Shakti Yoga
yoga classes and teacher trainings
The Boathouse, private sessions, online and international retreats
2025 INDIA ASHRAM YOGA RETREAT
March 3-17, 2025
Embrance the path of wisdom, virtue, and inner harmony
Not your yoga usual retreat!
Join Bobby Bessey, B.Sc., E-RYT 500, RPYT, Yoga Teacher Trainer, for an immersive two weeks of awe and self-discovery. Dive deep into the heart of India’s ashram culture, savour its diverse cuisine, and lose yourself in a land of ancient wisdom and world heritage sites.
You will begin in the bustling city of Mumbai (Bombay), and travel onward with your group to an ashram nestled beneath the hilltop birth place of the Monkey God Hanuman. Spend 10 days immersed in traditional yoga lifestyle and wisdom, studying with Bobby, Guru-ji and other experienced spiritual guides. Ashram schedule is interspersed with day trips to ancient sites that will bring study topics to life.
Finish this life-changing experience with a guided tour of India’s most famous cultural sights and cuisine. This journey is designed to be much more than a tour. It is an opportunity for profound personal transformation, set against the backdrop of India’s rich spiritual, cultural, and culinary heritage
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Shakti Yoga Method - yoga for everyone
Shakti Yoga is a Yoga Alliance registered yoga school. Founder Bobby Bessey directs the long-running 200-hour Shakti Yoga Teacher Training NL program in St. John's, NL and is also the creator and facilitator of yin yoga, prenatal yoga, ayurvedic yoga, and yoga Nidra teacher training programs.
prenatal and birth preparation yoga, hatha and yin yoga
Shakti Yoga provides a variety of yoga and ayurvedic wellness services. Bobby specializes in yoga teacher training, prenatal yoga and birth preparation services, in addition to teaching hatha, yin, neurogenic and corporate yoga sessions.
With yoga certifications in a number of traditions, Bobby began her teaching practice after discovering how transformative yoga was to the quality of her own health. Inspired by her years of study and exploration of yogic traditions in both India and Japan, Bobby returned home to NL and started Shakti in 2004. Bobby weaves her background in science and psychology with her love of yoga tradition to create classes that inspire as they promote health and wellness.
release tension with Neurogenic Yoga trauma-informed yoga classes
Bobby’s classes are trauma informed. Her neurogenic and yoga nidra classes and workshops assist clients in managing and releasing tension and trauma.
Video: watch Bobby Bessey, of Shakti Yoga, explain Neurogenic Yoga
200 hour teacher training to deepen your practice
The Shakti Yoga 200 hour teacher training is offered annually and begins each year on the last weekend of January. This program consists of ten weekends of study (with a break in July and August). Register to deepen your personal yoga practice and/or prepare to confidently and skillfully share yoga with your community.
yoga workshops in NL and internationally
Bobby’s local classes are taught at The Boathouse by Quidi Vidi Lake, however, she travels frequently to facilitate Shakti Yoga teacher trainings, and workshops around the province of NL and internationally. You can find schedules and more information on her website at www.ShaktiYogaMethod.com
