Stress Management Yoga Teacher Training

For Yoga teachers and health professionals.

In this online training, you will gain the essential skills and confidence to adapt Yoga as stress management for corporate, healthcare, and other settings.

Learn Yoga practices that can help your students recover from past stress, cope with stress as it arises, and develop resilience for the future. Learn to adapt a variety of Yoga practices—including Hatha Yoga poses, relaxation and breathwork, Raja and Karma Yoga—to be accessible to any population.

You will learn:

• How to adapt Yoga postures, breathwork, meditation, relaxation, and mindfulness for stress relief, including standing and seated chair poses for different levels of physical capacity
• Breathwork, both adapted and remedial, designed to lower stress quickly
• Meditation and mindfulness as stress reduction tools
• Scientific evidence on the benefits of Yoga-based stress reduction
• Adapted relaxation techniques
• Mental and emotional practices of Yoga for stress relief
• Strategies for designing and marketing classes, workshops, and courses
• Methods for leading group discussions for peer support
• Fundamentals of trauma-sensitive Yoga practices

Stress is a component of nearly every illness, either as a cause or an effect, so this course is also a part of the Integral Yoga Therapy curriculum. It provides a solid foundation for many other specialized Yoga Therapy trainings including cardiac and cancer. This course provides good basic skills for PTSD, but further training is recommended if you want to specialize in teaching for PTSD.

Live sessions in Eastern Time on:

• Thursdays from 7–9 pm (This session can be adapted for other time zones)
• Saturdays from 11 am–1 pm and 2–4:30 pm
• Sundays from 11 am–1 pm

The live sessions will be recorded and the recordings are usually posted within one day for program participants to review. Allowance can be made for viewing some sessions after they occur to adapt for different time zones and schedule conflicts. Recordings will be available for review for 6 months after the program ends, until November 17, 2026. Attendance at live sessions is required for most sessions.  There will be 3–7 hours a week of homework.

In addition, you will have access to recorded Integral Hatha Yoga classes, meditations, and inspiring talks with Swami Satchidananda. You will also have access to an online social community to connect and communicate with other participants about this course. In addition, time spent with Buddy Groups (3 hours), Study Group for non-IY trained teachers, and Live Hatha Class are included.

Training Information

Prerequisites

200-hour Yoga teacher certification and at least 6 months of teaching experience. Certified clinicians with a good background in Yoga practice may also apply.

There are online reading assignments and videos before the course begins. These are counted in your course hours and prepare you for the practical training.

Continuing Education (CE) Opportunities

• Yoga Alliance (YA): Approximately 90 contact hours.
• You can input your contact hours using your YA login information.
• Integral Yoga Teachers Association (IYTA) can provide you a CE certificate with your program’s total contact hours for a $10 fee (free for IYTA members.) For more information, email ce@iyta.org.
• Integral Yoga 300-hour: 80 hours towards RYT 500 designation
• Yoga Therapy: This is one of the required modules to become certified as an Integral Yoga Therapist
• International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT): Approved Professional Development (APD) course eligible for 60 IAYT continuing education credits. (It is the students’ responsibility to request a certificate of completion and submit all required documents, hours, syllabus, etc. on the IAYT website.)

Testimonials

I would 100% recommend Integral Yoga Stress Management Teacher Training to Yoga teachers and health care providers. It was one of my favorite trainings. There was so much information and excellent resources were provided.  It was clear and logical. I use something from the training almost every day. — Trudy

I would highly recommend the SMTT Program for EVERYONE. It doesn’t matter your background, your profession, age or current situation in life, this program brings you the tools to make living everyday life easier. These tools that you learn in the SMTT course build your resilience and are accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime. And the best part is that you learn how to share this information! — Raisa Punkki

Integral Yoga Stress Management Teachers Training is an invaluable resource for our times. I am grateful to all of the teachers and staff who made this online experience so very rich, and for the community that was formed. It is already proving to be very helpful to me and those who I serve. Thank you. — Montina Sraddha Cole

Tentative Schedule

All activities at the Satchidananda Ashram in Yogaville, Virginia Ashram are structured around the daily schedule of the ashram which includes meditation and Hatha Yoga each morning and evening prior to breakfast and dinner, as well as noon meditation held in Guru Bhavahan and Lotus prior to lunch.