300-Hour YTT Holistic Yoga Psychology & Intuitive Wisdom

Established 2026

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School Yoga Institute

Pioneer Rd, Oregon, USA

Marion County, OR

Program Instances

Hybrid

Jun 29 – Jul 15, 2027

17 days • 300 hours • TBD

Delicias, Provincia de Puntarenas, CR

Led by

Keri Nelson Pennell

CYT-L3

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Purpose

Along the way, you will learn to identify psychological barriers, limiting beliefs, and embodied emotional responses—empowering you to become your own healer while supporting others in releasing old patterns. This integrative process illuminates unconscious material, creating the freedom to consciously design and live a life that is authentic, aligned, and deeply fulfilling.

This training also supports you in expanding your current teaching and offerings through intelligent, intuitive sequencing inspired by your unique gifts and personal medicine. You will learn how to design holistic classes and ceremonial experiences that align with your values, wisdom, and lived experience. Through somatic-based practices, you will develop a nuanced understanding of the body through the lens of the nervous system—revealing how transformation unfolds on physical, emotional, mental, and energetic levels.

What to expect

During our 300Hr YTT program you will:

Practice various styles of yoga including Hatha, Vinyasa, Intuitive Yoga, Somatic Yoga, Ceremonial Yoga, and Restorative.
Explore Holistic Yoga Psychology Principles, Pillars, and Practices.
Access your Inner Wisdom and Intuitive Voice.
Dive deep into the wisdom of your body.
Expand your understanding of Advanced Anatomy & Physiology.
Explore intelligent and intuitive sequencing for various populations.
Learn how to make classes holistic and inclusive while bringing awareness to body positivity.
Discover principles of energetic alignment and hands-on assists for emotional and psychological release.
Learn how to provide care, support, and justice in your community.
Explore Equity and Equality within Yoga.
Build awareness and cultural competency related to the BIPOC LGBTQ+ Communities.
Use your empathy and sensitivity as a superpower.

Understand various meditation techniques and ways to work with the mind.
Learn approaches to ceremonial facilitation and space holding for communities and groups.
Come into full balance (nervous system, body, emotions, psychologically, spiritually).
Understand cultural appropriation within the yoga community.
Cultivate a safe space for you and others to transform and heal.
Explore the Multi-dimensional Self and siddhi powers through The Yoga Sutras.
Heal ancestral and cultural suffering carried through the generations through Ancestral Psychology.
Overcome limiting beliefs and live your dream life.
Uncover your intuitive gifts and explore your Clair senses.
Become the master of your life and use yoga as a tool for self-healing.
Author your own story and build your own successful yogic business.

Style/Lineage

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Throughout this 300-hour YTT, you will learn how to skillfully hold space for yourself and diverse communities through the principles and practices of holistic yoga psychology. Through somatic movement, intuitive exploration, and emotional release techniques, you will gently uncover what is ready to be revealed in the present moment. Together, we dive beneath the surface of awareness to access profound self-reflection, inner healing, and soul growth.

Additional Information

Core competencies

By the end of this program, graduates will be able to…

Teaching Skills	Construct a beginner pranayama progression spanning several sessions, formulating a sequence that moves safely from breath awareness to short retention. Evaluate a proposed bandha cue for a mixed-experience class, assessing whether it is safe and accessible for beginners in the room. Design a short class segment that incorporates a mudra alongside pranayama, formulating instruction that ties the two practices together clearly.
Business Skills	Develop a personal positioning statement and biography, formulating language that reflects a clear teaching identity and target student. Develop a simple strategic plan for a teaching practice, formulating a mission statement and three to five career objectives. Develop a short plan for approaching new teaching venues, formulating a list of target locations suited to a stated teaching style. Develop a simple marketing and student-loyalty plan for a teaching practice, formulating specific actions for both attracting and retaining students.
Anatomy, Physiology, Biomechanics	Evaluate a described practice for which layer of the pancamaya model it most directly addresses, justifying the choice with specific reasoning. Develop a themed practice built around a chakra and its associated prana vayu, formulating breath and movement choices that reflect both. Evaluate a proposed pose modification for its effect on a specific joint, justifying whether it respects that joint's natural range of motion. Design a short sequence that trains a specific muscle action pattern, formulating pose choices that build strength or awareness in that pattern. Develop a sequence aimed at supporting spinal health for a student with a described postural pattern, formulating pose choices that address the specific imbalance. Assess a facilitated stretching technique for proper sequencing, evaluating whether the contract-relax steps are being applied correctly.
Lifestyle & Ethics	Evaluate a personal pattern of response to challenges, assessing which level of the medicine wheel it most closely reflects. Develop a personal reintegration plan following an intensive experience, formulating specific steps across practice, community, and relationships. Develop a set of daily living guidelines suited to a specific dosha, formulating recommendations that address its common imbalances.
Practice Skills	Develop a personal pranayama practice sequence, formulating an order that moves safely from foundational breathing to more advanced kumbhaka work. Construct a personal practice sequence integrating all three bandhas, formulating an order and pacing suited to a seated pranayama session. Develop a personal mudra practice paired with meditation or pranayama, formulating a combination suited to a stated personal intention. Develop a personal chanting routine combining mantra and medicine song, formulating a structure suited to a stated spiritual intention.
Yoga History & Theory	Evaluate a personal practice against a concept drawn from the Bhagavad Gita, assessing how closely it reflects that teaching. Evaluate a personal habit or routine for its likely influence on the gunas, assessing whether it tends to stabilize, agitate, or dull the mind. Evaluate which of the four paths of yoga best matches a described personality or life situation, justifying the match with specific reasoning. Evaluate a personal practice against the eight limbs, assessing which limbs are well developed and which are underdeveloped.