Learn to teach yoga where it actually heals.
From teaching the pose to treating the person.
A live, online continuing-education course for teachers and serious practitioners, anywhere in the world, ready to understand what yoga is really doing and how to apply it to the person in front of you.
30 Yoga Alliance CE hours · 12 live weeks · C-IAYT, E-RYT 500
Meet your teacher
Owner and lead teacher of The Mind-Body Connection, and a Certified Yoga Therapist trained in the viniyoga tradition of the Krishnamacharya lineage.
- Trained where yoga is adapted to the person, not the person forced into the pose
- Built Healing Foundations, a therapeutic program that works all five kośas at once
- Teaches the therapeutic and philosophical heart of yoga every single day
- Teaches from lived transformation, not just certification
"I don't teach yoga as exercise. I teach it as the tool for real change it was always meant to be, and this course is where I hand that work directly to you."
You were never taught the part that actually heals.
You can cue a hundred āsanas. You can sequence a beautiful class. And still watch a student leave the same way they came in. Not because you are a poor teacher, but because the training stopped at the body.
The mind that misperceives, the breath that is bound, the story of identity underneath the symptom, that is where change actually lives. Almost no training teaches it. This one is built on it.
- Why your best cues sometimes change nothing
- What to look for underneath the symptom
- How to teach the person, not just the posture
Teach from the root, not the surface
Real therapeutic yoga does not start with the body. It starts with how the mind perceives, where the breath is bound, and the misperception of identity underneath the symptom.
Read the person
Meet a student through the three states, cikitsā, rakṣaṇa, and śikṣaṇa, and work with where they actually are.
Trace the root
Use the pañcamaya (kośa) model to follow a symptom back to its source instead of chasing it.
Guide with intention
Direct prāṇa through breath, movement, attention, and sound, and sequence with vinyāsa krama so anyone can receive the practice.
The gap was never your anatomy. It is the philosophy no one taught you.
Why don't other studios teach this?
"Everywhere else, the philosophy is never the main focus. Maybe you talk about it for a few minutes at the start of class, and then you move on."
"It's more intense than I thought. Or deeper, maybe is the right word."
"For years I never really understood why. I always thought I was the one doing it wrong. I wasn't."
A live cohort, built around the philosophy
Live weekly sessions
90 minutes each, Mondays at 11:00 AM PT, joined live from anywhere. Lecture, instruction, and real discussion with Kevala.
Self-guided practices
Recorded and dripped every two weeks, so your practice deepens alongside the theory.
CE hours + certificate
30 Yoga Alliance continuing-education hours and a certificate of completion. Fully online.
Twelve weeks, from foundation to integration
Each week is a 90-minute live session.
Week 1 · Foundations: the three states and our lineage
Cikitsā (therapy), rakṣaṇa (maintenance), śikṣaṇa (learning); how yoga applies to the stages of life; the Krishnamacharya lineage (Desikachar / Viniyoga, Pattabhi Jois / Ashtanga, Iyengar). Course orientation.
Week 2 · The student and the student-teacher relationship
The guru-śiṣya relationship; attention, energy, requirement, practice; assessing where a student is; the responsibilities and boundaries of the therapeutic relationship. The ground the whole course is taught on.
Week 3 · Dharma, discernment and governance of the senses
Dharma (dharayati iti dharma); viveka (discernment); dama (sense control); Āśrama Dharma and the stages of life; the ethical grounding of the therapeutic teacher.
Week 4 · Yoga as a tool: the aim of therapeutic yoga
Yoga as a tool for union: the root yuj; harmonizing with reality; mokṣa; bringing who you think you are into union with the Self. Framing the therapeutic goal beyond symptom relief.
Week 5 · The mind: how it perceives and distorts
Uses of the term mind, manas; pramāṇa (accurate perception); smṛti (memory and the record of experience); how misperception drives suffering.
Week 6 · Prāṇa and the pañcavāyu
Prāṇa as life force; the five vāyus; how prāṇa moves through the system; influencing prāṇa through breath, movement, attention, and sound.
Week 7 · Vinyāsa krama and general values in practice
Vinyāsa krama; subtle leads to gross; consistency of movement and breath; sequencing and course-planning fundamentals; adapting the śikṣaṇa form to the student.
Week 8 · The pañcamaya (kośa) model and classification of disease
The five mayas / kośas; ādhija vyādhi (mind-born disease) versus non-mind-born; annamaya, prāṇamaya, and manomaya levels; the yogic model of how imbalance forms.
Week 9 · The guṇas and the Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā
The guṇas, sattva, rajas, tamas, and how they distort or clear awareness; an introduction to the Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā and its place in therapeutic practice.
Week 10 · Āsana and bandhas; length of practice
Āsana, dynamic versus static work; improving flexibility through breath; the four bandhas; determining the appropriate length and intensity of practice.
Week 11 · Prāṇāyāma and meditation (bhāvanā)
Prāṇāyāma, conscious regulation of the breath; heating and cooling prāṇāyāma; ratio breathing; meditation and bhāvanā as therapeutic tools.
Week 12 · The eight limbs, Āyurveda and integration
Aṣṭāṅga (eight limbs) overview; Āyurvedic context; yamas and niyamas in application (śauca, aparigraha, YS 2.41); synthesis and closing integration.
Six self-guided practices
Released every two weeks as the matching theory is covered, so your practice deepens with your understanding.
Foundational therapeutic practice
An accessible, therapeutic-level practice establishing breath-led movement and safe modifications. Sets the baseline.
Prāṇa-oriented practice
A breath-centered sequence working with the vāyus; directing prāṇa through inhale, exhale, placement, and attention.
Vinyāsa krama sequenced practice
A subtle-to-gross sequenced practice that demonstrates the course-planning principles in motion.
Bandha and stability practice
Introduction and application of the bandhas; focused engagement and core stability within a therapeutic frame.
Prāṇāyāma practice
Guided heating and cooling prāṇāyāma with ratio work; a breath session students can return to.
Meditation and bhāvanā practice
A closing seated practice integrating meditation and bhāvanā; anchoring the philosophical arc in direct experience.
Everything included in the cohort
- 12 live 90-minute sessions with Kevala
- 6 self-guided recorded practices, dripped
- 30 Yoga Alliance CE hours and a certificate
- Lifetime access to your cohort's recordings
- A cohort of serious peers alongside you
- Fully online, from anywhere in the world
All sales are final. Seats are limited to keep the discussion intimate.
Every live session is recorded and yours to keep for life, so your enrollment is never lost to a missed week.
Ready to join the cohort?
Full enrollment in the live cohort, all six practices, 30 CE hours, and your certificate of completion.