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Self-Paced 200-Hour Online Vinyasa and Hatha Yoga Teacher Training
Available from June till March
200-Hour Hybrid: Self-Paced or 15 Day Online and 14 Day In-Person YTT in Bali, Indonesia
August 2-15, 2026 | October 4-17, 2026
200-Hour Hybrid: Self-Paced or 13 Day Online and 14 Day In-Person YTT in Bali, Indonesia
August 2-15, 2026 | October 4-17, 2026
27 Day 200-Hour Transformative Vinyasa and Hatha Yoga Teacher Training in Canggu, Bali, Indonesia
August 2-28, 2026 | October 4-30, 2026
22 Day 200-Hour Transformative Vinyasa and Hatha Yoga Teacher Training in Ericeira, Portugal
July 11-August 1, 2027About The Peaceful Warriors Yoga School
The Peaceful Warriors established in 2017 by Maria and Bente, is a reputable yoga school with over 1000 graduates worldwide.
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Bente Andersen
Bente first came in touch with yoga in late 1990. She completed her formal yoga teacher training at the Jungle Yoga Ashram in Thailand in early 2010. She is certified in Hatha Vinyasa yoga and in the Tantric yoga philosophy and tradition. Bente strives to inspire her students to always move with ease. She embraces a creative, full-spectrum approach to embodying the diversity of Vinyasa yoga. She creates space and courage to grow and transform, to move past the comfort zone on and off the mat!
Lauren Prindiville
Wanderlust at heart, Lauren was born and raised on the east coast of the United States in New Jersey. She has been traveling, volunteering, and teaching internationally for the past five years across Europe, North and Central America, and Asia. Lauren is a 500-hour registered Yoga Alliance instructor, certified to teach Ashtanga, Vinyasa Flow, Hatha, Yin, pre and postnatal yoga, Kids yoga, and Restorative yoga. Additionally, she studied Ayurvedic medicine, therapies, and massage under Doctor Sreejith Kumar in Kerala, India.
Latifah Sipahutar
Lala trained with the Peaceful Warriors in August 2017 and describes being a peaceful warrior as respecting that yoga has many different approaches, staying humble and keeping an open mind, challenging the limits but remaining at peace with whatever comes. Currently, she is teaching Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, and Ashtanga in Canggu, Bali. In January 2020 Lala went to India to complete her 300hr Yoga Teacher Training to deepen her understanding and develop her both her practice and teaching.
Magdalena Janik
Meet Magdalena, a passionate and experienced yoga teacher dedicated to sharing the transformative power of yoga with her students. With over 1000 hours of training under her belt, Magdalena has honed her expertise in various yoga styles and modalities. Magdalena’s teaching style revolves around mindful vinyasa, where she seamlessly blends movement with breath, creating a flowing practice that nurtures both the body and mind. Her classes are thoughtfully designed to challenge students while encouraging them to cultivate awareness and presence on the mat.
Zoe Palmer
Zoe who is the health expert will be sharing her knowledge and experience on how a yogi can live a healthy lifestyle. Covering topics such as nutrition, natural medicine, optimal use of vitamins and minerals, hormonal health/balance and digestive health. Zoe is a certified clinical nutritionist, herbalist and naturopath with over ten year’s experience. She is an international speaker who is passionate about empowering people to improve their nutrition and lifestyle and address the root causes of their health issues, so they can live their fullest, healthiest and happiest lives.
Avi Basuki
Avi is an energy worker and sound alchemist. Having trained with Rainbow Kids Yoga and Calm Classrooms, as well as studying with various advanced teachers from the traditional tantric yoga lineage, shamanism and the magic world of sound healing. Avi will bring the unique use of music and sound into this heartfelt training with her sound therapy.
Jessica Lee
Karin Dorsey
Amanda Stephanie
Amanda was born and raised in Bali. She was first introduced to yoga by a friend, who told her it could heal the mind, strengthen the body & improve overall health. She found this very inspirational, and in turn, it gave her the motivation to start practising. She was able to discover how yoga works for her, building her mind, body, and soul both on and off the mat. This created a strong passion to delve deeper into the practice.
Diaz
Diaz projects happiness and creativity in his teaching. Blending Vinyasa Flow, Budokon, Qigong, and Inside Flow make the dynamic fusion between mindfulness, movement, strength, and challenge in his class. His 500 hours of yoga teacher training and background as a choreographer lend a whole new dimension to his class as he sequences the poses like a dance. He will guide your practice out of the box and set your mind and body to expand all sorts of possibilities. His class is fun, playful, energetic, and funky all at the same time.
Michael Lewis Green
Since completing his first 10-day Vipassana retreat in India in 2007, Michael has studied and practiced different meditation techniques and traditions, including Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Dzogchen, and others. His personal practice is in the Vajrayana (Tibetan) Buddhist tradition. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from Florida State University and is a certified Ayurvedic Practitioner from Southern California University of Health Sciences. He completed his meditation teacher training at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC), and is a certified mindfulness teacher.
Victoria Hutchins
Victoria is a yoga teacher, writer, and content creator passionate about the space where creativity, movement, and spirituality intersect. Her teaching style blends Hatha and Vinyasa, inviting students to connect with their breath, build strength, and explore mindfulness through both dynamic movement and stillness. Victoria encourages practitioners to meet themselves with curiosity on the mat and beyond. Now part of The Peaceful Warriors teaching team, she brings warmth, insight, and a love of storytelling to every training, supporting new teachers as they step into their own voice & purpose.
Shannon Lacey
Shannon’s yogic journey commenced in 2016, driven by a quest for healing. She unearthed her Dharma of sharing the ancient wisdom of yoga during her initial 200hr YTT with The Peaceful Warriors. She has since completed a total of 670 + hours of training across various lineages, dedicating herself wholeheartedly to teaching classes, privates, corporate yoga, workshops, retreats, and YTTs in the U.K, Portugal and Bali. As a nature lover, her favourite places to be are in the sea, up a tree or on her mat. Shannon loves to dance and move to express herself freely through creative motion.
Caroline Layzell
Meet Caroline, a passionate and experienced yoga teacher who is committed to sharing the how and why of yoga with all her students. She is an E-RYT500 teacher with over 8000 hours of teaching experience, gathered from teaching and sharing yoga since 2011, as well as teaching and mentoring yoga teachers since 2015. Caroline shares anatomy-informed yoga classes, is fascinated by the mind and body connection, and likes to weave Western and Eastern approaches to moving into her classes.
What Do People Say About Us?
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Maryogafit Maryogafit
from France, June 2020
Parfaite formation!
La formation était très complète et vraiment super !
Jenny Tulk
from Australia, March 2020
Not just a teacher training; an enlightening experience
The teachers have such beautiful energy and create such an amazing space to learn. My new gurus; Rachel Fearnley and Lucy Foster Perkins.
Schantelle Martin
from Australia, March 2020
Grate experience
Everything
Louise Thorpe
from Hong Kong, February 2020
Blew all expectations!!
Thank you so much!! This training experience could not have been better.
During the opening circle we were presented with smiles, flowers and amazing surprises ( I would say more but that will spoil the fun!)
The delights grew and it was soon reviled that our teachers were very real, open and knowledgeable. The time that they have invested into childhood studies is clear, they know their field.
This course seemed to focus on children’s yoga a great deal at the start but the mindful focus came into play with great consideration to brain development, therapy and tailoring activities to meet individual needs. The course was deep and provide a wide range of tools that will greatly help in the classroom.
Volunteering with the group was respectful and insightful.
We witnessed how a percentage of this course fee went back into the community directly and was invested with care and thoughtfulness.
I would highly recommend this training to anyone in contact with young learners.
Enjoy!!!!
Anonymous
from Indonesia, February 2020
Disappointing
All the materials provided were in colour and of good quality, you could tell a lot of work went into preparing them.
The guest speakers we had on two of the afternoons were excellent, the inner child workshop and sound healing workshop were of great quality and went above my expectations, with lots of practical exercises and filled with fantastic content.
Shelby Bosman
from Thailand, February 2020
Expectations exceeded. mind- BLOWN
I booked this course not really having any expectations, I just knew that there was going to be a lot of information to squeeze into that amount of time. I loved EVERY. SINGLE. SECOND. Jeanne really has a way of capturing your attention & relaying information in a way that really makes you want to learn more, she opens a cosmos in your mind & is one of the most inspiring people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting.
Being able to visit the school & really immerse ourselves in the practical part was honestly such a heart- warming experience. Connecting with youth in a different country & community really opens your eyes, I would 10000% recommend this course for anybody who not only works with or has kids but everybody interested in human psyche. This was such an amazing experience <3
Thank you Jeanne, Peaceful Warriors & Serenity for creating a beautiful experience :)
Teresa Crossland
from United Arab Emirates, December 2019
Yin Yoga Immersion
The teachers were passionate, engaging and so supportive. The course was structured very well and I loved that we did a yang class every day as well as ALL the yin! I LOVED the amount of practice teaching, feedback and support we were given every day - I now feel confident to teach Yin classes! I would very much recommend the course to others.
Danielle Fatima Collantes
from Philippines, November 2019
Life Changing experience
Signed up for professional growth, coming out as a changed woman overall. I loved the whole course, and the instructor (Jeanne Welsh) was amazing. You cant help but catch on the energy and positivity that is radiating from her. The free resources was excellent as well!!
My classmatees and I are now bonded over the fact that we have the power to change children lives one mindful thought at a time.
Florence Robertson
from Great Britain, September 2019
Loved the course content and attention to detail. Each of the teachers gave their own personal input and shared their knowledge and understanding. The shala was beautiful and a great atmosphere was created, it became our home. Bente and Maria held lots of space for us to go through our own personal journeys. The group was incredibly supportive and I believe this came from their leadership. We learned so much depth about yoga and the surrounding subjects, yoga history and anatomy were paid particular detail too. There were plenty of activities to do which really added to the experience, the water temple was a special experience for me.
Sarina Hoetzel
from Germany, September 2019
Undescribable happy that I choosed this training :)
Eine unglaublich lehrreiche, augenöffnende und magische Reise zum Yoga Lehrer. Das gesamte Training war sehr gut durchdacht und alle Einheiten haben aufeinander aufgebaut. Die Lerninhalte waren super interessant und haben auf jeden Fall den Wunsch geweckt, tiefer in die Themen einzutauchen.
Die Lehrer sind liebevoll, aufgeschlossen und mit Herzblut dabei. Es hat so viel Spaß gemacht von ihnen unterrichtet zu werden und von ihnen zu lernen.
Vor dem Training dachte ich, dass ich mitmache um vorallem meine eigene Yoga-Praxis zu verbessern. Wir haben aber so viel übers Unterrichten und über das Erstellen von Yoga-Flows gelernt, dass ich mich jetzt dafür entschieden Lehrerin zu sein :) Ich möchte all die wunderbaren Dinge, die ich erfahren durfte, an andere weitergeben.
Der Standort der Schule ist in einer eher ruhigen Seitenstraße, was zum Schlafen und lernen super ist. Jedoch ist der Strand zu Fuß etwas weit, aber dafür super viele leckere Cafes und Restaurants in der Nähe.
Die Yoga-Einheiten waren sehr umfangreich. Dabei ging es nicht nur um die Yoga-Praxis, man taucht in die gesamte Yoga-Welt ein mit Theorie Einheiten, Pranayama, Meditation und und und. Abgesehen von dem Yoga Unterricht haben wir auch Surfunterricht, eine Massage und einen Tempelausflug bekommen. Ich muss wirklich sagen, dass mir das Gesamtpaket richtig gut gefallen hat.
Ich kann thepeacefulwarriors zu 100% weiterempfehlen!
Ellen Rosenfeld
from Canada, September 2019
Loved every minute of it!! Highly recommend !!
The environment that Rachel and Jody have created together is just beautiful. I feel like I learned so much in the 50 hour training and I am really excited to take what I learned back home and apply it!
I felt safe to ask questions, voice my opinions, and receive feedback. I had such a wonderful experience and the only negative thing is that the training isn’t a 100 hour!
Saar Nibbering
from Netherlands, September 2019
Best decision I have ever made
I loved every moment I experienced while I was doing my YTT with The Peaceful Warriors. The teachers were above my expectations and I have gained so much knowledge. Beyond grateful for my YTT in August 2019.
Laraine Cobbing
from Australia, July 2019
Everything and More
The yoga teachers were excellent. They were knowledgeable, interesting, engaging and delivered both the written and practical education enthusiastically and passionately. The location was fabulous and I stayed at the Oasis which was first class. A healthy hearty breakfast in the morning supplemented by coffee and delights from the Cafe just across the road. I felt rejuvenated and inspired at the end of the week. The group consisted of people from all across the Globe and everyone was so friendly. I attended this alone and did not find this a problem at all.
Anne Dybevåg
from Norway, July 2019
Best teacher training
Teachers, program, location, food
Uliana Maslova
from Great Britain, November 2018
Amazing Course
Overall, it was really good!! Great teachers, great course structure, amazing people .
Anonymous
from Great Britain, November 2018
Excellent course and teachers
Bente and Maria are brilliant teachers with diverse styles which also complement each other extremely well.
Amy Vitoria
from Great Britain, September 2018
Amazing month!
I had the most fun during my YTT! We covered a broad range of subjects, learning so many different things from anatomy, to philosophy to Ayurveda, so I always felt so enthusiastic to learn more. The teachers were so full of knowledge and the yoga classes were amazing! Everyone was attracted to different parts of the course, so it really gave you a platform to find your passions and then delve deeper into it. I also thought it was great how there was a balance between challenging lectures, with fun workshops like aerial and acro yoga! By having the asana lab, we were teaching each other from day 1 and having bente / Maria / Lala on hand to help, everyone was more than ready to teach by the time the final practical rolled around. Canggu is also the best place for yoga, it's so relaxed and chilled out, with amazing food and beaches- what's not to love!
Ellie Ritchie
from Great Britain, September 2018
Couldn't have hoped for better. Highly recommend!
This teacher training exceeded all my expectations. First and foremost the teachers are excellent. They are so so encouraging, supportive and inspiring. The wide range of knowledge that I gained was exceptional. The classes are really varied, exciting and enjoyable. I was introduced to a wide range of subjects, including Ayurveda and nutrition. I have a much more complete vision of who I am and who I want to be as a teacher and have been set up perfectly to now go away and really delve into the areas that interest me personally.
This journey was about so much more than yoga, the friends you will make and the personal development that you go through is too amazing to put into words. I really can't recommend this enough.
Katharina Karner
from Austria, September 2018
My experiece with the peaceful warriors was great!
The motto: East meets West - perfectly realized in all the lectures! Bente and Maria lead awesome Yogaclasses and the Asana Lab is fun and helpful at the same time. A perfect introduction to everything about yoga - from philosophy to business to nutrition. I feel well prepared to go out there and start teaching 😊
Charline Martin
from France, September 2018
Unforgettable experience
This unforgettable adventure peacefull yoga warrior comes to end for me. I feel very grateful. Bente and Maria are amazing teachers with a lot of knowlegde and know how. Always supportive, here at everytime to answer questions or anything else. Be sure they will do our possible to make you feel at ease during this month. The others teachers are also great and super talentuous. I didn't expect to learn as much. The field of this ytt is very large and it's something I appreciate (ayurveda, nutrition...).. The shala opens towards the rice fields is the perfect place to practice and the monday breakfast a paradise for food lover. It's for me an unforgettable human experience I recommend to everyone who loves yoga.
Dounia Kchiere
from United States, May 2018
An outstanding training & agame changer of your yoga journey
The Peaceful Warriors training exceeded my expectations to say the least! In addition to learning about the Asana practice and the physical aspects of Yoga, the training complements your learning with so much more: Anatomy, meditation, breathing, the history and the philosophy of Yoga, Nutrition, Ayurveda, etc, putting the yoga practice and lifestyle into a much more wholistic context.
Every class I attended brought me with so much understanding of not only yoga but also who I am. I felt that I was learning and expanding as a person, which is essential if you would like to take your practice to share with other students.
Bente and Maria as the main teachers of the YTT are fully dedicated, inspiring and deeply knowledgeable. Their teaching methods complement one another which exposes the students to various ways of teaching from day one. They are also available to answer any question at all points of the training.
The guest teachers are also amazing experts and add tremendous value to the learning.
Bente and Maria eased the group into the idea of teaching, starting with peer-teaching, then small groups before you can confidently stand and teach the whole class.
The space where we practiced was beautiful, overlooking the rice fields of Bali and waking up to the sunrise before practice was just priceless.
The teachers facilitated the group dynamic and created such a strong team spirit throughout the journey.
That is why I highly recommend this YTT without any hesitation
Sara Asquini
from Italy, May 2018
There were some very good teachers that gave us a lot of food for our thoughts.
Anonymous
from United States, February 2018
Your Vibe attracts your Tribe
The YTT of the Peaceful Warriors in Bali, is a must go and do if you have the time to do a yoga teacher training abroad. The teachers are of a very high quality, not to mention a good deal of fun and inspirational. I did not expect the training to be this life changing for me, but it was. I was also very lucky to be able to share it with 25 amazing people from all over the globe. I can truly call the Peacefull Warriors YTT January 2018 my yoga family.