During these nine nourishing days together, you will explore the practices and principles of Yin and Restorative yoga. You will prioritize the body-mind-spirit connection and the cultivation of a calmer state of being through these daily regenerative and healing yoga practices. Yandara welcomes dedicated practitioners and yoga teachers to attend this course simply as a yoga retreat to deepen your practice or for Yoga Alliance Continuing Education (YACEP) credits.
The approach is all about teaching yoga from the heart. This setting and approach help cultivate a love of yoga, for your students, and yourself.
They welcome dedicated practitioners and yoga teachers to attend this course simply as a yoga retreat to deepen your practice or for Yoga Alliance Continuing Education (YACEP) credits.
7:00 AM to 9:00 AM - Practice and Instruction of yoga flow and walking and sitting meditation.
9:00 AM - Herbal tea and house-prepared tropical breakfast with local fruit, homemade hot cereal and agave nectar – a new experience every morning!
9:30 AM to 12:30 PM -Yoga Class: Teacher Training Practice and Instruction.
12:30 PM: Lunch - Delicious vegetarian meals are served buffet style. (fresh local fish and dairy may be served on occasion)
2:00 PM 6:00 PM - Student teaching time, Individual and group instruction.
6:00 PM: Dinner - Delicious vegetarian meals are served buffet style. (fresh local fish and dairy may be served on occasion)
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM - Satsang: meditation, music and kirtan, yoga philosophy and discussion.
The course/hours count as Continuing Education hours for Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®) only.
The staff has refined the process of integrating yoga training within this natural setting being mindful that your environment is integral to your learning process. Away from your hectic everyday life, you’ll discover an inner peace with the mountains at your back and the warmth of the soft sea breeze on your face.
The approach is all about teaching yoga from the heart. This setting and approach help cultivate a love of yoga, for your students, and yourself.
They welcome dedicated practitioners and yoga teachers to attend this course simply as a yoga retreat to deepen your practice or for Yoga Alliance Continuing Education (YACEP) credits.
Yin yoga includes longer-held, therapeutic seated, and floor postures, supported by props, to optimize the range of motion and energy flow through the joint tissue, while emphasizing hip and lower back health. Yin yoga cultivates inner listening, heightened awareness and intuition, acceptance, and compassion
Restorative yoga focuses on deep relaxation of the nervous system while enhancing your body’s ability to regenerate and restore itself on multiple levels of body, mind, and spirit. These deeply restful poses are completely passive and fully supported by yoga props. Ahhhh!
Topics explored
Yin and Restorative Yoga Desserts - Learn how to incorporate energetic hands-on assists, sound healing, mantra, aromatherapy, poetry, inspirational quotes, and live music into your Yin and Restorative yoga classes.
This training includes Allison Eaton’s new manual, "Yintuition – A Guide to Yin & Restorative Yoga"
Program details
A 200-hour YTT certificate from Yandara Yoga or another Yoga Alliance-approved YTT for those who wish to fulfill 100 hours toward their 300-hour certification. Prerequisite of six months of dedicated yoga practice for those who simply want to deepen their practice with this training.
Purchase and read “The Relaxation Response” by Dr. Herbert Benson. Attend 5 Yin or Restorative yoga classes or take 5 online classes.
A journal, pens, a relaxing eye pillow, and two myofascial/ trigger point release balls (any brand, i.e. Kieba Massage Lacrosse Balls or Mandala Yoga Massage balls), your favorite essential oils, poems, and inspirational quotes.
During this teacher training, you will be served three daily delicious locally-sourced meals. For breakfast, herbal tea, papaya, banana, handmade fresh roasted granola, oatmeal, and boiled eggs will be available. For brunch, delicious vegetarian meals are served buffet-style with eggs and dairy as an option.
For dinner, you will have a healthy and delicious vegetarian meal, which includes dairy and eggs, and will be served buffet style. At Yandara Institute, the meals are prepared with attention, fulfilling the nutritional demands of an intensive yoga program.
Students are always amazed and impressed by the wholesome cuisine created by the Yandara kitchen chefs. Meals are prepared with attention, fulfilling the nutritional demands of an intensive yoga program. The abundant meals are prepared with love and with quality ingredients. Organic when available. Yandara meals are primarily vegetarian, fresh local fish, boiled eggs, and dairy are optional.
The kitchen team works closely with unique dietary needs, and allergies, and special diets (gluten-free, dairy-free, and vegan) are easily accommodated. Students always enjoy the little extras such as the always full fruit bowl, herbal tea station, drinking water, and special homemade dressings and sauces.
Every meal is a surprise and students always look forward to mealtime! Favorites include Bolo’s Pad Thai, April’s Green Papaya Salad, and stone-ground whole-grain pesto pizza.
In Baja, Yandara cultivates fresh kitchen herbs and vegetables in their own organic garden, where students are always welcome. They have papayas, bananas, oranges, and mangos in their orchard. Special to the Baja training are baked potato days with fresh finely chopped garden herbs (fresh dill, chives, rosemary, basil, and thyme), fresh local Dorado with garden basil pesto, garden beet and chard salad with balsamic dressing, and samosas with garden-fresh parsley/cilantro chutney.
Yandara mainly serves vegetarian cuisine. Mostly beans, grains, and fresh vegetables. They serve fresh locally caught fish twice a week. They serve organic food as much as possible. They are able to accommodate allergies to gluten, lactose, and nuts. As they are a small facility, they are not able to accommodate Paleo, raw, or other extreme diets. Please consider your dietary needs if you have a concern.
Some popular dishes are pad thai, vegetable enchiladas, sweet and sour tofu with broccoli, grilled mahi-mahi (fish) with herbs, coconut curry, samosas with cilantro chutney, house-designed gourmet pizza, quinoa, basil pasta, and lentil soup.
Sample menu
Breakfast buffet
Herbal tea
Fresh papaya and banana
Organic oatmeal
House-roasted granola
Hard-boiled eggs (served daily)
Lunch
“Make your own” Tostada buffet (cheese, beans, an assortment of toppings and salsas on baked corn tostadas)
Dinner
Vegetable curry with organic brown rice and salad
Fresh fruit, tea, and water are always available.
The following meals are included:
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The following dietary requirement(s) are served and catered for:
