15 Day 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Portimão, Algarve, Portugal with Ayurvedic Massage

Certification

Students who complete their training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).

Overview

Each day practice teaching and receive compassionate and constructive feedback, design creative yoga lesson plans, and practice Vinyasa flows or traditional Ashtanga and Yin in the evening or other healing sessions such as a sound healing journey or Kirtan cacao ceremony with 3 amazing musicians sharing traditional Indian Kirtan.

Students receive a certification in Usui Reiki (optional please inquire) and Ayurveda Therapy Massage. Learn how to give 60-90 minute massage therapies to others, learn 45-plus massage techniques, and a bonus of 12 months, 33 live sessions of post-training in how to launch and grow your yoga lifestyle business, and launch your yoga business in the implementation labs.

Students receive access to the Bend it Like Buddha Blueprint, an online library with 150 pieces of content for references such as Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Yin class videos and scripts, audio, PDFs, and eBooks including The Journey Metamorphosis, Find Your Life Purpose by L. Farrah Furtado E RYT 500, an Amazon Bestseller in 14-plus categories. Students receive the physical The Journey, Metamorphosis yoga teacher training book on arrival.

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Why is this yoga journey for you?

Bend it like Buddha YTT 200-hour is a one-of-a-kind, all-inclusive yoga journey that you will not find anywhere in the world. Bend it like Buddha Yoga Algarve School has been facilitating several YTTC journeys each year since 2014.

As soon as you land at Faro airport in Algarve, you will be greeted by your friendly, professional driver to transfer you and your classmates directly to your hotel. Also on departure day 15, your private driver will take you from your hotel to the Faro airport.

You will be nourished each day with an inspiring yoga program and delicious nutritious vegetarian meals. Everything is included and you will not need to budget extra money for expensive transfers or touristy restaurants.

Starting on day 1, you are embodying a yoga teacher and compassionately guided by 8 talented yoga instructors. You will be practicing how to teach, receive insightful feedback, and gain self-confidence in your abilities.

Each day, you will be acquiring valuable teaching skills which will bring out your innate gifts. Consistently graduates have said that after the YTT 200-hour, they come away feeling confident to share Vinyasa yoga classes, meditation, advanced pranayama, and unique practices with others with a renewed vision and inspiration aligned to their soul purpose.

Many graduates start to teach straight away in the training and to their communities and online upon graduation and recoup their initial YTT investment within 3-6 months. This training is not all theory where you sit and listen to an instructor all day long. You will apply what you learn each day, and gain valuable skills in the daily applied and practical teaching practice of meditation, breathwork, pranayama, and yoga.

Consistently their graduates’ feedback is that they feel confident to start teaching to the public and they are completely equipped to launch and grow their self-sustainable yoga business to teach immediately after the training.

Program

This yoga teacher training is a perfect balance between peaceful beachside relaxation and upbeat, lively, and friendly cafes and restaurants of the trendy yet awe-struck nature of the orange cliff and grottoes of Praia da Rocha, Praia Vau, and Praia Alamao beaches and a woodland forest along the sea, all within a short walking distance.

Evening and morning yoga classes, meditation, daily practice teaching, and pranayama are the essential aspects of this training. You will find the 8 presenters and yoga instructors inspiring, knowledgeable, and compassionate, and the newly renovated Bend it Like Buddha Yoga studio with a terrace uplifting and relaxing.

The yoga studio and accommodation are just a 3-minute walk to the gorgeous Praia da Rocha beach, Portimao. A student highlight is sunbathing and dipping into the ocean or swimming pool during break and resting times.

During the training, you will practice sunrise Vinyasa flow yoga or Ashtanga in the morning each day followed by gentle Vinyasa, Yin, or Restorative yoga sessions in the evening. Or practice sunrise beach yoga every other day depending on the weather.

The sessions are usually held in a stunning yoga studio on Praia da Rocha or during Sunrise for yoga on the beach depending on the weather and include pranayama (breathwork), mindful meditation, and yoga Nidra meditation.

You will be enjoying a variety of unique healing activities such as Usui Reiki, Tibetan bowl sound healing, intimacy circle work, emotional releasing breathwork, shadow work sessions, inner child heart healing sessions, Cacao ceremony, live Kirtan / mantras concert with 3 incredible traditional Kirtan musicians, profound yoga Nidra meditation for releasing subconscious self-limiting beliefs, and healing.

Enjoy powerful advanced pranayama sessions, and explore how to customize and teach yoga to all level students. All of the yoga sessions are inspired by the dimension of the Anahata (5D Ascension) the perspective of the heart chakra, empowering, and made with love to ignite your heart’s spark.

Bend it like Buddha offers 140 contact hours and the 40 remaining hours are allotted for pre-course and post-study and reviewing course material during free time, preparing for assignments, and pre-reading recommendations before and during the program start date.

Preparing by home yoga practice before the program is recommended as well as by pre-reading the course material. Students also have an online 200-hour Portal Blue Print with 150-plus content pieces of video, audio, and PDFs for your teaching references and students have access to this forever, even after the training for inspiration when they return.

Together, the 8 teachers of this retreat have 75 years combined experience and their yoga studios are teaching yoga worldwide, and have valuable wisdom to share regarding the yoga business, branding, and social media. You will be inspired by the talented, passionate team, and learn from their wealth of information and decades of experience.

What to expect

• Ancient pure yoga teachings directly from the source Mysore, India Krishnamacharya teachings are known as the Father of Modern Yoga. Receive pure, spiritually based teachings and brought into a contemporary, modern context that makes sense for application to the lifestyles of the modern world
• Becoming a part of the family and feeling like you've known everyone for years
• Complete change in your lifestyle
• Delicious, nutritious daily vegetarian meals during the entire retreat
• Develop human interactions and intimacy, find your soul purpose through discovering your superpowers and field of favor, and build your inner strengths inner intuition, and self-confidence. Build joyful, synchronistic connections and friendship bonds that will last a lifetime!
• Surrounding beaches and the beautiful nature of the awe-inspiring orange sea coastline cliffs, and grottoes. Listen to the sound of owls, singing starlings, and of course the amazing sunsets, sunrises, and millions of stars and moonlight. Here, you will enjoy early beach morning yoga with Sunrise, Stars, and Moon in the same sky!
• Lessons from over 8 experienced teachers (each one has different strengths) who will help you grow in many different ways
• Meet like-minded people from all over the world and build your international yoga contacts
• Post-training support available on the private students/teacher forum and 200 hours Online Blue Print Portal

This is 11-plus years of curation of the best of the best of their teacher training and a library of first-hand teacher training videos, on-site training, audios, and articles collected and curated from ten years of experience leading retreats and teacher training in Taiwan, Goa, Mysore, Bali, and Portugal.

This is a transformational experience that you’ll remember for the rest of your life! The official training starts at 06:30 On the last day, the training ends at about 16:00. There will be a graduation, evening meal, and celebrations. Check-out and departures are the days after graduation.

Program details

For those needing more support after graduating from this YTT 200-hour, Bend it Like Buddha Yoga also offers a bonus post-training 12 months of mentorship, 33 live business yoga consulting post-graduation, and an implementation lab for accountability and taking action on your vision to find your field of favor, yoga micro niche and how to attract your dream students to grow your yoga community upon returning home.

Collapse time and save money from Bend it like Buddha's 11 years of yoga business experience, have access to their marketing team expertise, templates, and worksheets. Meet other like-hearted, supportive, and experienced entrepreneur yogis, and learn directly from the Bend it like Buddha team and their worldwide amazing yogi tribe family.

Invest in your future and most importantly invest, love, and commit to yourself! Join the Bend it like Buddha YTT 200-hour and prepare yourself for a relaxing, yet life-changing premium yoga experience in a magical Algarve that you will not find anywhere in the world!

YTT highlights

• Variety of daily meditations, breathwork journeys and advanced pranayama (powerful breathing techniques)
• Receive a one-of-a-kind, personalized training just for you plus three certificates upon two-week in person completion
• Learn 75+ traditional yoga postures
• Alignment and modification lessons in Mysore, India traditional Ashtanga + vinyasa flow
• Instruction and presentations with 8 incredibly passionate, knowledgeable and inspiring instructors
• Enjoy daily massage during the course and yoga nidra meditation
• Yoga philosophy, yoga history: How to apply 8 limbs of yoga into daily life, learn more about Patanjali yoga, Vedanta, Upanishads
• Study the Patanjali sutras, Buddhist philosophy, Hatha yoga pradipika texts and daily application of yoga teaching methods
• Learn about Ayurveda, nutrition, and vegetarianism
• Modules on applied anatomy in a practical, applied manner with yoga anatomy alignment experts
• Sound healing session with gongs, Tibetan singing bowls, crystals, angel cards and powerful kirtan
• Cacao ceremony with talented local live musicians and ecstatic dance celebrations
• Reiki attunement session (option for Usui Reiki 1st, 2nd, or 3rd degree certification please ask you for info well in advance if interested)
• In-depth learning about yogic lifestyle
• Practice teaching vinyasa, yoga everyday in a supporting and inspiring environment
• Business yoga training through implementation labs / action steps to launch your yoga business post graduation
• Ayurveda massage training, learn 45+ techniques to share 60–90 minute massage session for clients, friends

YTT 200-hour schedule (subject to small changes)

• 07:30 - 09:30 Alternating Vinyasa, Ashtanga Vinyasa primary or intermediate series and pranayama
• 09:30 - 10:00 Breakfast
• 10:00 - 11:00 Philosophy, history or, alignment practice and hands on adjustments
• 11:00 - 12:30 Meditation, nidra and mindfulness practice, dynamic meditation or somatic breathwork journey
• 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break
• 13:30 - 15:00 Teaching vinyasa practice, trauma informed principles or sound healing with Sha-woman
• 15:00 - 16:00 Fusion Vinyasa, Yin, subtle-energetics increasing third eye intuition practices
• 16:00 - 17:00 Ayurveda massage therapy techniques and practice or cacao ceremony with intimacy work / kirtan circle or self-love / inner child journey
• 17:00 - 19:00 Special topics: yoga Nidra, how to facilitate sound sessions, live musicians mantra circle, intimacy - heart connection sessions or shadow work, or how to facilitate sound healing and sacred ceremonies followed by light evening meal and resting

The training will start on the day of arrival. The training will end officially the day before departure at 16:00. Students are expected to check out from the hotel at 11:00. The venue is a short car ride to Lagos and Monchique etc. to explore on days off.