Discovering Space Within
Become a part of the international Yoga Vana community
Yoga & Meditation
Teacher Trainings, Workshops & Retreats
Yoga Teacher Training
A transformative experience, our Yoga Vana Teacher Training Courses allow you to take your personal practice to a deeper and more meaningful level, while learning the skills it takes to share the yogic tools with others.
With a strong focus on empowering you individually to be the teacher you are called to be, our Yoga Teacher Training Courses are a unique combination of traditional teachings with modern methods and techniques - for you to confidently and effectively share yoga with the world.
Yoga Retreats
Our retreats, held in peaceful, natural environments, offer you the chance to consciously take time off your daily life and be yourself.
Some of the programs are specifically designed to integrate yoga into a holiday or vacation. Others are more specific, covering areas of special interest and training. These present ideal opportunities for intensive study, to practice more deeply, learn more, or sometimes even to begin the practice of yoga in a focused and wholesome way.
Emotional Intelligence
Empathy & Conscious Communication
Building on the yogic principle of ahimsa (nonviolence), our activities equip you with communication tools and practices to bring clarity and peace to your emotional life as well as to your personal and professional interactions with others.
Conscious Communication
Our Yoga Vana Teacher Training Course syllabus includes a unique Emotional Intelligence module to empower you to be a compassionate and effective guide to your students, and befriend your own emotional journey of growing into the role of a teacher and guide.
The module contains exercises in deep listening and introduces you to the communication principles and process of Non Violent Communication based on the work of Marshall B. Rosenberg and the Centre for Nonviolent Communication.
Conscious Living
Living in Tune with Nature
Progress on the path of Yoga goes hand in hand with a growing awareness of our interconnectedness with each other, other living beings and nature.
Yoga Vana Tree Project
We plant one tree for every student who graduates from our Yoga Teacher Training Course, both as a symbol for their continued growth and evolution, as well as a gesture of respect and gratitude to India, the soil from which the science of Yoga has emanated.
We strive to make Yoga Vana Forest Academy (the school) and Yoga Vana Farm (the retreat center) and all connected activities carbon negative / climate positive. As a first step, we have incorporated green house gas accounting into our administrative routine as a part of which we record all direct emissions resulting from our school’s activities. We will gradually reduce carbon and other green house gas emissions as much as possible while offsetting the unavoidable emissions by planting trees in India.
These are the small steps we can take today. We are committed to our continued learning on how to practically and pragmatically live Yoga in the spirit of renewal and regeneration that allows all Life to thrive.
Nature & Self
As an intuitive form of yogic practice off the mat, spending time in nature - just observing and noticing what is - slows down the thought process, brings about a multitude of proven mental and physical health benefits and develops sensitivity and aliveness.
Our Yoga Vana Teacher Training Courses are held in natural environments to allow for nature contemplation and stillness. Use the precious time you took off away from your daily routine to consciously slow down and rebuild or strengthen your relationship with nature.
“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”
