Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health

For more than 40 years, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health has been helping individuals to transform their lives and uplift others. Today, Kripalu is the largest yoga-based retreat and educational center in North America and home to the Kripalu Schools of Yoga, Ayurveda, and IYT.

The Kripalu School of Yoga offers aspiring teachers the opportunity to deepen their practice through immersion trainings, while mastering the skills necessary to lead others in the practice of Kripalu Yoga.

What is Kripalu Yoga?

Kripalu Yoga is an integrated system of self-transformation that empowers you to realize your full potential. The journey begins as you revitalize the body through postures, breathing exercises, and relaxation techniques. It deepens as you learn to focus awareness, enabling you to enter into meditative states that awaken compassion and clear the mind. Through the practice of Kripalu Yoga, you discover how to nurture the roots of health, catalyze personal growth, live with greater skillfulness and joy, and transform your sense of what it means to be alive.

WHY STUDY AT KRIPALU?

Immersion Learning

When you train at the Kripalu School of Yoga, you benefit from a unique immersion experience in our beautiful retreat center setting. While you’re here, you develop tools to cultivate health, create community, and encourage a quest for knowledge. You also enjoy renowned natural-foods cuisine; daily Kripalu Yoga, meditation, and movement classes, in addition to the training curriculum; our sauna, fitness room, hiking trails, walking paths, and lakefront beach area; and the best views in the Berkshires.

Exceptional Faculty

The Kripalu School of Yoga faculty are extraordinary guides. With in-depth experience, a deep commitment to teaching, and a profound connection to the wisdom and practices that Kripalu offers, our faculty fosters powerful learning environments in which individuals can reach their greatest potential.

Thriving, 40-year Lineage

Our students benefit from more than four decades of integrating the fundamentals of the Kripalu lineage with understanding gained from contemporary wisdom. The result: Ours is a living tradition and a continually evolving practice.

OUR TRAININGS

200-Hour Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training

Gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence you need to become an exceptional yoga teacher. You emerge from our training inspired and ready to teach. Our residential training is offered as a monthlong program, two 12-day sessions, online and hybrid formats. kripalu.org/ytt200

300-Hour Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training

This training consists of four 9-day modules, taken in any order, that allow you to expand your range, advance your teaching, and strengthen your practice.

Prerequisite

Any 200-hour Yoga Alliance–approved teacher training certification. kripalu.org/ytt300

SCHOLARSHIPS

Scholarships are a vital part of Kripalu’s mission to make our offerings accessible to anyone seeking to enhance their life and realize their potential, regardless of background or financial status. Within the limits of our resources, we provide partial scholarships to individuals who otherwise would not be able to participate.