Best Yoga Teacher Trainings in Costa Rica
Discover the ultimate guide to finding the best yoga teacher trainings in Costa Rica. Our comprehensive resource covers top schools, program details, and expert insights to help you choose the perfect training for your journey. Elevate your practice and teaching skills today!
Sama Yoga House: Costa Rica
Sama Yoga House is a premier Yoga Training and Retreat company, offering transformative experiences in Costa Rica, Thailand, and Bali. With a deep passion for yoga and a mission centered on transformation, Sama Yoga House is led by a renowned team of teachers from around the globe, each with over a decade of experience. Their comprehensive curriculum delves into both traditional and contemporary yoga techniques, tools, concepts, and practices. Alongside this rich learning experience, you’ll have ample time for reflection and integration.
The venue in Costa Rica is truly magical—a beachfront oasis with two pools, miles of pristine, tourist-free beach, breathtaking sunsets, and nourishing gluten-free and dairy-free meals. It’s truly the perfect setting for your yoga journey. Whether you aspire to teach or simply wish to deepen your practice, Sama Yoga House welcomes you. For those looking to teach, you will leave our training confident and well-prepared to share your knowledge.
Website: Sama Yoga House
Length: 3 weeks
Price: $4,000 – $6500USD (depending on room type)
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Yoga Style: Vinyasa
Blue Osa Yoga Teacher Training Costa Rica
Blue Osa is an eco-resort in beautiful Costa Rica with beachfront accommodations, food sourced from their own garden or local farmers, and internationally renowned yoga instructors who are there to give you all their knowledge. You can do the foundational training in a 14-day or a 28-day set up and at the end of both versions, you`ll receive an internationally recognized certificate. Throughout these 2 or 4 weeks of time, you`ll dive into the contemporary exploration of yoga, through both the physical and subtle exploration. By the time you receive your certificate, you`ll be confident in knowing what`s best for your body and how to share mindfully with others.
Website: Blue Osa
Length: 14 or 28 days
Price: $2890 – $5990 USD
Yoga Style: Vinyasa
East + West YTT 200 Hour Costa Rica
East+West is one of the largest international yoga teacher trainer institutes in the world. Their Costa Rica 200-hour training is held at The Danyasa Eco Resort in Dominical Costa Rica. This program is unique in Costa Rica in that they bring teachers from India to co-lead the training with western professionals. It’s truly modern training that will prepare you with all the realistic professional skills you’ll need to teach in an urban studio but is also deeply rooted in the spiritual yogic traditions of India.
Website: East + West
Length: 22 days
Price: $5150 – $6250 USD
Yoga Style: Hatha, Vinyasa
InnerSea Yoga Academy
This is a soul-rocking, life changing opportunity to dig deep, connect, paint, play, laugh, cry and love. Understand samadhi (universal oneness) and the integration of nature and divinity by learning about medicinal plants, local ecology, permaculture, and conservation. Frolic in the waves, hike a magical rainforest, paddle majestic mangrove tunnels and unleash your inner child. Go zip-lining, surfing, whale watching and explore magnificent waterfalls on your days off!
This training is designed to help you connect with and nurture your inner child through play, art, movement and nature. We will explore ancient teachings with dance, painting, journaling, and acro yoga. Understand how food is grown on a permaculture farm, connect barefoot to the Earth and move with intention.
Website: https://innerseayogaacademy.com/
Length: 22 days
Price: $3299 – $4099 USD
Yoga Style: Hatha, Vinyasa
Marianne Wells Yoga School
This 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training Retreat gives you the proper foundation for teaching yoga safely, confidently and knowledgeably. You’ll learn the basic principles of yoga, and will gain an understanding of the essential elements needed to deepen your inner awareness in your practice of yoga in order to be an authentic guide to others. Marianne’s teachings focuses on helping her students uncover how to embody what they teach through a comprehensive, hands-on curriculum in her teacher trainings.
Website: Marianne Wells 200 hr YTT Costa Rica
Length: 15 days
Price: $3695 – $4595 USD
Lakshmi Rising
The venue for Lakshmi Rising training, The Sanctuary at two rivers, is a 100% off-the-grid, eco-resort powered by solar power in the most serene setting that will blow your mind and definitely put you in the right mindset for learning and going deeper into yourself. You'll be served 3 vegetarian or vegan meals a day – of course, all sourced locally. With Lakshmi Rising you won`t only get great teachers guiding you towards a new way of life, a potential career change, and immense knowledge, but on weekends you`ll also enjoy excursions, movie nights, and much more with the group. If not only learning yoga, and becoming a yoga teacher is high on your priority list but also finding a great community and connecting with like-minded people, this is your place!
Website: Lakshmi Rising 200 Hr YTT
Length: 20 days
Price: $3299-4899 USD
Yoga Style: Vinyasa
Pachamama Costa Rica
Training at Pachamama is led by Adya and Velan, masters of asana and zen meditation. These two people coming together does create a very unique experience where you`ll not only learn about yoga but about yourself, deep meditation, the earth, energy, chakras, and beyond. This beautiful space in the jungle is the one where you`ll deeply connect with mother earth, join rituals, and dive deep into spirituality. A place for detox, being away from life`s rushing pace, and time and space for healing. If you are looking into a deeply spiritual experience next to becoming a yoga teacher, the Pachamama foundational training will be the one for you.
Website: Pacha Mama yoga teacher training
Length: 24 days
Price: $3395 – $4460 USD
Yoga Style: Hatha, Vinyasa
Danyasa Yoga School
The name “Danyasa” comes from the fusion of Vinyasa yoga, and dance. Dance + Vinyasa = Danyasa! As they say, they teach a yoga practice guided by the four E’s: embody, empower, express, and evolve. If you aren't already in love with this training, you should look at pictures of the accommodations and the food they serve during the training. The food is locally sourced, and organic and comes from a sustainable permaculture farm. During the 20 days of training you will not only be connected to yourself, your peers, and the art of yoga, but also to the earth and all its gifts.
Website: Danyasa YTT Costa Rica
Length: 20 days
Price: $5000 – 6500 USD
Yoga Style: Hatha, Vinyasa
Bienestar Life 200-Hour Yoga Training
At Bienestar you get to enjoy Costa Rica and training in the most serene environment! A hilltop little private hut will be your home for the duration of the training where you can listen to the sounds of the jungle. You'll be eating locally sourced organic food every day and you'll be practicing yoga and attending classes from sunrise to sunset. In these 28 days, you will have the chance to transform your life thoroughly through self-inquiry, the time allowed for yourself, the closeness of nature, studying in a group with like-minded people, and learning from the best teachers!
Website: Bienestar 200 hour YTT
Length: 28 days
Price: $4500-5500 USD
Yoga Style: Hatha
Sacred Paths Yoga Teacher Training
Sacred Paths Yoga is a very successful yoga school with many locations and training all over the world. The Costa Rica training is held at the Indigo Yoga Resort in Mal Pais. This beautiful little boutique resort has many different kinds of accommodation to suit everyone's preferences. You'll not only be in beautiful beach front comfortable accommodation and doing yoga all day long for 3 weeks but will also learn about how to live a yogic lifestyle.
Website: Sacred Paths Yoga YTT 200 Hr Costa Rica
Length: 21 days
Price: $4500 – $5700 USD
Yoga Style: Vinyasa
