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21 Day 200-Hour Spiritual Yoga Teacher Training in San Marcos La Laguna, Guatemala
Arco Isis Sanctuary, San Marcos La Laguna, Solola Department, Guatemala
Yoga Teacher Training in Guatemala
This yoga teacher training in Guatemala offers a unique opportunity to explore ancient yogic wisdom while restoring harmony and balance into your daily existence. The ecologically sustainable, natural sanctuary offers the opportunity to observe prosperous interdependence with the earth, and with this wisdom you will find reconnection and holistic understandings of green principles in daily life, as well as how to live life in balance. In this program, you will find a harmonious and symbiotic blend of ancient indigenous wisdom and yogic teachings to guide you.
Meet the instructors
Lacey Hickox & Darin Jay
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Highlights
- Eligible to register with Yoga Alliance upon completion
- 200-hour course curriculum
- Anatomy and philosophy class
- Daily satsang and a spiritual lesson of the day
- Daily meditation, pranayama, and asana
- Daily vegetarian breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- 20 nights accommodation
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Yoga styles
21 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: Spanish
Accommodation
Arco Isis Sanctuary
Located in the energy vortex of San Marcos La Laguna, Guatemala, and surrounded by three volcanoes, this program offers a powerful place to tap into the wisdom of the land, the ancient Mayan culture and the deep inner knowing of your hearts. This is the perfect place to open and relax your minds, remember the wisdom of the ancestors, and ignite your hearts in the middle of nature.
The stunning architecture and attention to detail of the Arco Isis Sanctuary blends easily into the natural surroundings. The center has stunning views of Lake Atitlan and the volcanoes (Volcano San Pedro, Volcano Atitlan, Volcano Toleman, Volcano Fuego and more) throughout the property.
Arco Isis has an ongoing vision to build a more ecologically-sustainable, natural sanctuary. They apply permaculture, alternative energy technology, and ancient Mayan agricultural techniques to achieve these goals.
They have designed and implemented several living permaculture projects to energize a model ecosystem that promotes prosperous interdependence with the Earth. Their intention is to reconnect individuals with new holistic understandings of green principles in their daily life.
Accommodation is not included in tuition price:
Please note that accommodation is not included in the tuition price.
Rooms
You will be accommodated in a shared double room with epic lake and volcano views, in a spacious shared dormitory for up to eight guests, or in fully furnished camping accommodations.
Arco Isis Sanctuary offers:
- Camping (includes tent, bed and bedding)
- Glamping (large bell tent, bed and bedding)
- Dormitory
- Double shared room
- Private cabin
Program
Certification
Students who complete the training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).
200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training
This yoga teacher training offers a unique opportunity to explore ancient yogic wisdom while restoring harmony and balance to your daily existence. The ecologically sustainable and natural sanctuary offers the opportunity to observe prosperous interdependence with the earth, and with this wisdom, you will find reconnection and holistic understandings of green principles in daily life, as well as how to live life in balance.
Tap into a deep sense of connection and find oneness and peace by living a simple and intentional existence. You experience rest, revitalization, and growth of the individual in harmony with the environment. In this program, you will find a harmonious and symbiotic blend of ancient indigenous wisdom and yogic teachings to guide you.
The 21-day 200-hour yoga teacher training program blends traditional yogic teachings and spirituality with earth medicine to provide a holistic, synergistic and applicable approach to living this practice. This program is designed for those souls with an interest in yoga, spirituality and meditation and an interest in deepening that connection to live your life with intention and more fully aligned with your truth.
This training offers an opportunity for self-growth, personal development and transformation while providing the tools necessary to develop your own personal practice or to step into your calling as teacher and guide.
You will explore yoga history and philosophy, anatomy, alignment, yogic diet, Ayurveda, healing arts and more while tapping into the expansiveness of this practice. The experience will be richly informative, empowering and inspiring.
What to Expect:
- Experienced, talented, knowledgeable and dedicated facilitators
- Morning meditation, pranayama and asana practice
- 4 elements philosophy and earth medicine
- Yoga Sutras and ancient texts
- In depth yoga anatomy
- Daily intention and spiritual lesson
- Art of teaching and alignment
- Incredible locations
- Delicious vegetarian meals
- Friends, family, and ceremony
- Kirtan, music and dance
Meets the requirements of Yoga Alliance
This yoga teacher training program meets and exceeds the requirements of Yoga Alliance for anatomy, techniques, philosophy, lifestyle, ethics, teaching methodology, and practicum and beyond, while creating a container for self-inquiry and personal growth.
While honoring the traditional forms of this practice, you explore the expansive nature of yoga and spirituality in all forms. Whether it is your intention to step into your calling as a yoga teacher or to learn the foundations of yoga and deepen your practice, this program will be equally informative and transformative.
Sacred Paths Yoga is a registered yoga school (RYS) with Yoga Alliance who has set a widely accepted international standard for Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) programs. These standards describe Yoga Alliance’s requirements for a Registered Yoga School that offers a 200-hour program. The topics for a RYS teacher training must be relevant to Yoga Alliance’s five educational categories, and RYSs must provide a minimum number of hours of study in each educational category, and to make up the total 200 required hours (180 minimum contact hours), must also provide additional hours of study relevant to these categories.
All of Scared Paths Yoga's experienced and knowledgeable facilitators are registered with Yoga Alliance at an RYT-500 or ERYT-500 level, and come from a variety of lineages and traditions to create a holistically synergistic experience. This ensures the highest level of training for your yoga teacher certification course.
Overview of the Course
This yoga teacher training program presents all the tools necessary for the trainee to gain a greater knowledge and understanding of the yogic practice and to expand upon the sequences learned to create offerings that are authentic and deeply connected. The curriculum is designed to empower you in your self-practice and to develop teachers who are powerful space-holders. It creates a solid foundation upon which the trainee can build upon in becoming a knowledgeable practitioner or safe and confident guide.
Through this step-by-step approach in sharing anatomy, alignment, sequencing, and adjustments as well as the subtleties of communication, space-holding, energetics, and connection, they help you reveal the guru within you. The students will leave with utmost confidence to expand upon their foundation and practice or teach a variety of different styles to a broad audience in a way that is accessible, authentic, knowledgeable, and connected.
Sacred Paths Yoga offers this yoga immersion experience as a means to self-inquiry, transformation, and as a path to live your most authentic truth. This is the time to ask yourself your deepest questions, to peel back the layers of conditioning, and to reveal your infinite truth. This training offers the time, space, and support to examine the way in which they perceive and relate to the word around them.
Through daily spiritual lessons, self-inquiry, discussions, exercises, and study of ancient texts, you uncover your path to self-realization. You relate these teachings to the modern-day yoga practitioner so that these ancient philosophies are relevant to the world in which you live and you can truly live this practice in every step.
Style of the Yoga Teacher Training Course
The style of yoga shared at Sacred Paths Yoga is a mindful Vinyasa flow-based practice that allows one to find connection and embark upon an insightful journey within. It links breath and movement to emphasize meditation and to find stillness in motion. This practice becomes a sacred prayer to your body, to access the stillness of the mind and to connect with spirit. The experience is deeply intentional as you honor yogic philosophy and invite your soul to look inward and find peace with what is present.
The sequence is rooted in traditional Hatha and Ashtanga Vinyasa practices but has evolved to meet the needs of the modern yogi. It offers a holistic and well-rounded approach, balancing the yin and yang, the passive and active, the lunar and solar, the feminine and masculine energies to leave one feeling centered and harmonious.
Not only does this practice offer physical benefits, but it works on the energetic and spiritual forms as well, tapping into the wisdom of ancient yogic teachings while connecting to earth medicine and exploring the elements as a path to transformation and union with all that is. Sacred Paths Yoga builds a solid foundation for students to then expand upon as they find their voices as teachers or in their own personal practice.
They put emphasis on an embodied understanding of poses and alignment, intelligent sequencing and transitions while embracing grace, ease, and fluidity. With this deeper awareness and understanding of the body, you can come into full alignment with mind, body, spirit, and your life’s purpose. For many, this becomes a life-changing experience as you set out to gain more clarity and empowerment on your life’s journey.
Prerequisites
This teacher training program is open to practitioners of all levels and abilities, from beginner to advanced. Sacred Paths Yoga offers modifications and variations of the poses so you can cultivate a practice that fits your needs, and so that you can teach classes that are accessible to all populations. They encourage you to establish your own personal yoga practice by attending classes or workshops leading up to the program.
Prior to the training, they recommend that students practice along with their SPY Online Yoga Videos several times per week to prepare the body and mind for the journey ahead. They will break down these sequences in depth during the course so it is advised to become familiar with them.
Sacred Paths Yoga invite you to set intention, with an open heart and mind, to fully commit to and embrace the yogic lifestyle during your training and beyond, to let go of expectations, and to fully surrender to the experience.
This course is not only developed for those who are called to become yoga teachers, but also for those who have the intention to deepen their own practice and knowledge, to become embodied yoga practitioners, to step into a spiritual journey of soul, and to heal, reveal, and awaken.
Core Curriculum
While the core curriculum unites offerings, each program is a unique experience of the wisdom and insights revealed from the particular facilitators as well as those souls that have been called to co-create this journey. Likewise, each sacred location offers deep ancient wisdom and cultural tradition that we will thread into the course. Sacred Paths Yoga offers deep gratitude for the spirit of the land for safeguarding and protecting these sacred spaces to heal and transform.
With highly experienced facilitators and an integrative approach, the training is designed to deepen your personal experience and knowledge of yoga and to help transform all aspects of your life. The Sacred Paths yoga teacher training program guides students to become empowered practitioners and to step into their own voice as teachers.
What you will learn during the teacher training program:
- Explore traditional yogic teachings, earth medicine, and spirituality in a process of self-inquiry and personal growth
- Learn to teach the Sacred Flow Vinyasa sequence as well as receive guidance on creating and teaching your own unique sequences
- Explore traditional Hatha, Restorative, Yin and Prenatal yoga
- Experience yogic living, deepen your personal practice and commitment to this path
- Practice daily meditation, pranayama, and asana
- Experience a spiritual immersion
- Explore the art of teaching, touch, and alignment to gain knowledge, insight, and clarity
- Practice Kirtan, chanting, and medicine songs from around the world as you experience Bhakti bliss
- Nightly evening gatherings, Satsang, to reflect on the day’s journey and insights
- Experience ceremony, including Full and New Moon Ceremonies, Fire Ceremony, Water Blessing Ceremony, Earth Gratitude Ceremony, Puja, Cacao Ceremony and more
- Study yoga anatomy and physiology and applicable techniques to incorporate these principles into your own teaching and practice
- Study Yoga Sutras and philosophy
- Explore chakras, bandhas, and energetic anatomy
- Study Ayurveda and experience the yogic diet
- Practice advanced pranayama
- Learn kriyas and yogic cleansing techniques
- Practice how to integrate yoga into your daily life through spiritual lessons and art of living discussion
- Learn the art of yoga marketing and explore your vision for bringing this practice into your community
Course Syllabus:
The RYS Educational Categories are:
- Techniques, training and practice
- Teaching methodology
- Anatomy and physiology
- Yoga philosophy / ethics / lifestyle
- Practicum
Techniques, Training and Practice:
The contact hours for this will be 100 hours. In this category, you will explore techniques as well as practice and teach asanas, pranayamas, kriyas, chanting, mantra, meditation and other traditional yoga practices. There will be an emphasis on both guided practice of the techniques themselves as well as analytical training in how to teach and practice the techniques.
1. Asana
The trainees will deepen their knowledge of poses including beginner and more advanced variations. The benefits, risks and contraindications will be explored as well as safe transitions, intelligent sequencing, alignment and hands on assists. The five main categories of poses will be covered including standing / balancing poses, forward bends, backbends, twists and inversions.
2. Pranayama
The students will practice, experience and learn how to guide several pranayama techniques. They will learn the benefits and effects of such practices as well as how and when to incorporate them into a class. %Pranayamas covered in depth will include abdominal breathing, three-part yogic breath, ujjai pranayama, nadi shodhana, anuloma viloma, and kapalabhati.
3. Kriyas
The yogic cleansing and purification techniques will be taught and practiced in the form of Jal neti, kapalabhati, agni sara, and tratak. The trainees will be guided on the benefits and how to incorporate these techniques into their personal practice.
4. Chanting / Mantra
They will explore mantra as a path to connection, to invoke spirit and to create sacred space. The trainees will experience, practice and learn mantras to share in class such as Om, the Gayatri Mantra, the Bija mantras for chakra clearing and others.
5. Meditation
The various forms of guided meditation will be shared including breath focus, sensory withdrawal. visualization, mantra, chakra. There will be an emphasis on quieting the mind and experiencing divine union on this path of yoga.
Teaching Methodology
The contact hours will be 25 hours. In this category, you will share how to refine and apply your skills as a teacher. You will discuss the principles of demonstrating asanas as well as how to effectively observe, use verbal cues and incorporate hands on assistance in a class.
You will explore the use of language and voice such as active versus passive language, and the effective use of each, such as positive and conscious communication, and habitual speech and communication patterns. This category will prepare trainees to be transformational space holders.
Topics in this category will include:
- Communication skills such as group dynamics, time management, and the establishment of priorities and boundaries
- How to address the specific needs of individuals and special populations, to the degree possible in a group setting
- Principles of demonstration, observation, assisting and correcting
- Teaching styles
- Qualities of a teacher
- The student learning process
- Business aspects of teaching yoga (including marketing and legal)
- Teacher / student relationship and teacher ethics
Anatomy and Physiology
The contacts hours will be 20 hours. The topics in this category will include anatomical terms and basic overview of the physical body, classes and discussion on the skeletal, muscular and nervous systems as well as how these systems are benefited by yoga. The trainees will gain knowledge of the cardiovascular system and the heart and the digestive system and the yogic diet.
This category will also include subtle energetic anatomy and physiology, including studies on the chakras and nadis. The trainees will be guided in studying both anatomy / physiology along with its application to the yoga practice including benefits, contraindications, healthy movement patterns, and more.
Yoga Philosophy, Lifestyle and Ethics for Yoga Teachers
The contact hours will be 40 hours. This program emphasizes a whole lifestyle approach to yoga as a practice and offers guidance on how to live this practice on and off the mat.
In this category, you will cover the study of yoga philosophies and traditional texts, in particularly Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. You will explore this 8-fold path as a means to quieting the mind to reach liberation.
This study will include group work, discussion and application to our practice and daily life. This category will also include the transformational framework in which trainees can practice self-inquiry and develop themselves as embodied practitioners and embodied guides.
Practicum
The contact hours will be 15 hours. In this category, the trainees will actively practice teaching as the lead instructor. They will also observe others teaching, receive and give feedback and assist students while someone else is teaching.
The trainees will begin peer teaching from day one as they gradually learn and practice teaching the poses and mini sequences in the Sacred Flow that is practiced in the morning and studied in depth in the Art of Teaching / Touch classes throughout the first half of the training. They will teach this set 90-minute flow in full to a peer, observed by a facilitator.
In the second half of the training, the students will create their own full sequence from the tools provided, share a 90-minute class through peer teaching and receive feedback from their peers and facilitators.
Reading List:
Required reading for the course
- "Sacred Paths Yoga School Teacher Training Manual" by Lacey & Darin Lehman
- "Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali" by B.K.S. Iyengar
Suggested Pre-Course Reading
- "Teaching Yoga" by Mark Stephens
- "Anatomy of the Spirit" by Caroline Myss
- "Light on Yoga" by BKS Iyengar
- "Yoga Anatomy" by Leslie Kaminoff
Suggested Pre-Course Reading
- "Teaching Yoga" by Mark Stephens
- "Anatomy of the Spirit" by Caroline Myss
- "Light on Yoga" by BKS Iyengar
- "Yoga Anatomy" by Leslie Kaminoff
How the day will look like:
You start each day with an intention, a spiritual lesson of the day, that will be weaved throughout the day’s teachings and live within your own personal practice. You begin each morning in a beautiful location connecting with nature through sunrise meditation, pranayama and asana practice, honoring silence in this sacred time.
This is followed by a yogic breakfast, nourishing your bodies and spirits with wholesome organic vegetarian food. The experience of the day is one of learning and living yogic theory and healing practices through interactive workshops, classes and dynamic group discussions.
In the morning classes, you explore the fundamentals of yogic living, anatomy, meditation, cleansing practices, pranayama, Ayurveda and the ancient wisdom of the Yoga Sutras through interactive and comprehensive lectures.
In the afternoon classes, you share the Art of Teaching and Art of Touch / Alignment in which students practice peer teaching.
In the first half of the training, students learn and practice teaching the Sacred Flow sequence. You will also take an in-depth look at alignment, adjustments, benefits and contraindication of each pose.
In the second half of the training, you will explore other yogic traditions (Hatha, Restorative, Yin), share the fundamentals of intelligent sequencing, theme weaving, and study advanced poses and techniques. The students will also create their own full sequence from the tools provided, and share through peer teaching and receive feedback from their peers and facilitators.
Each evening, the day will close with Satsang, a sacred community gathering, which may be meditation, kirtan, chanting, sacred ceremony or a sharing circle to connect and release the day’s challenges, triumphs, insights and joys.
The day flows within a safe container, held and guided by experienced space holders in inspiring locations.
Certification
Upon completion of the coursework, peer teaching and evaluation, participants will receive a certification of completion which will then enable you to register with Yoga Alliance as a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200).
Daily Schedule:
Please note that every 5th day is an off day.
- 06:30 to 09:00 Meditation, pranayama and asana
- 09:00 to 10:00 Breakfast
- 10:00 to 11:00 Spiritual lesson
- 11:00 to 12:00 Special topic
- 12:00 to 13:00 Anatomy / philosophy
- 13:00 to 15:00 Lunch break
- 15:00 to 18:00 Art of teaching / art of touch
- 18:00 to 19:00 Dinner
- 19:00 to 20:00 Satsang (sacred circle)
Instructors
Lacey Hickox Lehman
Lacey Hickox is an (E-RYT 500) and views this sacred practice as a path to self-discovery, self-love and as a divine tool to deepen your connection with spirit. She infuses her offerings with many modalities including Thai massage, Reiki, sound healing, Earth medicine, and Shamanic ceremony.
Darin Jay Lehman
Darin Jay Lehman (E-RYT 500) takes an integrative approach to his teachings, weaving modern day understandings of the world with many traditions including the yogic, shamanic and judaic paths. Darin merges the physical practice of yoga with the connection to higher Spirit, the elements and the directions while bringing the expression of Bhakti into his classes through music.
Retreat location
San Marcos La Laguna, Solola
This program will take place in San Marcos La Laguna, Solola in Guatemala.
This Yoga Retreat is vegetarian-friendly
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Food
Meals
During the course, you will be provided with three nourishing yogic vegetarian meals per day prepared by the knowledgeable and loving staff led by Chef José. Enjoy an abundance of fruits, superfoods, artistic soups and local cuisine throughout the yoga course.
Enjoy an abundance of fresh local tropical fruits and veggies, many of which are grown right on the retreat center's permaculture farm.
Other Dietary Requirements
The kitchen can accommodate all food needs for those who have allergies or are gluten-free or vegan.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten Free
- Yogic
- Other dietary requirements on request
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
What's included
- Certificate of completion OR Eligibility to register with Yoga Alliance upon completion of the course
- 200-hour course curriculum
- 3 daily vegetarian meals
- 20 nights accommodation
What's not included
- Transportation to Guatemala
- Ground transportation to Arco Isis
- Required texts
- Optional day off activities
How to get there
Recommended Airports
GUA
La Aurora International Airport
80 km
Transfer not provided
Arrival by airplane
Book your flight to arrive at La Aurora International Airport (GUA). Transfer from this airport is not included in the price.
Please contact Sacred Paths Yoga for more information about airport transfers.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 20% 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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