“Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.” - Paramahansa Yogananda


Western Yoga College was founded by Scott Miller. After conducting Hatha Yoga Teacher Training programs for six years at a studio he founded in Riverside, CA,, Scott is making his program available at studios all around Southern California. While each course will include special guest teachers and performers, Scott will be be the primary instructor. That way, program attendees will be assured of being taught by the Inland Empire's most experienced teacher trainer. Scott has been certifying teachers longer than anyone in the area and since Western Yoga College is accredited with Yoga Alliance, graduating from our program translates directly to their 200 hr. RYT status.

It should also be recognized that what distinguishes our program is its broad yogic scope. No other single school traces its roots back to all four of the main Hatha Yoga teachings. So after running the first studio to offer daily classes taught by high level practitioners of Ashtanga Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Yin Yoga, and Kundalini Yoga, Scott is bringing that broad awareness more exclusively to his Teacher Training programs. Because Scott had studied directly with Ashtanga master Pattabhi Jois, Iyengar master Lisa Walford, Yin Yoga master Paul Grilley and Kundalini master Harijivan, Western Yoga College students are in turn exposed to the hathayogic philosophies and methodologies that have shaped the American yoga world over the last thirty years. Without compromising the integrity of any of the four individual styles, Scott positions our program to help a broad range of teacher trainees find their way of instructing yoga.

With Scott's guidance, all trainees can explore what it is that serves them best on a yogic level. The start of that process is finding out what teacher-trainees love most about yoga. Then the love becomes what we teach. Not only people who will become yoga teachers, but anyone serious about their practice can benefit from the course and most people who have graduated consider their time with Scott to be the most transformational experience of their life.