Specialty Courses
ISHTA Yoga offers a wide variety of specialty course programs. Our roster of specialty courses is designed to help practitioners of all levels to expand their practices by delving deeply into a specific branch of the teachings. Each course provides the opportunity to find your niche by honing in on a teaching style, technique, or body of knowledge. Stay tuned for updates about our specialty courses here!
Yoga Nidra and Ajna Chakra Training with Mona Anand
Yoga Nidra and Ajna Chakra Training with Mona Anand
Thursday October 29 (evening)
Friday October 30th 2-4:45pm (afternoon)
YOGA NIDRA & AJNA
Insight, Intuition & Vision
Workshop & Training with Mona Anand
This training can be taken as a standalone training or as a part of Yoga Nidra and the Chakras Training. For more information on taking both Ajna and Sahasrara trainings, please visit this page.
Our reality is shaped by what passes across the screen of our mind. Ajna, the third-eye chakra, is the center of insight, intuition, and vision, the starting point for envisioning what we wish to bring into our lives. Manifestation begins with visualization: before we can bring a possibility to life, we must be able to imagine it. By becoming aware of the thoughts and images we return to, we can begin to choose what we play across that inner screen and take a more conscious role in creating our reality.
THURSDAY EVENING | RESTORATIVE / YOGA NIDRA TO BALANCE AJNA
One of Mona’s signature Restorative / Yoga Nidra workshops, this evening combines gentle asana and yummy restorative poses to the sound of a soothing sound bath, with optional gentle hands-on adjustments and the aroma of essential oils for in studio participants. These prepare you for a deep practice integrating all nine steps of Mona Anand’s ISHTA Yoga Nidra. The practice invites your awareness inward toward Ajna, helping to quiet mental clutter, clear the screen of the mind, and awaken inner vision. Join in studio or online.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON | THREE-HOUR TRAINING
Explore the previous evening’s experience and deepen your understanding of Ajna. Experience a shorter practice, then learn how to adapt each of the nine steps developed by Mona and Alan to balance this energetic center so that you can bring clarity, intuition and vision into your living. Develop practices for your own life, integrate shorter practices into your life and learn to develop practices to share with your students.
FOLLOW-UP | SATURDAY MORNING Q&A ON ZOOM
Two weeks later, reconnect with Mona to discuss your experiences and questions after practicing on yourself or sharing the practices with students.
Questions? Email rumika@ishtayoga.com.
Regular pricing: $195
Special savings for ISHTA Gold, Silver, Bronze and Acharya Members and trainees (savings will be reflected at checkout when signed into your Momence account). ISHTA Acharya and returning participants without current ISHTA subscription reach out to rumika@ishtayoga.com for savings.
ISHTA Meditation Training with Alan Finger, Sarah Finger and Peter Ferko, May 26-28
Early Bird pricing available through May 15th!
Yoga Nidra and The Chakras (Svadisthana Chakra) with Yogiraj Mona Anand May 14 +15
From Resistance to Fluidity
Svadhisthana governs sensation, feeling, and our relationship to pleasure and pain, the duality of life. It is also where the subconscious and unconscious mind reside, holding our memories and past experiences that shape how we experience reality.
Through conscious movement, restorative work, breath, visualization, and Yoga Nidra, we release stored impressions and cultivate the ability to flow with life rather than resist it.
ISHTA Self-Marma Training with Alan Finger + Sarah Finger
This training is a Preliminary Training for Level 2 Marma Training, that teaches how to work on others
Thursday August 14th from 2pm -7pm and Friday August 15th from 9:30am-12:30pm and 2pm to 4:30
Learn to practice this technique as a form of self-care from Yogiraj Alan Finger, developer of the ISHTA Marma system, along with Yogiraj Sarah Finger and ISHTA Marma Expert, Elissa Lewis. A rare NYC appearance at our flagship Manhattan studio.
Tantra of the Yoga Sutras Course with Wendy Newton
In the ancient world, yoga was understood as a philosophy that was also a practice – which is to say, a practice that gets us in touch with our metaphysical nature. The first module of the Tantra of the Yoga Sutras Specialty Training introduces some of the key concepts from the Sutras and offers a broad perspective on the cyclical nature of the four padas
Tantra of the Yoga Sutras Course with Wendy Newton
In the ancient world, yoga was understood as a philosophy that was also a practice – which is to say, a practice that gets us in touch with our metaphysical nature. The first module of the Tantra of the Yoga Sutras Specialty Training introduces some of the key concepts from the Sutras and offers a broad perspective on the cyclical nature of the four padas
Yin Your Yoga - Yin Yoga Training with Ulrica Norberg
A three day training delving into the practice of ISHTA Yin Yoga. Learn the art of tension release within your systems - to enhance circulation for greater health on all levels. This 20 hour training will include an in depth exploration into the practice of yin yoga, and how yin can be a great therapeutic tool to destress the nervous system, a fantastic way to sharpen the mind, calm your senses, reactivate the systems, and ease smoothly into breathwork and meditation.