Integral Yoga Teachers Association - Offerings

CE Online Workshop: Playing the Edge w/ Swami Asokananda

CE Online Workshop: Playing the Edge w/ Swami Asokananda

Learn what the "edge" is and how it's used to guide hatha yoga practice. From Sw. Asokananda: "Erich Schiffmann brought the concept of “playing the edge” to the yoga world. In my studies with Erich, and then the exploration with my own body, I have made this an important aspect of my hatha yoga p...

CE Online Workshop: Service and Surrender - A Path with Heart with Swami Ramananda

CE Online Workshop: Service and Surrender - A Path with Heart with Swami Ramananda

Our culture trains us in so many ways to dwell in the head - planning, reasoning and judging - that we become separated from the heart. In this workshop: We'll discuss how we can engage the heart in our daily activities by embracing the path of service and feeling the natural flow of compassion ...

CE Online Workshop: Enrich Your Sadhana with Ayurveda with Leticia Padmasri

CE Online Workshop: Enrich Your Sadhana with Ayurveda with Leticia Padmasri

Enrich Your Sadhana with Ayurveda: Yoga and Ayurveda are related healing disciplines of India. They are the two sides of the same coin. While practicing Ayurveda keeps the body and mind balanced and healthy, practicing Yoga prepares the body and mind for the eventual liberation and enlightenment ...

CE Online Workshop: The Intersection of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Yoga with Mala Cunningham

CE Online Workshop: The Intersection of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Yoga with Mala Cunningham

The Intersection of Neuroscience, Psychology and Yoga: Looking at the yoga practices through the lens of neuroscience and psychology brings to the table a deeper understanding of how and why yoga works as well as how yoga impacts on our neurobiology and healing. In this presentation Dr. Mala wi...

CE Online Workshop: Releasing Emotional Psychic Blocks (Granthis) Through Yoga Practices with Nalanie Chellaram

CE Online Workshop: Releasing Emotional Psychic Blocks (Granthis) Through Yoga Practices with Nalanie Chellaram

Granthis are psychic, physical and emotional blocks in our chakra system which are brought about by past Samskaras, traumas, desires and old patterns. This workshop will discuss the 3 major blockages and the techniques used to release these blockages or knots. When released, prana can flow freely...

CE Online Workshop: Alignment as Life Practice with Mukunda Morozumi

CE Online Workshop: Alignment as Life Practice with Mukunda Morozumi

Description: Sometimes, I search for the meaning of life in everyday awareness which includes the heavy, dark and horrific elements to the elegant, geometric and playful expressions. Other times, I search for meaning from sacred texts, meditation practice and writing or through my easeful or cha...

CE Online Workshop: Can We Share Yoga with Those Who Resist It? With Chandra/Jo Sgammato

CE Online Workshop: Can We Share Yoga with Those Who Resist It? With Chandra/Jo Sgammato

Can We Share Yoga with Those Who Resist It?A Workshop About Our Experiences, Ideas, Triumphs and Failures with Chandra/Jo Sgammato Calling all Yoga teachers and dedicated practitioners to explore a challenge we likely all share: how to convey our enthusiasm for Yoga in order to convince our loved...

CE Online Workshop: Pranayama: The Health Benefits & Practices Beyond the Basics With Margabandhu Martarano

CE Online Workshop: Pranayama: The Health Benefits & Practices Beyond the Basics With Margabandhu Martarano

Pranayama: The Health Benefits & Practices Beyond the Basic with Margabandhu Martarano We may be familiar with the Basic and Advanced Practices of Pranayama. We know its necessity for going deeper in Meditation. Do we know many of the Health Benefits of Pranayama? Do we know how adding special mu...

CE Online Workshop: Integrating Yoga Philosophy and Asana w/ Mia Velez

CE Online Workshop: Integrating Yoga Philosophy and Asana w/ Mia Velez

How to Teach a Class That Integrates Yoga Philosophy and Asana with Mia Velez How can one convey the philosophy of Raja teachings in an asana class? How can we guide our students to demonstrate something like Brahmacharya during Surya Namaskaram or Pranayama? This interactive class will scratch ...

CE Online Workshop: Integral Yoga and Mental Health with Louis Mahadev Carlino, MA, LPC, E-RYT 500

CE Online Workshop: Integral Yoga and Mental Health with Louis Mahadev Carlino, MA, LPC, E-RYT 500

Integral Yoga Hatha and Mental Health with Louis Mahadev Carlino, MA, LPC, E-RYT 500 Advancing in Hatha Yoga has a lot less to do with the shapes that you can get your body into, and more to do with the depth and quality of inner experience. This workshop will begin with an introductory discussio...

CE Online Workshop: 20 Ways Integral Yoga Balances Your Autonomic Nervous-System w/ JoAnn Lutz

CE Online Workshop: 20 Ways Integral Yoga Balances Your Autonomic Nervous-System w/ JoAnn Lutz

Joann will describe the functioning of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), including an explanation of polyvagal theory, and share the specific ways she’s found that the practices, structure, and methods of classic yoga in general, and Integral Yoga in particular, enhance nervous-system regulatio...

CE Online Workshop: 20 Ways Integral Yoga Balances Your Autonomic Nervous-System Pt. 2 w/ JoAnn Lutz

CE Online Workshop: 20 Ways Integral Yoga Balances Your Autonomic Nervous-System Pt. 2 w/ JoAnn Lutz

After a brief review of the main points made in Part 1, Joann will point out the autonomic nervous-system (ANS) regulating features of the the second half of the basic Integral Yoga Class, including pranayama; deep relaxation, including yoga nidra, and relaxation. This information is particularly...

CE Online Workshop: Building Community in Our Classes w/Trace Sahaja Bonner

CE Online Workshop: Building Community in Our Classes w/Trace Sahaja Bonner

We finished our teacher training, and we are now armed with the skills to teach to Yoga. Then we find a place to teach, whether in an IYI space or local studio/gym, or we strike out on our own to share our love of Yoga. No matter what skills we have or place we teach, we are instantly met with t...

CE Online Workshop: The Surya Namaskaram Lineup

CE Online Workshop: The Surya Namaskaram Lineup

The Sun Salutation is a beautiful and beneficial practice that elegantly flows as a moving meditation. Well, that’s the goal. For most beginning students, Surya Namaskaram does not look or feel anything like a fluid, graceful gesture. My own experience was more similar to a choppy conglomeration ...

CE Online Workshop: Building a Class - Different Ways to Support the Journey from Beginning to Experienced Yoga Practice w/ Sw. Divyananda Ma

CE Online Workshop: Building a Class - Different Ways to Support the Journey from Beginning to Experienced Yoga Practice w/ Sw. Divyananda Ma

How can we shape a course class so students are looking forward to every session? It takes a big toolbox and lots of tricks! This workshop will address: meeting the student at their own level, creating sacred space, engaging with different personality types, providing challenges that excite but d...

CE Workshop: Holding integrity and the art of discernment, reflection and self honesty, w/ Rowan Cobelli

CE Workshop: Holding integrity and the art of discernment, reflection and self honesty, w/ Rowan Cobelli

A deep dive into using the bodies reactions to reveal the unconscious. Working with triggers, the hidden elements and listening whilst unhooking interpretations from knowing. -- Rowan is a student of Yoga, an Integral Yoga trainer. He loves jnana yoga and the art of integration, non effort in pra...

CE Online Workshop: Integrating Raja Yoga into our Hatha Yoga Classes w/ Heike Amma Farkas

CE Online Workshop: Integrating Raja Yoga into our Hatha Yoga Classes w/ Heike Amma Farkas

The true essence of transformative growth lies within Raja Yoga—where profound benefits unfold for both ourselves and our students. Raja Yoga serves as the key to genuine liberation, and those who embrace it are thriving! Why? Because it's an empowering practice. It awakens the spirit of self-res...

CE Online Workshop: Dialogue with the Heart - How to Cultivate Deeper Connection with Our Students and Ourselves w/ Līlā Śakti Mayī

CE Online Workshop: Dialogue with the Heart - How to Cultivate Deeper Connection with Our Students and Ourselves w/ Līlā Śakti Mayī

Numerous texts from the Yoga tradition are structured as conversations—fountains of dialogue from which the sacred wisdom of Yoga philosophy springs. Beyond philosophy, these exchanges themselves often claim to lead one to liberation. What is it that makes engaging in dialogue so deeply fruitful...

CE Online Workshop: How to Guide Students to Move Deeper into their Somatic Experience w/ Oyamie Kali Ma'at

CE Online Workshop: How to Guide Students to Move Deeper into their Somatic Experience w/ Oyamie Kali Ma'at

In this one hour session, we will explore developing self-awareness through Neuroception of our nervous system and strengthen our social engagement system. Oyamie will offer practical and accessible tools on how to awaken the social nervous system, the most recently evolved of the Vagus Nerve. Ad...

CE Online Workshop: Embrace and Release - Supporting Students with Difficult Emotions w/ Sam Desai

CE Online Workshop: Embrace and Release - Supporting Students with Difficult Emotions w/ Sam Desai

The combination of physical movement, breathwork, mindfulness, and self- awareness in yoga can create a fertile ground for the emergence of strong emotions that can be unsettling for both students and teachers. Led by Sam Desai, licensed professional counselor and yoga teacher, this presentation ...

CE Online Workshop: Pranayama: A holistic and gentle journey from physical to spiritual w/ Priya Halldin

CE Online Workshop: Pranayama: A holistic and gentle journey from physical to spiritual w/ Priya Halldin

During this hour of pranayama practice, we begin by focusing on the physical effects of breathing, understanding how the exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen impacts our body’s physiology and overall health. As the session progresses, we shift our attention to the more subtle influences of brea...

CE Online Workshop: Yoga, Ahimsa, and Food Choices with Victoria Moran

CE Online Workshop: Yoga, Ahimsa, and Food Choices with Victoria Moran

Yoga has always been vegetarian, and later in his life Swami Satchidananda told us that dairy was not necessary for health and it was time to evolve past it. Most people who come to an asana class are unaware of this backstory, or even of ahimsa as yoga's first moral precept. This presentation i...

Teachers Open Forum: Are You a Teacher Who Isn’t Teaching or Wants to Teach More? Let’s Explore!

Teachers Open Forum: Are You a Teacher Who Isn’t Teaching or Wants to Teach More? Let’s Explore!

Join us for an interactive Teachers Open Forum on April 17th at 10:00 AM EST via Zoom. This is a space where we come together as a community to share ideas, explore challenges, and crowdsource wisdom from one another. Topic of Discussion:Are you a teacher who isn’t currently teaching or would li...

CE Online Workshop: Bringing Ayurveda to your Mat With Bhakti Foster

CE Online Workshop: Bringing Ayurveda to your Mat With Bhakti Foster

Ayurveda and Yoga are sister sciences. If we are only practicing one or the other, we are missing half the picture. Ayurveda teaches the medical side of yoga and meditation as healing tools along with diet, lifestyle and special herbs. Yoga includes many of the principles taught in Ayurveda. Br...

CE Online Workshop: 🌟 Financial Wellness For Yoga Teachers - Part 2 with Nina Israel 🌟

CE Online Workshop: 🌟 Financial Wellness For Yoga Teachers - Part 2 with Nina Israel 🌟

Are you a yoga teacher looking to create financial balance and stability in your life? 🧘‍♀️💸 Join us for a two-part presentation crafted exclusively for yoga teachers, where you'll learn how to integrate the Profit First method into your financial life—and take actionable steps to start seeing r...

CE Online Workshop: How to Incorporate Ayurvedic Principles into your Class with Hannah Levin

CE Online Workshop: How to Incorporate Ayurvedic Principles into your Class with Hannah Levin

Discover how to weave the wisdom of Ayurveda into your teaching with this continuing education workshop. Learn practical tools and insights to support balance and well-being in your students through seasonal guidance, dosha awareness, and lifestyle integration. Perfect for yoga teachers and welln...

Teachers Open Forum: Bring Your Ideas to Discuss

Teachers Open Forum: Bring Your Ideas to Discuss

Join us for our next Teachers Open Forum on June 24th at 11:30am EST via Zoom. This one-hour open session is an opportunity for us to come together, share our experiences, and learn from one another. Unlike a traditional workshop with a presenter, this session will be a collaborative conversation...

IYTA Teachers Open Forum: Practicing Tapas (Self-Discipline/Grit) - A Community Conversation on the Transformative Power of the Inner Fire

IYTA Teachers Open Forum: Practicing Tapas (Self-Discipline/Grit) - A Community Conversation on the Transformative Power of the Inner Fire

Teachers Open Forum: Practicing A Community Conversation on the Transformative Power of the Inner Fire Tapas is the heat that transforms lead into gold. In this session, we look at discipline not as a punishment, but as a devoted "burning off" of the habits that hold us back. We’ll explore the fi...

IYTA Teachers Open Forum: Practicing Svadhyaya (Self-Study) - A Community Conversation on the Mirror of the Self

IYTA Teachers Open Forum: Practicing Svadhyaya (Self-Study) - A Community Conversation on the Mirror of the Self

Teachers Open Forum: Practicing A Community Conversation on the Mirror of the Self Svadhyaya is the lifelong practice of "checking in" rather than "checking out." It involves the study of sacred texts, but more importantly, the study of our own reactions, patterns, and shadows. Join us as we disc...

IYTA Teachers Open Forum: Practicing Ishvara Pranidhana (Surrender) - A Community Conversation on Trusting the Flow of Life

IYTA Teachers Open Forum: Practicing Ishvara Pranidhana (Surrender) - A Community Conversation on Trusting the Flow of Life

A Community Conversation on Trusting the Flow of Life For the final session in our series, we explore Ishvara Pranidhana—the practice of surrendering the ego to a higher power, a collective consciousness, or the natural flow of the universe. We’ll discuss the ultimate "letting go": releasing the ...