The Insight That Changed Everything

After completing four yoga teacher training programs in six years, I knew a lot about yoga.

I was teaching packed classes to grateful students and helping people improve their flexibility, strength, balance, and overall well-being.

But when it came to so many real-world challenges like chronic anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, or crippling self-doubt, I was completely out of my depth.

I mean, sure everybody feels better after a good yoga class. But for most people dealing with substantial life challenges, the anxiety or stress or overwhelm comes rushing right back in once they step back into the world.

​That's not healing, it’s just temporary escape. 

And it’s all because most of the problems we see in people's lives aren't actually problems. They're symptoms.

The anxiety.

The chronic stress.

The overwhelm, depression, relationship conflict, and crippling low self-worth.

These experiences are undeniably real, but they're almost always being driven by deeper, unseen patterns operating beneath conscious awareness.

Patterns of attachment.

Conditioned beliefs.

Habitual emotional responses.

Unexamined assumptions.

In yoga, these underlying patterns are known as samskaras. And they can be changed—but it takes more than just yoga postures and meditations.

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Even so, in my yoga trainings, I had been taught almost nothing about these subtle drivers of suffering. I mean sure, we spent enormous amounts of time learning the tools of yoga...

The postures.

The breathwork.

Meditations.

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And more...

But almost zero time understanding the underlying causes and conditions those tools are designed to interrupt.

As a result, I found myself using powerful yoga techniques to soothe symptoms while leaving the deeper patterns intact—and my students trapped in more of the same.

That’s when I became convinced that if I could understand, not only the tools of yoga, but also the causes and conditions they were designed to work on, I could help people create something more than temporary relief. I could help them create real and lasting, whole-life transformation.

That realization set me on a thirty-year quest to understand why people suffer, why they stay stuck, and how the tools of yoga can be applied with greater precision, confidence, and effectiveness.

Today, that understanding forms the foundation of Yoga Transformation Coach.

 What Makes Yoga Pura Different? 

Yoga Pura's Yoga Nidra Instructor Certification is a professional-level program that will arm you to put this powerful modality to work in your own life—while making you a masterful teacher readt to serve others in a way few others can.

That's because, our Certification Program moves far beyond the mere teaching of Yoga Nidra to include an in-depth study of human neurology, yogic psychology, the mechanics of dis-ease—from both the Western and Eastern perspectives.

Developed and led by renowned yoga educator, Yogacharya Eric Walrabenstein, the program has been created as a result of working with thousands of students over more than three decades.  Just some of what makes our course unique...

Rigorously Scientific Approach

You'll be learning a process that is rooted in cutting-edge therapeutic developments and the latest corroborative research-based data to master the delivery of Yoga Nidra for a multitude of conditions.

Authentic Spiritual Roots