India Retreat Date with Sammy & Jos / 20 – 29 January 2025
Retreat: Yoga Teacher Development Retreat – 10 days
Location: Yogiville India
Dates: 20 – 29 January 2025
Teachers: Sammy Rainbow Furnival & Josephin Westerlund
Yoga Teacher Development Retreat
Join Sammy & Jos for an unforgettable 10 days in India, the magical, mesmerising and at times mind-blowing (for all the reasons) birthplace of yoga. An opportunity for all yoga teachers, new or well-seasoned, young or old, bendy or stiff to delve into both your personal practice as well as hone and develop your skills as a teacher.
You will have the opportunity to explore Indian culture, experience firsthand Ayurveda (the sister science of yoga), expand your yoga teacher community and no doubt have an incredible start to the year.



10 Day Immersion
This 10 day immersion will provide you with 50 hours of CPD. Topics covered will include
- Assisting Āsana and Sequencing
- Inclusivity and critical thinking
- Theming
- Vedanta – with guest lecturer Raghav Kumar
- Subtle Practices
The Plan
Over the course of the 10 days, there will be daily morning and evening practices, teaching workshops, lectures, afternoons of free time and both scheduled and optional extra activities with one day off in the middle for you to do whatever you please.
Excursion
Midway through the retreat we will have a half day excursion, visiting mount Arunchala as well as a largely influential local Ashram. The guided tour will take us to three important caves on Arunachala that have been used by Enlightened masters for meditation over many centuries, for more than a thousand years. Sri Ramana Maharshi is one of those masters that spent 16 years in the cave from 1899 to 1916. These caves hold the energy of high consciousness, which is said can be experienced within.
Following the Cave Trek, we will visit Sri Ramana Ashram. The ashram is a highly spiritual enriching place and there are temples and meditation halls to visit. You will have the opprotunirty to spend time meditating in the meditation hall, and depending on the daily activities at the ashram we may observe or participate in the rituals of puja or Vedaparayana,where boys from the onsite Gurukul lead the vedic chanting.