Portugal is a land where ancient charm meets natural beauty, making it an ideal setting for your Yoga Teacher Training. With its historic landscapes, friendly culture, and captivating coastlines, Portugal offers more than a beautiful backdrop—it provides a space for profound transformation.Whether you’re meditating on the cliffs of Alentejo or taking in the quiet beauty of the countryside, Portugal’s scenery inspires a deep connection with nature and the self.
In Alentejo, where our training unfolds, you’ll find the perfect environment to engage with the spiritual depth of Mystical Yoga. Drawing from ancient Eastern wisdom and the Medicine Wheel of Peru, our 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training is guided through four cycles aligned with the cardinal directions.
These cycles encourage release, understanding, growth, and empowerment, inviting you to step into a journey of personal and spiritual transformation. Quinta Marugo, our retreat center, offers its unique energy—perfect for a full immersion in this experience.
Our training embodies a union of ancient practices, reaching deeply into the roots of spiritual yoga, where students are invited to explore the wisdom that lies within. Over the course of this program, you’ll engage in sacred practices like chanting, dancing, and silent reflection, fostering connection with yourself and with the global community of like-minded souls. Quinta Marugo’s peaceful environment supports those fully immersing in an in-person experience.
Choosing Portugal for your YTT means embracing a culture rich in history, flavor, and natural wonder. From sunlit beaches to ancient architecture, Portugal’s warm spirit enriches your journey, making it more than a training—it’s a life-altering experience where you’ll cultivate a deeper understanding of yoga, the world, and yourself. This journey will ask for self-reflection, honesty, acceptance, growth, and discipline, revealing the true essence of life and your unique path within it.
Our Core Curriculum
During our Portugal Yoga Teacher Training program you will:
- Work through the traditional Peruvian Medicine Wheel in a process of self-inquiry, discovery and personal transformation.
- Learn to teach two Asana sequences: Sadhana Vinyasa and Sadhana Hatha flows, as well as guidance on creating your sequences.
- Live the yogic lifestyle, deepening your Sadhana, personal spiritual practice.
- Incorporate daily Meditation, Pranayama, and Asana.
- Explore the Art of Teaching through interactive daily workshops and learn through peer-teaching starting day one.
- Participate in daily Satsang, evening gatherings. Learning traditional Kirtan chants from India and the rest of the world.
- Participate in traditional ceremonies: Full-Moon, New-Moon, Letting-Go Ceremony, Traditional Andean Gratitude (despacho), and/or Cacao Ceremony, and other traditional ceremonies.
- Ethics for Yoga Teachers
- Study Yoga Anatomy & Physiology and incorporate these principles into your teaching and practice.
- Study selected Yoga Sutras in depth.
- Learn the foundation and historical background of yoga philosophy.
- Explore Chakras, Bandhas & energetic anatomy in theory and in application to your practice and your teaching.
- Study Ayurvedic Philosophy & Medicine, while studying and living the Yogic Diet.
- Focus on integrating Yoga into your life through daily Spiritual Lessons.
- Introduction to Conscious Business and discuss Tools for developing the business of yoga ant take it to the marketplace.
- Learn and integrate holistic health modalities such as massage, energy healing, nutrition, and other forms.
- Our training programs are taught in English.
OUR DAILY SCHEDULE
Schedules may vary
- 09:00 – 10:00 – Breakfast and Self Sadhana
- 10:00 – 11:00 – Spiritual lesson/Intention of the day
- 11:00 – 12:00 – Yoga Sutras/Yoga Anatomy
- 12:00 – 14:00 – Snack and Self Sadhana
- 14:00 – 15:00 – Special Topics
- 15:00 – 18:00 – Art of Teaching and Art of Touch
- 18:00 – 19:00 – Dinner and Self Sadhana
- 19:00 – 20:00 – Satsang (Sacred Circle)
