The Garden of Self/The Garden of Self Cohort-Spring 2026

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The Garden of Self Cohort-Spring 2026

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  • Course
  • 75 Lessons
  • 150-day access
  • Starts Mar 1

Join a supportive group of like-hearted seekers for a Live online community-centered experience. We’ll gather over 8 weekends, every other weekend, creating space to connect, learn, and grow together in real time. Includes -Curated package -Access to Garden of Self Course -Guest facilitator workshops -bi-weekly virtual sessions -Closing retreat & ceremony -200 Hour YTT Certificate -CEUs available

Contents

Preparing the Soil

This is where we begin — by tending the soil. Before diving into teachings and techniques, we invite you to pause, root, and arrive. This section offers an opening blessing, introductions, and community agreements to support the sacred container we’re co-creating. Together, we’ll explore the intentions, rhythms, and shared values that will guide us through this journey of remembering, reclamation, and return.

This is more than orientation — it’s an offering of care and clarity, so that you can feel supported, held, and resourced as you begin your path through the Garden of Self.

Opening Blessing

1 - Planting the Seeds

Exploring the roots of yoga and herbalism through a decolonial, earth-honoring lens. This module plants the seeds of understanding — of yoga’s sacred roots, cultural context, and spiritual philosophies — while beginning to weave in herbalism and earth-based practices as part of yoga’s living lineage. Each lesson offers fertile ground to unlearn, remember, and grow.

What Is Yoga?
Multicultural Roots of Yoga
Yoga as a Multilayered Practice
Cultural Context and Yoga Today
A Working Definition of Yoga
The Chakras & Yoga
Limb of the Week: The Yamas
What is the Muladhara (Root Chakra)?
Plant Ally Of The Week: Burdock
Herbal Tea as Ritual

2 - The Medicine of Breath & Stillness

Pranayama & The Science of Breath
Dirga Pranayama (Three-Part Breath)
What is Meditation?
What is the Svadhisthana (Sacral Chakra)?
Meditation, the Sacral Chakra & the Niyamas
Limb of the Week: The Niyamas
Plant Ally of the Week: Hibiscus
Intuitive Painting with Hibiscus

3 - The Language of the Body

What is Yoga Anatomy?
Key Takeaways: Yoga Anatomy Essentials
What is the Manipura (Solar Plexus Chakra)?
Limb of the Week: Asana
Plant Ally of the Week: Ginger
Ginger Shots for Solar Plexus

4 - Tending to Our Inner Garden

Trauma in the Body: The Nervous System & Brain
The Nervous System: Safety Before Change
The Brain & Trauma
Core Principles of Trauma‑Informed Practice
Trauma‑Sensitive Language in Yoga
Core Principles of Trauma‑Sensitive Language
Common Language Shifts
What Trauma‑Sensitive Language Is Not
What is the Anahata (Heart Charkra)?
Limb of the Week: Pranayama
How Pranayama Supports the Other Limbs
Plant Ally of the Week: Rose
Tending to Our Inner Garden Quiz
Rose Ritual

5 - Roots & Resistance

Yoga Nidra / Shadow Work / Emotional Anatomy & Somatic Yoga

Yoga Nidra: Rest as Resistance
Subtle Bodies: Energy Beyond the Physical
Limb of the week:Pratyahara
Energetics & the Chakras
Plant Ally of the Week: Spearmint
Herbal Energetics & the Body
The Power of Sound: Mantra & Sound Healing
Tincture Making

6 -The medicine of the plants

Plant Ally of the Week: Mugwort
Introduction to Herbalism
Plant Spirit Connection
Making Herbal Medicine
Ayurveda & the Wisdom of the Elements
Ethical Wildcrafting & Reciprocity
Limb of the week: Dharana
Dream Pillows with Mugwort

7 - Harvest

Plant Ally of the Week: Rosemary
Limb of the week: Dhyana

8-Integration

Weaving it all together through practicum, teaching presence, and embodied reflection.We honor your journey, harvest the wisdom of the last eight modules, and prepare to step into your role as a guide, space-holder, and medicine keeper — rooted and ready.

Integration Ritual
limb of the week: Samadhi
Plant ally of the week: Cacao
Holding Space: Methodology for Teaching with Intention
Student Teach-Backs / Final Projects
Certification
Closing Circle & Blessing

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Practices of pranayama, meditation, and nervous system care.Stillness is not passive — it’s powerful. We explore breathwork and meditation as pathways to nervous system regulation, ancestral connection, and inner knowing.

Mudras: Sacred Gestures for Energy Flow
The Nervous System & Trauma Response
Pranayama Practices
Meditation & Inner Listening
Herbs for Stillness
Japa Meditation: Repetition as Ritual
Anatomy as Relationship
Location & Movement Terminology
Physiology & the Nervous System
Safety, Variations & Alignment as Self-Awareness
Nourishment