A Call To Return

If you feel the pull toward slowing down, deepening your practice, and being held in community as you return to yourself, we invite you to join us.

This is an invitation to choose a different way of learning, healing, and remembering.

If you are seeking a yoga training that honors your lived experience, your nervous system, and your cultural wisdom, this space was created with you in mind.

You are not asked to leave parts of yourself at the door.

Your story, your body, your questions, and your pace are welcome.

Our 200-hour YTT is not rooted in extraction, performance, or perfection. It is rooted in safety, lineage, relationship, and care.

Here, yoga is practiced as a somatic, ancestral, and liberatory path. One that supports both personal healing and collective restoration.

The Journey of Self ~ In Community

This training follows the arc of the journey of the self, through the self, to the self collectively.

Through sacred movement, breath, sound, and ritual, we examine how embodied practices support regulation, resilience, and repair.

This exploration also invites a reconnection to ancestral and cultural ways of being that have long honored the body as a source of wisdom and medicine, reminding us that healing has always lived in relationship with the body.

At Garden of Self learning happens through experience, relationships, and mutual care.

This is not a training that rushes transformation.

It is a container that invites safety, witnessing, and remembrance.

Who This Training Is For

This training is for BIPOC women who feel called to healing work rooted in the body, community, and ancestral wisdom.

It is especially for:

  • Mamas and caregivers navigating the layered labor of care—those holding families, communities, and lineages, and longing for practices that honor both rest and resilience

  • Healers, space-holders, and facilitators seeking trauma-informed, culturally grounded tools that move beyond surface-level yoga and into embodied repair

  • Therapists, clinicians, and mental health professionals who want to integrate somatic wisdom, nervous system care, and body-based practices into their personal and professional lives

  • Those reconnecting with ancestral ways of knowing, herbal traditions, and embodied practices that were disrupted or lost through colonization

  • Women in transition—grief, motherhood, burnout, identity shifts, or reclamation—who are ready to deepen their relationship with self through embodied practice

This training welcomes both aspiring yoga teachers and those who may never plan to teach publicly. Join us if you feel called to practice yoga as a pathway for healing and collective care.

No prior teaching experience is required.

All you need is a willingness to listen to your body, honor your lived experience, and engage in community with care and accountability.

Embodied Practices

Multicultural History & Philosophy

Functional & Trauma Informed Anatomy

Asana, Pranayama & Meditation

Somatic Tools For Healing & Regulation

Social Justice, Cultural Humility & Collective Care

Holding Space with Integrity & Compassion

From Appropriation to Relationship

Inclusivity & Accessibility

Included In This Training

More Than A Certification

This 200-hour training offers a spacious, trauma-informed container that goes far beyond learning poses or sequencing classes. It is an immersive journey into embodiment, remembrance, and inner listening—rooted in cultural integrity, nervous system care, and collective healing.

This is a container for witnessing, unlearning, remembering, and returning to self.

A space where you are supported to move slowly, feel safely, and reclaim embodied wisdom—whether or not you ever teach yoga publicly. You will leave not just with tools and knowledge, but with a strengthened relationship to your body, your intuition, and your capacity to care for yourself and others with integrity.

Tuition includes all required materials, along with a thoughtfully curated participant package featuring Herbs of the Week, and rituals to connect with so you are fully supported in your learning without the need to source additional resources on your own. Participants receive access to all guest facilitator workshops, with CEUs available for qualified participants for the trauma-informed education portion of the training.

In addition, enrollees are granted ongoing access to our online, self-paced Flow at Your Own Pace course curriculum, offering continued study, integration, and support beyond the live training experience.

Training Structure & Logistics

This 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training is held over 8 weekends, meeting every other weekend to allow for integration, rest, and embodied learning between sessions. The pacing is intentional—honoring nervous system capacity, caregiving rhythms, and real life. Each training weekend weaves collective learning with individual reflection, allowing participants to move through the material at their own pace while being held in community.


Our weekly rhythm includes:

  • A Chakra of the Week, explored through embodied practice, reflection, and energetic understanding

  • A Limb of the Week, grounding yogic philosophy into lived experience and daily life

  • An Herb of the Week, introducing plant allies and ancestral herbal wisdom with cultural and ethical context

  • Asanas of the Week, taught through a trauma-informed, choice-based, somatic lens

Between weekends, participants engage with:

  • Weekly readings and reflective practices to support integration

  • Journaling, self-inquiry, and optional embodiment practices

  • Gentle prompts that invite listening rather than striving


Specialized Workshops & Guest Facilitators

Throughout the training, participants are supported by experienced and culturally rooted facilitators offering workshops in:

  • Yoga Nidra

  • Mayan Yoga

  • Sound Healing

  • Functional & embodied Anatomy

  • Ayurveda and elemental wisdom

These offerings deepen the experiential learning and broaden understanding beyond a single tradition, honoring yoga as a living, evolving practice across cultures.

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