Foundational
Yoga Studies

“I could not have hoped for a more authentic YTT program than what I received at Mount Madonna. The scope of information covered makes certain that I know what I am talking about when I am teaching. The extensive number of faculty many with more than 35 years of training, is unprecedented and the level of personal attention given to students is unparalleled.”
– MMI Alum

“Mount Madonna has many inspirational teachers. They demonstrated the four purifications Shitali and Sitkari pranayamas and answered questions with ease, grace, and humor. Breaking out into small rooms in these early morning classes to practice teaching as well as doing the practice teaching in the afternoon core asana classes was very empowering.”
– YTT Student

“It was really intimidating having to teach at first but got easier with each practice. Very helpful even though I was completely exhausted after three days of this. My thighs and knees are still sore! Such a great thing to learn and I loved having the opportunity to practice teaching and be taught every asana we learned.”
– YTT Student

“Teaching was excellent. A lot of attention was given to warm-ups and preparatory movements. I have been really enjoying asana practice throughout this training. It has really allowed me to experience Yoga in a different way. Fine-tuned, controlled, and mindful!”
– YTT Student

“Soma’s presentation was extremely inspiring. It was perhaps the most life-enhancing or life-altering talk I have ever experienced. She used metaphors that brought her topics into clear focus: I don’t remember it exactly, but one of them was something like the superglue of being stuck in the kleshas is our identification with the mind. Avidya is the breeding ground for all the rest of the kleshas . I appreciated that she began the talk with a review of the Sutra’s we studied in Module I before moving us into explanations of Samskaras and Kleshas . I’m glad the talk was recorded because I look forward to watching it again and again.”
– YTT Student

“I did my YTT200 in 2016, AHC in 2019, and YTT300 in 2023 – couple months ago. Each of these MMI programs was a transformational experience for me.”
– MMI Alum

“I did YTT300 at MMI in 2021 and then had the joy of apprenticing YTT200 in 2022 and YTT300 in 2022-23. My dream is to become a yoga therapist and I’m hoping to take the AHC and AYT trainings at MMI. I’m deeply appreciative of MM sat sang”
– MMI Alum

“It was by living at center that the marinating happened, and Yoga & Ayurveda became a way of life for me through selfless service, study and lots of play! I was in the last pre-covid YTT 500 group, finishing our last module online. YTT 500 was the cherry on the top of my entire experience at MMC! I’m so grateful for it. ”
– MMI Alum

“Beyond incredible. I came into the program at the beginning of the weekend with the feeling that I would never be able to learn how to teach these asanas, but I soon came to have faith through the well-thought-out and elegant ways they were presented that will be able to learn them and hopefully teach them as well. I appreciate how well the whole weekend was organized and how amazingly well everyone kept the schedule running on time. Also, all the work of the tech people kept things running with amazing smoothness. Thanks so much for a great and inspiring weekend.”
– YTT Student

“The program is already MORE than I anticipated, yet not really surprising from my previous experiences with Mt. Madonna. Babaji’s influence, teachings, and all the staff are so devoted that I am grateful and privileged to be in this course with each and everyone on staff and in our Moose tribe. Sean, you said, “there’s more to come” and I am so looking forward to it with each passing experience and the resulting realizations.”
– YTT Student

“I can do this only because it is virtual. I hope you bring back more Virtual classes such as YTT -300 so I can continue this journey once I am done! This course is a precious gift. Thank you for creating and sustaining this offering. These weekends are so rich. I look forward to all the rest and possibly continuing on to YTT 300 once we’re complete.”
– YTT Student

“Such great gratitude for Mount Madonna and this training. I know I’m a part of something very special and so thankful for that”
– YTT Student

“Awesome weekend! loving learning core asana poses and continuing to explore pranayama! I feel I am learning a lot and every class thus far has been impactful.”
– YTT Student

“This program gave me the means to find my way back to myself.”
– YTT Student

“In reflection, YTT helped ‘reinstill’ the stillness within…”
– YTT Student

“It was such a wonderful thing to collaborate and co-create in study, in practice, and with my newly-found satsang (company with those on the spiritual journey; those, “seeking truth”).”
– YTT Student

“Yoga Teacher Training exploded my world – in the most positive way! Walking hand-in-hand with a group of people, it led me to a place of inner knowing.”
– YTT Student

“All of the study and practice meant so much, yet especially in the Prāṇāyāma and Meditation practices – so much more than the āsana postures most equate with ‘Yoga’ – that I now know myself as a different and transformed person.”
– YTT Student

“This whole experience was such a ‘Svādhyāya‘ for me  (a process of inner reflection and self-study)  – much deeper than I had imagined. I now have an understanding of the teachings, and how they apply to my life, on a completely different level.”
– YTT Student

“To know that all the people I’ve met here will be taking these teachings out into the world is something I carry with me; I think the world needs these methods of creating peace within and without.”
– YTT Student

“I loved the modular format; not only did it allow me to integrate YTT into my current life – each long weekend, along with the mid-month meetings, became an anchor point to support me.”
– YTT Student

“I am grateful, stronger, and more confident from the experience of this Yoga Teacher Training. I may or may not go into formal teaching; yet the deep questions I was asked in the course of studying philosophy and in learning all the practices helped me to find my own spiritual path.”
– YTT Student