Central America · 14 days
The curriculum is fixed and cumulative: each day builds on the one before, and the subjects are designed to feed each other. You will do daily yoga practice as taught by the great masters, then take it apart in the asana lab — what the actions inside the forms actually are, and how to explain them to a room of people w…
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Central America · 14 days
The curriculum is fixed and cumulative: each day builds on the one before, and the subjects are designed to feed each other. You will do daily yoga practice as taught by the great masters, then take it apart in the asana lab — what the actions inside the forms actually are, and how to explain them to a room of people who don't move the same way. Hands-on anatomy covers how the body works and why a yoga teacher needs to know. Chakra experiences look at the energetic layers and how they show up in daily life. Meditation and chanting teach you to settle a busy mind, and you'll be leading those sessions yourself by the end.
Yoga philosophy goes past asana into why the practice exists and what it means now. The business-of-yoga module covers launching your own brand and finding work. You get a training manual to work through and keep. The school says the curriculum and daily schedule were put together with input from educators around the world, and that the whole thing is accredited by Yoga Alliance — you finish with the official credential.
What separates this from a generic 200-hour course is the length of the teaching record behind it. Marianne has been training instructors for over 25 years, and students who trained with her now teach in more than 60 countries. The school has been running retreats every year and is now expanding beyond Central America to Bali, Spain and Mexico. The page also carries a line from someone in the industry saying it is one of the top five destination yoga trainings in the world — worth weighing as a quote rather than a fact, but it is not nothing.
Expect to be tired and to be corrected. One former student, Catlin from the USA, put it as Marianne teaching you to be more than just an average vinyasa teacher. Another, Jonna from Sweden, went home and used what she learned on her physiotherapy patients. Tracy from Canada came with an MS diagnosis and regular pain and described her two weeks living the yoga-Ayurveda lifestyle as her first pain-free weeks in three years.
The setting is a residential retreat centre, so the training and the living happen in the same place. Meals are cooked on site and described as a delicious organic diet, with an Ayurveda lifestyle thread running through the fortnight — understanding your own tendencies and how to bring them back into balance. You are not expected to arrive flexible or experienced. You are expected to arrive and do the work.
- Yoga Alliance certification - Daily yoga practice - Asana lab sessions - Hands-on anatomy teaching - Chakra experiences - Yoga philosophy classes - Meditation and chanting - Gourmet organic meals daily - Ayurveda lifestyle teaching - Business of yoga module - Training manual - Lifelong mentoring from Marianne
- Travel to and from the retreat - Airport transfers (not stated as included) - Travel insurance - Personal expenses - Yoga Alliance registration fees (not stated as included)