200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training – Goa

If you are looking for a 200 hour yoga teacher training in Goa, this is the Goa course from Tattvaa Yogashala, a school best known for its teacher trainings in Rishikesh. It is a residential yoga teacher training of 25 days, meant for people who want to study yoga in depth and begin teaching it. It suits those who want to take that study to the coast of India as much as it suits anyone ready to deepen a personal practice.

Tattvaa Yogashala runs the same training in several places: Rishikesh, Bali, Kerala, Nepal and Goa. The Goa program is the one for people who want to train in a coastal Indian setting rather than the mountain town of Rishikesh.

What to Expect

The course is 200 hours of teacher training, held over 25 days of continuous residential study. That is a longer stretch than the 19-day format the school offers for its 200 hour course in Rishikesh, so the Goa schedule leaves a little more room between the training and the day-to-day business of living and practising together.

Being a teacher training, it is a full immersion rather than a weekend workshop. You spend the better part of a month with the same group, in one place, working on your own practice while learning how to guide others in theirs. The school also offers a 300 hour training in Goa, a 30-day course, for those who later want to continue beyond the 200 hour level.

The Setting

The training takes place in Goa, India, run by Tattvaa Yogashala. Rooms are offered on a twin-sharing basis, so you can expect to share your room with one other participant during the course.

Before You Go

Places are taken by application. You apply to the school directly, and the course is offered in more than one batch, so you can choose the intake that fits your plans.

Because the course runs for 25 days, it helps to arrive with your time clear, so you can give yourself fully to the training and the people around you. Twin-sharing rooms suit people who are comfortable living closely with others for a few weeks.

If you are weighing the different locations, the practical differences are these: Goa offers a 25-day 200 hour course with shared rooms, while the Rishikesh course is shorter and also offers private rooms. The school's other locations, Bali, Kerala and Nepal, follow the same 25-day shape as Goa for their 200 hour trainings, except Bali, which runs for 22 days.