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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Holistic Anatomy and Physiology of Yoga

Online Course

Holistic Anatomy and Physiology of Yoga provides you with an understanding of structural anatomy and holistic physiology as it relates to yoga. The course is segmented by areas of the body. In each session you will explore common injuries, illnesses, and therapeutic practices associated with the topic.

80 hours • A la Carte: $1399

Align, Assist and Adjust Training

Intro to Crystal Bowls

January 7, 2025

with Amanda Baird

An introduction to sound healing and the crystal singing bowls.

Cost: $144

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Reiki Intensive

Begins January 8, 2025

with Erika Lee

Reiki is a journey into self-healing and healing others through universal energy and close connection. Through lecture, meditation, interactive practice, and attunement you will learn how to heal with Reiki.

Richard Milller Pranayama

Principles and Practices of Prāṇāyāma

January 10-12, 2025

with Richard Miller PhD

Designed to teach the foundations of prāṇāyāma for yoga therapy, meditation, and developing and maintaining a personal practice.

Tuition: $450 early bird by 12/10; $500 thereafter

Align, Assist and Adjust Training

Align, Assist and Adjust

February 7-9, 2025

with Stacy McCarthy

Deepen your yoga practice with precise alignment, assisting and adjustments.

Tuition: $299-$599

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Chronic Disease and Ease

February 19-24, 2025

Elucidate the holistic understanding of these conditions, and detail the most useful yoga therapy tools, including restorative yoga.

Tuition: $1000

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Kundalini Yoga and Somatic Awareness

February 28-March 5, 2025

with Dr. Dana Reece

Learn the history, lineage, components, technique, and practice of Kundalini Yoga. 

36 hours • A la Carte: $990

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Yin Yoga Foundations

March 9-11, 2025

with Joe Barnett

Analyze, 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.

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Teaching Yin Yoga

March 13-15, 2025

with 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.

Gentle Yoga Teacher Specialty Training ~ 50 hours

Gentle Yoga Specialty

Apr 7-11, 2025

with 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

Foundations of Yoga Meditation Retreat

Foundations of Yoga Meditation Retreat

May 18-23, 2025

with Richard Miller PhD and Ford Peck

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

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Exploring the Layers of Being through Kundalini Yoga

May 21-26, 2025

with Dr. Dana Reece

Explore and practice sacred breath and chanting techniques; examine consciousness; and study the body’s cosmology: mind, body, subtle body, soul. 

36 hours • A la Carte: $990

Restorative Yoga with Chiara Stella

Restorative Yoga

June 2-4, 2025

with 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

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Secret Power of Yoga

June 20-22, 2025

with Nischala Joy Devi

Yoga Sutra study to open the heart.

20 Hours • Tuition: $150-400

Intro to Ayurveda

July 10-13, 2025

with Durga Leela

Learn to apply the deep and powerful healing wisdom of Ayurveda to your professional scope of practice.

25 hours • Tuition TBA

Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Specialty Training

Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Specialty

July 28-August 1, 2025

with Stacy McCarthy

Learn a method that balances precise instruction, detailed alignment, breath and fluid movement

50 hours • $900 Early Bird, $1,100 after 6/23/25.

Indu Arora

Marma Points

August 21-24, 2025

with Indu Arora

Marma Points create a sacred matrix in the human body revolving around 108 points of lights. Give a new life to your practice by seeing it in the context of Ayurveda and Tantra.

25 hours • $775

Kundalini Yoga and Subtle Anatomy

Kundalini Yoga and Subtle Anatomy

August 13-18, 2025

Study each chakra as well as each of the 10 bodies as defined in Kundalini Yogic practice

36 hours • A la Carte: $990

30 Hours – The Profession of Yoga Therapy

The Profession of Yoga Therapy

October 2-5, 2025

This course will help you understand the ways and means of the healthcare industry; HIPAA laws, scope of practice, referral protocols, professional ethics and insurance billing. It will also provide you with a foundational understanding of the framework of integrated health organizations and how to best work within the system.

You’ll also learn how to market yourself, convey the concept of Yoga Therapy to the public and other professionals, and learn the basics of web based outreach.

30 hours • A la Carte: $750

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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.

8 hours • A la Carte $158

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Subtle Anatomy

February 20-23, 2026

with Nischala Joy Devi & Monique Lonner

Intricate 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 • A la Carte: $500

50hr Yoga for Heart Disease and Cancer Training

Yoga for Heart Disease and Cancer

March 2026

with 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 • A la Carte: $1080

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Yoga of Recovery

July 14-19, 2026

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 coping with addiction and self-destructive behaviors.

50 hours • A la Carte: $1000

Habits, Patterns, and Addictions: A Yogic Perspective Weekend Training

Brain on Yoga

2026 Dates TBA

Yoga 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 • A la Carte: $1,000

300 hour advanced certification

iRest Yoga Nidra Level 1 Training

2026 Dates TBA

with Ford Peck

A 5-day practical and experiential program that teaches the research-backed 10-Step iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation protocol.

Tuition $1,495 by 5/10/24; $1,595 thereafter

Advanced Teaching Skills with Leslie Kaminoff, Jivana Heyman, Flossie Park and Monique Lonner

Advanced Teaching Skills

2025 Dates TBA

Learn 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 • A la Carte: $1,000

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Variety

Choose from the largest selection of courses

Variety

Choose from the largest selection of courses of any yoga institute in the country.
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Tuition Assistance

We offer payment plans for our courses

Tuition Assistance

We offer payment plans for our courses, discounts for early registration, and discounts for payment-in-full. Contact Shannon Ramo for more information. shannon@soulofyoga.com
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Location

Beautiful, Sunny, Beachside Southern California

Location

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!
Stephen R. San Diego, CA
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Financial Aid Services

The Soul Institute is committed to investing in motivated yogis by helping students accommodate the financial commitment of education. We offer a number of discounts to financially reward qualifying students. We are MyCAA approved and offer assistance with navigating the MyCAA scholarship process for military spouses. Lastly we offer customized payment plans. Explore the information below and reach out with any questions while you are moving through the application process.

Financial Aid

The Soul Institute offers payment plans. A 25% non-refundable deposit is required. The balance, plus an 8% service fee, will be placed on your account. Monthly auto-payments will be drawn using a Visa or MasterCard. 200 hour training payment plans not to exceed 6 months.

Military Financing Available

MyCAA Funding gives eligible military spouses the opportunity to train for portable jobs in growing career fields, including becoming a Yoga Teacher. Soul of Yoga Institute is MYCAA approved. Click below for more information about MyCAA or email Shannon@soulofyoga.com.

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