Teacher Trainings

Would you like to delve deeper into yoga? Would you like to inspire others to practice yoga and accompany them on their spiritual journey?

AIRYOGA is the perfect partner if you are looking to answer this calling: We have been registered as a Yoga Alliance School (RYS 200 hour & 500 hour level) since 2005. Moreover, we are the largest institution for yoga teacher trainings in all of Switzerland.

AIRYOGA teacher trainings have an excellent reputation on a national and international level. Our 200 hour yoga teacher training and the Advanced Teacher Training - with an additional 300 hours (ATT +300) – endow you with extensive education from the full scope of all yoga traditions and certify you to teach adhering to the standards of Yoga Alliance. These standards are recognized world wide.

Moreover, AIRYOGA offers a variety of special continuing education, such as trainings in Yin Yoga and Yoga Therapy. Thus, you can continue to grow in your own practice, deepen your knowledge and convey such knowledge with competence and practical relevance. Our training instructors are internationally esteemed yoga teachers with specific fields of study and many years of experience.

We are very happy and grateful that so many future yoga teachers trust AIRYOGA to accompany them on this very important part of their path.

Here you will find detailed information on our Yoga Alliance certified teacher training programs:

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+300 Hour Advanced Teacher Training 2018/19 - Fully booked

Evolve your practice, transform your teaching: AIRYOGA will start its next, Yoga Alliance registered +300-hour Hatha Yoga Teacher Training course on February 2018.

Our experienced faculty will lead this comprehensive training in a series of five focused modules. The modules will be offered in Englisch and German over the period from February 2, 2018 through June 23, 2019. Participation is limited to 29 students maximum. Read more...

This course is sold out. There is a wait-list.

200-hour Yoga Teacher Training at AIRYOGA Zurich in 2018 - Sold out

For over 10 years, AIRYOGA Zurich has been successfully offering a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, adhering to the standards and requirements of Yoga Alliance®.

The next course - taught within the tradition of Hatha Yoga - will start on April 6, 2018.
This course is sold out. There is a wait-list. Read more...

The Path of Purification – An Advanced Training in the Yoga Traditions

Yoga originally meant undertaking the heroic journey from the known to the unknown. By focusing on all the limbs of yoga, from asana and personal conduct to meditation, this unique 200-hour course from April 15, 2018 through September 16, 2018 endeavors to give an aspirant the skills to undertake that journey. AIRYOGA teacher Michael Hamilton will be fellow traveler on the path. Read more...

100-Hour Advanced Hatha Yoga Training in Goa, India with Stephen Thomas

Join Stephen Thomas from December 2, through December 15, 2018 for a study intensive module at Samata Retreat Center in North Goa, India. It is recommended for those wishing to deepen their practice and improve technique and theory in Yoga.
This 100-hour program under the guidance of Stephen Thomas as the main teacher includes long, intensive mornings in the three pillars of Hatha Yoga - Meditation, Pranayama, Asana. AIRYOGA teacher Claire Dalloz and special guest teachers will teach some hours of the training. Read more…

Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training with Sue Elkind

Learn how to support women during their journey into motherhood in this Yoga Alliance registered training in prenatal yoga, conscious birthing and postnatal support with internationally recognized teacher’s teacher Sue Elkind.

Two modules of this 85-hour training will be offered at AIRYOGA from April 18, to 22, and from November 7, to 11, 2018. Read more…

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Oberdorfstrasse

08.30 to 10.30

Ashtanga Mysore Style

Ashtanga Mysore Style

Mysore Style self-practice is the traditional, lineage based method of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga as developed by guru Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, of Mysore, South India. It is a unique and powerful way of developing a yoga practice where individual growth is valued and honoured and all students from beginners to advanced practitioners learn side by side. A qualified teacher will guide students in their practice by introducing them to sun salutations, and then building on that foundation. Postures are taught sequentially, drawing from the Ashtanga set sequences, adding on postures over time. Practice is short initially and grows in duration over time. This approach allows for individual growth where the aptitude of the student determines the rate and need for development, thereby laying a strong foundation that will be of great benefit to any serious student of Yoga. As with all undertakings, commitment often determines progress. Everyone, especially beginners, are most welcome. We look forward to meeting you in the shala.

→ Useful information about the Ashtanga Mysore Practice

→ Here you will find the poses of the Full Primary Series of the Ashtanga Yoga

Salomé Thalmann

Salomé Thalmann

Salome was born in Solothurn and raised in Zug. She studied medicine in Zurich for a number of years, whereby she acquired a vast knowledge of the anatomy of the human musculoskeletal system. She later decided to change her educational focus and is currently studying to become a Kindergarten and Primary School teacher at the Pädagogische Hochschule in Zurich.
Since discovering yoga in 2010, Salome’s passion for Ashtanga Yoga has consistently grown. In 2012 she deepened her Ashtanga practice in Mysore, India at the Ashtanga Institute under the direction of R. Sharath Jois, grandson of Sri K. Patthabi Jois. Salome has been assisting her teacher Michael Hamilton in the Ashtanga Mysore Style program at AIRYOGA since 2013, while also teaching her own Mysore Style classes. In her teaching she emphasizes inner alignment, which she learned from her teacher Michael Hamilton.
For Salome, yoga means building trust for oneself, to treat oneself and others attentively and with awareness, and to allow for change to happen. At the same time, she sees yoga as an instrument to experience well-being and stillness within the body. Salome teaches in German and English.

09.45 to 10.45

Pranayama & Meditation

Pranayama & Meditation

Pranayama is a central practice in the traditional Hatha Yoga system. It uses the breath, balancing of subtle energy patterns, energetic cleansing, and locks (Bandhas). This technique is used as a therapeutic/healing practice and for spirit development. It is also a gateway into the deep states of concentration and meditation.
This class is presented in its traditional format, directly from a lineage that dates back generations. It provides a steady, safe opening for students and gives stability and clarity in the physical and mental realms.
It is recommended that students have some experience in Yoga Asana and/or seated Meditation practice before beginning pranayama.

Anya Porter

Anya Porter

Anya’s intention is to act as a conduit for her students when she takes the seat of the teacher, guiding practitioners toward physical sustainability and mental curiosity, all underlined by the buddhist concepts of compassion and interdependence. Her work is grounded in the science of anatomy and physiology and yet seeks to speak to the artist’s heart through creative sequencing and exploration of postures (her signature Breakti® class is one example of this).
Anya began teaching movement at University in 2000 while simultaneously pursuing a degree in Plant Biology, and found her way to yoga through a dance-related injury in 2003. That injury changed the course of her life, and to this day she is fascinated and intrigued by the miraculous ability for the body, mind and heart to heal. Her studies and personal practice since that time have had particular emphasis in therapeutic applications of asana, and her deep desire to know and understand the mind and heart has led her to ongoing work in buddhist meditation, psychology and philosophy. After ten years of teaching and living in New York City, Anya relocated to Zurich, Switzerland with her husband in May of 2015. She teaches classes, workshops and trainings in Europe, NYC, and around the world. For more information please check-out www.anyaporter.com

11.00 to 13.00

Advanced Hatha Yoga

Advanced Hatha Yoga

This Hatha Yoga class is designed for advanced practioners!

Anya Porter

Anya Porter

18.00 to 19.30

Vinyasa Flow

Vinyasa Flow

This class moves fluid and continuous through different yoga postures (asanas). An invigorating dance like yoga lesson. The classes are flowing at a moderate pace guided by detailed instruction. The postures are kept save and simple, focus on building strength, endurance and flexibility. Basic yoga experience is recommended.

Aurelia Iten

Aurelia Iten

Aurelia teaches a powerful and flowing yoga in which the whole body becomes an experience of breathing and connection between the inner and outer worlds. This can be done through strong dynamic movements but also through movements towards stillness and meditation. Understanding the senses by working with them in the yoga practice reveals almost forgotten spaces and expands our natural capacity to understand ourself and others. This enables students to arrive home and again reside comfortably within their own bodies.
Behind all of Aurelia’s studies and interests lies this desire to see how people and things communicate and make connection. She experiences this through observation and working with color and form, sound and silence - through play and through stillness. In her engagement as a social worker, designer and now as a yoga student and teacher, she is constantly exploring these themes and learning more and more.
Aurelia initially discovered her love of yoga through dance training. She completed her 200-hour teacher training in Prana Vinyasa Flow with Christine May in Munich in 2015. 
Aurelia teaches in English and German.

Fabrikstrasse

10.30 to 12.00

Hatha Yoga

Hatha Yoga

Conscious breathing, observing the mind, while practicing and deepening the classical asanas and sun salutations - these are the elements that let us experience yoga. Practice mindfulness for 60 or 90 minutes, without expectations and without ambitions.

Fabian Bächli

Fabian Bächli

Fabian, even as a child, loved movement. After first training as a landscaper and after his education to become a social worker, he studied dance for three years at the SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance). After graduation, he stayed on as a teacher. In 2003, his passion for dancing eventually brought him to yoga. From the get-go, he was stoked. As he ventured back to Switzerland, he began to get deeper and deeper into yoga. In Stephen Thomas he found the teacher who introduced him to yoga philosophy as well as to the traditional practices of asana, pranayama and meditation. Fabian's Hatha yoga classes are influenced by different movement languages from contemporary dance. He pays great attention to the best possible anatomical alignment for the body, adapting it to the individual abilities of the practitioner. His classes are also meant to be a journey through the inner body – so practitioners can get to know their own body, can silence their ongoing thoughts and can awaken all the cells within the body. Another focus is set onto the heart – for one, to be more attentive towards one’s own emotional universe, but also, to cultivate happiness and love towards oneself and others. Fabian teaches in German and English.

11.00 to 12.30

Ashtanga Yoga "Half Primary"

Ashtanga Yoga "Half Primary"

Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga is a flowing, dynamic form of yoga which focuses on building inner heat. The flowing movements lead to an increase in strength, flexibility and energy. Through the synchronization of breath and movement and the repetitive sequence of asanas (yoga postures), the practitioner is able to experience a state of meditation and calm while developing a self practice.

Ashtanga "Half Primary" – Primary Series through Navasana (90 min.)
This class is a guided class of the first half of the primary series of Ashtanga yoga. The pace is somewhat slower than in the full primary. It is suitable for practitioners that would like to spend more time in the postures and learn more detail as more information accompanies the postures by way of verbal adjustments.

Nadja Grimm

Nadja Grimm

Nadja Grimm is a dressmaker by trade and for many years, she owned her own fashion label. Today she works as a certified Esalen- and Ayurveda Yoga-masseuse. She ended up following this path due to her passion for yoga, which she discovered in 2003. Ever since then Nadja has encountered many inspiring teachers and she has evolved her own practice during many trainings and retreats. To deepen her Ashtanga practice, she traveled to the Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore, India, in 2009, where she was taught by R. Sharath, grandchild of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. She is Michael Hamilton’s assistant for the Ashtanga Mysore program at AIRYOGA and she also teaches her own classes. She is very grateful and feels deep respect for the preserved and passed-on knowledge, which she shares with great pleasure. To Nadja, yoga means being mindful and present within your own life, accepting changes and learning to trust; it means developing your own personality and being kind to yourself and other beings as you follow that path. She teaches in German and also in English, upon request.

18.15 to 19.45

Hatha Yoga

Hatha Yoga

Nina Isabel

Nina Isabel

To have found a way how to live and preserve authenticity in today’s world is reflected in Nina’s awareness, which she lives and conveys in her classes - always with the perspective of being a student herself. Nina understands Yoga as an expression of living a conscious life, dedicating love and insights into the well-being of people around her. The beauty of the path lies in discovering life in its purest forms and thus growing a profundity and sensibility with the findings thereof which can be practiced and lived on and aside the mat. Her practice is influenced by elements of the Iyengar Yoga and Ashtanga Vinyasa. She knows how to preserve the individual yet universally true essence of asana and to convey yoga as a journey to inner peace and contentment.
Nina is a student of yoga since 2012 and has completed the +300hrs Teacher Training at AIRYOGA in Zurich. Nina teaches her classes in English.
More info can be found under: www.yoganina.ch

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+300 Hour Advanced Teacher Training 2018/19 - Fully booked

200-hour Yoga Teacher Training at AIRYOGA Zurich in 2018 - Sold out

The Path of Purification – An Advanced Training in the Yoga Traditions

100-Hour Advanced Hatha Yoga Training in Goa, India with Stephen Thomas

Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training with Sue Elkind

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+300 Hour Advanced Teacher Training 2018/19 - Fully booked

200-hour Yoga Teacher Training at AIRYOGA Zurich in 2018 - Sold out

The Path of Purification – An Advanced Training in the Yoga Traditions

100-Hour Advanced Hatha Yoga Training in Goa, India with Stephen Thomas

Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training with Sue Elkind

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