Kundalini Warrior Online Yoga Teacher Training Certification (200 hour Yoga Alliance course) — Yoga Farm Ithaca (2023)

Join the most trusted, trauma-informed online yoga school in the world for your immersion into Kundalini Yoga this fall

The Kundalini Warrior™ Online Yoga Teacher Training is taught by the educators of Yoga Farm Ithaca, a mission-driven 501c3 nonprofit organization.

This 12-week live-taught online YTT is flexible and easy to work into the flow of your life. Learn the skills and confidence to teach trauma-informed Kundalini Yoga online AND in-person.

Registration is CLOSED FOR SPRING 2023

We started Wednesday January 25th!

Kundalini yoga as taught by YFI is an accessible practice for all body types, ages, and experience levels. It’s a core part of our mission at YFI to ensure that no one experiences barriers between themselves and yoga practice.

We are committed to accessibility, adaptability, diversity and inclusion.

Kundalini yoga is different from vinyasa yoga, or more typical yoga classes that you may encounter at your local studio.

Kundalini Yoga focuses on the energetic part of the body, with powerful breathing exercises as well as movement, mantra and meditation.

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Is Kundalini Yoga hard?

Actually it can be more accessible than other types of yoga, and easy to adapt to changing/aging bodies. The breath practice, in many ways, supersedes the physical motions that accompany it.

This means that for people with limited mobility they can often experience a powerful practice simply by engaging in the breathing exercises. This also means that if you are recovering from an injury you can still engage in energy practices and stay connected to your practice while you heal.

Kundalini has a direct impact on the endocrine, nervous and digestive systems. Your endocrine system (glands) affect everything in your body from your emotions, immunity and how you age, to your metabolism. When we create subtle energy in the glands and balance our hormones our metabolism becomes efficient.

The pituitary and the thyroid are the most involved in this process, and two that we focus on the most in this program. When hormones are triggered and properly secreted, our bodies are best able to regulate cellular energy.

When our hormones and digestion are in balance our nervous system is better prepared for life, and spends more time in a calm state rather than in reactivity.

🌟 Modern, trauma-informed, Kundalini Yoga

🌟 You’ll learn to teach confidently, whether online or in person all aspects of Kundalini Yoga Practice: Kriyas, Mantras, Meditations and Anatomy

🌟 Well designed yoga classes, that embrace Yoga’s roots. We will certify you and you will be able to register with Yoga Alliance

🌟 Inspiration and interaction via active, live-taught classrooms and office hours (plus - video and audio replays for everything…)

🌟 Students form lasting bonds of compassion and care for one another throughout this training.

🌟 Our team of 10 educators supports these connections, which has resulted in this training being called “the most in-person online yoga teacher training available”

Yogi Bhajan wanted teachers to conform to his way and method. That is not how we approach the art of teaching yoga at YFI.

The way we teach KY in this program is modern, accessible, inclusive, and delivered in a gentle way. We never want anyone to surrender their sovereignty to anyone.

We are here to help people feel empowered to lessen their own suffering.

We ask that students find their own voice and authentic offering to bring out into the world. We want our students to never take what we say as the one and only truth. Instead we encourage students to experience for themselves what effect and impact these practices have.

This feminine and trauma-informed methodology is different from what has been traditionally taught in the west. We are not “gurus”; we do not have all the answers. We provide opportunities for students to deepen their own experience and to feel safe and comfortable questioning anything that we teach.

Here at YFI, it is our practice to believe women and anyone who has been disenfranchised or oppressed and to dismantle structures that silence their experience and voices.

It’s time for higher standards in how Kundalini is taught. It's time for a program that is safe for all - Welcome, this is that program.

As women, long-time yoga instructors and practitioners of Kundalini Yoga, we invite you to dismantle old, stagnant structures and help revolutionize the greater community.

Our aim at Yoga Farm Ithaca, a 501c3 non-profit, is to educate through encouraging curiosity and questions, while helping you FIND THE TEACHER WITHIN. We are not “gurus.”

Kundalini Warrior will help you to step into your inherent strength and wisdom... never to surrender your sovereignty to anyone.

From this place, your own authentic teaching voice will shine through and become a light unto this world.

🌟 Our lead educators developed a modern approach that commits to trauma informed language, cuing and ethics.

🌟 This modern, feminine form methodology and curriculum is the distilled wisdom of years of experience, research and training.

🌟 The approach to the body in this program is also a combination of Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

🌟 We will focus on Kriya yoga, Laya yoga, and Naad yoga from as early as 500 BC to the 7th century, as well as more recent derivations of the practices.

Some students tell us that they feel relief when they discover Yoga Farm Ithaca and our teacher trainings.

And Catherina Pena knew she had found the right place, saying

🗣 “There's no other YTT that I would have rather taken. Everything that Yoga Farm Ithaca offers … teachers & their wealth of knowledge & experience, support, offerings, community, their mission … it all creates the optimal environment for you to be the best yoga teacher you can be.”

Our students are surprised and amazed with their new way of living and moving and being within their world, and the way they are able to contribute to others’ lives.

🗣 “To say I am forever grateful would be an understatement. Not only am I trained in physical asanas and feel completely comfortable teaching yoga now, but my soul feels awakened as a result of the other lessons offered. I am truly excited to be able to take what I learned from Yoga Farm's Yoga Teacher Training and share it with my community.”

Your course live sessions are led by Jeannie, Francine & Daniela. Each brings their own practice of over 20 years, thousands of teaching hours and the collective influence and wisdom of many teachers and lineages to your training.

And, each knows what it’s like to transition from other vocations.

• Jeannie was a public school teacher and Director of Education in a national massage school, and owned her own yoga studio.

• Francine is mother, yogi, artist and creative entrepreneur. Francine is Puerto Rican, born and raised in Brooklyn New York.

• Daniela was once a Montessori teacher, Board President of a well-known non-profit, and is a highly-trained life coach

Jeannie on her experience studying Kundalini Yoga in the US

“I, like most Kundalini yoga teachers in the US, trained in Kundalini Research Institute programs. As I received this teachings, I really struggled with the teaching methodology in typical kundalini training.

The ‘Guru worship’ and the authoritarian approach did not resonate with me, as I had previously been trained by Bessel van der Kolk in trauma informed teaching, and yoga.

The many teachers that I trained with were all wonderful and very informative. They were however, bound by requirements that teachers of that lineage, teach in a very specific way.

In our training, we have taken a fresh, new, feminine and non-dogmatic approach.”

Francine Rivera joins this course as one of our educators.

She is a certified 500RYT in Vinyasa and Kundalini Yoga.

Francine's devotion to her practice has allowed her to connect with what is true, real and unchanging, and that is the purity and innocence of the heart. We are Love.

As instructors, we have a combined depth of experience that is rare, and our love for our mission, for each other and for our students creates change on both an inner and outer level that is unique.

Full 200 hour training

At the end of your training, you will be a certified yoga teacher. You will be able to begin teaching at any time, in any environment anywhere in the world. You can apply for insurance, interview for teaching jobs, share yoga with your friends or at school etc, immediately upon completion.

Your 200 hours of training consists of:

✅ Study hours, including reading manual & textbooks

✅ Our live zoom classrooms (or replays)

✅ Live Office hours - Conversations about the practices and teaching

✅ Teaching videos in our learning platform

✅ Online live or in-person yoga sessions (unlimited classes for an entire year)

✅ Practice teaching with your fellow students online or a friend / family member in person

✅ Once you have completed the basic course requirements, your 200 hours of study, and demonstrated your teaching skills with a video class, you will be a certified yoga teacher! If you’d like, you can register with the Yoga Alliance.

✅ View our public page at Yoga Alliance and read over 700 5-star reviews ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from graduates of this online program.

Training modules

✳️ Module 1: Grounding and Rooting

• Getting started with understanding the flow of the program

• how practices flow and what your daily practice looks like

✳️ Module 2: Essential Foundations

• History, Philosophy, Anatomy

• Ayurveda at the fundamental level

✳️ Module 3: Learning and Unlearning

• Deeper dive into the Kriya practices

  (Video) Radiant Warrior 200 hour Online Yoga Teacher Training - Q&A replay with Christopher & Daniela

• Meditations that allow you to unlearn unhealthy patterns and habits

✳️ Module 4: Shedding the Layers

• Peeling back for a deeper understanding of Subtle body anatomy

• Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda of the mind and emotions

✳️ Module 5 Change and Growth

• Embracing that change is the only constant

• Practices to move through hard times and mantra to carry you through

✳️ Module 6: Awareness Equals Choice

• Trauma informed teaching methodology

• Words and cues to use and not use

• Getting more comfortable with teaching and guiding

OUR TRAINING FORMATS INCLUDE

Our learning portal with training, practice videos, community & connection

• We use our private and secure Mighty Network as the primary learning platform

• Live zoom sessions weekly on topics including:

  • Teaching methodologies

  • Mindfulness and meditation

  • Pose and cue study

  • Coaching & Q&A for your own inner work

  • Practice teaching in breakout groups

  • replays available for all of the weekly sessions

• Access to all of our live and on-demand, online yoga classes and meditations during your training

• Our comprehensive learning and teaching manual as a download that you can print or keep on your computer

• Online yoga and meditation for a full 9 months - live or on-demand

TRAINING MATERIALS

✅ Training Manual:

This is a high quality PDF that we’ll send you prior to the course start

You can print this at home, or in a local print shop, and also keep it as a PDF.

• Each section is linked to a module and you can print that section and related PDF’s as you go along, building your own personalized teaching manual

• This is included in the tuition

✅ Textbooks:

• Essential Kundalini by Karena Virginia

• Enlightened Bodies by Nirmal Lumpkin & Japa Kaur Khalsa

• Idiots Guide to Ayurveda by Sahara Rose

• Kundalini Awakening by Judith Lawrence

Class Schedule

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED FOR SPRING, 2023 TRAINING!

The weekly live-taught classrooms will be held:

• Tuesdays from 11am - 1pm EST - Yoga Humanities with Jeannie

• Wednesdays from 6pm - 8pm EST - Teaching Methodologies

• Saturdays from 10:30am-1pm EST - Teaching, Techniques & Practice

• Other weekly optional classes TBA and included in tuition
  

• We recommend you participate live as much possible

  • This is our main area for live teaching

  • Watch the replay each week when you miss a session

  • All classes are recorded and available for replay

• We also will hold many weekly ‘office hours’, on zoom, where your specific questions can be discussed in a smaller group with your teachers

  • Office hours for connection and Q&A are offered throughout the training.

  • ‘Kriya Rehearsal’ are small groups practicing the cues to each other

  If you don’t complete the course by the end of the 12 weeks of live classrooms, THAT’s OK.

  • You have a full 6 months after the live program to complete your testing and evaluation, with unlimited yoga classes, office hours, video replays and group support the entire time

  • During this time, you’ll have access to all course materials, resources and yoga classes, including YTT videos, classroom replays, live and on-demand yoga, office hours, and cue rehearsals

• Join our Yoga Farm Kundalini Facebook group 🌱 to sample some yoga classes and meet us, fellow students and graduates of the program

• Yoga Alliance - 5-stars (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) Browse over 700 5-star reviews on the Yoga Alliance website about our program, to see why we have maintained the highest possible approval rating from our graduates since the course began in 2016

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