200-Hour Hybrid: Self-Paced Online and 4 Day In-Person Yoga Teacher Training in Portimão, Portugal
Hybrid Yoga Teacher Training
Train and mentor with experienced and inspiring yoga teachers in gorgeous Algarve, Portugal. Usually it takes 30 days of online training and three days of in-person training in Portimão, Portugal. The online training can be done anytime before or after the in-person part. The virtual content is self paced, Have access to the content for up to 12 months.
Meet the instructors
Highlights
- Eligible to register with Yoga Alliance upon completion
- Ayurveda massage training
- Live online sessions will be held over Zoom or Streamyard
- Online sessions time zone: BST (GMT+1) during summer and GMT
- 3 nights of on-site training accommodation
- Daily full-board meals
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Yoga styles
Accommodation
Facilities
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
- Garden
During the on-site training, you will have your own apartment or share it with your friend, partner, or other participant.
Program
Pre-application requirements
- Zoom or Streamyard account
- Stable internet connection
Certifications
Students who complete their training successfully are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).
How the training works
There are 40 hours of on-site training at Bend it like Buddha Yoga. The remaining hours are self-paced online 160 hours. The virtual content is self paced. Own the content forever. Bend it like Buddha Yoga Algarve school recommends to complete the content within 30 days.
Live breakthroughs acceleration sessions are scheduled once a week. Zoom or Streamyard are used. There are over 100 recorded classes to learn from. You will also learn Ayurveda scalp massage. Learn massage techniques to give 60-minute sessions to share with others and learn from eight presenters, each of them sharing their strengths and expertise.
Daily schedule for online training (GMT/GMT+1)
This will be announced after booking.
Daily schedule for residential training
- 07:30 Alternating Ashtanga and Vinyasa
- 08:00 Advanced pranayama practice
- Breakfast
- 10:00 Philosophy
- 11:00 Alignment
- 13:00 Meditation
- Lunch
- 15:00 Teaching theory and practice
- 16:00 Ayurveda therapy massage instruction
- 17:00 Yin and gentle flow
- 18:00 Questions and answers and Satsang with teachers
- 19:00 Karma yoga
- Dinner
The schedule is subject to small changes.
Course information
Enjoy a beautiful beachfront location and ocean views as you train to become an international yoga teacher. Several swimmable and coveted EU Blue Flag-awarded beaches are all within walking distance from your resort and yoga shala.
Learn to teach Vinyasa and traditional Ashtanga and yoga. Receive additional classes in Yin, Acro, sound healing journey with Tibetan bowls, Usui Reiki, and cacao ceremony journey. Discover your true self through Patanjali's eight limbs of Ashtanga, philosophy, breathwork, advanced breathing techniques, pranayama, and meditation.
Deepen your knowledge with detailed alignment and anatomy. Free your soul with kirtan, dance, and sound healing. Detox with a vegetarian diet and sauna and enjoy a 5-star spa excursion.
There are over 100 videos for reference on Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Alignment, how to sequence classes for all levels, Nidra, and more! As well as daily yoga, meditation, advanced pranayama, cacao ceremony, sound healing journey, emotional release breathwork, and dance.
- Ancient teachings brought into a contemporary context
- Becoming a part of the family and feeling like you have known everyone for years
- Complete change in your lifestyle
- Develop human interaction and intimacy
- Find your life purpose by discovering your superpowers and field of favor
- Build your inner strengths and inner intuition and confidence
- Build connections and friendships that will last a lifetime
- Surrounding beaches and the beautiful nature, the sound of owls, singing starlings, and the amazing sunsets, sunrises, and millions of stars and moonlight
- Lessons from eight experienced teachers (each one has different strengths) who are fully invested in your health and yoga journey and will help you grow in many different ways
- Meet like-minded people from all over the world and build your international yoga contacts
- Post-training support available on the private students or teacher forum and 200 hours of online blueprint portal and the Pegasus, 12 successful yoga entrepreneurs sharing their tips and recommendations on launching your yoga brand and growing your list of dream students
- Library of first-hand teacher training videos, on-site training, audios, and articles collected and curated from 10 years of experience leading retreats and teacher training in Taiwan, Goa, Mysore, Bali, and Portugal
This is a transformational experience that you will remember for the rest of your life.
Yoga lifestyle business training
This is a 35-hour training with a handbook. Learn from 12 experts in yoga and wellness branding. Learn the skills and frameworks to launch your online and in-person yoga classes, courses, and international retreats.
Bringing Your Yoga Vision to Life: Transformative Post Graduation 32 sessions of coaching duration 12 months is available. It's 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.
Included excursions
You will experience meditation mindful walks and journaling and meditations, pranayama and breathwork, and sunrise and sunset yoga, pranayama, meditations on the beach during on-site training.
Instructors
L. Farrah Furtado
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
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.
Daniela Luz
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.
Berta Couto
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.
Johanna Hessling
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
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 Machado
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.
Liling
Liling, born in Austria, has embarked on a transformative journey that has taken her to Portugal, where she has fallen in love with the Algarve—now her second home. With a decade of dedicated yoga practice and a deep spiritual connection nurtured over the past four years, she discovered the true essence of self-love through yoga. Completing her Yoga Teacher Training Certification (YTTC) with *Bend It Like Buddha* was a pivotal moment, opening new pathways to share the heart-centered gift of yoga. She focuses on Vinyasa and Hatha Yoga, seamlessly integrating breath, movement, and mindfulness.
Retreat location
Online training
The online part of the training is held online. Bend it like Buddha Yoga is based in Portimao Algarve and they will live stream sessions based on BST (GMT+1) and GMT for session/s.
In-person training
This inspirational program is held at the gorgeous Praia da Rocha beach in southern Portugal. The location will take place three minutes away from Praia da Rocha beach, Portimao-Algarve at the Bend it like Buddha Yoga school. There are several world-class beaches near within walking distance, many good restaurants, shops, and cafes with a variety of other activities nearby such as surfing and kayaking through grottoes.
The hotel is located very near the famous blue flag beach of Praia da Rocha. Both the beach and the yoga studio are a three-minute walk from the hotel. During your break, you can easily walk down the beach or go back to your hotel room. The hotel is located near a mini supermarket, so it is easy to acquire anything you need.
This Yoga Retreat is vegetarian-friendly
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Food
During the residential part of the training, you will be served three vegetarian meals for 3 days. The food concept is healthy, tasty, local Portuguese produce, vegetarian. Savor juicy local fruit, crunchy organic vegetables, crisp salads, and fragrant herbs while sipping on 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, 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 smoothies and juice, teas.
You will also enjoy planned meals out together 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. All student accommodation apartments have their own private kitchens to make simple meals, snacks and have morning coffee prior to the morning yoga classes.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
Things to do (optional)
During your free time and rest days on Sundays of the in-person training, you are welcome to explore and try what you would like. In the Algarve, the things on to-do list are endless. This is your course and Bend it like Buddha Yoga believes you should choose what is 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:
- Chill out at the beach strip cafés
- Enjoy a massage treatment from either of the massage therapy centers neighboring Bend it Like Buddha Studio
- Enjoy nightlife in Lagos
- Experience a boat tour or kayaking through grottos and caves
- Go tandem sky diving (Alvor)
- Rent a mountain bike to explore the area
- Rent a sunban at the amazing No Solo Agua saltwater pool
- Rent either a paddle, body, or surfboard
- Swim at the stunning nearby beaches
- Visit nearby Ferragudo, Monchique, Lagos
- Visit the old town along the river Arade
Extra massage and spa treatments
- Acupuncture
- Hydro aqua candlelight spa with cold massage jets (for Friday nights)
- Indian scalp massage
- Reiki attunement, Usui Reiki Level 1, 2, and 3 degree certificate please inquire
- Reiki chakra balancing and Tibetan bowl sound healing
- Swedish massage
Spa treatments
- Ayurveda massage therapy
- Usui Reiki therapy session
What's included
- Most students complete the course within 30 days of online training
- Self paced, own the content forever
- 3 days of residential training in Algarve
- 3 nights accommodation
- Yoga Alliance RYT 200Hr Certificate of completion
- 3 vegetarian meals per day for 3 days during the in-person training
- On-site training
- Ancient teachings brought into a contemporary context
- Over 155 recorded classes, Teachable and private teachers/student forum
- Ayurveda therapy massage course
- Daily teaching yoga, meditation, and pranayama sessions
- Yoga Nidra, alignment and modification, and yoga philosophy
- Sound healing, Kirtan, and cacao ceremony
- Usui Reiki, Yin yoga, Kids yoga
- Lifestyle yoga business course
- All training materials and yoga teacher training book
What's not included
- Additional excursions
- Additional transportation
- Airfare
- FARO airport transfers
- Day off meals and activities (Sundays)
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Faro Airport
52 km
Transfer not provided
GPS
37.118986 - 8.544274
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 14% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
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