15 Day 200-Hour Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training in Playa Coyote, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training in Costa Rica
This yoga teacher training Costa Rica program offers students in-depth skills to explore therapeutic yoga as a vehicle for holistic health, self-transformation, and personal empowerment. The curriculum includes a unique blend of alignment-based vinyasa flow, a solid foundation in Hatha yoga, and 200 hours of immersive yoga teacher training instruction offered within a therapeutic framework
Meet the instructors
Highlights
- Learn to teach from the “eyes of love” and help the world heal one mindful breath at a time
- Anatomy-informed alignment principles mindful Vinyasa, Hatha, and Restorative practices
- Eligible to register with Yoga Alliance upon completion
- Magical, sunrise beach meditations and a yoga studio with an infinity pool
- Modifications and adaptations for all bodies, including special populations
- Explore concepts from Ayurveda, the Upanishads, Patanjali, and the Chakra System
- Explore breathwork, mantra and meditation
- 14 nights accommodation and three delicious, healthy meals per day
Types
Accommodation
Facilities
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Meditation garden
- Picnic area
- Special menu request
- Terrace
- Yoga deck
- Yoga shala
- Yoga studio
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Internet access
- Laundry
- Parking lot
- Wireless internet
- Outdoor shower
Program
Certification
Students who complete the training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).
About the training
This teacher training offers students in-depth skills to explore yoga as a vehicle for vibrant health, self-transformation, and personal empowerment. The curriculum includes a unique blend of alignment-based Vinyasa flow, a solid foundation in Hatha yoga, and 200 hours of instruction offered within a therapeutic framework.
The instruction will cover a wide range of yoga techniques, including yoga postures, anatomy, relaxation, breath awareness, pranayama, meditations to calm the mind, contemplations to transform limiting tendencies into life-affirming thought patterns, and the application of clear, anatomy-informed principles of alignment to create safety, balance, and freedom in yoga poses. Students explore concepts from Ayurveda, the Upanishads, Patanjali, and the Chakra system as frameworks for the application of yoga as a journey towards radiant health and well-being.
The asana emphasis includes both level one/two alignment-based Vinyasa flow sequencing as well as gentler and restorative variations. Expect to practice asana from all categories of poses, including standing poses, hip openers, forward bends, backward bends, twists, inversions, balancing, and supine, seated, and prone ones. Modifications for all levels of practitioners are provided, and all levels of abilities are welcome to attend.
Rather than offer standard sequencing or rigid methodologies, students are exposed to frameworks that inspire each yoga teacher to adopt the practices, awaken their creativity, and find their own authentic voice as a teacher.
Graduates of this program feel empowered to teach a variety of yoga class types, including all levels of Vinyasa yoga, alignment-based classes, yoga foundations, senior, gentle, and restorative.
Quick view
- Yoga style: Mindful Vinyasa yoga, Hatha, and Restorative through a therapeutic lens
- Pose study with adaptations for ALL BODIES (includes standing poses, hip openers, forward bends, twists, backbends, inversions, and supine)
- Alignment: Bio-mechanically sound & anatomy-informed alignment
- Skill level: All levels of yoga practitioners are welcome. Some come to deepen their practice and others to learn to teach.
- Class demographics: Ages 17 - 70, diversity welcome. The class sizes are typically between 18 - 24 students with 2 experienced instructors.
- Certification: Yoga instructor course Costa Rica - Soma Yoga Institute 200 Certification, Yoga Alliance RYT-200
- Instructors: Train with C-IAYT-certified yoga therapists & E-RYT 500 Master Teachers with 25 + years experience
- Learn to teach with safety, skill, and confidence
Schedule
The Costa Rica program is scheduled as an intensive program. While the program days are full, the activities of the day are kept diverse and active. The days really are a wonderful mix of digesting concepts intellectually, applying the concepts experientially and diving into the practices of yoga. Care is taken within the program schedule to ensure that students have a healthy experience both physically and mentally. We promise not to keep you sedentary for too long. There is physical activity and deep relaxation built into the program every day.
You will be provided one full day off for rest or to explore the local area.
Sample Daily Schedule
- 06:30 Oceanside sunrise meditation, pranayama, and gentle movement
- 07:30 Breakfast
- 08:30 Yoga asana practice plus techniques or teaching methodology
- 12:00 Lunch
- 13:00 Restorative, gentle, therapeutic practice or yoga Nidra. Yoga philosophy, lifestyle, and ethics; anatomy, and physiology; practice teaching
- 16:00 Afternoon break to rest, swim or take in the amazing sunsets of Costa Rica
- 18:00 Dinner and sunset at the beach
- 19:00 Evening session
Included excursions
There will be one full day off midway through the program to explore the local area. Students often take surf lessons, go horseback riding, restore with a massage day, visit the nearby town of Samara, go snorkeling, take trips to the national park, or explore local beaches.
Instructors
Liz Heffernan
Liz Heffernan, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT is an international yoga teacher and Integrative Yoga Therapist. She draws from over two decades of personal yoga practice, 25 years of teaching and extensive training in the Hatha yoga systems of Kripalu, Ashtanga, and Anusara. She currently directs and leads Yoga teacher trainings and workshops worldwide, provides unique one-to-one mentoring for yoga teachers, instructs daily yoga classes and offers private therapeutic sessions. Additionally, Liz serves as a mentor/faculty for the Kripalu School of Integrative Yoga Therapy Professional Yoga Therapy program.
Peggy Profant
Peggy Profant, C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, E-RYT 500, and certified Anusara yoga teacher first discovered the practice in 1980 and began teaching it to others in 1997. Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Anusara are the schools in which have influenced her practice. As one who lives courageously from her heart, she passionately teaches her classes with meaningful yogic themes while keeping a keen attention to alignment. In addition to yoga, being in nature and with her family is where she finds her deepest joy and peace.
Jess Trudeau
Jess Trudeau, E-RYT 500 first began practicing yoga in 1999 as a young college student and fell in love with it’s creative nature. The practice has been her foundation through the carnival of life including motherhood and a tumultuous illness with Guilliane-Barre that left her temporarily paralyzed in 2016. She believes her yoga and meditation practice to be the shining light through any darkness on her path as it has helped her recognize the body’s phenomenal potential to overcome.
Location
Things to do (optional)
The surrounding areas have a wide array of activities and excursions to experience, including surfing, visiting the town of Samara, boat tours, walking tours, ziplining, sea turtle watching, and horseback riding.
Spa treatments
Massage treatments are available onsite.
What's included
- 14 nights accommodation
- Three healthy and delicious meals per day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
- Daily afternoon smoothies
- Full yoga teacher training tuition
- A comprehensive 250-page YTT manual
- Ability to study with experienced teachers/yoga therapists who are passionate about their craft
- Daily morning beachside meditation, pranayama (breathing), and gentle movement practices
- Active hatha and vinyasa flow classes with alignment with options for all levels
- Restorative yoga and deep relaxation to nourish your nervous system
- Oceanside meditation practices and beach yoga
- Eligibility to register with Yoga Alliance upon completion of the course
- 6-month access to the 200-hour online YTT content (an essential resource to support you as you move out into the world teaching yoga)
- The study of yoga philosophy to gain insights into your (true) nature through the wisdom of Yoga
- Chakras, yoga history, Ayurveda and so much more
- As-needed mentoring after the program ends
- Use of the hotel facilities including pool
- Daily room cleaning
- One load of laundry per week
- Day off to explore the surrounding area
- Eligibility to register for Yoga Alliance certification upon successful completion
What's not included
- Airfare
- Additional activities
- Spa treatments
- Excursions
- Discounted shuttle service for 75 USD (one way) from the airport
- Personal expenses
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Transfer available for additional US$ 75 per person
Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport
94 km away from your destination
Transfer available for additional US$ 100 per person
Juan Santamaría International Airport
119 km away from your destination
Arrival by plane
Please book your flight to arrive at Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR) or Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO). Transfer from and to the airport on the group shuttle is provided for a reduced fee (specified times only).
From Liberia International Airport, arrange to fly into the Daniel Oduber Quiros International Airport (LIR) in Costa Rica. The group shuttle departs from the airport at 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. on arrival day and returns for flights departing after 12:30 p.m. on departure day.
Shuttle from Liberia to Salvatierra takes approximately 3 hours. The group shuttle charge is 75 USD per person each way.
From San Jose International Airport, arrange to fly into the Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) in Costa Rica. The group shuttle departs from the Adventure Inn (15 minutes from the airport) in San Jose at 10:00 a.m. on arrival day and returns, departing SalvaTierra at 7 a.m. on departure day for flights leaving after 3 p.m.
Shuttle from San Jose to Salvatierra takes approximately 5 hours. The group shuttle charge is 100 USD per person each way.
The Adventure Inn in San Jose is a great place for the first night with free airport shuttles if you are a guest and a large breakfast included in the price. You may book a room directly with them. The shuttle will depart directly from this hotel and, on the return, take you directly to the SJO airport.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 28% 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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