Lila Yoga

We are overjoyed to open enrollment and release the full details of our upcoming Lila 300YTT

You can expect:

🌟Training is slow and thorough spread out over a full year

🌟3 in-person modules. Two of them nuzzled by the Appalachian Mountains in Central Pennsylvania. One module in Rishikesh, a spiritual birthplace of Yoga

🌟Includes monthly online group and private sessions

Our Timeline:

✨January 2-9, 2027: Retreat in State College, Pennsylvania

✨March 8-18, 2027: Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh, India (March 8-14: IYF; March 15-18: retreat)

✨August 1-8, 2027: Retreat in State College, Pennsylvania

✨Each month includes one, and occasionally two, online sessions lasting 2-3 hours.

✨December 2027: Graduation (virtual option)

To learn more or sign up, send us a DM or reach out to Erica Kaufman

Spaces are limited! We look forward to studying & practicing the great science of yoga with you

Tomorrow is a very exciting day because we will be opening enrollment and releasing the full details of our upcoming 300-hour Lila Yoga Teacher Training

Whether you feel called to refine your voice as a teacher, explore yoga philosophy more deeply, or lead with greater presence and intention, this advanced training offers the tools and mentorship to support that evolution.

Tomorrow we’ll be sharing everything you need to know, including the curriculum, dates, locations, investment, and more!

Send us a message if you’re interested to learn more! Spaces will be limited!

Look forward to connecting,
Erica Kaufman, MFA E-RYT500

I am honored to be featured on the July 2026 cover of the international publication dedicated to the wisdom of yoga—Rishikesh Yogalaya Magazine! and in a meaningful Q & A article about yoga in life, visions for the next generation and the philosophy of Lila Yoga

I’m grateful to the Yogalaya team for providing important articles and support to an international community of readers. Lila Yoga has profoundly shaped the way I move through the world not only as a teacher, but as a student of life

If you’re curious to learn more about Lila Yoga and explore voices from teachers and practitioners around the world, I encourage you to read the international yoga magazine, Rishikesh Yogalaya

Thank you to everyone who continues to preserve, practice, and share the timeless teachings of yoga

https://magazine.rishikeshyogalaya.com/July2026

Love & Gratitude,
Erica Rachel Kaufman

International Yoga Festival Yoga Journal

“Our yoga practice can open opportunities to move from a pedestrian mind set to yogi consciousness—an awareness that expands to the entire cosmos

Yogi consciousness helps us realize the cosmos as part of us and that we are an integral part of it

So within our yoga practice we move from individual reactivity/ emotions, and we move from thought-filled states of curiosity and opinions, into the yogi consciousness— an integrated state of being”

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Part 6 of an article Erica has written and will be published in India

Notes from a devoted Lila Yoga yogi


https://magazine.rishikeshyogalaya.com/July2026
Erica Kaufman
International Yoga Festival Yoga Journal

Warm wishes on International Yoga Day

May the Yogic sacred practice bring you serenity, strength, and harmony in body, mind, and spirit. Embrace the transformative power of yoga and discover the path to holistic well-being

🙏💐🙏Om Kriya Babaji Namah 🙏💐🙏

Enjoy reading our international Yoga magazine “Rishikesh Yogalaya” as a gift from Himalaya on the auspicious Yoga day

For yoga postures, clean alignment is built from the inside

Lila Yoga® teaches students to discover correct alignment by understanding the direction and quality of the energy lines that compose a posture

Only inner clarity can produce balanced, effortless external alignment

In the short film “Alignment From Within”, Erica Kaufman explores fundamental principles of Lila Yoga® that will assist all levels of yoga students in creating more dynamic yoga postures and finding more precise inner clarity

Find the short film on YouTube

🔗 https://youtu.be/MsjRG-8ped4?si=hvD8jRQP9VOObJZF

How do you commune with the universal energy?

“We are impacted by the energy we absorb. In turn we affect those energies as they move through us”

“We enter the realm of yoga-not by practicing alone on our mat, but by communing with universal energy on our mat”

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Part 5 of an article Erica has written and will be published in India

Words from a devoted Lila Yoga yogi

“ I welcome you into your yoga practice

A time to open up beyond your schedule, to open up beyond what society and culture imprints on you

The social and culture say these imprints are important, but within your yoga practice, you recognize that there’s more

You are part of nature, you are part of the seasons, you are part of the time of day, you are part of the moon cycles

We are part of it all”

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Part 4 of an article Erica has written and will be published in India

Notes from a devoted Lila Yoga yogi