22-Day 300-HR Advanced Holistic Yoga Teacher Training
April 3 - April 24, 2025
at Casa Kula, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
EARLY BIRD SAVINGS: Use code EARLYBIRD500 to save $500!
Our Guatemala 300-hr YTT explores a fusion of the practice and philosophy of the mystical traditions of Yoga, Shamanism, Ancient Wisdom, and Sound Healing. This training focuses on honing in on your essence as a teacher; following your greatest excitement towards the cultivation of your unique gifts. Through self-expansion and embodiment, we support you to radiate the teachings of yoga in your own powerful and distinct way.
Come join us in a conscious living community overlooking the incredible Lake Atitlan, in the western highlands of Guatemala.
Our 22-day Fusion & Integrative Framework Flow
IN PERSON PORTION
Our in-person 22-day YTTs are designed to bring the teachings alive through learning in a dynamic and interactive community. Through peer teaching and hands-on assists, we emphasize philosophy, therapeutics, ceremony and earth medicine.
We will have an optional Kula Karma day following the training that you will have the opportunity to participate in OR a Karma project after the training to shine your light in your hometown!
In-PERSON TRAINING INCLUDES:
• Vegetarian meals and fresh teas sourced from our permaculture food forest
• A sacred temazcal ceremony
• The Location: the beautiful Lake Atitlán, forest gardens and waterfalls
• Experience the heart-medicine, cacao, in its home land.
• Off-the-grid living in eco-cabins
• Yoga practice in a beautiful, forest-surrounded outdoor space
• Immerse yourself in local indigenous villages
ONLINE PORTION
LIVE CALLS: Online pre-course and post-course LIVE 2-hr calls two weeks before/after the training.
PRE-COURSE MATERIAL: 70 hrs self-paced recorded online that will need to be completed prior to your in-person training dates.
You will have unlimited access to this material to refer to after the training when you go into the world and teach!
ONLINE CONTENT INCLUDES:
• Yoga Asana Classes
• Therapeutic Yoga & Anatomy
• Yoga History
• Pranayama & Meditation
• Sequencing & Assists
• Ayurveda
• Pre-Natal Yoga
• Sutras
RANDI SCHIFFMAN
Randi ERYT 500 has taught over 50 yoga teacher trainings since 2010. Her expertise is in sharing Holistic Yoga, a well rounded practice including meditation, pranayama, mudra, bandha, mantra, theme weaving and intelligent sequencing. A certified Thai Massage Therapist, she is especially known for her firm and intuitive based hands on assists. She facilitates with a strong energy and passion for the practice which supports her compassionate, graceful and empathic nature. She has an innate ability to take in knowledge, experience it, and share wisdom in an authentic way.
JIYA JULIA RANDALL
Jiya Julia Randall is one of the Kula co-founders and a guide for empowered and conscious living. She is a deeply connected leader who roots her teaching in the healing energy of nature. Her teaching invites students to explore their own, unique unfolding, through profound awareness and trust in the wisdom of the Self. Through her studies with teachers and shamans across the world, Julia has developed a powerful sense of energetic connection and a strong set of philosophical and intuitive teachings, which she shares through creative hatha and yin yoga, sacred fire and medicine ceremonies, kirtan and healing therapies. Jiya is also a talented musician and sound healer, who seeks out native chants and medicine songs from around the world to complement her work.
Jiya is YA-certified at the ERYT-500 level and has facilitated both intensive and module-format teacher trainings at RYT-200 and RYT-300 levels for several years, through multiple schools. Following her degree in Physics at Imperial College, London, Julia worked as an Energy Consultant and part time copywriter and editor in London, UK, before moving to Central America in 2009 to pursue a life centered on yoga and holistic health. British by birth, Jiya is now based in Bali and teaches in Thailand, Australia, Mexico, Greece, USA, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Peru.
Example of Daily Kula 300 hr YTT Schedule
Subject to change.
6:30-8:30 AM: Meditation & Yoga Asana class (Art of Practice)
8:30-10:00 AM: Breakfast
10:00-12:00: Philosophy Discussion (Art of Living)
12:00-2:00 PM: Lunch and Personal Sadhana
2:00-4:00 PM: Special Topic, Anatomy or Ethics Discussion (Art of Living/Healing)
4:15-6:15 PM: Techniques class (Art of Teaching}
6:15-7:15 PM: Dinner
7:15-8:15 PM: Kirtan, sharing and meditation (Art of Healing) {every other day}
8:30-9:30 PM: Studying or journaling in Silence
Every 4th day of the 8 day cycle is a half day, and every 8th day a full day of Self Sadhana.
What You’ll Leave The Training With
Understanding of anatomy of the human body so cueing becomes effortless
Confidence in creating creative and holistic sequences for your students
Experience practicing teaching and getting feedback from your student and your experienced facilitators
Exploration of your own way of teaching and using empowered words in your classes
Certification to register as a RYT-500 Yoga Teacher through Yoga Alliance
Community and support of other holistic yoga teachers
Song and ceremony experiences that you can share and incorporate into your teaching
Solid foundational daily practices to incorporate into your life, including meditation, asana and pranayama
Clarity and focus with a 90 Day plan to this your training into actionable next steps to becoming a teacher
Transformative inner healing as you uncover new layers of your self, your yoga practice and your role as a teacher
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ONLINE 300 HR DIGITAL LIBRARY ADD ON - ONLY $200 USD!
Gain access to our FULL 300 hr Yoga Teacher Training course curriculum with our Digital Library including fresh digital, video and audio formats of yoga flows, anatomy, physiology, meditations and so much more! Lifetime access online to stay fresh as a teacher and student of your yoga practice.
This 300 hr Yoga Teacher Training requires the prerequisite of having already taken a 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training, having teaching experience and a strong asana practice.
If you don’t meet these requirements, but still feel like this training is a good fit for you, please schedule a call with our team to ask!
Pricing includes tuition, 21 nights accommodation, three daily vegetarian meals and hearty snack, two printed manuals and Yoga Alliance approved certificate.
Pricing does not include additional wellness services, airfare and airport transfer.
See our payments and cancellation policy here. Please contact us if you have any questions.
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Accommodations
Hobbit House (Private)
TAMBOS
Casa Inti (Shared)
Casa Kiya (SHARED)
About Casa Kula in Tzununa, Guatemala
Casa Kula is the Guatemalan home of our Kula Collective co-founders. It is an eco-friendly and nourishing space, filled with all the comforts of home, including healing herbs, tropical fruits, loving animals and warm smiles.
Casa Kula is located in Tzununa, in the western highlands of Guatemala, with stunning views of the serene Lake Atitlan and her volcanoes seen through banana palms, avocado trees and lush green coffee forests.
This retreat space offers delicious vegetarian meals, daily yoga and meditation, a large temazcal sauna, beautiful lake-view teakwood yoga platform as well as both shared accommodation and glamping options.
Enjoy the stillness and beauty of the mountains supporting you in your process as you relax into the embrace of heart-centered community.
