UPCOMING EVENTS
Scotland Luxury Yoga Retreat 2027
Student Stories
If you're looking for a YTT course in an environment which embraces individuality, supports personal development and is built on core values of compassion and kindness, Karuna’s YTT is the one for you.
During and after the training I experienced a body and mind strength and confidence, I felt totally awake and became aware of a mindful, respectful life.
Stepping out of my comfort zone at 50 years young and embarking on this journey and doing my first YTT is one of the most empowering things I have done in a very long time. I love that this journey will never end, this was just the beginning and there is so much more to come.
The overall Karuna Yoga Journeys experience has been amazing. Supported by an incredibly dedicated team of teachers, I've learned so much, and not only how to sequence a safe, fun, nurturing class but also about my self and others.
Made friends for a lifetime, discovered more and more beautiful aspects about myself that I now take pride in, I felt so connected to the environment and I could not have pictured myself going on this journey with any one else! So much love for my Karuna family.
Karuna Yoga Journeys is the best decision I have ever made! It is unlike any other yoga course I have ever heard about, it’s not just joining a training but joining a wide world family of like minded, loving, wonderful people!
The Karuna Yoga Journeys teacher training was one of the most amazing experiences of my life! Such amazing teachers and yogis coming together to do yoga, learn and share about life in a safe place. Loved it!
So grateful for this amazing experience and opportunity, I can’t wait to share all I have learnt. I look back with great gratitude, everyday was a new adventure yet everyday felt like I was home.
The love and community power that was vibrating during the training was so pure that freedom took over the space and amazingly the energy channels opened up finding my powerful self ever yet.
It's a magnificent experience that I recommend to anyone who feels this infinite and absolute love for Yoga and for everything that it entails.
I’m so proud and happy to count myself as one of the first Karuna graduates! The structure of the course was great – mindful of everyone’s capacity and learning processes, and built with so much love and awareness.
A really comprehensive course structure gave us all the tools we needed to start our journey of teaching yoga and sharing it with others.
Going into the training I did not know if I wanted to teach; throughout, I was able to grow and explore in my own practice and experience on and off the mat.
Payal and Leyla are phenomenal teachers ! The experience and knowledge that each of them contribute makes them a dynamic duo that beautifully compliments each other, I am so honoured to have learnt with them.
The Karuna journey is not only a yoga teacher training it is much more than that it brought light to my life, deep insight in my yoga practice and opened my heart to help others in need and becoming a compassionate Yoga Teacher.
Is there any other better way to actually understand what is compassion and how to live it in our lives then to learn, laugh, discuss and hang out with Payal and Leyla? I don't know any.
Karuna was everything I expected it to be and more. The quality and dedication of the teaching created a safe and inspirational learning environment that allowed me to be myself and explore my potential as a yogi. Thank you!
Immersing myself in yoga for 21 days was an incredibly grounding experience. It allowed me to not only deepen my yoga practice but also gave me a world perspective about mindfulness, presence, and spirituality.
This YTTC isn't just about furthering your personal practice, but tapping into a collective community of yogis that learn to learn together and thrive. Highly recommended!
Payal and Leyla are both knowledgeable, adorable teachers who have an incredible talent of teaching and sharing their yoga experience with the students.
I joined the YTT course not really knowing what to expect, but hoped for an experience that would strengthen my practice. What I received was more than my expectations, absolute magical experience that has changed my life forever.
This is not your run-of-the-mill teacher training. Leyla and Payal lead with a true beauty, grace, and compassion that is rare.
As well as the pleasure of immersing myself in yoga, I enjoyed the talks on philosophy, and the support of the teachers and the group. Thanks for a fun and rewarding experience.
Leyla and Payal brought us all together for a life changing journey; encouraging and guiding us through an emotionally and physically intense 21 days of yoga.
It was all incredible. I now wake up earlier for sure. My whole mindset has shifted.
It was a very special 3 weeks journey, personal and in a group way. The sense of harmony and love was the predominance and it was a very beautiful place to learn about yoga, ourselves and the others. I highly recommend it.
My favorite part of the course was the depth and scope of its content. Leyla and Payal are the ideal guides throughout an experience like this, and all of the lecturers were phenomenal.
To be able for teachers to hold space for all the shifts happening in the students, all the different energies, all the work to be done and yet remain calm is something that I was lucky enough to experience.
Having been a yoga teacher for the last twenty five years, the Karuna Yoga Teacher Training came to me as a special gift. It felt like coming home: I am so grateful and full of joy to be part of the Karuna Yoga family.
The Karuna team, you put your heart and soul in designing this course. The amount of knowledge we receive in 3 weeks is unbelievable. All the lectures and asana practices were equally interesting.
I am happy to be part of the Karuna family, as Karuna YTT made me look at yoga in new light. The training was comprehensive and very well designed.
The Karuna journey experience is one I will never forget and would highly recommend to anyone looking to learn more about themselves, both from an introspective point of view as well as their yoga and meditation knowledge.
The YTT has rekindled my love of learning, (trying to) make time each day to slow down and breathe, and to work on the projects that are important to me like writing and guru-seva.
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Benny started out practicing Hatha and Iyengar yoga from the age of 15, but only discovered Yin Yoga in 2015, finally becoming a teacher in 2017. Since then she has never looked back and continues training in and teaching this wonderful practice wherever and whenever she can. Based in Kenya, she teaches studio classes in Nairobi.
Jordan has been practicing yoga for over 10 years in the US, Europe and Kenya. She received certification in Baptiste Power Yoga with the Africa Yoga Project in Kenya, completed the Karuna YTT in 2018 and recently completed a course in yoga for 12-step recovery.