Free | Please register in advance, a Zoom link and passcode will be provided via confirmation email.
Join the trainers for this live-online Open House to learn more about our 200-hour Basic Yoga Teacher Training program this spring. We’ve been leading trainings here in San Francisco for forty years. In fact, the Yoga Alliance standards for this teacher training were based on our program.
This training will lead you on a time-tested journey to greater self-knowledge, with the support of a vibrant and well-respected spiritual community. Students will receive ongoing weekly mentoring during the training, and we offer mentorship and ongoing training to our graduates.
Our teacher trainers have extensive experience leading the Teacher Training program. They will take this opportunity to tell you more about the curriculum of the training and answer any questions you may have. Sign up for the Basic Teacher Training at the online Open House for a discounted rate!
We will discuss how this training will effectively be translated online. All of the instructors have been actively leading, training and supporting students online since March 2020 at the start of the Shelter in Place orders in SF, CA. Our goal is to maintain a personal connection with each student through the use of modern technology balanced with the ancient technology within the yogic teachings. This 200-hour Basic Yoga Teacher Training is recognized by Yoga Alliance and offers a path towards being a knowledgeable yoga teacher for in person or online classes. We are committed to providing a safe and high quality program for all participants.
Visit our webpage for the 200-hour Basic Yoga Teacher Training to learn more about the program.
This 2021 Spring Teacher Training teaching staff includes Swami Ramananda, Mukunda Marc Morozumi, Mia Velez and Rev. Kamala Itzel Berrio.
About the trainers:
Mukunda Marc Morozumi, E-RYT 200, CMT began practicing Ashtanga yoga in 2001 while a full-time modern dancer with Joe Goode Performance Group in SF, CA. Due to injury, Mukunda retired from his 12 year dance career in 2004 and entered the events industry from 2004-2016. A 2-month personal trip to India in 2007 paved the way for landing in Yogaville in 2009 for his first teacher training with Swami Divyananda and staff. One month after returning from graduation, Mukunda began teaching a Saturday morning class at the SF IYI which he maintained for over 10 years. Mukunda has co-led Integral Yoga retreats since 2011 and has staffed or co-led Basic Teacher Trainings since 2013. He has opened and managed small group yoga studios in SF since 2017 and in early 2020, he opened and then reformed a yoga center post COVID-19: Mukunda Yoga – Activation and Well-being Center in SOMA, SF, CA.
Swami Ramananda is the Executive Director of the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco and a greatly respected senior teacher in the Integral Yoga tradition, who has been practicing Yoga for over 45 years. Ramananda offers practical methods of integrating the timeless teachings and practices of Yoga into daily life, and transforming the painful aspects of human experience into steps toward realizing one’s full potential. He leads beginner, intermediate and advanced level Yoga teacher training programs in San Francisco, and offers a variety of programs in many locations in the U.S., Europe and South America. Ramananda co-developed the Stress Management Teacher Training program with Swami Vidyananda, has trained many teachers to bring Yoga into corporate, hospital and medical settings, and has taught mind/body wellness programs in many locations. He is a certified Yoga therapist and founding board member of the Yoga Alliance, a national registry that supports and promotes yoga teachers as professionals. He is a co-founder of The Spiritual Action Initiative (SAI) which brings together individuals committed to working for social justice for all beings and for the care and healing of our natural world. His warmth, wisdom and sense of humor have endeared him to many.
Mia Velez entered the Integral Yoga Sangha in 2016 through the kitchen by helping to cook Thursday community lunches and silent retreat meals. In 2018 she certified as an Integral Yoga teacher to learn more of the IYI approach and be part of the lineage. Mia is a disciple of the Moy Yat Ving Tsun Kung Fu lineage and is highly influenced by her martial arts training. After completing her first 200 hour teacher training in 2008, she began to see undeniable parallel in Yoga and Kung Fu. When she began teaching Kung Fu in 2014, she incorporated Yoga insight and principles in her classes. Her goal in teaching is to connect with the students and to facilitate a safe space for exploration and self inquiry. Yoga and Kung Fu is integrated into her daily life as a mother, a preschool teacher, and an advocate for gender, race and class equality through multiple non-profits groups.
Rev. Kamala Itzel Hayward is a compassionate and fierce advocate for love. After serving as a public policy lawyer for 13 years, Itzel left her legal career and founded Attuned Living, a mindfulness and wellness organization that helps individuals heal the sense of separation they feel from others—or even from themselves. Her unique work—based on the teachings of yoga, mindfulness, and compassionate communication—ranges from promoting social justice work within organizations and communities to guiding individuals on their search for personal and professional fulfillment. Today, she holds retreats, classes, trainings, and private one-on-one sessions online, over the phone, and in person with people from all over the world. Her mission is to gently remind you of your individual wholeness and your interconnectedness with others and all of life.
Learn more at attunedliving.com.