Join us on a transformative and experiential Integral Vinyasa, Yin, & Karma Yoga  Teacher Training Course designed to take you deep within yourself through the alchemical process of yoga. You will learn the authentic daily practices of shatkarma detox cleansings, pranayama, meditation, and asana in order for you to feel the lightness and vibrations of the yogic life in a modern world. The instructor team trains you to go beyond the physical and mental states so that you learn to speak through your consciousness and live life with equanimity.  Aligning with Yoga Alliance's latest standards of allowing 40 hours of online education, this 200 hour yoga teacher training comprises a pre-arrival preparation phase where you can access today our yoga library, DIY cleansing tools if you wish to begin this practice at home before arriving in Peru, pre-recorded video lessons, a forum, and various other materials for you to begin your study and practice (the pre-arrival phase can be completed post-departure at home as well). The in-person 2-week intensive training with lectures, morning yang active and sunset yin or restorative asana practices, clinics, experiential excursions, and Karma Yoga volunteering make for experiential learning and integration. Finally a review and reflection section to be completed after returning home further allows you to integrate the practices in your daily life. The main goal of this yoga teacher training is to prepare you in the yogic sciences and asana postural practice so that you develop a clear vision for teaching and sharing your love of yoga with the world, and go within to deepen your personal practice and growth.

• 2 Yoga asana & meditation practices daily

• Detox cleansings, pranayama, & meditation practice 

• Amazonian experiential excursions

• Ayurvedic Self-Care daily routines

• Yoga Nidra theory & practice

• Cacao and the heart chakra: a workshop and ceremony

• Yoga philosophy - Study of the Vedic texts

• Anatomy, physiology, & bio-mechanics

• Aqua yoga, yoga dance, head & handstand workshops

• 1-on-1 mentorship integration interviews

• DIY Shatkarma detox cleansing tools workshops

• DIY Yoga props making workshops  

• Fully stocked yoga library

• Complimentary pick up at Tarapoto airport (TPP)

• A 200 hour certificate to register with Yoga Alliance

• A 20 hour certificate in Ayurvedic Self-Care Routines

for Continuing Education with Yoga Alliance 

Through the study of the ancient Vedic texts and an understanding and practice of ancestral yoga -  Jnana Yoga or the yoga of study, Karma Yoga or the yoga of selfless service, Raja Yoga or the yoga of meditation, and Bhakti  Yoga or the yoga of devotion - we come to realize different truths about the world around us and about our essence nature. 

Although learning to teach asana classes is an important part of being a yoga teacher, we strive and hope for you to make a shift in consciousness, perhaps re-assessing old habits or value systems, and live your daily life with more equanimity.

Gain a foundation in alignment-based Integral Vinyasa, Yin  & Karma Yoga, covering traditional asanas, shatkarma, pranayama, meditation, anatomy & bio-mechanics, philosophy, ethics, and the business of yoga. 

Develop an ability to plan and guide asana postural practices of various levels across a spectrum from gentle beginner's classes to vigorous flows that are challenging yet accessible.

Become confident in assisting and adjusting students in proper postural alignment with both verbal cueing and hands-on adjustments. 

Find your voice and unique personal style as a yoga teacher, and internalize that being a great teacher means being a great student. 

Further your own personal asana and beyond-the-mat yoga practice at home as well as deepen your yogic lifestyle through an understanding and daily application of the ancient yogic texts towards developing equanimity, and the Ayurvedic health science of dosha-balancing foods and daily Self-care routines. 

Introduction to the 8 limbs of yoga, moral precepts, and Vedanta philosophy

Shatkarma yogic detox cleansings

Breath as bridge: pranayama breathing control

Guided, object-focused, candle, and other meditation techniques

Teach multi-level asana classes with non-competitive pose variations

Guide students into proper alignment with articulate and intelligent cueing

Communication skills for compassion and holding space

Asana labs to refine postural alignment of primary postures

Progressive sequencing teaching methodology

Mobility, flexibility, and deep fascia

Gravity stretching: Yin & Creative Restorative Yoga

The business of yoga - channels, social media

How to find your own unique voice as a Yoga Teacher

This training is designed to activate the inner healer within you and cultivate the wisdom that leads to purpose and passion. Each day is layered with practices focused on setting the bases for a strong foundation in Self-care and equanimity through Ayurvedic routines, and in primary asanas, their alignments, modifications, and adjustments, weight distribution and baring, to help you build healthy movement habits as a yoga teacher.

Our teachings are based on the ancient Vedic  texts of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Hatha Yoga Pradipika to discover both yogic routine and philosophical path to self-inquiry. 

Rooted in the belief that every being has a purpose and voice to share, this training inspires your unique gifts to be expressed authentically.   

Whether you are beginning your yoga journey or are an advanced asana practitioner searching to expand your knowledge, this yoga teacher training will deepen your yoga practice, detox your body and mind, and bring you confidence and inspiration to become a joyful and knowledgeable yoga teacher. 

The largest hourly aspect of the training, entailing various practices that will inform your experience and ability to translate practice safely and authentically into teaching. Kriyas, pranayama, meditation, mantra, asana posture labs, etc.  

Develop the knowledge and confidence to share yoga with others in a way that can transform and impact their lives. You will learn communications skills for compassion, intelligent sequencing and cueing, asana alignment and adjustments, business and legal aspects of teaching yoga, and how to teach from your authentic self creating and leading original classes.

Classes will cover both medical anatomy such as bodily systems, muscle groups, and the joints, but also subtle body anatomy like the chakras, nadis, and koshas. This includes the study of the subjects and the application of their principles to yoga practice, such as benefits or contraindications. Some additional topics to be covered include fascia and connective tissue, elasticity and plasticity, and the Golgi Tendon Organ.

Through the study of ancient Vedic texts, we will discuss many important points that deal with human existence and how the practice of yoga can help us reach higher states of consciousness and happiness. Classes will cover the ancestral trilogy of yoga, Patanjali's 8-limb path, and the modification of the fluctuations of the mind.

Constructive feedback about your teaching will be given by both fellow students and trainers to allow you to hear students’ perspectives, improve, and find your unique voice and style as a teacher. Classes will cover practicing teaching as lead instructor, receiving and giving feedback, observing others teaching, and assisting while someone else is teaching.

The Sanskrit word ‘Vinyasa’ translates as “to place in a special way”, and Vinyasa Yog is thus characterized by fluidly stringing asana postures together, with each movement synchronized with the breath. The style is vigorous and movement-intensive based on a continuous flow from one asana to the next, and offers a wide variety of postures which means that, unlike the rigidity of Ashtanga yoga sequences, no two Vinyasa classes are ever alike. Faster-paced than Hatha yoga, Vinyasa yoga classes involve progressively increasing body heat -and sweat- and building strength. It teaches us to cultivate an awareness that links each action to the next, both on the mat and in our lives.

During this training, you will learn Vinyasa yoga methods to assess the needs of individual students or groups, and then build a complementary, step by step practice to meet those needs. In addition to the postures you will learn during Hatha yoga classes (many of which transpose into Vinyasa), you will practice Ashtanga sun salutations A & B, plank pose, four-limbed staff pose, cat-cow stretches, side plank, cobra, grasshopper, as well as many other and more advanced asanas such as arm balances, headstands, inversions, and handstands techniques.

The Sanskrit word ‘Hatha’ means force and alludes to a system of physical techniques comprised of asanas, pranayama, kriyas, mudras, and meditation. As such, Hatha yoga is actually an umbrella term for most types of yoga teaching physical postures, meaning nearly every yoga style is Hatha yoga. With ‘Ha’ meaning the sun and ‘tha’ the moon, this practice aims to balance these two energies to prepare the body for deeper spiritual practices like meditation. As ancient asanas were not merely postures but instead mudras, they were intended to seal and channel prana within the body.

Hatha yoga as a style is a relatively gentle and slow practice characterized by longer static posture holds than most other styles. In spite of this however, practice can still be physically and mentally challenging. Classes will typically start with a gentle warm-up and then progress to more physically challenging postures.

While the majority of yoga styles deriving from Hatha Yoga are known as "yang" styles for their vigorous and  flow-based approach to movement that mainly targets muscles, there is another, equally important and often neglected style that is opposite: yin yoga - where we focus on deep connective tissues, like the fascia, ligaments, joints, and bones, and on releasing tension, tightness, on relaxing body, breath, and on exploring stillness.  

Yin Yoga is a slow and gentle practice where you're holding postures for 3-5 or more minutes, stretching less-often used tissues, finding comfort in your edge and turning inward, tuning into your breath and your thoughts. Props? Yes, please! Bolsters, blankets, blocks and eye pillows support practitioners restricted in certain movements, and allow for a more meditative practice. 

Yin Yoga offers various opportunities for deepening one's practice. From physical stretching to quieting the mind, these can support sitting in meditation practice for longer periods of time.

Tantra yoga originates from a worship of the Hindu deities that represent the dynamic and static principles of the universe: Shakti (dynamic, creative, feminine) and Shiva (static, destructive, masculine). In Tantra yoga, practitioners seek to comprehend the continual play between these principles and study the universe through the human microcosm, focusing on the purification and cultivation of prana to awaken the cosmic energy that is present in the human body and allowing it to ascend through the chakras to resolve duality into unity.

The Tantra yoga component of this training weaves together many practices including Karma, Bhakti, Raja, mantras, chakras and bandha energy locks to develop your bodies’ subtle energies, working to bring the spiritual and material worlds into one. Through the exploration of these energies, your life’s purpose and connection with others can be understood in a new dimension.

Tantra yoga is about intimacy, which can either mean with a partner physically or by yourself with your own breath, thoughts, and aspirations. Whether practiced alone to get in touch with your own subtle body energies or with a partner to deepen your relationship, Tantra yoga will help you get in tune with your authentic self and break down barriers in a unique and meaningful way.

Yoga Nidra, or yogic sleep, is a deceptively simple form of meditation and mind-body therapy through which the practitioner rests in savasana (corpse pose) guided through the pancha maya kosha (five layers of self) to reach a deep state of relaxation between waking and sleeping, like the "going-to-sleep" stage, while maintaining consciousness. As the face relaxes and the jaw softens, you are guided through several stages. You first set an intention for the practice, then focus your awareness on breath, bodily sensations, emotions, and thoughts, consciously aware, observing, witnessing.

A proven antidote to anxiety, Yoga Nidra produces a sense of joy and well-being, better sleep, and has the potential to heal psychological wounds. It has been used to treat veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, substance abuse patients, and people suffering from stress.

During the practice we aim to restore our body, senses, and mind to their natural function to feel wholeness and tranquility and to become increasingly and systematically aware of our inner world. Practiced regularly, the elements of yoga nidra make up a sophisticated set of tools that can help practitioners navigate some of life's more challenging moments.

We live in a vibratory universe where everything we sense, feel, see and touch is pure energy, or particles of energy vibrating. As such, the basic principle of sound healing is this concept of resonance of vibratory frequencies of objects, which includes human beings. If we are not resonating with some part of ourselves or our surroundings, we become dissonant and without harmony, which can create illness.

Although healing with sound is believed to date back to ancient Greece, recent research has linked music to a number of health benefits, from boosting immune function and lowering stress levels to improving your body’s functions such as blood pressure, and even breathing. Sound is measured in terms of Frequency of Hertz (Hz), and sound therapy is the application of healing frequencies to the physical and subtle energy fields around the body.

During this training, you will witnessing a few instruments and tools such as tuning forks, singing bowls, ocean drums, koshi bells, but also Om and mantra chanting.

Dinacharya is the Ayurvedic practice of having a daily self-care routine, Dina meaning day, sun, or flow, and Charya meaning practice or conduct. Dinacharya rituals were established to maintain the body in harmony with the natural cycles and rhythms of the day, and emphasize the mornings as your most sacred time, as these hours create the foundation for the rest of your day.

Waking up before the sunrise, conducting a body and mind scan, daily intention setting, brushing your teeth, scraping your tongue, oil pulling, neti, nasya, eye washing, body scrubbing or dry brushing, oleation (Abhanga), bathing, meditating, foot massaging, and scalp oils, are all parts of an Ayurvedic self-care routine for that radiant glow inside and out.

Taking the time to nurture yourself each day really is a meditation on self-love which promotes self-respect. Bring your Ayurvedic self-care routine beyond  physical radiance and turn it into a sacred ritual for cultivating true beauty: radiant self-love.

Because feedback is essential for growth, as part of your professional development you will receive each week a private mentorship session with an instructor, which will serve both as an opportunity for you to ask questions regarding the training or the avenues available to you as a yoga teacher, while the instructor will compassionately share feedback from his or her observations thus far.

The idea is to assist you in your transformational growth as you progress through the training, and by means of constructive conversation you are assigned clear action items for growth.

We believe in not spending the entire duration of the training in a classroom or yoga shala, but instead to go out in nature to experience and put into practice some of the concepts we study. For example our excursion to Tingana eco-reserve is comprised of a silent meditational canoe ride in Amazon wetlands and asana practice in nature, and our Karma Yoga selfless service group project focuses on giving back to the local communities

We welcome all dedicated yoga students ready to develop and grow their yoga practice on and off the mat while embracing elements of the yogic lifestyle and striving for equanimity. 

Before signing up for our 200 hour Integral Vinyasa, Yin & Karma Yoga Teacher Training, we recommend that you have practiced any yoga style for four to six months in studio classes or self-practice or have a background in another movement discipline. You do not need to know any inversions, arm balances or advanced postures.

More than anything, we ask that you come with an open mind and open heart, receptive to learning new knowledge and with a willingness to be supportive to yourself and others.

06:00 - 07:00   Kriyas / Shatkarma detox cleansings,  pranayama, & meditation

07:00 - 08:30   Asana postural practice (Vinyasa flow)

08:30 - 09:30   Breakfast 

09:30 - 10:30   Philosophy

10:30 - 11:30   Anatomy, physiology, and bio-mechanics

11:30 - 12:30   Teaching methodology

12:30 - 14:30   Lunch

14:30 - 15:30   Asana Labs & Body-Alignment practicum

15:30 - 16:00   Meditation practice

16:00 - 17:30   Asana postural practice (Yin Yoga)

17:30 - 19:00   Dinner

19:00 - 20:00   Yoga Nidra, Trataka candle meditation, massage for savasana practice

20:00 - 22:30   Practicum preparation, Self-study

Taking place on the evening of the last day of the training (after the training is over - you must book an extra night at the hotel), this ceremony will be held in an atmospheric space (the yoga shala) which contains a mattress, a blanket, cushions and bolsters for each participant, allowing you to comfortably lie down. The ceremony starts with the establishment of your intentions, and during the 5-6 hour journey you will be carried away by accompanying icaros (traditional plant medicine signing) and you will be supported by a loving, experienced curandero or shaman and some of your yoga teachers as guides. Our curandero/shaman is further familiar with spiritual and energetic work and has a lot of experience in life, in drinking Ayahuasca, and in guiding ceremonies.

Upon graduation you will receive a 200-hour certificate from Moksha Yoga Amazónica, a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga School (RYS). You will use your certificate to register with Yoga Alliance. This is the standard procedure to become a 200 hour Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT200).

Pricing includes the entire cost of the 200-hour teacher training with Moksha Yoga Amazonica, immediate access to our pre-arrival preparation module and yoga library, room and 3 meals each day, 1-on-1 mentorship integration session with an instructor during the in-person training, all excursions, your choice of our cork or anti-slip yoga mat, the Moksha Yoga Amazonica meditation mala and tank top, a 200-hour certificate to register with Yoga Alliance as a 200 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT200) + 20 hrs of Continuing Education credits with Yoga Alliance in Ayurvedic Self-Care Routines.

Shared room (two queen beds) : 2445$

Private room (one queen bed) : 2925$

2 people private room (one queen bed) : 5045$

2 people private room (one king bed) : 5245$

Come feel the music on this sacred journey into ancient arts and explore the alchemical process of yoga in its many forms, combining science with the path of the heart and cultivating self-love in a 200 hour yoga teacher training devoted to spiritual growth. You will deepen your ability to be centered, present in life, and engaged with the world so that you can better spread mindful movement and inspire wellness through your love of sharing yoga. We look forward to welcoming you as part of our community.