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An invitation into the heart of the yoga tradition, self-inquiry, and the art of living. The ancient wisdom of yoga woven artfully into the everyday.

300 Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training

WE BEGIN SEPTEMBER 2025

This year-long 300 hour advanced teacher training will amplify your knowledge, refine and redefine your role as teacher, and make you a potent and indispensable resource for your students.

You will receive a comprehensive education in applied anatomy and modern-science backed movement principles along side of rich studies in history and philosophy; allowing you to deliver potent classes that weave the ancient, esoteric teachings of yoga into modern life in a way that is both powerful and digestible. 

Your lead instructor is Selena Garefino supported with weekend modules with Marco Migliavacca a skillful teacher of Katonah Yoga®, Yin Yoga, and Taoism, Dr Paula Sauer an expert teacher and physical therapist, and other guides. 

This comprehensive training includes optional group coaching support to guide students in upleveling their lives, owning their big dreams, and taking actionable steps towards the future they desire. For those wishing to do more intensive coaching a ADD-ON 6 month coaching container is available at a discounted rate. 

Selena is certified in advanced NLP, Somatic Experiencing Level 1, Life-Coaching through Beautiful You® Coaching Academy, and Somatic Mind-Body Coaching.

ADD ON AN IN PERSON STUDY WEEK IN SICILY FOR AN ADDITIONAL 20 HOURS OF KATONAH YOGA® EDUCATION. 

POST TRAINING PARTICIPANTS CAN LOG 20 HOURS OF KATONAH EDUCATION FROM MARCO AND 20 HOURS FROM SELENA TOWARDS AN ADDITIONAL KATONAH YOGA CERTIFICATION

I'M SO IN! WHAT ARE MY PAYMENT OPTIONS?

What will you learn?

  • Applied Anatomy
  • Restorative Yoga 
  • The Art of Sequencing (numerous methodologies with different teachers)
  • Pain Science and Anatomy with Dr. Paula Sauer
  • Themes of Katonah Yoga™
  • 5 Element Theory
  •  Energetics of the Yoga Tradition
  • Taoism and Traditional Chinese Medicine applied to Katonah Yoga®
  • Business of Yoga (marketing, partnerships, workshops, hosting seminars, and so much more)
  • Applied anatomy of the nervous system
  • Nervous system regulation techniques 
  • Somatic tools and Embodiment
  • Teaching Pranayama
  • Energetics of Asana 
  • Using Chairs and Props Effectively and Creatively 
  • Teaching Meditation with Skill (Various Styles) 
  • Teaching Seminars, Workshops, and Retreats
  • History and Philosophy 
  • Art of Adjustments and Safe Touch Beyond the Basics
  • Teaching Philosophy and Esoteric Dialogue with Skill
  • Postural Studies 
    • AND SO MUCH MORE...
    All students will have opportunities to receive coaching from Selena to help them overcome blocks, refine their personal vision, and define their big dreams.
    Selena is a certified coach with certifications in Mind-Body Somatic Coaching, NLP, and Life Coaching.
    Paying in full?  The first 5 participants to pay will receive a private coaching package normally priced at $900. 3 private coaching sessions. 
    Join Selena in Sicily Oct 25th-Nov 1st in a shared room for an additional €1600 and savor of week of immersive Katonah Yoga® education and play for a bonus 20 hours of Katonah Yoga
Reserve your spot in the training
Our 12 month teacher training will begin in September and conclude in September of 2026. 
Hosted via Zoom all participants have life-time access to the recordings if you have to miss a weekend.

An add on week in Sicily is available at a special rate to enrich your experience. Shared rooms are just €1600 and will provide you an opportunity for hands-on education

We will gather over the course of 12 months for monthly and occasionally bi-monthly Saturday/Sunday intensives. 

There is also occasional mid week gatherings for Q&A and practice

 

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Flexible Supportive Learning

 

EARLY BIRD BONUSES ONLY AVAILABLE UNTIL JUNE 1ST

This program is year because we believe you need time to integrate, implement, and assimilate the teachings and practices. 

The goal is for you to truly OWN the material and that takes TIME, REPETITION, and TECHNIQUE. After each module you'll have time to practice the techniques, introduce them into your teaching, and to trouble -shoot in community. 

To steep in practice is how you transmit something of meaning. No rushing here. Just deep learning and excellence in education.

NEED FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE? 

We have extended payment plans to support you. 

  • Early bird Bonus! FREE access to a recorded 10 Hour Katonah Yoga training That's 10 BONUS HOURS of Training
  • Access to Selena's WeEvolve Method™ 200 hour digital course packed with bonus materials
  • 3 1:1 PRIVATE COACHING SESSIONS WHEN YOU PAY IN FULL! worth $900
  • An online private community forum
  • 40 hours bankable towards a Katonah Yoga® Certification in addition to your 500 hour status upon graduation
  • Flexible and supportive learning
  • Bonus Courses from Selena
  • Postgraduate Support via monthly alumni events hosted in Selena's private community forum
  • Alumni Discounts on future retreats and programs
Pay in full and receive $2,600 in bonuses

When you pay in full receive 3 1:1 coaching session, bonus courses, and the most affordable teacher training rate

Early-Bird Investment €3800 until June 1st

Payment Plans Available

Extended payment plans are available.

Bundle in Mapping the Breath® 50 Hour Breathwork Training at a $300 discount. After your registration in the course you'll be sent a discount code. 

EARLYBIRD BONUSES UNTIL June 1st

€4,200 €3,800 Paid In Full

€2,600 in Bonuses

The Pay in Full. Add on your retreat week shared room for €1600. You'll receive a discount code upon registration.

  • 3 1:1 Private Coaching Sessions + Voxer access to the first 5 students $900 Value
  • 200 hour Virtual TT 
  • 2 Bonus Courses $250 Value
  • Support equity in access
  • Retreat Mastermind 2024 Recording Access
  • 50 Hour Bonus Restorative Course $1200 Value
  • Group Coaching Opportunities
  • 10 Hour Bonus Katonah Yoga Training Recording $250
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EARLYBIRD BONUSES UNTIL June 1st

€350 €318 per month

12 Month Payment Plan

 A 12 month payment plan to support for more support. Add on your retreat week shared room for €1600. You'll receive a discount code upon registration.

  • Group Coaching Opportunities
  • 200 hour virtual TT
  • 1 Bonus Course 
  • Next best pricing
  • FLEXIBLE OPTION
  • 10 Hour Bonus Katonah Yoga Training Recording
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SUPPORTED COURSE ACCESS SCHOLARSHIP

€263 €237 per month

16 Month Payment Plan

For those with currently limited financial resources who will benefit from a long term payment plan to make training accessible. Add on your retreat week shared room for €1600. You'll receive a discount code upon registration.

  • Group Coaching Opportunities
  • 200 hour virtual TT
  • 1 Bonus Course 
  • Next best pricing
  • FLEXIBLE OPTION
  • 10 Hour Bonus Katonah Yoga Training Recording
  • Lowest Payment Option
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Our Teachers

 

Modules guided by inspiring, creative, brilliant teachers with diverse backgrounds and skill sets to support your evolution 
Meet Your Instructor

Marco Migliavacca

Marco is a brilliant teacher hailing from Milan, Italy. He will be guiding 2 weekend Katonah Yoga® modules on Taoism, 5 Element Theory, Using the Pole, Asana as Origami and more. Marco's playful, intelligent, and imaginative approach to yoga practice and theory will spark the fire of your imagination and your creativity as a teacher. Marco joins us in the summer/fall of 2024. 

 

Meet your instructor

Dr. Paula Sauer

Dr. Paula Sauer - Paula brings over 20 years experience working with the human body and movement as a physical therapist and an educator in the fitness space, specialising in orthopaedics, women’s health and geriatric medicine. Paula authored and produced an integrative therapeutics training program for online and in person training, and has lectured worldwide on the topics of anatomy, kinesiology, therapeutics, women’s health, and injury prevention. Paula holds a doctorate degree in Physical Therapy, and works fluently in both English and German. She created and operated her successful practice in Los Angeles, CA and also co-founded a computer vision company in the fitness technology space. When Paula isn’t teaching or writing new material,  you can find her treating patients in Switzerland.

YOUR LEAD INSTRUCTOR

Selena has practiced yoga for 31 years and taught movement and meditation for close to 15. She holds thousands of hours of yoga training from luminary teachers. She began her yoga studies at age 12 and has never ceased her pursuit. 

She is a personal development coach, somatic coach, and teacher's teacher. A devoted student of the yoga tradition she has never ceased her learning. She is a South-Asian anthropologist, holding multiple certifications in yoga, pilates, FRC™, Katonah Yoga™, NLP, Somatic Experiencing, NLM™, and more. 

Selena is a Socio-Cultural Anthropologist and also holds an MPH from Boston University. She is a two-time Cornell Fellow and Fulbright Scholar. Her research includes the History and Evolution of Yoga in the West, Maternal Child and Infant Health in Nepal, and Myth and Folklore Studies. 

She is an oral storyteller and teacher of mythology and folklore. 

She wants you to find an inner intimacy and practice that supports you the whole of your life. She believes your most critical transmission is your inner transmission. 

A yoga practice big and bold enough
to hold the complexity of a human life. 

Yoga is here to serve you not save you. Yoga will not take all of your pain away, or cease your reactivity completely, but it will help you to thrive in your fullness, it has the potential to potentiate you. 

It is a place and a practice to build inner intimacy, to cultivate your listening and compassion, it is technical and techniques keep you safe, the practice has the potential to help you tend to your nervous system, to help you hold paradox, and to find more ease in the uncertainty of life. 

YOGA IS PRACTICAL MAGIC, IT'S PERSONAL RELIGION, IT IS AN INVITATION "IN" AND IT IS FOR INSIGHT. IF WE LET IT, IF WE COMMIT TO THE RIGHT PRACTICES, YOGA CAN TOUCH FAR BEYOND THE PHYSICAL BODY. AND YOU'RE INVITED. 

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By the end of our 300 hour training, you'll have learned to:

  • Utilize energetics to add potency and purpose to your classes
  • You will feel confident teaching private lessons and addressing concerns
  • You will feel confident utilizing yoga props in creative and inspiring ways
  • You will be equipped to teaching Katonah Yoga® inspired classes
  • You will understand how and what it takes to build a powerful career as a teacher
  • You will know how to weave esoteric dialogue, philosophy, and story thematically into your classes in powerful ways
  • Know how to sequence inspiring yoga classes that weave the esoteric into movement in accessible ways
  • You will understand 5 element theory, Ayurvedic approaches to asana, and Seasonality in your practice and life
  • And SO MUCH MORE...

And you'll learn from a relaxed and easeful state! This is a NO PRESSURE training. Your goal is to let yourself soak in it. Students have life-time access to the materials. 

My goals is that you would first and foremost steep yourself in this work. There is no pressure to "get it all" straight from the get go. 

When you are steeped in practice you can't help but transmit something of meaning. We're in this together. You will receive a top notch education in a supportive environment in which you can thrive. 

Who is this for?

This training is teachers and practitioners holding a minimum 200 hour yoga teacher certification. This advanced teacher training is open to ALL LEVELS of asana practitioners. Our training is inclusive and believes an advanced practice is not measured by a practitioner's ability to make shapes. In this training you will expand your toolkit making yourself an indispensable resource for your students. 

This is a professional training that will challenge, expand, and inspire. The more techniques you own the more powerful you are. This training will equip you with a host of methods and techniques from various yoga lineages, modern movement studies, and personal development coaching to be an inspiring and potent teacher. 

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HERE'S WHAT'S INSIDE:

You're going to

love

 this

Templates, Scripts, & More

You will receive not only handouts to support your learning but additional tools like meditation scripts to work with, sequencing templates for both asana and breathwork classes, and more. Anyone keen to run a retreat?

INSPIRATION

Creative sequencing techniques from multiple teachers. Personal Development coaching, multiple lineages of teaching and story to give you MORE esoteric dialogue for your teaching and your life.

Life-time access + bonus content

You get lifetime access to your recordings bonus courses and video content to continue to inspire you long after your training is completed. All teachers get access to Selena's 200 HR self-paced TT& more.

Special Events + Group Coaching Calls

All graduates of Selena's programs have life-time access to Selena's alumni monthly events and calls. A space for you to stay in connection and to receive ongoing support. 

Coaching

All students will have the opportunity to receive coaching with Selena during their training. Mind-body coaching will address the body, the subconscious mind, your habits, and so much more. What you want is just around the corner and we're here to help 

Private Community Forum

No Facebook here. We have our own private community forum hosted on your student platform where you can ask questions, connect with your classmates, and find accountability and support. 

Your yoga practice is you becoming yourself

Appa used to say "It's not a question of if you're doing yoga, you're always doing yoga, because yoga is engagement, but are you doing it well?"

 

This training is an opportunity to examine and clarify the ways in which you're engaging and to move consciously towards your Highest. 

The development of your inner landscape is an act of altruism 
I'm In...Let's Go...➡

A multi-disciplinary training

This program is an interdisciplinary training anchored in classical yoga studies, modern movement research, mind-body coaching, somatic movement, ayurveda and traditional Chinese Medicine, and Katonah Yoga®. Our faculty collectively hold certifications in numerous yoga lineages, mobility trainings, dance, life coaching, pilates, and more and offer a holistic, comprehensive training experience that will support you both on and off of the mat. 

This training is an invitation into a practice that equally nourishes the heart and invites healing to the mind. A practice that is playful, explorative, and non-dogmatic. That honors the body as the altar of life and yet is not a practice overly invested in the body but gives equal attention to the other limbs of practice. 

 

Advanced yoga teacher training will serve you in ways you cannot imagine. 

Honoring that there are are many lineages, many ways to be, teach, live, and seek. All are welcome here and students will receive exposure to multiple yoga lineages. 

Teachers will explore Katonah Yoga™, Rajanaka, Sri Vidya Tantra, Energetics of Yoga, Ayurveda, Modern Movement Science, Mobility, and so much more...

If you are ready to become an indispensable resource for your students, if you want to hear "wow I've never had a class like that before" on the regular, this is for you.

Let's go deeper. 

 

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The soul longs for expansion

I truly believe that your 300 hour yoga teacher training pays itself forward endlessly. Every decision you make going forward will be different. The tools and techniques you gain will shift the way you offer yourself and how you show up in the world.

And we want you to be a FULL BODY "YES." Sit with your decision. Listen to how your body responds when you think about joining us. Imagine yourself in the course with us and after. How does it feel? You will KNOW in your heart and body if this is the right move for you and the right training. Have questions? Drop us an email at [email protected] or on social and we'll schedule a call 

LOVE,

Selena

“I have learned so much about asana, breath and yoga philosophy and now have the resources to read and learn more as Selena’s reading list suggests quality books. This training has enhanced my yoga experience and I feel inspired to teach and go deeper into my practice. Also, I have enjoyed meeting other amazing students with similar goals, interests and insights.””

Cindy Montana USA

Taking Selena’s yoga teacher training was a game changer for me. I entered it with such an unclear vision for my life and graduated with a deep sense awe, excitement and motivation to step into my next level. It gave me the knowledge, resources and confidence to become the teacher I longed to be. I truly evolved in so many ways.

The depth of information in this training is worth much more than what you will pay. And as I revisit it time and time again, the value I receive is inexhaustible! The self paced format really suits my busy schedule and I loved the freedom it gave me to work my studies around other commitments!

When I reflect back on my journey, this training for me was really the true kick-off point! The personal development work in this course sparked many flames within me and inspired me to keep exploring. If you are ready to deepen your studies, get a solid education and level up your practice- you should learn with Selena! She is an expert, forever student and multifaceted teacher that offers wisdom and value in everything she does.

This course is the one to choose!

I would purchase it again without thinking twice.

Amy Dublin, Ireland

I want to say THANK YOU!! There are no words to express what a positive impact this training has had on my life as a whole. Wow, you have so much knowledge and love to share. Amazed at my entire journey inside and out. Not only did I hone valuable teaching skills but I learned so much by just getting vulnerable. I received a tool kit to integrate in teaching others but most importantly growing a better understanding of my own self so I can rise to my greatest potential. This is only the beginning of a magnificent adventure.

Nicole Boston USA

I whole-heartedly recommend Selena Garefino’s YTTs. She is so knowledgeable and passionate about yoga, the language, and us as individuals. I am currently participating in a 200 hour RYS training with her. I had been wanting to do YTT for years and when I learned that Selena was doing training I was ecstatic! I had taken classes and workshops from her previously and knew that she was the one that I wanted to lead me on this amazing journey to follow my dream! You will be pushed to learn and grow and delve deeply so that you can emerge a confident, caring, and knowledgeable instructor!

Sherry USA

“I have learned so much about asana, breath and yoga philosophy and now have the resources to read and learn more as Selena’s reading list suggests quality books. This training has enhanced my yoga experience and I feel inspired to teach and go deeper into my practice. Also, I have enjoyed meeting other amazing students with similar goals, interests and insights.””

Cindy Montana USA

Sicily Katonah Yoga®

In-Person Experience

if you are craving in-person training you're invited to add on a week long immersive experience in Sicily October 25th-November 1st at a discounted rate. 

SICILY IS STILL IN LATE SUMMER IN OCTOBER IT IS GORGEOUS!

Awakening the Senses

  • Shared room for just €1600 at our stunning villa Danena Sicily
  • 20 Hours of hands on Katonah Yoga® education including art of assists. 
  • Stunning vegetarian meals lots of time for rest and play
  • A free day for excursions

Embodied Learning - You'll receive hands on guidance and explore methods of Katonah Yoga® assists and practice. 

The Sicily retreat is a perfect opportunity to prepare the soil for the rest of our training year together. 

AFTER BOOKING YOUR TRAINING EMAIL SELENA TO RECEIVE THE DISCOUNT CODE TO BOOK YOUR ROOM. PRIVATE ROOMS ALSO AVAILABLE FOR A SUPPLEMENTAL RATE

LEARN ABOUT THE RETREAT

Have More Questions?

Drop Selena an email. She is happy to schedule a call with you to make sure this training is the right fit for you and your work.