Advanced Training

Yoga Nidra Teacher Training

with Akasha S

September 12-14, 2025 — $350
Friday: 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Saturday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Sunday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Lift Yoga Johns Creek

Yoga Nidra is a simple yet profound technique adapted from the traditional tantric practice of nyasa. This workshop will provide you with transformational experiences of Yoga Nidra, a practice known as yogic sleep. By entering a state between wakefulness and sleep, you release tension and promote stress relief, cultivating self-awareness and a deeper connection with your inner self.

Yoga Nidra also supports deep physical and energetic rejuvenation, balancing energy centers (chakras) and enhancing overall well-being. It provides a safe space to explore and release buried emotions, past traumas, and limiting beliefs, promoting a sense of wholeness and inner peace.

This workshop explains the theory of Yoga Nidra in both yogic and scientific terms. Discover the profound benefits of Yoga Nidra and embrace a journey of relaxation, self-discovery, and holistic well-being today.

This counts as an elective module in Lift Yoga’s 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training program.

Grounded Kids Yoga Teacher Training

with Sedef Dion & Amy Haysman

Various Dates
Location: Alpharetta or online

We are proud to partner with Grounded Kids Yoga to offer their kids yoga trainings as part of our 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training program! Upholding the integrity of yoga while making it accessible, desirable, and beneficial to children makes this kids yoga teacher training training program radically distinct.

To get started, choose from the following two modules:

• Get Grounded In Children’s Yoga: This training is an invitation to create an authentic presence, complete engaging groundwork and receive a well-rounded introduction into all aspects of teaching yoga to children.
• Expand into Pre-Grounded, Special Needs & Teens: Align your skills with your heart’s desire to teach real yoga in a fun and meaningful way to little ones, teens and those with special needs.

Additional modules are available once Get Grounded is completed. Please email us at info@liftyogastudio.com for more details.

Click the buttons below to register for the upcoming Get Grounded and Expand modules and enter “Lift Yoga” in the referred by field at checkout.

Designing and Leading Transformative Workshops and Retreats

with Sheila Ewers

October 3-5, 2025 — $350
Friday: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Saturday-Sunday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Lift Yoga Johns Creek

Join Sheila Ewers, E-RYT500, founder of Johns Creek Yoga, Yoga Teacher Trainer at both the 200 and 500 level, and leader of both local and international retreats for a weekend intensive exploring foundational principles of crafting transformative programming.
One of the most powerful ways to deepen a yoga practice is through more immersive experiences than one can gain from daily classes. Workshops and Retreats give you the ability to take your students into more subtle aspects of consciousness and self and are a fulfilling and powerful way for you to share what you love.
In this workshop, you will learn:

• Principles of effective multimodal teaching to appeal to kinesthetic, audio and visual learners
• Ways to connect students to a communal experience and build sangha
• Effective use of dyads and triads
• How to create and energetic “arc” for longer programming
• The business considerations for leading a retreat

This module is required for students participating in the RYS300 hour program, but is open to all. This module counts for 18 CEUs approved by Yoga Alliance. (16 contact, 2 non-contact)

An Exploration of the Subtle Body and Chakra System

with Sheila Ewers

October 24-26, 2025 — $350
Friday: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Saturday-Sunday: 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Location: Lift Yoga Johns Creek

Join Sheila Ewers for an in-depth exploration of the Subtle Body and Chakras – primordial centers of lifeforce (Prana) that exist within you.

Tantric Yogis believe that your body is pulsing with consciousness and energy that is particularly concentrated in 7 major centers called chakras. The word chakra translates literally to wheel or disc and indicates the swirling energy that aggregates around major nerve centers and organs in the body. These impact our physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing and become repositories for our accumulated life experience.

In this weekend intensive, we will examine the architecture of each chakra’s anatomical structure, investigate the history of the chakra system as described in ancient texts, learn to listen to our own ancient wisdom with deeper consciousness, and discover tools to steward our pranic field with greater sensitivity.

During our time, we will explore:

– Experiential exercises to energize awareness and sharpen sensitivity.
– Tools to enliven the energy body and connect to each center of psyche and soul.
– Anatomy instruction about physical systems associated with each Chakra.
– Collaborative creation implementing your new understanding.

Required Text: The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Body by Cyndi Dale

No Experience Required: This workshop is offered as part of the Lift Yoga and Body 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training but is open to all.
Total CEUs: Contact: 20 hours/ non-Contact: 2 hours (homework assignment to be submitted after completion)

Understanding The Bhagavad Gita: VIRTUAL Training

with Sheila Ewers

October 27, November 4, 12, 20, 2025 — $325
5:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Zoom details to be provided prior to each session.

The Bhagavad Gita appears in the 6th Book of the Hindu Epic, Mahabharata. Written somewhere between the 5th and 2nd centuries B.C., the Gita has long been considered one of the most influential texts in the World. In a conversation between Prince Arjuna and his charioteer Krishna, universal themes such as the purpose of life, humankind’s relationship to divinity, the value of action vs. renunciation, and the timeless journey of the soul are explored in depth along with the  concepts of Karma, Dharma, Bhakti and Yoga.

The text has had international influence, informing the writing of American authors like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. Mahatma Ghandi turned to the Gita for consolation during his campaign for Indian Independence, and many other prominent politicians, philosophers, psychologists and leaders have lauded both its beauty and its message for centuries. For Yoga Practitioners world-wide, understanding the Gita has become an essential part of discovering the philosophical premise that underscores the practice.

• Session 1 – Introduction, Background and Context
• Session 2 – Understanding Dharma, Karma and How to realize the Nature of the True Self through Yoga
• Session 3 – Ishvara and Bhakti: What the Gita teaches about the Nature of God and the Worship of God
• Session 4 – Gunas and Atman: What the Bhagavad Gita teaches about the Nature of the Universe

Creative Theming and Sequencing

with Akasha S

November 7-9, 2025 — $350
Friday: 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Saturday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Sunday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Lift Yoga Johns Creek

Artfully weaving a theme into asana classes can take them from ordinary to extraordinary, facilitating introspection, contemplation and transformation by encouraging “Svadhyaya.” Learn how to use language and sequencing skillfully to create full body, mind, and soul experiences in your classes.

Topics covered will include:

• Advanced Sequencing
• Sequencing for Peak Pose
• Elements of Theme Based Classes
• Theme Weaving and the Power of Language

Course will include practice, lecture, student teaching and collaboration. This training is part of our 300YTT, but is open to all. Eligible for 18 CEUs through Yoga Alliance
Required text: Nourishing the Teacher, 2nd Edition by Danny Arguetty