500-Hour Professional Certification

Options for Earning Your 500-Hour Professional Certification through Nosara Yoga Institute.

Founded and directed by Amba and Don Stapleton, Ph.D. in 1994.
Nosara Yoga Institute has been a Registered Yoga Alliance School since 2000.

Yoga Alliance
Requirements
for 500-hr

Option A
At NYI With NYI Faculty

On the Campus of
Nosara Yoga Institute

on the Pacific Coast
of Costa Rica
Option B
With NYI Faculty &
Affiliated Teachers

At Many International
Locations Including:

Kripalu, Omega, Nigata, Japan
200 Hours
Foundations Training
from a Registered School

Choose either
Option A or B
200-hr Interdisciplinary
Yoga Teacher Training
200-hr Yoga Alliance approved
Teacher Training Program
300 Hours
Choose either
Option A or B
for 100-hrs credit

100-hr Advanced Interdisciplinary
Yoga Teacher Training
100-hr Thru Combining:

  • 9-Day Kripalu Teacher Training module
  • 5-Day Self-Awakening Yoga Therapeutics
Choose either
Option A or B
for 100-hrs credit
100-hr Children’s Yoga
Teacher Training
100-hr Individual Studies

50-hr Electives
  • Self-Awakening YogaTherapeutics
  • Yoga Alliance - Approved Workshops or Trainings
50-hr Professional Project
100-hrs credit
Pranassage not currently offered at locations other
than NYI
100-hr Pranassage Practitioner Training
Required by NYI for all 500-hr graduates
Yoga Alliance
requires 100 addt'l
teaching hours
100 Hours Teaching Experience
  500-Hour Professional Level Certification
All NYI programs above are Yoga Alliance-approved
and can be credited toward the 1,000-hr level
currently being developed in accordance with
Yoga Alliance Standards

If you are interested in earning your 500-Hour Professional Level Certificate through
the Nosara Yoga Institute please e-mail info@nosarayoga.com for further information.