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February 24 – March 14, 2025
With more than 10 years of YTT experience and having led over 25 200hr yoga teacher training programs around the world, Yoga Academy International is considered one of the top yoga teacher trainings out there. Whether you’re new to yoga or you’ve been practicing for ages, this is your next step…
Dive deeper, learn more about your own mind-body connection, get to know yourself better! Learn about muscles, yoga posture alignment, yoga philosophy. Live by the beach. Be outside and active every day, eat delicious healthy food. Be in a community of other like-minded travellers… THIS is that place!
WHEN YOU GRADUATE OUR PROGRAM YOU WILL BE CERTIFIED TO TEACH YOGA ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
YOGA ACADEMY INTERNATIONAL’S ACCREDITED 200HR YOGA TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM HAS BEEN RANKED AS ONE OF THE BEST IN THE WORLD.
OUR STUDENTS HAVE DESCRIBED OUR TRAINING AS “LIFE CHANGING!”, “PARADISE” AND “THE BEST DECISION I EVER MADE!”.
While our yoga teacher training is vinyasa based, you’ll also get to experience other styles of yoga like Yin Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Kundalini Yoga and Ashtanga yoga.
Take this course for you! Yes, you will learn so much about yoga alignment and theory, but we also place a BIG focus on personal growth and getting to know yourself better! You’ll learn alignment of yoga postures, adjustments, and how to effectively guide your future students. You’ll also learn tools to better your own life, on and off the mat so that you can live more passionately and authentically.
Our graduates have gone on to teach yoga internationally, lead retreats, open their own studios and work with huge wellness industry brands. About 50% of our students simply take this training to deepen their own yoga practice, get to know themselves better and get a much needed break to reassess where they are at in life. Many don’t go on to teach.
We promise to nurture and support you toward becoming the happiest you have ever been. Our caring team of teachers provides a compassionate and safe space for you to explore your own yoga evolution. We have decades of yoga, movement, mindfulness and meditation experience. We are here for you so that you can thrive, providing you with a safe and loving space every step of the way.
Our 200hr yoga teacher training is internationally recognized and yoga alliance registered.
Our schedule is 5 days on 1 day off. Days off are so you can relax, enjoy and explore. Take surf lessons, go zip lining, take a boat trip, go horseback riding, get a massage, or simply laze by the pool.
Our 200hr yoga teacher training takes place at a completely private, retreat centre ON THE BEACH in Popoyo, a world famous surf destination. This spot just got voted #7 on the top 25 places to visit in 2025 by Condenast Traveller! The beach goes on for miles and it is really a picture of paradise. Pristine, tranquil and with some of the best sunsets you’ll ever see in your life.
We’re just 3hrs from the Costa Rica (LIR) airport. Our location is gorgeous, safe and secure. You can walk from the Shala right out on to the sands of the Pacific Coast of Guasacate Beach, and surf right out front! There’s a yoga Shala, pool, philosophy space, dining area and big, modern rooms for our students. It’s super cute!
GETTING HERE: There are many options for getting to us. You can fly into Liberia, Costa Rica (LIR) airport or Managua, Nicaragua (MGA) and we can have our retreat center partners arrange your transfer to us. Once you register for the up you’ll receive more info on getting here. Our partners at the retreat center can also help you with transport to us!
We always have at least 3 but usually 4-6 teachers at EVERY 200hr yoga teacher training. We take a maximum of 16 people! We believe in small group sizes and individual attention. Our teachers are more like personal mentors for you.
Your lead teacher has been teaching yoga for over 15 years and has led 37 yoga teacher trainings. She has accumulated more than 10,000 formal training hours. Your co-teachers have years of experience and thousands of hours of formal yoga education.
We are know globally as one of the top rated yoga schools in the world. We have raised the bar and set a new standard for yoga education. In training with us you will be getting a top tier yoga education
We handpick gorgeous, inspiring and special locations for each and every training. We are obsessed with food! We source local ingredients, use local chefs and at all of your residential yoga teacher trainings, your meals and stay are always included.
Yoga Academy International is a recognized and registered yoga school with the international Yoga Alliance. When you graduate our course you will be certified and eligible to teach yoga anywhere in the world. On completion of this course can register with Yoga Alliance as RYT-200.
February 24 – March 14, 2025
★ 21 nights stay
★ private ocean-front retreat center
★ 3 meals locally sourced, organic meals per day
★ Full Yoga Teacher Training program
★ Course manual
★ Full retreat center access- pools, yoga spaces, living room & library
★ Yoga Alliance certification
includes your stay, meals + full yoga training
We prefer an intimate experience where we get to know each and every one of our students and give them the individual attention they deserve.
We host a maximum of 14-18 students at each training or retreat.
We have at least 4 teachers at EVERY 200hr yoga teacher training.
We want you to get a variety of perspectives, a diverse education and a wide range of class styles.
At all of our teacher trainings you will be surrounded by nature and can watch sunset every day (sunset is very important to us).
You will get to explore your practice in mind, body and spirit while also being immersed in the beauty of the natural world.
While demanding, our program truly prepares our students for professional careers in yoga.
Our students have a very high success rate when they leave us. Many have gone on to open their own studios, lead international yoga retreats, teach at conferences and festivals, open successful coaching businesses and more.
70% of our graduates come back for more trainings! We must be doing something right…
Not only do our students come back for more trainings with us, they often come back and visit during our 200hr programs just to hang out at Yoga Academy again, take our morning flows and be part of our community.
We love what we do and we are committed to creating the best programs possible. Our teachers are continuously going back to school and taking trainings ourselves.
Even if you don’t plan to teach yoga professionally, take this training FOR YOU.
We promise that you will learn so much about yourself, your dreams, your goals, your desires and your physical body during this training experience. We believe EVERYONE should take a yoga training like this, simply to better your own life and live each day with more vitality.
We want you to thrive. We want you to find the best of yourself. We will encourage you to live joyfully and we will mentor you every step of the way.
Yoga has given us the gift of greater happiness and understanding ourselves better. We want to give you the opportunity to get out of your head and into your heart too. We are here to offer you tools to live a more happy, passionate life and be surrounded by gorgeous nature every day! We believe in positive experiences with amazing people, working hard and spending time outdoors!
Our team of yoga and health professionals share one common love: helping others achieve balance in their lives, finding inner-peace and contentment. They strive to see beauty in the everyday and appreciate life for all it has to offer. We want to pass on this way of interpreting the world to you. We want you to feel at ease in your body so you can get to know your soul.
the reasons to take our 200hr hour yoga teacher training are endless. Even if you don’t plan to teach yoga professionally, this experience will take you on a journey of self discovery. Allow yourself the space to take an objective look at your life while immersing yourself in a truly healing and transformative retreat. We welcome yogis of all ages and levels.
Our personal insights and our proven process will give you an expanded awareness not only as a teacher, but more importantly as a human being. In short, our mission is to inspire you to BE the best version of YOU – on and off the yoga mat. Learn, explore and grow in a safe and supportive environment..
A non-refundable deposit is required to reserve your space in this yoga teacher training program. Your initial deposit is not refundable under any circumstances.
Payment plans are available. The full remaining balance owing of the course is due 21-days prior to the start date of the yoga teacher training program.
A full refund, minus the deposit fee will be offered for cancellations made more than 60-days prior to the start date of the yoga teacher training program.
Refunds will not be offered on cancellations made less than 60-days in advance. Refunds will not be given to students who fail to show up for the program for any reason. Refunds are not offered more than 60-days in advance for any reason.
Once a Yoga Teacher Training Participant arrives to our program location, your space in the program has been accounted for and therefore we cannot offer a refund for any reason. There will be no refunds offered for participants who leave our program after arrival.
At Yoga Academy International we adhere to a Code of Conduct that we ask our students to follow in order to maintain a safe and loving environment. If a yoga student is in violation of our Code of Conduct and being particularly disruptive during our program (i.e. being rude to other students and staff, inviting guests in to his or her room from outside of the training, bringing drugs or alcohol on to our teacher training property, sexual harassment or sexual violence of any kind) that student may be asked to leave our program. If a yoga teacher training student is asked to leave our program that student will not be offered a refund.
If a yoga teacher training participant leaves our program after arrival for any reason, the yoga teacher training participant is responsible for all arrangements and costs associated with travel and accommodation for their departure from our yoga teacher training program.
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