अथ योगानुशासनम्
atha yogānuśāsanam
Now, the teaching of yoga begins.
Yoga Sutra 1.1 · Patañjali
Step onto your spiritual journey in a community of like-hearted souls, and remember the wisdom of your spiritual heart.
We’re all just walking each other home.
Ram Dass
Yoga Teacher Trainings
Mind, Body & Spirit at Karma Yoga Center
Karma Yoga Center offers 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher training programs in Denver, Colorado. Under the guidance of lead teacher and studio owner Katrina Gustafson, our trainings connect students to both the spiritual and practical teachings of yoga.
The trainings are open to the student who wants to become a certified yoga teacher and to the seeker who wants to deepen their physical, mental, and spiritual practice. Along with your certification, you will receive a booster shot for your soul: a life-altering immersion that awakens you to the essence of who you are, so you can step into your potential and help others do the same.
योगश्चित्तवृत्तिनिरोधः
Yogash chitta vritti nirodhah
“Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.”
Patanjali, Yoga Sutra 1.2
Upcoming Teacher Trainings
200-Hour YTT & Mountain Immersion
The Journey Inward · Spring/Summer 2027
- Dates
- Mar 26 – Aug 19, 2027
- Location
- Rockledge Retreat Center, Manitou Springs & Karma Yoga Center
- Faculty
- Katrina Marie Gustafson, Lisa Theis, Michael Shankara, Beth Sanchez & Anne Hart
- Tuition
- $2,700 early bird (paid in full by Mar 26, 2027) · $2,970 regular & payment plans
- Deposit
- $432 non-refundable, applied to tuition
Opens with a 3-day mountain retreat, then two 7-day trainings and four weekends at Karma Yoga Center.
300-Hour YTT & Mexico Immersion
The Breath of Life · Spring/Summer 2027
Limited to 9 spaces
- Dates
- Apr 9 – Aug 29, 2027
- Module 1
- 10-day immersion in Puerto Morelos, Mexico · Apr 9–18, 2027
- Modules 2–6
- 5 weekends at Karma Yoga Center: May 14–16, June 11–13, July 9–11, Aug 6–8 & Aug 27–29
- Faculty
- Katrina Marie Gustafson, Michael Shankara, Lisa Theis & Anne Hart
- Tuition
- $5,470 early bird · $5,830 regular & payment plans · $1,008 non-refundable deposit
Why Train With Us
Mind, Body & Spirit
Philosophy, pranayama, meditation, mantra, Bhakti, Ayurveda, and astrology alongside asana and anatomy.
Sacred Immersions
Begin in the Colorado mountains at Rockledge Retreat Center, or journey to Mexico for the 300-hour Breath of Life.
Yoga Alliance Registered
Karma Yoga Center is a Registered Yoga School for both the RYS 200 and RYS 300.
A Loving Community
Supported by our teachers and sangha, with an unlimited membership included during your training.
Your Training Home
Our trainings take place at our 5,000 square-foot studio at 1760 S. Broadway in Denver, with lectures in the YTT Room and practice in the Main Studio, surrounded by a community room, meditation space, the Soma Spa, and the coffee shops and restaurants of South Broadway.
Teacher Training Faculty
Katrina Marie Gustafson
Owner, founder & lead teacher
The mermaid of the mountains, Katrina Marie seeks the heights of the peaks and the depths of the oceans in her practice. Through the wisdom of the heart, her purpose is to help guide others to open their own. She has studied in the temples of India, the pyramids of Mexico, and in the crucible of modern life. She finds the sacred in the rhythm of the seasons, the stars, and every second of life.
As the owner and founder of Karma Yoga Center in Denver, she brings the Bhakti from all wisdom traditions to her yoga classes: singing, chanting, dancing, and journeys into the heart. Katrina fills every yoga session with love. She weaves in the teachings of her yoga mentor Saul David Raye and the cosmic knowings from the lineage of Evolutionary Astrology. She shares her life journey with her half-side husband Michael Shankara and her two boys, Max and Bo.
Lisa Theis
Para Yoga & Sri Vidya lineage
Lisa’s journey with yoga began 18 years ago in a Bikram studio in San Francisco. What began as a physical and mental challenge to simply stay in the room quickly became a deep and healing connection for her body, mind, and spirit, and eventually a life’s passion and calling.
Though she has had many influential teachers, she is a dedicated student of Yogarupa Rod Stryker and follows the lineage of Para Yoga and Sri Vidya. Her classes provide space for each person to explore the effect of yoga in their own way and, while rooted in the methodologies of Para Yoga, are an amalgamation of all her teachers’ influences. Each class includes pranayama, the energetics of asana, mantra, visualization and intentional focus, and meditation.
Michael Shankara
Co-owner, astrologer & sacred geometer
Michael Shankara is a yoga teacher, Mayan shaman and priest, astrologer, and sacred geometer with over thirteen years of active teaching and community leadership. He is the author of I Am the Snake ~ In Lak’Ech (iamthesnake.com). He apprenticed with Dr. Don Miguel Angel Vergara, a revered Mayan Elder, Wisdom Keeper, Mayan Priest, and former cultural director of the sacred Chichén Itzá Pyramids, studying intensively in Mexico since 2013 at sacred sites, pyramids, cenotes, caves, jungle initiations, and remote indigenous villages.
Integrating shamanic and yogic training across multiple lineages, Michael offers transformative experiences through sacred geometry, sound healing, crystal healing, energy work, and astrology. With over a decade of study in Western, Mayan, Greek, Vedic, Native American, and Chinese astrology, he brings a rare depth of cross-traditional knowledge to his teaching. Together with his partner Katrina Gustafson, Michael co-owns and operates Karma Yoga Center in Denver, now in its new 5,000 square-foot home at 1760 S. Broadway, offering classes, workshops, 200 and 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Trainings, healing services, and annual sacred site retreats.
Beth Sanchez
Mindful hatha & Ayurveda
Foremost in her aspiration is to serve students in a way that supports their birthright to enjoy purpose, insight, well-being, and the cultivation of inherent goodness. Gurupriya Beth’s classes are deeply inspired by her core teachers, Engaged Buddhism founder Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh and Ayurveda Master Teacher and Practitioner Alakananda Ma. She is also invigorated by the Advaita teachings of Adyashanti and Rupert Spira, and the vision of philosopher and sacred activist Charles Eisenstein. Tias Little, Richard Freeman, and countless others continue to inspire her understanding of yoga asana, dharma, and related practices.
Gurupriya Beth has been teaching yoga since 2000, and her style has been described as mindful hatha/vinyasa with anatomical depth, nourishing adjustments, contemplative support, and invitations to sing, sigh, and giggle.
Anne Hart
Anatomy & yoga therapy
Anne is an experienced yoga teacher (E-RYT 500) and seasoned yoga therapist (C-IAYT) who has logged over 1,500 hours working with students individually since 2001, and well over 3,000 hours teaching classes for all levels, including special populations such as cancer patients. Known as “ANNE-atomy,” she teaches anatomy in several Denver YTT programs, inspiring students with images that correlate the human body to animals, art, and architecture, followed by an asana practice exploring those same structures experientially.
She has made 25+ field trips to cadaver labs, assisted Thomas Myers (“Anatomy Trains”) and Todd Garcia in a 5-day Fascial Dissection Course, and helped edit “Yoga of the Subtle Body” by Tias Little and “Yoga + Cancer” by Lorien Neargarder. Her intention is to ignite a passion in her students for the beauty and complexity of the body.
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Free Open House
Meet the lead teachers, see the studio, and ask your questions in person or on Zoom. Open House dates for our 2027 trainings will be announced soon.
Register early and save: $270 off the 200-hour when paid in full by March 26, 2027, and $360 off the 300-hour when paid in full by April 9, 2027.
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