The Tantravaya Yoga Teacher Training is a comprehensive, internationally-respected program designed to deepen your understanding of yoga and Ayurvedic principles.

The Tantravaya training method is unique in that it’s not limited to any “style” or blend of styles. Instead, it emphasizes universal principles of alignment within the context of Ayurvedic and yogic practices.

Tantravaya Yoga trains exceptional teachers by presenting everything you will ever need to know in order to practice and teach any kind of yoga to anyone – safely and effectively within a system of eight principle actions. These eight principles are necessary and sufficient in every active gesture for yoga and beyond. Furthermore, the eight principles are organized into four pairs of oppositional actions that allow for ultimate individualization – customizing each gesture to each practitioner by balancing the intensity of antagonistic engagements for the specific needs of the individual body in each pose. As a recent graduate has put it: “With the eight principles, I couldn’t help but teach excellently, right from the first class, even though I was nervous.”

With exceptional attention devoted to practical training and ample teaching experience time, Tantravaya Yoga Teacher Trainings have a proven track record of producing effective, confident yoga teachers who are ready to teach upon graduation and stand out in the world of yoga.

Our program is registered with Yoga Alliance and provides the most widely-recognized yoga teacher certification credentials in the world. Our primary goal is to cultivate a solid, safe, and effective practice as the foundation of skillful teaching.

Principles.  Techniques.  Philosophy.

The anatomy and physiology of yoga

Universal alignment and individual needs for different bodies

Pranayama, meditation, mantra, mudra

Introduction to yoga therapy and posture correction

Yogic philosophy, psychology, ethics, history, and scriptures

The Ayurvedic five element system and its application to a balanced life, diet, and practice

Protocols for diagnosing an individual's state of dosha

Yogic techniques for balancing each dosha

At Mountain Waters, we offer you an enriched learning environment of beauty, sacredness and connection to nature. Our intention is to be the place where the aspiration you feel for growth, change and a deeper connection to yourself, is met by a program you take and by  something you discover inside yourself while you are here.

We offer you the opposite of distraction. Stillness, deep  learning and a space that welcomes your authenticity, whether that means joy, tears, or some other form of your Awe-some-ness. Mountain Waters is where the longing for embodied presence becomes anchored in experience.

Often this can mean taking the time to looking clearly at what stands in the way of the full expression of your life. People come here to help navigate important life transitions. To shift perspectives , to let go, or press “pause” and turn toward the quieter voice inside, that can guide the way forward.

All Teachers Will Be Able To:

Teach exceptional, inspired yoga classes

Offer high quality, individually-customized private lessons

Know which yoga techniques are best suited to themselves and their students

Use asana and movement therapies to address muscular and skeletal imbalances

Use Ayurvedic principals to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different yoga forms

Well into his third decade with yoga, Shy has tens of thousands of hours of experience bringing yoga to students of all levels, treating patients, and training yoga teachers and therapists around the globe.

Shy has offered coursework on education and pedagogy, as well as yoga philosophy and classical Indian literature at the University of California, Berkeley. In his yoga teaching, Shy integrates his experience in higher education with skillful attention to different learning styles, making even the most complex teachings approachable to every student.

Shy believes in teaching people – not poses, since the practices of yoga are infinitely adaptable to fit the practitioner’s stages of development. Instead, his Tantravaya yoga method integrates the classical Eight Limbs of Yoga, equally cultivating the body, breath and mind to bring each practitioner to optimal, holistic health.

This unique method has shown remarkable results in posture correction, pain relief and improved balance, as well as healing emotional trauma and addressing the roots of psychological symptoms, such as anxiety and depression.

https://tantravayayoga.com/

An environmental scientist and yoga teacher, Simona inspires students through her contagious passion for yoga, for life-long learning, and for helping people live healthier, more harmonious lives. 

Simona was first introduced to the physical practice of yoga in childhood as therapy for scoliosis. While in graduate school, she rediscovered yoga not just as a physical practice, but also as a vehicle for mind-body connection and spiritual transformation. 

Simona completed Shy Sayar's first yoga teacher training in 2009, and received her yoga therapist certification in 2011 from the Niroga Institute. She now has over 4000 hours of teaching experience. 

Her classes emphasize safe alignment, correcting musculoskeletal imbalances and increasing strength and flexibility where needed. She also offers unique mind-body insights from aikido, a Japanese martial art of conflict resolution in which she holds the rank of first degree black belt.

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6-9am Practical Training: meditation, pranayama, mantra, asana

9am Breakfast

10am-1pm Applied Theory: Ayurveda, anatomy, alignment, technique & methodology

1pm Lunch & break

3-5pm Bodywork: Thai Yoga Massage, posture correction, harmonics & acupressure

5pm Dinner

6-9pm Review, Practicum & Satsang: study sessions, observed practice teaching, philosophy