"Conquering Lion teachers are the absolute most prepared to teach. They come right out of their training and literally conquer students and studios alike. I said I would not hire anyone right out of teacher training but I was wrong. I have had two Conquering Lions on staff and they have been just as skilled as our other staff members, most of whom have been teaching for years."
"When we opened Yoga High we searched for dedicated, well-trained Yoga teachers. In our search of teachers, we found two Conquering Lion graduates who fit the bill. Each brought their own perspective and personality to the classes they taught, but it was clear that the sequencing and hands-on adjustments they learned in their teacher training supported the solid classes they taught. From our experience auditioning teachers from various trainings, Kelly Morris and Conquering Lion is doing a fantastic job of developing smart, gifted, well-trained Vinyasa teachers."
"The graduates from the Conquering Lion Yoga program are some of the best I've seen. They're fully qualified to teach all levels. We're thrilled to have them on staff at Three Jewels."
"The Conquering Lion graduate we have brings a sensitivity to her class that is very sincere and authentic. She is thoughtful in both her words and her sequencing, creating a space that's open, peaceful, and ripe for learning."
"The Conquering Lion graduates are beloved by the Bend & Bloom community! They seamlessly weave creative yoga sequencing with Buddhist mindfulness and meditation into each class. Through extraordinary hands-on assists, the Conquering Lion Teachers help their students to connect with their physical and pranic bodies while sparking their curiosity about the deep, transformative power of yoga. The teachers' training with Conquering Lion has helped their innate kindness, compassion, and creativity to shine!"
"The Conquering Lion Yoga Teacher Training Program truly is a once in a lifetime experience. I feel incredibly honored and fortunate to have had the opportunity to be in this training program; without it, I do not know where I would be in my yoga practice or in life. I am forever indebted to Kelly Morris for giving me the tools and the time to conquer my personal demons and find my voice as a teacher."
"I started a few dozen times to write a testimonial and each time I felt like I wasn't able to put in to words how much Kelly inspired me and taught me over the past 5 months. I feel an enormous amount of gratitude and joy that my intuition was right because The Conquering Lion Program is THE ONE!!!!! - and without even meeting Kelly or taking her yoga class. The program has the capacity to transform anyone ready to surrender to the power of change - the power that lies within us all to make a true difference in the world. I know that the dramatically improved results in my heart, mind and body are because Kelly is the REAL DEAL!!!"
"This program changes your life in at least 3 ways, irreversibly for the better. Kelly and her cohort deliver wisdom about asana, of course. More unexpectedly, the program provides simple but penetrating techniques for amassing that wisdom and the even bigger wisdom at its root (and wisdom is happiness!). Kelly herself tops it off by supplying the motivation to really use those techniques. Under the banner of Conquering Lion, you find yourself becoming more of the best person you already are."
"These past six months studying under Kelly Morris, and each and every teacher she has drawn onto the faculty for the Conquering Lion Teacher Training, have been unbelievably transformative for me. It has launched me into a deep desire for life-long practice and life-long study, in order to continue to change my world and help all of the beings in my orbit. The asana component, especially the education in assisting postures is broken down into a fine science. It works perfectly. This course has utterly rocked my world and my perception of everything. I feel confident and ready to teach, not to mention I am bursting with love!"
"If you have a pipe dream, a secret wish or an explicit plan to become a yoga teacher, Conquering Lion Yoga is for you. Even if you don't intend to teach, CLY will teach you how to ditch demons, deepen your understanding of the reason we practice (and why you feel so good doing it) and become the person who's free to help others, the person you've always wanted to be. CLY teachers are fully versed in the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism and the Indian roots of yoga, and we know how to make you 'sweat in the name of Love', as our incomparable teacher Kelly Morris says."
"Over the years, I have lived between LA and NYC. Whenever I was in NYC, I always gravitated to Kelly's class. Anyone who has attended her class knows they are in the presence of a true master. Curious, I stepped into one of the CLY Q&A's and immediately knew "This is it!". I didn't want to be a 'yoga teacher' and still don't. The program deepened my practice and my understanding of this authentic lineage. I also met an amazing group of people, all of whom have become my friends."
"The CLY Teacher Training program will move you; it is perfectly challenging and unquestionably transformative. Lama Kelly and her mission are inspiring and it is truly an honor to have completed this program. I now understand the real meaning and purpose of yoga and feel prepared to pass on this sacred practice with the integrity it deserves."
"The CLY Program prepares students to pass on a true form of yoga in a perfect lineage, transforming every student to their core. Forever gratitude to our beloved teacher Kelly Morris, who created this program with her deep knowledge of the subjects, compassion for the students and keen eye to see and peel away all the layers we ignore or hide from so we can shine through, with love and humor. It is truly a blessing to be part of this program. APPLY NOW!"
"For me, the Conquering Lion Teacher Training Program was a transformational life experience. It gave me the tools of the warrior angel, challenged me to go way beyond working with my body to open my heart and tame my mind in order to change the world. A mission like that requires a teacher like Kelly Morris. I am a grain of sand that has just spent many months inside an oyster, immersed in something both hard and beautiful. The pearl that has emerged gratefully joins a great lineage. I have been set on a path to happiness and a perfect world so much more than I ever expected when I signed up for the program."
"Endless gratitude to Kelly! I am so grateful and blessed to be a part of the Conquering Lion lineage! This program deepened my yoga practice beyond my expectations and opened up my heart to true compassion and wisdom. This beautiful lineage, the teachings and the ancient yogic texts blossom with new and deeper meanings for me each day. A person can truly change their world and the lives of others with compassion and wisdom in their heart."
"The Conquering Lion Program has completely elevated my practice and my life. It's the only program I found that marries Indian Yogic and Tibetan Buddhist lineages, the physical with the spiritual, the practical with the mystical into one transformative experience. Kelly puts you through the fire -- always out of love -- so that you emerge strong, confident and ready to serve your students in the Highest way possible."
"Conquering Lion Yoga gives you the tools to radically transform yourself and your world around you. Spanning the physical, the philosophical and all the stuff in between, the highest teachings are transmitted perfectly and made vital to our contemporary life. You are shown the futility of our standard approach to happiness (self-serving grasping) and taught the miraculous power of giving and serving. In the end, you are left with the clarity of purpose and integrity of means to achieve the highest goals of yoga. And you have a community of angels and fire goddess Kelly Morris to help!"
"So much to say in just one paragraph! Kelly Morris manages to put you right on the edge of the cliff, with so much love, wisdom and compassion that you find yourself jumping off and realizing that you have actually wings to fly. Yoga is another way to live and the Conquering Lion Program places you right onto the path."
"I joined the CLTT program hoping to gain a deeper understanding of yogic philosophy and to strengthen my practice but I've emerged with so much more. The teachings are mind-altering and have challenged me to move beyond boundaries. My world has changed in ways I could never have imagined. Life was good prior to joining CLTT but I can happily say it will never be the same! Definitely one of the best decisions I've ever made."
"The CLYTT is for anyone who wants an authentic experience of a yoga teacher training. I started practicing yoga several years before I started this program, but only learned the true meaning of Yoga when I started studying under Lama Kelly. Many gifted and blessed individuals surround this program.. I continually go back to the teachings for inspiration, love and guidance."
"Conquering Lion Training: mind blowing, life altering. I started out with a romantic appreciation of yoga. With Kelly's guidance, I emerged from her program overflowing with ancient wisdom, grounded with deeper understand of my practice and enveloped by an overwhelmingly supportive and resourceful yoga community. This teacher training program is unlike any other - it gives you the tools to teach REAL yoga, while providing the framework to start a spiritual life."
"If I could ever recommend a teacher training program, Conquering Lion is it! I have been exposed to so many amazing, enlightened people through this training. The teachers are knowledgeable, dedicated instructors. I have learned in detail the lineage of yoga, the art of asana and the beauty of meditation. It truly has changed my life."
"Kelly Morris and her teaching staff made an enormous impact on my life and the ideas that I hold. They have helped me to move beyond my habitual, reactive mind and engage in my life with openness, compassion and intelligence. This program will crack you wide open so that you can see your own potential and then lead you directly to the path of helping and loving all beings!"
"This program has enlightened me to the true meaning of yoga - to end the suffering of all beings. You will gain a deep understanding of the authentic lineage along with the physcial aspect of yoga, asana. The people I have met along the way has been a true blessing!"
"There is nothing like Conquering Lion Yoga because there is no one like Kelly Morris. Simply by doing the work of this program with integrity, she will help you become the best asana teacher you can be, expand your view of your world far beyond its present limits, and coax you to recognize your fears as a route to your deepest dreams. If you know there's something better than the suffering you and all beings undergo--this is the first step to eradicating it forever."
"The Conquering Lion Program is hands down the best yoga training around. From the philosophical to the physical, Kelly Morris teaches students what yoga REALLY is, which is something far more powerful and interesting than indian gymnastics. She shows students the power of the inner teachings of yoga, how to use them to create their ideal world, on the mat and off, and their ideal self. Everywhere I go, whether in NYC or somewhere distant place across the globe, I realize time and time again, that Conquering Lion Teacher Training stands far and above anything I could have ever imagined or asked for. It is period, the end, the best."
"When I started the CLYTT, Kelly told us that in a year our lives would be unrecognizable. I couldn't imagine how, but the conviction in her voice told me she was more than serious. She couldn't have been more right. Leaving the seductive corporate world was only a piece of the transformation. Even bigger was my heart cracking wide open, and for that I will be forever grateful."
"The CLY program is incomparable. Kelly Morris and staff live, breath and eat Yoga. I thoroughly learned what the Yoga practice really is and how it can radically change our world. This program gave me tremendous confidence as a yoga teacher that seeped into the rest of my life. I learned how to go after all of my passions and gained the understanding of how to make them happen. I now teach yoga in a prestigious gym in Manhattan and several studios in Brooklyn."
"There is no other teaching training program in NYC that will show you how to empower yourself to be happy and successful, and especially how to show others to do the same. Authentic to its core, teaching a lineage direct from Lord Buddha Himself, incomparable faculty and unsurpassed attention to the art and science of practicing and teaching yoga. Be prepared to live the dreams you've only since dreamed."
"With the Conquering Lions I learned that the crowning achievement of our mind is the world around us, which gave me a strong new sense of purpose and way to engage with the world. What was once a nice idea now rings clearer after implementing the methods shared by Kelly Morris and her courageous faculty. They are the exemplars of peaceful warriors, masters in their fields, who as ever-present guides can impart to you a comprehensive knowledge of how ancient yogic philosophy, physical practice, and inspired action can be incorporated into the contemporary moment of now in order to transform."
"The Conquering Lion program provides a rare opportunity to learn the true purpose of yoga. It offers teachings of an unbroken lineage that have been passed down for thousands of years, with a faculty of real masters who embody them. Through doing the training I've gained the skills and confidence not only to be a great yoga teacher but to help other people radically change their lives and the world. I am so grateful to Kelly and to all of my Teachers!"
"I am deeply honored to be a graduate of Kelly Morris's 2007 Conquering Lion Yoga Teacher Training Program. This training has brought me to a deeper understanding of the true purpose of yoga: to help transform ourselves and our world completely. In essence, to be kinder and more compassionate towards all beings. The training was a comprehensive instruction on asana sequencing, breath, pranayama and ancient yoga texts."
"The CLY Teacher Training Program gave me the confidence to go out and begin teaching immediately, with complete faith that we are passing on pure teachings from an unbroken lineage. I have always wanted to be a yoga teacher and I can honestly say that this program is the best investment I could have made towards that future. Through practical hands-on learning about the physical aspect of yoga and lessons on the philosophy that underpins a yoga practice, I now feel that I have a deep understanding of yoga as an inner and outer practice."
"Thank You Lama Kelly on behalf of myself, the ancestors and the future generations for helping to preserve and protect the true Yogic lineage, the highest of esoteric teachings, intended to replace all of our ignorance and suffering with infinite bliss and eternal life."
"The CLY Teacher Training has offered me more than I could hope for. Since the very first day, I felt blessed to finally come to a real teacher and dive into the miracles of Yoga. Covering the Eight Limbs of Master Patanjali's Yoga System, CLYTT is based firmly on the correct world view of karma and emptiness. With the foremost leading scholars of Sanskrit, Raja Yoga and Tibetan Buddhism of the Gelupka Lineage, this Teacher Training offers prospective yoga teachers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become the best in the world!"
"The Kelly Morris Conquering Lion TT program was more than I could ever have expected. Not only did my own practice deepen to a much greater level, but I emerged qualified to actually teach, which is not the case with most programs. The guest faculty is some of the best in the world, teaching philosophy that will literally blow your mind and world right open. I can honestly say my life has changed drastically from being a part of the program."
"I couldn't recommend the CLY teacher training program enough. This program will change your worldview and make you a teacher who can help students to make real change in their lives. You will learn to teach asana with the best of them but to never lose sight of the bigger purpose of yoga: that yoga is a spiritual tradition that was developed to help people become enlightened and that has all the tools people need to find happiness. CLY is not messing around with anything less than this. There's no time to waste."
"The blessing of Kelly's fiercely loving guidance has taken my teaching, my practice and my view of the world to new and profound heights. I am forever grateful for her kindness in creating this Program, for assembling a line-up of the greatest guest faculty teaching today, and for providing all the tools necessary to bring myself and every living being to the end goal of Yoga: a state of perfect happiness, or Enlightenment!"
"I enrolled in Kelly Morris's Conquering Lion Teacher Training Program not necessarily with the intention to teach but rather to strengthen my own practice and understanding of it. I quickly realized that in order to do this, I had to meditate, take my practice off the mat and serve others. Otherwise, my yoga wouldn't work. You will be handed tools to create your perfect world. I'm not saying it will be easy, but how can you pass that knowledge up?!"
"The world renowned and highly esteemed faculty were astounding and their teachings truly life changing. I am currently teaching throughout Manhattan at some of the best fitness clubs and studios in the city. I am forever grateful to Kelly Morris for this exceptional, once in a lifetime opportunity. This training was everything that I hoped it would be and more."
"My life changed dramatically the moment I entered the CLYTT, and six months after graduating, I have to say that my current life bears almost no resemblance to the one I was living a year ago! I am happily teaching full time, and am constantly receiving praise for my classes, which I owe fully to Kelly for her expert guidance. Through this program, I received not only all of the tools required to become a good yoga teacher, but also all of the tools necessary to truly practice yoga throughout every aspect of my life. Quite honestly, I don't think there's another program that provides both of these things in such a complete and thorough way."
"I whole-heartedly recommend the CLY Teacher Training Program to anyone- a person interested in becoming a yoga teacher, a long-time practitioner, or a novice simply interested in learning about yoga. With a faculty of esteemed experts, the CLY student will enrich his/ her practice with knowledge of yoga philosophy, Tibetan Buddhism, Sanskrit, meditation, anatomy, and more. No price or value can be placed on the immeasurable wealth of knowledge and wisdom one will gain from participating in this wonderful program."
"I feel humble and grateful to Kelly Morris for creating Conquering Lion Teacher Training program with an unwavering one-pointed goal to guide every single one of her students on the steps of the highest yogic path to enlightenment for the sake of every single being."
"I expected to learn a great deal about Yoga during this program, which I did, but was surprised at how much I learned about myself. Kelly and my fellow students taught me that Yoga is not just something we do on the mat from time to time but rather it is a way of life."
"Through the Kelly Morris Teacher Training Program I have learned how to prepare an asana class, give dharma talks and great assists, speak and chant in front of many people with confidence-all things I never was able to do before and important things to know how to do as a yoga teacher. But Kelly went beyond this and with knowledge directly transmitted through a pure and unbroken lineage, guided us into the transformative world of what yoga really is, how yoga works and how to truly practice it oneself to teach it correctly to others."
