26 Day 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training in Malpais, Costa Rica
Advanced Yoga Teacher Training Costa Rica
The Sacred Paths Yoga 26-day Advanced 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training Costa Rica program blends traditional yogic teachings and spirituality with earth medicine to provide a holistic, synergistic, and applicable approach to living yoga while gaining advanced skills to incorporate into your teaching. This program is designed for those souls who have completed 200-hour yoga teacher training and are interested in advancing their skill set and deepening their personal connection to this practice.
Meet the instructors
Highlights
- Certificate of completion
- Morning meditation, pranayama, and asana practice
- Daily intention and spiritual lesson
- Art of teaching, alignment, and advanced assists
- Yoga sutras and ancient texts, in-depth yoga anatomy
- Sacred Circle and Conscious Community
- Daily vegetarian meals
- 25 nights accommodation
Skill level
- Advanced
Types
22 days with instruction in English
Average daily hours of activity: 10
Accommodation
Facilities
- Horse riding
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Garden
- Yoga shala
- Free Wi-Fi
- Parking lot
- Tour assistance
- Wedding
The Indigo Yoga Resort
The Indigo Yoga Resort is a boutique hotel in Malpais catering to yoga, surfing, and healthy living. It is just steps away from the Pacific Ocean and provides everything one needs in seeking relaxation and comfort. There is surfing and beach time built into the schedule, and Sacred Paths Yoga will organize a daily shuttle to the surf breaks. Located on the tip of the Nicoya Peninsula, the Malpais and Santa Teresa surfing zones are known for their year-round, consistent waves. The average swell runs in the 3-5 foot range, breaking over beautiful sand beaches.
Playa Carmen, two kilometers from Indigo Yoga Resort, will be your most common surf spot. Depending on participant needs and abilities, you will also have opportunities to go to the surf breaks at Banana Beach, Santa Teresa, and Playa Hermosa. There is also an opportunity to experience stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) right in Malpais.
The color indigo represents the highest vibration. Your experience at Indigo Yoga Resort will be one of soul surfing and living in your highest sense of self. Indigo offers contemporary tropical accommodations while embracing the traditional Costa Rican ambiance and culture.
Indigo is nestled in a lush green setting with an abundance of beautiful tropical flowers, trees, and native wildlife. You will enjoy watching the Howler and Capuchin monkeys hang in the trees, as well as a large variety of tropical birds. Indigo is situated in a biodiversity hotspot, perfect for the nature enthusiast.
Rooms
All of the rooms include air conditioners, ceiling fans, private bathrooms with hot water and open-sky showers, hammocks, and a room safe box.
Program
About the Teacher Training Course
The Sacred Paths Yoga 300-hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training program blends traditional yogic teachings and spirituality with earth medicine to provide a holistic, synergistic, and applicable approach to living yoga while gaining advanced skills to incorporate into your teaching. This program is designed for those souls with an RYT200 who are interested in advancing their skill set and deepening their personal connection to this practice.
Their 300-hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training offers an opportunity for self-growth, personal development, and transformation while providing more tools to expand your teaching and empower your leadership. You will explore yoga philosophy in depth, functional anatomy, alignment, sequencing, advanced assists, Ayurveda, Shamanism, Reiki, ceremony, healing arts, and more while embarking upon a deep soul journey. The experience will be richly informative, empowering, and inspiring.
Awaken to your true potential as a healer, space holder, and yoga teacher.
What to Expect
Each training is a uniquely wonderful experience, dependent upon the energy, interests, and experience of the group. The Sacred Paths Yoga Advanced 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training is guided by SPY founders Darin Lehman and Lacey Hickox, along with Collyn (Anatomy) and Trudy Collings (Ayurveda). You can trust that this course will be guided by the experience, compassion, and wisdom that these three core faculty members bring to SPY.
They have many years of experience facilitating YTTs and informing their teachings from a diverse range of backgrounds, experiences, and direct connections. It is their highest honor and joy to be living this practice and to share the wisdom of yoga with others. They intend to share the curriculum and a deep soul journey in which to cultivate individual and group growth.
5 Elements, 5 Cycles
This 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training in Costa Rica is a 26-day journey divided into five cycles of 4 days with a day off in between each. Throughout each cycle, you will use one of the five elements, Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Ether, as guidance and as the foundation of your experience for lessons, insights, ceremony, and healing. Each cycle, you go deeper into your journey of learning and revealing with this potent Earth Medicine.
You begin each day with an intention, Sankalpa, which you will weave throughout the day’s teachings and live within your own personal practice. You begin each morning in a beautiful location, connecting with nature and yourselves through sunrise meditation, pranayama, and asana practice. This is followed by a yogic breakfast, nourishing your bodies and spirits with wholesome organic vegetarian food.
The experience of the day is one of learning and living yogic theory and healing practices through interactive workshops, classes, and dynamic group discussions. In the morning classes, you explore the fundamentals of yogic living, coursework for inner transformation and growth, functional anatomy, meditation techniques, advanced pranayama practices, deeper lessons on Ayurveda, and the ancient wisdom of yoga philosophy with the Yoga Sutras through engaging, comprehensive lectures and discussion.
In the afternoon classes, you share workshops on Yoga Therapeutics, the Art of Teaching, Sequencing, Advanced Asanas, Assists, and Alignment. Students will develop tools to find their own authentic voice as teachers and to empower their leadership. Students will also experience and learn to guide ceremonies, shamanic drum journeys, kirtan, sound healing, and more!
Each evening you close with Satsang, your sacred community gathering, which may be meditation, kirtan, chanting, sacred ceremony, or a sharing circle to connect and release the day’s challenges, triumphs, insights, and joys. The day flows within a safe container, held and guided by experienced space holders in an inspiring location.
Core Curriculum
With experienced facilitators and an integrative approach, this training is designed to deepen your personal experience and knowledge of yoga and to expand your spiritual journey. Sacred Paths Yoga Advanced 300-hour Teacher Training Program guides students to become empowered leaders and to find their own voice as teachers.
You will have the opportunity to dive back into the teachings you received during your 200-hour yoga teacher training with a deeper perspective, as well as advance your teaching skills, philosophy understanding, and anatomy knowledge, and learn advanced assists and therapeutics while embodying yoga as a lifestyle and holistic healing practice.
You will have the opportunity to learn and practice assisting, holding sacred space, designing sequences, guiding ceremonies, sharing sound healing and shamanic journeys, designing workshops, and much more!
During the training, you will:
- Be guided by experienced, talented, knowledgeable, and dedicated facilitators
- Grow, expand, and empower your teachings
- Practice meditation, mantra, pranayama, and asana daily
- Explore Indigenous Philosophy, Earth Medicine, and the Art of Ceremony
- Experience and learn to guide sacred rituals such as Full and New Moon Ceremonies, Fire Ceremony, Water Blessing Ceremony, Earth Gratitude Ceremony, Puja (offering), Cacao Ceremony, and more
- Study the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and Ancient Texts in depth
- Deepen your understanding of functional Yoga Anatomy and Yoga Therapeutics
- Explore subtle anatomy through the Chakras, Bandhas, Vayus, and Koshas
- Learn advanced pranayama techniques
- Refine your sequencing and theme-weaving skills
- Incorporate Ayurveda into your lifestyle
- Live with Daily Intentions (Sankalpa) to deepen your personal development
- Learn the Art of Teaching, Alignment, and Advanced Assists
- Be nourished by delicious Vegetarian meals
- Experience Sacred Circle and conscious community
- Practice kirtan, medicine songs, and sound healing
- Explore Reiki, Chi Gong, Shamanic Journey, and healing arts
- Find your authentic voice as a yoga teacher
- Learn the Art of Conscious Business and explore your vision for bringing this practice into your community
Prerequisites
This 300-hour training is open to practitioners and teachers who have completed the Sacred Paths Yoga 200-hour YTT or another 200-hour YTT with a Yoga Alliance-affiliated school.
For those souls with a long-standing practice of yoga and / or healing arts who do not yet have an RYT 200 certification and are interested in joining, please send an inquiry so that the Sacred Paths Yoga team may review your expectations, intentions, and qualifications.
Sacred Paths Yoga Advanced 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training builds upon their 200-hour curriculum, as well as focuses on the expansion of your spiritual journey. Personal spiritual development is a key component in stepping into your calling as an inspiring and intuitive guide. This course is developed for yoga teachers and practitioners who have the intention to add depth to their practice and teachings and to truly embody this practice as a yogi and healer.
Sacred Paths Yoga invites you to set an intention, with an open heart and mind, to fully commit to and embrace the yogic lifestyle during your training and beyond, to let go of expectations, and to fully surrender to the experience.
Reading List:
1. Required Reading for the Course
- Sacred Paths Yoga 300hr Teacher Training Manual by Dedicated Yogi’s
- Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, translated by Dennis Hill or any other author
2. Suggested Pre-course Reading
- Teaching Yoga by Mark Stephens
- Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss
- Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
- Light on Yoga by BKS Iyengar
3. General Reading Recommendations
- Light on Life by BKS Iyengar
- The Four Insights: Wisdom, Power, and Grace of the Earthkeepers by Alberto Villoldo
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Typical Daily Schedule
- 06:00 - 09:00 Meditation, pranayama, asana
- 09:00 - 10:00 Breakfast
- 10:00 - 11:00 Spiritual Lesson, Ancient Wisdom
- 11:00 - 12:00 Yoga Philosophy, Yoga Anatomy
- 12:00 - 13:00 Special Topic
- 13:00 - 15:00 Lunch
- 15:00 - 18:00 Art of Teaching, Advanced Assists, Yoga Therapeutics
- 18:00 - 19:00 Dinner
- 19:00 - 20:00 Satsang (sacred gathering)
- 20:00 - 21:00 Dream time
Instructors
Lacey Hickox Lehman
Lacey Hickox is an (E-RYT 500) and views this sacred practice as a path to self-discovery, self-love and as a divine tool to deepen your connection with spirit. She infuses her offerings with many modalities including Thai massage, Reiki, sound healing, Earth medicine, and Shamanic ceremony.
Darin Jay Lehman
Darin Jay Lehman (E-RYT 500) takes an integrative approach to his teachings, weaving modern day understandings of the world with many traditions including the yogic, shamanic and judaic paths. Darin merges the physical practice of yoga with the connection to higher Spirit, the elements and the directions while bringing the expression of Bhakti into his classes through music.
Daniel Castro
Daniel Castro is an E-RYT500 Yoga teacher and Costa Rican Native. His first contact with yoga was through his uncle who was a practitioner of Vaishnavism. Ever since he was a little kid he was related to the images and worship of different Hindu deities, mostly Krishna. In his teenage years, he started researching Hinduism and Buddhism, by his early twenties he was already practicing Raja yoga (meditation) and eventually moved into asana practices.
Location
Malpais, Puntarenas Province
This program will take place in the town of Malpais, which is in the district of Cobano in the Puntarenas Province of Costa Rica.
About Costa Rica
Known for its beautiful beaches, volcanoes, and biodiversity, Costa Rica is a nature lover’s paradise. A quarter of the land is made up of national parks and protected jungle, the largest in the world as a percentage of the country’s territory.
Home to a rich variety of flora and fauna and diverse wildlife, including spider monkeys, the quetzal bird, and the three-toed sloth; Costa Rica has only 0.03% of the world’s landmass but is estimated to contain 5% of the world’s biodiversity.
Costa Rica offers a variety of landscapes, micro-climates, and something for everyone. Whether it is an adventure, surfing, hiking, or relaxation that you are seeking, this path is sure to lead to a wildly wonderful experience.
The spirit of Costa Rica embraces the Pura Vida lifestyle. Meaning ‘Pure Life’, this mantra permeates the lifestyle and is the heart of Costa Rica’s cultural appeal. Relax into the easy-going vibes of this beautiful land and find freedom of heart.
You will explore yogic purification techniques and feast on the abundance of fresh tropical fruits and vegetables available that will provide the cleansing that your body needs. This program emphasizes the purification of mind, body, and spirit.
Your yoga teacher training program in Costa Rica offers the unique opportunity to explore ancient yogic wisdom while restoring harmony and balance to your daily existence. Your proximity to the ocean offers the opportunity to explore the art of surfing, another flow-based spiritual practice that allows one to tap into a deep sense of connection and find oneness and peace with all that is.
The ebb and flow of the waves teach you to flow with grace in this ever-changing journey of life. You will find stillness within the movement, as peace permeates your being.
Distances
- Playa del Carmen, 2 kilometers
Features
Activities
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
General
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Garden
- Yoga shala
Services
- Free Wi-Fi
- Parking lot
- Tour assistance
- Wedding
Food
Vegetarian Meals
Yogic culture and philosophy stress the importance of eating healthy, energizing meals prepared with intention. Food contains the Prana (energy) that fuels the body and mind. A healthy diet will leave you feeling light, energized, and ready to immerse yourself in this intensive 300-hour yoga teacher training.
Meals are ovo-lacto vegetarian (most meals are vegan) and will provide a full balance of vitamins, proteins, and carbohydrates. Vegan, gluten-free, and most other food preferences and allergies can be accommodated on request. Each meal is prepared with loving care and local tropical foods.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Lacto-ovo Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten Free
- Organic
- Yogic
- Other dietary requirements on request
What's included
- Certificate of completion
- Experienced, talented, knowledgeable, and dedicated facilitators
- Morning meditation, pranayama, and asana practice
- 5 elements philosophy and earth medicine
- Yoga sutras and ancient texts
- In-depth yoga anatomy
- Daily intention and spiritual lesson
- Art of teaching, alignment, and advanced assists
- Sacred circle and conscious community
- Ceremony
- Kirtan, sound healing, and dance
- Delicious vegetarian meals
- 25 nights accommodation
What's not included
- Flights
- Airport transfers
- Transportation
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Transfer not provided
Juan Santamaría International Airport
110 km away from your destination
Arrival by airplane
You can book your flight and arrive at Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO).
From the airport, you can continue your half-day trip to Mal Pais or Santa Teresa by bus or shuttle. You can also continue your trip by airplane and arrive at Tambor Airport (TMU).
Please contact Sacred Paths Yoga for information on shuttle transfers. They are approximately 50 to 100 USD.
Arrival by bus
Every day at 06:00 and 14:00, there is a public bus from Downtown San Jose (the bus station is called “7-10”) to Santa Teresa, and it costs 15 USD. This is a direct bus (it gets on the ferry with you and then you re-board the bus after the ferry ride) and will arrive at the Cruce in Santa Teresa at 12:00 or 20:30. From there, you will need to get a taxi to Indigo Yoga Resort (approximately: 10 USD), which is 2 kilometers south of the Cruce. The taxi drivers will know the way.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 16% 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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