"If only I was a fully Embodied Yogi, I'd never be Overlooked"
If I was the complete package, I'd live my fullest life, expressing my highest love in spirit, in relationships, and in community.
The real problem isn't our bodies, our age, our discipline or how flexible we are.
The modern world is built to keep us down.
Our food comes laced with pesticides and seed oils, our water with microplastics, our air with pollution.
Our feeds are engineered to distract us.
We get knocked off center daily by noise, by conflict, by people running on lower consciousness.
Almost everything around us is designed to make us weaker, fatter, sicker, more anxious, and more dependent.
Staying centered, healthy, and spiritual in a world like this is genuinely hard.
These issues are not new.
Humans have struggled with them for thousands of years.
Yoga was designed as the solution and has worked for millennia.

We were handed fragments.
A flow here, a Sanskrit word there, a weekend workshop, a tangle of conflicting advice about what's real and what was invented last Tuesday.
So we've been guessing.
We've plateaued while we're performing, collecting certificates that never quite make us into that person.
It's lonelier than we admit.
The very things that should be our strength, our spiritual core, our hunger to grow, our wish to live consciously…
…leave us out of step with a culture set against the life we want.
The world doesn't hold up a centered, fit, spiritual & healthy life.
Without a real tribe, the practice stalls, the motivation thins, and the deeper connection we're reaching for, along with the person who might share it, stays out of reach.
The B.A. Yogi System is built from the highest fruit of the entire yogic tradition, the parts that actually change a person, woven into one path you can follow.
We are not going to teach you twenty-seven styles of yoga. We go deep on the three practices at the very top of the ancient Vedic hierarchy.
This is the whole system the world never handed you.
Ashtanga for the body.
Bhakti for the spirit.
Kirtan for the tribe and joy.
The highest and most beautiful fruit of the tradition, gathered into one system.
Not so you can collect another certificate.
So you can finally become an actual yogi.
Three teachers at the top of their fields have come together to create something the world does not yet have: a training without equal in depth, standard, or kind.
All programs certified with the partner institution, Florida Vedic College, which has been teaching Vedic wisdom since 1990.Spirit · Confidence · Purpose
You know what you're doing, and why
A daily practice that's finally your own
The authority to teach, adjust, and lead a room
A spiritual life you feel, not just talk about
A sadhana that holds when life gets loud
A Divine that feels personal, not distant
Your voice leading the chant, the room following
The quiet certainty that you belong
A tribe for life
Body · Mind · Energy
A lean, strong, vibrant, healthy body
Tall posture
Full body blood & energy flow
Calm in place of anxiety
Steady energy by day, deep sleep by night
Expert at advanced asanas, the deep binds
Breath mastery through pranayama
Pain-free, easy movement
A glow people notice
A confident, embodied presence people feel.
Jay Hari (Jayson) · Ashtanga Trainer

“I can’t recommend Jayson enough.”
Mark Maya
“The most incredible adjustments I’ve ever received.”
Jenna Boyce
“Goes beyond the physical practice. He inspires, guides, and helps you grow in every aspect.”
Florencia
“Wisdom, patience, and presence into every class.”
Adam MahVishnu Swami · The Maverick Monk

“The go-to person for the deep points about yoga and life.”
Madhu, Yoga Teacher
“He teaches intense subject matter in an easy-to-understand way.”
Jacque Tarlton, Founder, Focus43
“Vishnu Swami is a gift to all of us.”
Sabriane Brandao, Fashion Model & Entrepreneur
“Totally authentic.”
Christopher Jones, Cirque du Soleil Performer
“You will walk out wanting to know more.”
Nicole Medinaby Bhakti Ashtanga Yoga Institute (B.A. Yogi) in partnership with Florida Vedic College.
One certificate, two institutions
Florida Vedic CollegeYou can now officially teach Ashtanga Yoga with the blessings from the Bhakti Ashtanga Yoga Institute (B.A. Yogi) and its teachers.
You become a reputable B.A. Yogi, Certified Yoga Teacher (Sādhaka Level).
30 certified Florida Vedic College credits.
Over 1,400 hours of training. Yoga Alliance 500 hour (500 RYT) eligible.
Counts as one year of college (half an associate’s degree) towards a bachelor’s degree in yoga studies.
Daily practice credit. You earn credit for your logged daily practice, this helps integrate your practice as part of your life instead of competing with it.
This program is built to be done part-time, alongside a normal life and a job.
Most teachers are 200 or 500 hours, with no college standing.
Unfortunately, many teachers certified at these levels have poor practice, poor understanding, and poor teaching abilities.
B.A. Yogi, Certified Yoga Teacher (Sādhaka Level) is over 1,400 hours, backed by certified college credits, and it makes you eligible for Yoga Alliance’s highest training certification, RYT 500.
The very first level, B.A. Yogi, Certified Yoga Teacher (Sādhaka Level), already puts you at the top of the hierarchy of yoga teachers — a standard most teacher trainings simply cannot reach.
It is what it takes to teach with real authority, and with our blessings.
By the end, you are not “a person who took a workshop.”
You are a certified yoga teacher who has an authentic practice, knows the philosophy, and can lead basic Kirtan.
This is the only college-certified, bachelor’s-track Ashtanga-Bhakti teacher training in the world.
It is designed to stand alone as a complete teacher training of the highest caliber.
Year One
You are hereSādhaka Level
Already a higher-level yogi than most all other teacher trainings.
Year Two
Sevaka Level
Year Three
Sātvika Level
Year Four
Śāstrika Level
Four years is the full degree, the only one of its kind in the world.
Three weeks in the jungle: a steady rhythm of daily Ashtanga and Bhakti, opened by arrival and closed by your graduation ceremony, with four excursions woven through.
Arrival, Meet & Greet, Orientation
Light evening kirtan
Yoga
Outing I · Temascal
Yoga
Outing II
Yoga
Outing III
Yoga
Outing IV
Yoga
Graduation · Fire Yajña Ceremony
Departure
After morning program
Personal time and optional wellness are held between blocks each day.
You can come for as little as one week and use the rest of your time next year.
The three weeks can be split however suits your life — one week this year, another the next. You go at your own pace here too.
3 payments of
$1,888
6 payments of
$1,008
Not included: flights, airport and local transportation, books, excursions, and personal expenses.
Because this is the founding cohort...
...the very first group to do the full B.A. Yogi, Certified Yoga Teacher (Sādhaka Level).
We are only accepting a small, personal, committed circle who'll go through this with us.
This limited group size gives us the space to shape the program to exactly what is best for you.
Your feedback shapes the final version.
Your story becomes one of our first full testimonials...
...and some of you will go on to teach this very program.
In return for helping us build this...
You get an enormous amount of personal attention and guidance.
Enabling you to master the practice faster.
This trade only happens once.
Plus.
You get over $13,000 off, more than 70%.
The price rises as the cohort fills...
...and the opportunity to join will disappear as soon as we are full.
The paid-in-full early-bird price of $4,997 is only available through September 30, 2026.
So given that this is a fleeting opportunity....
Would it be a terrible idea to lock in your founding member seat & discount before it’s too late?
Every day lived out of tune with your higher purpose is a day that cannot be redeemed.
It is gone for good.
You are either growing or dying.
On the upward spiral, or the downward one.
What no one tells you is that it compounds.
Every step toward growth makes the next one richer and easier.
Every step toward stagnation hardens the body, dulls the mind, and makes the climb back that much steeper.
Procrastination speeds up the very things yoga exists to heal.
The body ages.
The mind stiffens.
The heart grows hard.
Life loses its meaning.
Money is the one thing here that comes back.
It comes and goes, it is spent and replenished again.
Your time spent in substandard: health, vitality, mind, time, peace.
That does not return.
Take the full year. Do the quizzes, the tests, the practice. Follow it all, sincerely.
If at the end you don’t feel this was the finest yoga teacher training and the most transformative year of your life, contact us.
No questions asked. We return your money in full.
Including what you paid for your food and accommodation at the 21-day Tulum immersion.