NEUROSCIENCE AND YOGA
Workshops and Certification Programs
The Neuroscience and Yoga program is available to you in several ways:
1) Weekend Healing Retreats — experience a relaxing and rejuvenating weekend focused on restoring your physical, mental, and emotional health through vagus nerve regulation and the Neuro-Yoga practices. These retreats are designed to help you reduce stress, calm the nervous system, impact on healing, and immunity so you can return home with practical tools for ongoing self-care, self-regulation and healing.
2) Certification Program — Our 50-hour comprehensive certification training offers an immersive exploration of the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, yoga, and meditation. You will discover how and why yoga works through the lens of contemporary neuroscience and positive psychology—and learn to translate this knowledge into meaningful, evidence-informed practice.
At the heart of the training is the Neuro-Yoga Psychology Model, an integrative framework that brings together psychology and neuroscience with the Eight-Limb Path of Yoga. Grounded in theory and research, the model provides a foundation for both practical teaching and clinical application. You will develop a deeper understanding of how yoga, breathing, meditation, and mindfulness influence the brain, neurobiology, and nervous system, while gaining practical, evidence-based techniques for integrating Neuro-Yoga Psychology into classes, individual work, and clinical settings.
Experiential practices in breathwork, meditation, yoga, and neuropsychology are presented to cultivate greater awareness, self-regulation, and agency over the body, breath, brain, and nervous system. The result is a training designed not only to expand your knowledge, but to transform how you teach, practice, and work with others.
Deepen your knowledge. Expand your clinical and teaching skills. Discover the science behind the practice.
If you are a yoga teacher, healthcare worker, yoga therapist, coach, yoga practitioner, mental health professional, allied healthcare worker, or if you’re just curious, this program provides you with the knowledge and tools to enhance healing, health, and well-being for yourself and others!"
The Curriculum includes:
An overview of the Neuro-Yoga Psychology Model
How Yoga’s Eight-Fold Path helps heal the brain, neural platforms, and our neurobiology
The five foundational concepts of Neuro-Yoga Psychology (BRAIN)
An overview of how the brain and nervous System works
How stress, dysregulated mood states, and trauma impact our nervous system
Powerful techniques to rewire the brain focusing on neuroplasticity and behavioral change tools
How Neuro-Yoga practices impact self-regulation for reducing anxiety and depression
A review of neuroscience research studies related to yoga-based practices
How to implement Neuro-Yoga concepts in your classes and in a clinical setting
More Information and to Register
Certification requires signing up for both Part 1 and Part 2 for a total of 50 hours.
PART ONE (20 hrs): . If you are not pursuing certification, you are welcome to take Part One as a stand-alone educational experience, offering an in-depth introduction to the integration of neuroscience, psychology, yoga, and meditation.
What if I take Part 1 and afterwards decide I want to continue to Part 2 for Certification? Because our curriculum is continually updated to reflect new research and developments in the field, participants who wish to continue to Part Two and pursue certification must enroll in Part Two within one year of enrolling in Part One. After one year, Part One must be retaken before proceeding to Part Two.
Part One Course Fee: $196.00 To Sign Up for Part One: Neuroscience Training click here: https://drmala.thinkific.com
PART TWO (30 hours). Part Two of the Neuroscience Course is open to those who have signed up for the full certification course which includes Part 1 and 2. We partner with various organizations for teaching Part Two of the Neuroscience and Yoga Certification course so the location may change each year. Part Two of the course is in-person. All details on costs, dates, how to sign up, and other important information are formatted and provided by the sponsoring organization and will be linked below in the near future.
2027 NEUROSCIENCE AND YOGA CERTIFICATION COURSE
Training Dates: February 24-28, 2027
Location: JKP Radha Madhav Dham, 400 Barsana Road, Austin, TX, 78737 - https://radhamadhavdham.org/
Part Two Tuition: TBD
Part Two link: to register and for more information: : Will be posted soon - thank you for your patience.
Requirements: Completion of Part One and a minimum of 2-4 months of yoga classes.
Eligibility: Yoga practitioners, yoga teachers, yoga therapists, mental health professionals, healthcare workers, and all allied healthcare workers. If you are uncertain about eligibility reach out to us at: info@cardiacyoga.com.
OTHER WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES IN NEUROSCIENCE & YOGA
We offer a variety of drop-in zoom sessions, workshops, and lectures in Neuroscience and Yoga throughout the year. Check out these great opportunities:
On-going: Neuroscience and Yoga Membership Lecture Series. Check it out! Your one time membership fee of $180 includes an ongoing, open access to informative lectures and updates in Neuroscience, Yoga, and Psychology: https://drmala.thinkific.com/bundles/neuroscience-yoga.
2. September 5, 2026: Floyd Yoga Jam, Floyd, Virginia. Lecture & practice: Neuroscience, Yoga, and Meditation. Info: https://www.floydyogajam.com/
3. October 3, 2026: 9:30-10:30 a.m. Luray Meditation Center, Luray, Va. Info: info@cardiacyoga.com
4. October 24, 2026: On-line lecture: Emotional Regulation through Neuroscience and Yoga. Satsang Presentation / Yogaville 8:30-9:00 p.m. Day of Link: https://vimeo.com/yogaville
5. Nov. 16-18, 2026. Sivananda Ashram/Bahamas: Retreat: Rest & Rejuvenate: A 3-day Nervous System Reset. Registration $295.00. More Information: https://sivanandabahamas.org/course/rest-and-rejuvenate-november-2026/
6. Private Sessions or private retreat bookings in Neuro-Yoga Psychotherapy, Vagus Nerve Regulation, and Neuro-Yoga Healing are available. Contact Dr. Mala at: info@cardiacyoga.com
Continuing Education and Electives
The following organizations & schools support and approve of the Neuroscience and Yoga Teacher Training Program:
Yoga Alliance
Integral Yoga Institutes (nationally and internationally)
Satchidananda Ashram - Yogaville
Inner Peace Yoga
Positive Health Solutions
Sivananda Ashram - Bahamas
Optimal Health - Amy Wheeler
Please check with us for other programs that approve this training for credit.
