200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training.
The training you have been looking for.
What brought you here?
You are ready to learn more about yoga.
To deepen your practice and immerse yourself in the Yoga lifestyle.
To transform your life.
Welcome.
Join us this summer to find what you are seeking.
August 11th- September 1st, 2024
Chania, Greece
Spaces are limited.
Pay a deposit to hold your spot
or
Book a call to speak to the founder to see if this training is for you.
Advance your practice.
Deepen your knowledge of Yoga.
Learn how to teach.
Are you looking to deepen your own personal practice and understanding of the deeper aspects of Yoga?
To learn new skills and refine your knowledge to make you a confident and impactful teacher?
Join us this Summer.
A deposit is required to hold your place.
What Students Say:
Madisyn from The United States
“This experience was once in a lifetime"
The teachers were amazing, they were so intelligent and had a very good outlook on yoga and what it means. They changed my life for the better and I’m blessed to have gone on this trip!
Bridgid from The United States
“ So grateful for this opportunity to learn and grow "
The people and atmosphere where beyond compare at this yoga teacher training. I am leaving knowing I have new friends from around the world.
Cecilie from Norway
“Loved every single second here "
Had the most amazing experience here with the best yoga teachers I’ve had so far. The place was beautiful and the food was great. We learned a lot about how to teach different types of yoga, meditation and pranayama, how to assist, how to give dharma talks and much more. It was way more than I could’ve asked for and I feel much more confident now to teach yoga. I loved it. I highly recommend!! ✨💕”
Course Overview:
History and Philosophy of Yoga
Meditation
Daily Asana practice
Sanskrit
Alignment and posture modifications
Anatomy
Pranayama
Sequencing and planning your class
Hands on assisting
Practice Teaching
Effie Langari
“What I like about her teaching is Jonni-Lyn's positive vibes and humor, the love she shows to every student and the passion she has about yoga (asana and philosophy). One moment that I remember from Jonni’s teachings happened during our yoga teacher training. I was assisting a friend and I was in obvious stress and confusion. She stopped me, looked me straight into the eyes and told me “When you assist, you have to really look into the person you are assisting. You are here to help. This what you are here for.” It completely changed the way I looked at people before I gave a hands-on assist. Jonni-Lyn is a true inspiration.”
Who we are:
Jonni-Lyn Friel
Lead trainer and founder of Namaha yoga school Jonni-Lyn Friel has been practicing yoga since she was a child. It has always been a part of her life and has woven the treads of her experiences together. Through her travels in India to sit at the feet of her teachers, her first teacher training with Rusty Wells in Athens. Greece in 2006, to traveling to Costa Rica to become a certified Jivamukti teaching in 2013, her life and her practice have been lead by the the calling of yoga.
At a glance:
200 ERT, 500 EYT, Pre-natal and Kids yoga certified, 300 hour Jivamukti certified teacher
Founder of Namaha Yoga School 2016
Co-owner of Swaha Yoga Center in Athens, Greece
Teacher on online platform Do Yoga With Me
Lead teacher of yoga teacher trainings in Greece, Egypt and Canada since 2012.
Curriculum
History and Philosophy of yoga
Yoga practice is an evolutionary experience. Whether one can chart its history clearly and how far back will it remain relevant are the very questions our studies will explore. So many traditions with so many more claims!
Meditation
A daily meditation practice is deeply important and equal to all aspects of our yoga practice. During this training our meditation practices will include active, breath, silent, mantra and visual. We will explore the varieties every day. The trainee will be supported to discover the form that is most meaningful to their practice.
Daily Asana Practice
The very heart of our intelligent vinyasa training, asana, will be thoroughly practiced, examined and explored. How many poses are there? Countless! How much will be performed? All of them!
Sanskrit
To hold the practice is to understand its language. To speak clearly from a basic knowledge will draw your voice and presence more skillfully into the room. Ground your education in the art of Sanskrit and enjoy the potency of yoga both physically as well as vibrationally.
Alignment and postural modifications
Over the course of one’s yoga life, alignment and the power to modify will make a radical difference to the depth of practice and to the subtleties of personal awareness and insight. We will study through experience as well as discussion, the best and most effective ways to modify for safety as well as alignment suitable for all.
Anatomy
Being in a yoga training we will no doubt examine our anatomy from head to toe. That being said, we will also explore the anatomy of our breath as well as the anatomy of our prana. Throughout a vinyasa experience, these three anatomies triangulate naturally. To understand how to develop our awareness of them and how to co-participate in them is at the very heart of this yoga vinyasa training.
Pranayama
Literally means to extend the prana. To explore its intimate passage of our breath to our body, and through both, to ourselves. Prana translates as “life-force” and working skillfully with pranayama means to expand our life’s vital energy. We will hold a daily practice of varied pranayama.
Sequencing and Planning your class
The very tools to create the body of a shared yoga experience. To open the space, to understand how to open the body, to work in the postures in order to arrive at the summit of the sequence, to safely and successfully come down from said summit, to close the body and why. To offer a theme in practice. To deepen the intimacies of yoga.
Hands on assisting
A powerful tool for the teacher. To support and administer the right touch for the maximum potential shift. That of the very greatest outcome of transformation, to the basic understanding to hold space to perhaps the endless possibilities of subtle difference. How to assist without getting in the way of the student’s experience or making it about yourself.
Accommodation
Dorm room
This dorm room is for women only. This is a five-bed room with shared bathroom in the hallway. This bedroom is located underneath the studio and therefore it is extra cool in the summer and cozy in the cooler seasons.
Investment: 3000 Euro/ $3250 US
Includes:
Two vegetarian meals per day
Training Course
200 hour YTT manual
Shared room
4 Bedroom Room
This is a four-bed room with ensuite bathroom.
Investment: 3,550 Euro/ $3,850 US
Includes:
Shared room, may be mixed genders
Two vegetarian meals per day
Training course
200 hour YTT manual
3 Bedroom Room
This is a 3 bedroom room with an ensuite bathroom.
Investment: 3800 Euro / $4100 US
Includes:
Shared room
2 vegetarian meals per day
200 hour YTT manual
Training course
Double Room
A twin room with ensuite bathroom.
Please note twin room is in a nearby Villa, 2-3 minutes walk away.
Investment: 3,900 Euros/ $4100 US
Includes:
Twin room
Private balcony
Shared bathroom with one other room
Shared kitchen and living room
2 vegetarian meals per day
200 hour manual
Training course
Private Room
Private room includes ensuite bathroom. Please note, there are 2 different types of private rooms. The private (pictured) is located onsite and the other private is located in the nearby villa.
Onsite Private
ncludes:
Private room
2 vegetarian meals per day
200 hour advanced manual
Training course
Investment: 4950 Euro / $5400 US
Private
Includes:
Private room
Shared bathroom with one other room
Private balcony, shared kitchen and living space
Pool in front of Villa
2 vegetarian meals per day
200 hour advanced manual
Training course
Investment: 4800 Euros/ $5200 US
Facts and the small print.
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Yes.
$600 deposit is required to hold your place in the training. The full amount must be paid by July 11th, 2024. A monthly payment plan is available. Please contact me directly at jonnilynfriel@gmail.com for details.
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Included in the training is the manual, your accommodation and 2 meals per day.
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Not included in the training is:
The books required for the training.
Transportation to the venue (may be booked at an additional cost).
Airfare to Crete.
Travel insurance (required). -
Life happens! We understand and are happy to offer a full refund (minus $100 processing fees) if you cancel BEFORE July 11th. After that time, no refund is possible due to the fact that we must pay the venue in full.
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Early Bird pricing is available for the first three students that sign up for the training. Please contact me directly for details.
*Note, there is 1 early bird spot left.
Testimonials
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I have been fortunate to have Jonni-Lyn as my teacher. Her yoga classes are full of inspiration for the novice as well as for the experienced practitioner. It is rare that compassion and strength come together like Jonni's unique classes. Her warm and playful nature urges her students into overcoming there fears and going further than they could imagine.
Mihalis Papadogiannakis
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I first met Jonni as a teacher in my training. She stood out from the other teachers that I had met that far, being so wonderfully loving and caring. Her classes have always amazed me, she teaches with such passion and enthusiasm. Her classes are a beautiful blend of spirituality and attention to alignment and safety, careful adjustments and encouraging words. I always leave her classes inspired to be a better person and a better teacher. Jonni-Lyn is a one-of-a-kind teacher who will inspire you to love. Not just love yoga, but love everyone and everything. She’s such a rare kind of person, she embraces life with such warmth and openness and makes it look easy."
Ellie Zaki
Contact Us
Email
hello@jonnilynfriel.com
200hytt@gmail.com