Trainings & Certifications
Koh Phangan
200-hour yoga teacher trainings on Koh Phangan, where the certification work sits alongside a real breathwork and conscious-living culture.
Trainings & Certifications
200-hour yoga teacher trainings on Koh Phangan, where the certification work sits alongside a real breathwork and conscious-living culture.
200, 300, or 500 hour.
Intensive, modular, or part-time.
Find your school.
Koh Phangan is the island where a 200-hour yoga teacher training comes packaged with one of the most conscious communities in Asia. Most schools sit around Srithanu in the north (the island's wellness hub), where Hatha and Vinyasa YTTs share the same streets as a long-standing culture of breathwork, meditation, and self-inquiry. A 200-hour course here means daily asana practice, anatomy, teaching methodology, and philosophy, usually residential over two to three weeks, with more breathwork and meditation woven through than most trainings offer elsewhere. Most schools are Yoga Alliance registered, so the certification travels with you, and many build in a 50-hour breathwork or facilitation module. Beyond the 200-hour foundation, the island also runs 300-hour advanced courses and dedicated breathwork facilitator trainings. If you're looking for a recognised qualification somewhere that treats the inner work as seriously as the asana, Koh Phangan is worth a proper look.
Koh Phangan's training scene lives mostly in the north, around Srithanu, the village that grew into the island's conscious-living hub, with yoga shalas, health-food cafés, breathwork sessions and ceremony, and a shifting community of teachers and seekers from everywhere. Most YTTs are residential, two to three weeks, built around a full daily rhythm of practice, study, and teaching. What sets the island apart is how much room it gives the inner work: breathwork, meditation, and self-awareness run through a Koh Phangan training far more than they would at a conventional asana school, so you tend to leave having learned as much about holding space as about teaching a pose.
Hatha and Vinyasa anchor the foundational 200-hour courses, with Yin and restorative widely offered alongside them. The 200-hour YTT is still the most common course, and certified teachers can move on to 300-hour advanced trainings. Breathwork is where the island stands apart: dedicated breathwork facilitator trainings, conscious-connected and rebirthing breathwork, and 50-hour breathwork modules built into many YTTs, next to a real emphasis on meditation and self-inquiry. Anatomy, teaching methodology, and philosophy make up the academic core, and most reputable schools are Yoga Alliance registered, so the certification is recognised internationally. Teachers are mostly international, long settled in the island's wellness community, bringing a contemporary, integrative style to how they teach. What marks a Koh Phangan training is the weight given to the inner work: students learn to hold breath and meditation space alongside teaching asana, so graduates leave with a recognised qualification and a real footing in the contemplative side of teaching.
Srithanu, in the northwest, is where most of the island's training scene sits: a walkable village built around yoga, breathwork, raw cafés, and ceremony, where most of the residential YTTs are based. The quieter coves further east, around Haad Yuan and Than Sadet, hold a handful of more secluded trainings reached by boat or trail, for a month spent away from the busier scene. Most courses are fully residential (accommodation, food, and the daily schedule all in one place), so you settle into a single school for the whole training. The dry season runs roughly January to April and July to September; the island's full-moon culture brings its own livelier energy, which some trainings deliberately schedule around. The community's conscious-living approach shapes the whole stay, on the mat and off it.
The 200-hour YTT is the natural starting point and the most common course; 300-hour trainings suit teachers who are already certified; dedicated breathwork facilitator trainings suit anyone drawn to the island's particular strength. Start with your level and focus (a classic asana-based YTT, or one built around breathwork and meditation), then look closely at the school and the lead teacher. Most courses run two to three weeks, fully residential, and the drier months fill up first. Have a look at the trainings listed above, find the one whose approach feels right, and book directly with the school.
Koh Phangan treats the inner work as seriously as the asana: a recognised qualification, learned inside one of Asia's more conscious communities. Find the school whose approach feels right, and reserve your place directly. Every training on Arivela links straight through to the people actually running it.