I love working with yoga teachers who truly want to change lives. 

You have some training, maybe 200 hours, 500 or more! But you want to advance in ways that supports you to deeply HELP others (and earn a REAL living). You LOVE expanding your knowledge and skill. You want therapeutic tools to help your students RELAX at the deepest level possible and you want to be a cut above with truly THERAPEUTIC techniques. 

About Teacher Programs with Kaya

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I utilize a holistic and systematic approach that allows teachers to engage all 5 senses in learning and addresses different learning styles - kinesthetic, tactile, auditory and visual! Teachers build depth of knowledge and confidence so they can successfully apply it to their personal practice or their work with others. Audio courses are designed as an adjunct opportunity to clarify and deepen experiential knowledge. Below is a listing of current courses (others can be created in partnership with teachers or studios), contact to learn more! All studies qualify as continuing education with the Yoga Alliance.

Teacher Mentoring

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Schedule Here Anytime
For teachers, yoga therapists and teachers-in-training of any style
Ask your questions, boost your skills, trouble shoot, discuss clients and students, refine your marketing language and more! You choose the topic, or just run through your list of random questions. Mentoring is available in person or via phone or skype. Recordings of your call can be made available to review or take notes.  
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Therapeutic Twist Tricks!

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Advanced Restorative, Hands On Approach to Twists - for Yoga Teacher + Yoga Therapists
February 13 from 3pm-6pm at SMC in Larkspur, California. Part of Level 1 Yoga Therapy Training
Twists are perhaps, the most valuable (but subtle) category of yoga poses. They open the heart, help resolve emotional patterns, decompress the spine, massage the internal organs and prime the mind for deep inner states. A twist can be the poses in which students of all levels get the easiest and most palpable experience of transformation and bliss, with very little effort. In class for teachers and yoga therapists-in-training, you will learn how to turn a new private yoga client into a long-committed lover of yoga and an experienced student into baby-like putty in your hands. Learn to teach twists more deeply, more profoundly and more effectively. We will spend the full course focusing on Jathara Parivrttanasana including... 
  • Key alignments to ensure the pose reaches the spine {instead of the joints / periphery of the body}
  • Learn why this pose is a "backbending twist"
  • Learn how to protect shoulders, hips and sacrums in this pose
  • Learn How to handle hypermoble students in this pose
  • Variations to reach into the psoas and behind the heart for deeper and more therapeutic effects.
  • Powerful props for deep release and inner quietude
  • Hands-on "spinal climb massage" that has clients drooling and signing up for more time with you
  • How to use a reclined spinal twist to handle emotional overwhelm or outbreaks in a group or one on one setting. 
Get a well rounded three+ hours of Experiential, demonstration, and hands on practice of techniques! You'll float out of the room totally blissed out from all the experiential practice and completely confident to transform the experience of twists for your clients and students like never before. Contact Kaya for details. 

Audio Course - SPA Yoga

For Teachers with training in any restorative, therapeutic or slow-paced style
*Graduates from this course are able to triple their investment within their first SPA Yoga offering! Most find they fill their SPA Yoga course within 2 days! 
Learn more + Register. 

Audio Course - Macro Sequencing
Inspire and Align Your Teaching with Seasonal Themes All Yeer Round

For Yoga Teachers in Any Style
Learn more + Register. 

YTT & Yoga Therapy Trainings at SMC

Kaya is on faculty of 200 hour YTT and 800 hour Advanced Yoga Therapy Trainings (one of a small number professional Yoga Therapy Trainings Accredited by IAYT). These trainings were designed by founder Robin Geuth to coalesce the classical teachings of yoga as seen through the lens of 5 main therapeutic approaches. Kaya teaches various aspects of these trainings including restorative asana, pranayama, philosophy, sanskrit, subtle anatomy and ayurveda with highly esteemed colleagues. Learn more

FREE Philosophy Talks

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For your listening anytime!

"Kaya's presence is delightful, caring, easy to follow (through lecture & demonstration of poses.) The information is delivered in a way that allows for processing i.e. not too fast or slow and is filled with a light sense of genuine humor and deep wisdom. I appreciate the handouts to refer to later on with my extra notes from lectures. I can't think of anything missing at this time. Every training I take with you Kaya just gets better!"

Blogs for Teachers... 

Is Restorative Yoga Remedial? {and Why Yoga Teachers Love it}
Sequencing for the Mind {A Yoga Template for Everyone, and Why}
What Kind of Yogi Are you? {Assessing the level of a Student using yogic teachings}
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Architecture of a Yoga Pose {looking at yoga poses through the lens of vāst}

Contact Kaya at kaya@yogawithkaya.com for classes, workshops in sessions in Yoga Therapy, Yoga, Ayurveda, teacher Mentoring and Yoga Philosophy in the Bay Area (Emeryville), Northern California and by phone. With nearly 2,000 hours training in Svaroopa® Yoga, Kaya has also spent over a decade in deep formal study of classical Hatha Yoga, the Vedic Tradition, Ayurveda and Ayurvedic Yoga.