The Roots of Yoga. Nature as Teacher.

Big Island, Hawaii

Ocean Front

January 9-20, 2024

 Peru May 2024 Dates TBA

Bali 2024 Dates TBA

International Association of Yoga Therapists Approved Professional Development Course and Yoga Alliance Continuing Education 

65 hours credit

“Loving Nature and the Practical Therapeutic application of the Ancient Wisdom of Pancha Maya Kosha,
Pancha Mahabhuta and the Chakras”

 30 hours

Plus the Chakras and Neuroscience

30 hours

$3600 before November 15, 2023

$3900 after November 15. 2023

Please check website for updates

One of Deborah’s passions is to provide participants a working knowledge of the interrelatedness and overlays of the Pancha Maya Kosha (the sheaths or layers of our human existence and of the human body systems), the Mahabhuta (the great elements) and the Chakras, their connection to modern day discoveries in neuroscience, and the interrelatedness of health and wellness to our innate connection to nature.

Students of life knowledge, yoga practitioners, healthcare and wellness practitioners, and yoga therapists will be provided accessible skills, techniques, and experiences related to these ancient teachings for direct application in their contemporary practice, both personal and professional.

Dates: January 9-20, 2024

International Association of Yoga Therapists

Yoga Alliance

Includes:
Airport Transfers
Beautiful Accommodations at our ocean front retreat
Amazing healthy meals
Crystal clear waters, swimming and snorkeling daily
Time to rest and relax between classes in nature
Outing to explore the Big Island
Course materials and personal journal
Guest teachers in the health care profession

This valuable, multi-dimensional course will be useful for assessment and treatment and includes: interactive hands-on classes, practical demonstrations of content, practicum/case study, community participation in small group settings for review and constructive feedback.

Please see teacher training page for further information about Deborah and her teaching.

APD Course Description here.

~ Highlights of Curriculum for Yoga Therapy,
Continuing Education, and
Expanded Mentorship offerings ~

For over 40 years at Yoga Adventure, we have been studying, teaching, exploring, traveling globally and applying yoga’s wide range of benefits to the many cross-sections of age, culture, religion, walks of life, and spiritual orientation. The lovingly and skillfully applied yogic practices as therapy for physical ailments are for a myriad of people – be it a skier in Colorado, a golfer in California, a potato farmer in Peru, a rice farmer in Bali, a street sweeper in India, or a Muslim women in Morocco. 

Deborah has worked with doctors, physical therapists, dancers, neuroscientists, friends and family, created amazing levels of healing and/or understanding through yoga therapy exploration and application.  From disease, injury and physical limitations among villagers in the mountains of Nepal, to elders in small villages in Mexico, to home and hospital settings with cancer patients, autoimmune disorders, and emotional, mental, and spiritual challenges what we have to share has become opportunities to help others.

At Yoga Adventure, we seek to inspire and support each student’s individual journey. Applying the healing benefits of yoga nurtures personal, authentic, and creative skills to implement and adapt classical ancient teachings.

We are the living lineage of these powerful practices, doing our best to bring forth the spirit of these ancient teachings, making them as simple and applicable as possible for our contemporary needs. As yoga becomes ingrained in the mainstream, it is important to embrace the deeper lasting benefits of yoga, and slowly integrate useful tools into our own lives before intelligently sharing these benefits with others. Starting with ourselves, we can progress with love, patience and understanding toward skillfully unraveling pain and disease and cultivating acceptance and contentment.

Deborah’s lifestyle represents the modern day version of ancient yogic seekers’ quest of holistic health and wise intuition. Through exploring classic texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and Yoga Sutras, traditional yoga asanas, meditation and pranayama, she has identified powerful implications for today’s many healing needs, from common physical and mental health issues to chronic diseases, physical limitations and psycho-social challenges.

Deborah herself is a perpetual student with a never-ending dedication for cultivating modalities that serve to keep the soul of ancient yogic teachings alive. Yoga philosophy, asanas, pranayama, meditation, Ayurvedic practices, Vedic astrology, and the use of plants, foods, and herbal concoctions for health and healing helps bring forth our innate connection to our own bodies, to each other, to our earth, and to a bigger cosmos.

Deborah practices and teaches a heart-centered approach to yoga therapy. She encourages ongoing cultivation of compassion and caring for ourselves and others, as well as continually building a groundwork of love, patience and intuition as we skillfully apply principles and practices of yoga therapy. Her passion for teaching and helping the least likely to do yoga and her kindness for all peoples overflow in her teachings. She shares yoga as therapy, and nurtures the cultivation of self-healing practices for ourselves as students, so that as teachers we may successfully encourage and inspire others in their path of health and wellness.

After thousands of one-on-one clients, classes, workshops, retreats and many years of yoga teacher training, the message is constant: continue to observe, listen, learn and shares – spread the knowledge of anatomy (physical and subtle), educate through therapeutic applications of yoga asanas, pranayama, meditation, philosophy, and Ayurvedic teachings. Inspire through example and authenticity.

The name Yoga Adventure grew from Deborah and Davids travels practicing and sharing yoga and recognizing the healing benefits of nature, of nature as teacher, and seeing the Rishis ( seekers and seers) in the forests of India as having passed on the roots of yoga and these essential yogic practices that sprung from their explorations, meditations and common wisdom.

Deborah has experienced the reciprocal beauty of teaching and learning during her travels to share yoga in primitive cultures with their own earth based traditional healing ways. “We have so much to share and to learn by creating global friendship and family and opening channels of learning and communication. Our connection with nature, each other, and our connection to a greater source is vital in personal and planetary healing.

If we start with ourselves and reach out, listening to valuable therapeutic information and education, we can progress in a loving direction and with patience and understanding of the body and its interrelated systems. We can skillfully unravel pain and disease as well as cultivate acceptance.

Every yogi from India, Tibetan monk or master, Balinese Manku or healer, Peruvian shaman and Moroccan Medicine man or woman I have met, has imparted wisdom that goes hand in hand with the powerful yogic teachings. This validates the need for sharing and teaching from the most precious element of this knowledge and utilizing this for health and wellness. We are a part of the constant unfolding of the art and science of yoga. The skills and experience of a yoga therapist and educator in today’s world can be invaluable to individuals as a viable resource for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and wellness.

Our shaman friends say that there is really no disease – just disconnect. Disconnect from nature, from ourselves, from each other and from the greater source. Healing on any level is a remembering, and yoga gives us tools to help in this remembering. We offer an experience of a lifetime to those who are inspired to spread the benefits of yoga as much-needed modern day therapy with vast applications. If you feel drawn to explore these possibilities and to see how these teachings can enhance your life, and in turn the lives of others, come join us in this amazing adventure of yoga!

Deborah offers private and small group yoga therapy sessions, continuing education workshops and retreats, as well as 200 and 300 hour YA Yoga Teacher Trainings and Yoga Adventure to remote international locations.

For private sessions please contact Deborah directly by email  [email protected] or phone 970 309-3835.

For Teacher Training and
Yoga Adventure Retreats  Peru ~ Bali ~ Hawaii
please see web page links for these offerings.

Latest interviews / podcasts:

Bliss Republic – #3 Laugh – Epic Humans 2020 Livestream
The Yoga Trade Podcast –“Nature as Teacher – with Deborah Koehn”
dc Life Magazine interview: Hawaiian Yoga Adventure with Deborah Koehn