300-Hour Hybrid: 4 Day In-Person Yoga Teacher Training in Algarve, Portugal and Self-Paced Online
Hybrid Yoga Teacher Training
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This 4-day in-person and online yoga program is designed for yoga aspirants who want to advance their yoga teaching skills to be self-sustaining and grow as a yoga teacher entrepreneur. The online training should be completed prior to in-person but can be done within one year.
Meet the instructors
Highlights
- 4 days of residential yoga teacher training in Portugal
- Online self-paced, self-study can be completed in 30 days to 1 year
- 30 hours of on-site training, the rest is online
- Pranayama, meditation, chakra cleansing, and Reiki sessions
- Yoga philosophy, Ayurveda therapy massage, and mudra classes
- 3 nights on-site training accommodation
- 3 vegetarian meals during residential training
- Eligible to register with Yoga Alliance upon completion
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Types
4 days with instruction in English
Accommodation
For the in-person part of the training, Bend it Like Buddha has two options for apartment-style rooms. The first one is standard shared near the yoga studio with a shared kitchen, bathroom, and shower. Both options are within a short walk to our expanded newly renovated vegetarian cafe, newly renovated yoga studio with Wi-Fi and air-conditioners.
Program
Certification
Upon successful completion, you will receive an accredited Yoga Alliance RYT 300-Hour certificate.
How the training works
229 pre-recorded video lessons, such as Ashtanga and Vinyasa classes. Watch self-paced lessons, complete the course assignments and own the content for up to 12 months. 30 hours on-site, the remaining self-paced online study and practice. Assignments are done in person in Portugal. Online live classes are done in Zoom.
Online sessions are self-paced. If you have a full day at home, following this schedule as per the video lessons is recommended.
- 07:00 Alternate days between Vinyasa and Ashtanga
- 08:00 Pranayama
- 09:00 Meditation
- 11:00 Philosophy
- 12:00 Anatomy
- 13:00 Alignment
- 14:00 Breathwork
- 16:00 Teaching assignments / practice teaching Vinyasa
- 17:00 Ayurveda massage
Daily schedule for residential training
- 07:30 - 08:30 Advanced Vinyasa and Ashtanga for primary and intermediate, breakfast
- 09:00 - 10:00 Advanced pranayama, Ayurveda dosha lifestyle modules
- 10:00 - 11:00 Alternating alignment with a yoga therapy teacher with adjustment class with Mysore-style Ashtanga teachers
- 11:00 - 12:00 History, and philosophy
- 12:00 - 13:00 Mantras meditation, mindfulness modules
- 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
- 14:30 - 18:30 Teaching Vinyasa sequences and customized flows for your student's needs, Ayurvedic, or Usui Reiki
- Restorative yoga or gentle Vinyasa such as chakra Yin yoga
- 18:30 - 19:30 Yoga Nidra meditation, chakra clearing meditation, and Nada sound yoga
You will go deeper into valuable facilitation skills for groups, yoga history, and philosophy and learn how to facilitate sound healing, breathwork, and cacao ceremonies. How to facilitate Usui Reiki healing sessions and learn advanced pranayama. Enjoy breathwork journeys and sound healing journeys in this program.
This training is very special, as Bend It Like Buddha Yoga will collaborate with 8 experienced and talented teachers. Combined, the team has over 75 years of teaching experience.
So, what are you waiting for? Join the Bend It Like Buddha yoga family of passionate and driven yoga teacher entrepreneurs and go all in for this unique advanced yoga teacher journey.
Activities
- Daily advanced yoga practice twice per day or healing practice such as a Cacao ceremony
- Traditional Ashtanga yoga lessons with intermediate series postures
- Advanced Vinyasa sequencing and postures
- Advanced yoga teacher training course Yoga Alliance 300-hour certificate
- Daily philosophy classes, meditation, and advanced pranayama classes
- Sound journey, Cacao ceremony, alignment, anatomy, daily hands-on adjustment practice
- Learn and practice how to teach advanced classes each day
Incredible gift bonuses
- Ayurveda therapy massage: learn how to share a scalp and face Ayurveda massage session for others
- Trauma-informed yoga principles
- Nada yoga / sound healing training and Cacao ceremony facilitator: Discover the best tips for beginners and seasoned practitioners of Nada yoga or sound healing and cacao ceremony, and learn how to conduct and hold space during your sound healings and ceremony for your future students
- Usui Reiki: If you have level one or two already, you will receive the next sacred symbols, and attunement for the level you are at. Please inquire well in advance for availability
- Learn how to facilitate and plan a breathwork journey for groups and practice advanced pranayama imparted by the Father of Modern Yoga, Krishnamacharya, a student of BNS Iyengar based in Mysore, India
- Yoga lifestyle business course / post-graduation. Bringing your yoga vision to life: transformative post-graduation online coaching sessions. Duration 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 RYT 200-hour and RYT300-hour registration
The world is in great need of incredible yoga teachers now more than ever, and it is the school's purpose to teach the practice for sharing it with as many people as possible to awaken, heal, and move people into their soul purpose as humanity enters into the most pivotal spiritual transition on Earth in human history.
Learning and successfully implementing the innovative and nuanced online challenge framework that Bend it like Buddha Yoga Algarve has learned over 14 years of experience directing yoga retreats and YTTCs worldwide. This business training mentorship is a must for all yoga teachers and entrepreneurs to survive and thrive in today's competitive yoga industry and a noisy world full of distractions.
Together as a yoga family, in friendships, also fun, and in community compassionate support, you will thrive as we create a positive ripple effect on the planet. Through sharing yoga, you are all sowing fertile seeds of hope, good health, joy, and inner peace to a world in desperate need of hope and healing.
Experience soul growth and participate in a yoga movement that is happening within the Bend It Like Buddha Yoga Algarve community to receive customized training and compassionate support while assisting as many people as possible through the profound, powerful, and ancient practices of yoga, meditation, and pranayama.
Included excursions
- Beach sunset yoga
- Mindful nature walks, breathwork, pranayama on the beach
- Journaling and self reflection prompts
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.
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.
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
Yoga Alliance RYT 300-hour hybrid online and in-person training on gorgeous coastline of Portugal.
Bend It Like Buddha is located in Portimao, Portugal (GMT+1), and they will live stream sessions based on BST (GMT+1) during Summer and GMT.
The onsite training will take place on Praia da Rocha (beach), Portimao, Portugal.
Distances
- Faro Airport (FAO) - 40 minutes drive
Food
During the 3 nights onsite training, you will enjoy delicious, organic breakfast, lunch, light evening meal, snacks, and drinks every day included in the price.
The food concept is detoxing, 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.
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 extra-fee snacks, coffee, lattes, vitamins drinks such as turmeric / ginger shots from the juice bar, health-booster juices, smoothies, homemade vegan bakery treats, espresso, golden turmeric nut milk, and delicious, fresh local fruit.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Tea
- Detox juices
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
Things to do (optional)
During in-person training, you can experience extra activities in your free time.
- Algarve town hopping
- Beach Thai massage
- Five-star hotel spas
- Kayaking and grotto tours
- Luxurious candlelight Aqua Spa with Turkish bath, cold plunge pools, saunas, and water jets
- Paddle boarding, surfing lessons
- Spa and aqua circuit
Spa treatments
For 2 week full trainees, you will have many unique in-person experiences such as: Usui Reiki Level 1, 2 or 3rd degree certificate, Reiki attunement, Cacao ceremony, Kirtan concert, Nada yoga, and daily Ayurvedic massage or sound healing included in the price during the in-person 14 nights training.
What's included
- 30 days to 1 year of online yoga teacher training
- 3 nights accommodation for the residential yoga teacher training
- Certificate of completion
- 3 nights in-person training accommodation
- Daily breakfast and lunch, dinner tea, snacks, detox juices, organic plant based smoothies during in-person training
- Classes on adjustments and teaching methodology
- Course materials and daily practice teaching, journaling
- Daily asana and pranayama practices and learning traditional Sanskrit
- yoga Nida practice
- Meditation, chakra cleansing, and Reiki sessions
- Yoga philosophy, Ayurveda therapy massage, cacau ceremony, mantra kirtan circle and mudra
- Yoga anatomy, trauma-informed yoga, yoga as therapy, and customized yoga classes for your needs
- Traditional Ashtanga yoga lessons
What's not included
- Airport transfers
- Airfare for on-site training
- Excursions for on-site training
- Extra meals, coffee and snacks from our vegetarian restaurant
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Transfer not provided
Faro Airport
52 km away from your destination
GPS
37.118986, -8.544274
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 14% 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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