Yoga Vidya Academy

November 2025-November 2026 | 13 weekends (plus twice monthly webinars) | Saturdays 10:30a-6p, Sundays 9a-5p, eastern time | Maitri Yoga Troy NY or Online via Zoom

Step into your next evolution as a yoga teacher.

The Yoga Vidya Advanced 300-hour Training is designed to refine your personal practice, deepen your understanding of yogic wisdom, and expand your ability to guide others with authenticity and confidence. You'll gain advanced skills, fresh inspiration, and the tools to stand out in a crowded field—whether you’re teaching group classes or specialty workshops, working one-on-one, or mentoring and influencing the next generation of teachers. More than a certification, this is a transformational journey that amplifies your voice, impact, and marketability.

Move beyond technique—into mastery. Rooted in the wisdom of Tantra Vidya and designed to elevate every dimension of your path, this life changing immersion will refine your personal sadhana, deepen your therapeutic understanding, and expand your ability to teach with clarity, confidence, and soul.

The Curriculum that changes you. The program offers five content modules that build upon one another. Here is an overview:

1. Tantra Vidya: The Sacred Origins of Practice Rediscover the roots of Hatha Yoga through the original worldview of Tantra—where practice becomes a vehicle for direct experience, energy refinement, and spiritual awakening. Learn what Kundalini actually is, the truth about chakras and the other critical aspects of ‘the energy body’ that can truly create both expansion and integration.

2. Sva Sadhana: Personal Practice & Embodied Inquiry Refine and deepen your sustainable, soul-aligned sadhana through an immersion into a living tradition of wellness and spiritual fulfillment. Elevate your home practice as you explore advanced hatha yoga practices,  pranayama and meditations that keep your own well full. Study and live the lessons of seminal yoga texts and teachings as catalysts for self mastery.

3. Advanced Ayurveda: Healing from the Inside Out Refine your diagnostic eye and energetic intuition with marma therapy, facial reading, and diet/lifestyle tools that meet each student at the level of the subtle body.

4. Mastering the Art of Teaching Go beyond competent instruction—into inspired transmission. Learn to sequence expertly and intuitively, transmit clearly, adjust wisely, and create workshops and class experiences that truly transform.

5. Therapeutic Yoga Foundations: Yogic Physiology and Psychology for Healing Learn to apply the ancient wisdom of yoga and modern science in a therapeutic context. This module blends cutting-edge neuroscience, subtle anatomy, and somatic psychology with timeless yogic tools. You’ll gain the skills to work one-on-one with students and clients—holding space for their healing, supporting nervous system regulation, and tailoring practices that address real-life challenges.

Why Yoga Vidya? Here are just a few reasons why this program is an exceptional opportunity for you:

• The teachings are rooted in the living Tantric tradition, which is exceedingly rare these days. Yoga is not a ‘catch all, kitchen sink’ worldview that lends itself well to a lot of innovation and commodification. We believe in ‘digging one hole deeply’, assuring confident and positive outcomes. While not overly dogmatic, we honor tradition and authenticity.

• The program is led by a master teacher and certified yoga therapist with 45+ years’ experience. Lauren, while a forever student, is an accomplished teacher and guide, and lives what she shares. She has fostered hundreds of yoga teachers, many of whom remain dedicated students after decades of study.

• The program content is systematically designed, integrative, soulful, and therapeutically grounded. You will learn and grow in a supportive and inspired community, created for your advancement as a living embodiment of the teachings.

• We offer personalized mentorship and small group connection. You’ll get practical tools, deep inner transformation and the skillset to share these potent gifts. We teach people, and aren’t interested in just selling information and certificates. We celebrate rigor, commitment, personal relationships and mentorship. we are here for you, every step of the way, with joy.