Harmonious

Living

Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy Certification

Optimize life’s rhythms and activate healing with ancient wisdom

How you stand out with our circle yoga method

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The Circle Yoga Method is a living system of health, transformation, and personal responsibility. It reminds us that healing is not something we do to ourselves—but something that arises naturally when we step back in rhythm with life itself.

Our approach stands apart because it restores harmony across every layer of our being:

🪶 Mind as the Root — The mind is the origin of both disease and healing. When perception and action come into alignment, the mind becomes an ally for restoring clarity and vitality.

🪶 Healing Through Rhythm — True health unfolds when we attune our personal cycles, like sleeping, eating, breathing, and working to the larger natural rhythms of day and night, lunar phase, and season.

🪶 Adaptation as Medicine — No single remedy works forever. As our bodies, seasons, and situations change, our practices must adapt to stay effective and alive.

🪶 Health Defined as the Ability to Respond— Wellness is not a static condition but a living capacity to respond wisely to life. Taking responsibility for what is within our reach is, itself, an act of healing.

🪶 Wisdom of Moderation — In a world of excess, the Circle Yoga Method restores the art of right measure. Anything taken to extremes becomes its opposite, discipline without compassion, movement without rest, knowledge without embodiment.

🪶 Intelligent Nourishment — Every form of intake (like food, breath, screen time, or podcasts) can act as medicine or poison. By refining what we consume and how we engage, we awaken vibrancy and longevity.

🪶 Sustainable Transformation — Gradual, rhythmic change is the most powerful kind. Through steady practice, repetition, and reflection, we build transformation that lasts.

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Who is THIS For?

Harmonious Living is designed for yoga teachers (minimum 200-hour) who are ready to integrate holistic, Ayurvedic-based health practices into their lives and client work.

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It’s for you if:

🪷 You sense that asana and pranayama hold untapped potential for sustaining long-term wellness—but you’re not sure how to access it.

🪷 You know how to teach movement and stillness on the mat, but not how to extend that healing rhythm into the cycles of eating, sleeping, working, and resting.

🪷 You’ve felt overwhelmed trying to integrate Ayurvedic wisdom into your teaching, and want a clear, practical way to bring this ancient knowledge into modern life.

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🪷 You’re drawn to bridge the gap between Eastern wisdom and Western science—and want to do so with competence and respect for both.

🪷 You or your students often feel exhausted or “off rhythm” despite doing all the “right” things—and you’re ready to restore vitality from the inside out.

🪷 You want to add a private-client dimension to your existing work—one that extends beyond the mat, addressing the whole person and deepening the value of your offerings.

If any of this resonates, Harmonious Living is designed to fill those gaps and equip you to become the specialist, guide, and practitioner your clients are looking for.

The Skills you’ll gain

Through Harmonious Living, you’ll move beyond theory into a whole-body understanding of the patterns that shape health, vitality, and imbalance. These are practical, real-world skills you can apply in your own life and share confidently with your students and clients.

🔥 Assess the Whole Person — Learn to determine an individual’s native dosha (constitution) and Ayurvedic pulse and understand their unique physical and physiological blueprint.

🔥 Identify Imbalances at the Source — Recognize how lifestyle, diet, stress, and environment create doshic imbalances—and learn how to restore harmony through practical, everyday adjustments.

🔥 Map the Path of Disease and Healing — Understand the Ayurvedic model of disease progression, from subtle imbalance to manifest symptoms, so you can intervene skillfully at any stage.

🔥 Conduct Insightful Client Interviews — Develop the art of deep listening to reveal the habits and behaviors that block healing, helping clients uncover their own patterns of imbalance.

🔥 Recalibrate Daily Rhythms — Guide clients toward optimized cycles of activity and rest, eating and fasting, work and recovery—rebuilding vitality through rhythm and moderation.

🔥 Design Therapeutic Routines — Create holistic daily routines and practices that address specific physiological conditions (like hypertension, diabetes, cancer, COPD) from an integrative, person-centered approach.

🔥 Enrich Your Group Classes — Infuse your group teaching with dosha-specific tools and techniques to balance the nervous system, refine breath, and restore energetic harmony.

🔥 Build Individualized Healing Practices — Design private sessions that weave together asana, pranayama, meditation, and kriya—tailored precisely to each person’s constitution and needs.

🔥 Live What You Teach — Embody the rhythms, principles, and presence that you guide others toward—so that your work becomes an authentic expression of harmony itself.

These skills expand how you see and serve. You’ll gain the confidence to guide healing from the inside out—bridging Ayurvedic wisdom with modern understanding and developing trust in the body’s innate capacity to heal.

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"For me, this program has been a pilgrimage. I was taught a range of purification & flourishing techniques all aimed to point me back to a forgotten inherent wisdom. The wisdom of the elements as seen through food, seasons, emotions, mind & body. But most importantly, their relationship.”

—Brita, Little Rock

Certification content

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Intensive 1

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This first intensive establishes the foundation for understanding the body and mind through an Ayurvedic lens. You’ll learn how to assess both native constitution (Prakriti) and current imbalance (Vikriti) by recognizing the signatures of Vata, Pitta, and Kapha in physical structure, physiology, behavior, and pulse.

As a yoga teacher, you’ll expand your ability to balance each dosha through asana, skillfully weaving in the 20 gunas (qualities) and exploring how movement across different planes of motion can restore harmony.

Finally, you’ll bring these teachings to life through daily rhythm—aligning sleep, nourishment, and routine with the cycles of nature to cultivate balance that lasts.

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Intensive 2

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The second intensive applies Ayurvedic principles to common health concerns, including disorders of the digestive, respiratory, circulatory, and endocrine systems, as well as cancer and chronic imbalance. You’ll deepen your ability to identify the dosha at the root of disease, tracing how symptoms express through the tissues (dhatus), waste products (malas), and winds (vayus).

Through case studies and guided practice, you’ll learn to translate theory into skillful application—design individualized, condition-specific practices, integrate Ayurvedic wisdom into group yoga classes, and offer lifestyle refinements that strengthen the body’s innate intelligence and restore systemic balance.

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“To say that participating in this program at the Shala is ‘life-changing’ does not do justice to its depth, breadth, and focus.

It is and continues to be a transformative study brimming with people, love, seriousness, honesty, and support.”

— Carly, St. Louis

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Circle Yoga Shala provided me with a foundation to revolutionize the way I approach day to day living. The Shala is a place of balance and healing, while also a place to be formed as an excellent teacher.”

— Anna

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"Circle Yoga Shala as a place that fosters being present, education, and community. The lessons I have learned are amazing and I've shaped my personal yoga practice, the way I teach Yoga, and my career outside of Yoga.”

— Rebecca

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"The Shala is a truly magical place. The trainers pay homage to the lineage of the Indian traditions while ensuring modernity and relatability. The Shala awoke me to the profundity and wonder within my life.”

— Shelby

Quick

Recap —

Harmonious Living blends the ancient science of Ayurveda with the embodied intelligence of Yoga to create a living system of healing and transformation.

In this training, you’ll learn to:

✅ Understand yourself and your students through the lens of the doshas—Vata, Pitta, and Kapha.

✅ Assess imbalances and guide sustainable, individualized pathways back to health.

✅ Integrate Ayurvedic wisdom into yoga, movement, breath, and lifestyle practices.

✅ Align daily rhythms—sleep, eating, working, resting—with nature’s cycles for lasting vitality.

✅ Infuse your group classes and private clients with techniques that actually meet their needs.

✅ Offer practical, accessible tools for restoring balance—without dogma or complexity.

✅ Plan to establish a therapeutic pathway forward—laying the foundation for certification as a Circle Yoga Shala Yoga Therapist.

This training is for you if you are fascinated by human resilience and potential, and ready to become a specialist in whole-body thriving. Whether you’re deepening your personal practice or expanding your professional toolkit, you’ll gain a framework for living—and teaching—in harmony with life itself.

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  • Yes, viewing preparatory materials before arrival is required. You will get access to the pre-requisite videos with your deposit payment.

  • Yes. You will be responsible for watching videos and applying what you learned during the intensives.

  • Every cohort is different, but we usually average between 6 and 10 participants.

  • We strongly recommend attending both on-site intensives. If you don't, you will have to register again to complete the program.

  • If you don't pass the certification the first time, you will have the option to re-submit your video demonstrations (additional fees will apply).

  • No. You must plan to attend the intensives in person.

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