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Equine Yoga Teacher Program in Costa Rica

Find your path to self-discovery and healing through the transformative power of yoga and the deep connection with horses. The Equine Yoga Teacher Program is a ten-day immersive experience that combines these two disciplines to bring you a unique journey toward self-awareness and peace. Become a certified yoga with a horse instructor. With the full course completed, you will be able to share your knowledge with others. Offering classes to those in search of connection and self-discovery through the language of horses.

Meet the instructors

Terry & Johanna
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Highlights

  • Yoga classes on the mat
  • Classes with horses and lectures
  • 10 nights accommodation
  • Last day exam and practice day
  • Experienced instructors
  • Certificate of completion

Skill level

  • Intermediate

10 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: French, Spanish
Group size: Maximum of 8 participants
Airport transfer available:
Limón International Airport (US$ 100 per person)
Airport transfer available:
Juan Santamaría International Airport (US$ 80 per person)
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Accommodation

Check-in Time:
14:00

Facilities

  • Dining area
  • Environmentally friendly
  • Garden
  • Kitchen
  • Meditation garden
  • Terrace
  • Yoga deck
  • Yoga shala
  • Bicycle rental
  • Laundry

Explore your untapped potential while nestled comfortably in the Caribbean jungle of Costa Rica. The Kindred Spirits Lodge is an open space concept, with both dining and living rooms overlooking the jungle from a wide terrace. The lodge is the community living space where you can be with kindred spirits and share your learnings. It’s spacious and comfortable, with quality mattresses and lots of care put into every detail. Every room has big windows to admire nature, and from the living room, you can enjoy a panoramic view of jungle life, including the passage of howler monkeys.

At the lodge, you will also have your little host of the house to make you feel at home, the orange tabby cat, Toby. All bedrooms have a bathroom attached, closet space, quality pillow-top mattresses, and big windows to enjoy the vibrant nature all around. With fans and air-conditioners.

Facilities

  • Stable high-speed internet
  • Kitchen with oven, stove, food processor, coffee maker, kettle, fridge, and cookware
  • Weekly access to the laundry room
  • Each room has its bathroom attached
  • Fans in every room
  • 360-degree jungle views
  • Ample seating space and hammocks
  • Access to the yoga library
  • Free range of the jungle farm for mindful walks

Program

Certifications

The course/hours count as Continuing Education hours for Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®) only.

Discover Horse and Self: A Three-Part Equine Yoga Journey

The program is divided into three parts: "Know Thyself", "Know Thy Horse, Aligned Horsemanship," and "Aligned Horsemanship and the Yogic Path of Healing." Each part focuses on different aspects of yoga and horsemanship, for a comprehensive learning experience.

The program is more than just a course - it's a journey into self-discovery and healing. Aligned horsemanship is an approach born from mutual respect and love between humans and horses. The guiding principles of yoga and liberty horsemanship provide the perfect environment for both human and horses to stretch their limits and enjoy life together. This program is designed for personal growth and professional development, culminating in certification for leading yoga with horse sessions.

Soul nourishing experiences such as morning and evening yoga, equine yoga and horsemanship workshops, meditation with horses, chakra work, swimming with horses, sacred mantras, and more aimed at developing physical, emotional, and mental strength, body awareness, and deeper understanding and intuition of all that connects you to life and horses. This program is developed for personal growth and professional development, culminating in certification for leading Equine Yoga sessions.

Program Overview

This program is about developing a true connection with horses that will allow you to heal yourself and others.

Why Choose the Equine Yoga Teacher Program?

Designed by experienced yoga teachers and professional horse trainers, this program offers an intensive exploration into the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of yoga and horsemanship. At the end of the program, you'll emerge not only transformed but also equipped to teach others and facilitate healing in your community.

What You’ll Come Away With

The program is more than just a course - it's a journey into self-discovery and healing. You'll learn and practice asanas to enhance your riding skills, pranayama techniques to influence your and your horse’s energies, and meditation skills to bring clarity to your life. You'll explore yogic self-awareness techniques, learn how to understand and influence the energies of your horse and develop a personal yoga and meditation practice. Additionally, you'll improve your liberty horsemanship skills, learn how to evaluate students and classes and improve balance through bareback and bitless riding skills.

Prerequisites (Who Can Join?)

You don't need to be an experienced yogi or equestrian to join. All you need is a 200h YTT Certification or to be in the process of obtaining one within a year of the program. If you lack horse experience, a 3-week internship is required. If you don't have horse experience, you are required to book a 3-week Internship.

What We’ll Be Doing

  • You will learn asanas/poses to build core body strength to enhance your riding, stretches to lengthen tightened muscles, and balancing poses for balanced riding.
  • Pranayama, breath control, and awareness to influence your and your horses' energies, emotions, and physical movement.
  • Meditating skills to bring focus and clarity into your daily life and time spent with horses.
  • Practicing yoga with horses will help you to be in touch with your true authentic self, the real you, the one your horse inspires you to be.
  • With the full course completed, you will be able to share your knowledge with others. Offering classes to riders or to those in search of connection and discovering themselves.

Program Details

Part 1 (Know Thyself)

  • Mission Statement: Know thyself; find your authentic place of liberty so you can connect with your horse at his place of physical, emotional, and spiritual reality. Sharing sacred space at liberty with your horse is the key to freeing yourself of attachments ( letting go). It is only in this space of your true authentic self that you can begin to evolve and forge a bond with your horse.
  • Goal: Experience and gain mastery over the tools of yogic self-awareness to identify, connect influence, and be influenced by the energies of your horse.

Objectives

  • Experience yoga practices of breathing, physical postures, mantra chanting, and meditation techniques on the yoga mat and with the horse
  • Learn and demonstrate basic natural horsemanship skills and knowledge to ensure your horse is physically and emotionally healthy and happy
  • Identify and influence your energies and that of your horse to forge and enhance the connection between you both
  • Experience how to just ‘be in the moment’
  • Let go of fears and ego
  • Practice skills on the yoga mat and with the horse that you can take with you as you continue your journey of inner growth and wisdom

Part 2 (Know Thy Horse)

  • Mission Statement: Make the connection; forge and enhance your physical, emotional, and energetic bonds with your horse. Increase your observational and listening skills to improve and grow in your equestrian pursuits and performance. Improve your physical conditioning and responses.
  • Goal: On the physical plane improve your riding skills through holistic yoga practices. On the emotional and energetic planes enhance your sensitivity to identify and consciously influence the directions and intensities of these energies through holistic yoga practices. Increase your understanding of your horse’s physical, emotional, and energetic physiology and needs through holistic natural horsemanship practices of therapeutically applied healing herbs, oils, clays, and healing techniques.

Objectives

  • Practice a holistic yoga practice emphasizing the five koshas to tone and balance the physical, emotional, and energetic bodies of the rider
  • Identify and engage the vayus in targeted holistic yoga sessions on the yoga mat and with horses
  • Identify, understand, and engage the chakras in targeted yoga sessions on the yoga mat and with horses
  • Sound theory in a japa practice. Identify the sounds and groups of sounds ( mantra) that engage targeted koshas, vayus, and chakras
  • Learn about the care of horses' physical, energetic, and emotional centers through hands-on, essential oils, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Bach flowers, Linda Tellington TTouches
  • Principles and basics of barefoot trimming
  • Stretches for rider and horses
  • How to clear your auras, meridians, and chakras
  • Preparation exercises for horses for yoga classes and riding

Part 3 (Aligned Horsemanship and Yoga)

  • Mission Statement: Holistic natural horsemanship is a unique approach to experiencing mutual respect and affection between rider and horse. The guiding principles of yoga and natural horsemanship provide experiential practices for both rider and horse to stretch their limits and reach their goals.
  • Goals: Identify and develop your equestrian goals following the path of the equestrian yogi and natural horsemanship practitioner. Share this knowledge with others from a place of authenticity and personal integrity.

Objectives

  • Develop a personal yoga and meditation practice
  • Develop core strengthening yoga classes for riders
  • Mounted yoga poses and safety for horse and rider
  • Identify, design, develop, and implement yoga and meditation practices for others
  • Develop and improve skills of natural horsemanship (Know thyself, Make the connection, Influence energies, and Natural and organic horse care)
  • Develop individual and group equine yoga sessions.
  • How to evaluate students, guests, and class
  • Improve Balance through bareback riding and bitless riding skills
  • Perform karma service
  • Develop Equine Yoga Classes according to the EYTP model

Included excursions

  • Swimming with horses in the sea (weather permitting)
  • Yoga on the beach
  • Kirtan Cacao Ceremony

Instructors

Terry Lillian Newton

Johanna Holst

Location

The training will take place in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Limón, Costa Rica. Located near the most beautiful Caribbean beaches with their sandy beaches and turquoise waters. A surfer paradise and nature photographer's dream. A strong and diverse community focused on healing all living beings and the planet Earth. Visit projects to save the bees, repopulate the coast with gigantic Macaws, Wild Life Rescue Centers to save and rehabilitate the wild animals, organic chocolate farms, permaculture farms, and local Caribbean culture with its Jamaican dishes and music.

Nearby is the colorful and diverse community of Puerto Viejo with its Reggae vibes and Pure Vida lifestyle. Kindred Spirits, nestled in the jungle on a mountaintop, surrounded by all the elements, nature, plants, animals, and horses. A permaculture farm that focuses on providing organic healthy food and renourishing the earth, as guardians of this land they try to enrich it and make it even more sustainable. Tourism has often involved a relationship between using and discarding the environment. Engage with a new surrounding by sharing your light and leaving no footprint behind.

Food

Meals can be added at an extra cost. Please keep in touch with Kindred Spirits for more information on this.

Things to do (optional)

  • Metaphysical energy healing with Terry and her horses
  • Archery with horses
  • Jin Shin Jyutsu healing session
  • Reiki attunement for chakra healing
  • Surf lessons
  • Swimming with horses on the beach
  • Equine coaching session

Spa treatments

Ayurvedic massages are available at an additional cost.

What's included

  • All classes with yoga mats and props
  • All classes with horses
  • 10 nights accommodation
  • Shared kitchen for preparing meals
  • Big living room and dining area
  • WiFi
  • Certificate of completion

What's not included

  • Airfare
  • Transportation
  • Meals can be added on as plant-based meals prepared with love by the chefs

How to get there

Recommended Airports

Airport: Limón International Airport Airport transfer available: Limón International Airport (US$ 100 per person) Additional charges may apply. You can request this in the next step.
Airport: Juan Santamaría International Airport Airport transfer available: Juan Santamaría International Airport (US$ 80 per person) Additional charges may apply. You can request this in the next step.

Cancellation Policy

  • A reservation requires a deposit of 15% 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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Arrival: Sunday May 25, 2025
Departure: Wednesday June 4, 2025

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