Yoga with Kaya Resources
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    • Online Followup for Teachers
    • Online Followup for Teachers
    • Audio SRY Practice with Kaya
    • SRY Fundamentals Course
    • Sharing SRY
    • Agni and Soma Home Study
    • YTT in SRY
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    • Tridoshic Food List
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Upgrade your skill, knowledge, impact and your inner opening. 

“I thought I had everything I needed and didn't need another yoga program. Kaya's retreats changed my life. I just want to study yoga with her all the time.” - MY, Yoga Teacher and Parenting Coach

Yoga Resolution! 
Living a Yogic Life with Ganesha + Psoas Release + the Doctrine of Karma

February 10, Portland Oregon

Yoga is not meant to give you something you are missing, but to resolve what is blocking you from your Self. In this program we clear the inner pathways to bliss, joy, peace and yogici living. Dive into a yoga practice for releasing the whole spine, with a special emphasis on both passive and active release of the all-important psoas muscle! The psoas release is key to living a fearlessly yogic life in every moment.  Practice will be woven with teachings about the 3 sources of karma which influence our lives and the principle of Ganesha as the remover of obstacles. 

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​In Yoga Resolution we explore: 
  • Deep Spinal Release Yoga 
  • Tailbone Release to discover security & satisfaction
  • Psoas Release to resolve pain & fear
  • Heart Opening to gather the inner nectar of bliss
  • Mantra recitation to align Karma
  • The Ganapati Principle
  • The 4 Aims of Life
  • Teachings about the Three Sources of Karma
  • Yoga Nidra Relaxation for Aligning with Natural Karma
  • Home Practice Tips
  • More!

Investment: $125
Early Bird now to Jan 1st! $108

More about Yoga Resolution!

“Kaya is an exemplary teacher and role model who encourages discovery and transformation. She applies her wisdom purposefully to your growth and healing. Her warmth, compassion and humor are sincere and she has an uncanny ability to respond spontaneously and wholeheartedly to what arises. While Kaya’s business acumen and technical expertise are exceptional, she lives what she teaches, which makes her an inspiration.” – BS, SRY Teacher

Fundamentals of SRY
Restorative Training for Teachers & Dedicated Yogis

February 11, Portland Oregon {join the Retreat on Feb 10 too!}
​March 22, Emeryville CA {stay after for the Yoga Therapy course!}

Dive into the teaching pedagogy of the most fundamental SRY principles and poses to incorporate into your personal practice & teaching. Get eligible for upcoming trainings in 2019!

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In Fundamentals of SRY we explore: 
  • ​The most powerful poses for every day practice
  • Teaching pedagogy for each pose to share effectively
  • Propping for different bodies
  • Hands on teacher alignments
  • Sequencing
  • Deeper understanding of how to help students see the value of slowing down, doing less. 
  • A look at the true purpose of yoga and how it fits the SRY model of practice
  • Gain 12 Hours CEU {8 Contact Hours}
  • Gain Eligibility for Supreme Release + Supreme Transformation {see below!}

Portland Program

Portland Fundamentals

Emeryville CA Program

Early Bird to February 15
More about SRY Fundamentals

"The depth, stillness and silliness of the weekend is reverberating still in my being and I am so grateful!" – LZ, Yoga Therapist

Supreme Release

Yoga Therapy Training & Retreat

March 23-24, 2019, Emeryville, California

Spend a weekend learning, giving & receiving SRY Yoga Therapy sessions. Gain tools that help students resolve physical and mental pain and give them 10x the amount of release they can get in a home practice or group class. Learn to target specific parts of the spine with hands on holds, propping and presses with tools that provide your clients with deep rest and bliss. You'll experience + learn deeply effective release session sets to provide ongoing healing sessions for one on one yoga clients.

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In Supreme Release you'll: 
  • Learn several session sets that can be mix + matched to create even more! 
  • Explore the difference between "trauma sensitive" and "healing"
  • Explore the difference between "fixing" and "healing"
  • Explore a simple and powerful tool for helping students understand their mental pain according to the four aims of life. 
  • Give and receive multiple sessions to get experience + your own healing!
  • Learn how to touch and how not to
  • Develop your skill for being responsible but "out of the way" so the release can unfold
  • Gain 24 CEU Hours {16 Contact Hours} 

Note: Prerequisite: SRY Fundamentals or Equivalent

Dive into Supreme Release {special discounted early bird!}

Early Bird to February 15

"Kaya's trainings for teachers are beautifully designed - significantly layered for depth yet simple and clear which has the student become experienced and confident in the material offered. Her approach is ordered yet natural and excellent in all ways. Her presence is clear, deeply knowledgeable and she incorporates the principles of yoga in context and content.” –JR, Yoga Teacher

Supreme Transformation

Active Release & Restorative Yoga Teacher Training

May 17-19, 2019, Emeryville, California

Dive into the experience and teaching pedagogy "deep & dynamic" SRY.  These poses allow students to carry openness into their lives and to bring the teachings alive in their relationships, work and viewpoint. Gain practices that are ripe for you to share in series, workshops and retreats with your dedicated students who want more. Gain the skill for helping students resolve patterns of "spiritual bypass" {and do this for yourself along the way!}

The philosophy of this course centers around the Vedic Viewpoint that make all of life yoga, giving every action purpose. This retreat is designed to deepen your personal practice and empower you to lead high-end offerings such as workshops & retreats. 

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In Supreme Transformation we:
  • Dive into Trikonāsana, Upright Anjaneyāsana & Warrior Poses
  • Learn the Bhagavād's teaching of Karma Yoga and how to make all of life a spiritual practice
  • Explore what spiritual bypass really is and how to stop doing it
  • Learn to sequence deep and dynamic poses for effectiveness
  • Explore the story of Hanumān and how it relates to our inner power​
  • and more in 24 Contact CEU Hours!

Note: Prerequisite: SRY Fundamentals or Equivalent

Join Supreme Transformation {special discounted early bird rate!}

Early Bird to March 1

“Kaya brings the best quality of a master to her teaching: discernment. In her presence, the student feels cared for and nurtured. Kaya honors the tradition of yoga, its depth, its beauty, its complexity, and does so in a way that remains respectful to those who remain in the infancy of their yogic experience." KH, Yoga Therapist in Training

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About Kaya's Approach to Live Study
The Classical Way To Learn

Our precious time in one another’s presence is the classical way to learn healing techniques. As you delve into the direct experiences of profound yogic tools, you are emboldened to teach from a place of deep inner experience and integrity. Wonderfully, this means more healing and transformation for YOU on your path to learning to support others in their healing and transformation.  

Boutique In-Person Trainings with Kaya emphasize 4 key pillars –  
  1. Hands-On SRY tools – learn and practice hands-on therapeutic tools in the Spinal Release Yoga approach to releasing spinal tension
  2. Systematic and Holistic Pedagogy – engage in kinesthetic, tactile, auditory and visual learning capacities with a methodology for teaching teachers that allows you to successfully learn, digest and apply the material in the real world.
  3. Direct Experience – retreat-like immersion in the techniques heals YOU while you simultaneously learn to apply those tools to others
  4. Sharing Sangha – your community of supportive yogis grows and deepens as you spend several days learning, partner pairing and healing together.
*All studies with Kaya qualify as continuing education with the Yoga Alliance.
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All programs taught by Kaya, a Yoga Educator with 18 years teaching experience and 3,000 hours training in the full spectrum of the Vedic & Yoga Tradition. Certified continuing ed for yoga teachers and yoga therapists. 
Kaya is the founder of SRY™ which is based in the full spectrum of the Vedic yoga tradition. She has been teaching therapeutic restorative yoga therapy since 2001. Kaya's work is healing, transformative, deeply rejuvenating and empowers her student and clients with wisdom and inner experience. Her trained in the full spectrum of the Vedic Tradition includes Yoga, Yoga Therapy, Prenatal Yoga, Ayurveda, Women's Health, Eastern Anatomy, Sanskrit, Vedic Astrology and Vedanta Philosophy. She collaborates with her husband Michael Manzella, a Vedic Astrologer, to serve yoga students and teachers who are inclined toward depth of inner experience and knowledge.  MORE ON KAYA
  • About
  • SRY
    • Online Followup for Teachers
    • Online Followup for Teachers
    • Audio SRY Practice with Kaya
    • SRY Fundamentals Course
    • Sharing SRY
    • Agni and Soma Home Study
    • YTT in SRY
  • Ayurveda
    • Join Agni and Soma Nutrition
    • Tridoshic Food List
    • Ayurveda Application
    • Ayurveda Followup
    • Yogify
  • Māyurveda
    • Māyurveda Intake
    • Early Pregnancy
    • Mayurveda Conception Client Pages
    • Māyurveda Prenatal Client Pages
    • Mayurveda Postpartum Pages >
      • Kids Ayurveda
  • Work with Me
    • Retreat Intake
    • Training / Mentoring Intake
    • One on One Intake
  • Audio
    • Shavasana
    • Bhagavad Gita Essentials
  • Contact
    • Resources