15 Day 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Nosara, Costa Rica

Facilities

Imagine a place of breathtaking natural beauty, ocean, mountains, jungle, waterfalls, a place where your days begin with golden sunrises over the mountains and end with pink sunsets over the sea, a place to find your flow, listen to your inner voice, and connect with your inspiration. Where you can nourish your body, uplift your spirit, connect, share, and pursue your dream of studying yoga.

Sample daily schedule

• Yoga class
• Breakfast and teas
• Teaching lab
• Lunch
• Asana lab
• Juices and snacks
• Yoga class
• Dinner
• Teaching lab

The content

The following modules are part of the YTT course:

• Yoga practice and training
• Asana lab
• Teaching lab
• Yoga lifestyle and transformation
• Anatomy and physiology
• Student elective
• Student teaching practicum
• Yoga business skills and career planning
• Embodying a holistic yoga lifestyle
• Self-discovery
• Spiritual development and personal growth

The main takeaways

• Yoga Alliance RYT 200 certification
• Official course diploma
• Course materials
• Part of a worldwide Yoga Alliance community
• Access to ongoing support and professional guidance

Additional takeaways

• Experience structuring and sequencing yoga classes
• Experience teaching your own yoga classes
• Confidence in your unique teaching style and clarity about your teaching goals
• Increased physical and emotional wellbeing
• Yoga business skills
• Branding and marketing support

Details of YTT 200 Hour curriculum

Techniques training and practice: 100 hours

Practical training, analytical training, teaching methodology, and guided practice in.

• Asana
• Pranayama
• Mantra
• Chanting
• Meditation

Teaching methodology: 25 hours

This important segment will greatly enhance teaching skills and contribute to success in a yoga teaching career.

• Qualities of a successful yoga teacher
• Principles of demonstration, observation, assisting and correcting
• Communication skills
• Group dynamics
• Building a professional framework
• Establishing your unique teaching style
• The student learning process

Anatomy and physiology: 20 hours

Solid anatomy knowledge will provide an excellent foundation for your yoga teaching career

• Important anatomy for yoga: skeletal system, muscular system, flexors and extensors, tendons, ligaments, and joints
• Important physiology for yoga: organs and bodily systems
• Important energetic anatomy and physiology for yoga: including chakras, nadis, meridians
• Anatomy of yoga: benefits, contraindications, balancing the musculoskeletal system, injury prevention, building strength, increasing flexibility, etc.

Yoga philosophy, lifestyle, and ethics: 30 hours

• Ethics of teaching yoga: professionalism, student / teacher dynamics, community, professional boundaries, and framework
• Traditional yoga philosophy and yogic texts
• Limbs of yoga
• Developing a yogic lifestyle: concepts of karma and dharma, principles of non-violence
• Principle of Seva: selfless service through yoga and teaching

Practicum: 10 hours

Practice teaching and receive valuable feedback to enhance your teaching skills.

• You will design full yoga classes and practice teaching in a safe, supportive environment
• You will receive positive, constructive feedback on your flow and style
• You will participate in other YTT student classes and give them positive, constructive feedback

Elective hours: 25 hours

These additional hours will be tailored to suit your individual needs and desires. Topics include:

• Specific one on one work to design your dream yoga business *Developing your niche and clarifying your teaching style *Defining your target student audience and creating classes, workshops, and programs they will love
• Business of teaching yoga: marketing, branding, business building
• Yoga retreat business blueprint
• Yoga theme classes, workshops, and retreats
• Yoga for specific groups

This Yoga Teacher Training is open to anyone who feels the inspiration and desire to deepen their knowledge of Yoga in a safe and nurturing community. Harmony Yoga School is excited about sharing the gift of yoga with students of all levels, ages and body types. This is an Intensive Yoga Teacher Training Immersion.

The days are long and full and very rewarding. There are no days off. We suggest you arrive well rested and ready to learn and grow and show up fully. Please take care of personal work prior to arrival. Please arrive open minded and ready to meet new friends and try new things.

Blue Spirit Costa Rica is located in Nosara, on the Northern Pacific Coast of Costa Rica; renowned for its spectacular scenery, healthy holistic lifestyle, and an international community that gives the region a vibrantly creative and peaceful atmosphere.

Blue Spirit is a world-class yoga retreat center perched on a hilltop overlooking the Pacific Ocean and a three-mile white sand beach that is perfect for walking, swimming, sunbathing, or sunset beach yoga. The pristine nature, tropical climate, and healing energy of the area, create an idyllic environment for a transformative and deeply nurturing yoga retreat experience.

Blue Spirit offers a luxurious boutique setting with elegant accommodation, delicious gourmet vegetarian cuisine, a salt-water infinity pool, complimentary wireless service, and private walking paths to the beach.

Blue Spirit is located in one of the world’s Blue Zones; which inspired the name Blue Spirit. The area is one of five Blue Zone’s in the world. A Blue Zone is an area where people live the longest and report the highest levels of well-being. While visiting Blue Spirit, you will feel the resonance of a vibrant, inspiring, and healing energy, because of the rich subtropical environment and the laid back lifestyle.

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Your stay at Blue Spirit includes three delicious consciously prepared gourmet vegetarian meals a day. Blue Spirit works with local farmers to purchase organically grown produce to provide deliciously nourishing cuisine. Fresh, locally sourced fish is served three evenings per week and eggs every morning along with breakfast. All meals have vegan and gluten-free options. To accommodate food restrictions and allergies, there is a Pure Food option, offering veggies, grains, and legumes cooked without any seasonings or oils.

A professional holistic chef will prepare three deliciously nourishing meals per day. Meals are lovingly prepared using local and organic food sourced from local markets and farms. All meals can be made vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free. Healing juices and superfood smoothies, as well as tea, coffee, and healthy snacks, will be available.

• Beach yoga classes
• Beach meditation classes
• Beach walking
• Bonfire

• 14 nights boutique beachfront accommodation in a luxurious private villa overlooking the ocean
• 3 deliciously nourishing meals a day prepared by our live in professionally trained holistic chef
• Healing herbal teas, organic coffee, and cleansing juices
• All yoga classes
• Hatha, Yin, Vinyasa, Restorative and other styles
• Yoga Alliance 200-hour yoga teacher training course: official course diploma, all course materials
• Individualized attention due to a small group environment
• Experience structuring and sequencing yoga classes and teaching in the student practicum
• Confidence in your unique teaching style and clarity about your teaching goals Increased physical and emotional well-being
• Yoga business skills as well as branding and marketing support
• Become part of the International Yoga Alliance community
• Enjoy the beautiful beach, infinity pool, and hiking trails around the property

• International airfare

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• A reservation requires a deposit of 25% 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.