The Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health is the largest center for yoga and holistic health in the U.S., serving people of all backgrounds for more than 25 years. Kripalu offers a battery of classes, workshops, and retreats for beginners, advanced students and yoga teachers. Its educational programs are designed to provide participants with tools they can apply in their daily lives to foster their long-term growth and development. It serves over 21,000 people a year.

Kripalu is located in the town of Lenox near Tanglewood (the summer home of the Boston Symphony) in the Berkshire hills of Western Massachusetts. It is an hour's drive from the Albany, NY airport.

For more than 25 years, Kripalu has been training teachers in the art and science of yoga. The 200-hour certification program is offered in a one-month intensive format or in two 12-day sessions. 

The 500-hour Professional-Level Certification is comprised of four 9-day modules. Modeled on the 200-hour program, the intensive modules include morning yoga sessions, practicum sessions, and mini-retreats, providing teachers with the opportunity to explore their own practice of yoga. Teachers who have studied 200 hours or more in another tradition and whose training meets recommended minimum standards of the Yoga Alliance, may be eligible for transfer credit toward the 500-hour Professional-level Certification.

Kripalu is a Yoga Alliance registered school and its 200-hour Basic Certification and its 500-hour Professional-level Certification meet the Yoga Alliance's recommended national standards. The Yoga Alliance is an organization representing the major schools of yoga in America.

For a list of Kripalu Yoga teachers and studios in other cities, click on Other Cities above.