200 hr Mystical Yoga Teacher Training

About the Retreat

Each training holds unique energy, created from like minded souls who join from all over the world. To guide the process of personal transformation we draw on the ancient wisdom of the East as well as on the Shamanic Medicine Wheel of Peru.

Our 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training courses are arranged in four cycles, following the four cardinal directions, asking the guardian spirits to guide a cycle of release, understanding, growth and empowerment. Together we create a space that reveals our wisdom within and accelerates the realization of our life purpose.

Mystical Yoga, or yoga of spiritual practice, reaches deep into the roots of an ancient way of life. The study of this knowledge calls us to reveal the yoga, the union, between ourselves and everything around us.

Our 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training embodies this approach, opening us up to the wisdom of the teacher that is already within each of us. In 21 days, we immerse ourselves in experience — we dance, we chant, we sing. We find community with like-minded people and embrace the stillness within ourselves. We call on our intuition for the answers and we speak from spirit to spirit. We delve deep into the experience, free from the skins of our past, from unnecessary distractions to allow the authentic connection with ourselves to emerge.

Through the journey of the 200 Hour YTT, students have the opportunity to step into their power as yoga teachers, to rediscover facets of their being and share a deeper knowledge of the mystical dimensions from where we all came and to which we will all return.

Through the study of ancient wisdom and practice of daily mystical yoga, we begin to reveal a greater sense of beauty, love, and freedom. We discover yoga as a toolkit which we can apply to bring us into present awareness of the true, pure essence of life.

Choosing to endeavor on the path of a yoga teacher is a noble pursuit of committing to oneself, to embodying a more aligned way of life. This journey will ask for self-reflection, honesty, acceptance, growth, and discipline. It is a full immersion into the world of yoga which has the power to bring life altering alignments.

Our 200 hour Mystical Hatha / Vinyasa Immersion Yoga Teacher Training is registered with Yoga Alliance USA and Yoga alliance International and has been for over a decade. This 200 hour yoga teacher training is the opportunity for yoga practitioners and aspiring teachers who are passionate about expanding their knowledge and experience of yoga to dive deep into a community of like minded individuals and be guided through the application of ancient wisdoms to explore the knowing of the true self.

Students who complete this training will receive a 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certificate that is internationally recognised. There is no requirement to go on and teach yoga after this training. Many of our students also take this training for their own personal practice and healing!

We ask for dedication, commitment, and surrender, as well as full immersion in our spiritual community for the duration of the training. In our experience, this commitment and immersion makes the work as impactful and powerful as possible.

We ask students to come with an open heart and mind, ready to receive and learn. We ask participants to embrace all aspects of the yogic lifestyle, such as observing a vegetarian diet, living free from the distractions of other substances (including alcohol and caffeine) and moving away from technology and unnecessary communication with the external world.

We typically welcome up to 18 students which we have felt keeps a small and sacred container where everyone feels held and inspired as a member of our loving community throughout our 3 weeks together. Occasionally our courses are larger than 18, and in that case, we would send more instructors so that the teacher to student ratio is still of maximum benefit.

Each day carries an intention, a spiritual lesson, that we explore throughout the day. We begin each morning with sunrise meditation, followed by a 90-minute asana and pranayama practice and nourishing yogic breakfast. The days are spent learning yogic theories and healing practices through workshops, classes and group discussions.

During this time we discuss the fundamentals of yogic living, including yogic diet, anatomy, meditation, cleansing practices, pranayama, Ayurveda and the ancient wisdom of the Yoga Sutras. Our 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training also includes other methods of healing, calling on not just the physical and mental elements but also the more subtle forms of healing work such as earth medicines, energy healing and shamanic journeying.

We share the Art of Teaching and Art of Touch, during which students will learn to teach two asana sequences, the Mystical Hatha Flow, a slow, meditative, Sivananda-based practice, and the Mystical Vinyasa Flow, a more intense, breath-synchronized, fluid flow. Students will explore proper asana alignment and adjustment of poses in depth as well as the key to intelligent sequencing. This forms the solid foundation upon which students can step into their unique teaching ability as a teacher. Each evening we come together with Satsang, an evening gathering, which may be meditation, kirtan chanting or a sacred ceremony.

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Schedule

Our training programs are taught in English.

From your unique School Yoga Institute Immersion Program you will experience:

• Full spiritual Immersion
• In-Depth Meditation Techniques and Practice
• Experience of Different Pranayamas Techniques
• Daily Asana Practice
• Yoga Philosophy
• Art of Teaching
• Art of Touch
• Ayurveda
• Yoga Anatomy & Physiology
• Native American Shamanic Medicine Wheel
• Kriya Yogic Cleansing
• Kirtan Bhajan Chanting
• Energetic Healing Practices
• Cacao & Fire Ceremonies
• Chakras & Energy Work
• Communal & Sustainable Living
• Ethics for Yoga Teachers
• Tools for developing the business of yoga
• Life-long Friendships
• Full spiritual Immersion

Schedules will vary from location to location, but typically include the following:

• 6:00a – 8:30a– Guided meditation / Pranayama / Asana
• 8:30a – 10:00a– Breakfast and Self Sadhana
• 10:00a – 11:00a– Spiritual lesson/Intention of the day
• 11:00a – 12:00p– Yoga Sutras/Yoga Anatomy
• 12:00p – 1:00p– Special Topics
• 1:00p – 3:00p– Lunch
• 3:00p – 6:00p– Art of Teaching and Art of Touch
• 6:00p – 7:00p– Dinner and Self Sadhana
• 7:00p – 8:00p– Satsang (Sacred Circle)

About the Teachers

Vanessa

Vanessa has been practicing Yoga for the past 12 years, after her father introduced her to his Kundalini classes in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In October 2012 she decided to become a Yoga Teacher and enrolled in an RYT 200 Yoga Alliance course with Anamaya in Costa Rica, under the supervision of Paula Tursi from Reflections Yoga in New York City. On her return to her home town of El Paso she worked as an instructor at Casa de Yoga for 18 months before moving to London in the summer of 2014 and completing her RYPT pre-and postnatal training with Yoga London. After moving to Berlin in April 2016 she has worked as an English language Vinyasa and Yin instructor at Yoga & More, Aspria and Lokahi Loft. She completed her 500 hour teacher training with School Yoga Institute (Oregon) in her beloved Bali in February 2019. Her love of the sun and surfing which stems from her student days in San Diego and living in Bali prompted her to organize her first retreat (“In Your Element”) through her company, Desert Rose Yoga, in Columbeira, Portugal in May 2019.

Annika

Annika is playful, joyous, and vibrant. She is a student, teacher, athlete, traveler, sun lover, moon devotee, language enthusiast, and friend. Annika is a grounded and devoted educator with a knack for seeing her students wholly and celebrating their unique gifts. Annika stumbled into her committed practice in 2016 after finishing a competitive field hockey career looking for physical healing and a new way to move her body. The mat provided Annika with a space to restore many things – especially her physical body and her relationship with herself. In 2019, she completed her 200hr at her local studio and immediately went on co-found an online yoga community called Unity Yoga. Unity Yoga was co-created with her 60 year old better half and fellow YTT graduate to make yoga accessible for all bodies, all ages, and all experience levels. Beyond Yinyasa and Hatha flows, Annika teaches Yin Yoga and bodyweight and weighted circuit classes. She completed her 300hr with Indra Yoga Institute with special focus in Ayurveda and Trauma Informed teaching. Annika’s classes aim to connect the body and mind while providing a space to practice calmness in sensation and grounding in movement. She specializes in making yoga accessible for all and inspires the love of props and modifications in her classes. Many years ago, Annika followed her heart’s calling to the Rocky Mountains of the American West after growing up and going to college in New England. She lived in Boulder, Colorado for many years where she taught Kindergarten and finished her Master’s in Education and Human Development. Her thesis was on the Power of Play in classrooms and this follows her into all professional avenues! She is a passionate hiker, bikepacker, baker and reader and spends any free moment she has on a trail, in a hammock, or on a gravel road. In July of 2021, she left the classroom and the comforts of a stable job/home/routine and followed her dreams to speak spanish, learn how to surf, and to deepen her yoga practice. She has been nomadic ever since! During her travels, Annika has worn many hats: nanny, vegan-chef, receptionist, international student trip leader, river-side yoga teacher on whitewater rafting trips, substitute school teacher, yoga & mindfulness curriculum writer for middle schoolers and education guide. Annika is currently the Program Director and Yoga+Mindfulness Instructor for DiscoverTerm – five week alternative semester programs for middle school students focusing on skiing in Colorado and surfing in Costa Rica focusing on skiing and surfing.