ABOUT YOUR OWN UNIVERSITY®
Your Life Has Been
Teaching You All Along.
Every pivot, quiet revelation, and hard-earned insight has shaped an inner curriculum unique to you. Your Own University® is the intentional framework to integrate your past experiences, honor your instincts, and curate your personal mastery.
Welcome to the study of Y.O.U.
WHERE Y.O.U. BEGAN
Before There Was Your Own University®
2005
Twist Yoga opened, introducing mindful movement and conscious community practice.
2006
Yoga Teacher Training began, creating the foundational educational framework we continue today.
2008
Nourish YOU launched with nutrition coaching, evolving into Divine in Nine, a transformative nine-week integrated program.
2010
Your Own University® opened to expand Teacher Training and Nourish YOU online, building an expansive educational home.
What began with yoga and nutrition was becoming something larger. Dr. Lisha Antiqua wanted to help people study more than what they did. She wanted them to understand themselves, recognize what their lives had taught them, and consciously participate in who they became next.
WHY “YOUR OWN UNIVERSITY?”
Graduate in Life.
Not academic graduations. Life-earned ones.
Life teaches us through relationships, family, work, our bodies, love, loss, money, faith, failure, success, purpose, pleasure, and starting over.
Some lessons come from experiences we choose. Others come from experiences we never would have chosen, including trauma.
Experience alone does not create wisdom. What we do with our experiences matters.
Your history contains information. You can study what shaped you, question what you learned, decide what still belongs in your life, and choose what you want to practice and become next.
That is why we called it Your Own University®.
I was so nervous; they flew me from Alaska to San Diego, and I stayed at the Hard Rock Cafe. It was wonderful, even if I was a new speaker and lost my words a bit in the beginning (2012); the vision was alive.
EARLY RECOGNITION
The Vision Was Beginning
to Reach Beyond Y.O.U.
In the early years of Your Own University®, founder Dr. Lisha Antiqua was recognized as one of America’s Premier Experts for her work in self-care and personal development.
The programs, technology, and community have changed considerably since this early interview. The mission behind the work has continued to grow: helping people understand their value, learn from their lives, and use what they learn to create what comes next.
What began as one teacher’s vision was becoming a much larger educational community.
2014
Y.O.U. EXPANDS
More Teachers.
More Ways to Learn.
In 2014, Your Own University® began partnering with experts and hosting life masterclasses, bringing new teachers, perspectives, and areas of expertise into the Y.O.U. community.
The vision was bigger than one teacher or one method. We wanted to create a place where people could continue learning about themselves, their lives, their health, their relationships, their purpose, and the possibilities available to them.
Over the years, Y.O.U. simplified and focused primarily on online courses, coaching, Yoga Teacher Training, NERI® certification, and our core educational programs.
The larger vision never went away.
“There is always more to learn when the subject is your life.”
THE NEXT CHAPTER
Your University Keeps
Growing With You.
Your Own University® is growing into an online educational hub where members can continue learning, practicing, and exploring what helps them create lives they genuinely want to live.
Our vision includes welcoming more teachers and experts back into Y.O.U., giving them a place to share their courses, knowledge, and experience while giving our members more opportunities to learn.
You may come to Y.O.U. to work on your body, mindset, emotions, relationships, or purpose. You may return later to study something completely different, deepen your professional education, learn from a new teacher, or explore the next season of your life.
We want Y.O.U. to be a place you continue coming back to because your education does not end when you finish a course.
“Keep learning what helps you show up happy, healthy, and wealthy in your world.”
LEARNING AT Y.O.U.
There Is More Than One Way to
Study Yourself.
Your Own University® brings personal development, daily practice, professional education, and continued learning together in one place. Some students come to change something in their own lives. Others come to deepen the work they already do with others.
01
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Amazing YOU, Safe Secure & Successful, and courses designed to help you understand and develop different areas of your life.
02
DAILY PRACTICE
Amazing YOU Flow brings the six Power Zones into everyday life through intentions, daily wins, progress, and practice.
03
COMMUNITY & CONTINUED LEARNING
YOU Matter gives members ongoing support, education, and opportunities to keep learning.
04
YOGA EDUCATION
Trauma-informed Yoga Teacher Training for students and teachers who want to deepen their practice and education.
05
NERI®
Neural Emotional Reflex Integration education and certification with Dr. Anna Altair for qualified and developing professionals.
06
PURPOSE & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Education and mentorship for people ready to turn their experience, expertise, message, or methodology into work they want to share.
Your next class depends on what you are ready to learn.
MEET THE FOUNDER
Dr. Lisha Antiqua
Dr. Lisha Antiqua, Ph.D., founded Your Own University® in 2010 after years of teaching yoga, training yoga teachers, coaching, and developing programs in nutrition and personal growth.
She is an author, educator, speaker, researcher, and trauma-informed coach whose work explores how our experiences shape us and how we consciously participate in who we become next.
Y.O.U. is the educational home for the Amazing YOU Method, professional education, certifications, continued learning, and much of the work Dr. Lisha has developed and taught over the past two decades.
Her personal work has its own home at LishaAntiqua.com, including Soul Psychology®, Reclaim Intimacy, private coaching, speaking, writing, research, and media.
THE HEART OF Y.O.U.
Your Life Is Valuable.
Your experiences matter. Your education, talents, relationships, mistakes, successes, losses, questions, and dreams all give you something to learn from.
You are not required to remain the person your past taught you to be. You get to study yourself, question what you learned, develop new skills, make conscious choices, and decide how you want to live, love, work, create, serve, and lead.
You have already spent a lifetime gathering the material.