21 days 200h Tantra & Ayurveda Yoga Teacher Training

With Katherine Sophia, MNLM, BS and Laura Hassler

March 9 - 28, 2020

Address: Alto Boquete, Panama

Contact: yiayogapanama@gmail.com

  • $2,398.00 – *EARLY BIRD* Shared Room in Shared Villa (1 person)
  • $2,598.00 – *EARLY BIRD* Private Room in Shared Villa (1 person)
  • $3,198.00 – *EARLY BIRD* Private Villa (1 person)
  • $2,698.00 – Shared Room in Shared Villa (1 person)
  • $2,898.00 – Private Room in Shared Villa (1 person)
  • $3,498.00 – Private Villa (1 person)

Short Summary

Expand your knowledge and significance of the expansive world and holistic approach of yoga and Ayurveda by joining us for a 200-hour advanced yoga teacher training in the picturesque calming tropical mountains of beautiful Boquete, Panama.
During this journey, you will explore the wisdom and abundant compassion of tantric philosophy to further illuminate the innate goodness and empower unconditional love for yourself and those around you.
You will tap into the energy of sacred sexuality by exploring brahmacharya and expand the love, acceptance, and proper care of your physical body, your private temple, through the guidance of Ayurvedic practices.
You will explore various types of meditation, physical alignment of postures, safe adjustment techniques, yoga anatomy, chakras, nadis, and much more.
Most importantly, you will hold sacred space for each one of you as you journey through your personal transformation, united as one.

What will I learn in this training?

You will learn invaluable life lessons that will shift, not only the way you see yourself, but also the way you see the world around you.
We have seen it happen again and again with our students. It is truly inspiring and incredible to witness.
From a mental and spiritual perspective, we strive to empower you to gain a greater understanding of:
• Self-love
• Gratitude
• Non-judgment
• Awareness and greater control over your thoughts
• Surrendering what you cannot control
• Trusting in the universe, embracing the philosophy that everything is exactly as it should be
• Embracing positive thinking
• Further understanding the powerful balance of embracing the Yin and Yang in our lives
• Gaining further knowledge and experience the power of meditation, contemplation, and self-inquiry
From a physical perspective, we will teach you about:
• Yoga anatomy
• Safe and effective yoga adjustments
• Advanced sequencing
• Asana transitioning
• Working with special populations
• Benefits and dangers of yoga
• Ayurvedic body types and Ayurvedic nutrition
• Teaching from your authentic voice
• Understanding the energetic bodies – chakras, nadis, and the law of attraction

We are dedicated to taking you beyond the asana and expanding your knowledge of the wholeness of yoga to empower transformation in your own life.
We offer intimate group settings with 10 to 15 people per session to give you the time and attention you deserve. We teach vinyasa but encourage and empower our students to teach a style of yoga that most resonates with them.
Below you will find the strength and power of our teacher training design. It possesses the heart and soul of our vision for our students.
Our design is created with you in mind, prioritizing your personal growth, yoga education exploration and transformation first and foremost.
This course is designed to be intimate and personal in order to fully support individual transformational growth in a safe, calming and supportive environment.
We make time for you: time for you to express yourself, to share your ideas, your visions, your goals, and desires.
By keeping our training groups small, it allows for the one-on-one attention and teaching time you deserve to transform you from a student to a teacher.
At many yoga teacher trainings, students leave without even have had the opportunity to teach a complete asana class, not with us!
Upon completion of our training, you will feel confident in your ability to guide an inspirational yoga class using your authentic teaching style to empower your students.
Our trainers are able to hold sacred space filled with unconditional love, transparency, non-judgment, and open communication, yet at the same time understand their “humanness”.
United we build an unbreakable foundation empowering you to feel comfortable within your own skin within our yoga family.
Instead of telling you what we think you should believe, we use motivational interviewing techniques and guided exercises to empower you to choose your own path.
We guide and empower you to teach from your authentic voice and style. Although this is an alignment based vinyasa training, we encourage our students to teach a style of yoga that is most authentic to them.
Students training with us have left teaching, not only vinyasa but Yin, Restorative, Power Yoga, AcroYoga, Partner Yoga, Yoga Nidra, yoga for kids and Thai Yoga Massage (to name a few).
We empower you to shift the way you look at the world and assist you to the best of our ability in putting on a “positive lens”.
Along with the above foundational support, you will also have access to a plethora of educational resources to enhance your learning including:
• Daily asana practice
• Daily meditations including, but not limited to: Metta meditation (loving-kindness), vipassana (practicing equanimity through breath and body awareness) and guided gratitude meditations
• We will explore ancient yoga philosophy and learn how to adapt these powerful teachings into our modern day life to further enhance our happiness, compassion, equanimity, and gratitude
• We will web together teachings from Tantric Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, and Shamanism, but respect & honor for all belief systems is always held
• Each student will receive an Ayurvedic body type quiz and gain access to valuable teachings on Ayurvedic Health according to your dosha
• You will also receive the Eclectic Energies Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator Personality Test and access to The 16 Personalities Quiz to assist you in self-study, self-love, and self-acceptance
• Together we will investigate and anatomize the most important yoga postures including alignment, adjustment, transitions, anatomy, and Sanskrit using our specially designed posture clinic worksheet
• You will gain a clear understanding of advanced sequencing and learn how to build a safe, effective and inspirational yoga class using our class design worksheets made just for you!
• You will be empowered to teach using your authentic voice and gain vital communication skills

About the Leaders

Katherine Sophia, MNLM, BS

Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500 (Yoga) Katherine Sophia is a passion driven visionary social entrepreneur and triathlete on a mission to be of service by connecting people to the Divine light, joy and abundance of life force energy that exists within each and every one of us. She is a Master Level Yogini, 70.3 Ironman Finisher, […]

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Laura Hassler

Laura is a deeply curious & truly enthusiastic person that lives according to her motto “Explore. Dream. Discover.” After traveling to 40 countries on 5 continents, she felt called to explore within, and so she started her yoga journey with YiA Yoga in November 2018. Passing the 200h Yoga Teacher Training with Lead Trainer Kaytee […]

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