Take your teaching to the next level and THRIVE as a yoga professional.
Soma Yoga Institute is pleased to offer this 300-Hour Advanced Teacher Training Course as an immersion. Experience a revolutionary yoga training that embraces a therapeutic approach and celebrates diversity in ALL bodies. Deepen your understanding of anatomy-informed alignment, therapeutics, instructing level 2 poses safely, restorative techniques, multidimensional sequencing, and mindful vinyasa.
Includes yoga for the private client, philosophy, meditation, pranayama, Ayurveda, Yoga Nidra, and more. Are you a passionate teacher who is ready to deepen your knowledge base, build your confidence, teach with more authenticity, expand your repertoire, and elevate your impact in sharing yoga as a catalyst for personal and global transformation?
This course is for you. Join us and be a driving force of positive change in your community.
Alignment System informed by Anatomy & Biomechanics
Mindful Vinyasa Flow Methodology
Therapeutic Applications of Yoga
Accessible Practices & Adaptations for ALL BODIES
Sequencing to Level 2 poses safely
Teaching for Active Seniors and Limited Mobility
Trauma, Your Nervous System and How Yoga Heals
Teaching Yoga Nidra, Multi-modal Yin, and Restorative
Advanced Verbal and Physical Assisting
Instructed by experienced C-IAYT Yoga Therapists
Enhance Your Observation & Teaching Skills
Apply Ayurveda to the Asanas and other practices
Energetic Anatomy and Prana Vidya-Practice
Teaching Meditation and Pranayama
Life-Affirming Tantric Philosophy
Cultivation of your Yoga Vision and Business
The practice of Asana, Chanting, Meditation,
Pranayama
Self Study
"I have gained more knowledge in this 300 hour program than I thought I ever could.
Our teachers are all very knowledgeable. I love how Liz weaves together prana and alignment in practice so we feel totally blissed out while increasing our heartbeat in a therapeutic, multidimensional sequence. I love how much I now understand the human body and how it functions anatomically and energetically. Additionally, my own yoga practice has grown extensively.
I now teach and live my life with so much more confidence! I know now that I am the teacher I was wanting to become from through this program."
Peggy Profant, C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, E-RYT 500, and Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher, is a playful, passionate and adventurous spirit who is on a lifelong path of Yoga.
Her approach blends the ancient wisdom of yoga with biomechanically sound alignment to help her students become more firmly anchored in their true, radiant self. She first discovered Kripalu yoga and changed the course of her life in her formative teen years in 1980.
Liz Heffernan, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT is an international yoga teacher and Integrative Yoga Therapist. She draws from over two decades of personal yoga practice, 25 years of teaching and extensive training in the Hatha yoga systems of Kripalu, Integrative Yoga Therapy, Ashtanga and Anusara. She currently directs and leads Yoga teacher trainings and workshops in worldwide locations, provides unique one-to-one mentoring for yoga teachers wishing to improve their skills and delivery, instructs daily yoga classes and offers private therapeutic sessions.
Christine dove into a yoga practice as a first year second grade teacher. It did not take long for her to understand that the the peace and power that she felt being in Yoga class held the life tools that she wanted to share with her young students. She began practicing Iyengar yoga with Mel Robins and Teresa Smith.ng one’s deepest level of awareness and joy.
Jess Trudeau, E-RYT 500 carries 900 hours of advanced certifications from Yogaworks, Laughing Lotus, Blissology Bali, and Heartwood Institute. A nomad at heart, she has led teacher trainings, retreats, workshops and classes worldwide for 15 years since her first class to a group of women in Mongolia while living in the Peace Corps.
Tuition prices include Yoga Teacher Training Tuition, a 300-hour Advanced YTT Manual and six months access to our online teacher training resource library with over 100 hour of content.
The retreat prices include morning smoothies, bunch and dinner plus housing costs while in
Greece.
A $500 USD deposit will reserve your space and will be applied to the full tuition price listed above. Deposits, tuition, and housing payments minus a 10% processing fee, are refundable up to 30 days prior to retreat start date. The 10% processing fee will apply to all refunds and this fee covers credit card charges and administrative processing fees.
Retreat costs (housing and food) are due three months prior to the start date of the program or within two weeks of registering and your final tuition payment is due no later than one month prior to the program start date. If you would like to discuss alternate arrangements or a payment plan, please feel free to contact us directly and we would be happy to work something out.
Fee-free transfers for documented health/emergency situations: If cancellation is necessary prior to the first day of the program due to documented health or emergency situations, a student’s deposit and tuition will be fully transferable to a future program with Soma Yoga Institute. In all other circumstances, due to the logistics involved in planning residential programs in retreat settings, we regret that we are unable to issue deposit/tuition/housing refunds 30 days or less prior to program start date. No refunds are issued on or after the program start date for any reason.
By Plane:
Aegean Air flies from Athens to Paros, Greece. Make sure you book your tickets well in advance. For information, visit: http://en.aegeanair.com/
By Boat:
There are two ports in Athens, Greece: Rafina port and Piraeus port. Rafina port is closer to the airport and you can get there either by taxi or bus. By bus will take you about 45 minutes and it costs 3 Euros. Piraeus port is further from the airport than Rafina, and you can get there by bus, metro or taxi. The metro and bus are both very convenient because they will leave you just a few meters from where you get the boat to Paros. Both the bus and the metro take about one hour (the bus a little longer maybe depends on the traffic) to get to Piraeus and cost 10 Euros.
There are two companies that sail to Paros: BlueStar Ferries, Athens, Greece takes about 4.5 hours and runs twice a day with tickets starting at 33 euros Hellenic Seaways, Athens, Greece takes about 2.75 hours with tickets starting at 45-50 euros. Another option is to take a boat from Mykonos island in Greece, it’s is a 45-minute boat ride to Paros.
When you are in Paros a taxi from the port is 37 Euros. Taxi from the airport in Paros is 50 Euros. We will organize combined rides for you when possible to reduce the cost of these transfers.