I AM Yoga®
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training
BEGINS JUNE 10, 2026
I AM Yoga® Teacher Training is so much more than becoming certified as a yoga teacher. It is an entry point for you to access the mysterious depths of yoga and experience its authentic origins.
I AM Yoga® Training Pathway 
What makes our training unique?
This immersion offers a rare opportunity to study directly with Gurudev Shri Amritji, whose decades of teaching have influenced thousands of practitioners and teachers worldwide. Through daily darshan, discourse, and experiential guidance, you learn not only through instruction, but through direct experience cultivated in the presence of a master teacher.
In a time when yoga has become widely practiced, many people know poses, breathing techniques, and meditation methods, yet still find themselves searching for deeper peace, clarity, and integration in daily life. What is often missing is not more techniques, but a way of practicing that awakens the intelligence within the body and allows yoga to become a living experience.
This retreat is designed to cultivate that experience.
Through meditation, breath, alignment for your unique body, and the meditative flow of energy yoga, you begin to experience how yoga transforms not only your practice, but how you move through stress, relationships, and everyday challenges. As awareness deepens, yoga naturally begins to extend beyond the mat, influencing how you perceive, respond, and live.
Rooted in authentic yogic tradition and refined through decades of teaching, this immersion blends ancient wisdom with modern understanding, transforming intellectual knowledge into direct experience.
Features
- Daily Darshan and discourse with Gurudev Shri Amritji
- Energetic Transmission and Meditation
- Guided Practices and Daily Sadhana
- In Depth Teachings with Nirali
These teachings go beyond poses, breathing sequences, or meditation techniques. They are steeped in authentic yogic tradition while remaining deeply relevant to modern life. Rather than simply learning what to practice, you begin to understand how to practice in a way that awakens clarity, resilience, and integration.
What You Will Gain
- Greater resilience and stress relief through nervous system awareness
- Increased physical vitality, flexibility, and integrated strength
- Meditation in Motion® and the experience of awareness within practice
- Deeper connection to the intelligence of your body
- Greater clarity and steadiness in daily life
- A strong foundation for continued practice and teaching
As this inner experience develops, yoga naturally begins to influence how you move through your life, creating a sense of balance and integration that extends far beyond practice.
This transformative immersion provides a lifelong foundation for both aspiring and advanced practitioners. Whether you want to deepen your practice or begin a profound yoga journey, this program empowers you to embody yoga’s authentic roots and integrate its teachings into your daily life.
2026 YOGA TEACHER TRAINING – 4 MODULES


June 10-14, 2026
Awakening the Inner Experience of Yoga
Focuses on cultivating your personal experience and understanding of yoga. Together, we explore meditation, breath, alignment for your unique body, and the deeper purpose behind each aspect of practice. Understand not only how to practice on the mat, but how these principles naturally extend into daily life, supporting greater clarity, resilience, and integration.
September 23-27, 2026
The Eight Limbs of Yoga
An exploration of Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga alongside the Seven Principles of I AM Yoga®. Through scripture, experiential practice, and guided reflection, you will discover how the philosophical foundations of yoga come alive in your own experience. You will learn how to experience this directly, allowing yoga to become a living process that continues to unfold in both practice and life.
November 12-15, 2026
Being a Presence
Focuses on refining your ability to deliver. You will develop the capacity to teach with clarity, authenticity, and presence, while learning how to adapt the tools of I AM Yoga® for the populations you feel called to serve. We explore voice, presence, lesson planning, and thematic integration, bringing together everything you have learned into a cohesive and meaningful teaching style.
Self-Paced Learning
Anatomy & Asana
30 hours of anatomy training organized by body region and delivered in modules ranging from 30 to 90 minutes.
10 hours of training modules designed to support your visibility as a teacher through marketing.
Study the I AM Yoga® sequence in depth, refining your personal practice while developing the confidence and understanding needed to guide others.
World-class curriculum
World-class curriculum showcasing the authentic teachings of yoga and its modern application
I AM Yoga® and Yoga Nidra classes
Regular Yoga & Yoga Nidra practice allows us to enter into the most therapeutic levels of deep relaxation where the body’s innate healing functions are activated
Personalized mentorship and instruction
Coaching to foster confidence, personal empowerment and masterful use of voice and expression
Transformational discourses
Transformational discourses with Gurudev Shri Amritji and Senior Training Faculty
Live classes and group discussion series
Unlike many 200 hour yoga teacher training courses offered today, our program is primarily live, online and interactive
I AM Yoga® Training Manual & Diploma
Includes the official comprehensive I AM Yoga® Training Manual and diploma upon successful completion of the course requirements

Benefits
- Maximize the expression and energy flow of every posture through the application of “press points” and “energetic extensions”, a unique feature to I AM Yoga®
- Build strength, alleviate stress, and learn how to use yoga practice to rebalance and restore the nervous system
- Recognize and release behaviors that are affecting your health and wellbeing
- Reclaim your peace by understanding how our habituated mental and emotional patterning obscures our ability to fully access personal freedom and well-being.

Techniques
- Learn to guide students safely and effectively through the 28 poses that make up the complete Level 1 sequence
- Six pranayama (breathing) practices to incorporate into class openings, while in poses or part of savasana and as closing meditation
- Instructions on how to sequence and deliver a series of customizable warm-up poses
- Posture assists and modification clinics to deliver poses in an optimally accessible manner, conducive for any body type and a wide-range of limitations
Want to learn more?
Experience the Inner Dimension of Yoga On-Demand
Join Gurudev and Nirali into the Inner Dimension of Yoga to experience applied yogic wisdom, master techniques for a fulfilling life and experiential practices that unite knowledge and direct experience.
This course features:
- 5 transformative discourses with Gurudev Shri Amritji
- 3 guided practices featuring I AM Yoga® and I AM Yoga Nidra™ with Nirali
Use Code IAMYOGA at checkout
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTORS
Gurudev Shri Amritji
International Grand Master
Led by International Yoga Master Gurudev Shri Amritji, with over six decades of teaching worldwide, this program carries forward a living tradition of yoga. Drawing from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, and the unique principles of I AM Yoga®, this training bridges ancient wisdom with modern understanding, creating a path that is both authentic and deeply relevant to our contemporary lives.
Gurudev Shri Amritji is the first disciple to bring the sacred teachings of the Lord Lakulish (Shiva) and Kripalu Lineage to the West in 1960. Gurudev was personally empowered to give shaktipat by his Guru Swami Shri Kripalvanada. In 1970 Gurudev experienced a spontaneous awakening. This was reinforced by a three month meditation retreat in silence and seclusion. He emerged as a spiritual master embodying the rare capacity to transmit profound healing and transformative prana Shakti through energetic transmission. He discovered the body is the book of secrets; it is the temple of prana and heart is the center of consciousness. Gurudev is repeatedly honored by prestigious organizations and world-renowned authorities in the East and West.
Nirali Lauren McCrea
E-RYT 500, Senior Training Faculty
Yogacharya and Senior Training Faculty. Nirali synthesizes the power of breath, bodily wisdom and meditative awareness to experientially guide students into the heart of yoga. Finding solace on the mat as a young teen, Nirali has immersed herself in the depths of yoga for 20 years. Inspired to move to the Amrit Yoga Institute in 2009, she has extensively trained in the I AM Yoga® approach ever since.
For over a decade, Nirali has helped oversee the development and reach of education offered by the Amrit Yoga Institute and has led seminars across the United States, Canada, Mexico and India. In 2021, she was awarded the title “Yogacharya” by Gurudev Shri Amritji, acknowledging her lifelong dedication to yoga and unique ability to decode and impart its practical and mystical subtleties.
Today, she is the lead faculty of the Level 1 I AM Yoga® 200-hour Teacher Training, offers free weekly classes through zoom and regularly hosts discussion series for spiritual teachers and seekers.