transforming your thoughts, actions, emotions, and belief systems and removing blockages in your energy system with three gentle yet powerful healing sequences.
Experience an authentic Ayurvedic fall cleanse tailored to your personal constitution to help detoxify and create optimal wellbeing in body, mind, and soul.
Children will be introduced to yoga through short asana classes, chanting, crafts, storytelling, and lots of games and fun.
Discover this profound healing modality that investigates what may be limiting, dis-regulating, degenerating and compromising one's current state of health physically, mentally or emotionally.
Evidence-based teachings and practices will be shared to help you better manage the waves of life and reduce the impacts associated with anxiety, stress, and depression.
During this family yoga holiday, kids will be introduced to yoga through short asana classes, chanting, crafts, storytelling, and lots of games and fun.
In this program, teens 12 to 17 experience an immersion in the foundations of yoga practice, philosophy, and lifestyle as well arts and crafts, journaling and the joy of being of service.
Flush out negativity and clear a path for new positive habits, behaviors, and emotions so you can be who you are meant to be.
Start the new year with a clean slate! Join this Ayurvedic kitchari cleanse and Yoga Nidra retreat to feel lighter, more confident, and closer to your dreams.
Discover the research and practices in both neuroscience and psychology that can help guide you in addressing the multifaceted topic of trauma and wire your mind to shift into more balance and freedom. Come and connect to your heart and your true essence to nourish your spirit with joyful experiences!
Explore Our Offerings
Sivananda Essentials
Take home skills you can use in your daily life.
The ashram offers much-loved “essentials” courses to help you build a yoga foundation that integrates easily into your lifestyle. Guided by our senior teachers, you will learn to focus your mind by building a meditation practice for home, learn to think more positively, and strengthen your body with the postures and practices of Hatha Yoga. Essentials meet just a couple of hours a day and make a great addition to a Yoga Vacation — or reason to plan a trip the ashram.
Professional Trainings, Certifications & CEU Credits
Develop skills for advancing your career.
Learn new skills, gain certification, or earn Continuing Education Units through our highly respected professional trainings. Whether you are a yoga teacher, healer, health-care professional, or counselor, you will find a variety of courses — and a rich learning environment that allows for deep integration of what you are learning.
Program Themes
What are you interested in?
We offer hundreds of courses a year on a variety of topics, all designed to create transformation from the inside out. Whether it’s nutrition and cleanses, yoga philosophy, or an exploration of sacred art & creativity, you will find a variety of ways to access the deep wisdom of yoga in a rich learning environment.