32 Day 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training in Koh Samui, Thailand

Certification

Students who complete the training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).

This advanced 300-hour YTT is intended for those who have already completed a 200-hour YTT. You do not have to have completed the Vikasa 200-hour YTT, as it can be a qualification with any other accredited yoga school.

Many of the students in their 300-hour YTTs are practicing yoga teachers. However, if you have only done a 200-hour training before and simply wish to join to deepen your own practice, learn more advanced yoga skills and wisdom, and be part of a transformational five-week journey, you are more than welcome to join.

32 days in Thailand

Wake up every day to one of the most photographed views in Thailand. Practice yoga in the ocean-view yoga salas.

Lasting transformation

Leave feeling empowered to start a new path with new skills, confidence, and lasting healthy lifestyle habits.

Are you a yoga teacher or enthusiast who wants to further their education beyond 200 hours? Are you searching for authentic yoga in an environment designed for transformation?​ Are you ready to reset your mind, body, and energy and take it to the next level? Then this course is for you.

Deepen your knowledge, strengthen your practice, or up your game with new techniques. Surrender to the deep with the 300-hour advanced yoga teacher training in Thailand

It’s time for revival. It’s time to shake off dormant energy, get back to the mat, and take life to the next level. True freedom is having a full heart, open mind, and peaceful vibration. Are you ready?

Vikasa is where passion meets paradise. You’ll practice ancient lineages of yoga while perched on a cliffside overlooking the glimmering, azure sea. You’ll connect with genuine people and rediscover your inner self while gaining skills and confidence to teach safely and passionately.

Spend five weeks deeply immersed in serious authentic yoga practice led by world class facilitators, in a supportive environment created for evolution. This 300-hour advanced yoga teacher training course takes yoga teachers or advanced yoga practitioners to the next level.

There at Vikasa Yoga Academy, their core values are expressed in the same way that consciousness expands. This expansion starts with the self, it grows through your mind, body, and energy until you are a powerful motivator of connection and manifestor of change. This shift attracts like-minded people who strengthen communities and empower the world around them.

The advanced yoga teacher training in Thailand is structured around various techniques, vastly ranging according to the expertise and wisdom of the diverse team while always connecting to these core values.

Vikasa believes in the power of self-initiative, self-love, and personal evolution. The only way to truly have an impact on the world is to start with your own vibration. They believe in the potential of community - that a small group of like-minded people has the ability to change the world.

Even if teaching is not your goal, they know that you are a conscious individual with the desire to expand your practice and embrace a yoga lifestyle. Are you ready to evolve?

Key highlights:

• Teachers: Vikasa has the highest teacher to student ratio of any YTT. With five lead teachers and four assistant teachers, they value personalized support. The global team is from Russia, UK, Australia, Sweden, Thailand, and the USA.
• Evolution: This is not just about a certificate. A Vikasa YTT is about your personal evolution. This course will transform you. You’ll discover your own authentic truth and return to the world as the most radiant version of yourself.
• Food: The right fuel is essential to help you thrive. Abundant, healthy, and delicious buffet brunches and dinners are included in the training. Meals will be primarily plant-based, made with local natural ingredients, and are always a highlight.
• Salas: Vikasa has four stunning purpose-built, ocean-front yoga salas. You will practice daily with unfettered views over the ocean in the most stunning and spacious yoga sala in Thailand, complete with high quality mats and props.
• Content: The Vikasa Method is their own signature yoga style, philosophy, and lifestyle. This is a very powerful yoga experience with a high emphasis on meditation and pranayama as well as asana, philosophy, anatomy, and teaching.
• Environment: Vikasa is an environment curated for transformation. The natural elements of the ocean and jungle create an inspiring and enlightening space purposely built for your evolution and to enhance your holistic wellbeing.
• Accommodation: They offer various unique room options to suit all preferences and budgets. All rooms are clean, comfortable, relaxing, and within easy walking distance to the salas, restaurant, pool, and private beach.
• Graduation: Celebrate your final day and certification with a very special and memorable graduation on a luxury boat! You’ll also receive ongoing support, ongoing community, and bonus offers and perks for all Vikasa offerings.
• Inclusions: Everything will be included for you - an extensive manual and high quality props, plus excursions, waterfall adventures, bonus workshops, sound healing, and also unlimited access to public classes and all facilities.

What you will learn:

Evolution of yoga - Kosta Miachin

Kosta refined his practice and teaching of yoga over two decades of experimentation with a number of styles and schools of yoga. The result of this experimentation and refinement is the Vikasa Method.

In this module, “Evolution of Yoga,” Kosta will lead practices (pranayama, kriya, meditation, and asana) that are long and deep - the culmination of years of thoughtful practice. They are not simply physical practices, but are also designed to work on all layers of the practitioner’s being, primarily the often forgotten energetic layer.

The practices are physically and mentally challenging, and come with energetic payoffs hardly ever experienced in modern yoga.

This module also includes a series of lectures in which Kosta traces the Vikasa Method back to the origins of yoga and situates it within that context and the relevant lineages. Furthermore, the lecture series dives deep into the rationale behind the Vikasa Method, providing a clear and scientific basis for all of the practices and an explanation of the effects.

You will learn:

• Advanced asana
• Active awareness meditation
• Advanced pranayama
• Kumbhaka - retention of breath
• Hatha Yoga Pradipika
• Intelligent freestyle sequencing
• Energetic practice
• Mudra and bandha

From gross to subtle - Daniel Rama

Health and well-being of the physical body are paramount in pursuit of greater spiritual evolution. As a student, Rama has studied with a diverse array of yoga and movement teachers all over the world.

In this module, "From Gross to Subtle," Rama offers expertise and insight into the optimization of the physical body. Learn to build strength, increase flexibility, and access greater coordination as well as more advanced expressions of yoga asana. Progress within the science of yoga moves from gross to subtle, physical to non-physical.

This module builds from the ground up and serves as a stepping stone for greater growth. By optimizing physical ability, you will begin to access a gateway to deeper experience and that which exists beyond the physical body.

Rama has a background in kinesiology and adds a unique level of authenticity to his yoga practice from living for years in a classical Hatha yoga ashram. Present day, he has made it his purpose to share the power of yoga, movement, and mindfulness with his students online and in person.

You will learn:

• Handstands and inversions
• Keys to enhancing flexibility and mobility
• Functional and mindful movement
• Spinal waves
• Scalable modifications and variations
• Physical optimization through non-physical practices
• Bulletproofing the body
• Holistic maintenance

The art of sequencing - All teachers

All Vikasa Senior Teachers have their own individual take on the Vikasa Methodology and Vikasa sequencing principles. In this module, the teachers will explain their different interpretations and show you how to sequence effectively and creatively using this methodology, but with your own unique flavor.

Kosta will explain the genesis of the “intelligent freestyle” method. Mikey will show how to create sequences within that framework which are anatomically intelligent as well as fun. And, Niki and Michael will show how more flowy, Vinyasa-style classes can be sequenced using the same principles.

The teachers will present a clear framework for their approach so that students can understand and replicate it in their own teaching.

You will learn:

• Intelligent freestyle sequencing
• Freedom within structure
• Creating a balanced practice
• Influencing energy through attention
• Digital balancing of directions of mobility
• Principles of intelligent sequencing
• Flow - uninterrupted attention
• Hatha flow
• Dynamic flow
• Chill flow

Deepen and diversify - Mikey Lazano

Mikey is interested and stimulated by deep physical practice as well as unique techniques and practice modalities that are no longer widely practiced within the yoga community. In this module, “Deepen and Diversify,” Mikey will take you on a journey through both of these passions.

In deepen, Mikey will lead practices that are complex and physically challenging, designed for advanced practitioners.

In diversify, he will lead a series of unique practices (cross mat, mudra / bandha, full surya namaskar, Partner yoga) and runs workshops and lectures wherein these practices are broken down and explained for those wishing to practice in that way themselves. The basics of teaching these practices will also be explained.

You will learn:

• Advanced asana practice
• Advanced asana breakdown
• Art of adjustment
• Advanced assisting
• Cross mat practice
• Mandala Vinyasa
• Partner yoga
• Mudra and bandha practice
• Energetic practice
• Complete surya namaskar practice

Higher yoga - Alex Vyazovov

Alex will present ancient yogic wisdom in a way that is digestible for a modern mind, and will thus help students make their practice more meaningful. Since all yoga traditions agree that cultivating the right view is the key ingredient to success on the spiritual path, Alex will place focus on yoga philosophy, as well as offer meditative exercises that help to embody it.

You will learn:

• History of yoga
• The Upanishads
• Samkhya philosophy
• The Bhagavad-Gita
• Classical yoga vs Tantric yoga
• Karma, awakening, and liberation
• Advanced pranayama practices
• Advanced meditation practices

Making magic - Niki and Michael

“Making Magic” is a module designed to help teachers find (or rediscover) their inspiration and passion for practicing and teaching yoga.

Niki and Michael will lead (and teach you to teach) “transformational experiences” that are not standard yoga asana practices - dynamic meditations, dance, eye-gazing, guided relaxations, group bonding sessions - but are powerful and transformative for practitioners, and can be unique and interesting offerings for those leading retreats, trainings, or “special occasion” type classes.

This module also includes detailed exposition of other key (but often forgotten) advanced teaching skills such as touch, voice, and holding space.

You will learn:

• How to create magic yoga classes
• How to facilitate transformational experiences for your students
• How to create clear, intelligent, effective, and powerful asana sequences
• How to effectively utilize touch, smell, voice, sound, and presence in your teaching

The Vikasa yoga method

The signature foundation yoga teacher training starts with a strong physical foundation, evolving into energetic, mental, emotional, and spiritual practice.

Key principles and rules of yoga will be taught, allowing the teachers and dedicated practitioners to gain in-depth understanding, knowledge, and insight into the methodology and the effects of yoga practice. The approach encourages integration with society in a modern context.

The teaching modules each represent a pillar of the Vikasa Yoga method: mind, body, and energy. These three pillars, when taught together, create a well-rounded yoga education with emphasis on the development of the individual. It is a unique curriculum that has been tried and tested over the years, ever-evolving with lasting results.

The approach is further defined by the five shells or layers known as “koshas:” physical, energetic, emotional, mental, and spiritual. They like to think of the curriculum as two “hands” of learning under two structural pillars of practice and theory.

The branches of topics vary from asana and meditation through methodology and application. This method of learning has taken years to refine and now provides a stable platform for learning on mental and physical levels.

Asana

Learn over 200 poses:

• Active strengthening
• Passive stretching
• Dynamic Vinyasas
• Static poses
• Balancing
• Inversions

Pranayama

Breathing techniques:

• Nadi sodhana
• Kapalabhati
• Samavritti
• Bhastrika
• Kumbhaka
• Ujjai

Meditation

Awareness and mindfulness:

• Dharana
• Pratyahara
• Passive awareness
• Star breathing
• Chakra breathing
• Microcosmic orbit
• Mantra and chanting
• Raja yoga

Bandhas

Energetic locks:

• Maha bandha
• Mula bandha
• Uddiyana bandha
• Jaladhara bandha

Kriyas

Cleansing techniques:

• Nauli
• Kapalabhati
• Neti
• Trataka

Methodology

Science and logic:

• Sequencing
• Alignment
• Adjustments
• Teaching

Anatomy

The physical body:

• Hands-on learning
• Correct alignment
• Effective practice
• Tissue and joints
• Directions of mobility

Philosophy

Wisdom in context:

• Patanjali Sutras
• Hatha Pradipika
• Bhagavad Gita
• Tantra
• Samkhya

Chakras

Energetic centers:

• Muladhara
• Swadhistana
• Manipura
• Anahata
• Vishuddha
• Ajna
• Sahasrara

Koshas

Layers of self:

• Annamaya
• Pranamaya
• Manomaya
• Vijnanamaya
• Anandamaya

Covered topics

• Asana: Learn and practice over 200 poses
• Pranayama: Breath, practice, and the techniques
• Meditation: Practice awareness and find your focus
• Bandha: Energetic locks and energy control
• Sequencing: Intelligent freestyle to create your flow
• Alignment: Learn the geometry behind safe practice
• Philosophy: Ancient wisdom in modern context
• Anatomy: Hands-on approach to learning the body
• Methodology: The science and reason behind it all
• Lifestyle: Learn by living it for 32 immersive days
• Nutrition: Learn about the fuel a yoga body needs
• Marketing: Tools for success in the yoga world

Bonus workshop with Alexi: Mala making, activation, and meditation

Learn how to make your own personal mala in a special bonus workshop with a true meditation master. Alexi will teach you how to make the mala and also how to charge or activate the mala through mantra meditation. This will support you energetically if you wear it, as well as help in your personal meditation practice during the course and once you are back home again.

You will learn how to meditate using the mala during the workshop. But in general, it can serve as a medium of a sort, that helps to reconnect with the core of your being through meditation. It is also a tool used to increase focus, and a reminder to stay on the path of yoga.

Deepen your practice

If you’re looking for a yoga teacher training course that not only equips you with the skills and knowledge to expand your practice, but also inspires confidence to follow your dreams and start a yoga school of your own, then Vikasa is the perfect place for you to get started.

Vikasa's 300-hour advanced YTT is designed for you if:

• You are a serious student committed to a yoga path.
• You are a teacher who knows the power of learning.
• You have already completed a 200-hour accredited YTT.
• You crave deep immersion in a group of like-minds.
• You are ready to surrender to the shifts of change.
• You need a refresh as post-pandemic life begins.
• You know that a great teacher must never stop learning.

They also believe that those who have a position of power have a responsibility to help those in need. They actively reach out to the community and try to improve what they see.

The idea of ‘reaching out by reaching within’ is at the heart of the yoga teacher training program - equipping you with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to connect with others and teach the benefits of yoga, so that others may also experience the transformative effects.

The teachers

The 300-hour advanced yoga teacher training will be taught by Kosta Miachin, the founder of Vikasa, along with his team of senior level yoga teachers and international guest “super star” teachers.

This team is an eclectic group of international yogis with a variety of strengths and styles. All Vikasa teachers have graduated from yoga teacher trainings with a minimum of 200-hour teaching certification recognized by Yoga Alliance.

All have experienced several yoga teacher trainings with a variety of styles and focus. Their vast and combined experience will enrich your education and your yoga career. The course will be structured around various techniques, vastly ranging according to the expertise of the diverse team.

Learning and lifestyle

Vikasa means “evolution” in Sanskrit. To evolve means to finetune your self-awareness and commitment to constant improvement, whether that’s in your personal relationships, your work, or your health.

Personal evolution gives you the ability to create your life according to your deepest values and unique vision. It is your truth emerging from deep within, rather than living from your head and the programmed thoughts of your belief system.

Vikasa places emphasis on the individual in the context of society. Their approach to learning and teaching yoga is based on individual empowerment and evolution. It takes influences from authentic Hatha yoga lineages, Himalayan Buddhism, Taoism practices, and modern science.

The training starts with a strong physical foundation, evolving into energetic, mental, emotional, and spiritual practice. They value authenticity and logic, with a focus on self-love and evolution, meaning that the teachings are designed to stand up in the context of your modern-day lifestyle.

Vikasa's learning methodology is known for being ‘intelligent freestyle.’ Although they practice traditional yoga based on ancient lineages such as Hatha yoga and Himalayan Vinyasa, they also teach students to adapt and evolve their practice to fit modern day life.

This means that their students become free from strict practices and dogma, enabling them to adapt their yoga classes or their practice to suit their own personality, style, or needs. It also includes various substyles, such as Yin yoga, as part of a holistic health and wellness program.

What will your day be like?

Your daily schedule for the training will be a healthy mix of immersive practice, enlightening theory, and hands-on workshops. The daily life at Vikasa starts with the sound of tropical birds as the sun rises over the east-facing hillside home.

Vikasa mornings are magical, with meditation and practice before a robust brunch in a community setting at the Vikasa Life Cafe. Throughout the day, you’ll have a mix of structured group activities such as lectures or workshops, as well as solo downtime and freedom to explore this island paradise.

There will be six days of training per week with one day off, usually Sunday. You can end each day with a relaxing lemongrass tea while listening to the island breeze.

This is a sample schedule which may vary slightly from your actual schedule:

• 07:00 - 09:30 Morning yoga practice
• 09:30 - 11:00 Healthy brunch at Vikasa Life Café
• 11:00 - 13:00 Self study, relax and recovery
• 13:00 - 16:00 Theory, lecture, or workshops
• 17:00 - 18:30 Evening yoga practice
• 18:30 - 20:00 Healthy dinner at Vikasa Life Café