This is for the yoga teacher who’s ready to:

• Deepen their understanding of anatomy, fascia, and energetic systems
• Learn how to integrate TCM and nervous system awareness into any class style
• Build sequences that support the body and mind, not just the shape
• Refine the way they cue, theme, and hold space
• And reconnect to their own practice – not as a teacher, but as a student again

The training takes place at The Shanti Space, a peaceful retreat centre tucked into the hills of coastal Portugal. Just 15 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean and next to a protected wolf sanctuary, it’s a space where nature and stillness support the learning process.

Set within a national park, the land is quiet, open, and grounding. You’ll be surrounded by fruit trees, cork oaks, and a stream running alongside the garden. Whether you’re studying, resting, or sharing meals, the environment invites you to slow down and fully arrive.

Each day includes immersive workshops, practical labs, and space to receive — with nourishing food, downtime, and a supportive rhythm that helps everything land.

This isn’t a retreat to learn more poses. It’s a training in how to teach with more depth, clarity, and intention — from a place that feels true to you.

Integrate Complex Concepts with Confidence

Learn how to apply anatomy, fascia, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and nervous system principles in a way that’s accessible, practical, and relevant — no matter what style you teach. You’ll gain clear frameworks to help your students feel and understand the deeper purpose behind your classes.

Experience What You Teach

Through embodied movement labs, breathwork, and restorative practices, you’ll feel how theory comes to life in your own body. This retreat isn’t about passive learning — it’s about experiencing the content firsthand, so your teaching becomes more grounded, intentional, and felt.

Refine Your Sequencing, Cueing & Class Themes

You’ll leave with tools to build classes that support your students physically, emotionally, and energetically — with more clarity and creativity. Expect guidance on layering themes, functional sequencing, and using clear language that resonates.

• Wake up surrounded by nature, with no pressure to teach or hold space – just space for yourself
• Move, breathe, and study in ways that nourish your body and spark your curiosity
• To explore the nervous system, anatomy, and Traditional Chinese Medicine in a way that feels experiential, embodied, and immediately useful in how you teach.
• Learn to apply anatomy, TCM, and nervous system concepts in a way that feels practical, embodied, and grounded in reality
• To return home with new tools, fresh clarity, and rediscover how to teach with clarity and confidence
• Be in conversation with other teachers who value depth, nuance, and honest exploration
• Reconnect with the reasons you started this path, and remember how it feels to love teaching
• Return home with a clear sense of direction and a toolkit you can use right away
• To leave with a 25 hour YTT & so much more depth in your teaching to share with your community.

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EARTH: Grounding & Regulation

Learn how to support your students through grounded movement, co-regulation, and nervous system safety. Explore the anatomy of stability, and how presence begins in the body.

METAL: Breath & Clarity

Refine your ability to teach through breath, tone, and structure. You’ll explore the diaphragm, chest, and shoulders – and learn to cue with simplicity and confidence.

WATER: Rest & Resilience

Understand how rest builds strength. Through psoas and spine anatomy, breathwork, and somatic tools, you’ll explore how to teach recovery and emotional steadiness.

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WOOD: Direction & Expression

Explore the emotional body through movement. You’ll learn how to sequence with purpose, teach transitions with clarity, and work with the hips, fascia, and side body.

FIRE: Integration & Authenticity

Bring it all together. Learn how to teach from your own embodied experience, integrate theme with anatomy, and guide your students into connection — not just movement.

Each day will be connected with a continuous theme, which means we dive really deep into one core theme for the day regardless of what part of the day we are in. Bringing together the learning through experiential movement or stillness, and then connected through theory.

• Wake gently with tea in the garden
• 7:30am – Dynamic Flow to awaken, explore, and embody the daily theme
• 9:00am – Nourishing breakfast with the group
• 10:00am – Daily workshop: fascia, meridians, TCM, emotions, sequencing, breathwork
• 1:00pm – Delicious locally-sourced lunch
• 2:00–5:00pm – Free time: nap, journal, hike, swim, read
• 5:00pm – Yin, MFR, or restorative practice — stillness, release, reflection
• 7:00pm – Group dinner and evening connection, or quiet solitude
• After hours – Time to be with yourself, the stars, or the pages of your journal

Each day is designed to blend structure with spaciousness — movement with stillness, learning with living.

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What is Included: 

All prices listed are per person and are all inclusive:

• 5 nights accommodation in a traditional Portuguese quinta (private or shared)
• Daily Vinyasa (Yang) and Yin (Stillness) practices
• Daily workshops blending fascia, meridian theory, sequencing, and emotional depth
• 25 hours “Embodied Wisdom: Exploring Anatomy, TCM & Sequencing” module that can count toward a 300hr pathway
• A detailed manual with anatomical maps, themes, meridian theory & teaching tools
• All meals at venue*: locally sourced, seasonal, plant-forward and lovingly prepared 
• A thoughtful gift bag
• Uninterrupted time in nature & private use of our peaceful Portuguese venue

What’s Not Included:

• Transfers are not included, but we can connect everyone prior to travel so where possible you may be able to organise together
• Flights & travel insurance
• Transfers (we’ll help you coordinate with others!)
• Additional treatments (massage etc.)

*One evening meal is not included on a “free to explore” afternoon/evening

I’m Caroline, Retreat Guide & lover of the human body in motion (and stillness)

I’ve been teaching yoga since 2011, and for a decade, I ran my own retreat centre and training school on a tiny island in Bali. These days, I guide yoga teachers through retreats, workshops, and trainings that blend movement, nervous system wisdom, anatomy, and Traditional Chinese Medicine – helping you teach in a way that’s grounded, intelligent, and truly your own.

My path began after years of long-distance running left me injured – and full of questions about how the body really works. That curiosity led to over 1,000 hours of advanced study with teachers like Jo Phee, Sarah Powers, Jason Crandell, Noah Maze, and Tiffany Cruikshank, with a focus on Yin, Vinyasa, anatomy, mental health, and nervous system regulation.

I’ve mentored over 100 yoga teachers to teach with more clarity, depth, and intention – not just through technique, but by reconnecting to why they teach in the first place.

My approach is practical, embodied, and rooted in the belief that we teach best when we’re resourced, connected, and inspired by our own practice. I’m here to help you pause, replenish, learn something new — and return to your teaching with purpose and presence.

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• You’re a yoga teacher who wants to go beyond teaching poses – and guide classes that support the body, mind, and nervous system
• You’re curious about how anatomy, fascia, and Traditional Chinese Medicine can deepen your teaching – without overwhelming your students
• You’re ready to explore sequencing that connects physical function with emotional awareness and energetic flow
• You’ve been craving space to be the one who receives – to learn, reflect, and reconnect with your own body and breath
• You want to refine how you cue, theme, and hold space — in a way that feels more embodied, clear, and confident
• You believe how you care for your own nervous system impacts the way you teach, support others, and lead
• You’re ready to feel inspired again — and leave with practical tools, deeper knowledge, and a more connected voice as a teacher

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Exactly what I didn’t know I needed

“As a teacher, I’m always in planning mode — sequencing, holding space, giving. This retreat gave me the time to actually receive and reconnect with my own practice. The mix of fiery flows, rest, and workshops on the nervous system, fascia, and anatomy was spot on. I came home feeling recharged and inspired, with new tools that have already changed how I hold space in class” – Emma S., 200hr teacher, UK

Caroline holds space with so much depth and clarity

“What stood out most was how integrated the learning was. Nothing felt overwhelming or too academic — we learned by moving, feeling, and applying. The balance of self-care and study was perfect. I left with a deeper understanding of how I want to teach, but also how I want to live in my body. And the setting… just wow” – Alex D., Vinyasa + Yin teacher, Germany

This retreat reminded me why I teach

“After years of teaching full-time, I’d started to feel disconnected. This retreat brought me back to the roots of why I love this path — the embodiment, the depth, the stillness. The sessions on TCM, fascia, and the nervous system were eye-opening, and I’ve already started weaving them into my classes. It felt like the missing piece” – Priya M., yoga teacher + physiotherapist, London

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