Yoga Alliance RYS 200 | YACEP | Virtual Training | Professional Certifications
Yoga education should prepare you for real people... not perfect circumstances.
Lotus River Wellness develops yoga teachers who understand more than poses.
Our training combines traditional yoga education with nervous-system awareness,
trauma-conscious teaching, adaptability, professional boundaries, and practical teaching skills
so graduates can confidently meet students where they are.
Because every person who walks into a yoga class brings a body, a nervous system, a history, and a life with them.
One Certification. Three Ways to Train.
Choose the level of flexibility, community, and mentorship that fits the way you learn.
What makes an LRW teacher different?
They understand the nervous system.
Not as a buzzword, but as part of how people experience movement, stress, safety, and connection.
They teach people, not poses.
Bodies differ. Histories differ. Needs differ. Great teachers know how to adapt.
They develop their own teaching voice.
LRW doesn't create copies of our trainers.
They graduate ready to teach.
Students practice, observe, sequence, cue, teach, receive feedback, and demonstrate competency.
Meet Your Lead Trainer
With more than a decade of yoga teaching experience and over 20 years of lived experience within the Special Operations community, Steph brings a deeply human approach to teacher education. As founder and Lead Trainer of Lotus River Wellness, she has developed professional programs rooted in trauma-conscious teaching, nervous-system awareness, practical methodology, and real-world application.
Her goal is simple: to graduate teachers who do more than complete a certification. They're teachers who understand people, trust their own voice, and feel prepared to lead with confidence, adaptability, and integrity.
Steph Cole, E-RYT 500 | Founder + Lead Trainer
Our roots run deep. Our reach has grown.
Lotus River Wellness began with one community at heart:
America's Special Operations and military families.
Years spent alongside service members, spouses, caregivers, veterans, and families navigating high-stress lives shaped how we understand wellness, education, and the nervous system.
Those roots haven't changed.
Our reach has.
Today, LRW brings that same thoughtful, human-centered approach to students and teachers from all walks of life, while continuing to maintain dedicated funding and scholarship pathways for the military community.
