Yoga Academy & Online Courses · United States
Certification-track teacher training and self-paced courses taught by working instructors in Austin, Denver and San Diego — plus live classes every day, streamed nationwide. Start free for seven days. No credit card.
Course catalog
Seven on-demand courses and one live certification pathway. Every one includes lifetime access, a certificate and a real teacher who answers your questions.
60-Day Dynamic Flow Immersion
Build a steady, breath-led vinyasa practice that you can actually keep on a busy week. Amara Reed breaks the 60-day journey into daily 20–40 minute sessions that layer sun-salutation variations, arm-balance progressions, and restorative cooldown work.
Taught by Amara Reed
8-Week Alignment & Fundamentals
The clearest on-ramp into yoga. Lena Ortiz teaches the classical postures with unhurried alignment breakdowns, plain-language anatomy and a weekly progression that makes the mat feel manageable from day one.
Taught by Amara Reed
4-Week Fascia & Mobility Series
Long, patient holds and supported shapes that reach deep connective tissue. David Okafor teaches you how to stay long enough to feel the release without overloading the nervous system — the practice people call 'the reset'.
Taught by Amara Reed
Why Lumen
Most online yoga courses are a playlist of videos with a certificate at the end. Ours are built like a real education: sequenced curriculum, anatomy, philosophy, assessment, and teachers who will tell you when something is not working for your body.
Every posture we teach has a modification for every body. Our instructors are certified, insured and trained to screen for injury before a student ever steps on a mat.
We teach the tradition as it actually is — Sanskrit names, philosophy, history and anatomy — and skip the parts that are just packaging.
No mirrors, no performance, no cold intros. Our rooms are built so a nervous first-timer can relax and a long-time practitioner can go deep.
Sliding-scale memberships, need-based scholarships and free community clinics every month. Money should not decide whether you get to practise.
How it works
No sales calls, no contracts, no pressure. Start when you are ready.
Start with a free 7-day trial and browse every live class and course preview. No card required, cancel in one click.
Stream lessons on any device, download audio for offline practice, and join live sessions with teachers you will meet in person.
Earn your certificate, join the alumni community, and keep every lesson for life — including every update we publish.
Flagship program
Twelve weeks, 150+ live hours, cohorts capped at sixteen students. An asana lab, anatomy and physiology, Sanskrit and philosophy, and a teaching practicum with mentor feedback on every class you teach. We handle your Yoga Alliance registration.
Live 12-Week Certification Program
The complete professional pathway: teach with confidence, understand the history and philosophy behind the practice, study anatomy and physiology, and graduate with a portable certificate recognized by studios across the United States.
Taught by Amara Reed
Your teachers
Our team holds 1,000+ hours of combined teacher training and still teaches a minimum of four classes a week each. You will get to know them.
Lead Instructor & Co-Founder
RYT-500, E-RYT 500 · 14 years teaching
Amara founded Lumen Yoga in 2014 with a single rule that still guides everything we do: no student should feel unsafe or unteachable in their own…
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Meditation & Yin Instructor
RYT-500 · Certified Meditation Teacher · 11 years teaching
David came to yoga through a decade of clinical mental-health work, and it shows in how he teaches: slowly, with an emphasis on what is safe for a…
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Foundations & Alignment Instructor
RYT-500, ERYT-200 · Pediatric yoga specialist · 10 years teaching
Lena is a physical therapist who came to yoga through her work with runners and post-surgical patients. That background makes her the person our…
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Restorative & Prenatal Instructor
RN, RYT-500, CYT · Birth & postpartum specialist · 9 years teaching
Maya is a registered nurse and certified yoga therapist whose clinical work includes a decade in labour and delivery. She wrote our Restorative &…
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We run live classes in every US time zone, six days a week, and record every single one. Members get the full replay library.
Student stories
Verified reviews from students across the United States.
I came in with a bad back and a lot of skepticism about yoga. Six months later I teach two classes a week at a studio in Phoenix. The courses are thorough without ever being precious.
The Hatha Foundations course is the first time anything online felt like a real class. Lena's alignment notes alone are worth the price — she tells you what to feel for, not just what to look like.
I did the Prenatal course at 28 weeks and then used the birth-prep workbook with my midwife. Having a medically reviewed plan made an enormous difference to how confident I felt.
Our whole office started doing the Restorative & Sleep routine. Within two weeks the 4 PM meetings had a very different energy.
Twelve weeks of teacher training and I still reference the anatomy modules weekly. It is the only certification I have taken that I still use five years later.
I started with the free trial on a Tuesday night, expecting to cancel. I have practised every day since. That is the whole review.
Pricing
No hidden fees. Cancel online in one click, no phone call required.
One self-paced course, lifetime access
from $99/
Unlimited in-studio classes at all 3 locations
$89/month/mo
Unlimited live online classes, nationwide
$39/month/mo
200-Hour live certification · payment plans from $329/mo
$3,290/
All prices in USD. Taxes, where required by state law, are added at checkout. Every course includes a 30-day money-back guarantee.
From the blog
Written by our instructors. Practical, specific and free of hype.
What to wear, what to bring, how a class actually flows, and the four things every first-timer worries about that nobody else in the room is thinking about.
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Read articleCommon questions
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