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
Through nourishing foods, daily rhythm, and simple Ayurvedic practices, participants learn how to cool internal heat, support digestion, calm the nervous system, and restore balance as the seasons turn.
Prepare for winter and the holidays — join us for a 5-day cleanse to rejuvenate, invigorate, and firm up healthy habits for the months ahead and leave feeling refreshed, and connected to your innermost self.
Learn and experience the deeply regenerative and healing techniques of Ayurveda body treatments, also known as “Bliss Therapy.”
Through deep learning and experiential group practice, you are invited to expand the boundaries of what you think is possible for personal and collective healing. Come learn about the scientific evidence supporting the power of energy-healing practices — along with approachable techniques for application.
Rest and Rejuvenate is a restorative three-day experience designed to calm the nervous system, reduce stress, and reset your vagus nerve.
Hone in on your Ayurvedic Body Treatment skills and return home ready to expand your practice.
Children will be introduced to yoga through short asana classes, chanting, crafts, storytelling, and lots of games and fun.
Through yoga classes, chanting, karma yoga, and other practices, teens aged 12–17 build focus, confidence, self-discipline, and resilience. Come enjoy time together as a family in the ashram.
Guided by Grandmaster Yaron Benyamini and Master Shahar, this unique retreat invites you to experience Qigong and Tai Chi as living meditations—pathways to harmony, vitality, and inner peace.
This retreat is intended to provide guidance and a map to the precious jewel within each one of us - The Buddha Nature or The Divine Presence.
Deepen your impact as a yoga teacher by integrating Ayurveda, yoga’s sister science, into your classes and private sessions. This transformative training empowers you to create dosha-balancing yoga practices tailored to the season, time of day, and stage of life—helping your students cultivate greater balance, vitality, and peace.
Join us as we find our soul's Voice together in one of the most pristinely beautiful and sacred places on the planet as we dive deep into our soulful, energetic possibilities and to choose Love, Healing, and Sacred Connection.
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 13 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.
Join us for a 10-day immersion retreat to cleanse your body and increase vitality and energy. Leave feeling rejuvenated, refreshed, and connected to your innermost self for the year ahead.
Discover how to transform unconscious loyalties to past generations into rich resources for the future.
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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.





















