Live instruction rather than a self-paced video library.
Same faculty, curriculum, cohort, and completion requirements.
Real-time interaction with teachers and fellow students.
Practice teaching plus direct feedback.
Recordings available for review.
Ability to attend sessions in Santa Barbara with advance registration
How It Works
However you participate, you train with the same faculty, curriculum, cohort, and certification requirements.
Apply & reserve
your spot
Join scheduled sessions
live each week
Participate in discussion, asana, assignments, & practice teaching
Complete required
class / observation hours
Complete the final practicum &
all training requirements
Student Testimonial
I am very grateful for the hybrid option and having access to recordings for each of the classes! it made this training doable for me and my schedule.
-Sarah Marshall, 2025 Student-
MEET YOUR TEACHERS
Dora Chan
Lead Teacher, Yin Yoga, Yoga Nidra
E-RYT 500, YACEP, Certified iRest® Teacher
Dora has a fascination with the workings of the human body and mind, especially how stress, anxiety, chronic pain and trauma play a role in our health and well-being. With a Bachelor in Biotechnology and a PhD in Immunology, Dora has a deep appreciation of western scientific methods. However, she also sees the limitation of the western approach to understanding ourselves.
On her quest to seek a deeper understanding of the human body, mind, and in life itself, Dora began training in various eastern modalities. Dora is an experienced Yoga teacher, Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 Certified iRest® Yoga Nidra Meditation teacher, Level 1 Warriors at Ease teacher, Holistic Nutritionist, Reiki Master teacher, and Yoga Therapist in training.
Dora is passionate about bridging western knowledge and eastern wisdom practices to support people in finding healing in body, mind and spirit. She is especially interested in understanding how stress affects the nervous system and how yoga can be used powerfully to support our physical and mental health.
Many people approach life and their yoga practice as two separate things. Dora believes that life and yoga are in fact not separate. Based on the Tantric teachings of Kashmiri Shaivism, Dora’s approach is about welcoming and integrating all aspects of ourselves, which may show up in various ways in our daily lives. Yoga helps us live life in full awareness so that we continue to find new opportunities for integration and returning to wholeness.
Dora invites you to deep self inquiry by challenging your belief system and what you perceive to be true about yourself. With love, gentleness, and non-judgment, she invites you to break free from conditioned beliefs and to expand your mind and heart for limitless growth.
Jazmin Ment
Lead Teacher, Asana and Alignment
E-RYT 500, YACEP
Jazmin maintains respect and amazement for the innate wisdom of the body and the transcendent experience of being more and more embodied. Expressed by her commitment to her own practice and living the principles of yoga, she shares her teaching from an integrated understanding of the postures and the practice.
She has practiced Iyengar and other forms of yoga since she was a little girl and still considers herself a student first and always. With thousands of hours of study and 500+ accredited teacher training hours, her understanding of yoga, meditation, the human body, and well-being is extensive and heartfelt. She initially studied to become a yoga teacher with Ganga White and Tracy Rich. She then completed her 300-hour advanced teacher training with world-renowned master teachers Colleen Saidman Yee and Rodney Yee. She has more recently taken a mentor role as a part of their teacher trainings. Jazmin considers Rodney and Colleen her primary teachers and has studied with them since she was a teenager.
Jazmin incorporates her deep-rooted background in Iyengar yoga with the fluid evolution of Vinyasa yoga and its older sister, Ashtanga yoga. Her holistic approach to yoga opens a welcoming door (hopefully with a little humor) into self-awareness and relationship with body, mind and Spirit. She believes it is in and through the body and life itself that we practice Yoga, that we realize our humanness, ours and each other’s. And that through the method of Yoga that we un-do patterns of fear and separateness, ‘sit with it’, and relax into our truest Self, a unique part of the whole. Ultimately, Jazmin believes in the power of Yoga to transform our world and uncover joy, breath by breath, through deep listening and compassion, from the inside-out.
Her approach is rooted in postural alignment, therapeutic benefits and application, pranayama (breath), and meditation as a means to inner and outer peace. The thing she continues to find is that the deeper she dives, the more and more there is to discover and the practice is ever-giving. It is with great commitment that she lives and teaches from a place of deep embodied understanding. It is with great joy and passion that Jazmin shares her lineage of yoga with fellow students and teachers.
Luca has devoted herself to exploring and sharing transformational practices since 1999, when she first began studying yoga. Her journey led her to Mount Madonna Center, where she met foundational teachers Adyashanti and Baba Hari Dass, and then to India for a year of intensive study in yoga philosophy and Iyengar and Ashtanga traditions.
Her path has been shaped by influential teachers including Pankaj Sharma, Prem Baba, Erich Schiffmann, Eddie Ellner, Mooji, and the current community of teachers at Yoga Soup.
Committed to daily practice and understanding the body's mechanics, Luca apprenticed at Bob Cooley's Resistance Flexibility and Strength Training studio. This training deepened her focus on fascia—engaging and strengthening while elongating—which has become integral to her teaching approach and helps students understand how the body moves and heals.
For over eight years, she has managed and directed Yoga Soup, integrating this leadership role into her practice and deepening her understanding of yoga as both personal journey and community experience.
Her teachings invite students to discover that yoga extends far beyond physical postures, representing a comprehensive technology for accessing inner wisdom, presence, and truth. She guides students toward meaningful change and self-reflection, respecting each person's unique path while sharing the wisdom and embodiment practices she has engaged with for more than two decades.
Isaac Osborne
Guest Faculty
Certified Advanced Rolfer®
Isaac Osborne, founder of Motion Unlimited in Santa Barbara, is a Certified Advanced Rolfer®, licensed massage therapist, NASM-certified personal trainer, Corrective Exercise Specialist, and Certified White Tiger Qigong Instructor with nearly three decades of full-time clinical practice. His work focuses on posture, breath mechanics, and pain relief through an integrative, whole-body approach.
Isaac has taught professional-level courses in the Rolf Method of Structural Integration for The Guild for Structural Integration, both domestically and internationally, and Posture Alignment Therapy for the Egoscue Institute.
He mentors practitioners around the world, leads his own workshops online and in person, and is currently completing a book that applies fluid mechanics to the human body — a new framework for movement teachers, manual therapists, and clinicians.
A lifelong martial artist and surfer, Isaac lives in Santa Barbara with his wife, two children, and their dogs.
Linda Cassidy
Guest Faculty
I first discovered yoga in the early seventies. While working at the school library I found a copy of Light On Yoga, and started figuring out the poses every night Together with my brother we worked through much of the book. But after high school I forgot all about it and became a runner.
It wasn’t until 25 years later when my knees gave out that I rediscovered yoga. To my great the joy, the practice had infinitely blossomed during that time. I find yoga an excellent tool for the continual refinement of one’s life. It teaches us to look more deeply, breathe into every moment, suspend mental judgement and activate our innate curiosity.
Every being has an inborn gracefulness to its nature, and yoga helps us find ours.i love teaching yoga philosophy because studying the important texts, like the Bhagavad Gita and Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, assist in that discovery process. Putting the mind into the thought-forms of the discipline is a powerful complement to putting the body into the physical forms through asana. Both work together in the union that is yoga.
Jessica Hagy
Guest Faculty
LCSW-C
Jessica Hagy, LCSW-C, integrates her work as a trauma-informed mental health therapist, certified iRest® yoga nidra meditation teacher, restorative yoga instructor, and master level Reiki practitioner to help people recover from chronic stress, anxiety and complex trauma. Based in Berlin, Maryland, Jessica offers in-person and online private wellness sessions, community meditation classes, continuing education workshops and therapeutic retreats through her private practice, Your Calm Center. Jessica cultivates spaces where people can feel calm, supported and open to connecting with themselves and others more authentically.
Student Testimonial
I think the hybrid format of the training made it feel far more accessible to me. As a student and young person, my schedule is often pretty crazy, and it felt very supportive to have the option to zoom into sessions or watch the recordings to catch up.
-Ruby Bargiel, 2025 Student-
Detailed Schedule and Class times
Fall 2026: October 14 - December 20
All days/times are in-person, hybrid and online
Weekly schedule
Every session is available live in-studio or via live stream — attend from Santa Barbara or from home on the same schedule. All times are displayed in Pacific Time.
Wednesdays
5:30-7:30 PM
Lecture + Discussion
Fridays
2:00-5:00 PM
Lecture + Discussion
Saturdays
9:00 - 12:00 PM Lecture
12:00 - 1:30 PM Break
1:30 - 6:30 PM Asana, Sequencing, Workshopping
Sundays
9:00- 12:00 PM Lecture
12:00 - 2:15 PM Break
2:15 - 6:30 PM Asana + Practicum
Session 1
Friday - Sundays: Oct 16-18, 23-25
Wednesdays: Oct 14, 21, 28
Meditation, Chanting, Mantras
History of the term “yoga,” the Om
Anatomy, Biomechanics and Physiology Principles
Asana, Workshopping Postures and Hands on Assists
Intro to Trauma-Informed Yoga
The Nervous System and Polyvagal Theory
Natural Breathing and Pranayama
The Yogic Body: Koshas, Nadis, Prana Vayus
Classical Yoga and the Yoga Sutra
The Full Arc of Yoga Philosophy
Practice Teaching
Session 2
Friday - Sundays: November 6-8, 13-15, 20-22
Wednesdays: Nov 11, 18
Physiology of Breathing
Meditation, Chanting and Pranayama
Ethics of Yoga
Asana, Workshopping Postures, Hands on Assists
Anatomy, and Biomechanics
The Chakras
The Bhagavad Gita: Politics and Allegories
Trauma and the Nervous System
Accountability, Appropriation, and the Politics of Yoga
The Full Arc of Yoga Philosophy
Practice Teaching
Session 3
Friday - Sundays: December 4-6, 11-13, 18-20
Wednesdays: Dec 2, 9, 16
Meditation, Chanting, Pranayama, Bandhas
The Yogic Body
Introduction to Tantra (Kashmiri Shaivism)
Anatomy and Biomechanics
Asana, Workshopping Postures, Hands on Assists
The Yoga Professional
Business of Yoga: Marketing, Promotion, Private Teaching
The Full Arc of Yoga Philosophy
Practice Teaching and Final Assessment
Student Testimonial
Hybrid format definitely helped me because I could not make some sessions.This training added new dimensions to both my perspective on my own life and on how I can more fully and freely offer my gifts to those who come to my yoga classes. I am in awe and in deep gratitude for all I've experienced in this training.
-Albert Silva, 2025 Student-
Tuition and Details
Fall 2026
October 14th - December 20th 2026
Available in-person or via live-stream with full community experience
Tuition covers the cost of the 200-hour training and unlimited in-studio classes.
A completed application and $500 deposit will secure your spot in the program. We have a limited number of scholarship opportunities, including specifically for our BIPOC community. Please fill out the scholarship application if you are interested in applying.
Requirements for Certification
Attend all scheduled classes
and be on time
Complete all assignments
and required readings
Practice teach minimum
required hours
Take 30 public classes with lead teachers and faculty
Observe 8 public classes with lead teachers
Complete a final review and teach a 20 minute assigned sequence
Questions & Answers
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