The Yoga of Individuation 

A 12-week Journey through the subtle body to the Self

  • 12 Weeks

  • Live lectures

    (Recorded)
    Online lectures
    Live QnA / Discussions
    Experiential learning
    Student community

    Course Overview

    This program explores the journey of individuation - the process of becoming whole - through two complementary maps of consciousness: the Jungian psychological model and the yogic chakra system. Together, they illuminate human evolution from instinct to awareness, from survival to transcendence. Each session integrates Jungian depth psychology with yogic philosophy and practice, weaving together reflection and embodiment so that transformation becomes both lived and understood.

    The sessions will explore human psychology and consciousness through the map of the chakras, each representing a particular field of life and psyche, in parallel with the Jungian lens of individuation that corresponds to that same aspect of the human experience. Each 2-hour live session will integrate Jungian and yogic theory and practice, combining journaling prompts for reflection and discussion with asana, pranayama, and meditation into a unified process of embodied transformation.
    According to this system, there are seven centers, called chakras or padmas (lotuses), which have fairly definite localizations in the body.
    C. G. Jung
    Collected Works, vol. 16, para. 560

    Meet your faculty

    Byron Gaist

    Byron Jack Gaist, PhD is a Registered Counselling Psychologist, Licensed Psychotherapist and an Applied Jungian Practitioner with the CAJS.  He completed undergraduate studies in Psychology and postgraduate studies in Counselling Psychology, Theology, Religious Studies and Psychoanalytic Studies in the UK.  He has also taught Psychology, Philosophy and Sociology in higher education. 

    Having lived and worked in Denmark and Germany and travelled across Europe, the Middle East and Asia he has been a practicing therapist with an international clientele for over 30 years.  His interests in the interface between psychology and spirituality have led to lifelong explorations of both Christian and yogic / vedantic traditions.  He has also qualified to teach hatha/vinyasa (YTT200) and yin resonance yoga (YTT100) with the Shri Gaia Institute. 

    Being of mixed cultural and ethnic origin and informed by a deep study of Jung and post-Jungian thought, Byron has developed the ability to discern and to integrate affinities where boundaries are often perceived in the body, soul and spirit, and in the world.  
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    Tanya Savitri Popovich

    Tanya Savitri Popovich is a certified Yoga and Meditation teacher with over 20 years ofteaching experience. A lifelong student, she has spent the last decade enriching her already curious mind through studies in Sound Healing, RTT® Hypnotherapy specializing in trauma and PTSD, and Somatic, Ritual, and Cultural Practices of Indigenous Traditions.

    Tanya is the founder of Shri Gaia Institute and the creator and director of its internationally recognised training programs. For the past 14 years, Shri Gaia Institute has been leading 200-hour and 500-hour Yoga Teacher Trainings across Asia and Europe, in more than 20countries. In addition, Tanya has developed a suite of advanced and continuing education programs including Yin Resonance®, Metta Ecstatic Dance, Pranayama Teacher Training, Yoga Psychology Through the Chakric System, and other specialized modules.

    She has also been invited to direct teacher training programs and mentor faculty at schools in Finland, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia. Her extensive background in Yoga,Hypnotherapy, and Leadership through mind-body practices has led her to become a sought-after Leadership Coach, working with international organizations such as Airbus and ThalesGroup. As a teenager and young adult, Tanya studied Fine Art and Dance, practiced Transcendental Meditation, traveled extensively throughout India, and trained in both classical and contemporary forms of yoga.

    A devoted lover of yoga philosophy, she is known for guiding her students effortlessly into the depths of ancient teachings and into the rabbit hole of transformative, humorous, and insightful yogic thought. Her multidisciplinary experience culminates in a rich tapestry of training programs of the highest caliber, offered with sincerity, devotion, and a deep commitment to preserving traditional wisdom and the way communities came together in the past.
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    And when you succeed in the awakening of Kundalini, so that she begins to move out of her mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is a world of eternity, totally different from our world.
    C. G. Jung
    The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932 by C.G. Jung

    Meet your faculty

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    Byron Gaist

    Byron Jack Gaist, PhD is a Registered Counselling Psychologist, Licensed Psychotherapist and an Applied Jungian Practitioner with the CAJS.  He completed undergraduate studies in Psychology and postgraduate studies in Counselling Psychology, Theology, Religious Studies and Psychoanalytic Studies in the UK.  He has also taught Psychology, Philosophy and Sociology in higher education. 

    Having lived and worked in Denmark and Germany and travelled across Europe, the Middle East and Asia he has been a practicing therapist with an international clientele for over 30 years.  His interests in the interface between psychology and spirituality have led to lifelong explorations of both Christian and yogic / vedantic traditions.  He has also qualified to teach hatha/vinyasa (YTT200) and yin resonance yoga (YTT100) with the Shri Gaia Institute. 

    Being of mixed cultural and ethnic origin and informed by a deep study of Jung and post-Jungian thought, Byron has developed the ability to discern and to integrate affinities where boundaries are often perceived in the body, soul and spirit, and in the world.  
    Write your awesome label here.

    Tanya Savitri Popovich

    Tanya Savitri Popovich is a certified Yoga and Meditation teacher with over 20 years ofteaching experience. A lifelong student, she has spent the last decade enriching her alreadycurious mind through studies in Sound Healing, RTT® Hypnotherapy specializing in traumaand PTSD, and Somatic, Ritual, and Cultural Practices of Indigenous Traditions.

    Tanya is the founder of Shri Gaia Institute and the creator and director of its internationally recognised training programs. For the past 14 years, Shri Gaia Institute has been leading 200-hour and 500-hour Yoga Teacher Trainings across Asia and Europe, in more than 20countries. In addition, Tanya has developed a suite of advanced and continuing educationprograms including Yin Resonance®, Metta Ecstatic Dance, Pranayama Teacher Training,Yoga Psychology Through the Chakric System, and other specialized modules.

    She has also been invited to direct teacher training programs and mentor faculty at schools in Finland, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia. Her extensive background in Yoga,Hypnotherapy, and Leadership through mind-body practices has led her to become a sought-after Leadership Coach, working with international organizations such as Airbus and ThalesGroup.As a teenager and young adult, Tanya studied Fine Art and Dance, practiced TranscendentalMeditation, traveled extensively throughout India, and trained in both classical andcontemporary forms of yoga.

    A devoted lover of yoga philosophy, she is known for guiding her students effortlessly into the depths of ancient teachings and into the rabbit hole of transformative, humorous, and insightful yogic thought.Her multidisciplinary experience culminates in a rich tapestry of training programs of the highest caliber, offered with sincerity, devotion, and a deep commitment to preserving traditional wisdom and the way communities came together in the past.