The Yoga
YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
SRI LANKA
During the immersive training you will go beyond classroom delivery of textbook material to explore, learn and gain confidence from a place of organic free flowing experiences.
meet the teacher
Jesse Barlow
“In sessions I’ll teach you everything I know about the poses, where your little toe should go, how to breath and I’ll make jokes only I find funny. I’ll share with you my favorite teachings from traditional yoga texts and how I use them in my everyday life as a system of simple checks and balances. I hope we have fun but that we can work a little bit each day to learn something about ourselves as humans.
My goal is to teach yoga not only on the physical layer but the emotional and psychological layers simultaneously (without you noticing) because I believe yoga is what “saved my life” and gifted me the life I’m living now.”
Jesse has 10 + years of yoga teaching experience. He has taught yoga all over the world from his hometown in Canada to Sri Lanka’s South Coast. He has a unique style and creates a space for you to cultivate your own style too. His focus is on alignment and making yoga accessible for everyone.
upcoming courses
200hr COURSE INFO
The 200hr Yoga Alliance Certified Yoga Foundations course is designed to deepen your personal practice and give you the tools to guide your very own dynamic, original, safe and well rounded yoga class upon graduation.
Practice, Practice, Practice will be the central theme for this one month long training with daily practice of Asanas, Pranayam, Meditation. By engaging in discussion, debate and discourses, the aim is to go beyond the theoretical and to embody the multi dimensional yoga experience. After graduation you will share yogic practices from a personal experience rather than a memorized scripted one. You will draw from organic experiences to teach in your own authentic way.
This training allows you to experience different teaching styles and to build a foundation to share yoga in a way that resonates true for you. With the approach of quality over quantity you will gain an in depth understanding of the core foundations of yoga, rather than touching on a wide spectrum of topics and only scratching the surface.
Practices, lectures, discourses and discussions will include experiences related to but not limited to the following topics:
- Yoga Asanas (Hatha, Vinyasa, therapeutic, restorative and alignment based approach will be explored)
- Pranayama
- Meditation
- The History of Yoga
- Yoga Sutras
- The Gita
- Anatomy
- Chakras
6:00-8:00am Sunrise Yoga and Meditation
8:00-10:00am Breakfast and Relaxation
10:00-12:00pm: Yoga Academy (History, Philosophy, Anatomy)
1:00pm: Light Snack
3:00-5:30pm: class breakdowns, teaching, sequencing, assisting 6:00pm: Dinner 7:30pm: Evening Activity
Breakfast, light refreshments and dinner are included 6 days a week. Freshly prepared vegetarian and vegan friendly Sri Lankan dishes are served at the dining table.
- 28 big, full days of learning, movement and connection.
- Breakfast, snacks and dinner served 6 days a week.
- Some time each day to rest, relax and reflect.
- A full rest day on Sundays, where you are free to explore and embark on an incredible Sri Lankan adventure or simply chill in the villa soaking up the jungle vibes.
- A Closing Ceremony that will fill your heart with pride for you and your fellow YTT graduates.
- More special surprises/workshops to make your experience memorable and unique. (aruyveda/nutrition/business of yoga/acro/temple visit/pizza night/bbq/etc)
- Accommodation and free wifi.
testimonials
It’s hard to put the experience I had at Yoga and Tea Sri Lanka 200HR YTT into words. For me it goes beyond words, it was a feeling, a learning, a connection, an inner reflection, a new way of seeing the world and sharing it with others. A lot of people say that YYT is ‘so transformative and you change so much’ but for me it felt more like an uncovering of who I really was already. This training gave me the space to gain more confidence, become more aware day by day and peel off the layers of my being to reveal the true me. The authentic me.
Aisling Murphy
Cork, Ireland
