21 Day 200-hour Immersion Yoga Teacher Training in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
Deepening Yoga Teacher Training Mexico
This 21-day yoga teacher training immersion will be a deep personal transformation in a wonderful environment. The teacher training will be hosted at a beautiful beachfront yoga center right on the virgin beaches of southern Mexico.
Instructions will be offered in English and / or Spanish.
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Highlights
- Eligible to register with Yoga Alliance upon completion
- 21 days of training
- 2 yoga classes per day
- Sunset walking and meditation on the beach
- Self-massage, chanting, and pranayama sessions
- Philosophy, anatomy, and methodology lessons
- 20 nights accommodation
- Daily meals
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Yoga styles
Bahías de Huatulco International Airport (US$ 125 per person)
Accommodation
Facilities
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
- Dining area
Accommodations are included with your registration. Each room has two beds and fans, and each student will have their own bed. Some bathrooms are shared, and all have hot water. Everyone stays in the same house. It is a beautiful home on the beach with a pool, palm trees, and many green areas.
Program
Certification
Students who complete the training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).
Yoga Alliance is considered the international standard for yoga teachers and yoga schools worldwide. This certification will allow you to be recognized as a professional yoga teacher all around the world.
Overview
The course is limited to 14 students to ensure a personalized experience for each of them. It will be taught in English and Spanish.
Vida Yoga Center's mission is to share the practice of yoga with people from all over the world who are willing to give themselves the space to deepen this path. They hope that each participant will benefit greatly from this training and create healthy habits in their lives.
About the course
In this training, you will acquire theoretical knowledge - practices that will facilitate you to create habits that will help you deepen your practice of conscious Hatha, so that as a teacher, you can transmit the great art of yoga with foundations and clarity. You and Vida Yoga Center will address different aspects that will enrich each other.
In the area of anatomy, Vida Yoga Center will give you precise, practical, and applicable bases on functional anatomy, physiology, and biomechanics. This knowledge will give you the tools to practice any style of yoga with awareness and in a safe way, with less risk of injury.
Vida Yoga Center will teach you to use different types of props that will make you a more complete teacher. They will guide you so that you can observe and detect common trends and errors in the most used asanas in Hatha yoga.
You will learn the art of putting together and designing your classes, how to find verbal clarity, how to organize your students with their props, the objective and the reason for your class, and how to choose between so many options, and at the same time, not be repetitive and mechanical. You'll also discover where to look for inspiration and creativity.
Through daily practice of meditation and pranayama, you will create healthy habits for life.
Yoga is the reunion or re-knowledge of the individual being in the supreme, total, absolute, universal being sat-chit-ananda. On each day of teacher training, you will work on this fundamental aspect of yoga. Vida Yoga Center hopes that inside you, the flame that will guide you, accompany you, and will always be with you, will light up.
Their goal is that in the 200 hours, you will experience all the different aspects of yoga.
Experience silence, meditation, and deep moments with yourself. Live or try to live according to the principles of the root of yoga, which will make you a human being with values, goals, integrity, awareness, clarity, and self-knowledge.
The road is long and will last a lifetime, but you will put the seeds of this great tree on fertile soil, full of fruits to come and full of knowledge.
During the free time, Vida Yoga Center's will offer you to read sacred and related texts to leave this formation as renewed beings or as the best version of yourself. On Fridays, you will have rituals - four in total (circle of fire, spiral, mandalas, and offerings). On Saturdays, the group will have satsang to consult among all doubts or experiences of the week.
Vida Yoga Center's training was designed and will be delivered to you with all their heart and the experience they have as teachers.
Thank you, Namaste Harí Om.
200-hour yoga teacher training
The teaching will be very personal to your practice and the way you move. This type of yoga, 'conscious Hatha,' will correct your bad posture and your bad postural habits, as well as your unconscious way of moving. Vida Yoga Center will also teach you yoga with a full understanding of what is happening in every asana.
This program is a conscious teacher training in all aspects: asanas, pranayama, meditation, anatomy, and the root of yoga.
In this teacher training course, you will acquire theoretical and practical knowledge that will facilitate you to create habits that will help you deepen your practice of conscious Hatha, so that as a teacher, you can transmit the great art of yoga with foundations and clarity.
Requirements
The most important thing for Vida Yoga Center is to welcome students who have an open mind, are eager to deepen the practice, and are motivated by both theoretical and practical knowledge.
Outline
Fundamental kinesiological concepts for a practice of conscious Hatha
In the area of anatomy, Vida Yoga Center will give you basic concepts of functional anatomy, physiology, and biomechanics. This knowledge will give you the tools to practice any style of yoga with awareness and in a safe way that will allow you to take advantage of your skills and reduce the incidence of problems or bodily injuries.
- Biotypes
- Locomotor system
- Body and space
- Posture or alignment
Roots of yoga
The eight petals of yoga
- Yama
- Niyama
- Asana
- Pranayama
- Pratyhara
- Dharana
- Dyhana
Subtle anatomy
Yoga and the mind
Conscious Hatha
Vida Yoga Center will teach the main positions that are practiced in the different styles of yoga, with respect and awareness of how to execute asanas safely without falling into postural compensation.
You are going to study and practice around 50 of the most common asanas in Hatha yoga. An essential part of being safe in your practice is to activate the center of your body (your core) and the muscles related to the pelvic girdle that connects with the lower extremities and lumbar spine.
Restorative yoga
In this style of yoga, you will experience effortlessly doing the practice of not doing, letting go, and creating space in parts that for years have been carrying stress and tensions that have become chronic.
It is calming for the nervous system. It is a pleasant, enjoyable, and welcoming practice for all types of students. It will be of great value for your classes as a teacher to be able to help and to know how to use Restorative yoga with them. Restorative yoga is necessary for today's society.
Use of props
- Chairs
- Bolsters
- Bricks
- Belts
- Back mitra
- Rolls
- Sandbags
- Balls
Pranayama
The breath control connects with your subtle body and harmonizes the sympathetic and parasympathetic involuntary peripheral system, improving your ability to breathe.
- Natural breath
- Full breath
- Suka pranayama
- Nadi shodhana pranayama
- Bhastrika
- Kapalbhati
- Ujjayi pranayama
Meditation
This is the part of yoga that quiets the mind and works on it. During the 21 days, you will meditate through:
- Silent walks
- Sitting in sukasana
- Reflection
- Yoga Nidra
- Visualizations
- Yapa mala
Methodology
You will learn to make congruent sequences to be able to share and teach, having good results in the practitioners. They will guide you clearly about the purposes and objectives of a class. You will teach your classmates and teachers according to the set goals, and it will be a fun and creative game wherein the students will all learn from everyone.
Satsang
Once a week, the group will meet in a circle, practice a mantra, and clear the doubts or concerns that have arisen during the previous days.
Who is this for?
Whether you are a beginner, an experienced student, or a teacher, this course will offer you very important and valuable tools to make your practice fruitful. Above all things, Vida Yoga Center is offering you the possibility to experience and deepen each of the links of yoga for your personal spiritual growth.
Daily schedule
- 06:30 Wake up
- 06:45 - 07:30 Morning practice (self-massage, preparing the body for breathing and asanas, walking to see the sunrise, and chanting)
- 07:30 - 09:30 Hatha yoga
- 09:30 - 10:30 Breakfast or free time
- 10:30 - 13:30 Philosophy, anatomy, or methodology
- 14:00 - 16:30 Lunch or free time
- 16:30 - 18:30 Restorative yoga plus anatomy or pranayama practice, depending on the week
- 18:40 Walking and meditation on the beach, sunset time
- 19:15 Dinner
Instructors
Marine Larripa
Marine is the director and creator of Vida Yoga Center, Puerto Escondido since 2009. Marine has been dedicating her life to yoga for more than 15 years. From a young age, she was a dancer and dance teacher. Destiny took her to yoga, a path she will never stop exploring. The yoga tree is her most sacred refuge. Marine has the ability to make her classes a work of art, handling rhythms, moments, depth and subtlety, tuning our body in a natural and comfortable way.
Sofia Agaton
Dedicated to teaching yoga for more than 15 years, her classes address the classic style of yoga from a therapeutic and relaxing perspective. This is due to the integration of different body techniques and yoga styles, which have enriched today's yoga. She says, “From my training in contemporary dance, at the end of my career as a teacher and interpreter, my interest in body alignment, movement and the relationship of all this, with feelings and emotions, led me to find myself in yoga and his philosophy an infinite world of possibilities.”
Retreat location
The training will take place in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico. Vida Yoga Center is located 12 kilometers south of Puerto Escondido.
Casa Naia is right on a beautiful isolated and unspoiled beach. It is the ideal place to experience silence and stillness. It is also an excellent atmosphere for introspection and the study of yoga, growing in your spiritual path as a yogi, and enjoying this paradise.
Distances
- Puerto Escondido, 12 kilometers
This Yoga Retreat is vegetarian-friendly
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Food
All meals are included in the price. Vida Yoga Center has an amazing chef who cooks three vegetarian meals per day, plus snacks, juices, and desserts. Whatever your dietary restrictions, they can accommodate them.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Snacks
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Lacto-ovo Vegetarian
- Organic
- Other dietary requirements on request
What's included
- Eligibility to register with Yoga Alliance upon completion of the course
- Tuition fee
- Training materials
- 20 nights beachfront accommodation
- 3 meals per day, snacks, and drinks
- Airport transfers between Puerto Escondido International Airport (PXM) and the house
What's not included
- Airfare
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Bahías de Huatulco International Airport
83 km
Transfer available for additional US$ 125 per person
Puerto Escondido International Airport
6 km
Transfer included
Arrival by airplane
Please book your flight to arrive at Puerto Escondido International Airport (PXM), which is a quick 45-minute flight from Mexico City. Transfers from this airport are included in the price.
It is usually cheaper to get your flights to Mexico City first, and then get your flights to Puerto Escondido separately. The following airlines serve Puerto Escondido from Mexico City:
- Interjet
- Aeromar
- Vivaaerobus
- Volaris
Vivaaerobus is a low-cost airline where you can get round-trip flights for around 100 USD. It is also possible to fly directly to Huatulco International Airport (HUX) (approximately a 90-minute drive to Puerto Escondido) from many U.S. and Canadian cities via Houston on United; from Minneapolis on Sun Country; and from Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary on Sunwing, West Jet, and Air Canada.
You can also fly from Mexico City to Huatulco with Interjet, Aeromar, and Vivaerobus.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 26% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 1 days before arrival.
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