Sacred Path: 11-Day Yoga and Ayurveda Training for Healing, Alignment and Purpose in Peru
Yoga Teacher Training in Peru
This 100-hour program is rooted in traditional wisdom and practical skills. You will explore Ayurveda foundations, Therapeutic yoga techniques, Ayurvedic therapies, Dinacharya, diet & digestion, anatomy & subtle body of Ayurveda and yoga, emotional healing & inner work, spiritual foundation, as well and teaching & practice your therapist skill.
Instructions will be offered in English and / or Spanish.
Meet the instructors
Highlights
- Certificate of completion
- Learn in a peaceful mountain ashram surrounded by nature
- Receive guidance from experienced teachers rooted in tradition
- 10 nights accommodation
- Enjoy organic, sattvic meals prepared with care and local ingredients
- Take time for personal reflection, nature walks, and sacred site visits
- Experience a deep reset - physically, emotionally, and spiritually
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Types
10 days with instruction in English
Accommodation
Facilities
- Shopping
- Temazcal
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Fireplace
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Lobby
- Lounge
- Meditation garden
- Multilingual staff
- Picnic area
- Restaurant
- Smoke-free property
- Special menu request
- Terrace
- Yoga deck
- Yoga shala
- Yoga studio
- Free parking
- Internet access
- Laundry
- Library
- Medical assistance
- Meeting room
- Parking lot
- Tour assistance
- Wedding
Bhakti Yoga School invites you to stay in their Bhakti yoga ashram in the Sacred Valley of Cusco, Peru during the program to receive the full experience of an Ayurvedic retreat in nature.
The artistically designed adobe rooms await you, all with beautiful views of the Incan mountains and Sacred Vilcamayu River.
Program
Certifications
The course/hours count as Continuing Education hours for Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®) only.
Delve into India's ancient science of health. Learn how to be in "swasta" - situated in harmony with your being, as well as how to connect with yourself, others, and Mother Nature, and how to offer individualized sessions.
What is the inspiration for this course?
Ayurveda aims for every human being to be in “swasta” -situated in the self (pakriti) for complete balance. You will learn to use Ayurvedic expertise to help you retain and regain this balance. Through this course, your lifestyle will change and you will learn to lead a life in harmony.
After you have found your way of living that is well-aligned, seeing how simple it is, you will be inspired to share those tools with others. In this course, the two ancient sister sciences of yoga and Ayurveda will come together to give students the answers. Health, peace, and tranquility will be possible.
- 11 days and 100 hours - Theoretical and practical classes, experiential cooking classes, and therapies
- Course content - A complete study manual, recipes, homework, and weekly practices for integration
Course themes
- The fundamentals of Ayurveda (the meaning, the history, sattvic food, dosha, vrikriti, the flavors)
- How to recognize the imbalances of each dosha
- Learn to recognize the vrikritis (imbalances) through pulse reading
- How to recommend the daily routine "dinacharia" for each dosha and to heal your imbalance
- Learn to recognize vrikritis (imbalances) through reading the tongue
- Recommendations of life to balance your vikriti or dosha
- Learn to do an Ayurvedic detox from three to 21 days
- Specific pranayamas for each dosha / vikriti
- Specific meditation for each dosha / vikriti
- Specific mantras for each dosha / vikritis of Ashtanga yoga
- Yoga for each dosha / vikriti
- Sequences of marma point therapy (energy points) to remove pain and discomfort in the body
- Abhyanga complete body sequence (therapeutic oil massage) - shirodhara - drip oil on the forehead for 30 minutes
- Practice scenarios and recommendations
- Client intake forms
- Methodology of the Ayurveda therapist
- The details of how to receive clients
- Study material in PDF format, for each subject, to pass a detailed and individual plan to your clients.
In the kitchen, you will learn
- Recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, salads, desserts
- Dairy products like cheese and yogurt
- How to prepare milk and dairy products so they are digestible from ahimsa cows)
- Sauces and masalas (mixtures of specific species for the doshas
- Food combinations
- Kitchen implements and techniques
Schedule
- 07:30 Meditation / pranayama and kirtan musical meditation
- 08:30 - 09:30 Breakfast
- 09:30 - 11:00 Philosophy and theory of Ayurveda
- 11:00 - 12:15 Practical practice in the kitchen of the therapeutic modalities
- 12:15 - 13:30 Ayurvedic yoga practice
- 13:30 - 15:00 Lunch and rest
- 15:00 - 16:30 Group dynamic activities and Ayurveda theory
- 16:30 - 17:30 Practical therapies
- 17:30 - 18:30 Integration time
- 18:30 Evening Bhakti yoga meditation in the temple (optional)
- 19:00 Dinner
- Evening activities, healing or sound meditation, ceremonies, or rest
Included excursions
- Morning hike with walking meditation and mountaintop pranayama
- Visit the sacred mountains and Inca ruins
- Cacao and Roses heart-opening ceremony
Instructors
Shyam Vallabhi
Shyam Vallabhi is an international yoga teacher and Ayurveda therapist with over 25 years of experience. She integrates yoga, Ayurveda, and therapeutic practices to support healing and transformation, traveling yearly to India to continue her studies and guide students into the roots of the tradition. With a background in anthropology and human and environmental work, her teaching bridges tradition with real-life integration. She has been featured at Bali Spirit Festival, Cali Yoga Fest, Ecuador Yoga Festival, and Peru Yoga Festival.
Chaitanya Nitai Das
Chaitanya is the Director of the Bhakti Yoga School with principal ashrams in Cusco and Colombia. Originally from Peru, Chaitanya has lived in ashrams and monasteries in South America, USA, and India, studying and teaching yoga, Vedic astrology, and yoga philosophy for over 35 years. A teacher’s teacher, he has trained and guided over 2,000 students with many of them opening their own communities and schools around the world. He was initiated into the Vedic culture by his spiritual teacher S. Atulananda A. Through his presence, he creates a grounded and supportive space of transformation.
Location
The ashram is located 45 minutes from Cusco and 25 minutes from Pisac in the beautiful Sacred Valley of the Incas. During your 100-hour training and retreat, you will give yourself the gift of harmonizing with your innermost essence, other beings, and the world that surrounds you.
The eco-yoga ashram is built out of ecological yet artistic structures to help participants truly live the day-to-day yogic lifestyle of “simple living, higher thinking.” You’ll have the opportunity to retreat and connect with the sacred energy of the Incan mountains and rivers as you wake every morning to meditate and breathe in some of Mother Nature’s purest energy!
Food
You will be served with three gourmet vegetarian meals. Most of the food will come from the organic garden or from neighbors. Your Ayurveda experience includes all delicious vegetarian meals, prasadam, and sattvic (with spice mixes for health, cold pressed oils or ghee, and no onion or garlic) as well as farm-to-table organic ingredients based on Ayurvedic principles.
All meals and housing is included during the teacher training retreat, with the exceptions of Saturdays and Sundays. These “free” days are moments to relax and integrate the teachings. Meals will not be provided, but there is a kitchen available for cooking.
The training is also located only 20 minutes from Pisac in local transportation, and 40 minutes from Cusco, where there are lots of amazing vegetarian and vegan restaurants and well as Incan Ruins and other mystical places to explore.
The following meals are included:
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Lacto-ovo Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten Free
- Organic
- Lactose Free
- Whole food
- Yogic
- Other dietary requirements on request
- Ayurvedic
Things to do (optional)
Self-love treatments
- Thai massage
- Vedic astrology session
- Ayurvedic consultation
- Yoga therapy session
- Human design reading
Other extra activities
- Travel to Machu Picchu
- Visit other incredible Incan ruins
- Hiking
- A day or two in the cultural city of Cusco
- Visit local colorful indigenous artisan markets
What's included
- Certificate of completion
- The full curriculum
- All daily excursions, hikes, ceremonies, and group dynamic activities as part of the course
- A life-changing, life-enhancing, life-celebrating, experience!
- 10 nights accommodation
- 3 gourmet organic farm-to-table meals a day
What's not included
- Flights
- Transfer to / from the airport (25 USD)
- Meals on Saturday and Sunday (kitchen is available)
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Transfer available for additional US$ 25 per person
Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport
2 km away from your destination
Arrival by airplane
Please book your flight to arrive at Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (CUZ). Transfer from and to the airport is not included, but it is available for an additional cost of 25 USD. Upon your reservation, you will be provided with detailed arrival instructions and help you book a taxi if necessary.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 25% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.
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