20 Day 200-Hour Hybrid: Online & In-Person Hatha Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training in Crete, Greece
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20 Day 200-Hour Hybrid: Online & In-Person Hatha Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training in Crete, Greece
Paleochora, Greece
Up to 18 in group
Jun 27 - Jul 11, 2026
Retreat Highlights
- Shri Gaia Institute has been accredited with Yoga Alliance since 2008 for its 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training Programs and since 2011 for its Advanced 300-hour Yoga trainings. Voted the second-best yoga teacher training in the world by Yovada in 2025, this training is directed by the internationally renowned senior yoga teacher and a Yoga Acharya (master of yoga), Tanya Savitri Popovich ERYT-500.
- This training course is a combination of years of experience, expertise, and thousands of hours of training in various systems concentrated into a 200-hour-long transformational experience. The training will take place over 15 days at Metacom, South Crete, and five days online need to be completed prior to the meeting in Crete.
- Shri Gaia Institute training is based on traditional classical yoga philosophy while at the same time incorporating the most modern and up-to-date teachings about the body into the physical practice. Carefully crafted teaching methodology that incorporates the biomechanics of the body, therapeutic alignment, and intelligent sequencing ensures a safe, informed, and highly skilled physical practice, infused with the ancient wisdom and philosophy in each movement and each breath.
- This training’s specialty is teaching classes that deliver the essence of yoga, creating what is called the “Sattvic” effect—a state of being where one is completely calm yet focused and alert. This is achieved by teaching a practice that is rooted in tradition, the way yoga is intended to be, while taking care of the Western body of today and having an individual approach. This 200-hour yoga teacher training program incorporates training hours in the following educational categories and topics.
About this Retreat
Your Guides
Tanya is a certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher, Yoga Alliance ERYT-500, and Yoga Acharya (Master of Yoga) in classical Sivananda Yoga tradition.
She started her meditation practice at the age of 14 through Transcendental Meditation.
Her 20 years of experience practicing and 17 years of teaching Yoga includes numerable yoga trainings in classical and modern styles of yoga, and long stays at Yoga Ashrams across India.
For the past 16 years Tanya teaches yoga internationally including 200-hr and 500-hr Yoga Alliance certified educational programs, Yin Yoga and Aerial Yoga training programs, Breathwork and Meditation trainings, Vedanta philosophy, workshops, seminars and cultural retreats.
Swaha Yoga Center founder
Shri Gaia Institute founder and Yoga Teacher Training director
Yin Resonanceâ Yin Yoga Teacher Training founder
Uplift Another – refugee scholarship program and Trauma Informed Teacher Training program founder
Swaha Aerial Yoga founder
Details of this retreat
Hybrid Yoga Teacher Training Greece
The teacher training is based on Hatha and Vinyasa yoga so that upon completion of this program, the trainees can include any kind of audience and adopt the teachings according to the student’s needs. Directed by Tanya Savitri Popovich, ERYT-500, this teacher training course is a combination of years of experience, expertise, and thousands of hours of training in various systems concentrated into a 200-hour-long transformational experience. The training will take place over 15 days at Metacom in South Crete and 5 days online that need to be completed prior to your meeting in Greece.
Daily Hatha and Vinyasa yoga practice, meditation, and pranayama
Group discussions and sharing circle
15 days residential training
5 self-paced online days with instruction
40 hours online and 160 hours residential
14 nights on-site training accommodation
Eligible to register with Yoga Alliance upon completion
Teacher training manual
-Online training
This part of the teacher training is held online. All classes are pre-recorded, which you can participate in from the comfort of your home. The online portion needs to be completed prior to your training in Crete.
-In-person training in Crete
This portion of the training will take place in Paleochora, South Crete, Greece. Crete Island is the biggest and the extreme southern island of Greece. Paleochora is Crete’s gateway to the Libyan Sea. It is one of the most beautiful towns in the prefecture of Chania with extremely good weather where the summer lasts for over five months.
Here, you will feel at home through the kindness and friendliness of the people, you will taste the delicious local cuisine while the beauty of the sea and scenery will literally sweep you away. The picturesque village is located on a small northern peninsula surrounded by two exquisite beaches with sand and pebbles. The distance between Chania and Paleochora is a 75-kilometer drive enriched with the wild beauty that the Cretan scenery has to offer.
Your training venue during the onsite training is an eco-cottage retreat and seminar center located between Paleochora and Anydri village in the south of Crete island. Set in the most beautiful landscape, the venue is only a few minutes away by car (or about 20 minutes of trekking down a canyon) to some of the most pristine beaches and graphic Paleochora village.
The teacher training is based on Hatha and Vinyasa yoga so that upon completion of this program, the trainees can include any kind of audience and adopt the teachings according to the student’s needs. Directed by Tanya Savitri Popovich, ERYT-500, this teacher training course is a combination of years of experience, expertise, and thousands of hours of training in various systems concentrated into a 200-hour-long transformational experience. The training will take place over 15 days at Metacom in South Crete and 5 days online that need to be completed prior to your meeting in Greece.
Daily Hatha and Vinyasa yoga practice, meditation, and pranayama
Group discussions and sharing circle
15 days residential training
5 self-paced online days with instruction
40 hours online and 160 hours residential
14 nights on-site training accommodation
Eligible to register with Yoga Alliance upon completion
Teacher training manual
-Online training
This part of the teacher training is held online. All classes are pre-recorded, which you can participate in from the comfort of your home. The online portion needs to be completed prior to your training in Crete.
-In-person training in Crete
This portion of the training will take place in Paleochora, South Crete, Greece. Crete Island is the biggest and the extreme southern island of Greece. Paleochora is Crete’s gateway to the Libyan Sea. It is one of the most beautiful towns in the prefecture of Chania with extremely good weather where the summer lasts for over five months.
Here, you will feel at home through the kindness and friendliness of the people, you will taste the delicious local cuisine while the beauty of the sea and scenery will literally sweep you away. The picturesque village is located on a small northern peninsula surrounded by two exquisite beaches with sand and pebbles. The distance between Chania and Paleochora is a 75-kilometer drive enriched with the wild beauty that the Cretan scenery has to offer.
Your training venue during the onsite training is an eco-cottage retreat and seminar center located between Paleochora and Anydri village in the south of Crete island. Set in the most beautiful landscape, the venue is only a few minutes away by car (or about 20 minutes of trekking down a canyon) to some of the most pristine beaches and graphic Paleochora village.
Schedule
-Sample schedule
*08:00 - 10:00 Asana, pranayama, and meditation
*10:00 Brunch
*11:00 - 13:00 Lecture
*13:00 - 13:20 Break
*13:20 - 16:15 Teaching methodology
*16:15 - Beach, study, and free time
*18:00 Dinner
*19:30 - 21:00 Evening class / peer practice
*On some days there will be a free evening to allow for a longer study and rest.
*08:00 - 10:00 Asana, pranayama, and meditation
*10:00 Brunch
*11:00 - 13:00 Lecture
*13:00 - 13:20 Break
*13:20 - 16:15 Teaching methodology
*16:15 - Beach, study, and free time
*18:00 Dinner
*19:30 - 21:00 Evening class / peer practice
*On some days there will be a free evening to allow for a longer study and rest.
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change
What's Included
- 15 days residential training
- 5 self-paced online days with instruction
- Certificate of completion to register with Yoga Alliance
- 14 nights accommodation
- Daily yoga classes, pranayama, meditation
- Yoga philosophy and yogic lifestyle
- Asana alignment, adjustment, anatomy and biomechanics
- Vinyasa krama and intelligent sequencing
- Teaching methodology
- Leadership training
- Group discussions and sharing circle
- Meditation and relaxation techniques
- Dynamic meditations
- 200 guided teaching hours with experienced and internationally acclaimed yoga teachers
- Training manual
- Airfare for the onsite training
- Airport transfers for the in-person training
- All meals during the residential training
- Extra activities during the residential training
- Please note that the duration and dates below are only for the 15-day in-person training. The online training should be concluded before the in-person training starts.
What's Not Included
- Meals
- Transport
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