10 weekends once monthly -July and August Off
In-person spaces sold out for 2025 Program
*Two remaining spaces for Live Stream participation Jan 24 Start!
In-person spaces sold out for 2025 Program*Two remaining spaces for Live Stream participation Jan 24 Start!
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Accepting registration for 2025 program. Weekend intensive Friday start dates: Jan 24, Feb 21, Mar 28, Apr 25, May 30, June 27, Sep 12, Oct 3, Oct 31, Nov 28 (Fri 7-9:30pm, Sat 8am-5pm, Sun 8am-5pm, NT). No weekend intensives scheduled for July and August. *Oct 31 Friday will be pre-recorded Class homework to accommodate Halloween. -
For those planning to take part in the 2026 program, weekend intensive Friday start dates are: Jan 23, Feb 27, Mar 27, Apr 24, May 29, June 26, Sep 11, Oct 2, Nov 6, Dec 4 (Fri 7-9:30pm, Sat 8am-5pm, Sun 8am-5pm, NT). No weekend intensives scheduled for July and August. Contact Bobby@ShaktiYogaMethod.com to be contacted when registration opens in early February 2025.
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St. John’s, NL, Canada. In Person at The Royal St. John’s Regatta Boathouse, 10 Clancy Drive. *Live Stream & Hybrid options also available.
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$2950+hst CAD. $500 deposit required upon registration.
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200 hours of training covering anatomy, physiology, philosophy, asana instruction, and more. A comprehensive yoga instruction manual, logo tote bag, and ongoing access to instructor for mentorship questions are also included.
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Space is limited so register now to reserve your spot. Complete the registration form at the link below. This form and a $500CAD deposit will be required to hold your space. Send EMT to YTT@ShaktiYogaMethod.com.
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Shakti Yoga teacher trainings and workshops are taught in various locations within Canada, and internationally. Host this workshop in your area and save the cost of travelling to learn. Contact Bobby@ShaktiYogaMethod.com to discuss specific details on hosting this or other workshops and trainings.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
BOBBY BESSEY, B.Sc., RYT 500, RPYT, CD (DONA), HBCE (HypnoBirthing Educator)
Bobby is the creator, director and lead instructor of the Shakti Yoga Method 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training. She has been a teacher and student of yoga for more than two decades, having studied in numerous yoga traditions within Canada, and spent extended periods of time studying yoga in both India and Japan. Her love of the powerful spiritual energy of India continues to call her back regularly to deepen her practice.
It is in India, the birth place of yoga, that Bobby also studies the traditional medicinal practices of ayurveda. She combines these sister sciences in her teachings to create classes that promote wellness in mind, body and soul.
In addition to the the Shakti Yoga Method 200 hour yoga teacher training Bobby has developed a number of other yoga training programs including the 85hr Shakti Prenatal Yoga YTT, 40 hour Ayurvedic YTT, 100 hour Yin Yoga TT, and Yoga Nidra YTT. She regularly instructs yoga trainings, workshops and classes internationally. While she does carve out time each year to instruct trainings outside Canada, her hatha, yin, prenatal, postnatal classes, yoga workshops, and birth preparation sessions are held throughout the year in St. John’s, NL.
CAROLYN HAPGOOD, C.C.C., M.Ed., B.A.(Hons), C-IAYT, YACEP, E-RYT 500, RYT 500
Carolyn’s fulltime private practice blends Counselling, Yoga Therapy, Yoga, TRE™, Neurogenic Yoga™ and Reiki. Offered through individual sessions, classes, retreats, workshops, trainings and presentations. Carolyn is in partnership with many Employee Assistance Programs and her services are covered by health insurance.
Carolyn offers TRE™ Provider Certification Training and Reiki Training! She is presently a TRE™ National Trainer Trainee and Mentor; sits on the TRE™ Training in Canada Faculty Committee; is a Director on the Board of Directors for Yoga Kula Coop and offers weekly yoga therapy classes to the Parkinson’s Society NL.
LINDA IVANY
Linda developed a passion for yoga when she first stepped on the mat over thirty years ago. Linda is a Registered Nurse and is currently teaching post secondary nursing programs.
She completed the Shakti Yoga 200 hour training with Bobby Bessey and Meaghan Burridge in 2013, and went on to complete her 300 hour training with Christina Sell and Gioconda Parker in Texas. She is a certified Yin Yoga Teacher and has completed innumerable workshops and trainings on Ayruveda, pranayama and meditation. In addition to being part of the Shakti Yoga YTT teaching faculty she operates a yoga studio in Port Rexton, offering yoga workshops, as well organizing the annual Trinity Bight Yoga and Wellness Festival.
Linda’s practice has been inspired by several lineages and world class teachers including Iyengar and Ashtanga Yoga. These teachings have provided her with a unique blend of knowledge and a strong sense of who she is a person.
KRYSTLE HAYDEN, RMT
Krystle Hayden is a registered massage therapist specializing in deep tissue massage since 2017. She has been a passionate yogi since 2005, and in 2010 began to deepen her practice at Nova Yoga Studio.
Krystle went on to complete her 200-hour Vinyasa Yoga teacher training with Sonic Yoga New York in 2013 and immediately began to instruct classes at Nova Yoga from 2013-2019. She has also completed a 200-hour Yin Yoga teacher training with Satori Yoga in New Brunswick, and earned a 2200-hour massage therapy diploma at Eastern Academy. Since 2021, Krystle has focused her practice on Ashtanga Yoga, specifically the Ashtanga Primary Series. She taught Mysore and led Ashtanga classes at Ashtanga Yoga St. John’s from 2022 to 2023. Krystle will provide Shakti yoga trainees with an introduction to Ashtanga yoga inspired by the Mysore tradition of Sri Pattabhi Jois.
MARIA HILLIER, RYT 200
Maria is a certified Yoga teacher (RYT 500 hour and E-RYT 200 hour) with training in Hatha & Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative, Yoga Nidra and Chair Yoga. She is currently in training to become a Certified Yoga Therapist (800 hour) with Ajna Yoga (Victoria, BC) and has completed additional training through this program in Backcare Yoga; Yoga Therapy for Knees and Hips; Yoga Therapy for Shoulders and Wrists; Yoga, Trauma, and Mental Health; Yoga Therapy for Healthy Aging and Chair Yoga; Yoga, Tensegrity and Fascia; Yoga Therapy in Pain Care; Meditation for Yoga Therapy; Yin Yoga Therapy; and Therapeutic Inversions and Backbends. In addition, Maria has trained in Yoga for individuals with cancer and beyond (Yoga Thrive). Maria will provide insights on creating an inclusive and inviting mixed level class session for Shakti Yoga Teacher Trainees.
TERESA BUTLER
Teresa Butler integrates her own personal healing journey of Self Empowerment in every single session, event, workshop, local/international retreat that she facilitates. Through her extensive alternative holistic studies in many different multi-disciplinary modalities of spirituality, nutrition, chakra energy systems, subconscious clearing, superconscious creating, law of attraction, holistic healing practices she has helped empower hundreds of people to transform their lives & get their power back. Teresa will be sharing the power of Kundalini yoga from the Yogi Bhajan tradition with Shakti teacher trainees.
SARAH HANSEN
Yoga teacher and musician Sarah Hansen has been practicing yoga for over 30 years. After completing her 200-hr yoga teacher training at the Mystical Yoga farm in Lake Atítlan, Guatemala in 2015, she then completed training for Yoga for Round Bodies™. During almost 7 years of nomadic traveling, she collected devotional songs from kirtans in Guatemala, Mexico, the US, Canada and Spain. In 2018, Sarah founded Kirtan St. John’s (now St. John’s Sacred Sound), and leads the group once a month in call-and-response devotional Bhakti yoga chanting, including songs in Sanskrit, Spanish and English. Sarah will introduce and provide Shakti teacher trainees with a powerful example of the ancient yoga tradition of call and response devotional practice, also known as kirtan.