Essential Yoga Therapy offers a gentle, therapeutic orientation to yoga that is supportive of those with limited mobility, or who are living with chronic pain and illness. Founder Robin Rothenberg specializes in assisting people in their recovery from Long-COVID. If you or a loved one is suffering from the fatigue, brain-fog, neurological and cardiac symptoms associated with long-hauler’s syndrome, contact Robin today! She will facilitate your journey back to health and the life you love!
Trainings and Upcoming Events
The Kleshas Unveiled: A Six-Week Embodied Exploration - Thursdays, October 9 - Nov. 13th, 4 - 5:30pm PST
In this transformative six-week series with master teacher Robin Rothenberg, we'll courageously explore how the five kleshas—our attachments, aversions, ignorance, ego, and fear of death—shape our daily choices and reactions. Rather than simply studying these obstacles intellectually, we'll work with them through embodied practice, using movement, breath, and somatic awareness to feel their energetic patterns in our bodies.
Restore Your Prana (RYP) Certification Program Start date: October 20th, 2025!
The Restore Your Prana (RYP) Professional Training offers an immersive breath-retraining certification uniquely tailored for yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and healthcare practitioners. This program will equip you with the essential tools you need to be proficient in recognizing and addressing dysfunctional breathing habits in your students and clients to greatly facilitate healing.
Ayurveda Self-Care Practices for Health and Longevity Nov 16th, Dec 7, March 1st, Jun 7th
This 8 hour training offers an introduction to sacred Ayurvedic body treatments that promote balance, vitality, and longevity. Participants will explore marma point therapy, daily routines (dinacharya), seasonal self-care protocols, and guided breath practices—tools that can be applied personally or shared with yoga students and clients.
Foundations of Yoga Therapy - Start date: April 2026
Part I of The EYT Accredited Yoga Therapy Training and 300 hr. Advanced Teacher Training
Online Classes
Robin Rothenberg’s workshops at YogaU offers online yoga education for every body. Her online classes help you develop a better understanding of how the body and mind function. Participate from wherever you are in the world.
IAYT Accredited Therapist Training
The Essential Yoga Therapy Therapist Training program takes seasoned, mature, yoga teachers and provides them the skills and knowledge to become competent yoga therapists.
Breathing Lite and Restoring Prana with Robin Rothenberg
Prana is the animating force that supports and sustains us — akin to the concept of ‘qi’ in Chinese Medicine. Cultivating a rich reservoir of prana is the essential goal of yoga practice and pranayama the primary tool to actualize it. It is the containment of prana that enables our vitality to thrive. This requires us to train ourselves to need less breath — not more. Click below to learn about Robin’s new book, Restoring Prana: A Therapeutic Guide to Pranayama and Healing Through the Breath, for Yoga Therapists, Yoga Teachers and Healthcare Practitioners.
Work with Robin
Yoga therapy practices are precisely adapted for people who suffer from chronic pain or illness to respect their limitations. Work with Robin in a group setting, individually, or in a personalized breathing lite workshop.
