22 Day Transformational 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Costa Rica's Caribbean Coast, Puerto Viejo

Facilities

Certification

Successful graduates will receive a diploma and are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as 200-RYT. Students enrolled in the “EYTP” will receive the same diploma in addition to a certificate from EYTP: Equine Yoga Teacher Program certification.

All our 200-hour courses are registered with Yoga Alliance and follow their curriculum guidelines. This course meets and exceeds the criteria set forth by Yoga Alliance for a teacher training course. We offer you a unique opportunity to deepen your own yoga practice and gain the skills and confidence to teach your own yoga classes.

Enjoy meditation practice surrounded by nature, giant trees, howler monkeys, and parrots. Mindfulness Meditation walks along the jungle paths and guided meditation with the herd of Kindred Spirits horses, will be some of the special activities you will experience, heal and learn from. Sunrise and sunset yoga classes where as a group we will create beautiful mandalas in the sand to express our creativity and use our right brain bringing us closer to whom we are.

Students will learn to teach Ashtanga Vinyasa, Hatha, and Shivananda Yoga styles deepening their own understanding of Yoga and enhancing their professional yoga teaching careers. 

Unique to our course we limit enrollment to a maximum of 6 or 10 students per training.  This way we can offer more individual support and practical training to each student. Our teachers and our homey venues lend to a more intimate experience for our students.

The course includes daily pranayama, mantra chanting and asana practice to help each student enrich their own practice. Lectures and practicums on Yoga philosophy, ethics, anatomy, and physiology, teaching methods will be covered in this course.

Daily journalling is encouraged and homework may include your personal writings or we will choose a yama and niyama and you will be asked to contemplate and share life challenges while living the yamas and niyamas. The learnings of mantras and chanting, walking meditation, silent time, and Sanskrit names of the asanas are part of our training.

You will learn how to teach, how to guide and share your yoga practice, built on the foundation of your own practice. The yoga training is to prepare you for sharing and leading yoga sessions, as well as incorporating the balance of mat yoga into your life and the lives you touch.

Kindred Spirits is on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica. It is 5 hours away from the capital of San José.

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Kindred Spirits strive to keep it as seasonal, organic, local, and vegan as possible. We can also accommodate any food allergies you might have and/or a gluten-free diet.

All (volunteers, interns, guests and teachers) come together at the main house for lunches. Typical lunches include gazpacho with a salad, Buddha bowls, burrito bowls, summer rolls, vegan tacos, and more. Fresh ingredients will vary seasonally.

• Jin Shin Jyutsu healing sessions
• Metaphysical healing sessions
• Mindfulness meditation healing with horses
• Yoga with horses
• Horse treks in jungle and to beach for experienced riders
• Riding lessons
• Nutritionist diagnose and evaluation
• Learn how to be a vegan and what to eat to stay healthy and happy

• 21 nights lodging
• 18 lunches
• Yoga classes
• Yoga mats and props
• 200-hour certification affiliated with Yoga Alliance

• Airfares
• Breakfasts and dinners
• Optional activities and local tours
• Transportation from San Jose to Kindred Spirits and return
• Local transportation for shopping etc
• Travel insurance

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• 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.