Kundalini Shakti Yoga Teacher Training: The Yoga of Energy Awakening
Baja 9 day Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training program
Awaken your inner energy and step into deeper wisdom with Yandara’s Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training. This heart-centered program in Baja, Mexico is designed for yoga practitioners and teachers who are ready to explore the transformative power of kundalini yoga. It can be enjoyed independently or as part of Yandara’s 300-hour curriculum.
Set against the serene backdrop of our secluded beach campus in Baja California—where the desert meets the sea—you’ll experience a week of community, stillness, and inspiration. Play in the waves, watch the birds soar, and soak in the natural rhythms of life as you dive deeply into practice.
Upcoming Baja, Mexico, Kundalini Shakti Courses
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*Please note, the travel days are the first and last day of the posted training dates, schedule your arrival/departure accordingly.
What You’ll Learn in This Kundalini Teacher Training
At the core of yoga’s art and skill lies kundalini shakti—the awakening energy that fuels transformation. This program gives you tools to enrich your teaching, expand your personal practice, and connect with the essence of yoga through:
- Kundalini Kriyas: dynamic sequences of asana, pranayama, mudra, chant, and meditation.
- Chakra Balancing: practices to charge the body, expand the breath, and harmonize subtle energy centers.
- Gong Training: learn to play the gong as a healing tool to awaken and integrate kundalini energy.
- Yogic Lifestyle Immersion: live and breathe the practices in a supportive, heart-centered community.
Why Kundalini Yoga?
Kundalini Yoga is a powerful practice that combines movement, breathwork, chanting, and meditation to create specific effects. From stilling the mind to awakening vitality, attracting abundance, supporting healing, and cultivating deep inner balance.
First popularized in the 1960s, Kundalini Yoga is once again on the rise—beloved for its ability to energize the body, clear the mind, and awaken consciousness. Practicing these techniques not only strengthens the physical body, but organizes and refines your inner energy. Get ready to feel vibrant, radiant, and deeply connected.
Transformation Through Practice
This training isn’t just about techniques—it’s about inner transformation. Together we’ll explore how to lovingly meet limiting beliefs, release old patterns, and expand into greater awareness. You’ll discover how Kundalini Yoga can serve as a pathway to vitality, creativity, and self-realization.
Alongside the kriyas, you’ll also experience gong baths—a profound practice used to balance the nervous system and invite states of deep rest and renewal.
A Training for Teachers and Practitioners Alike
Whether you want to:
- Enhance your personal growth
- Add Kundalini Yoga to your teaching toolkit
- Earn 100 hours toward your 300-hour certification
…this program offers the foundation and inspiration you need. You’ll leave with sequences and meditations to share with your students—and a renewed sense of energy and purpose to guide your path.
Your Instructors
The instructors for this course are Mercy Dev Sangeeta Kaur and Shane Christopher Perkins together with Yandara guest teacher Japa Kaur. Japa Kaur is a certified Level 2 Kundalini Yoga instructor who has been teaching Kundalini Yoga for over 20 years. She is a dedicated practitioner, musician and sound healer and a regular teacher and performer at the Solstice gatherings of Kundalini teachers and practitioners from all over the world. She leads mornings sadhanas with her own renditions of the Aquarian mantras and enjoys leading kirtan with the mantras brought forth from the kundalini practice. She currently resides in Baja, Mexico, where she teaches regularly, offers evening kirtan programs and gong baths. Occasionally teachers may change, please contact us if you have any questions.
Program Details & Requirements
Prerequisite: We welcome all dedicated yoga students/teachers who are interested in enhancing their yoga and meditation skills. If you have completed a 200-hour Yoga Alliance approved teacher training, you can use this program towards Yandara’s 300hr advanced YTT.
Contact hours: 90 hours
Non-contact hours: 10 hours (fulfilled by home study projects)
Preparatory Study: “Introduction to Kundalini Yoga, Vol I: Begin and Deepen Your Practice”, by Guru Rattana. Find the e-book version here!
Further recommended reading: “Essential Kundalini Yoga” by Karena Virginia and Dharm Khalsa.
Please bring your book/s with you to the course.
Daily schedule
- 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM: Kundalini Yoga and Meditation. Group Sadhana may be practiced from 5:00 am to 7:30 am on certain mornings.
- 9:00 AM: Tea, papaya, banana, granola, oatmeal and boiled eggs.
- 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM: Yoga and Meditation Workshop
- 12:30 PM: Brunch: Delicious vegetarian meals are served buffet style (fish and dairy are served on occasion).
- 2:00 PM to 6:15 PM: Student Practice Teaching, Communication Skills Workshop and Qi Gong Workshop. Tea-break at 4:15pm.
- 6:15 PM: Dinner: Healthy and delicious vegetarian meals served buffet style (fish and dairy are served on occasion.
- 7:30 PM to 9:15 PM: Satsang: meditation, music, kirtan, yoga philosophy and discussion.
- Some days will include an extended break for you to relax and explore the local area
Cost
Total All-Inclusive Cost (starting at): $1,600.00.
This price includes tuition, meals and accommodation. Airport transportation is not included in price. Canadian residence may be eligible for a “exchange rate” scholarship. Contact us for details.
A $550 USD deposit is required to reserve your spot. The remaining balance is due upon arrival at Yandara.
If your plans change, here’s how we handle cancellations:
- 45+ days before your program: Full refund of your deposit, no questions asked.
- 44–30 days before: Refund of $450 (deposit minus a $100 booking fee), or full credit toward a future training.
- 29–15 days before: 50% refund of your deposit, or full credit toward a future Yandara program within 24 months.
- Less than 15 days before: While the deposit is non-refundable, you may apply it as a credit toward another Yandara program within 24 months.
Accommodation
At our Baja, Mexico location we offer a few different choices for accommodation.
Deluxe Tents
Many of students choose to stay in our deluxe tents. These are big tents that most people are able to stand up in. Each tent has a normal twin size bed and mattress, a small set of drawers and a lamp. Bed linens are provided, but we do not provide a bath towel. Comfortable and yet still close to nature. We like to call it luxury camping. We have 7 bathrooms and 8 showers on our campus.
Luxury Canvas Cabins
These are beautiful cotton canvas safari tents with a plush full-size bed and mattress and down comforter. These tents will make your stay truly memorable. Linen bedding and towels are included.
Glamping Cabanas
Our concrete glamping cabanas are pure luxury! With comfy full size bed, down comforter, towels and plenty of space to store your clothes, these cabins are your perfect home away from home – nestled into the desert, yet sheltered from the elements.
Glamping Cabanas with Private Bath
For further comfort, our new cabanas have private bathrooms! With cushy full/queen size bed, down comforter, towels and plenty of space to store your clothes, these cabanas are simply divine!
