Bali Yoga Teacher Training Certification Courses | Bali YTT

Our YTT program is 23-days long and designed for beginner and intermediate yoga practitioners who wish to start teaching yoga to others or deepen their own practice. Our daily sessions include yoga classes, asana breakdown workshops, lectures on the art of teaching, as well as yogic philosophy and homework assignments.

If you’re wanting to deepen your personal practice or want to share the gift of yoga through teaching, this yoga teacher training course offers one of the most holistic and spiritually focused trainings in the world, with a strong emphasis on self-growth and self-realization so you can awaken your highest potential & live your best life.

Our 4-day Yoga Retreats start every Sunday and Wednesday, and our 7-day Yoga Retreats start every Sunday. Both are open to beginning and intermediate students, and each class is adapted to the general needs of the group.

There are 2 yoga and meditation classes each day, and each class is approximately 2 hours long. Each class includes:

• Easy-to-understand instructions on yoga, meditation and technique
• 15-30 minutes of meditation (building progressively class by class)
• 90 minutes of Yoga Asana (poses)

In addition, during our yoga retreats, we also offer yin yoga classes, plus workshops that focus on philosophical and practical aspects of yoga such as lifestyle, how to practice meditation, and other yogic themes.

Our yoga teacher training is a beautiful synthesis of the essence of Yoga, Tantra and Vedanta adapted for the modern world. It is a rare opportunity to fully immerse yourself in the essence of the yogic way of life—which abounds in truth, love and bliss. It is designed for both aspiring teachers and those that wish to deepen their practice by living Yoga to the fullest.

The content and focus of various yoga teacher training programs around the world can be quite dramatically different, and our particular 200-hour yoga teacher training course offers a mystical, yet modern approach, that is grounded and practical as it integrates the authentic and spiritual yoga of the Vedic tradition with the needs of the modern yogi.

If you’re wanting to deepen your personal practice or want to share the gift of yoga through teaching, this yoga teacher training course offers one of the most authentic and spiritually focused trainings in the world so you can awaken your highest potential & live your best life.

In the yoga teacher training, we have two main objectives:

1. To provide you with a strong foundation in yoga asana so that you may teach yoga classes with confidence and skill. This comprises developing an in-depth knowledge of 60+ yoga asanas, as well as understanding how to intelligently and safely sequence postures while offering variations to meet the needs of people at different levels.
2. To develop a personal spiritual practice that will allow you to directly experience the deeper dimensions of yoga that are beyond yoga asana. For this, we teach the theory and practical application of the four paths of yoga. We focus on developing a meditation practice that utilizes pranayama, mudras, self-inquiry, and mantra as aids to developing awareness, focus, and stilling the mind.

If you look at our testimonials, you can get a feel for the course content and what our students have experienced through the program. What we offer tends to be drastically different than the majority of yoga teacher training programs worldwide.

We love beginners! All of our yoga retreat classes are specifically tailored to meet each person at their own personal level with an emphasis on awareness of the present moment, safety, a sequentially balanced class,  and an opportunity for each person to witness where they are at mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually at each moment. We encourage our students to honor and respect their own bodies and intuition in order to determine what is best for them as each moment unfolds, engaging in the way that feels right for them.

Our sessions focus on love, compassion, fun, letting go and being as you are, as we align and open our body and energy fields to allow for the fullest growth and expansion into who we truly are.  We definitely encourage intermediate practitioners to join us as we explore the depths of Yoga, however advanced students may find that the yoga asana component of the retreat is not challenging enough.  As such, we recommend that advanced yoga asana students join us for silent meditation retreats and learn the higher limbs of yoga.

Yes. Solo female guests at Blooming Lotus Yoga who book a shared room are placed only with other women, and single male travellers can only book private rooms. Airport pickup from Denpasar (DPS) can be arranged for US$35, and our retreat centre has a 24-hour front desk.

A 200-hour yoga teacher training at Blooming Lotus Yoga costs from US$2,879 in total, including tuition, 23 nights of accommodation and three meals a day. A 7-day yoga retreat costs from US$700 per person including accommodation, two meals a day and all classes. A 5.6% tax and service fee applies. Across Bali more broadly, a 200-hour training typically costs between US$2,000 and US$3,500 for tuition alone, with accommodation often charged separately — so compare all-in totals rather than headline tuition.

Yes, we are a Yoga Alliance certified school. However, it is good to know that being a part of this organization is not a necessity to teach yoga.

The Yoga Alliance is an American company that simply acts as a registry for yoga schools and teachers. You can choose to register with them, or choose from any of the numerous other international registries – but this is not mandatory.

Once you receive a certificate from us, you can then submit it to Yoga Alliance and pay an annual fee to be on their registry. But make sure to check with the studios you want to teach in before you register with Yoga Alliance. Because, even though you are eligible to register with them after completing our course, your studio may only require the certificate you obtain from our yoga teacher training courses.

There is no minimum number of years of practice required to join our 200-hour yoga teacher training. Blooming Lotus Yoga welcomes both beginner and intermediate practitioners, and our teachers adapt instruction to meet each student at their own level.

We recommend arriving with some yoga practice behind you — and make sure to practice more regularly before the course begins.  A little background in meditation or healing practices is also a real advantage.

Below are the requirements for attending our 200-hour YTT program:

1. We have a minimum age of 21 years old, to make sure you have had enough time “to live your yoga”. Younger students are encouraged to wait and mature into their practice and range of life experiences before considering becoming a teacher.
2. Courses are conducted in English, and therefore we ask that all students have a good grasp of the English language in order to understand, read, write, and communicate the course material.

Yes. You can start teaching yoga after the yoga teacher training (YTT) is complete.  During the YTT course, you will learn all the essential skills needed to teach safe vinyasa, hatha, and yin-restorative classes to your own students.

Yes, our Amrita restaurant serves organic and vegan cuisine made fresh with locally sourced ingredients.  Amrita restaurant’s healthy menu serves food that is good for you, good for our planet and good for all of its creatures. Following the yogic principle of ahimsa (non-violence), Amrita’s healthy vegan menu contains no animal products. Our healthy menu is completely free of meat, dairy and eggs – an ideal yogic diet that supports your practices.

Yes, there is an in-house healing spa overlooking the river and temple where various massages and healing treatments can be booked.

Blooming Lotus Yoga is located in Lodtunduh, Ubud, in the Gianyar Regency of Bali — about 15 minutes from central Ubud and one hour from Bali’s international airport in Denpasar (DPS). All our teacher trainings, yoga retreats and meditation retreats are held here at our own retreat centre.

We also teach private yoga classes at homes, hotels and villas in Ubud and the surrounding area. If you’re elsewhere in Bali, contact us and we’ll let you know what’s possible.

There is no single best course, but there are questions that separate a serious training from a holiday with a certificate at the end. These are the ones we’d ask if we were choosing.

Ask how the course handles mixed levels. Almost nobody asks this, and it has a bigger effect on what you actually learn than anything else on the brochure. Every training takes in students at different stages. The question is whether the school has a real method for that, or whether it simply teaches to the middle and lets the rest fall behind or coast. Ask what happens if a posture is beyond you on day three, and ask what happens if it is too easy. A school that cannot answer specifically has not thought about it. At Blooming Lotus Yoga we teach to the individual, offer variations in every session, and place as much weight on philosophy, pranayama and meditation as on asana — which is why beginners and experienced practitioners can train together.

Ask for the all-in price, not the tuition. Advertised tuition for a 200-hour training in Bali commonly sits between US$2,000 and US$3,500, but schools differ enormously in what that includes. Some quote tuition alone, with accommodation and meals charged separately on arrival; others quote a fully inclusive figure. Two courses advertised at “US$2,500” can differ by well over a thousand dollars once you’ve paid for 23 nights of accommodation and three meals a day.

Ask how many students are in the group, and how many teachers. Twenty-four students with one teacher is a very different training from twelve with three. Practicum time — actually teaching, and being corrected — is where confidence comes from, and it divides by group size.

Ask whether the teachers hold Indonesian work permits. Almost nobody asks this, and it tells you a great deal about how the school operates. Trainings led by teachers working on tourist visas are vulnerable to disruption.

Ask what happens if the course doesn’t fill. Small schools cancel under-subscribed courses, sometimes weeks out, after you’ve booked flights. Ask directly whether courses have ever been cancelled and what the policy is.

Ask about the refund and transfer policy before you pay a deposit. Deposits are commonly non-refundable. Find out what happens if you get ill, if your visa is refused, or if your circumstances change.

Ask what you get afterwards. Some schools hand you a certificate and end the relationship. Ask about continuing support, alumni access, and whether you can retake the course. We allow our graduates to retake the 200-hour training free of charge, without limit, because learning to teach doesn’t finish on graduation day.

Most 200-hour yoga teacher trainings in Bali run between 18 and 27 days.

The number of days matters less than how those days are structured, and this is where courses differ most.

Yoga Alliance requires 200 contact hours, and every registered school delivers them — but a school can fit 200 hours into 18 days or spread them across 27. A compressed course is ideal for those who don’t have the ability to spend a lot of time abroad and is significantly cheaper due to the reduced price of daily accommodations and food.  A longer course covers the same syllabus at a slower pace but will cost more.

Then add travel time to whatever the school tells you. A 23-day course realistically means about 26 days in Bali once you account for arriving the day before and leaving the day after, and most people want a few days either side to adjust to the time zone and see something of the island. Budget four weeks even for a three-week course.

Practical note on visas: a 30-day visa on arrival covers most 200-hour trainings but leaves little margin. If your course runs 23 days or longer and you want any time to travel, either plan to extend on arrival or apply for a 60-day visit visa before you fly.