July 14-19, 2026
Daily Schedule: 8:30am-5:15pm PST (attend In Person or Live Streaming Online)
Tuition: $1,000
In Person Training Location: Soul of Yoga Institute – 701 Garden View Ct, Encinitas, CA 92024
Yoga of Recovery is the first comprehensive course to combine Ayurveda and Yoga with traditional recovery tools to offer a more holistic mind, body, spirit approach to addictions, eating disorders, and self-destructive behaviors. This course brings the Western approaches (neuroscience and 12 Steps) and the Eastern approaches (Yoga and Ayurveda) together in a truly empowering approach. It is the evolution of the solution.
Upon completion of this course you will:
Have the skills to introduce the healing potential of the holistic sciences of Ayurveda and Yoga into your own life and those of your students and clients.
Be uniquely qualified and more confident to teach yoga in rehabs or to people in recovery from any addiction.
Be prepared to assess the root of your clients’ problems and the holistic treatment approach.
Course Syllabus:
Yoga or other Health Professionals must take all 6 days to receive certification and/or Elective Course credit.
Here are the topics we’ll cover:
- The Roots of our Addictive Personalities/behaviors (6 Tenets of YoR)
- Cause of disease from holistic perspective
- Struggling and stuck in a rut to release and stability (Gunas – down and out of addiction)
- Emotional Regulation through simple sense self soothing techniques
- Bhakti Yoga soothing emotional turmoil and loneliness
- Karma Yoga – Love in action
- The healing ripple of sustained self care and recovery
- Evolutionary regulation from the behavioral health care suggestions of Yoga and Ayurveda
- Facilitating community conversations about the problem and the solution
Required Reading: Manual specifically written for this course
We recommend also reading Durga’s new release Yoga of Recovery: Integrating Yoga and Ayurveda with Modern Recovery Tools for Addiction
Certification:
Required for Yoga Therapy Training and Elective for the 300 Hour
Upon completion you will be able to register 50 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) with Yoga Alliance.
Durga Leela – BA, CAS, PKS, Yoga Acharya, is the founder of Yoga of Recovery. She is a Certified Yoga Teacher E-RYT 500 through the Sivananda lineage and extensively trained in Meditation and Vedanta. A Clinical Ayurvedic and Pancha Karma Specialist, Durga trained both in the US and India and has served as the Director of the Ayurveda Programs at the Yoga Farm in California since 2003. She is a professional member and speaker for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT), also a member of Yoga Alliance. Durga has worked on her own path of recovery and has been a grateful member of 12 step fellowship for over 14 years.
