A Yearlong Journey

This training is a remembering : an opportunity to slow down, listen deeply, and root your practice in the wisdom of living lineages. Through immersive study, embodied exploration, and shared inquiry, we will trace yoga’s cultural, philosophical, and spiritual threads while cultivating our own integrity as practitioners and teachers. Together, we will nurture a supportive community where learning is experiential, relational, and alive—inviting transformation not only on the mat, but in how we walk on this earth. MORE

Training Schedule & Details

Dates:
October 2025 – June 2026
One weekend per month, plus a culminating retreat in September 2026

Monthly Weekend Sessions:

• Saturdays: 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM

• Sundays: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Weekend Dates:

• October 11–12, 2025

• November 8–9, 2025

• December 6–7, 2025

• January 10–11, 2026

• February 7–8, 2026

• March 14–15, 2026

• April 18–19, 2026

• May 2–3 or May 16–17, 2026 (to be confirmed)

• June 6–7, 2026

Summer Integration Break – July & August
Time for reading, self-reflection, creative integration, and practice assignments.

Final Retreat Weekend:
September 26–27, 2026
A rites-of-passage weekend to mark your journey and emergence as a teacher.

Training Structure

Meeting one weekend per month from October 2025 to June 2026, this training unfolds in three core modules, each rooted in a different energetic quality of practice: Brahmana, Langhana, and Samana. These are not just techniques or categories—they are rhythms of life, breath, and transformation. Through each module, we will explore the physical forms, subtle energetics, and philosophical foundations of practice, allowing the body to become a site of inquiry and integration.

The training culminates in a closing retreat in September 2026: a weekend immersion to honor the rite of passage into becoming a teacher. During this time, we will reflect, integrate, and step into the next chapter of our path—not as experts, but as humble carriers of wisdom, devoted to the living, breathing, ever-evolving tradition of yoga.

By the end of the training, you’ll carry an embodied understanding of practice that can meet your own needs—and the needs of your students—with clarity, care, and discernment. MORE

Teachers / Facilitators

Nina Polo Wieja

Nina has been studying yoga for over twenty years, and teaching for more than a decade. Her practice is rooted in the Sri Vidya tradition and shaped by years of study in other living lineages and wisdom traditions. What draws me most is the way these teachings speak through the body, through breath, through story—and how they help us remember who we are in relationship with the land, with each other, and with the unseen. MORE

Samantha Garrison

Samantha is a founder and the director of Light and Space Yoga, Ojai California. She also founded Yogala in Los Angeles in 2011. She is a yoga and meditation teacher and reiki master. 

Samantha’s yoga practice emerged in 1999 from her early life studying ballet. For the past 25 years, she’s studied yoga and meditation of many styles believing deeply in the power of yoga and its surrounding practices as a holistic path to individual and communal wellbeing. MORE