200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training
Level 1 Trauma Aware YTT
May 1 - 21, 2027 Playa Negra, Costa Rica
Starting at $2,500 shared accommodations.
An Immersive Yoga Teacher Training Designed to Transform the Way You Practice, Teach & Live
This training is about more than learning how to teach yoga.
It is about learning to observe, listen, adapt, communicate, and teach with awareness, confidence, compassion, and intention. It is an opportunity to deepen not only your understanding of yoga, but your understanding of yourself and the kind of teacher you want to become.
Designed for both first-time and experienced teachers, this immersive training explores trauma-aware movement, autonomy, choice, agency, accessibility, and practical teaching experience, while creating space for a deepening of your own personal development, self-awareness, and relationship with yoga.
You’ll be invited to question, explore, grow, and develop the skills to create meaningful experiences for your students while building a teaching practice that feels authentic to you.
Over 21 immersive days in beautiful Playa Negra, Costa Rica, you’ll step away from your everyday routine and into an environment designed for learning, connection, practice, reflection, and growth.
This is an opportunity to immerse yourself in yoga while developing the practical skills required to confidently teach others.
You’ll explore the foundations of yoga, anatomy, philosophy, movement, meditation, pranayama, sequencing, teaching methodology, trauma-aware principles, personal development, and the business of yoga.
And throughout it all, you’ll have the opportunity to discover your own voice as a teacher.
Your Level 1 Trauma Aware Yoga Teacher Training includes 2 signature teaching methods.
Rather than leaving you with just one way to teach, this training gives you two distinctive signature methods to add to your teaching toolkit. You’ll develop the confidence and versatility to teach different students, different bodies, and different needs, while discovering which styles and approaches feel most authentic to you.
You’ll receive in-depth training in Gentle Hatha and Flow 44, with dedicated time to understand, practice, and teach each method. Together, they give you a strong foundation for creating classes that are purposeful, accessible, engaging, and trauma-aware.
"Yoga is when every cell in your body, sings the song of your soul." BKS Iyengar
Flow 44
A grounding, trauma-aware practice designed to support nervous system regulation, body awareness and emotional resilience.
Flow 44 is a consistent sequence of 44 postures practiced in the same order, creating familiarity and predictability while allowing students to develop a deeper relationship with their body and breath. Rather than focusing on achieving perfect shapes, this trauma-aware approach encourages choice, self-awareness and curiosity.
Students are invited to explore movement at their own pace, notice sensations without judgment, and adapt postures to meet their needs each day. The consistent sequence creates a familiar framework while allowing each person to decide how they move, rest and participate.
Gentle Hatha
A slow, supportive practice that invites you to reconnect with your body, breath and inner awareness.
Gentle Hatha uses accessible postures, mindful movement, breath awareness and intentional pauses to create space for exploration without pressure or performance. A trauma-aware approach emphasizes choice, autonomy and the ability to modify, pause or rest whenever needed.
Rather than pushing toward a particular outcome, students are encouraged to notice what feels supportive in their bodies and develop trust in their own internal cues. This practice offers a gentle environment to slow down, reconnect and experience yoga as a personal practice rather than something that needs to be performed.
Trauma - Aware Yoga
Trauma-aware yoga isn't about diagnosing trauma or trying to fix someone. It is about understanding that every person arrives on their mat with a unique history, body, nervous system, lived experience, and relationship with movement. You’ll explore how to create classes that are more inclusive, respectful, and responsive by developing skills around:
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Choice and agency
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Autonomy
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Accessible language
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Consent and boundaries
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Observation
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Inclusive cueing
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Adaptation
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Interoception
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Creating psychological and physical safety
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Recognizing when less is more
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Supporting students without taking responsibility for their healing
Personal Development
Your teacher training is also an opportunity to deepen your relationship with yourself. Through yoga, reflection, philosophy, meditation, movement, and personal exploration, you’ll have space to examine your own patterns, beliefs, conditioning, boundaries, values, and relationship with others. Because becoming a better teacher begins with becoming more aware of yourself.
The Business of Yoga
Teaching yoga is more than knowing how to lead a class. You’ll also explore what it means to create a sustainable yoga career that reflects your values, strengths, experience, and unique voice. We’ll look at the business side of teaching, including developing your offering, finding your audience, communicating your value, building confidence, and creating a teaching practice that can support you beyond the studio floor.
What's Included
Your 21-day immersive experience includes everything you need to learn, grow, practice, relax, and fully immerse yourself in the magic of Playa Negra.
✓ 200 hours of live, in-person instruction that goes above and beyond standard international requirements, giving you a deeper and more comprehensive training experience
✓ International Yoga Teacher Certification upon successful completion of the program
✓ 20 nights of accommodation in beautiful Playa Negra, just steps from the studio and a short walk from the beach
✓ Daily breakfast from the scrumptious menu at Café Playa Negra
✓ 24-hour pool access, giving you the freedom to swim, relax, and enjoy your downtime whenever you choose
✓ Your 200-hour printed training manual, created to support you throughout your training and beyond
✓ A 5-star celebration dinner to celebrate everything you’ve learned, experienced, and accomplished
✓ Your choice of one massage OR surf lesson, giving you the opportunity to relax or experience a little more of Playa Negra
✓ Daily Rise & Shine beach practice, beginning your day with movement, breath, and the beauty of the Pacific
✓ Evening Yoga Nidra & sound healing sessions, creating space to unwind, restore, and integrate your day
✓ Food Freedom: Enjoy your lunches and dinners exploring local restaurants, connecting with the community, and supporting our beautiful little surf village
This Training Is For You If
You’re ready to deepen your own practice.
You want to become a confident and compassionate yoga teacher.
You’re interested in trauma-aware and inclusive teaching.
You want practical teaching experience, not just theory.
You want to understand the why behind what you teach.
You’re looking for meaningful personal development alongside professional training.
You want to explore how yoga can become part of your career or business.
Or perhaps you simply know that there is more to yoga than the physical practice.
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Imagine waking up in beautiful Playa Negra and being just steps away from our yoga studio and a scenic 7-minute walk from the breathtaking black-sand beach.
Your two beautiful accommodation options to choose from, giving you the flexibility to select the experience that feels right for you.
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CAFE PLAYA NEGRA
Our newly renovated boutique hotel, offering a comfortable and stylish place to relax, recharge, and enjoy your time in Playa Negra.
PLAYA NEGRA VILLAS
Spacious private homes offering more room, privacy, and the feeling of having your own home in paradise.
Whether you choose the boutique hotel or a private villa, you’ll be perfectly situated to immerse yourself in the training while still having the freedom to enjoy everything Playa Negra has to offer.
Your Investment
Stay At Cafe Playa Negra Boutique Hotel
Single Queen Room $4,050 USD
Shared Bed $3,250 USD Per Person
Double Room 2 beds
Shared Room $3350 USD per person
Suite Single $4650 USD
Shared Bed $3550 USD per person
Stay At Playa Negra Villas #2 One Bedroom
A comfortable one-bedroom villa featuring two single mattresses, perfect for sharing while still enjoying your own sleeping space. Your villa includes a fully equipped kitchen with a stovetop, refrigerator, toaster oven, and coffee maker, along with air conditioning, hot water, and a private bathroom with shower.
Single: $4050 USD
Double: $2850 USD Per Person
Triple: $2,584 USD Per Person
Stay At Playa Negra Villas #3 Two Bedroom
Villa #3 includes two private bedrooms, a comfortable shared living space, and a fully equipped kitchen with a stovetop, refrigerator, toaster oven, and coffee maker. You’ll also enjoy air conditioning, hot water, private bathroom facilities and an additional private outdoor shower and BBQ. Perfect for friends or fellow trainees traveling together, the two-bedroom villa gives you the space and comfort to recharge between training days while enjoying the laid-back beauty of Playa Negra.
Single: $4650 USD
Double: $3150 USD Per Person
Triple: $2650 USD Per Person
Quad: $2,499 USD Per Person
Important !! A Note On Sharing Accommodations
We do not assign roommates for this training. If you would like to share a villa or room, please register with a friend or fellow trainee and make your accommodation arrangements together. This allows you to choose who you share your experience with and ensures everyone feels comfortable with their accommodation choice.
Your Lead Facilitator: Hali Love, ERYT500+
Yoga Therapist
With more than 30 years of experience in yoga and over 18 years as a yoga business owner, Hali Love brings a wealth of experience, knowledge, and real-world teaching wisdom to this training. She is an experienced yoga educator, entrepreneur, and the founder of Virtual Prana and Playa Negra Yoga in Costa Rica. Her approach to teaching brings together yoga philosophy, Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, psychology, anatomy, and modern movement principles to create an approach to yoga that is both deeply rooted and relevant to the way we live today.
Hali has dedicated decades to studying not only how the body moves, but how our experiences, emotions, beliefs, and environments can influence the way we relate to ourselves and others. Her teaching is grounded in awareness, empowerment, personal responsibility, compassion, and choice, with a strong emphasis on helping students develop the confidence to think, feel, explore, and make informed decisions for themselves.
As an educator, Hali believes that becoming a great yoga teacher is about far more than memorizing sequences or learning how to give instructions. It is about developing the ability to see the person in front of you, communicate clearly, create connection, adapt when needed, and continue growing as a teacher and as a human being.
Her passion for education has taken her beyond the traditional yoga studio. Hali has taught at international yoga events including Wanderlust and the OM Yoga Show in the UK, worked with corporate wellness programs including Amazon and Kayak, and has spent years developing teacher trainings and educational programs designed to give students practical knowledge they can actually use.
At the heart of Hali's teaching is a simple belief: your yoga practice should help you become more fully yourself, not someone else's version of a yoga teacher. This training reflects that philosophy, giving you the tools, knowledge, experience, and support to develop your own authentic voice while becoming a confident, thoughtful, and trauma-aware teacher.
