Certifications
Students who complete this training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).
Course outline
At this training, you will gain the knowledge and confidence needed to become a professional yoga teacher and pass on the vast knowledge and passion for yoga to your future students. This training with an expert team of lead teachers will prepare you to follow the path of yoga with body, mind, and spirit. The training also includes a supplemental Reiki level 1 certification course.
You will be learning the history of Reiki and how to reach physical, emotional, and mental balance using this ancient energy healing technique. You will be connecting deeply to your intuition and eliminating limiting beliefs, releasing fears and addictions. You will learn how to confidently use Reiki for your benefit in your daily life.
Yoga techniques, training, and practice
Demonstration of asanas and their variations, classification of yoga asanas, benefits of asanas and pranayamas, precautions and contraindications of asanas, preparatory poses and counterposes, meditation and Yoga Nidra, chanting, mantra, and Sanskrit in yoga practice, the Shatkriyas, Chakras, and Nadis in yoga practice.
Yoga anatomy and physiology
Anatomical terminology, the skeletal system and spine, joints and connective tissue, the muscles, nervous system, and anatomy of breathing.
Teaching methodology
Communication skills and finding one’s voice as a teacher, time management and sequencing, giving adjustments, corrections, verbal cueing, the use of props, marketing, and legal aspects of running a yoga business.
Yoga philosophy, lifestyle, and ethics
Advaita Vedanta, Patanjali Yoga Sutras, and the 8 limbs of yoga, the Bhagavad Gita, yoga lifestyle and nutrition, yoga ethics, different types, and lineages of yoga, yoga history, and the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Kleshas, and Koshas.
Teaching practice (practicum)
During the last two weeks of the training, you will lead two 60-minute and two 90-minute classes.
Reiki supplemental training
Reiki as an energy healing technique, history of Reiki and Mikao Usui, theory and practice of Reiki as an alternative tool to balance energetic fields.
About the training
The training lasts for 26 days in total. The first day of the course is dedicated to arriving at Sasaima, Colombia followed by the opening ceremony with dinner in the evening. The last day of the course is dedicated to departing Sasaima with the graduation ceremony being held the day before. You will be waking up early every morning to feel the serenity of nature surrounding you.
This will ease your mind for early morning meditation and help you get grounded before the busy day ahead. During the day, you will have two breaks between classes so you can unwind and relax, rent a bicycle and discover the surroundings, have a quick nap, or go to a cafe. You will also have Sundays off to relax and recharge and discover the beautiful Cundinamarca area and Sasaima town.
Daily schedule
- 07:00 - 08:00 Meditation techniques theory and practice
- 08:00 - 09:30 Morning yoga practice
- 09:30 - 10:15 Breakfast
- 10:15 - 11:30 Morning yoga study (chakras, nadis, sanskrit etc.)
- 11:30 - 14:00 Yoga philosophy, anatomy, or marketing and more
- 14:00 - 16:00 Lunch break
- 16:00 - 18:45 Asana lab (teaching methodology)
- 18:45 Dinner and free time