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The best yoga teachers never stop being students. 🌿

What makes a truly impactful yoga teacher?

It’s not how many poses you know.
It’s not how perfectly you demonstrate them.

It’s how you show up.
How you connect with your students.
And how willing you are to keep growing.

Completing your 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training is a huge milestone. But what if it’s only the beginning?

The deeper we go into yoga, the more we realize there is always more to explore.

✨ More understanding of the body and breath.
✨ More depth in our practice.
✨ More wisdom in how we teach.
✨ More connection to ourselves and others.

Our 300-Hour Yoga Alchemy Immersion is an opportunity to take that next step.

Over 28 days at Yandara in Mexico, you’ll explore intelligent sequencing, functional anatomy, yoga philosophy, meditation, pranayama, mantra, and what it means to teach from a place of authenticity.

This isn’t just about becoming a better yoga teacher.

It’s about continuing to evolve as a student, a practitioner, and a human being.

Because the most powerful teaching often comes from the work we’re willing to do within ourselves.

Already completed your 200-hour training and feeling called to go deeper? This might be your next step. 🤍

📍 Yandara Yoga Institute | Mexico
🗓️ March 29 - April 26, 2027
🌿 300-Hour Yoga Alchemy Immersion
🧘🏼‍♀️ With your teachers Kari, Mercy and Christopher

Comment ALCHEMY below and explore the next chapter of your yoga journey.

Save this post for when you’re ready to take your practice further, or share it with a yoga teacher who might be looking for their next step.

#300HourYTT #YogaTeacherTraining #YogaTeachers #AdvancedYogaTraining #yandarayoga taken in Yandara Yoga Institute by @shanechristopherperkins

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17 beautiful days in Sweden, spent learning, growing and deepening a practice that has meant so much to me. Surrounded by beautiful forest that felt like home, and a community of wonderful people, it was the perfect place to complete my 200hr Yoga Teacher Training 🧘🏼‍♂️🕉

Biggest thank you to @shambalagatherings and @yandarayoga, and the most wonderful teachers @shanechristopherperkins, @karischein66 and @serah.naturaleza 🩷✨️ taken in Shambala Gatherings, Sweden by @shanechristopherperkins

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Some journeys have a beautiful way of coming full circle.

This August, @serah.naturaleza will be traveling to Sweden to teach alongside her teachers @shanechristopherperkins & @karischein66 from Yandara Yoga Institute for their 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training.

This collaboration is held by shared values and a common belief that yoga extends far beyond the mat. The training is an invitation to deepen your practice, embody the teachings, and learn to guide others with authenticity, compassion, and heart.

August 13–30, 2026 • Sweden

If you’re feeling called to experience this journey in a truly immersive setting, we’d love to tell you more.

Contact us on +961 811 711 48 for inquiries by @shanechristopherperkins

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17 Days to Transform Your Practice. Transform Your Life🌿

Join us in the forests of Sweden for Yandara’s 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training at the beautiful Shambala Gatherings (@shambalagatherings) retreat center. Or join us for 50hrs for the ever deepening Sequencing Module!
With your teachers Kari, Christopher and Serah ❤️
@karischein66
@serah.naturaleza
@shanechristopherperkins

Surrounded by quiet lakes, wild blueberries, sauna evenings, campfire philosophy talks, and daily yoga and meditation, this immersive experience is designed to support deep personal growth - whether you dream of teaching or simply want to deepen your own practice.

Over 17 days together, you’ll explore:
✨ Yoga asana & intelligent sequencing
✨ Meditation & mindfulness
✨ Yogic philosophy
✨ Breathwork & nervous system awareness
✨ Student teaching & confidence building
✨ Authentic connection and community

Guided by Christopher Perkins, Kari Schein and Serah Barakat, this training blends heart-centered teaching, embodied practice, and meaningful transformation.

🗓 August 13-30, 2026
🎓 Yoga Alliance 200 Hour YTT Certification
OR
🗓 August 4-9, 2026
🎓 Yoga Alliance 50 Hour Sequencing Module

📍 Shambala Gatherings, Sweden
🍃 Vegetarian meals + accommodation included

Spaces are limited to 21 students.

Promo! Have you already have taken your 200hr Training with us? There's a special promotion for those who want a refresher - a chance to experience and recieve the teachings in a new way from where you stand today✨

Come home to yourself in the Swedish forest.

#YandaraYoga #YogaTeacherTraining #YogaInSweden #SummerInSweden #YogaRetreat taken in Shambala Gatherings, Sweden by @shanechristopherperkins

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Meet Your Sweden Teaching Team 🌲

The heart of every training is the people who hold it.

This summer in Sweden, we’re gathering with teachers whose different paths and perspectives come together to create something deeply supportive, expansive, and alive.

Each brings their own unique approach while sharing a common intention: to create a learning experience that feels grounded, embodied, and transformational.

Meet the team:

✨ Christopher Perkins
Co-founder of Yandara and long-time teacher trainer, Christopher brings over two decades of yoga and meditation experience into his work. His teaching blends movement, philosophy, psychology, and self-inquiry - creating practices that invite depth, freedom, and authentic expression.

🌿 Kari Schein
Kari’s work weaves together yoga, sound, ritual, and connection to the natural world. Influenced by practices that bridge movement with energetic awareness, she creates spaces that invite curiosity, presence, creativity, and meaningful transformation.

💜 Serah Barakat
Founder and teacher at Ohana Yoga Academy, Serah brings an approach rooted in embodiment, nature, and meaningful connection. Her teaching invites students to slow down, listen inward, and experience yoga as a living practice rather than something to perfect. Drawing from years of creating spaces for learning, community, and transformation, she encourages people to reconnect with themselves in ways that feel intuitive, grounded, and deeply human.

Together, this team creates a space where practice extends beyond the mat - into how we move, connect, rest, and live.

We can’t wait to gather in the Swedish forest with you 🇸🇪✨

See you at Shambala!

#Yandara #ShambalaGatherings #NervousSystemReset #YogaTeacherTraining #yogasequence taken in Shambala Gatherings, Sweden by @shanechristopherperkins

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Still integrating the magic of my time at @yandarayoga ✨

I recently completed a 100-hour Breath & Meditation Training in Baja - deepening my studies in pranayama, meditation, nervous system regulation, and mindful presence. This journey also brought me to 700 hours of yoga teacher training as an RYT. 🤍

So grateful for the teachers, the practice, the ocean, the stillness, and the reminder that yoga is so much more than movement. It’s a way of relating to yourself and the world around you.

Forever learning. Forever a student. taken in Yandara Yoga Institute by @shanechristopherperkins

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Shoshin: The Most Powerful Place to Start

In Zen Buddhism, shoshin (beginner's mind) refers to approaching even the most familiar thing with curiosity. The master, it's said, carries beginner's mind more naturally than the beginner. Because they've learned that the moment you think you know something fully, you stop truly experiencing it.

For the newer practitioner, beginner's mind is your greatest gift: you haven't yet learned to be rigid. For the experienced yogi or teacher, it's the deepest practice of all: to unlearn the accumulated weight of certainty. To teach from a place of wonder, rather than habit.

✨ This summer, Yandara is offering two ways to step into that space...

Nestled in the heart of Sweden's idyllic forest, surrounded by calm lakes and fields of wild blueberries, Yandara's Swedish home at Shambala Gatherings is unlike anywhere else we teach. Days begin with morning yoga as mist rises off the water. Evenings close with kirtan, philosophy, and time in the floating sauna.

This August, we're offering two programs here:

✨ 200 Hr YTT Sweden
August 13-30, 2026
Immerse in heartfelt yoga and meditation, with delicious vegetarian meals, relaxing evenings in the floating sauna, and enriching yogic philosophy sessions around the campfire.

This is one of Yandara's most intimate training experiences. Whether you're stepping onto the teaching path for the first time or returning to deepen your foundation, you'll leave with your Yoga Alliance 200Hr certification and a practice that's genuinely your own.

Perfect for: those new to teaching who want a gentler European setting, and for experienced practitioners ready to formalize and deepen what they already know.

✨ The Living Sequence
August 4-9, 2026
A 5-day immersive retreat for practitioners at any level who want to go deeper into the art of Sequencing. This can be continuing education or a week of pure practice, no certification pressure, just you, the teachings, and a small, intimate group in the forest.

Perfect for: experienced students wanting a reset, teachers seeking fresh creative inspiration, or anyone who knows they need a week away.

To enroll or explore more - visit our website ❤️

#Yoga taken in Shambala Gatherings, Sweden by @shanechristopherperkins

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There is something about Sweden...
There are many places you can deepen your practice...however there's something about Sweden…
(special promo below, keep reading 👇🏽)

A quiet kind of magic.
A stillness that invites you inward.
A landscape that doesn’t demand anything from you, yet gently changes you.

Why Sweden?
Our summer trainings in Sweden offer a different rhythm than Baja.
Here, yoga unfolds alongside:
🌅 soft morning light over the forest
✨ cozy evenings in the floating sauna
🌲 the grounding presence of trees and lakes and blueberry fields all around you

It’s a space where things naturally slow down…
and where your practice can deepen in a more subtle, integrated way.

For those ready to go further
If you’ve already completed a 200hr training, this is a beautiful opportunity to continue your journey:

🌿 The Living Sequence – 50hr Advanced Module (August 4–9)
This training is designed to refine and expand how you understand sequencing—not just as structure, but as an intuitive, living practice.
You’ll explore:
-how to create sequences that feel natural and purposeful
-the balance between structure and intuition
-how to guide students into deeper, more meaningful experiences

It’s less about memorizing sequences…
and more about learning how to listen.

Or come back to REVIST foundation...
🌿 200hr Yoga Teacher Training
(August 13-30) *special retake promo*
Coming back a second time often brings a completely new experience:
-teachings land more deeply
-there’s more space to absorb and integrate
-your relationship to the practice evolves
-we welcome anyone who is taking this training for the first time as well

If you're feeling the pull, reach out to us by sending a DM to explore our "retake discount" 💜
More info : website, link in story

You might also know someone who’s standing where you once stood... Curious. Unsure. Feeling the call to explore a YTT. If someone comes to mind, feel free to share this with them. 🤝🏼 Share.

A different kind of experience
Sweden isn’t just another training location.
It’s an invitation to slow down, reconnect, and experience yoga in a way that feels grounded, spacious, and quiet.

We’d love to welcome you. taken in Shambala Gatherings, Sweden by @shanechristopherperkins

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Coming back to @yandarayoga in Baja for my Restorative & Yin training felt like returning to a place that lives in my bones. Being guided again by @shanechristopherperkins and @karischein66 - teachers, mentors, and friends who have shaped the way I hold space was a deep reminder of why I teach in the first place.

Thank you both for the wisdom you share so generously, for the subtle teachings between the lines, and for modeling what grounded, heart-led leadership truly looks like. I carry your guidance into every room I teach in.

Grateful to be a student again. Grateful to reconnect. Grateful for the path.

#jocelynyoga #bajamemories #yogateacher #yoganapa #appreciation taken in Yandara Yoga Institute by @shanechristopherperkins

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✨Teacher Wisdom Corner✨ - Christopher Perkins @shanechristopherperkins

Christopher Perkins, co-founder of Yandara, has practiced yoga and meditation since childhood. Known for his intuitive and dynamic style, Christopher’s teachings weave together creative movement, powerful flow, and a heart-centered exploration of yoga philosophy and psychology. His presence inspires students to connect deeply with their truest potential — both on and off the mat.

“A supportive environment to recognize your greatest potential will catapult your progress many times over.”
— Christopher Perkins

🧘🏼Christopher's Wisdom in Action
Through decades of practice and teaching worldwide, Christopher blends:
✨Dynamic, intuitive sequencing that balances creativity with precision
✨Philosophy and psychology of yoga woven seamlessly into practice
✨Meditation and awareness training rooted in his upbringing at SKMC and studies across India, Nepal, and beyond
✨Community building that creates safe, supportive, and transformative group experiences

📽️ Enjoy a 25-Minute Pranayama class with Christopher - link for full video is in today's stories or on our YouTube channel
-https://youtu.be/xjOaIAFzVLc?si=TMxzzKoJ6_UGM93a

📍Upcoming Programs with Christopher
This fall, join Christopher for two transformative opportunities:

🇸🇪 Sweden – September 8 to 17 – Sequencing & Beyond
A deep dive into intelligent sequencing, blending creativity with structure to support transformational classes.

🌊 Baja, Mexico – Nov. 23 to Dec. 3 –Sequencing & Applied Anatomy
Experience how sequencing meets embodied anatomy — refine your teaching with a balance of science, intuition, and the art of yoga.

In Their Own Words:
“Christopher has a way of looking directly into you and, with just his eyes, make you feel safe and supported to be vulnerable enough to dive deeply into your truth… I left Yandara with confidence, clarity and joy in my heart. The impact and lessons continue to unfold within me.
~ Sarah Kadel, Yandara 500-hour Graduate

JOIN US and expand the parts of your spirit you haven't discovered... Yet 🙌✨❤️

#yogateachertraining #yogateacher #yogalife taken in Yandara Yoga Institute by @shanechristopherperkins

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Thanks for reading this, but there’s nothing I can say that would be more beautiful than her. So, you can just go back and watch it again and take a breath with me. #itsgoodtobealive by @shanechristopherperkins

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Returning to the Heart of Yoga
with Mark Whitwell

@markwhitwell
@joanna_mack_sitar
@yandarayoga
@yandararetreats
@rosalind.lucy

#markwhitwell by @shanechristopherperkins

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