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 18 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!
For more information about Yandara Yoga Institute, please visit their website: https://yandara.com
“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!”
“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”.
Breath and Meditation Teacher Training with Yandara Yoga
This program will give you the tools you need to enrich your classes and deepen your personal practice. We work with Yoga and Breathwork to charge the body and breath; Mindfulness and Buddhist Meditation techniques to still the mind; Intention and Guided Meditation to find clarity; and Sound and Mantra Meditation to take the mind to a state beyond the ordinary.
You will learn a variety of Breath & Meditation techniques and sequences to bring back to your home practice and to your students. We welcome all dedicated yoga students/teachers who are interested in enhancing their yoga and meditation skills. If you have previously completed a 200-hour Yoga Alliance approved teacher training, you will be able to use this training towards Yandara’s 300hr advanced program.
DAILY SCHEDULE
(subject to changes)
Some days will include an extended break for you to relax and explore the local area
PRICE
Total All-Inclusive Cost: $1950 USD
If you have any questions, please email yoga@yandara.com
BOOK YOUR SPOTYou 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
Soulpad Glamping Tent (double bed) – lake view, heating and electricity
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.
He 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.
He 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.
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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.