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THE ANCIENT WISDOM OF YOGA ARTFULLY WOVEN INTO THE EVERYDAY

200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training

21-Days in Crete Greece

An invitation into the heart of the yoga tradition, self-inquiry, and the art of living

June 10th-July 1st 2025

Yoga Alliance Accredited Training

 

Join Selena Garefino + guest workshop instructor Errin Briscoe for your 21-day immersive Yoga Alliance accredited teacher training in Crete Greece.

For 21 days you'll immerse in the teachings of yoga; learning to weave the ancient teachings into the everyday. Our venue is a beachfront retreat center so you can savor your afternoon free time in the crystal aquamarine waters of the Greek islands. 

Anchored in Classical Yoga, Katonah Yoga®, and personal development coaching you will receive a full-spectrum education in philosophy, movement, history, teaching methodology, sequencing and so much more. 

 

This comprehensive teacher training will give you a strong foundation in yogic philosophy, theory and practice.  Students will participate in daily asana and pranayama classes, engage in group discussions and lectures, practice teach, and receive personal development coaching to guide them deep into the heart of yoga.  

Yoga is the light of Self-knowledge and self-inquiry, students will be guided through potent personal development coaching. We can only teach who we are. This foundational training offers participants powerful tools for connecting with their heart, authoring their lives, and finding their True North.

This retreat-style training is an opportunity to play, connect in community, participate in daily ritual, and immerse fully into the teachings. 

All students will as a BONUS receive lifetime access to Selena's 200 Hour Virtual Teacher Training packed with teachings you'll use for years to come, a 1:1 coaching session, and lifetime access to an online community hosting bi-weekly sessions with Selena on everything from life coaching to business of yoga. 

You will have access to resources for years to come post training to support you both personally and professionally. 

While on your retreat-style immersion you'll enjoy daily free time to rest and enjoy our stunning beach and each week you will have one free day for excursions, rest, and play. 

Are you ready for a practice that touches the whole of you? To serve your community through the path of yoga?

This program is anchored in a householder yoga tradition that welcomes the WHOLE of you and the human experience. Your body is the altar of life in the ongoing ceremony we call living. 

This Program is For You IF...

  • You are ready to deepen your practice and relationship with yoga.
  • Whether you wish to teach or you simple want more than you can get in a studio you're welcome here
  • You're looking for more than fitness-based asana classes. You love asana but you know there's MORE
  • You want to learn to offer rich practices that incorporate philosophy, theory, and potent themes
  •  You want a training that is non-dogmatic and allows you to evolve and yet is still anchored in the traditions
  •  You want to learn to meet students where they're at. To truly be able to teach more than one style of yoga
  • You want to STEEP in the teachings for 21 days and are committed to showing up with your full self. 
  • You are ready to embark on an intense personal development journey for 21 days that will totally evolve you and your life
  •  You have a deep love of yoga and you want to support others in their explorations
  • You LOVE to support and guide others
  •  You're committed to putting in the work to invest in yourself. 

You Will Learn 

  • Vinyasa Krama the Art of Sequencing
  • History of Yoga
  • Philosophy of Yoga
  • Introduction to Katonah Yoga® Theory 
  • Teaching Pranayama
  • Intro to Ayurveda and Applied TCM
  • Art of Adjustments
  • Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga Teaching
  • Teaching Methodology
  • Applied Anatomy
  • Business of Yoga

And SO MUCH MORE

 

I'M IN!!!!

What to Expect

Each morning you'll enjoy a light breakfast of fresh fruit, yogurt options, tea, and coffee. After your morning practice and working up an appetite you'll savor a hearty brunch. 

Our mid-day meal will be followed by lectures while we digest our meal. 

After our afternoon lecture time you'll enjoy a bit of free time to savor the sea or a village walk. 

We'll reconvene for evening practice or teaching sessions followed by a delicious Greek dinner. 

Each week you'll have one free day for catching up on your rest or for booking boat trips, excursions to town and other add-on options. 

What to Expect

Each morning you'll enjoy a light breakfast of fresh fruit, yogurt options, tea, and coffee. After your morning practice and working up an appetite you'll savor a hearty brunch. 

Our mid-day meal will be followed by lectures while we digest our meal. 

After our afternoon lecture time you'll enjoy a bit of free time to savor the sea or a village walk. 

We'll reconvene for evening practice or teaching sessions followed by a delicious Greek dinner. 

Each week you'll have one free day for catching up on your rest or for booking boat trips, excursions to town and other add-on options. 

What's Included?

21 days on the stunning Greek island Crete at a newly renovated beachfront property. Yum. 

  • Accommodations for your 21 day retreat. You will arrive in Crete June 10th and depart July 1st. 
  • Sumptuous Greek meals excluding dinner on your free day so you can explore the villages and dining experiences.  
  •  Selena's 200 Hour Virtual Teacher Training for ongoing support
  • Access to Selena's exclusive online community including lifetime access twice monthly calls to support you post graduation
  • Swag from my favorite Yoga prop supplier. Shhhh it's a surprise.
  • A welcome gift. 
  • Printed manual + digital manual
  • 10 professional images to launch your business (if you wish!)

Not Included:

  • Airfare
  • Transport to the venue (but we'll help!)
  • Post and Pre travel expenses
  • Travel insurance *required

21 days on the stunning Greek island Crete at a newly renovated beachfront property. Yum. 

  • Accommodations for your 21 day retreat. You will arrive in Crete June 10th and depart July 1st. 
  • Sumptuous Greek meals excluding dinner on your free day so you can explore the villages and dining experiences.  
  •  Selena's 200 Hour Virtual Teacher Training for ongoing support
  • Access to Selena's exclusive online community including lifetime access twice monthly calls to support you post graduation
  • Swag from my favorite Yoga prop supplier. Shhhh it's a surprise.
  • A welcome gift. 
  • Printed manual + digital manual
  • 10 professional images to launch your business (if you wish!)

Not Included:

  • Airfare
  • Transport to the venue (but we'll help!)
  • Post and Pre travel expenses
  • Travel insurance *required

Post Training Support

We don't believe in training you and sending you away to fend for yourself. A 200 hour training is only the beginning and a totally arbitrary designation created by Yoga Alliance which is PS not a regulatory board. 

So? You will receive access to a 200 hour virtual course that is PACKED with information far to support you for years to com. You will also receive a 1:1 coaching session valued at $300 after your training to support you on your path whether personally or professionally. 

You will also have access to Selena's private forum where bi-monthly calls are held that include teaching on business, coaching, yoga, and so much more. 

This means you will have ONGOING support when you get home on your path as a teacher and student. 

This isn't the norm and we know it. But ongoing support is critical and lacking in the modern yoga space. We're here to fill that gap. 

Post Training Support

We don't believe in training you and sending you away to fend for yourself. A 200 hour training is only the beginning and a totally arbitrary designation created by Yoga Alliance which is PS not a regulatory board. 

So? You will receive access to a 200 hour virtual course that is PACKED with information far to support you for years to com. You will also receive a 1:1 coaching session valued at $300 after your training to support you on your path whether personally or professionally. 

You will also have access to Selena's private forum where bi-monthly calls are held that include teaching on business, coaching, yoga, and so much more. 

This means you will have ONGOING support when you get home on your path as a teacher and student. 

This isn't the norm and we know it. But ongoing support is critical and lacking in the modern yoga space. We're here to fill that gap. 

Your Program

 

Your 21 Day immersion is a retreat style course. This means you get to escape from the every day and steep in the teachings and in practice. 

During your program you'll receive group coaching on far more than asana and the practices of yoga because yoga is your engagement with life not just what you do on the mat. And you? You can only teach who you are. 

You're going to take not only an adventure outward but an adventure inward. And that's the most exciting part. 

Expect daily themed asana, meditation, pranayama, personal development coaching + all the teaching you need to be a potent, intelligent, and competent teacher.

During your retreat weeks the brilliant Errin Briscoe a long time student and friend with heaps of movement training will be joining us to offer special workshops to help you shimmy and shake in playful ways far beyond traditional asana. 

You can also expect to practice somatic tools like Somatic Experiencing® and Non-linear Movement® to deepen your relationship with your body. 

Truly this training is like nothing else. It's comprehensive. It's non-dogmatic. And it's inclusive of the WHOLE of your humanity. No bypassing. Full love and acceptance of ALL that it is to be a human in a body on THIS planet. 

If you are after a practice that isn't manufacturing meaning, that addresses the WHOLE of your humanity, and welcomes all of YOU to the dance floor of life this is for you. 

TAKE ME TO GREECE

About Selena

Selena has studied yoga for 30 years as both a practitioner and an academic scholar. She is a somatic dance teacher, spiritual teacher, mind-body life coach, somatic experiencing coach, oral storyteller, and sociocultural anthropologist. She holds thousands of hours of yoga trainings from scholars and luminaries. 

She integrates her decades of movement study, yoga philosophy, myth and folklore studies, and somatic practices into an experience that is very unique.

She believes in embracing life as a gift to be celebrated, in not turning away from life's pains and difficulties but fully accepting and dancing with EVERYTHING life has to offer.

She utilizes oral storytelling, contemplative work, embodiment practices, and yoga to address the complexities of a human life in a way that is joyful, playful, and anchored in the right here and now.

She believes that life is already a great mystery and there's no need to manufacture the mystical. But a lot of opportunities to stoke your awe and imagination.

Welcoming everything. Abandoning nothing.

Selena has hosted teacher trainings since 2016 and has graduated 100s of teachers at the 200, 300, 500 and 1,000 hour level.

About Selena

Selena has studied yoga for 30 years as both a practitioner and an academic scholar. She is a somatic dance teacher, spiritual teacher, mind-body life coach, somatic experiencing coach, oral storyteller, and sociocultural anthropologist. She holds thousands of hours of yoga trainings from scholars and luminaries. 

She integrates her decades of movement study, yoga philosophy, myth and folklore studies, and somatic practices into an experience that is very unique.

She believes in embracing life as a gift to be celebrated, in not turning away from life's pains and difficulties but fully accepting and dancing with EVERYTHING life has to offer.

She utilizes oral storytelling, contemplative work, embodiment practices, and yoga to address the complexities of a human life in a way that is joyful, playful, and anchored in the right here and now.

She believes that life is already a great mystery and there's no need to manufacture the mystical. But a lot of opportunities to stoke your awe and imagination.

Welcoming everything. Abandoning nothing.

Selena has hosted teacher trainings since 2016 and has graduated 100s of teachers at the 200, 300, 500 and 1,000 hour level.

Your Investment

Payment Plans Available

Shared Room

$4300 

All Inclusive Early Bird

  • 21 Nights Accommodations
  • Printed Manual
  • 200 Hour Digital Course ($499)
  • 1:1 Coaching Session ($300)
  • Delicious local cuisine *excluding free day dinners
  • Swag from Selena's favorite yoga brand
  • Gift Bag
  • Post Course Access to Community Forum + Calls with Selena
Take Me to Greece

Private Room

$5,000 

All Inclusive Early Bird

  • 21 Nights Accommodations
  • Printed Manual
  • 200 Hour Digital Course ($499)
  • 1:1 Coaching Session ($300)
  • Delicious local cuisine *excluding free day dinners
  • Swag from Selena's favorite yoga brand
  • Gift Bag
  • Post Course Access to Community Forum + Calls with Selena
Take Me to Greece

Bria 

Selena is a truly wonderful teacher - I can’t imagine embarking on the 200hr YTT journey with anyone else. Her teaching style, both in her yoga classes and YTT modules is concise, energetic, challenging (come prepared to work!), and fun. Selena’s assignments and in class exercises can be difficult (some physically, some mentally) but build on one another, and are incredibly helpful in establishing a strong foundation in all of the subtleties that go into teaching safely, intelligently and successfully. Whether or not you are planning on teaching following training, you will leave with wealth of knowledge about yogic philosophy, much improved sanskrit pronunciation, an understanding of anatomy as it pertains to yoga, and a yoga practice that you LOVE.

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