Level 2: Skillful Teaching

Step into a 100-hour Costa Rica immersion designed to help your practice evolve into confident, compassionate teaching. Running November 1 - 12, 2026, this Level 2 experience supports students who have completed Level 1 and are ready to bring embodied understanding into the classroom with greater clarity, structure, and care.

Rather than performance or pressure, this training emphasizes learning through experience, feedback, and supported exploration. You’ll deepen your teaching skills while strengthening nervous system awareness, refining your voice, and developing the confidence to guide others with presence and professionalism.

All-Inclusive Immersion Experience Includes

• Accommodation and all meals at Café Playa Negra
• Welcome dinner on the first night
• Breakfast on your final day
• Daily yoga practices
• Teaching labs and sequencing workshops
• Integration and reflection sessions
• Practice teaching in a real-time, supportive environment
• Community connection, mentorship, and shared experience

Teaching Focus Includes

• Clear and compassionate cueing
• Observation and intelligent class adjustments
• Sequencing for Vinyasa, Hatha, and Gentle Yoga
• Nervous system awareness in teaching
• Holding space with presence, clarity, and confidence
• Refining voice, pacing, structure, and timing

This immersion offers the depth, feedback, and embodied experience many teachers find transformative. Through practice teaching, mentorship, and structured reflection, you’ll explore how to translate knowledge into skillful, sustainable leadership.

Certification Outcomes

Upon successful completion of both 100-hour modules, students receive:

• ✅ 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Certification
• ✅ Eligibility to register with the International Yoga Alliance
• ✅ Continued access to mentorship, retreats, and advanced training pathways

Modules may be completed back-to-back or spaced over time, allowing room for personal integration, real-life commitments, and nervous system regulation.

What You’ll Explore in Level 2

In this module, you’ll focus on the art and craft of guiding others with integrity. Topics include intelligent sequencing for Vinyasa, Hatha, and Gentle Yoga; inclusive language; observation and appropriate adjustments; choice-based, trauma-aware facilitation; and the development of a teaching style that feels authentic and sustainable. You’ll also refine class structure, pacing, leadership, and the ability to hold space with calm confidence.

Program Features

The program includes immersive coastal learning, daily yoga and meditation, advanced sequencing labs, and a structured practice-teaching environment. Students receive small-group mentorship, personalized feedback, nervous-system-aware teaching practices, and integration support. Learning continues through a global virtual community with lifetime access, offering ongoing support beyond the training itself.

Daily Structure

Each day begins with intentional movement and meditation to ground the body and focus the mind. From there, the schedule moves into guided practice, sequencing labs, teaching methodology, and supported practice teaching. Time is built in for observation, discussion, feedback, and integration, helping skills develop through experience rather than pressure.

Core Modules

1. Teaching Methodology & Class Leadership
   Foundations of skillful teaching, including presence, pacing, timing, and holding the room with clarity, confidence, and care.
2. Intelligent Sequencing & Class Design
   Advanced sequencing principles for Vinyasa, Hatha, and Gentle Yoga, including thematic arc, energy management, transitions, and peak pose intelligence.
3. Cueing, Language & Communication
   Clear, concise, and inclusive verbal cueing, with attention to tone, rhythm, accessibility, and language choices.
4. Observation & Intelligent Adjustments
   How to observe bodies skillfully and offer safe, appropriate verbal and hands-on adjustments with consent, confidence, and respect.
5. Nervous-System-Aware Teaching & Regulation
   Understanding how teaching style, pacing, and language affect student regulation, with trauma-aware and choice-based principles.
6. Practice Teaching & Feedback Labs
   Regular opportunities to teach in a supportive environment, with structured feedback from mentors and peers.
7. Sequencing for Diverse Populations
   Adapting classes for mixed-level groups, private clients, older adults, beginners, and students seeking gentle or supportive practices.
8. Voice, Presence & Authentic Teaching Style
   Refining teaching voice, embodiment, and leadership presence while supporting a genuine teaching style.
9. Applied Yoga Philosophy in Teaching
   Translating yogic philosophy into practical, modern themes that create meaningful, inclusive class experiences.
10. Ethics, Boundaries & Scope of Practice
    Professional responsibility, consent, boundaries, and ethical considerations in studios, retreats, and online spaces.
11. Business Foundations & Career Pathways (Light Touch)
    Introduction to professional pathways in yoga, including studio teaching, private sessions, retreats, and sustainable growth.
12. Integration, Mentorship & Community
    Reflection, mentorship, and integration to support confidence, clarity, and readiness as you step into teaching.

Where You’ll Practice

Practices take place in three favorite locations in Playa Negra: on the beach, beachfront, and in a cozy town studio with AC.

Where You’ll Stay

Newly renovated Café Playa Negra & Hotel.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

• 100 hours of internationally accredited yoga training
• Your printed manual
• Guidance from world-class yoga teachers with over 30 years of experience
• Mentors who have owned and operated successful yoga studios
• Faculty with experience teaching at international festivals, including the Om Yoga Show (UK) and Wanderlust Festival
• 11 nights of accommodation at Café Playa Negra in Costa Rica
• Welcome dinner on arrival
• Departure breakfast on your final day
• Three nourishing meals daily throughout the program
• Morning meditative walks and practices on the beach
• Small-group, supportive learning environment
• Lifetime access to the mentorship community for continued support and integration

Investment

• All-Inclusive Single Room $2950 USD
• Shared Bed $2390 USD per person
• All-Inclusive Double Room Single $2950 USD
• Shared Room $2480 USD per person
• All-Inclusive Suite Single $3185 USD
• Shared Bed $2530 USD per person