Electives, Independent Studies and CEUs
Expand your skills as a teacher or simply enrich your life. The Soul of Yoga Institute offers specialized trainings throughout the year that are open to anyone. You may be able to apply these course hours for CEUs with Yoga Alliance, or with Soul of Yoga towards a 500 hour or Yoga Therapy training program.
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50 Hour Breathwork Certification
May 2, 2026The breath holds the key to healing, awakening, and human transformation. Emerge from this training with practical tools, ethical grounding, and a profound relationship with the breath being ready to support yourself, and others, at every level.
50 Hours • Tuition $975
Restorative Yoga
June 1-3, 2026with Chiara Stella
Providing the teacher with a clear understanding of the roles of the nervous system as well as the subtle energy body and how they relate to relaxation response.
25 hours • Tuition: $550
iRest Yoga Nidra Level 1 Training
June 9-13, 2026with Ford Peck
A 5-day practical and experiential program that teaches the research-backed 10-Step iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation protocol.
Tuition $1495 by 5/9; $1695 thereafter
Yoga of Recovery
July 14-19, 2026Yoga 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 coping with addiction and self-destructive behaviors.
50 hours • Tuition: $1000
Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Specialty
July 20-24, 2026with Stacy McCarthy
Learn a method that balances precise instruction, detailed alignment, breath and fluid movement
50 hours • $900 Early Bird, $1,100 after 6/8/26
Brain on Yoga
September 29-October 4, 2026Yoga practices to support a healthy brain during all stages of life are explored, including the understanding of traumatic brain injury, autism and Alzheimers.
40 hours • Tuition: $1,000
YIN YOGA
October 9-11, 2026Analyze, observe and practice the Yin Yoga Postures in depth. Examine and compare each other, the real flesh and bones, with range of motion (ROM) tests, Assisted Yin Yoga stretching and other experimental analyses.
Teaching Yin Yoga
October 12-14, 2026with Joe Barnett
A practicum intensive. Guiding the student-teachers through a review of the 3-Stage cycle of a Yin Yoga practice while offering the budding Yin Yoga teachers time, space and guidance to use their voice, as well as receive precious feedback from teachers and colleagues.
25 Hours • Tuition $550
Advanced Teaching Skills
November 4-9, 2026Learn to more skillfully adapt your teaching for students with differing needs. Topics of this training course include prenatal and chair teaching methodologies, common injuries, misalignments, adaptations and effective sequencing.
40 hours • Tuition: $1,000
Shakti Kundalini Yoga
February 8-12, 2027with Sita Severson
Explore a truly integrative approach to Kundalini Yoga, blending time-honored tradition with modern insight
50 hours • Tuition $1100
Chronic Disease and Ease
February 24-March 1, 2027Elucidate the holistic understanding of these conditions, and detail the most useful yoga therapy tools, including restorative yoga.
Tuition: $1000
Philosophy in Practice
April 14-19, 2027Traditionally study revered texts of Yoga – the Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads and The Radiance Sutras – and then personally experience the wisdom through your body with asana, breathwork, meditation, mantra and dance.
40 Hours • Tuition $1,000
Intro to Ayurveda
June 23-28, 2027with Sita Severson
Learn to apply the deep and powerful healing wisdom of Ayurveda to your professional scope of practice, broadening your
skill set with competence and confidence.
40 hours
The Profession of Yoga Therapy
September 18-22, 2027This course will help you understand how to convey the concept of Yoga Therapy to the public and other professionals, set up your business, market yourself and how other Yoga Therapists have made successful careers in the field in various ways.
30 hours • Tuition: $750
Mental and Emotional Wellness
October 16-21, 2027Through both Eastern and Western understandings of trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety and grief, we will study evidence based Yogic interventions to support sustained mental and emotional wellness.
40 hours • Tuition: $1000
Prenatal Yoga (Pre-Recorded)
with Flossie Park
This training will provide you with the anatomical, physiological, medical, and metaphysical information you need when working therapeutically with pregnant clients and students.
4 hours • $158
Reiki Intensive
2027 Dates TBAw/ Erika Lee
Reiki is a journey into self-healing and understanding who a person is on an energetic level.
Tuition: $275-$825
Foundations of Yoga Meditation Retreat
2027 Dates TBAwith Richard Miller PhD
Retreat offers you the opportunity to dive deeply into awakening to your most essential nature, that which is calling you above all other tendencies in your life. Meditation is not just something you do. It is a way of living life. It’s your call to action from the underlying essence that has given birth to the entire cosmos and to every atom in your body.
40 Hours
Align, Assist and Adjust
2027 Dates TBAwith Stacy McCarthy
Deepen your yoga practice with precise alignment, assisting and adjustments.
Tuition: $299-$599
Hatha Gentle Yoga Teacher Training
2027 Dates TBAwith Flossie Park
People searching for gentle yoga is by far the fastest growing inquiry in the yoga world. For Yoga Teachers or those yoga students who wish to deepen their understanding of the various components of gentle yoga, this is an immersion into specific techniques. Learn to hone your teaching skills and support people where they are.
50 Hours • Tuition: $900 Early Bird until 3/9; $1100 thereafter
Subtle Anatomy
2028 Dates TBAIntricate exploration of the mystical teachings of subtle anatomy, energy, dis-ease and healing. Students learn and experience how the body, mind, spirit and breath interconnect and influence each other using the tools of mudra, mantra and pranayama.
25 hours • Tuition: $500
Yoga for Heart Disease and Cancer
2028 Dates TBAwith Becky Michalski and Alana Keith
Explore the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual components of heart disease and cancer and learn how to adapt yoga practices to foster healing and improve quality of life.
50 hours • Tuition: $1080
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Whether you are coming in from out of town or traveling to Soul of Yoga locally, you can’t beat the ease of access to the center.This place holds what the name indicates: ‘Soul of Yoga’! As an explorer of life, I have travelled a lot through the world and have seen a lot of yoga studios. This one has a special feeling. Here, there is the possibility to truly connect to the Soul, to the true self. Because of this I chose the Soul to complete my advanced teacher trainings. These trainings have supported my transformational process and connected me to my heart! This place is for those who really are interested in learning all facets of Yoga, not just the physical practice. Thank you Soul of Yoga for these unique experiences!