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Bend it like Buddha Yoga invites you to this 200-hour Ashtanga and Vinyasa yoga training, plus a bonus Usui Reiki and Ayurveda massage therapy certification and yoga lifestyle business training. Participating in the program can be the first step in a life-changing journey of health and wellness. This program guarantees the best of the best teachers, 8 experts in total for this unique triple certification training. Be inspired, meditate, learn, contemplate, take home a valuable gift of restored health, and learn in-depth the art of teaching yoga, meditation, advanced pranayama (powerful breathing techniques), yogic lifestyle, and more!
5-star hotel option in Portimao offers free Wi-Fi, picturesque views of the Atlantic Ocean, and golden sands of Praia da Rocha beach. It is a 5-minute walk from the beautiful Portimao Marina.
Luxurious amenities include 2 outdoor pools amid lush gardens, a hot tub and spa, massage treatments. For children, Hotel Algarve Solverd features a children's playground and a games room.
Guests can keep fit at the fitness center and, then, unwind in the sauna or Turkish bath or swim in the ocean from a private path to praia da rocha from your hotel. During the summer, water activities can be enjoyed at the beach. The elegant Amendoeiras Restaurant serves regional and international dishes made using fresh, local products. %The training supplies three daily meals but the hotel room is good for making snacks and coffee in the morning. All of the accommodations have an outdoor swimming pool and lounge chairs where you can study, review the lessons and practice your yoga flows for your teaching practice homework assignments.
Students who complete their training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).
Each day practice teaching and receive compassionate and constructive feedback, design creative yoga lesson plans, and practice Vinyasa flows or traditional Ashtanga and Yin in the evening or other healing sessions such as a sound healing journey or Kirtan cacao ceremony with 3 amazing musicians sharing traditional Indian Kirtan.
Students receive a certification in Usui Reiki (optional please inquire) and Ayurveda Therapy Massage. Learn how to give 60-90 minute massage therapies to others, learn 45-plus massage techniques, and a bonus of 12 months, 33 live sessions of post-training in how to launch and grow your yoga lifestyle business, and launch your yoga business in the implementation labs.
Students receive access to the Bend it Like Buddha Blueprint, an online library with 150 pieces of content for references such as Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Yin class videos and scripts, audio, PDFs, and eBooks including The Journey Metamorphosis, Find Your Life Purpose by L. Farrah Furtado E RYT 500, an Amazon Bestseller in 14-plus categories. Students receive the physical The Journey, Metamorphosis yoga teacher training book on arrival.
Online portal of the Pegasus a Business Yoga course with 12 successful yoga teacher entrepreneurs and experts sharing their best marketing strategies in health and wellness and sharing their best tips on how to launch your teachings on in-person and online courses and retreats.
Bend it like Buddha YTT 200-hour is a one-of-a-kind, all-inclusive yoga journey that you will not find anywhere in the world. Bend it like Buddha Yoga Algarve School has been facilitating several YTTC journeys each year since 2014.
As soon as you land at Faro airport in Algarve, you will be greeted by your friendly, professional driver to transfer you and your classmates directly to your hotel. Also on departure day 15, your private driver will take you from your hotel to the Faro airport.
You will be nourished each day with an inspiring yoga program and delicious nutritious vegetarian meals. Everything is included and you will not need to budget extra money for expensive transfers or touristy restaurants.
Starting on day 1, you are embodying a yoga teacher and compassionately guided by 8 talented yoga instructors. You will be practicing how to teach, receive insightful feedback, and gain self-confidence in your abilities.
Each day, you will be acquiring valuable teaching skills which will bring out your innate gifts. Consistently graduates have said that after the YTT 200-hour, they come away feeling confident to share Vinyasa yoga classes, meditation, advanced pranayama, and unique practices with others with a renewed vision and inspiration aligned to their soul purpose.
Many graduates start to teach straight away in the training and to their communities and online upon graduation and recoup their initial YTT investment within 3-6 months. This training is not all theory where you sit and listen to an instructor all day long. You will apply what you learn each day, and gain valuable skills in the daily applied and practical teaching practice of meditation, breathwork, pranayama, and yoga.
Consistently their graduates’ feedback is that they feel confident to start teaching to the public and they are completely equipped to launch and grow their self-sustainable yoga business to teach immediately after the training.
This yoga teacher training is a perfect balance between peaceful beachside relaxation and upbeat, lively, and friendly cafes and restaurants of the trendy yet awe-struck nature of the orange cliff and grottoes of Praia da Rocha, Praia Vau, and Praia Alamao beaches and a woodland forest along the sea, all within a short walking distance.
Evening and morning yoga classes, meditation, daily practice teaching, and pranayama are the essential aspects of this training. You will find the 8 presenters and yoga instructors inspiring, knowledgeable, and compassionate, and the newly renovated Bend it Like Buddha Yoga studio with a terrace uplifting and relaxing.
The yoga studio and accommodation are just a 3-minute walk to the gorgeous Praia da Rocha beach, Portimao. A student highlight is sunbathing and dipping into the ocean or swimming pool during break and resting times.
During the training, you will practice sunrise Vinyasa flow yoga or Ashtanga in the morning each day followed by gentle Vinyasa, Yin, or Restorative yoga sessions in the evening. Or practice sunrise beach yoga every other day depending on the weather.
The sessions are usually held in a stunning yoga studio on Praia da Rocha or during Sunrise for yoga on the beach depending on the weather and include pranayama (breathwork), mindful meditation, and yoga Nidra meditation.
You will be enjoying a variety of unique healing activities such as Usui Reiki, Tibetan bowl sound healing, intimacy circle work, emotional releasing breathwork, shadow work sessions, inner child heart healing sessions, Cacao ceremony, live Kirtan / mantras concert with 3 incredible traditional Kirtan musicians, profound yoga Nidra meditation for releasing subconscious self-limiting beliefs, and healing. Enjoy powerful advanced pranayama sessions, and explore how to customize and teach yoga to all level students.
All of the yoga sessions are inspired by the dimension of the Anahata (5D Ascension) the perspective of the Heart chakra, empowering, and made with love to ignite your heart’s spark.
Bend it like Buddha offers 140 contact hours and the 40 remaining hours are allotted for pre-course and post-study and reviewing course material during free time, preparing for assignments, and pre-reading recommendations before and during the program start date.
Preparing by home yoga practice before the program is recommended as well as by pre-reading the course material.
Students also have an online 200-hour Portal Blue Print with 150-plus content pieces of video, audio, and PDFs for your teaching references and students have access to this forever, even after the training for inspiration when they return.
Together, the 8 teachers of this retreat have 75 years combined experience and their yoga studios are teaching yoga worldwide, and have valuable wisdom to share regarding the yoga business, branding, and social media. You will be inspired by the talented, passionate team, and learn from their wealth of information and decades of experience.
This is 11-plus years of curation of the best of the best of their teacher training and a library of first-hand teacher training videos, on-site training, audios, and articles collected and curated from ten years of experience leading retreats and teacher training in Taiwan, Goa, Mysore, Bali, and Portugal. This is a transformational experience that you’ll remember for the rest of your life!
The official training starts at 06:30 On the last day, the training ends at about 16:00. There will be a graduation, evening meal, and celebrations. Check-out and departures are the days after graduation.
For those needing more support after graduating from this YTT 200-hour, Bend it Like Buddha Yoga also offers a bonus post-training 12 months of mentorship, 33 live business yoga consulting post-graduation, and an implementation lab for accountability and taking action on your vision to find your field of favor, yoga micro niche and how to attract your dream students to grow your yoga community upon returning home.
Collapse time and save money from Bend it like Buddha's 11 years of yoga business experience, have access to their marketing team expertise, templates, and worksheets. Meet other like-hearted, supportive, and experienced entrepreneur yogis, and learn directly from the Bend it like Buddha team and their worldwide amazing yogi tribe family.
Invest in your future and most importantly invest, love, and commit to yourself!
Join the Bend it like Buddha YTT 200-hour and prepare yourself for a relaxing, yet life-changing premium yoga experience in a magical Algarve that you will not find anywhere in the world!
Please inquire today to learn more about the Breakthroughs Acceleration 4 weeks business yoga consultation
The training will start on the day of arrival. The training will end officially the day before departure at 16:00. Students are expected to check out from the hotel at 11:00. The venue is a short car ride to Lagos and Monchique etc. to explore on days off.
Bringing Your Yoga Vision to Life: Transformative Post Graduation 32 sessions of coaching duration 12 months; also available for 300-hour graduates. This YTTC bonus mentoring course accomplishes the Yoga Alliance requirements for annual continuing education hours to maintain Yoga Teacher RYT200H / RYT300H registration.
L. Farrah Furtado (E-RYT 500) began her yoga journey by studying one-on-one meditation in Taiwan at Fo Guan Shan Buddhist monastery for five years with monks. Soon, she was invited to collaborate with the Venerable to design and direct silent retreats and Buddhist courses at the monastery for English-speaking students. Furtado, a Canadian-Portuguese, completed her advanced course of 500-hour Vinyasa yoga teacher training in Goa, India, and studied Pranayama, Philosophy, and Ashtanga Vinyasa in Mysore, India, with Ashtanga master BNS Iyengar consecutively for four years.
Mafalda Rodriguez started practicing yoga about 11 years ago and soon realized how yoga is transforming, how it brings people back to their center and allows them a universal and conscious view of life. Mafalda is a Shaman, gifted healer, breath work facilitator, and a highly experienced sound healer and traditional Kirtan Mantra musician.
Ricardo Louro is an Ashtanga yoga practitioner since 2015. His studies took him to Mysore, India where he studied at KPJAYI with Saraswathi and Sharmila Jois, the direct lineage to Pattabhi Jois and Krishnamacharya. It was there also where he began studying Advaita Vedanta with Arvind Pare. Since then, he studied with many national and international teachers.
Daniela teaches Vinyasa, Yin, pre-natal yoga, and kids yoga at Bend it like Buddha school in Praia da Rocha, Algarve Portugal. Daniela is an International certified mindfulness coach, a healer practitioner, and an experienced meditation and yoga teacher, based in Portugal. From social education and social activism to yoga and meditation, Daniela traveled the world and lived abroad sharing her life mission to empower different communities and unprivileged groups, co-founding and managing social projects in Mozambique, Italy, and Australia.
Born a Portuguese wanderer, passionate about Nature, graduated in Nursing, since a young age Berta was drawn to the mysteries of the human body, mind and soul. It was in 2008 that she embraced her yoga path. She observed and learned from many teachers and masters of not just Ashtanga, but also Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin Yoga and Ayurveda, becoming a Yoga Teacher and later an Ayurvedic Therapist. Her teaching style is a blend of all the experiences, travelling and her self-practice: it has a traditional strong foundation with a therapeutic approach, working on the release of traumas through the body.
Joanna is a passionate yoga instructor with over 18 years of experience. She is well-versed in various modalities, including Vinyasa Flow, Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Reiki, Ayurveda, and Mobilization Therapy, which she skillfully blends to create unique and transformative experiences for her students. Johanna’s journey began at a young age with meditation, blossoming into a love for Vinyasa Flow yoga. She holds a 200-hour certification from Laughing Lotus in New York City and has deepened her knowledge with additional trainings in Restorative Yoga and Yoga Nidra.
Macedonia Domingues has always been very connected to nature and animals. Being in touch with nature always made her feel happy and at peace. She's a Scuba Diving Instructor since 2010 and while working in Santa Maria, Azores she started yoga classes, falling in love with Vinyasa Flow and its movements in sync with the breath. She continued practicing yoga by herself and always felt that this was the path she should follow. She pours her heart into her students and shares what she has learned about life through yoga. She's grateful that she can share yoga and improve people’s lives.
Victoria, originally from São Paulo, Brazil has been a passionate yoga practitioner since 2013. Over the years, she has developed a deep love for yoga and its transformative power, believing that it has the potential to positively impact those who embrace the practice. She teaches a variety of yoga styles, including Vinyasa-inspired sequences, Yin, Prenatal yoga, Kids Yoga, and Ashtanga Vinyasa. She draws from her diverse background and experience to create well-rounded and inclusive classes suitable for practitioners of all levels. She sees yoga as a powerful tool for personal growth.
This life-changing program is held at one of the most beautiful ocean coast beaches in the world, the gorgeous Praia da Rocha beach in Portimao. The program will take place meters away from Praia da Rocha beach, Portimao-Algarve at the Bend it like Buddha Yoga school.
There are three world-class, EU Blue Flag beaches all within walking distance, many excellent international restaurants, shops, and cafes with a variety of other activities near such as SUP, kayaking through grottoes, and surfing.
The hotel is a 5-minute walk from the famous blue flag beach of Praia da Rocha. Both the beach and the yoga studio are a 5-minute walk from the hotel. During your break times, you can easily walk down the beach to swim, just a 3-minute walk, or go back to your hotel room. The hotel is located near a mini supermarket, so it's easy to acquire anything you need. Daily 3 vegetarian sattvic meals (if special diet please ask prior to reserving) are included.
For shared accommodations: same gender share an apartment, all of the accommodations are spacious, beautiful, and newly renovated with a washing machine and dry rack on and outdoor patio. The yoga studio has been newly renewed in an Asian-style influences with 2 brand-new restrooms.
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You will enjoy the 3 daily high vibe, organic vegetarian breakfasts, lunches, light evening meals, green detox smoothies.
The food concept is healthy, tasty, vegetarian, and organic. Savor juicy local fruit, crunchy organic vegetables, crisp salads, and fragrant herbs while sipping on an energizing smoothies, juice or sweet, colorful herbal tea.
There are diverse fusion recipes in a peaceful and tranquil setting. Bend it like Buddha Yoga believes that pleasing your palate is fundamental to your experience.
Their guests enjoy fresh tropical fruit, organic yogurt, a wide selection of vegetarian dishes (delicious even for those not used to vegetarian food), curry dhal, rice, salads, smoothie bowls, vegan burgers and quinoa wraps, herbal teas, and detoxing smoothies and juice, teas.
Students also enjoy occasional dinners out by visiting some of the delicious local restaurants nearby. There are a variety of restaurants that serve excellent Brazilian, Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese, German, Russian, Indian, Turkish, Italian, or English food.
During your free time and rest days on Sundays, there are endless options to explore in Praia da Rocha. In the Algarve, the things to do list is endless. This is your holiday yoga retreat and Bend it like Buddha Yoga believes you should choose what's best for you as everyone is unique. They can help you design an itinerary of unique activities and excursions, for an extra cost such as:
There are a variety of 5-star hotel spas and services not listed here.
Ayurvedic yoga massage training and Usui Reiki therapy training is included in the price.
Aside from the Reiki and Ayurvedic massage included in the price, you can also book the following massages for an additional fee:
Faro Airport
52 km
Transfer included
Please book your flight to arrive at Faro Airport (FAO). Bend It Like Buddha Yoga will arrange for a driver to pick you up at the airport which is 40 minutes from your hotel. Please reserve 4 days prior. There is also Portimao All Transfers shuttle service from Faro Airport (FAO) that can take you directly to Praia Da Rocha.
Portugal is part of the European rail network and can easily be reached from most of the European capitals. Getting to the Algarve is part of what makes it one of Europe’s most fascinating holiday destinations. Whether you choose to arrive by plane, car, train, or bus, you are bound to be received with a warming and welcoming spirit.
You can reach the Algarve through the many ports and marinas spread all along the south Portugal coast.
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