Learn to teach yoga safely and joyously to people of all ages and abilities, in a variety of settings, and at any level of intensity or experience. This 200 hour Yoga Alliance registered teacher training program is also the basis for our Integrated Movement Therapy training program, our 500 hour Advanced training or to become a certified Samarya Yoga teacher. We are also a Washington State licensed licensed vocational school.

The Samarya Yoga Teacher Training is unlike any other you will find. With its emphasis on social change, yoga therapy, personal transformation and radical inclusion, the Samarya Yoga Teacher Training is a true reflection of the real meaning and purpose of yoga as a spiritual discipline first and a physical discipline second. Study with a very diverse group of faculty and assistants who each bring their own insight, specialty areas and focus. Lead teacher Molly Lannon Kenny has been teaching yoga for nearly twenty years to students in the most except! ional of circumstances – from end of life care, to bereavement, to Ashtanga primary and second series, to returning veterans, to faculty at Johns Hopkins Medical Center to any BODY you can imagine. Come learn from her depth of experience and the vastness of her heart.

Molly has been published, featured and interviewed in the New York Times, the LA Times, the BBC, Yoga Journal among others and recently published her own essay collection, called No Gurus Came Knocking.

Many well-known teachers endorse her and her book, including Yogarupa Rod Stryker who says:

“Molly Lannon Kenny is a most rare and precious gem in today’s world––piercingly insightful, humble, erudite, generous, unfailingly honest, authentic, loving and, above all else a tireless seeker––for the highest Truth.

No Gurus Came Knocking was a joy to read, a fascinating and crisply written chronicle of one woman’s momentous encounters with life and teachers that would lead to her fully embodying the wisdom and light of yogic teaching.

A revealingly personal tale, it is also profoundly universal, speaking at the heart of what we all must learn if we are to be most fully ourselves and most fully alive.” ~ Yogarupa Rod Stryker

Topics areas and emphasis:

• Yoga Philosophy + History in context – is yoga a religion? Where do the poses come from
• Comparative contemplative and mystical practices – how is yoga alike and different from other spiritual practices
• Practical – naming, describing and deconstructing poses, looking at poses in the larger context of the practice and who says what is right?, Sanskrit pronunciation, sequencing, linking movement with breath
• Social Change – how do we use our practice as a foundation for increasing our skills in organizing and action
• What are the issues to be considered with appropriation?
• Cultural competency – how do we make our yoga classes and studios inclusive and intelligently welcoming
• Hands on touch and Adjusting (deconstructing hierarchy)
• Working with special populations
• Yoga as therapy
• What does “Yoga Service” or “Outreach” even mean?
• Practice Teaching
• Topics – kleshas, koshas, bandhas, Ayurveda, chakras, mantra, kirtan
• Personal visioning
• Introduction to Integrated Movement Therapy and its principles and philosophies
• Personal visioning

Dates: April 8–22, 2016 or September 30–October 14, 2016

Price: Training costs include accommodations, all meals and tuition.

• All genders dorm (only five spots available per retreat): $3065 early registration or $3315 regular registration
• Double: $3315 early registration or $3565 regular registration
• Single: $4050 early registration or $4300 regular registration.
• Scholarship and work-trade opportunities available.

Early registration and scholarship deadlines are two months prior to the start date of the retreat – February 8.