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Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health

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Stockbridge, MA 01262, USA

Types of Yoga Taught

Flow Yoga

Alignment-Oriented Yoga

Fitness Yoga

Spiritually-Oriented Yoga

Gentle Yoga

Specialty Yoga

Trainings Formats

Full-time
usually intensive/immersion

Part-time
spread out over time

Modules
several, shorter immersions

Residential
trainees stay on-site

Non-residential
trainees commute to the program

Destination / retreat

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ENGLISH

About 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,...

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, or a weekend program. 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

 

1000-Hour Yoga Teacher Training

Led by some of today’s most sought-after yoga teachers and thought leaders, these trainings inspire and empower you to go out into the world to serve you students and community with greater insight, knowledge, and confidence. All of the programs in our 1000-Hour Yoga Teacher Training offer continuing education credits. kripalu.org/ytt1000

 

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. Scholarships are based on a percentage of your training cost, based on need.


First Registered October 1999

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  • 5 out of 5
    By: Rachel Friedman-Selsley Mar 28, 2024

    Brahmani ( teacher) was fantastic. The training was life changing.

    • General Comments

      Brahmani ( teacher) was fantastic. The training was life changing.
  • 5 out of 5
    By: Lelaina Pauli Mar 27, 2024

    A profoundly transformative experience. Completing my 200-hour yoga teacher training here and exploring Kripalu Yoga has brought so much peace into my life. All of my teachers were highly skilled and knowledgeable. The program was structured mindfully and provided the perfect amount of challenge, maintaining a thoughtful balance between stimulating progress and avoiding overwhelm. Additional Bonus: beautiful location and delicious food!

    • General Comments

      A profoundly transformative experience. Completing my 200-hour yoga teacher training here and exploring Kripalu Yoga has brought so much peace into my life. All of my teachers were highly skilled and knowledgeable. The program was structured mindfully and provided the perfect amount of challenge, maintaining a thoughtful balance between stimulating progress and avoiding overwhelm. Additional Bonus: beautiful location and delicious food!
  • 5 out of 5
    By: Angie Walker Mar 25, 2024

    I feel deeply aligned with Kripalu's philosophy of yoga- it’s an inclusive, mindful, and whole-body/mind/spirit approach. I did a 2x12 day yoga teacher training and loved having an intensive experience, as well as a break in the middle. The schedule provided time for both immersion and time for integration. The staff and teacher trainers at Kripalu are highly professional. Every teacher I interacted with knew. their. stuff. and was highly experienced.

    • General Comments

      I feel deeply aligned with Kripalu's philosophy of yoga- it’s an inclusive, mindful, and whole-body/mind/spirit approach. I did a 2x12 day yoga teacher training and loved having an intensive experience, as well as a break in the middle. The schedule provided time for both immersion and time for integration. The staff and teacher trainers at Kripalu are highly professional. Every teacher I interacted with knew. their. stuff. and was highly experienced.
  • 5 out of 5
    By: Michelle Gallant Mar 22, 2024

    After having completed my 500 hour certification in 2008 I continued to participate in classes there. Kripalu yoga helped me so much in life that as a graduation present for my daughter I gave her the 200 YTT training in the summer of 2013. We celebrated the rinigng in of 2024 by attending Tod Norian's Yoga Retreat for Inner Peace. The world needs Kripalu!

    • General Comments

      After having completed my 500 hour certification in 2008 I continued to participate in classes there. Kripalu yoga helped me so much in life that as a graduation present for my daughter I gave her the 200 YTT training in the summer of 2013. We celebrated the rinigng in of 2024 by attending Tod Norian's Yoga Retreat for Inner Peace. The world needs Kripalu!
  • 5 out of 5
    By: Mark Epstein Mar 20, 2024

    I took the course in 1994 and it was wonderful!

    • General Comments

      I took the course in 1994 and it was wonderful!
  • 5 out of 5
    By: Jessica McNally Mar 18, 2024

  • 4.5 out of 5
    By: Jessica Greer Morris Mar 10, 2024

    Swami Kripalu's compassionate methodology and values of self- love are baked into the culture of Kripalu retreat center and YTT. Highly recommend the school of yoga. Ayurveda, transformative leadership programs, and YTT.

    • General Comments

      Swami Kripalu's compassionate methodology and values of self- love are baked into the culture of Kripalu retreat center and YTT. Highly recommend the school of yoga. Ayurveda, transformative leadership programs, and YTT.
  • 5 out of 5
    By: Carrie Avirett Mar 05, 2024

  • 5 out of 5
    By: Himanee Gupta Mar 04, 2024

  • 5 out of 5
    By: Mimi Hill Mar 04, 2024

    The Kripalu 200HR YTT provided an experience and a training that far exceeded my expectations of what a yoga teacher training would be like. For deep seekers who are looking to build a strong foundation for their seeking, practice, and teaching, I highly recommend training with Kripalu. It is an honor to be a part of this lineage!

    • General Comments

      The Kripalu 200HR YTT provided an experience and a training that far exceeded my expectations of what a yoga teacher training would be like. For deep seekers who are looking to build a strong foundation for their seeking, practice, and teaching, I highly recommend training with Kripalu. It is an honor to be a part of this lineage!
First Registered October 1999

School Reviews

Total Reviews: 1436

Mar 28, 2024

Brahmani ( teacher) was fantastic. The training was life changing. Full Review

By Lelaina Pauli RYT® 200

Mar 27, 2024

A profoundly transformative experience. Completing my 200-hour yoga teacher training here and exploring Kripalu Yoga has brought so much peace into my life. All of my teachers were highly skilled and knowledgeable. The program was structured mindfully and provided the perfect amount of challenge, maintaining a thoughtful balance between stimulating progress and avoiding overwhelm. Additional Bonus: beautiful location and delicious food! Full Review

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Teaching Staff

Jaime Boswell

E-RYT® 500, YACEP®

Sadia Bruce

E-RYT® 500, YACEP®

Larissa Carlson

E-RYT® 500, YACEP®

Michael Carroll Michael Carroll

E-RYT® 500

Sam Chase

E-RYT® 500

Michelle Dalbec

E-RYT® 500, YACEP®

Janna Delgado

E-RYT® 500, YACEP®

Jurian Hughes

E-RYT® 500, YACEP®

Coby Kozlowski

E-RYT® 500

Steven Leonard

E-RYT® 500

Kaelash Neels

E-RYT® 500

Mary Northey Mary Northey

E-RYT® 500

Cathy Prescott (Nityatara)

E-RYT® 500, RCYT®, RPYT®, YACEP®

Ellen Schaeffer

E-RYT® 500, YACEP®

Monique Schubert

E-RYT® 200, RYT® 500, YACEP®

Marlysa Sullivan

E-RYT® 500, YACEP®

Tam Terry

E-RYT® 500, YACEP®

Elizabeth Gibbs

E-RYT® 500

Sudha Carolyn Lundeen Sudha Carolyn Lundeen

E-RYT® 500

Rudy Peirce

E-RYT® 500, YACEP®

Jennifer Reis

E-RYT® 500, YACEP®

All Teaching Staff (21)

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