17-Day 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training with Yandara Institute

ABOUT YANDARA YOGA

Yandara Yoga School is one of the most established Yoga Teacher Training centers and Yoga Schools in the world. The programs are a residential experience of living in a yoga community while being immersed in a beautiful, natural setting.

Whether you’re on the path to become a yoga teacher or you’d like to join us to deepen your yoga practice we look forward to sharing this transformational and life-changing journey with you.

Yandara’s 17 day yoga instructor training program is 200 Hour Yoga Alliance Certified. The program is limited to 22 students ensuring the personal attention and care that Yandara is known for. Deep amongst the thousand lakes and blueberry fields of the Swedish forest, we gather for 18 days of heartfelt Yoga and Meditation, delicious vegetarian meals, evening live music, yogic philosophy and mythology. Students will experience the yoga lifestyle at Shambala Gatherings in natural setting know for its beauty.

Our professional curriculum has been developed over two decades of devotion and dedication to teaching thousands of certified Yoga Alliance Yoga Teachers. Yoga Teachers complete the 200 hour certification programs with the confidence, skills, knowledge and on-site experience necessary to immediately begin a career as a yoga instructor. Programs are open to all ages and all skill levels. We believe that Yoga is for Everyone!

“I completed my 200 YTT in Baja Mexico at Yandara and it changed my life! They gave me the power to not only teach yoga with confidence but the ability to better my own personal practice. If you are undecided on a yoga program, look no further than Yandara!”

Breanne

“The tools you awakened within us to see, feel and experience clearly and live truthfully with love are so powerful and are now the pillars of my life. I am so so thankful for your devotion to just share everything and guide everyone to light and love with all of your heart. I definitely know that I never felt so at home before in this universe! Thank you Yandara!”

Miguel

“I recently completed my teacher training with Yandara in Sweden, would just like to say what an amazing life changing experience. A huge, huge, thank you to my teachers Chris, Nicolina,Sara and Kylie”.

Simon Budden

YANDARA YOGA TEACHER TRAINING: THE YANDARA SYSTEM

Yandara’s system and workshops will offer simple, yet profound, steps to realize that you are an amazing yogi, and a great teacher! Yandara Yoga Institute states the meaning of a truly inspiring, heartfelt, and intuitive teacher training that will take you deeper into yourself, as well as further into the world.

Your training will include practice teaching time with personal feedback from teachers and peers, basic pose alignment, hands-on-assists, as well as cueing from the heart. You will learn to guide your students to be aware of their sensations and how to move safely in the pose. Yandara offers both open style yoga classes and set sequences. You will get all the tools you need to create an inspiring yoga class!

One of the highlights of our program is the variety of yoga classes you will experience. We offer Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga, Yin and Restorative Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, as well as the occasional Qi Gong practice.

Every program includes a day of solo-meditation in nature followed by deep breath work and relaxation.

Authentic, heartfelt communication, as well as increased understanding of oneself and others, are essential aspects of a yoga teacher. Communication skill workshops are part of every training as a way of practicing self-inquiry (svadhyaya) and cultivating a natural state of compassion.

An important part of the Yandara training is understanding and developing our caring, compassionate nature, this a big part of unveiling the radiant teacher inside.

Our training program allows you to learn a significant amount of information quickly; you will embody the knowledge and become a qualified yoga instructor.

The curriculum at Yandara meets and exceeds the Yoga Alliance guidelines. Graduates of Yandara Yoga Teacher Training will be eligible for Yoga Alliance 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification. For more information about this, click here.

DAILY SCHEDULE

(subject to changes)

Arrival: August 15th 15:30 PM
Departure: September 1st 15:00 PM

7:00 – 9:00 Practice and Instruction of yoga flow and walking and sitting meditation.

9:00 Herbal tea and house prepared wholesome breakfast with local fruit and berries, homemade hot cereal and granola, raw and cooked alternatives – a new experience every morning!

10:30 – 13:30 Yoga Class: Teacher Training Practice and Instruction.

13:30 Lunch

15:00 – 18:30 Student teaching time, Individual and group instruction.

19:00 Dinner

20:00 – 21:30 Satsang: meditation, music and kirtan, yoga philosophy and discussion.

Some days will include an extended break for you to relax and explore the local area.

PRICE

Total All-Inclusive Cost: $3,900 USD

This price includes course tuition, manuals, meals, and accommodation (in a twin room).

A $450 deposit is required to reserve your spot, the remaining balance is due 30 days prior to arrival.

Space is limited to 12 students. Spots may well fill in advance. After submitting the deposit, you will receive an email with full details. If you have any questions at any time, please email us at yoga@yandara.com and one of our lead trainers will be available to help you.

BOOK YOUR SPOT

You can view our accommodation options below.
Please note that bringing your own tent is also an option.

For more information on our rooms and facilities, please visit our The Place page.

Twin Bedroom Shared

Triple Bedroom Shared

Your Own Tent or Van

meet the team

Christopher, E-RYT 500

Christopher is the co-founder of Yandara and has over 20 years of meditation and yoga practice, his presence inspires those around him to enter their hearts and connect to their truest potential. Christopher has the gift to bring his students through fun and challenging flow sequences while cultivating the shared awareness that is Yoga. His style is dynamic and intuitive, mixing creative movement with a powerful asana practice. Christopher’s passion for yoga philosophy and yoga psychology is a part of his daily life and weaves naturally into his teachings. Christopher was raised at the SKMC Meditation Center in Bowling Green, Virginia. He requested initiation to a meditation practice at age 4, and while he led a “normal” childhood, he studied with Sant Darshan Singh until age 16. In his early twenties, after attending VCU for fine arts, he spent two years as an apprentice of John P. Milton, training in Sacred Passage (wilderness meditation) and QiGong. This time of deep transformation included several solo wilderness retreats, ranging from 2 to 28 days. In 2005, Christopher travelled to India and Nepal, where he attended teachings and undertook extensive practice in Vipassana Meditation and Tibetan Buddhist Meditation. Christopher founded the Yandara Yoga Institute with his father Craig Perkins in 2003. Since that time he has been facilitating Yoga Teacher Trainings, and continues to inspire and grow with each person he meets. Christopher has studied with many inspired yogi’s across the world, including a 500-hr training with Dharma Mittra, as well as trainings with Guru Dass (Kundalini Yoga), Daniel Odier (Kashmirian Tantra), Shiva Rea (Prana Vinyasa®), Hanneli Francis (Anusara), Baba Hari Das of the Mount Madonna Center, T.K.V. Desikachar (Yoga Therapy), and senior Iyengar teachers Kevin Durkin, Victor Oppenheimer and Gloria Goldberg. Christopher is a registered YACEP® – Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider.

Felix Vogel

Felix is passionate about Yoga as a holistic practice of living a meaningful, authentic and connected life. What matters most to him is how the teachings of Yoga apply to our everyday life outside our mat and how we can integrate them into our relationships with ourselves, others and Nature. Felix loves to teach dynamic Vinyasa and soft Yin, as well as Meditation, Pranayama, Teaching Methodology and Yogic Philosophy. He also loves to share Bhakti, the Yoga of devotion, through music and Mantra chanting.

His path has been shaped by traditional Hatha/Vinyasa Yoga, Zen, Tantra and Neo- Tantra, Spiritual Shamanism as well as Embodiment Work and Psychedelics. While being a passionate, devoted teacher, Felix continues to be a student, exploring modalities from different spiritual traditions to gain deeper understanding of the Great mystery of life.

Felix holds a M. Sc. in Psychology and offers 1:1 counseling work as well as Coaching for Space holders.

Sara Savorani

I’ve always been an active person, loving ballet and practising sports. I’ve always been fully aware of the benefits given by the daily physical exercise, not only for the body, but also for the mind.

I danced for over 20 years.

I met yoga in 2013 when I moved to Australia. At the beginning my interests into the yoga practice was merely physical. Until one day, something clicked, and the yoga took me into the spiritual dimension.

I have been practicing Hot Yoga, Bikram, Ashtanga, Yin, Restorative and Vinyasa. And I have fallen in love with vinyasa. The combination of breath and movement creates a dance on the mat.

For the past 10 years, I have learnt that yoga is a lifestyle and it happens not only on the mat, but also and mainly off the mat. Anything you need is curiosity and playfulness.

I attended my first 200h YTT in 2015, in Mexico at the Yandara Yoga Institute. Since then, I have been practicing all around the world, attending retreats and yoga classes with so many different and beautiful teachers.

After Australia, I rolled out my mat in New Zealand, Dubai, London, United States, Japan, India, Thailand and Bali. I attended my advanced trainings in New York and again in Mexico.

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How to get here

Shambala Gatherings
Borntorpet 1
Skinnskatteberg
Sweden

Located just two hours away from Stockholm in Skinnskatteberg, Sweden, the area is easily accessible by air, train and car, making a great option for a short break wildlife destination.

Coming by air: The nearest airport to Shambala is Stockholm Vasteras. The second nearest airport is Arlanda airport, the main airport in Sweden. You can easily take a train all the way to Skinnskatteberg from both of them.
Coming by train / bus: We are fortunate to have a train / bus station at Skinnskatteberg only 5 minutes ride from the center. We offer free pick up services from this station in summer.
Coming by car: Simply open this Google map on your navigator and follow directions to Borntorpet 1 in Skinnskatteberg, Sweden.

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