We provide two learning pathways for our students.
Pathway 1 is for those with no prior yoga training, who may be new to somatic work, and who likely do not have a Master's level background in a mental health-related field. Most of the participants who take this pathway recognize that they would benefit from self-healing work, tending to their trauma history, and acquiring skills for nervous system regulation and emotional fluency. This learning pathway combines our 200-hour Somatic Embodiment Yoga Teacher Training with direct entry into the 800-hour Somatic Yoga Therapy program. In Pathway 1, the Somatic Embodiment Yoga Teacher Training and Somatic Yoga Therapist Training combine to offer you a complete 1,000-hour in-depth program that deeply explores the processes of reclaiming ease in your body through movement, stillness, breath, and touch.
Pathway 2 is for those with a 200-hour yoga certification or who have a Master's level degree in a mental-health related field. In lieu of completing our 200-hour Somatic Embodiment Training, these applicants begin with the 75-hour Somatic Yoga Therapy Bridge Program. Graduates of Pathway 2 earn the 875-hour Somatic Yoga Therapist designation.
Graduates of both Pathways 1 and 2 acquire the designation of Somatic Yoga Therapist and Integrative Thai Yoga Massage Practitioner, which allows for registration as a practicing Somatic Yoga Therapist through the Canadian Yoga Alliance and as a practicing Integrative Thai Yoga Massage Practitioner through the NHPC. This dual designation gives our graduates access to excellent practitioner insurance and gives them the ability to bill their services to multiple insurance providers.
ACCREDITATION - Mandorla Institute is a certified educational institution by the Canadian government and has been a registered yoga school since 2007. We are a registered Yoga Therapy School with the Canadian Yoga Alliance and a registered Thai Yoga Massage School with the National Health Practitioners of Canada and Namasta (USA). Canadian graduates of our programs may claim their tuition on their taxes and receive a T2202a form at each year-end. Graduates of the 875-hour Somatic Yoga Therapist Training may become members of the NHPC with the ability to offer insurance receipts to approved insurance companies and for clients who hold Health Spending Accounts (HSAs).
Your 875-hour program pathway can look like...
2-Year Model with 2025 Entry
Graduate as a Registered Somatic Yoga Therapist in June of 2027
Year One, 2025/2026:
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Online Studies - Bridge program, self-study, complete over Spring/Summer 2025
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Live Online Studies -September 2025 to June 2026 on Tuesday evenings (Somatic Energetic Yoga Therapy) and Thursday mornings (Somatic Emotional Yoga Therapy)
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In-person Studies - 1-week immersion option in Calgary, AB (Attend only 1 week at a time, July 28-Aug 1, 2025 or Aug 4-8, 2025, and attend the 2nd week of training August 2026) OR 2-week immersion option in Calgary, AB, July 28 to Aug 8, 2025, or 2 weeks in August 2026
Year Two, 2026/2027: Graduate as a Registered Somatic Yoga Therapist in June of 2027
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Practicum Mentorship - Complete the 10-month practicum mentorship in your home community with HYBRID-ONLINE/IN-PERSON small group mentoring meetings once per month and the IN-PERSON GRADUATION RETREAT
3-Year Model with 2025 Entry
Graduate as a Registered Somatic Yoga Therapist in June of 2028
Year One, 2025/2026:
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Online Studies - Bridge program, self-study, complete over Spring/Summer 2025
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Online Studies - September to June on:
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Tuesday evenings 6 pm to 8 pm MST (Somatic Energetic)
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OR Thursday mornings 10 am to 12 pm MST | 6 pm to 8 pm (Somatic Emotional)
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In-person Studies - 1-week immersion option in Calgary, AB
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(Attend only 1 week at a time, July 28-Aug 1, 2025 or Aug 4-Aug 8, 2025 and attend the 2nd week of training July 2026)
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OR 2-week immersion option in Calgary, AB, July 28 to Aug 8, 2025, or Aug 2026
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Year Two, 2026/2027:
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Online Studies - September to June on:
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Tuesday evenings 6 pm to 8 pm MST (Somatic Emotional)
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OR Thursday mornings 10 am to 12 pm MST | 6 pm to 8 pm (Somatic Energetic)
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Year Three, 2027/2028: Graduate as a Registered Somatic Yoga Therapist in June of 2028
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Practicum Mentorship - Complete the 10-month practicum mentorship in your home community with HYBRID-ONLINE/IN-PERSON small group mentoring meetings once per month and the IN-PERSON GRADUATION RETREAT
I feel very blessed and grateful to have completed my Yoga Teacher Training offered by Mandorla. Not only is Stefani an amazing heart centered teacher, but she's practical, diverse, extremely knowledgeable and empowering. She challenges your assumptions in a kind and loving way and then gives you the tools you need to empower yourself.
Stef has helped me learn the foundations of stability and support...movement consciousness and intention. Stef teaches this in such a way that it actually transforms the way you think about your body and your movements. Stef has taught me how to incorporate these principles into all of my movements, on and off my mat. She has taught me to pay as much attention to what I do between the poses and how I get in and out of them, as I do while in them.
For me it's never been about anything but, how to have a strong mind, happy and healthy body and a grateful soul. And the foundations Stef teaches are all of these and so much more. Stefani is a true Guru of our times. I feel blessed and honored to have had opportunity to work with her and the whole Mandorla community!