YOGA THERAPY

CERTIFICATION

A Path of Mastery in Healing, Movement, and Human Understanding

Heal with precision. Teach with wisdom. Lead with heart.

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The Circle Yoga Shala Yoga Therapy Certification is a comprehensive, multi-layered training pathway that unites our speciality trainings—Advanced 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training, MoveWise, Harmonious Living, plus a Supervised Practicum Module—into one integrated system of embodied therapeutics.

This certification empowers you to see, assess, and serve the whole human being—body, breath, and mind—with both the rigor of modern movement science and the depth of traditional Yoga and Ayurveda.

How you stand out with our circle yoga method

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The Circle Yoga Method is a living system of health and transformation—honoring ancient wisdom while integrating modern anatomy, biomechanics, and psychology.

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

🪶 A Vision of the Human as Anti-Fragile — Cultivate resilience, adaptability, and strength—on the mat, in your practice, and in life.

🪶 An East–West Integration — We weave together the wisdom of Eastern philosophy and Western science, drawing on the strengths of both without dismissing either.

🪶 A Truly Holistic Approach — “As Above, So Below” — Work with the body as a doorway to transformation. When physical alignment shifts, lifestyle habits, emotional patterns, and subtle imbalances begin to realign as well.

🪶 Therapeutic Techniques Rooted in Human Development and Natural Rhythms — Explore how the body’s innate patterns—from crawling and squatting to walking and resting—inform healthy movement, breath, and behavior.

🪶 Adaptation as Medicine — No single remedy works forever. As the body, seasons, and circumstances evolve, practices must adapt to stay effective and alive.

🪶 Intelligent Nourishment — Every form of intake—food, breath, media, or thought—can act as medicine or poison. Learn to refine what you take in and how you process it to cultivate vitality and longevity.

🪶 Sustainable Transformation — Gradual, rhythmic change creates lasting results. Through steady practice, reflection, and rhythm, we cultivate transformation that endures.

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Who is THIS For?

This certification is for Yoga teachers, practitioners, and health professionals who want to expand their work, their impact and their understanding of the human experience.

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It’s for you if:

🪷 You’re a 200- or 300-hour yoga teacher ready to expand your toolkit into therapeutic and individualized applications.

🪷 You work in wellness, rehabilitation, or healthcare, and want to integrate somatic, Ayurvedic, and yogic approaches into your practice.

🪷 You see students or clients who don’t fit a “one-size-fits-all” model—and you want to learn to adapt precisely and confidently.

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🪷 You want to understand why yoga works—not just how to teach it.

🪷 You wish to bring greater balance to your own life, using rhythm, movement, and breath as medicine.

🪷 You’re eager to bridge the gap between modern science and timeless wisdom to guide real, measurable change.

Our Yoga Therapy Certification is designed to fill those gaps and help you become the teacher—and practitioner—you’ve been waiting to be.

To ground yourself in the essentials,

we recommend starting with

our Foundational 200-Hour YTT.

Don’t skip

  • Building your confidence as a teacher.

Once you’re ready to stand out as a yoga therapist specialist, this program will be here for you.

Check out our Foundational 200hr YTT

teaching Skills

Our 300-hour training doesn’t just add more poses to your toolkit—it reshapes the way you see, respond to, and guide your students. You’ll gain the skills to meet any student, in any context, with confidence and creativity.

🐛 Innovative Sequencing Skills — Design classes that blend human developmental patterns, natural movement, and yoga principles into experiences that are transformative and digestible.

🐛 Adaptability Across Abilities — Learn to meet students where they are—whether they’re recovering in bed, easing back from injury, or training at a high level.

🐛 A Comprehensive Toolkit — Expand your teaching resources with therapeutic interventions like soft tissue mobilization, joint freeing, core rehabilitation, pranayama, and meditation.

🐛 Ayurvedic Integration — Incorporate timeless Ayurvedic principles into your teaching to promote balance, vitality, and long-term well-being.

🐛 Embodied Presence — Refine the subtle skills of posture, tone, and language so that your presence itself becomes a teaching tool.

🐛 Creative Freedom — Step into your full potential as a teacher, blending knowledge with intuition to lead classes that are authentic and deeply impactful.

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specialty Skills

Our 300-hour training attracts not only yoga teachers, but also professionals across the fields of health, movement, and healing. The Circle Yoga Method bridges East and West, body and mind, theory and practice—making it a powerful complement to your existing expertise.

🔥 Mental Health Practitioners — Learn to lead powerful somatic practices that help clients regulate, ground, and build self-awareness.

🔥 Massage Therapists — Complement your bodywork with movement strategies that help clients sustain tissue mobility and turn temporary relief into lasting change.

🔥 Personal Trainers — Learn to cue core activations and a neutral spine which can prevent many common injuries.

🔥 Physical Therapists — Enrich your clinical approach with Ayurvedic insights that explain why certain interventions succeed for some clients but not others, giving you more precise and personalized strategies.

🔥 Occupational Therapists — Gain effective movement strategies for teaching clients how to get up and down from the floor and approach everyday tasks—like bending, reaching, and lifting—with greater ease and confidence.

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Training content

Our training unfolds through four immersive intensives, each one building on the last. Each intensive reinforces what came before, while adding new dimensions of depth, nuance, and application. Every intensive includes philosophy, asana, meditation/pranayama, practice teaching, and sequencing.

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Intensive 1 lays the foundation for the entire program with chikitsa (therapeutic) practices designed to restore harmony and adaptability in the human system. Drawing from natural developmental movement patterns, we explore the Evolutionary Namaskar and integrate soft tissue mobilization techniques to address mobility limitations and movement compensations.

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Intensive 2 introduces Ayurveda and the three doshas as a framework for personalizing practice and harmonizing the system. Biomechanically, we explore how and when to stabilize the spine through the “Big Four” postures and precise language cues. The intensive also dives deeper into the principles of Pranayama and dosha-based adjustments to support both practice and teaching.

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Intensive 3 explores Prana and the five Vayus as subtle forces that shape movement, breath, and meditation. You’ll learn to infuse asana, pranayama, and meditation with the qualities of each Vayu, adding depth and nuance to practice. Biomechanically, we focus on squat and posterior chain activations to expand your functional movement repertoire. The intensive also includes a deep dive into the principles of meditation.

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Intensive 4 focuses on tailoring practice to students’ capacities, from therapeutic support to functional movement and advanced performance. Biomechanically, we progress to complex multiplane and locomotion-based flows, integrating all previous mobility and stability lessons. The intensive also explores the relationship between Samadhi and the Flow state, offering insight into higher cognitive awareness.

Program Cost

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Deposit:

A $445 non-refundable deposit saves your spot in the program.

Payment Can Be Made By:

🌱A one-and-done payment (10% discount) or

🌱Per intensive (4 payments)

One-and-Done with Accommodations:

  • One and done + shared accommodations: $4,562

  • One and done + private accommodations: $5,066

Per Intensive Payments with Accommodations:

  • Shared accommodations: $1,258.75 per intensive

  • Private accommodations: $1,398.75 per intensive

What’s Covered?

Program cost covers tuition, lodging, meals, and lifetime access to our Training Hub.

For dietary restrictions, an additional $208 will be added to your total.

Read the Program and School Policies for info on refunds, deferrals, withdrawals, and other details.

Completion of this program also qualifies you for a 10% discount off MoveWise Biomechanical Certification and 15% off Harmonious Living Certification.

Early Bird:

Get $200 off the deposit

Available up to 45 days of start date

Don’t miss out!

Grab your spot
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“The Advanced 300-Hour Training merges East and West, combining spiritual principles with practical biomechanics. It’s helped me see students as individuals, design personalized sequences, and adapt practices to meet their unique needs. Learning alongside supportive classmates and accessing training videos has been invaluable—this program has truly transformed how I teach and connect with my students.”

— Jessica, Program Graduate

Who we are

Here’s what to expect when you arrive at the Shala–

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Our Accommodations

We offer private and shared rooms in our converted barn, as well as a limited number of private cabins. Our rooms are rustic, comfortable, and designed to help you fully immerse in the experience. 

For more photos of our accommodations, click here.

Meals at the Shala

You’ll enjoy 3 freshly-prepared, vegetarian meals daily. Coffee and tea are available throughout the day. 

For more photos of some of our favorite meals, click here.

Our Location

Our homestead is nestled deep in the Arkansas Ozarks—just 20 minutes from the town of Jasper. We are surrounded by the beauty of the Ozark National Forest and within close reach of the Buffalo National River.

For directions and nearby airports, click here.

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Try the Circle Yoga Method for yourself.

Experience pranayama like never before with our unique Method–embody an elegant effort that invites you into a deeper relationship with your breath. 
Breathwork, or Pranayama, is a potent somatic practice that anchors your attention in the physical body and, therefore, reveals to you what was there all along, yet hidden from direct awareness.

Quick

Recap —

This training might be right for you if you:

✅ Seek innovative sequencing skills rooted in human development and functional movement.

✅ Desire therapeutic tools to support mobility, strength, and resilience.

✅ Aim to integrate Ayurveda into your teaching for personalized practices and long-term health.

✅ Wish to weave advanced pranayama and meditation seamlessly into asana.

✅ Look to master unique, safe, and challenging postures designed for today’s practitioners.

✅ Are eager to develop a versatile teaching process that adapts in real time to students’ needs.

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

✅ Are committed to personal growth who wants to embody yoga as both a practice and a teaching philosophy.

✅ Identify as a movement or wellness professional seeking to integrate yoga with your current expertise.

Grab your spot 
Early Bird ($200 off) when you make your deposit before Feb 9, 2026.
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"Everything about the Shala is excellent. From the location in the Ozark Mountains, to the teachings and of course the teachers. The teachers truly care about this program and their teachings are comprehensive providing you a beautiful framework of tools for yoga teachers to further develop their careers."

— Niki

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“I did my 300hr at the Shala and I couldn’t have asked for a better experience or more knowledgeable teachers. I left feeling prepared to teach in a variety of settings and with a much stronger grasp of movement and yoga theory. The experience of staying on the land and having such beautiful, nourishing meals is hard to oversell - I cannot recommend the Shala highly enough.”

— Morgan

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“After completing my 300-hour YTT and I am constantly surprised at how much this program still gives. I continue to learn from my teachers every day, no matter where I am because the teachings are applicable to every potent moment that arises. I am so grateful to have found this school."

— Kat

FAQs

If you still have questions after reading these FAQs, don't hesitate to contact us.

  • Yes, it is. Our 300hr YTT meets and exceeds the Yoga Alliance standards.

  • Yes. If your 200-hour training was not with us or an affiliate school, you will need to complete our Vinyasa Krama Preparatory Course, included with your deposit.

  • Please read:

    • “Move Your DNA" by Katy Bowman before the first intensive.

    • "Yoga and Ayurveda" by David Frawley before the second intensive.

    • “Flow” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi before the fourth intensive.

  • Between intensives, you will have homework assignments consisting of watching videos, answering quizzes, teaching, and sequencing. Expect to spend about 20 hours after each intensive to complete these. These assignments are part of the program and you cannot graduate without completing them.

  • Every cohort is different, but we usually average between 8 and 12 participants.

  • Our days at the Shala are designed to balance practice, study, nourishment, and rest. Each element of the schedule supports the whole—body, mind, and community.

    7:30 AM Meditation - Begin the day in stillness, centering your attention and setting the tone for practice and study.

    8 AM Breakfast - Nourish yourself with a wholesome meal before diving into movement.

    9 AM Asana Practice - Explore the postures illustrating the lesson of the day, guided by the Circle Yoga Method.

    10:30 AM Philosophy - Engage with Eastern wisdom in ways that connect meaningfully to modern life.

    12 PM Lunch - Pause to rest and enjoy a meal in community.

    1:30 PM Afternoon Session - Rotate through focused modules including practice teaching, sequencing, anatomy, and more—building the skills to step confidently into teaching.

    6 PM Dinner - Share a nourishing meal and the reflections of the day.

    Free Time in the Evening - Enjoy the simple joys of Shala life—swim or sit by the river, gather around a bonfire, watch the sunset, sing songs, or simply rest under the stars.

    This rhythm creates space not just for learning, but for integration—so the teachings move from theory into lived experience.

  • We understand that life happens. If you have to miss an intensive, you can make it up with the next year’s cohort. Make sure to read our deferral policy.

  • Absolutely not. :) We have plenty for your enjoyment.

  • If you’re interested in a fully online yoga teacher training, please contact us to discuss. We grant this option on a case-by-case basis.