A Path of Inner Transformation, Healing & Sacred Leadership
This 300-hour Advanced Teacher Training with Gopi invites you into an immersive journey of personal growth, professional development, and spiritual deepening. Rooted in the wisdom of yoga and its therapeutic potential, this training empowers you to become a vessel of healing in your own life and in the lives of others.
The therapeutic power of yoga has the potential to profoundly impact underserved populations and individuals often overlooked by mainstream yoga spaces. Gopi provides the tools, sensitivity, and skill to work with these communities—meeting each person where they are with compassion and holistic approaches to healing and recovery. Her training empowers teachers to extend the reach of yoga, offering practices that are inclusive, trauma-informed, and deeply transformative
What the training include
- Advanced Therapeutic Sequencing and adaptations
- Pranayama (Breathwork)
- Mindfulness Practices and yoga nidra
- Ayurvedic Principles for Balance & Vitality
- Meditation Techniques to Deepen Awareness
- The Integration of Deep Spirituality in Teaching & Practice
This is not just a training—it’s a membership into a living, breathing community of teachers, healers, and lifelong learners. For $250/month over 18-24 months, (App $4500) you’ll receive full access to our rotating schedule of in-depth training modules, crafted and led by skilled practitioners rooted in the wisdom of the yoga tradition. Whether you’re evolving your offerings as a teacher or rediscovering the subtle layers of your practice, our program meets you where you are and moves with you, cycle by cycle.
Our Curriculum
Choose your own path. Complete 300 hours by selecting from these modules over 18 months, on your schedule, in your flow.
Standard Weekend Module Schedule:
- Fridays: 5:30 – 8:30pm
- Saturdays: 8:00am – 5:00pm
- Sundays: 8:00am – 5:00pm
Hands-On Assists
September 12 – 14, 2025. (25 hours)
one of the most powerful tools in a yoga teacher’s toolkit—and often, one of the most feared. But when offered with clarity, consent, and care, an assist can awaken a student’s awareness, transform their posture, and create an experience that words alone cannot deliver.This module is designed to help teachers move from hesitation to confidence, learning how to offer skillful, intentional touch across a wide range of postures and bodies. You’ll explore the foundations of safe and effective assists, refine your anatomical understanding, and gain hands-on experience assisting in live classes.You’ll also be trained in how to read subtle cues, practice verbal & non-verbal communication, and offer your presence in a way that is both empowering and sensitive—especially for students who may be touch-averse, trauma-informed, or simply needing a softer approach.In this module, you’ll:
- Learn foundational and advanced assists for a variety of poses and class stylesPractice verbal and non-verbal consent strategiesDevelop intuitive presence and safe energetic boundariesExplore the ethics of touch and cultural sensitivity in assistive teachingPractice in real-time during three assisted classesCultivate confidence through repetition, mentorship, and embodied learningLearn when not to assist—and when an assist is a moment of transformation waiting to happen
Whether you’re brand new to assisting or looking to refine your skills, this training will help you step into the role of teacher with greater confidence, sensitivity, and mastery. The difference between a good teacher and a great one often comes down to presence—and presence, when paired with intentional touch, becomes a profound act of service.
Energetics & Pranayama
October 24 – 26 and December 5 – 7, 2025 ((50 Hours) – Fall/Winter 2025)
At the heart of every yoga practice is the breath—our link between body, mind, and spirit. In this 50-hour immersion, you’ll explore the breath as a powerful tool for transformation, using ancient pranayama techniques to regulate your nervous system, move emotional energy, and awaken your inner vitality.
This training is both practical and profound. You’ll learn breathwork techniques that support digestion, clear emotional blockages, calm anxiety, and expand lung capacity. We’ll study the relationship between breath and asana, introduce kriyas, explore breath adaptations for different bodies, and harness the healing potential of mantra and sound.
Whether you’re a yoga teacher, therapist, energy healer, or dedicated practitioner, this module will deepen your relationship with the subtle body and offer tools to integrate breath-based practices into classes, workshops, and daily life.
Topics include:
- The science and soul of deep belly breathing
- Ujjayi for grounding and vagal tone
- Breath thresholds and the subtle art of conscious breath retention
- Cleansing techniques like Bhastrika and Kapalabhati
- Nervous system balancing: segmentation of inhale and exhale
- Energizing flows like Breath of Joy
- Nadi Shodhana and alternate nostril practices for inner harmony
- Cooling pranayama and kriyas for inflammation and emotion
- Mantra and breath: how sacred sound empowers breathwork
- Emotional release through sound, breath, and movement
This module is a doorway into the energetics of healing and a call to awaken the breath as your most loyal and immediate teacher.
Meditation & Yoga Nidra
March 20 – 22, 2026 (25 hours)
Journey Within: Mindfulness & Meditation Practices
Mindfulness is a practice that brings awareness to the sensations, emotions, and thoughts that arise within the body. It creates a sacred pause between stimulus and response.
Learning foundational mindfulness techniques becomes a powerful tool for healing and reprogramming the nervous system to respond differently to triggers and challenging situations. By understanding the wisdom behind a basic body scan and recognizing where emotional stress is mapped in the physical body, we gain insight into how our body receives and processes information—and how it develops protective mechanisms. With this understanding, we begin to rewire our responses from the inside out.
In this training, we will explore how to witness the layers of the self—using breath awareness, body scans, and meditation—as a means of inner transformation.
You will learn the mindfulness method known as R.A.I.N.S.:
R: Recognize
A: Acknowledge/Accept
I: Investigate
N: Nurture
S: Surrender
We will also explore the meditative and healing wisdom of sound healing and mantra—how sacred sound helps shift stagnant energy held in the body, and the mysticism behind vibration, frequency, and chanting.
You’ll deepen your understanding of Yoga Nidra—its healing function and subtle power—and learn how to skillfully guide others through this practice. By working through the koshas, the layers of the self, you’ll gain the tools to help others access deep rest, release trauma, and connect with the innermost self through spacious awareness.
Mandala & Advanced Sequencing
May 22 – 24, 2026 (25 hours)
Art of Sequencing: Creating Dynamic, Fluid Mandala Flows
Mandalas are circular, fluid, dynamic sequences that help break down old neurological patterns in both the mind and body. These sequences use repetition and directionality to re-pattern movement, develop new coordination, and build communication between the right and left sides of the brain by requiring practitioners to cross the midline.
This 25-hour advanced sequencing module explores the healing potential of circular movement. When we don’t regularly cross the midline, the left and right hemispheres of the brain tend to work in isolation. Mandala flows engage both hemispheres through midline crossing, stimulating the cerebral cortex and strengthening neural pathways that coordinate movement, balance, and learning.
We live in a linear society—but circular movement shifts our perspective. It helps us experience the body and space not from a straight path, but from a 360-degree awareness.
As you train your body and mind in these new movement patterns and learn to guide others through circular sequencing, you’ll discover a powerful, transformative breakthrough—one that is just as playful as it is profound.
Adaptations for Therapeutic Needs
September 18 – 20, 2026: – October 9 – 11, 2026: – December 4-6, 2026. (75 hours)
The body holds stories, patterns, and pain. In this 75-hour advanced module, we enter into the art of healing through movement, sequencing, and presence. You’ll learn how to see the body as a map—one shaped by emotion, experience, and energy—and guide students toward wholeness through intelligent, therapeutic yoga.
This training centers on Body Smart Sequencing, a method of weaving postures into progressive mini-sequences that build both function and freedom. Using subtle adaptations, breath, and repetition, we retrain movement patterns to reduce pain, restore mobility, and prevent injury. It’s both intuitive and biomechanically precise.
You’ll develop a keen eye for imbalance, and learn to sequence for common areas of stress like the neck, shoulders, thoracic spine, hips, and lower back. Whether working one-on-one or leading dynamic group classes, you’ll be empowered to teach yoga that’s not just expressive—but truly healing.
What you’ll learn:
- How to adapt sequencing for therapeutic outcomes
- Working with energy lines and pressure points through yoga
- Postural assessment and movement re-education
- One-on-one work for physical, emotional, and energetic healing
- Hands-on assists and the art of subtle touch
- Use of props for support, traction, and transformation
- Creative use of chairs, blocks, and straps in recovery-focused practice
- Designing short recovery sequences and longer healing flows
- Applying Body Smart Sequencing to both gentle therapeutic and advanced vinyasa classes
- Specific sequences for:
- Neck & shoulder pain
- Upper thoracic immobility
- Low back & digestive issues
- Knee & hip dysfunction
Yoga is a path toward union, and that includes integration of body, breath, and awareness. This module helps you see and support your students holistically—with compassion, clarity, and precision.
Trauma-Informed Yoga
Exact Dates TBD (25 hours)
Safety, Sensitivity & Somatic WisdomThis healing-centered weekend immersion offers a grounded introduction to trauma-informed yoga. Designed for yoga teachers, therapists, and seekers of self-understanding, this training explores how trauma lives in the body—and how yoga, breath, and mindfulness can support the process of integration and healing.Led by Gopi and special guest Dr. Angela Cerkevich, a trauma-informed physiotherapist, this module brings together science, spirit, and practical tools to help you hold space with greater empathy and precision. You’ll explore how trauma affects the nervous system, how it may manifest in movement or behavior, and how we can meet those patterns with compassion rather than force.Whether you’re working with students, clients, or your own healing process, this training offers frameworks and practices to teach—and live—with deeper presence.What we’ll explore together:
- The impact of developmental and single-incident trauma on body and mindIntergenerational, ancestral, and race-based trauma awarenessRecognizing trauma symptoms and how the body “keeps the score”Mindfulness techniques to create space between trigger and responseHow to teach a trauma-sensitive yoga classLanguage and cueing that empowers and supports agencyUsing chairs and props to create accessibility and groundingThe art of pace: slowing down to meet the body where it isTeacher positioning and presence to create a safe environmentBreathwork practices that soothe the nervous system and avoid overwhelm
Heart Vision Quest
Exact Dates TBD (25 hours)
The ancient wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita serves as a compass for the soul’s journey—a guide through the inner battlefield we all face. We are all wounded warriors, navigating internal and external conflicts, asking:
What is my Dharma?
What values uphold my choices?
Do I have the courage—and humility—to live by them?
What is my calling and contribution to this world?
Who am I?
This training invites you into a Vision Quest of the heart: an inward journey to align your values, uncover your inner voice, and awaken your sacred purpose. Through powerful self-inquiry exercises, yoga, meditation, and breathwork led by Gopi, you’ll be guided to rediscover the deeper pulse beneath your practice—and your life.
When our inner vision is aligned with our values, we gain the clarity and courage to live in harmony amidst discomfort, complexity, and change. This training helps unlock that alignment.
The Vision Quest culminates in a healing Cacao Ceremony, a sacred ritual of opening the heart to divine guidance. Using the finest ceremonial cacao, crystal bowl sound healing, mantra, and guided breathwork, Gopi will invoke the ancient mystics of all directions to help you receive the answers that are already within. This ceremony is expansive, heart-opening, and a powerful activation of intuitive truth
