18 Day 200-Hour Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training in Evia Island, June 25 – July 12, 2025

200-Hour Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training in Greece
Join this program which includes a transformational and therapeutic approach to yoga. You will explore Vinyasa flow, Hatha, and Restorative yoga through an anatomy-informed alignment system. You will learn modifications and adaptations for all bodies including special populations such as seniors and those with injuries. The therapeutic perspective explores yoga as a vehicle for vibrant health, personal empowerment, and total well-being. Soma Yoga Institute will be a combination of modern-day biomechanics and research-driven science with ancient teachings. You will leave with an understanding of anatomy, alignment, and modifications to keep your body safe for a lifetime of practice. The non-dogmatic approach explores yoga philosophy as a practice of radical self-love uncovering perspectives that encourage body positivity, unconditional acceptance, personal empowerment, and true mind-body-spirit health and wellness.

Highlights

• Mindful Vinyasa, Hatha, Therapeutic and Restorative practices
• Learn a biomechanically sound and anatomy-informed alignment framework
• Explore breath work, mantra, and meditation as tools for vibrant health and well-being
• Learn a biomechanically sound and anatomy-informed alignment framework
• C-IAYT Yoga Therapists and E-RYT 500 teachers with over 25 years of experience
• Eligible to register with Yoga Alliance upon completion
• Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
• 17 nights accommodation

Accommodation:
Evia Silence is a beautiful retreat center. The rooms are a comfortable 30 sq meters. All rooms include balconies with a vast view of the neighboring sea, air conditioning, and flat-screen televisions. All rooms are designed in accordance with their commitment to provide a calming retreat from the stresses of city life.
Just a one-minute walk from your door to the sea, “Evia Silence” provides accessible docks for swimming and sunbathing. They also neighbor an array of beautiful trails and small roads that are perfect for anyone looking to jog, trek, or venture into the wilderness of the mountainside. While they take great pride in their property’s view, they also can guide you in exploring all the high and low views the magical valley offers.
A variety of shared options include quad rooms, triples, and doubles. Private accommodation is also available. All units are air-conditioned with en-suite baths. Some units have a terrace and/or balcony with sea or mountain views. Wifi available.

The Greece program is scheduled as an intensive program. While the program days are full, the activities of the day are kept diverse and active. The days really are a wonderful mix of digesting concepts intellectually, applying the concepts experientially, and diving into the practices of yoga. Care is taken within the program schedule to ensure that students have a healthy experience both physically and mentally.

Soma Yoga Institute promises not to keep you sedentary for too long. There is physical activity and deep relaxation built into the program every day. Two days off mid-program provide you with time to explore and adventure to local sacred sites.

Immerse in yoga at 200-hour teacher training
This teacher training offers students in-depth skills to explore yoga as a vehicle for holistic health, self-transformation, and personal empowerment.

The curriculum includes a unique blend of alignment-based Vinyasa flow yoga, a solid foundation in Hatha yoga, and 200 hours of instruction offered within a therapeutic framework.

The instruction will cover a wide range of yoga techniques including yoga postures, yoga anatomy, relaxation, breath awareness, pranayama, meditations to calm the mind, contemplations to transform limiting tendencies into life-affirming thought patterns, and the application of clear, anatomy-informed principles of alignment to create safety, balance, and freedom in yoga poses.

Students explore yoga’s ancient teachings and concepts from yogic philosophy including Ayurveda, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, and the Chakra System as frameworks for the application of Yoga as a journey towards radiant health and well-being.

The physical practice emphasis includes hatha and vinyasa yoga offered through a lens of biomechanically sound and anatomy-informed alignment. Expect both mindful vinyasa flow sequencing as well as gentler and restorative variations. You will practice physical postures from all categories of poses including standing poses, hip openers, forward bends, backward bends, twists, inversions, balancing, supine, seated, and prone.

Variations for all levels of practitioners will be provided in yoga practice, all abilities and all bodies are welcome to attend. Rather than offer standard sequencing or rigid methodologies, students are exposed to frameworks that inspire each yoga teacher to adopt the practices, awaken their creativity, and find their own authentic voice as a yoga teacher. Graduates of this program feel empowered to teach a variety of yoga class types, including all levels of Vinyasa flow yoga, alignment-based classes, yoga foundations, senior, gentle, and restorative.

Instructors

Liz Heffernan, MA, E-RYT 500 C-IAYT Yoga Therapist

Liz Heffernan, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT is an international yoga teacher and certified Yoga Therapist. She draws from over 25 years of teaching and extensive training in the Hatha yoga systems of Kripalu, Integrative Yoga Therapy, Ashtanga yoga and Anusara. She currently directs and leads Yoga teacher trainings and workshops in worldwide locations, provides unique one-to-one mentoring for yoga teachers wishing to improve their skills and delivery, instructs daily yoga classes and offers private therapeutic sessions. Her teaching weaves together philosophy, creative sequencing, clear alignment, mindful breathing, and compassionate self-inquiry to form a tapestry that reflects her heartfelt commitment to this transformative path.

Christine McArdle, MA, AUTHOR, E-RYT 500, YACEP

Christine, a seasoned yoga instructor and founder of the international school Om Shree Om, began her yoga journey in 1990, driven by a desire for emotional balance and mental clarity from her stressful teaching career. Renowned for her expertise in therapeutic yoga, Christine excels in teaching alignment, biomechanics, and fascial health, integrating these into a holistic approach that promotes healing and well-being. As a teacher trainer, she imparts this deep knowledge to aspiring yoga teachers, enhancing their practices with her fun-spirited and engaging teaching style. Her methodology not only addresses individual needs but also emphasizes the importance of fascia and miofascial lines in supporting effective and safe yoga practices.

Quick view

• Yoga Styles: Mindful Vinyasa Yoga, Hatha, and Restorative through a Therapeutic Lens
• Pose Study with Adaptations for all bodies (includes standing poses, hip openers, forward bends, twists, backbends, inversions, and supine)
• Alignment: Bio-mechanically sound and anatomy-informed alignment
• Skill Level: All levels of yoga practitioners are welcome. Some come to deepen their practice and others to learn to teach.
• Class Demographics: Ages 17 – 70 and beyond, diversity welcome. The class sizes are typically between 18 – 24 students with 2 experienced instructors.
• Yoga Teacher Certification: Soma Yoga Institute 200 Certification, Yoga Alliance RYT-200 Upon Successful Completion
• Instructors: Train with C-IAYT Certified Yoga Therapists & E-RYT 500 Master Teachers with 25 plus years of experience
• Learn to teach yoga with safety, skill, and confidence

Curriculum highlights:

• A solid foundation in classical Hatha yoga – including alignment-based Vinyasa flow and Restorative yoga within a therapeutic framework.
• An anatomy and biomechanically informed alignment system that helps to address common misalignments and keeps your students safe.
• Modifications and adaptations for all bodies, including special populations such as seniors, and those with injuries.
• Gain insights into your (true) nature through the wisdom of yoga and its philosophy.
• Learn the art of sequencing yoga classes that honor your authentic voice and meet the needs of your student population.
• Explore breath work, mantra, and meditation as tools to create vibrant health and well-being in your life.
• Business of yoga and how to build your yoga community.
• Learn to share the practices with others in a safe and powerful way.
• Build self-confidence and tap into your amazing potential in a supportive and nurturing environment.
• Train highly experienced, knowledgeable, and passionate E-RYT 500 teachers and C-IAYT yoga therapists with over 25 years of experience.

Daily schedule:

• 06:30 Meditation, pranayama, and gentle movement
• 07:30 Breakfast
• 08:30 Yoga techniques or teaching methodology
• 10:30 Yoga asana practice
• 12:30 Lunch and afternoon break
• 15:00 Restorative, gentle, therapeutic practice, or Yoga Nidra, philosophy, lifestyle, ethics, anatomy, and physiology, practice teaching
• 18:00 Dinner
• 18:30 Evening session includes group work and a philosophy discussion

Food
The chef at Evia Silence Retreat prepares delicious, high-quality food using only the finest of local produce and ingredients. The meals are vegetarian Mediterranean-Greek cuisine and include breakfast, lite-lunch and dinner. Their menu includes a healthy and plentiful variety of salads, fruits, soups, main dishes, and breakfast items including eggs, cheese, coffee, tea, and much more. Vegan options are available.

The following meals are included:

• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
• Drinks

The following drinks are included:

• Water
• Coffee
• Tea

The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:

• Vegetarian
• Vegan
• Organic
• Whole food
• Yogic
• If you have special dietary requirements it’s a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation

What’s included

• 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Tuition
• 200-page yoga teacher training manual
• 50-page yoga asana guide and Sanskrit dictionary of pose names
• Lifetime access to the 200-Hour Online Yoga Teacher Training-an essential resource to help you as you move out into the world teaching yoga
• Eligibility to register with Yoga Alliance upon completion of the course
• As needed Zoom mentoring after the program ends
• Delicious and healthy meals prepared for you with love include breakfast, lite-lunch, and dinner every day
• 17 nights of housing with daily room cleaning

What’s not included

• Flights
• Airport transfers

How to get there
Recommended Airports
ATH
Athens International Airport (Eleftherios Venizelos Airport)
43 km

Transfer available for additional US$ 65 per person

Arrival by airplane
Soma Yoga Insititute will make transportation to the retreat easy and safe for you. Transfer from Athens International Airport to the hotel and return by group shuttle. A group shuttle will be arranged from Athens Airport to Evia Silence. The shuttle will leave Athen’s Airport at 1:00 pm on 6/25/25. For return on July 12, the shuttle will depart Evia Silence retreat in time for flights leaving after 12:00pm. The cost of the group shuttle is 60 EUR each way per person. Shuttle times will be adjusted accordingly to accommodate student’s departure times. A private taxi can be arranged for 180 EUR each way. The shuttle ride is 2.5 hours long.