Specialty Training Programs
Expand Your Practice and Find Your Niche
In addition to our 200-Hour and 300-Hour teacher training programs, ISHTA Yoga offers a wide variety of Specialty Training Programs. Our roster of specialty trainings is designed to help practitioners of all levels to expand their practices by delving deeply into a specific branch of the teachings.
Each training provides the opportunity to find your niche by honing in on a teaching style, technique, or body of knowledge. Scroll down to learn more about the Specialty Trainings offered at ISHTA.
ISHTA Specialty Training Programs:
Yoga Nidra
Mona Anand’s Yoga Nidra
Mona Anand
Mona Anand has been revolutionary in the field of Yoga Nidra. This training, designed for teachers and students, delves deeper into yoga nidra. Yoga nidra can be used for many purposes, which include deep relaxation, to release what lies in the sub conscious and unconscious and to experience an expanded state of consciousness.
In this training we will:
- Study the science behind yoga nidra and look more deeply into the nine steps of yoga nidra developed by Mona and Alan. Partici- pants will experience, design, discuss and practice teaching each of the nine steps.
- Learn how to integrate yoga nidra into asana and restorative classes.
- Briefly discuss how yoga nidra can be used to help balance Pitta, Kapha and Vata conditions,
- Design short and long yoga nidra practices for stress management, depression, anxiety and insomnia.
- Delve deeper into how yoga nidra can be used for pain management and healing.
*This course is a pre-requisite for Yoga Nidra and the Chakras.
Upcoming Training Dates:
May 17-19, 2023
Meditation
Meditation
Alan Finger, Sarah Finger and Peter Ferko
Upcoming Training Dates: TBD
Masters
ISHTA Masters Program
Alan Finger and ISHTA Yogiraj
Join Kavi Yogiraj Alan Finger along with Yoga Masters Sarah Platt-Finger, Mona Anand, Peter Ferko, Wendy Newton, and Ulrica Norberg in this first ever 50hour Advanced Teacher Training program. Geared exclusively towards graduates of the ISHTA 500-hour training, this course will delve deeper into all aspects of the ISHTA Teachings. Harness your innate teaching skills and refine your abilities to provide for your students in an even more integrated and authentic way. This course is for those who have established a path for themselves as an ISHTA Teacher and want to further their studies in the lineage. Advanced topics include, but are not limited to:
• Asana & Hands On Adjustments
• Sequencing
• Koshas
• Pranayama
• Meditation
• Yoga Nidra
• Ayurveda
• Yoga Sutras
• Mantra
• Mudras & Bandhas
• Kriya
And much more
Upcoming Training Dates:
June 7-11, 2023
Yoga Nidra and the Chakras
Mona Anand’s Yoga Nidra and the Chakras
Mona Anand
The training will delve deeply into the issues associated with each chakra and how to use all of the tools of yoga including asana, restorative poses, pranayama, mantra, visualization and yoga nidra to find balance. Learn how to recognize imbalances in a specific chakra Discuss how to sequence asana and restorative postures and how to integrate pranayama, mantra and visualization for specific chakra imbalances. There will be opportunity to design and practice teaching yoga nidra and receive feedback on sequences.
*ISHTA Yoga Nidra Training with Mona Anand is a prerequisite for this course.
Upcoming Training Dates: TBD
Restorative
Anand Menza Restorative Training
Mona Anand and Gina Menza
Delve into the practice of Restorative Yoga with Mona Anand and Gina Menza in this unique training, created for both students and teachers. Participants will learn how to teach restorative yoga and develop their own home practice.
Upcoming Training Dates: TBD
Prenatal
Marma Therapy
Marma Therapy
Alan Finger
Marma points are energetic centers that act as “little brains” that feed the organs, nerves and cells of your body with the intelligence they need to function efficiently. Stress, whether physical, emotional/mental or environmental in origin, can cause marmas to become strangled in the soft tissues of the body. ISHTA Marma Therapy frees the strangled marmas, releasing blocked energy, cleansing away stress and returning the individual to homeostasis. Learn to heal yourself using this profound technique, developed by Yogiraj Alan Finger, South African Tantric and Kriya Yoga Master.
Upcoming Training Dates:
TBA
Trauma Informed Yoga
Anatomy & Therapeutics
Private Yoga
The Art and Science of Working with Private Clients- Virtual Training
Cassandra Ferland
Private sessions are the ultimate way to tailor yoga to the individual. They can be rewarding on many levels for both teacher and student, and are a great way to sustain a living as a yoga teacher. But there are SO many factors to juggle with private clients, like finding your first few clients, smart business practices, or keeping your students consistent. While a vigorous teacher training will prepare us to lead group classes, due to time constraints there is a large learning curve that teachers must navigate themselves as they grow their privates practice. This comprehensive training is meant to fill that gap, so that teachers can move forward with confidence, and inspire meaningful change by creating sessions that meet the deepest needs of their students on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level.
Upcoming Training Dates:
The Art and Science of Working with Private Clients | TBA