PLEASE NOTE: WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF PLANNING OUR SCHEDULE FOR 2024, please email stephflows@me.com, if interested in YTT.

Once you’ve completed an RYT 200 Teacher Training, you have the opportunity to continue your training at the 500-hour level. This requires an additional 300 hours of training through a Yoga Alliance-approved Registered Yoga School (RYS). Jaya Yoga Teacher Training has been an RYS with Yoga Alliance since .

We created a module-style program that can be completed within a customizable time frame that works for you; completing an RYT 300/500 within 2-3 years or over ten years. Each year, we offer week-long intensives both domestically and internationally that can be applied towards your RYT 300/500 as you feel inspired to learn and grow as a practitioner and teacher. There are also some shorter (1, 2 and 3 day) trainings at our studio, and around the Northwest that can also apply. 

The One-Week Intensive format has proven to be an amazing opportunity for growth, connection, and transformation. Taking some real time away from everyday life to create a “pattern interrupt” creates the space to discover the essence of who you truly are. Community and travel to sacred locations are also a great benefit of our RYT 500 Program.

As a prerequisite, attendees must have a foundational yoga teacher training completed (RYT 200 or equivalent training) AND you will be required to be enrolled in the SAYF Certification as a prerequisite for your attendance in our Advanced Training so there will be consistency in terms of biomechanical terms and understanding, as well as, accessibility options for asana (these hours count toward your overall 300 hours). This insures that you have a solid understanding of our style of teaching regarding sacred energy flow, bandhas and aligning the body from a human movement perspective to help prevent yoga injury.

Here are some of the workshops and trainings currently scheduled as part of our 300-hour program. You can choose to attend any, or all, of the following (we help you to customize your advanced training while still making sure that you achieve all requirements for Yoga Alliance):
Baja Retreat - One Week Intensive - El Pescadero (Todos Santos), Mexico ~ Nov or Dec each year
Sunray Shire Summer Soulstice Retreat - Clear Lake, WA ~ June each year (click for this year's dates)
Restorative Yoga Nidra at The Society in 2023 - March 11-13, 2023 
Return to the Source - India Pilgrimage - Two Week Intensive - Jan 11-27, 2024
The Heart of Yoga - One-Week Intensive - Heartgate Sanctuary, Hood River, Oregon ~ Future Dates to Be Announced

Limbs 1 & 2: Yamas, Niyamas, & the Bhagavad Gita - Online or Hybrid Course
Join us for a 10-Week deep dive into the first two limbs of yoga: the Yamas and Niyamas as taught from the teachings of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and The Bhagavad Gita. You will have the opportunity to join us for two FB Live teaching sessions each week. Additionally, this Course includes one Flow class each week live-streaming with Stephanie or Adi that integrates the teachings into a practice that focuses both on psychological and kinesthetic awareness. This course includes 3.5 hours of learning each week. Hours can be attended "live" or you can watch the recordings. This course is excellent for expanding your yoga practice into all aspects or your life, as well as, personal development and transformation. 35 hours devoted are also eligible to be applied to either 200/300/500 teacher training or CEs.
Offered January each year. $299
You can register here:
https://www.flowhoodriver.com/event-calendar.html

​Limb 4: Pranayama & Koshas  - Online or Hybrid Course
Pranayama & Koshas delves into both the sacred traditions of breathwork and the subtle energy bodies (koshas) and also modern science (Breath book by James Nestor recommended).
You will have opportunity to join us for two Live online teaching sessions each week . Additionally, this Course includes one Flow class each week live-streaming with Stephanie or Adi that integrates the teachings into a practice that focuses both on psychological and kinesthetic awareness. This course includes 3.5 hours of learning each week. Hours can be attended "live" or you can watch the recordings.
This course is excellent for expanding your yoga practice into all aspects or your life, as well as, personal development and transformation. 10.5 hours devoted are also eligible to be applied to either 200/300/500 teacher training or CEs.
Offered April each year. $99
Register Here:
https://www.flowhoodriver.com/event-calendar.html

Limb 3: Asana, Biomechanics, and Accessibility & Chakras - Awareness & Subtle Energy Balancing  Over 5 weekends that include: language, physical execution, human movement mechanics, and adaptations/modifications to reduce the likelihood of yoga injury and make classes more accessible. An in-depth journey into Chakras - Awareness & Subtle Energy Balancing. Assuming it is Covid-safe by then, this will be in-studio in Hood River. 
5 weekends (Fri evening, Saturday & Sunday) March-Sept each year (July & Aug off). $1499
2023 Dates:  March 3-5, April 14-16, May 5-7, June 9-11 & Sept 22-24
~SAYF Certification is a prerequisite for this training (Jaya students are offered a discounted rate). You must have completed, at least, Lesson 1 of SAYF, unless you have permission from Stephanie.

Limbs 5, 6 & Japa: Meditation & Mantra - Online Course
You will have opportunity to join us for two Live online teaching sessions each week . Additionally, this Course includes one Flow class each week live-streaming with Stephanie or Adi that integrates the teachings into a practice that focuses both on psychological and kinesthetic awareness. This course includes 9 sessions total (3 each week): 3.5 hours of learning each week. Hours can be attended "live" or you can watch the recordings.
This course is excellent for expanding your yoga practice into all aspects or your life, as well as, personal development and transformation. 10.5 hours devoted are also eligible to be applied to either 200/300/500 teacher training or CEs.
Offered Sept each year. $119
Register Here:
https://www.flowhoodriver.com/event-calendar.html
 
Trauma-Informed Yoga
During our time together, we will learn more about how past traumas affect our current experience and how healing yoga and breath practices can be especially helpful when guided by someone who understands the long-term effects of trauma. This workshop is designed for movement teachers but could benefit anyone working with people. In this workshop you will learn simple, evidence-supported, and effective yoga and breathing tools for creating resiliency, as well as considerations for interacting, and teaching to, with those affected by trauma.  The book Overcoming Trauma through Yoga by David Emerson is highly recommended as an accompaniment for this workshop. 4 CE hours
Offered Sat Nov 11th 3-7pm
Cost $79
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Advanced Training Workshops October 20-22, 2023:
• Friday, 12-8 pm - Hands-On Connection & Guidance in Asana $149 - This is an expanded version of the training we've done in the past - a full 7 hours - lots more practice and new assists!
• Saturday, 11-7 pm - Restorative Yoga & Yoga Nidra  (we will discuss Yin, too) $149 - Parasympathetic Nervous System Trifecta and an deeper traditional understanding of Yoga Nidra
• Sunday, 11-7 pm - Yoga Meditation - 12 Traditional Practices $149 - ALL new workshop
    All 3 ODWs can be purchased together for $399 - 21 hours

Advanced Practices Weekend 1: October 13-15, 2023 - 18 hours
Arm Balances, Sanskrit, Mantra, Mudra, & Patanjali (kleshas, antarayas & brahmavihara) & Practice Teaching - Steph
Practice Teaching, Kriya & Ayurveda - Adi
Offered October each year. $349
 
Advanced Practices Weekend 2: November 10-12, 2023 - 18 hours
Inversions, Sanskrit, Mantra, & Practice Teaching - Steph
Specialty Training - Trauma Informed Yoga - Steph (This can be attended as part of the weekend, or on its own)
Practice Teaching, Kriya & Gunas - Adi
Offered November each year. $349
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All  courses are taught from hundreds of pages of manuals we have written from our lineages and experience, the books required, as well as, reliance on both Patanjali's Yoga Sutras & Bhagavad Gita.

​Masks of Ego: Intro to the Yogic Enneagram - Online Course
​This course is excellent for expanding your yoga practice into all aspects or your life, as well as, personal development and transformation. This course is taught by Adi Vajra.
Offered April each year. 
Learn more here: https://www.flowhoodriver.com/masks-of-ego.html

Customized/Apprenticeship/Mentoring Training Hours - you can earn hours toward your 300/500 training with Stephanie or Adi weekly/monthly, please email stephflows@me.com for details about this option. 
Monthly Hours/Pricing:
1 group class/session per week and follow-up mentoring/assignments = 10 hours/month = $150/month autopay
2 group classes/sessions per week and follow-up mentoring/assignments = 20 hours/month = $250/month autopay
You choose how many hours you'd like to do this way, and we set up an autopay schedule for the time period we agree to. We track assignments and sessions through a shared Google Doc. 

To register email liaflowyoga@gmail.com, or for questions email stephflows@me.com

We customize our weeklong intensives for those who are attending (and we prioritize based on who is closest to finalizing their 300/500 to make sure they are satisfying all of the required Yoga Alliance standards for 300/500 RYT), here are some of the areas we can focus on:
  • Restorative Yoga
  • Yoga Nidra
  • Yin Yoga
  • Adjusting/assisting asana (physical “adjustments”)
  • Trauma-Informed yoga classes
  • Pranayama & bandhas - advanced techniques
  • Enneagram - the masks of ego & the practice of yoga
  • Chakras - a deeper understanding
  • The Bhagavad Gita 
  • Vijnana Bhairava Tantra - The Radiance Sutras
  • Patanjali Yoga Sutras & the yoga of relationship
  • The yamas/niyamas & building a life of trust
  • Postural Analysis & Body Balancing Therapeutics
  • Mantra/Mudra
  • Making asana more Accessible (Seniors, Body Positive, & Chair Yoga)
  • Tantra Yoga
  • The Yoga of Sound/Japa Yoga (offered on our India: Return to the Source trip - January 2024)
Here are some of the other workshops and trainings we offer as part of our 300-hour program:
Cancer & Yoga
Yoga & Kids
Prenatal Yoga
Making Yoga Accessible (Seniors, Body Positive, & Chair Yoga)
Restorative Yoga & Yoga Nidra
Trauma-Informed Yoga
Yin Yoga
(some of these subjects will be offered within One Week Intensives and some scheduled separately)

Semi-Annual Offerings

Rishikesh India

Every few years Steph and Adi lead a training at the birth place of Yoga - Rishikesh India. Join them for a 7 day Advanced Teacher Training Intensive and yoga escape. Meet some of Steph and Adi's inspired teachers while exploring local ashrams, culture, food, and the beauty of India. 
We also love to hear feedback and suggestions for both domestic and international places you would like to train, or things you may want to focus on! Please contact us with your interests and we will do our best to incorporate this into our upcoming training plans. 

Jaya Yoga Training Highlights

  • At the 500 hour level we tailor the focus of our week-long intensives to those who are attending and 
  • we deeply study Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, including the essentials of Yoga philosophy, the 3-Step Plan, 8 Limbed System, and Yamas and Niyamas.
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  • We teach asana/postures/modifications/vinyasas (some unique to Jaya Yoga) from an alignment, kinesiology, and energetic perspective. We explore asana thoroughly to balance the muscles and prevent yoga injury, looking at asana together as standing poses, backbends, forward bends, twists, arm balances and inversions.

  • Kinesiology is the study of movement, performance, and function by applying the sciences of biomechanics, anatomy, physiology, and psychology. From a yogic perspective, we look deeply into the poses and apply the ancient science of bandhas (energetic seals/locks) with modern functional strength/muscle balancing. Additionally, we take into consideration skeletal anatomy and develop an understanding of the physiology of stretching to "see" both the benefits and limitations of asana to balance the physical body.

  • Discussion of common yoga injuries and how to prevent them through progression, modifications, and options.

  • We develop an understanding of the subtle energy body: koshas, chakras, rasas and nadis, and understand the benefit of pranayama, kriya, mudra, and asana to connect with the inherent vital energy that we are.
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  • Energetically balancing our classes with hatha and vinyasa. The energetic and physical practices of mantra and mudra will be introduced and practiced, including practical ways you can incorporate them into classes. Meditation and pratyahara (sense withdrawal) will be daily practice using a variety of techniques, as will the other limbs of the 8-limbed system.

  • Mindful Adjustments. Learning to connect individually and energetically with students first, and secondly, through visual, verbal, and touch. Physical adjustments are an advanced teaching technique that should be applied with experience once a teacher has become comfortable with teaching technique and creating connection.