THE ART OF TEACHING YOGA II: THREE BOONS 153+HR ADVANCED YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
If you are yoga teacher who already completed a foundational teacher training, our Three Boons Yoga 153+hr Advanced Yoga Teacher Training provides you with the opportunity to dive deeper into the teachings of yoga and to continue your education as a yoga teacher with a strong focus on ancient Indian wisdom philosophy, sequencing, assisting and developing and strengthening your own teaching style.
While this training is designed with a well-rounded curriculum in order to achieve these goals, its small group size allows us to take your existing individual needs and strengths as a teacher into consideration and to adjust your individual tasks and assignments in the training accordingly.
If you have already established a strong connection to the teachings of yoga with your foundational training, if you feel drawn to how we teach at Three Boons Yoga within the Jivamukti lineage and if you want to dive deeper in order to become the best yoga teacher you can be, then our 153+HR Three Boons Yoga Advanced Teacher Training will support and guide you on this mission.
The Three Boons 153+hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training is especially for you:
if you have already done our 180+hr Three Boons Yoga foundational training and feel ready to now dive deeper into the teachings and want to receive a 300+HR yoga teacher certification from Three Boons Yoga Berlin; we will explore many additional topics and deepen aspects that, in order to leave you time and space to already digest and incorporate the material into your daily life, we only touched in our 180+HR level I training, like
creating your own yoga classes and sequences in an intelligent, safe and well-balanced way
Pranayama
deepening your hands-on assists skills including your understanding of the underlying anatomical principles
Advaita Vedanta philosophy with insights from the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita
if you have already done the 300hr Jivamukti foundational teacher training and want to further your studies of ancient yoga philosophy on topics that have not been touched at your training yet as well as enhancing your teaching, sequencing and assisting skills, all this in a much more intimate training setting; we will explore many additional topics that are not covered at the 300hr Jivamukti training and dive deeper into some things that are only touched there, like
Advaita Vedanta philosophy with insights from the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita
deepening your assisting skills through lots of practice and practicals in small groups
how to create good, safe and well-balanced yoga classes and sequences within Jivamukti lineage
if you completed a 200 or 300hr foundational yoga teacher training of any other style and want to continue your education as a yoga teacher, for instance because you
want to learn how we teach at Three Boons Yoga Berlin
are a big fan and interested practitioner at Three Boons Yoga or any other school within the Jivamukti lineage
want to become eligible to start our Three Boons 630+hr Yoga Teacher Mentoring Program (see requirements for mentoring program eligibility here)
aim to receive a 153+hour Advanced Teacher Training certificate to combine with your other foundational training certificate for 300+ combined hours of training or as proof of your continued education
are interested in obtaining new knowledge and gaining different perspectives on key yoga topics essential for you to become the best yoga teacher you can be, like
learning to create your own yoga classes and sequences in an intelligent, safe and well-balanced way
teaching Pranayama
deepening your hands-on assists skills as we teach and apply them within our Jivamukti lineage
expanding your understanding of the anatomical principles governing hands-on assists
learning more about Advaita Vedanta philosophy, the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita and how to incorporate these yogic teachings into your yoga classes and your daily life
WHAT ARE THE PREREQUISITES TO TAKE PART?
In addition to having completed a foundational yoga teacher training, you should be passionate about wanting to teach yoga and serving people as well as establishing and deepening your own yoga practice and understanding of yoga.
You should also have practiced at Three Boons Yoga and/or one or more other schools within our Jivamukti lineage regularly for some time before the start of your advanced teacher training. During the training, you should be able and willing to have a regular consistent yoga asana practice (4 times a week) at Three Boons Yoga Berlin (on-site or online) and take part attentively in all the sessions of the training.
WHAT CAN I EXPECT FROM THE ADVANCED TEACHER TRAINING?
Taking an advanced yoga teacher training as ours after your foundational teacher training will take your knowledge of yoga philosophy, yogic techniques and your teaching skills to the next level. It will enable you to teach from a much deeper understanding of yoga with a higher confidence and proficiency. It will also prepare you to be an ideal mentee/apprentice in case you are planning to do or are already taking a mentoring program like The Art of Teaching Yoga III at Three Boons or the Jivamukti apprenticeship.
If your foundational training was not a Three Boons Yoga or within the Jivamukti lineage, our advanced teacher training will provide you with new insights and perspectives from the point of view of our lineage and enrich your tools as yoga teacher.
Yoga foremost is an experiential science, so this training, along with your regular practice of yoga, will substantially build onto the foundation you initially created with your first training and thus help you on your path to become the best yoga teacher and yogi you can be. Be it by sharing your passion for yoga with others, be it by teaching yoga classes or be it by being more skilled in dealing with life and all its multiple situations.
HOW LONG IS THE 3BY 153+HR ADVANCED YOGA TEACHER TRAINING?
The 153+hour advanced yoga teacher training “The Art of Teaching Yoga II” at Three Boons Yoga Berlin spreads over a period of 6+ weeks. The upcoming 153+hr Training will take place from May 31 through July 13, 2024.
HOW OFTEN ARE WE MEETING?
We will come together in a group setting on 4 weekends and 6 Wednesdays during this period. There will be approximately 3 hours of homework after each weekend and 2 hours preparation time for the assignments. This will set up a strong foundation for the sessions we will be spending together as a group. Weekend sessions are Saturdays from 08:00 to 18:00 (we might also start earlier on some Saturdays) and Sundays from 8:00-20:00. Our Wednesday sessions are from 17:00 to 20:00. The Wednesdays before the weekend we meet are designed for everyone to catch up on the training material and to have time to have all your questions answered. The homework of the weekend before will be corrected. We will also talk about the upcoming schedule and mentally prepare ourselves for the upcoming weekend intensive. These meetings also serve for the facilitator to assess the progress you are making and to ensure that you are well prepared for the upcoming sessions. On the Wednesdays of the weeks that do not have trainings on the weekend, we work on repeating and refining assists which we have covered on the TT weekends and we also work on material that we have covered on the TT weekends that needs to be repeated. Both Wednesdays will be at the school, but you could also join via Live-or Flex-stream, always keeping in mind that being with us in person at the school is always better for your training results. The Wednesday meetings are equally as important as the weekends . Right afterwards, you could have your daily practice at the school in our Three Boons The Razor's Edge class from 20:15-21:30.
Practicing asana regularly (4 times a week) at Three Boons Yoga Berlin (on site or through the live-stream classes with your camera on) is required throughout the entire 7 week duration of the training (June 1 through July 13, 2025).
We also ask participants to have a daily meditation practice and write a meditation journal over the course of the 6 weeks that the training takes place.
For your planning, these are our group meeting dates and times of our upcoming 153+hr advanced teacher training “The Art of Teaching Yoga II” (on some Saturdays we might start earlier):
WHERE ARE WE MEETING?
The training will take place physically at Three Boons Yoga Berlin in Berlin-Mitte, Brunnenstr. 29. For interested participants coming from outside of Berlin, we offer the option to take the training online via Zoom. You will need to decide before the start of the course if you want to take part in person in Berlin or online via Zoom.
In important instances (like illness or unavoidable travels) the online option will also be available to in-person teacher trainees as a backup alternative to missing sessions. Vice-versa, online teacher trainees are welcome to visit us in person for parts of the training (prior notification to the program director is required).
The training requires your time and presence at all scheduled class times, i.e. even if you are taking the training on-line you should be present with your camera on when the training is actually happening. Replays of recordings of the training are offered to trainees for re-cap or to cover unavoidable circumstances.
WHAT CERTIFICATE DO I RECEIVE WITH THIS TRAINING?
153+HR CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION: After successfully completing the 3B advanced teacher training (which requires your presence and active participation during all parts of the training), you receive a signed official certificate of completion from Three Boons Yoga Berlin confirming you successfully completed 153+hours of Advanced Yoga Teacher Training at our yoga school.
350+HR CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORIZATION: If you have already achieved 200+hour certification from Three Boons Yoga Berlin, upon successful completion of the 153+hr Advanced Teacher Training, you will receive a 350+hr teacher training certification and authorization from us.
WHAT IS MY INVESTMENT?
Your investment in the Three Boons 153+hour training most importantly is 153+hours of your time and 1,800 EUR (see below for 2 options to save and 2 payment plan options). I.e. we do ask for your full presence during all sessions of the training (options to take part via live- or flex-stream are offered in case you cannot be present physically). .
Together with handing in your registration for the training, you are asked to pay a non-refundable down-payment of 360 EUR towards the training. The remainder of 1,440 EUR has to be paid within 2 weeks after receiving our confirmation in form of a formal acceptance to the training and invoice for the training fee.
ARE THERE ANY OPTIONS TO HELP ME ON THE MONEY PART OF THE TRAINING?
We consciously priced our Three Boons Yoga teacher training offering to be one of the most affordable and best-value yoga teacher training paths out there, not even considering the very advanced and intense level of training and amount of knowledge conveyed. In addition, we do offer the following three options to make our trainings even more accessible from the money point of view:
PAYMENT PLANS : When you sign up, you can opt for a payment plan, under which you can first only pay the initial down-payment of 360 EUR and then pay the remaining fee (including an deferred payment admin fee) later in two installments of 792 EUR each (so 360+792+792), or in three installments of 540 EUR each (so 450+540+540+540).
EARLY SIGN UP BENEFIT: From the moment you signed up for and paid (in case of a payment plan the initial down-payment of) the tuition, you receive unlimited access to all regular classes at Three Boons Yoga Berlin (on-site, live-stream, flex-stream and 3Boons.tv) until July 15, 2025 at no extra cost. We do recommend that you sign up as early as possible and make use of this offer. We came up with this to give you (1) a super early bird deal, but most importantly to (2) encourage you to establish a regular yoga practice within our Jivamukti yoga lineage at 3YB from as early on as possible. This is because from our long-time experience with teacher trainings within our Jivamukti Yoga lineage, this will help you immensely during your TT by optimizing your TT learning curve. So the earlier you sign up, the more you save, potentially up to 9 months of yoga membership.
NB: If you already have made an investment in paying for daily classes at 3BY (like a contract with 3BY), this can be paused free of charge from the time you sign up for the training.
PRACTICE (and) STUDY (for free): If you sign up on a payment plan for the TT, your upcoming installments can be reduced to up to 0 EUR if you choose to practice in our 3 studios in front of our live-stream camera. For each time you do that, your next installment will be reduced by 11 EUR. So for instance, if you sign up now and pay in three installments and practice 73 times in front of the camera by the time your next installment of 792 EUR is due, you do not have to pay this installment. Or, if you only practiced 10 times in front of our live-stream camera, then your next installment will be reduced by 110 EUR . For further details on practicing in front of our live-stream camera, please check here.
In case you pay your TT upfront in full you can still save by practicing in our studios in front of our live-stream camera until the training starts: In this case we will extend your free unlimited classes beyond the end of your teacher training by one month for every 6 times you practiced in front our our live-stream camera (counted from the time you enrolled for TT until the end of the TT). Or, if you choose to go on the next step of the path with us and do the Advanced Teacher Training or the 630+hour Mentoring Program with us, your Advanced TT or mentoring fee will be discounted by 11 EUR for each time you practiced in front of the live-stream camera in our studio classes after you signed up for your Advanced Teacher Training..
HOW DO I PREPARE FOR THE 153+HOUR ADVANCED TEACHER TRAINING?
Please make use of the unlimited yoga classes at Three Boons Yoga Berlin that you will receive after signing up for the training.
We also ask you to complete a number of reading requirements and write essays and elaborations on your readings. This should be done before the beginning of the training so you submit a a print-out of your work on the first day of the training. The reading list will be given to you after registering for the training. Try to work on these assignments right from the moment you sign up so the material can settle in and you can incorporate it into your daily yoga practice well until the start of the training.
HOW DO I APPLY?
Please email to register your interest in taking the 153+hr advanced teacher training at info@threeboonsyoga.de
In your application email please tell us a little about yourself, include a current CV (OK to just use the last one you did for instance for a job-application), if possible also a photo of you, and elaborate with a few sentences on the following points that will help us to be of better guidance for you during the teacher training:
For how long have you practiced Yoga and where/which type of yoga?
Which other yoga training(s) did you complete already and when? Please attach a scan of your certificate(s).
Are you applying to take part on-site in Berlin or via Live-Stream?
What are your intentions/goals by taking the Three Boons 153+hr Advanced Teacher Training?
What are you doing at the moment (studies, work, free-time)?
How do you see your life unfolding in the next months and years?
Describe your life-ethics: What is important to you as a human being? How would you like to see planet earth evolve in the future?
Do (or did you) already teach yoga classes? If so, where and how many and since when/for how long?
Please feel free to ask us any questions you might have about the advanced training.
After receiving this application, we will get back to you with any questions we might have as well as the formal teacher training registration form for you to fill-in and sign.
WHO IS FACILITATING THE TRAINING?
The lead facilitator of the Three Boons 153+hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training is Anja Kuehnel, Three Boons Yoga Berlin Director, Advanced Certified Jivamukti teacher, long time Jivamukti teacher training facilitator and 13 years Jivamukti Berlin JTAP program director.
Anja will be assisted in all sessions by Three Boons Yoga managing teacher Annie Schwalm (800+hr Jivamukti Yoga teacher) who also serves as lead mentor to the participants.
Parts of the training will be facilitated by senior Three Boons Yoga teachers.
WHICH LANGUAGE IS THE TRAINING HELD IN?
As our student base as Three Boons Yoga Berlin historically has been and still is very diverse and international and so are our yoga classes, we offer this training in the English language. Usually, half of our teacher trainees are not native Germans so the English language gives us a better common ground for communicating and teaching this training. However, Anja and most other faculty also are native German speakers, so even if your English is not the best, you will be able to communicate in German during the training if needed.
