Trainings
Whether you are an experienced yoga teacher or just curious about teaching, Hydra Yoga has trainings that will equip you with the tools you need to support students with therapeutic yoga. Hydra Yoga Spa’s curriculum is based primarily in Eastern medicine, anatomy, and pathology, to help learners understand common injuries and their appropriate modifications. We also include yoga fundamentals such as ancient Ayurveda, chakras, bandhas and The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. We specialize in trainings which augment 200-hour teacher trainings and often teach in one-on-one internships, but occasionally hold group workshops to prepare you to guide your students to less pain and more energy in-person and in our online community.
Hydra is hiring Yoga Teachers for Spring and Summer weekly classes.
Do you want to connect with more students, learn to modify for students’ injuries, and teach in a fun and supportive setting? If you are an experienced yoga teacher with a passion for providing a therapeutic, spa-like experience for students, then teaching at Hydra yoga might be for you. We guarantee the lowest rental rates and highest competitive salaries depending on your teaching experience.
Complete our three-hour “Introduction to Therapeutics” workshop to qualify yourself as a Hydra Yoga Therapist. After completing the Introduction to Therapeutics workshop, you are eligible to register for our fifteen-hour teacher training, “Yin for the Absolute Beginner,” and try out for a spot on the weekly schedule. To have a spot on the weekly schedule, you must be registered for the “Yin Yoga for the Absolute Beginner” teacher training.
We guarantee the lowest rental rates and highest competitive salaries depending on your own teaching experience.
Spring 2025 Intro to Therapeutics
Yoga as Therapy Basics
This one-night, $175 yoga program prepares teachers to lead classes at Hydra Yoga Therapy, focusing on yoga as a healing modality for pain relief. It’s ideal for those with existing 200-hour training (or HYT trainees) and covers clinical yoga knowledge, intake processes, adapting sequences, and hands-on adjustments with consent.
Spring 2025 15hr Yin Yoga for the Absolute Beginner Teacher Training
This $350, two-night yoga teacher training retreat (required for a weekly spot on Hydra Yoga Therapy’s schedule) focuses on energetic meridian systems, yin/yang principles, and leading Hydra Yoga’s signature sequences and meditations. This training is open to anyone who has previously completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training. Others with relevant experience may be admitted at the discretion of the studio owner.” The training is held at the beautiful Lexington Reservoir in Los Gatos, California where you can enjoy group camping in a heated yurt included. Other yurt options or commuter options are also available.
Hydra Hot Yoga Teacher and Meditative Vinyasa 200hr Certification Program: April-June, 2025
Make your dream of teaching yoga a reality and take a deep dive into your own practice in this immersive yoga teacher training. This comprehensive training program integrates in-depth study of anatomy, trigger point theory, Eastern medicine, and traditional Ayurveda, so you will come away with everything you need to teach yoga that helps people heal. The primary focus is to equip teachers with a strong foundation in postural alignment cues and the professional skills necessary to lead effective and therapeutic meditative vinyasa and Hydra hot yoga classes. A secondary objective is to impart knowledge of anatomical and spiritual healing principles, along with the historical lineage of yoga, empowering teachers to tailor classes to the individual needs and well-being of their students. The curriculum includes field trips to experience diverse yoga and spa modalities, including complimentary massages.
“Hamstring Helper” Yoga for the Absolute Beginner
FREE 30 minute Online Workshop
Here at Hydra Yoga we understand how going to your first yoga class, or even going to your first massage, can be an intimidating experience. As a beginner, you may be worried about hurting yourself or being the only beginner in a room full of experienced practitioners. We are delighted to share with you the secret to releasing your hamstrings, which is the #1 goal for most beginning yoga students in a truly *Absolute Beginner* class.
Past Trainings:
Children’s Yoga
Starting children in a yoga practice is a powerful way to help them counteract the stress, diet and inactivity of modern life. This training will help teachers learn developmentally appropriate contraindications, benefits, and modifications.
Hydra Yoga Medical Reflexology Therapy
Learn all the angles of foot massage from modern western structural theory, to mystical Thai Yoga to ancient Traditional Chinese medicine. The foot is an amazing map of the rest of the body. With practice it is easy to read the inner-body with the a quick, noninvasive and totally delicious relaxing experience that is reflexology foot massage. Whether you want to assist in healing your clients from Hydra Yoga classes in private sessions or your are just interested in helping to heal your friends and family- reflexology is a REAL fascinating technology that the world needs more than ever!! Start and pause this course any time!!
Acupressure and Trigger Point Therapy: Advanced Teacher Training
Revealing the secrets of Integrated Thai Massage and Meditative Vinyasa, this training help solves the underlying causes of pain using trigger point therapy and explores the connections of our energy channels to the modern yoga practice.
November 2024– December 2024 Topics:
– Acupressure within Hydra Yoga Therapy and Integrated Thai Massage
– Structuring Integrated Thai Acupressure within Public and Private Hydra Yoga Sessions
-Understanding Trigger Point Therapy and the Physical Nature of Tension
– Understanding Acupressure and the Energetic Nature of Emotion
January February Topics:
Acupressure Specializing in the Upper Body
– Trigger Point Therapy for the Upper back, neck and head,
– Trigger Point Therapy for the shoulders, chest antebrachium and hand
– Trigger point therapy for Anterior Hip, thigh, low back, posterior hip and thigh, Anterior-lateral-posterior Cus, Pes Plantar and dorsal foot
March April Topics:
The Energetic System of Acupressure
– Acupressure Yoga for Common Emotional Complaints
(abandonment, addiction, anger, anxiety, codependency, depression, numbness, fear, grief, incest,
jealousy, mood swings, sexual abuse, stress, trauma and self doubt)
– Acupressure for Physical Imbalances
(Chronic Fatigue Fibromyalgia, Insomnia, Women’s Hormones, Nightmares)
– Acupressure within the context of the Chakra system, Ayurveda
February, March and April will hold clinic hours in Hydra Yoga Massage and Meditative Vinyasa. Please submit yourself to be our test subjects!!
Power Yoga Sunday School: Practicum Session Hours
Class specifically designed for the powerful passionate potential yoga teachers exclusively for Hydra Yoga. Peace and strength collide in this advanced training in meditation, classic power yoga postures, yoga sequencing, massage and exclusive hydra yoga body movement principles.