15 Day 300-Hour Advanced Vinyasa and Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training in the Algarve, Portugal
Yoga Teacher Training in Portugal
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This yoga program is designed for yoga aspirants who have already gone through the 200-hour training and want to advance their yoga teaching skills. This training is very special as you will collaborate with experienced and talented teachers. Combined, the team have many years of teaching experience. So, what are you waiting for? Be a part of this special and advanced yoga teacher journey!
Meet the instructors
Highlights
- Daily advanced yoga practice two times per day
- Evening yoga Nida practice
- Traditional Ashtanga yoga lessons with intermediate series postures
- Learn advanced Vinyasa sequencing and postures
- Daily philosophy classes + meditation and pranayama classes
- Daily breakfast and lunch and light evening meals
- 14 nights' accommodation
- Non-contact: 30 hours online of pre-course reading materials
Skill level
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Styles
Accommodation
Facilities
- Gym
- Spa
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Café
- Concierge desk
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Lobby
- Lounge
- Luggage room / storage
- Multilingual staff
- Picnic area
- Poolside bar
- Restaurant
- Terrace
- Yoga deck
- Yoga shala
- Yoga studio
- Currency exchange
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Internet access
- Ironing / ironing board
- Parking lot
- Wireless internet
- Outdoor shower
Bend it Like Buddha offers two options of apartment-style rooms. The first one is the standard one or two bedrooms near the yoga studio with a shared kitchen, bathroom, and shower. Meanwhile, the second option is a 5-star hotel city view or oceanfront room for an additional fee. Both options are near the yoga studio with Wi-Fi and an air conditioner.
Program
Certification
Students who complete the training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).
Requirements
Students must upload their RYT 200-hour certificate to show they are qualified for this 300-hour advanced training.
Program
You will go deeper into yoga history, philosophy, mudras, learn how to facilitate sound healing and cacao ceremonies, how to facilitate Usui Reiki healing sessions, and learn advanced pranayama. Enjoy breathwork journeys and sound healing journeys in this program.
6 INCREDIBLE BONUSES:
- Ayurveda therapy massage certificate, learn to share 60min therapy session
- Trauma-informed yoga principles
- Nada yoga workshop / how to share sound healing with yoga teachings
- Sound healing facilitator training
- Cacao ceremony facilitator
- Usui Reiki training + certificate
- Yoga Lifestyle Business 12 months post graduation mentoring, 33 LIVE sessions discover yoga teacher entrepreneur best tips from our 10 years of marketing experiences growing a yoga studio and hosting yoga retreats in Taiwan, Ubud, Mysore, Goa and Algarve
- Best tips and recommendations for beginners and seasoned practitioners of Nada Yoga/sound healing and cacao ceremony. Learn How to conduct and hold space during your sound healings and ceremony for your future students.
- Usui Reiki Level 1 training and a certificate
If you have Level 1 or Level 2 already you will receive the next level training, receive new sacred symbols and attunement for the level you are at. Please inquire for more information.
Learn how to facilitate and plan a breathwork journey for groups. Practice advanced pranayama imparted by the "father of modern yoga," Krishnamacharya, a student of BNS Iyengar based in Mysore, India.
Yoga Business Lifestyle coaching. Bringing Your Yoga Vision to Life: Transformative Postgraduation 33 sessions of coaching lasting 12 months; also available for 200-hour graduates. This YTTC bonus mentoring-course accomplishes the Yoga Alliance requirements for annual continuing education hours to maintain Yoga Teacher RYT200 / RYT300 registration.
Postgraduate support, weekly live training, accountability, and implementation Labs to inspire you to take massive action to launch your micro yoga niched brand to attract your dream students!
Sample schedule
- 07:30 - 08:00 Advanced Vinyasa and Ashtanga for primary and intermediate
- 08:00 - 09:00 Break
- 09:00 - 10:00 Advanced pranayama, Ayurveda dosha lifestyle modules
- 10:00 - 11:00 Alternating alignment with a yoga therapy teacher with 25 years of experience and adjustment class with Mysore-style Ashtanga teachers
- 11:00 - 12:00 Mudra, history, and philosophy
- 12:00 - 13:00 Mantras meditation, mindfulness modules
- 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
- 14:30 - 18:30 Teaching advanced Vinyasa sequences and customized flows for your students' needs
- Ayurvedic massage or Usui Reiki
- Followed by daily Restorative yoga or gentle Vinyasa such as chakra Yin yoga in the evening
- 18:30 - 19:30 Yoga Nidra meditation, chakra clearing meditation, and/or Nada sound training
Included excursions
Sunrise Beach Yoga
Mindfulness walks, Breath work, Pranayama on the beach
journaling and self reflection on the gorgeous oceanfront of Algarve
Instructors
L. Farrah Furtado
L. Farrah Furtado (E-RYT 500) began her yoga journey by studying one-on-one meditation in Taiwan at Fo Guan Shan Buddhist monastery for five years with monks. Soon, she was invited to collaborate with the Venerable to design and direct silent retreats and Buddhist courses at the monastery for English-speaking students. Furtado, a Canadian-Portuguese, completed her advanced course of 500-hour Vinyasa yoga teacher training in Goa, India, and studied Pranayama, Philosophy, and Ashtanga Vinyasa in Mysore, India, with Ashtanga master BNS Iyengar consecutively for four years.
Mafalda Rodriguez
Mafalda Rodriguez started practicing yoga about 11 years ago and soon realized how yoga is transforming, how it brings people back to their center and allows them a universal and conscious view of life. Mafalda is a Shaman, gifted healer, breath work facilitator, and a highly experienced sound healer and traditional Kirtan Mantra musician.
Danni Cullen
Danni loves to teach and share. She is passionate about what she does as yoga had such a special effect on her life. It is rare to be in one of her classes and to not burst out in laughter, child-like giggles, or even laughing so hard your crying with stomach pains! Her classes are strong, creative, and super fun. Most importantly, she teaches from the heart. At Bend it like Buddha, Danni teaches Vinyasa, how to theme and sequence classes, kids yoga, Acro yoga, and adjustment-modification classes. She has taught in classes & TTCs in India, Bali, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, and Morocco.
Daniela Luz
Daniela teaches Vinyasa, Yin, pre-natal yoga, and kids yoga at Bend it like Buddha school in Praia da Rocha, Algarve Portugal. Daniela is an International certified mindfulness coach, a healer practitioner, and an experienced meditation and yoga teacher, based in Portugal. From social education and social activism to yoga and meditation, Daniela traveled the world and lived abroad sharing her life mission to empower different communities and unprivileged groups, co-founding and managing social projects in Mozambique, Italy, and Australia.
Berta Couto
Born a Portuguese wanderer, passionate about Nature, graduated in Nursing, since a young age Berta was drawn to the mysteries of the human body, mind and soul. It was in 2008 that she embraced her yoga path. She observed and learned from many teachers and masters of not just Ashtanga, but also Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin Yoga and Ayurveda, becoming a Yoga Teacher and later an Ayurvedic Therapist. Her teaching style is a blend of all the experiences, travelling and her self-practice: it has a traditional strong foundation with a therapeutic approach, working on the release of traumas through the body.
Catarina Ordaz
She is one of a kind, warm, compassionate and has over 20 years of experience as a yoga teacher, specifically in anatomy and therapy yoga. Her strength is in helping people pinpoint their therapeutic yoga practice for specific injuries and health needs. You can ask her about her yogic approach and recommendations for your specific health needs. She is always happy to serve others at the highest level. She has been studying 'The New Approach to Health' and the Theory of Psychotrauma in Identity and would like to share with you these ancient tools.
Johanna Hessling
Joanna is a passionate yoga instructor with over 18 years of experience. She is well-versed in various modalities, including Vinyasa Flow, Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Reiki, Ayurveda, and Mobilization Therapy, which she skillfully blends to create unique and transformative experiences for her students. Johanna’s journey began at a young age with meditation, blossoming into a love for Vinyasa Flow yoga. She holds a 200-hour certification from Laughing Lotus in New York City and has deepened her knowledge with additional trainings in Restorative Yoga and Yoga Nidra.
Macedonia Domingues
Macedonia Domingues has always been very connected to nature and animals. Being in touch with nature always made her feel happy and at peace. She's a Scuba Diving Instructor since 2010 and while working in Santa Maria, Azores she started yoga classes, falling in love with Vinyasa Flow and its movements in sync with the breath. She continued practicing yoga by herself and always felt that this was the path she should follow. She pours her heart into her students and shares what she has learned about life through yoga. She's grateful that she can share yoga and improve people’s lives.
Victoria Machado
Victoria, originally from São Paulo, Brazil has been a passionate yoga practitioner since 2013. Over the years, she has developed a deep love for yoga and its transformative power, believing that it has the potential to positively impact those who embrace the practice. She teaches a variety of yoga styles, including Vinyasa-inspired sequences, Yin, Prenatal yoga, Kids Yoga, and Ashtanga Vinyasa. She draws from her diverse background and experience to create well-rounded and inclusive classes suitable for practitioners of all levels. She sees yoga as a powerful tool for personal growth.
Liling
Liling, born in Austria, has embarked on a transformative journey that has taken her to Portugal, where she has fallen in love with the Algarve—now her second home. With a decade of dedicated yoga practice and a deep spiritual connection nurtured over the past four years, she discovered the true essence of self-love through yoga. Completing her Yoga Teacher Training Certification (YTTC) with *Bend It Like Buddha* was a pivotal moment, opening new pathways to share the heart-centered gift of yoga. She focuses on Vinyasa and Hatha Yoga, seamlessly integrating breath, movement, and mindfulness.
Location
This retreat will take place on Praia da Rocha (beach), Portimao, Portugal.
Location of the yoga venue coordinates 37.118986, -8.544274
Food
During this retreat, you will enjoy delicious breakfast, lunches, dinner, snacks, and drinks. During the program, you will be served with daily vegetarian breakfast, lunch, and evening meals. The food concept is detoxing, organic, healthy, tasty, vegetarian, and organic. Savor juicy local fruit, crunchy organic vegetables, crisp salads, and fragrant herbs while sipping on an energizing juice or sweet, colorful herbal detox teas.
Everything is freshly harvested and lovingly prepared with attention to detail in the on-site kitchen. There are diverse fusion recipes in a peaceful and tranquil setting. Bend it like Buddha Yoga believes that pleasing your palate is fundamental to your experience.
Throughout the day, you can order for an extra fee snacks, vitamins, health-booster juices, smoothies, homemade vegan bakery treats, coffee, and fresh local fruit.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Snacks
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Tea
- Detox juices
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Organic
- Yogic
Things to do (optional)
- Kayaking and grotto tours
- Paddle boarding, surfing lessons on praia da rocha on your rest days
- Spa and aqua circuit
- Beach Thai massage
- Algarve town hopping
- Five-star hotel spas
- Luxurious candle light aqua spa with Turkish bath, cold plunge pools, saunas, water jets
Spa treatments
You will have Reiki attunement, daily massage, Nada yoga, and Ayurvedic massage included in the price, during this program.
What's included
- 14 nights accommodation in newly renovated, spacious, beautiful apartment (5-star hotel, sea view option available, please inquire)
- Classes on adjustments and daily teaching methodology and practice
- Course materials and daily practice journal
- The yoga teacher training manual 1000 Petal Lotus Farrah Furtado
- Daily asana and pranayama practices and learn traditional Sanskrit
- Daily meals
- Evening yoga Nida practice
- Meditation, chakra cleansing, and Reiki sessions
- Yoga philosophy, Ayurveda therapy massage, Thai traditional massage, and mudra classes
- Yoga anatomy, Trauma-Informed yoga, yoga as therapy, and customizing yoga classes for the students' needs
- Traditional Ashtanga yoga lessons, intermediate and primary series
- Certificate of completion OR Eligibility to register with Yoga Alliance upon completion of the course
What's not included
- Airfare
- Excursions
- Extra meals, coffee from the restaurant
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Faro Airport
52 km
Transfer included
Arrival by airplane
Please book your flight to arrive Faro Airport (FAO). Transfer from the FARO airport is included. Bend it like Buddha Yoga can arrange a professional private driver to pick you up at the airport for a 40-minute drive to your hotel.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 19% 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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