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The College of Purna Yoga Teacher Training Program offers three levels of training:

The 200-hour Level

Learn

The 500-hour Level

Live

The Purna Yoga Certificate Level

Embody

“I have been fortunate enough to study with all the “stars” of the yoga world.  I learned much from them all.  The major difference is that others teach how to perform skills; the College of Purna Yoga teaches a student how to evolve.”

Brad Waites, CPYI and 2007 College Graduate

Certified Purna Yoga Instructor and Attorney

Vancouver, BC

 The College of Purna Yoga is a Registered Yoga School with Yoga Alliance and was the first Washington State-licensed Vocational School for yoga teachers.  Your courses are taught by select Senior Certified Purna Yoga Instructors, valued for their dedication and deep commitment to supporting their students' growth.  Come learn to live and teach the whole of yoga.  Discover the difference between yoga from the mind and the Purna Yoga approach to practicing and teaching yoga from the heart.  We trust you will soon discover that there truly is no other teacher training college like the College of Purna Yoga.

Purna Yoga is the art of loving yourself by living from the heart.  “Purna” means “complete,” and Purna Yoga distills and integrates the vastness of yoga into an invaluable set of tools for transformation and healing.  Reminding us that yoga is far more than a system of exercise, Purna Yoga offers wisdom and techniques for the union of the body and the mind with the spirit.  Using awareness, precision, and concentration, Purna Yoga inspires the evolution from our lower nature to our Divine Self.

Purna Yoga practitioners learn alignment-based asana, pranayama, and Purna Yoga Meditation (the art of aligning inner energies for transformation), along with nutrition and yogic philosophy, adapted for our lifestyles today.  Like a tuning fork, Purna Yoga aligns our entire being with the vibration of truth and the Divine essence within us and all around us. 

The lineage of Purna Yoga is based on the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, the Vedas, Patanjali, B.K.S. Iyengar, and the systems of Ayurvedic, Chinese and Western nutrition, synthesized by the personal experience of Aadil Palkhivala and Mirra, the founders of Purna Yoga.  With its roots in the past and its reach into the future, Purna Yoga is here to help create the world which we have all dreamed of.

It is undeniable that, in order for you to be an inspiring teacher, you must first be an inspired practitioner.  Therefore, the classes at the College of Purna Yoga first instill within you a deep love for your own personal practice.  Only then can you share your love of yoga with your students.  As a practitioner, you will learn to integrate Purna Yoga deeply into your own body and life.  As a yoga teacher, you will learn to teach from this inner experience.

The College of Purna Yoga offers three levels of training: 

The 200-hour Level (Yoga Alliance Registered)

The 500-hour Level (Yoga Alliance Registered)

The 2,000 hour Level

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Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga School #27491 (www.yogaalliance.org)

Licensed under Chapter 28C.10 by the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board of Washington State, 128 10th Ave SW, Olympia, WA, 98504 (www.wtb.wa.gov)