Sivananda Institute of Health

The Sivananda Institute of Health and Yoga (SIHY) is a health education branch of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers (SYVC). SIHY has a 2-year 800-hour Sivananda Yoga Health Educator Training (SYHET) program, 5-day Yoga Health Education Camps, 2-day Yoga Health Weekend Intensives, and personal consultations are also available.

Teachers Training Course (TTC)

This 4 week course, which offers a profound personal experience, will allow you to transmit the knowledge of yoga to others. We have 2 TTCs in May and October at the Yoga Farm. We have 3 TTCs in Vietnam in Feb., July, and November and one in China in September

Gift Certificates

Give the gift of yoga, health, peace, and happiness to a friend or loved one.

Upcoming Courses

Marma Points Therapy Course

Bharata Surya
Thursday, Aug 16 – Sunday, Aug 19, 2018

This course is designed for yoga teachers, serious yoga students, and health practitioners who are interested in using vital energy centres for healing.

Food As Medicine:
Ayurvedic Cooking Certification

Bharata Surya
Sunday, Aug 19 – Sunday, Aug 26, 2018

In this 7-day certificate course, learn Ayurvedas principles of six tastes and three constitutions to build recipes for restoring health and balance.

Aromatherapy: Vedic and Western Healing Tradition

Kathi Keville
7:00 PM Friday, Aug 24 –
9:30 PM Sunday, Aug 26, 2018

This seminar embraces both the rich, traditional lore and modern science of aromatic plants to heal mind, body & spirit. Come surround yourselves in different scents, while exploring which ones have long been used to benefit meditation, yoga, state of mind, daily lives, and emotional and physical healing.

Yoga Health Education Intensive Weekend - Chronic Pain

7:00 PM Friday, Aug 24 –
2:00 PM Sunday, Aug 26, 2018

This weekend will introduce you to some current ideas on pain and the nervous system, plus the very hopeful concept of neuroplasticity.

Jyotish Beginners Course

William Surface
Sunday, Aug 26 – Friday, Aug 31, 2018

Take advantage of this unique opportunity to study Vedic Astrology for Beginners in an easy to understand but comprehensive course.

Labor Day Weekend: Vedic Sciences for Healing and Self-transformation

7:00 PM Friday, Aug 31 –
3:00 PM Monday, Sep 3, 2018

Ayurveda as behavioral health care. Ayurveda is firmly rooted in behavioral medicine through Ayurveda lifestyle changes.

Vedic Counseling - 2nd Module - Focus on Ayurveda and Tantra

Friday, Aug 31 – Wednesday, Sep 5, 2018

This Vedic Counceling course goal is to help serious Yoga Teachers, Ayurvedic Practitionners and Vedic Sciences Practitionners to acquire additionnal and practical skills to be able to help their students or clients on the path of positive living and high thinking.

Accessible Yoga

Jivana Heyman
Friday, Sep 7 – Monday, Sep 10, 2018

The Accessible Yoga Teacher Training program focuses on how to make the Yoga teachings available to everyone, regardless of their level of physical ability. We’ll explore the many ways that Yoga practice can be modified to suit students with disabilities, physical challenges, and seniors.

Chair Yoga Teacher Training

Stacie Dooreck
Friday, Sep 14 – Sunday, Sep 16, 2018

Learn how to make Yoga accessible to seniors, those with disabilities or limited mobility, the chronically ill, Alzheimer patients, pre-/post-surgery patients, and those recovering from illness.

Restorative Yoga Teacher Training

Nora Benian
Monday, Sep 17 – Wednesday, Sep 19, 2018

Learn a full series of restorative postures through direct experience, practice teaching, and feedback, preparing you to confidently teach a primary series of restorative poses to your students as well as incorporate them into your own practice.