Advancing Your Yoga Teaching
Join a 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training or one of the CEU courses to expand your yoga knowledge and offerings
300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training
Costa Dulce School of Yoga’s 300 Hour Yoga Teacher is registered with Yoga Alliance and is intended to advance your knowledge and application as a yoga teacher. Yoga Alliance 300 YTT curriculum requirements focuses on 5 main categories: Techniques, Training, and Practice; Anatomy and Physiology; Yoga Humanities; Teaching Methodology; and Professional Essentials; plus a minimum of 30 hours active practice teaching.
This course is best suited for those already teaching, a 200 Hour YTT certification is required to participate.
Curriculum Overview:
- Advanced asana analysis, variations, and sequencing progressions
- Hands-on adjustments, verbal cuing, and prop usage
- Advanced pranayama and deep meditation
- Study of the yoga masters
- Subtle body energy systems: Mantra, Mudra, Chakras
- Yoga Nidra (deep relaxation)
- Applied anatomy and biomechanics, with injury prevention
- Working with special populations (pregnancy, seniors, etc.)
- Nervous system regulation and the stress response
- Yoga philosophy, history, and Sanskrit
- Teaching practicum with peer feedback and mentorship
- Capstone project to build workshops, retreats, trainings, digital media, or community programs tailored to your goals
What’s Included:
- Tuition & Certification
- Manual
- Jungle Walk
- Town Trip
- Cacao Ceremony
- Sweat Lodge
- (1) 60min massage
- Accommodations
- Meals (pre-breakfast, breakfast, lunch, dinner)
- Donation to Vital Actions, supporting Wildlife and Environmental Restoration
What’s NOT Included:
- Flights
- Transportation (available, but pricing is not included)
- Travel Insurance
Your 300 Hour YTT Team
Chel
Lead Trainer
Chel has been teaching yoga since 2013, and teaching group fitness and dance since 2009. She’s also a meditation teacher, mindset coach and energy worker, offering healing sessions infusing yoga nidra, chakra balancing, sound healing and Reiki.
Once an executive working for Fortune 500 companies, she changed the course of her life by embracing mindfulness and choosing to become a “corporate drop out.”
A time of self discovery led her to yoga teacher training with South Okanagan Yoga Academy, studying under Mugs McConnell who greatly inspires her. She also studies the lessons of Paramahansa Yogananda, and other great masters.
She completed her 500-hour training with specialization in Ayurveda at Alpha Omega Yoga. She’s also traveled around the world solo to practice meditation in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Myanmar.
Her favorite yoga styles to teach are Hatha, Vinyasa, Gentle/Beginner and Power Yoga. Her specialties include meditation, yoga nidra and sound healing.
Chel has been living in Sayulita, Mexico since 2017 and often visits back to her home in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Amber Starr
Assistant
Amber Starr is a movement educator, women’s retreat facilitator, and holistic health practitioner who blends modern mobility science with ancient embodiment practices to guide others back home to themselves.
Over the past decade, she has worked as a Mobility and Internal Strength Specialist within the Functional Range Systems (FRC, FRA, FRSISM), supporting clients through chronic pain, strength training, and nervous system regulation. Her path began with yoga teacher training over nine years ago — a heart-opening journey that awakened her passion for self-discovery, healing, and sharing that light with others.
After following her heart to Mexico for love and adventure, Amber now leads international women’s retreats through AHOM Holistic Health, creating spaces of empowerment, embodiment, and authentic connection.
Amber holds certifications in Yoga (300hr), Functional Range Systems, Animal Flow, Sacred Facilitation, Reiki I & II, and Herbalism, along with a degree in Ornamental Horticulture. Outside of teaching, she’s a passionate herbalist, nature lover, and former women’s bodybuilding division champion — always exploring the balance of strength, softness, and soul.
Alejo Desiderio
Assistant
Alejo is a true nature lover. He became a certified yoga teacher (200hr) in 2024 and blends his passion for nature and yoga to specialize in Forest Therapy. He started an eco-tour hiking company in 2020 and educates travelers and families about the ecosystem, wildlife and ahimsa (the yogic yama of nonviolence).
He’s a Certified Biodecoding Therapist, offering a holistic therapy that decodes the body’s biological symptoms to understand and resolve the emotional causes of illness and generational trauma. He also is a certified Reiki Master.
A competitive athlete and pickleball player, he is committed to his own training as well as coaching advanced pickleball. He is dedicated to a physical practice of strength and mobility.
Alejo’s favorite styles of yoga to teach are gentle yoga, meditation, Hatha and yoga for mobility. He enjoys teaching a wide range of students from athletes to beginners and seniors.Originally from Argentina, he lives in Sayulita, Mexico, with his wife, Lead YTT Trainer Chel Rogerson.
Continuing Education Programs
These specialized programs allow you to dive into a particular focus or interest while earning CEUs.
Breathwork & Meditation (50 Hours)
Together we’ll explore:
Meditation & Breathwork foundations
Applied neuroscience & physiology
Yogic wisdom, self-inquiry, and contemplative tools
Nervous system regulation & emotional intelligence
Teaching presence & embodied leadership
Restorative practices & the art of holding space
Authentic offering & ethical sharing
Business strategy with heart
Immersive Yin Training (50 Hours)
Slow down. Soften. Listen. Go deeper.
Whether you are a yoga teacher looking to deepen your understanding of Yin or a dedicated practitioner wanting to explore the practice more deeply, this immersion is an invitation to soften your edges, expand your awareness, and discover the wisdom that becomes available when we stop trying to get somewhere.
Yin invites us to step out of the constant doing of everyday life and into a different way of being. Through longer-held postures, mindful breath, and intentional stillness, we create space to explore the body, quiet the mind, and become more aware of the subtle layers of our experience.
Drawing from more than a decade of teaching yoga, Beth approaches Yin with both depth and practicality. Her background in Psychology and Sociology brings a unique perspective to the practice, exploring not only the physical body, but also the relationship between sensation, nervous system, emotions, attention, and awareness.
In this immersion, you will explore the foundations and philosophy of Yin Yoga, functional anatomy, the principles of stress and tension, energetic concepts, mindfulness, breath, sequencing, props and variations, and the art of creating a safe and supportive Yin experience.
But perhaps the most important part of the training is learning to listen—to your own body, to your students, and to what arises in stillness.
Set within the natural beauty of Costa Dulce, this training offers the rare opportunity to slow down completely and experience Yin not just as something you teach, but as something you live.
Come slow down. Come listen. Come home to yourself.
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