This 65 hour Yoga Alliance Women's Yoga & Leadership Teacher Training in Ericeira, Portugal, is for any woman who is ready to make a difference in the world, sustained through feminine yogic practices, leadership, and spirituality. 

Led by Swara Yoga School's Founder, Sofia Araujo, and founder of Art to Healing & Yoga for Freedom, Atira Tan, this teacher training is a culmination of over 35 years of experience in feminine leadership, women's spirituality, and yoga teaching. 

If you're interested in healing your body with ancient yogic wisdom grounded in contemporary feminine spirituality, deepening your yoga practice, and teaching a womanly yogic approach that honors the female body, rhythms, and cycles, this women's yoga teacher training is for you!

Learn to lead from your heart-womb with an authentic feminine leadership approach, and prioritize your personal growth in 10 days of nourishing self-care practice, supported by a nurturing community of women...all on the magestic Atlantic coast in Portugal.

Based on the ancient practices of Yoga, Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Taoism, Tantra, and Shamanism, this training provides a solid foundation in women´s anatomy & physiology, hormonal health, daily and seasonal Ayurvedic practices, holistic nutrition for the woman’s body, energetic Tantric and Taoist practices and feminine leadership for both your personal and professional development.

Our yoga training inspires a grounded and embodied model for you to reconnect with your innate wisdom as a woman, regain sovereignty of the sensual body, develop self-mastery in your thoughts, emotions, and habits, as well as creating your own personal and/or social change project based on the core values of feminine empowerment, leadership, and holistic business.

For  more information on our curriculum, please head to https://www.atiratan.com/womens-yoga-teacher-training-2022/

For more information about Swara Yoga School, please visit https://swara-yoga.com/

"Participating in the Women's Yoga and Leadership Training was a breakthrough for me...I wanted to start my own business in personal development but I was lost during the process. This training helped me to focus on where I wanted to go, who I am, and how to stay centred on my path through yoga, good food and meditation. 

- Stacey Blume, Entrepreneur & Life Coach, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

"Through the experience of this Women's Yoga Teacher Training, I could feel my body and mind connection as never before. It has been a very special time for me since then. I was able to finally express myself and the sensations in my body. Now, I am able to recognise my dysfunctional patterns and even learnt how to prevent them from arising. I also learnt to trust, to love myself and to follow my feelings and dreams. 

I loved the flexibility and sensitivity of the teachers, always ready to catch up what was going on in the group, and making adjustments when needed. " 

Francesca Cerami, Art Therapist, Rome, Italy.

Attending the Woman´s Yoga & Leadership Training has been one of the most transformative trainings I have done. 

Being a fulltime teacher and studio owner, life gets too busy and I came to this training with the intention of practising and deepening myself in the studies and in myself, more than just learning about new concepts intellectually.

With Sofia´s and Atira´s loving, professional, transformative and inspiring teachings and guidance, I feel like a new woman. In fact, I’m prouder than ever to be a woman! I now know how to fully honour my womanly being and cycle in order to discover even more gifts and superpowers in this life as a spiritual female being. It feels like the beginning of a new journey, where I’ll be closer to myself than I ever knew possible.

Thank you to my beautiful, fully present, passionate and wise teachers for this! I’ll refrain from calling them Gurus but in relation to the feminine energy in and around us, they did take me from some darkness/a place of not knowing to Light/a place of seeing.

I can highly recommend this training for any woman who wishes to make a positive difference in her life - and in other people lives! When we understand our own nature better, we can understand others better and make a profound impact on the life of the people we touch."

Line Fricke, Yoga Teacher & Studio Owner, Denmark

The curriculum bellow shows the topics that we will explore in the lectures during the course in 3 modules. Complementary to the lectures, your daily yoga practice will weave these themes into your own body and will awake the subtle wisdom and internal dialogue within you.

Module 1:

Awaken your Womanly Body

• Women’s anatomy, physiology and menstrual cyclical wisdom.
• Ayurvedic living for women.
• TCM & 5 Element philosophy
• Hormonal & reproductive health for vitality and aliveness.
• Nutrition & nourishment for self-care.
• Asana, Tantric & Taoist philosophy, pranayama, mudras & meditation.
• Healing reproductive health issues with yoga, nutrition & spiritual practices.

Module 2

Nurture your Feminine Essence

• Womb anatomy, spirituality and healing.
• Jade Egg Taoist practices.
• Nurturing and harnessing your ovarian/heart/womb energies for healing and creativity.
• Tantric philosophy, feminine roles and archetypes
• Reclaiming your fertility sensual intelligence and sexual sovereignty.
• Self-care practices designed for the female body, including the Mizan womb massage and other ancient traditional womb care techniques.
• Somatic Psychology and Trauma-Informed approaches for women.

Module 3

Walk your talk! Lead with passion and purpose

• Feminine leadership model for social change makers
• Integration of the womanly way of holistic health, business, leadership and change.
• Teaching and heartfelt expression from your authentic voice.
• Communicate with confidence and fearlessness.
• Mentorship and coaching in creating your dream business/project/life.
• Holistic Business for Women

Arrival time: 2 pm

Opening circle: 3.30 pm

Dinner: 7 pm

7 am: Yoga Practice

9 am: Breakfast

10.30 am: Workshop 1

1 pm: Lunch

3.30 pm: Workshop 2

5.30 pm: Feminine Spiritual Practices

7.30 pm: Dinner

7 am: Yoga Practice

12 pm: Check out