Online Courses
Our online courses are in-depth and are a great opportunity to expand your yoga horizons and further your practice. These courses are available on demand; you don’t need to wait for other students and may start your course at a time convenient to you. Each course includes optional live group sessions with senior teachers to connect with other students and learn how to deepen your practice. Learn more about Satyananda Yoga.
SATYANANDA Yoga Nidra® Home Study & TEACHER Certification Courses
Satyananda Yoga Nidra® is a powerful technique for deep relaxation, healing, stress management and personal transformation. Recognized in recent years as a valuable yogic technique, Yoga Nidra has been adopted by many different styles and practitioners of yoga.
These courses present a valuable opportunity to learn Satyananda Yoga Nidra from teachers within the tradition of Satyananda Yoga through the Yoga Academy of North America. Develop a thorough understanding of the stages of the practice and how the purpose of each stage is validated by consciousness theories and recent brain science.
The courses will next be offered as a group/cohort course: Start date January 27th, 2023.
Teacher Certification Course with Integrated Home Study
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Prana & PranayamA Home Study Course
Experience the power of pranayama to positively shape your whole being.
Prana is the basis of life and pranayama is the limb of yoga most directly involved with managing prana. Grow your yoga practice by developing strong foundations in the theory prana and the practice of pranayama.
While learning the physical and subtle anatomy relevant to prana and pranayama, progress systematically through techniques to: 1. prepare the body for pranayama; 2. tune into the rhythm of your breath; 3. expand your breath capacity; 4. balance the pranic system; 5. vitalize the pranic system.
Learn to work with different mudras to refine the awareness and connect with pranic flows to deepen your practice through prana awareness practices and mudra pranayamas.
Suitable for yoga practitioners and teachers who want to develop a strong home practice.
The course will be offered as a group/cohort course in mid 2024.
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Instructed by Swami Atmarupa Saraswati
In 2015 she was named a founding Yoga Acharya of the Yoga Vidya Council representing the teachings of the Bihar School of Yoga in India. She was the Founder of the Atma Center, an award winning Satyananda Yoga® center established in 1997 Cleveland Heights, Ohio. She is the Education Director of the Yoga Academy of North America. She has conducted teacher training for YANA, training students from around world.
Swami Atmarupa has taught internationally. In 2019, she was one of the primary presenters at the first International Yoga Nidra Conference held at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health.
Swami Atmarupa is registered with the Yoga Alliance at the E-RYT 500 level, RPYT (prenatal yoga), RCYT (children's yoga) and YACEP (Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider). Full Bio