Sat Sangat 950-hour Yoga Therapy Training - Overview

Sat Sangat Yoga Therapy training is structured in an online format, with one optional residential retreat per cohort so as to combine the best aspects of online and residential learning. This format helps us ensure access and peace of mind to all who wish to join our training. We offer mentorship, supervision, and expert training to our students as they gain the skills and competencies needed to succeed as professional yoga therapists.

Sat Sangat’s Level 1 yoga therapy program consists of fifteen mandatory modules to achieve the required hours for certification with IAYT. Level 2 offers a further 300 hours of elective training which focuses on trauma imbalances in pregnancy, spiritual birth-doula training, death-doula training, addiction rehabilitation, and ancestral lineage cleansing.

Sat Sangat’s training is rooted in Tantra, Hatha, and Kundalini Yoga. SSYT inculcates a deep understanding within therapists of their own healing processes by weaving together the study of Patanjali’s sutras, the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, neuroscience, physical and subtle anatomy, the science of breath, the art and science of meditation, and Ayurveda. The emphasis of SSYT training is on the healer healing themself, and in the process, learning how to help others do the same.

Each module weaves together perspectives of Yogic philosophy and Western science to create a future where the intermingling of indigenous healing systems and contemporary healing systems takes place for the greatest good. Every module contains foundational (theory and philosophy) knowledge and application methods (how to use the theory and philosophy to heal illness) embedded within it.

SSYT’s training has the groundbreaking perspective of rooting yoga therapy within pre-existing African (and other) indigenous knowledge healing systems and revealing the common ground they share today. This diverse approach to yoga therapy encourages a greater understanding of First Peoples’ healing systems and thus honouring the ancestral roots of us all.

We believe that social justice is a spiritual practice and we aim to bring diversity into healing practices globally.

Pre-requisites for SSYT training:

• 200-hour yoga teacher certification; 1 year of personal practice and teaching.
• Commitment to the full SSYT program.
• Stamina to rigorously pursue self-knowledge and inner healing while adhering to stringent academic standards of excellence.
• Each course’s participation is limited to 15 people.
• To see a list of upcoming courses please click below.

Each module has the overall objective of qualifying the training therapist in Yoga Theory and Practice. Tools that achieve the global aim of Yoga are taught with reference to particular states of disease such as diabetes, cancer, anxiety, depression, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and many others. Online modules all have a practical component whereby the training therapist delivers one-on-one yoga therapy or group yoga therapy to volunteers with conditions matching the subject matter of the module. All practicum is supervised through mentoring sessions.