Professional Trainings, Certifications & CEUs

We are a leading destination for people seeking professional skills and training and offer a variety of Healing Arts trainings and courses with CEUs. The Yoga Retreat offers a unique learning experience for participants, combining instruction with an immersion into the daily practice of a yogic lifestyle. Individuals attending courses at the ashram are given the opportunity to apply the material gained from coursework through the support of the ashram environment.


Professional Trainings

Professional Training
November 8 — 12, 2026
Mariana Mosca (Mirabai)

This course is designed for experienced Thai Massage therapists who wish to deepen their practice from the inside out. You’ll move beyond technique to cultivate refined sensitivity—developing the ability to sense and respond to the body’s unspoken story.

Professional Training
January 13 — 18, 2027
Nora Benian (Sundari)

Restorative yoga is a regenerative healing tool you can integrate into yoga classes, healing treatments, or use in restorative-specific classes. you leave with the ability to confidently teach a primary series of restorative poses to your students as well as incorporate them into your own practice.

Professional Training
January 19 — 23, 2027
Nora Benian (Sundari)

This certified training for yoga teachers and health-care practitioners gives you the skills to integrate therapeutic yoga and healing modalities into your practice and effectively serve individuals recovering from illness or injury, pregnant women, or aging populations.

Professional Training
January 26 — 30, 2027
Michelle Lepak

This highly supportive training for mental health professionals provides skills to help clinicians and their clients to easily orient to and sustain awareness of Four Dimensions of Presence, and then utilize Presence Awareness to access and many layers and nuance of trauma.

Professional Training
March 2 — 7, 2027
Chitra Sukhu

Join Chitra Sukhu, a world-renowned Yoga practitioner and expert on Yoga Nidra and Hatha Yoga to learn the fundamentals of Yoga Nidra and how to share this healing, powerful practice with others.

Professional Training
March 16 — 18, 2027
Michael Hutkins (Anjaneya)

Our society is aging and there are many people unable to practice a standard yoga class. This training program will offer you the tools to help your students build strength, awareness and confidence as well as to increase their well-being both physically and mentally.

Professional Training
March 19 — 21, 2027
Michael Hutkins (Anjaneya)

Many people believe they can not, or can no longer practice yoga due to age, injury, disease or other limitations. This course will teach you how to make yoga accessible to everyone by adapting the practice to individuals needs without compromising the great benefits of yoga.

Professional Training
April 29 — May 4, 2027
Sukha Wong

Gain a strong foundation in the key elements of Ayurvedic Thai Yoga Massage and learn how to perform a full 90-minute customized session.

Professional Training
May 6 — 11, 2027
Sukha Wong

This advanced course teaches you Thai Sen energy lines (similar to nadis) and how to incorporate them and Marmas (acupressure points) into a powerful Thai Yoga Massage flow.


 

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Yoga Alliance Accreditation

The Yoga Alliance registers yoga teachers who meet minimum U.S. teaching standards established by the organization’s founding members. The Alliance also provides support and recognition to registered yoga teachers while honoring the diversity of all yoga practices and upholding the integrity of yoga. Additionally, The Yoga Alliance registers yoga schools whose teacher training programs address those standards, ensuring graduates are well-qualified to teach the practicing public. The Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat is a Yoga Alliance registered school.

Graduates of the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat’s Yoga Teacher Training Course can register as a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) at the 200 hour level, RYT200.

Graduates of the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat’s Advanced Yoga Teacher Training Course can register with Yoga Alliance as a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) at the 500 hour level, RYT500.

Visit Yoga Alliance for more information and to download an application form. Contact our reception office at [email protected] to receive a letter to support any application you make to the Yoga Alliance.

Continuing Education Units for Registered Yoga Teachers

Some certification courses offered by the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat fulfill the Yoga Alliance requirements for Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and may be used by Registered Yoga Teachers as credit towards RYT500 accreditation. All hours are contact hours. Certificate of attendance is provided to participants. Visit Yoga Alliance for more information about CEUs.

Continuing Education Units

Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are offered for some of our programs through the presenters. Please see the program descriptions online for more information. Additional fees may apply. Requests may be sent to [email protected]


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