22 Day Immersion Advanced 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Blue Lake, California, USA
Certified 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training in California's Majestic Redwoods
Soma Yoga Institute is pleased to offer this 300-hour Advanced Teacher Training Course as an immersion. Experience a revolutionary yoga training that embraces a therapeutic approach and celebrates diversity in all bodies. Deepen your understanding of anatomy-informed alignment, therapeutics, instructing level 2 poses safely, restorative techniques, multidimensional sequencing, and mindful Vinyasa. Includes yoga for the private client, philosophy, meditation, pranayama, Ayurveda, Yoga Nidra, and more. Are you a passionate teacher who is ready to deepen your knowledge base, build your confidence, teach with more authenticity, expand your repertoire, and elevate your impact in sharing yoga as a catalyst for personal and global transformation? This course is for you. Join us and be a driving force of positive change in your community.
Meet the instructors
Highlights
- 300-hour YTT program, with 250 hours of live immersion (in-person) and 50 hours of online training
- Train with a world-class faculty and C-IAYT Yoga Therapists with over 25 years of teaching experience
- Anatomy-informed alignment framework and mindful strategies for private yoga sessions
- Sunrise meditations and pranayama practices plus daily in-studio asana classes
- More philosophy, pranayama, and meditation practices to expertly serve your students
- Discover your unique strengths as a yoga teacher and improve your employment options as an RYT-500
- 21 nights accommodation with daily vegetarian lunch included
- Eligibility to register with Yoga Alliance upon completion
Skill level
- Advanced
Types
21 days with instruction in English
Accommodation
Homestay-Style Accommodations at Blue Lake Sanctuary
This training takes place in a unique homestay environment at your instructor Peggy Profant’s personal residence—a place lovingly cultivated over years as a sanctuary for yoga, learning, and community.
The Blue Lake Sanctuary is not a retreat center, but a heart-centered home designed for deep practice, featuring radiant heated floors, forest views, and a cozy wood-burning stove. Being invited into your teacher’s home creates a special opportunity to live yoga in daily rhythm—immersed in real connection, shared meals, and intentional community.
You’ll share kitchen, bathrooms, and living spaces with fellow participants. Everyone contributes to keeping the space clean, respectful, and nourishing—an integral part of our practice together.
Each day, you’ll enjoy a fresh, healthy vegetarian lunch, and you’re welcome to join their beloved Community Dinner Club, where we take turns preparing and sharing home-cooked meals in the evenings—often a highlight of the experience.
Housing Options
- Single private room in shared group house
- Private single loft with compact kitchenette
- Sleeping loft in shared group house -complete visual privacy
- Bus / RV / Tiny house
- Glamping (tent provided)
- Camping / Van parking
- Off-site / Commuter
All options above include access to shared bathrooms, bath houses, kitchen, common areas, hot tub, porch and patio. If you would like to be paired with a roommate, please let Soma Yoga Institute know, and they can share your email so you can speak directly with one another.
Program
Certification
Students who complete the training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).
This advanced YTT program is registered with Yoga Alliance and includes in-person instruction and individualized mentoring during and after the program ends. Scheduled as an immersion, the program days are full, and the activities of the day are kept diverse and active. The days really are a wonderful mix of digesting concepts intellectually, applying the concepts experientially, and diving into the practices of yoga. Care is taken within the program schedule to ensure that students have a healthy experience both physically and mentally. They promise not to keep you sedentary for too long. There is physical activity and deep relaxation built into the program every day.
Typical Daily Schedule
- 08:00 Morning meditation and pranayama
- 09:00 Program morning session: alignment, anatomy, pose study, or therapeutics includes yoga asana class
- 12:30 Lunch prepared for you with love and health
- 13:30 Program afternoon session: techniques and teaching methodology includes sequencing and/or philosophy, restorative, yoga nidra, and/or special topics
Most evenings are free, although expect occasional evening sessions and or home assignments.
Instructors
Liz Heffernan
Liz Heffernan, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT is an international yoga teacher and Integrative Yoga Therapist. She draws from over two decades of personal yoga practice, 25 years of teaching and extensive training in the Hatha yoga systems of Kripalu, Ashtanga, and Anusara. She currently directs and leads Yoga teacher trainings and workshops worldwide, provides unique one-to-one mentoring for yoga teachers, instructs daily yoga classes and offers private therapeutic sessions. Additionally, Liz serves as a mentor/faculty for the Kripalu School of Integrative Yoga Therapy Professional Yoga Therapy program.
Peggy Profant
Peggy Profant, C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, E-RYT 500, and certified Anusara yoga teacher first discovered the practice in 1980 and began teaching it to others in 1997. Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Anusara are the schools in which have influenced her practice. As one who lives courageously from her heart, she passionately teaches her classes with meaningful yogic themes while keeping a keen attention to alignment. In addition to yoga, being in nature and with her family is where she finds her deepest joy and peace.
Location
This 300-hour teacher training is hosted at Blue Lake Sanctuary, a custom home yoga studio in the personal residence of Peggy, one of your primary teachers, in Blue Lake, CA. This unique space accommodates 16 students and features artful architecture, a wood-burning fireplace, and radiant heated floors—creating the perfect environment for deep learning.
Each day, you will be served a healthy lunch in the dining area with pastoral views of redwood-forested hills, offering a serene backdrop for meals and discussion. The sanctuary's location provides walking access to the Mad River, with beautiful hiking trails and swimming holes. Just minutes away, ancient redwood groves tower majestically, offering profound opportunities for forest bathing and meditation among these thousand-year-old sentinels.
Only 15 minutes from Blue Lake is the charming town of Arcata, with a vibrant plaza filled with locally-owned cafés, artisan shops, and organic markets. Saturday farmers markets bring the community together with live music, local produce, and handcrafted goods.
Training in your teacher's home creates an unparalleled, intimate learning experience, inviting authentic mentorship and a true glimpse into the yogic lifestyle. This rare opportunity to study in Peggy's personal space invites you into the heart of yoga tradition, where knowledge is passed directly from teacher to student in a supportive home environment.
Food
Enjoy delicious, lovingly prepared for you vegetarian lunches each day of training. While breakfasts are on your own, you’re invited to join the optional Dinner Club, where students take turns cooking and sharing meals. You’ll provide the ingredients and prepare a meal for the group, then enjoy meals cooked by others on different nights. It’s a joyful way to connect and build community.
The following meals are included:
- Lunch
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten Free
- Organic
- Lactose Free
What's included
- Complete 300-hour yoga teacher training (including 250 hours in-person instruction, plus 50 hours supplemental online coursework to complete at your own pace)
- Eligiblity to register with Yoga Alliance upon completion
- 21 nights of comfortable accommodations
- Daily delicious, lovingly prepared vegetarian lunches each day of training
- Community Dinner Club (optional)
- Comprehensive training materials: Receive a 300-page advanced training manual, a 50-page pose guide, and a Sanskrit dictionary to support your study and teaching.
- Bonus access to on-demand learning: Get complimentary access to over 100 hours of online yoga teacher training content for continued growth before or after the immersion
- Airport pickup from Arcata-Eureka Airport (ACV)
What's not included
- Airfare
- Breakfast, dinner and snacks
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Transfer included
Arcata-Eureka Airport
15 km away from your destination
Arrival by airplane
Complimentary airport transportation is provided from Arcata-Eureka Airport (ACV) in Humboldt County, California to your housing location. They can also pick up at the Greyhound, Arcata, CA bus station. Shared shuttles may also be coordinated from San Francisco Airport (SFO) at an additional cost, only if others are interested. Please contact Soma Yoga Institute for more information on the SFO shuttle and airport drop off.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 22% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
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