Yoga Teacher Training & Certification

Your yoga teacher training at Yandara school emphasizes yoga practice and teaching skills, including organizing a class, creating confidence and making postural corrections. You will learn to teach Hatha Yoga with precision alignment, emphasizing heart-felt energy and meditation. You can use this training as a foundation for any style you choose to teach.

Yandara Yoga Institute has all of the qualities one should look for in a yoga teacher training program  excellent resident faculty; a full schedule and strong curriculum; plenty of hands-on learning/teaching; and even more  pristine ocean front location; an off-the-grid retreat center with solar electricity; organic vegetable/fruit garden; delicious, healthy, well-proportioned meals; and a great local community of musicians, teachers, and yogis. My time at Yandara was thoroughly enjoyable, both as a teacher and a new member of their community and I look forward to many returns."Peter Sterios"
Peter Sterios is an international yoga teacher, a writer and former contributing editor for Yoga Journal, and creator of the DVD "Gravity & Grace: Yoga for Finding Your Inner Teacher". Peter also founded Manduka, eco-yoga products.

I completed my 200 hour training in March 2010, and I can say from the depths of my heart that I wouldn't have done my training anywhere else (and that is saying a lot because I live in NYC, where there are a TON of renowned programs).
Yandara is a program unlike any other, and is a complete immersion, which is something a lot of programs lack. The setting was simply magnificent- imagine being in Baja, sleeping in a (comfortable!!) tent on the beach next to cacti and luscious vegetation, and being able to hear the ocean's rolling waves in the background. All while studying yoga, practicing flows, meditating in the mornings as the sun comes up, and meeting a new family of yogis who you will feel connected to in a very short amount of time. (By the end of the first day, my group was a family. We spent our free time together, chatted after dinners about our lives outside of Yandara and how what we were learning applied to our home setting and environment. We laughed/smiled/cried and BREATHED our way through the training. Together.) That is not even mentioning the amazing staff that was constantly there for us-teaching us new skills and knowledge about yoga, but also allowing us the space to learn about our own selves. (Did I mention that many nights a live kirtan band provided us with jams to dance to, move to, sing to, and chant to!?
 I think that is what sets Yandara apart from any other training-you experience a HUGE amount of growth from start to finish. You will be amazed at how differently you feel at the end of the training-not only will you be confident with your teaching skills, but you will be more aware of your own body, mind and spirit. Yandara is not only a yoga teaching training. It is a transformation.
Bethany L. Murray
NYU 2011

Kirtan musicians "Jaya Band" perform at evening sessions.
        We look forward to sharing our love of yoga with you.

Yandara is in a rural, very safe and crime-free location.
Please visit our "Travel"  page for more information about health and safety.