Ishta Yoga

10/15/2026

Last call for our 200 Hour Fall Teacher Training! Training starts Monday Oct 19. Free info session Thursday Oct 15 at 12:30pm (link in bio to register).

10/15/2026

Registration for one of Mona’s signature workshops on Thursday October 29 is now open! In-studio and online, with limited in-studio availability. See “Workshops & Series” link in bio!

10/14/2026

Reconnect with your own essence through Ajna, then explore your connection to the wider ocean of consciousness through Sahasrara. Join either training individually or take both.

Link in bio for more information on the training!

10/14/2026

Our fall 200 Hour Teacher Training starts next Monday! Come to a free online info session with co-owner and TT Director Mona Anand Thursday Oct 15 to learn more. Link in bio for more info!

10/08/2026

More information at the link in bio!

YOGA NIDRA & AJNA
Insight, Intuition & Vision
Workshop & Training with Mona Anand

Our reality is shaped by what passes across the screen of our mind. Ajna, the third-eye chakra, is the center of insight, intuition, and vision, the starting point for envisioning what we wish to bring into our lives. Manifestation begins with visualization: before we can bring a possibility to life, we must be able to imagine it. By becoming aware of the thoughts and images we return to, we can begin to choose what we play across that inner screen and take a more conscious role in creating our reality.

THURSDAY EVENING | RESTORATIVE / YOGA NIDRA TO BALANCE AJNA
One of Mona’s signature Restorative / Yoga Nidra workshops, this evening combines gentle asana and yummy restorative poses to the sound of a soothing sound bath, with optional gentle hands-on adjustments and the aroma of essential oils for in studio participants. These prepare you for a deep practice integrating all nine steps of Mona Anand’s ISHTA Yoga Nidra. The practice invites your awareness inward toward Ajna, helping to quiet mental clutter, clear the screen of the mind, and awaken inner vision. Join in studio or online.

FRIDAY AFTERNOON | THREE-HOUR TRAINING
Explore the previous evening’s experience and deepen your understanding of Ajna. Experience a shorter practice, then learn how to adapt each of the nine steps developed by Mona and Alan to balance this energetic center so that you can bring clarity, intuition and vision into your living. Develop practices for your own life, integrate shorter practices into your life and learn to develop practices to share with your students.

FOLLOW-UP | SATURDAY MORNING Q&A ON ZOOM
Two weeks later, reconnect with Mona to discuss your experiences and questions after practicing on yourself or sharing the practices with students.

10/05/2026

The Art of Touch: A Training That Can Transform Your Teaching

For those of us who teach yoga in person, hands-on assisting can become one of the most meaningful ways to support our students.

Teaching is not only about the words we use. It is also about observation, presence, connection and learning how to help someone experience something more clearly in their own body. Skillful touch can communicate alignment, engagement, release and support in ways that verbal cues sometimes cannot.

The Art of Touch 1, happening this Friday through Monday at ISHTA, offers a practical foundation for using hands-on adjustments safely, respectfully and confidently.

Together, we’ll explore assists for Sun Breaths and Sun Salutations, standing poses such as Warrior I and II, Triangle and lunges, as well as Child’s Pose, seated poses, basic backbends, inversions, Savasana and more. You’ll learn how to approach students in class or in a private setting with care and intention while helping them better understand their own alignment and movement.

Art of Touch 2 takes that language further, with standing twists, more complex balancing poses such as Revolved Half Moon, deeper backbends, arm balances and a broader range of seated poses. We’ll also focus more deeply on integrating hands-on assists with verbal cuing into your teaching.

If you’re a 200-hour teacher from ISHTA or another 200-hour training and are looking for a practical introduction to hands-on assisting, Art of Touch 1 is a wonderful place to begin. If you’d like to deepen your understanding of touch and work with more complex postures, we encourage you to take both trainings.

These trainings may be taken as stand-alone trainings or as part of the ISHTA 300-Hour Teacher Training. Part 1 must be taken before Part 2.

To learn more or register, please contact [email protected].

We hope you’ll join us for this special opportunity to refine your skills, deepen your connection with your students and bring another dimension to your teaching.

Link in bio to sign up for info sessions

10/01/2026

More photos from last week’s retreat!

09/30/2026

09/28/2026

Free info session about our upcoming 200 hour training tomorrow, September 29, at 12:30pm!

09/28/2026

GROUNDED & CONNECTED
A 6-week trauma-informed yoga journey from your head back into your body.

We spend so much of our lives in our heads.
Maybe the body has become an uncomfortable place to live in, or everything just feels like TOO MUCH. And so we begin to inhabit the head, gradually disconnecting from the body.
Grounded & Connected is an invitation to gently come back. Because most of our patterns do not live in the mind, but deeper in the soma; the feeling and sensing body.

Over six weeks, we’ll explore somatics and trauma-informed yoga as a way of reconnecting with the body and developing a little more safety, choice, and connection from within.
A journey from disconnection, anxiety, and inability to stand up for yourself, towards a more regulated baseline, being able to meet challenges and joys with a sense of connection, and feeling grounded in yourSelf.

Mikaela Soldan is a Senior ISHTA Teacher and a trauma informed somatic coach. She would love to share this full journey with you for maximum benefit, but you’re welcome to join individual sessions based on your schedule and somatic needs.

This will be an ONLINE series “Workshop” Link in bio for more information.



Photos by Helena Vilhelmiina