200+ hrS TEACHER TRAINING

INNER GURU TrAINING

International YOGA ALLIANCE ACCREDITED

17 november-8 december 2024

2-23 March 2025

9-30 November 2025

PLease send us an email so we can send you our info Pack

innergurutraining@gmail.com

What if you awoke in the night hearing morning birds sing “Don´t go back to sleep”.

What if you answered their call and prepared a journey to an unknown space…

INNER GURU TRAINING

residential Yoga Teacher Training at Sri Yoga Shala
200+ hour Yoga Teacher Training, international Yoga Alliance accredited

Facilitators
Eva Priyanka Wegener (Director, Co-Founder Sri Yoga Shala)
Serena Burgess (Director The Om Space Colombo)

+Guest Teacher Fiona Raymond (Kundalini Yoga Teacher and Teacher Trainer)

+Guest Lecturer Venerable Anila Tenzin Lekdron (ordained by the Dalai Lama)

+ Online Yoga Anatomy Course with David Keil

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Find Your Inner Guru. Meet your inner teacher.  
Inner Guru Training empowers you to share yogic practices in your own unique way, to draw from your life experience and to bring forth your essence as your very own spark of inspiration. This training allows you to experience different teaching styles of Hatha and Vinyasa yoga and to build a foundation to share the practice in a way that resonates true for you.   

This intimate immersion offers you the time and space to illuminate your confidence and unearth your compassionate voice. With the help of traditional methods, self inquiry, self practice, partner and group work and playful exploration you will be given the tools to truly connect to your inner wisdom. We will build timeless connections and form new friendships that will expand beyond shores. If you are looking for tools to begin teaching, or want to deepen your experience of yoga, or compliment your skill set with more of your own inner wisdom: this is a training for you.

Evolutionary outcomes

After completing this course you will be able to share the following:

• Enjoy teaching safe, intelligent and creative asana sequences for Hatha, Vinyasa and Restorative practices in your unique style.

• Offer hands on adjustments for energetic alignment. 

• Teach to all levels, use props and modifications to support pregnant students in an open class.

• Create personalised programs and understand injury prevention and support. 

• 10+ hours of practice teaching, assisting, observation and feedback skills.

• Understand ethics for yoga teachers and businesses. 

• Unlock a limitless source of inspiration through self inquiry, journaling, shadow work, self assessment.

• Learn about Ayurvedic lifestyle practices to live in accordance with nature.

• Be inspired daily by Mudras, Mantras, Deities and other Divine Archetypes.

• Fall in love with Yoga Philosophy, Yogic Scriptures, Mantras and Chanting.

• Honour the Lineage of Yoga and create your own lineage family tree. 

• Apply Anatomy & Physiology for Hatha Yoga and integrate Subtle Anatomy (koshas, chakras, nadis).

• Self care tools for yoga teachers, how to protect your energy with Reiki

• Create and hold a safe space for individuals and groups 

  
  
  

Your typical day will look like this (6 days a week): 

5.00 - 5.30am – Karma Yoga (rotational preparation of the shala).
5.30 - 6.30am – Meditation and Pranayama Sadhana (led practice).
6.30 - 7.00am – Herbal infusions and nourishing herbal tonic.
7.00 - 8.30 am – Asana Practice (led)
8.30 - 10.00am – Plant based, locally sourced prepared breakfast.
10.00 - 01.00pm – Evolutionary Curriculum Session 1 - Led by Serena, Eva, Adarsh + guests
01.00 - 2.30pm – Lunch (plant based, fresh, locally sourced and home made food).
2.30 - 6.30 pm – Evolutionary Curriculum Session 2 - Led by Serena, Eva, Adarsh and guests with Tea break in-between  
7.00pm - Dinner at Cafe Durga / Sri Yoga Shala. 

Your Teachers.

Eva Priyanka Wegener was born in Sri Lanka and raised in Germany. She studied Political Science and Sociology (MA) in Heidelberg and Freiburg, Contemporary Dance (BA) and Yoga in Berlin. On her first visit to Sri Lanka, more than 20 years ago, through her stay in a buddhist Insight Meditation Centre (Nilambe), she found the Art and practice of Yoga. 10 years later, in 2012 Eva moved back to the island and in late 2015 she founded Sri Yoga Shala. In 2018 she ran her first Teacher Training course and together with Serena Burger she founded Inner Guru Training.

Her classes aspire to foster re-connection, recalibration and realignment of our bodies, minds and hearts and to find a sense of nurturing and home within rather than outside of ourselves. Eva is certified with E-RYT 500+hrs by the int. Yoga Alliance. She spend numerous hours of study in India (Krishnamarchaya Institute, with Sri Nanda Kumar / senior Iyengar teacher, at the Dayananda Ashram for Sanskrit and Vedanta studies, Pilgrimages to Tiruvannamalei, Kamakhya Hill and more. Internationally she studied in person and was most influenced with/by Louisa Sear, Stu Girling (300hrs Training), David Swenson, Sally Kempton, Sianna Sherman and Shiva Rea.

Serena Burgess is a 500hr Yoga Alliance cert. and a registered Senior Teacher with the Yoga Alliance UK, she is also qualified to teach Yoga for Pregnancy, Yoga for Children and is a Certified International AcroYoga.org teacher. She has been practicing yoga since almost 25 years and teaching for almost 20. She founded The Om Space yoga studio in Colombo and believes that yoga gives her tools for life. Her background is in Sivananda yoga and she teaches Hatha style classes with an emphasis on the translation of yoga philosophy into tools that we can benefit from in our everyday lives. Serena teaches from this perspective, hoping to share relatable, accessible methods to meet the challenges we are all faced with.

“Yoga (in all its many forms) is unified by the idea that the ultimate aim is liberation. I believe that this goes beyond an esoteric idea of liberation and is actually a lived reality. Our liberation is directly linked to how we manifest our purpose in the world, here and now, each day.”

Fiona Raymond (left in the picture) discovered the transformational effect of Kundalini Yoga in South America, having left a stressful job as a lawyer in London. She has been teaching Kundalini Yoga for over 20 years, is presently a full time Kundalini yoga teacher & Professional Trainer in Sri Lanka where she lives. Fiona is a passionate and dedicated teacher whose classes are a safe space to explore your inward journey, to discover your unique potential. Her mission is to inspire you to be best and clearest You, you can be. Her background in the corporate world enables her to build a bridge of understanding between yogic technology and the real world. At Inner Guru Training she will share about the 5 Elements and the 7 Chakras - the overall backbone of our Training. 

Tenzin Lekdron (right in the picture) is a Sri Lankan born Australian nun in the Tibetan tradition. She has been living in Sri Lanka for a couple of years since getting ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Her daughter wrote this beautiful article which gives a good insight into what we think makes her a force of inspiration for Inner Guru Training

My mother the monk (Please click on the title)

David Keil (Online Yoga Anatomy) was introduced to yoga in 1989 by his Tai Chi Chuan teacher. He began his research into his own mind-body connections through massage therapy, the specific understanding of the musculoskeletal system and how fascinating, beautiful, and amazing the body is on the scientific level and how that directly played into and off of his own understanding of the human body. He was given names and explanations for some of the things he had been experiencing and feeling. As an instructor of Kinesiology (the study of movement and musculoskeletal anatomy) at Miami's Educating Hands School of Massage from 1999-2003, David developed a fun, informal and informative style of teaching. By repeatedly teaching incoming students who had no prior understanding of anatomy, David was confronted with the problem of making such a complex and beautiful system accessible and understandable to the average person. He brings his unique style and ability to make things simple to the yoga world. Because of his passion and desire to share the human body with everyone, he delivers this complex and sometimes frustrating topic in a way that is very accessible and understandable to yoga practitioners. Over the years David has used his skills as a Neuromuscular Therapist to help people reduce their chronic pain patterns. He often brings this information into his workshops where students are regularly uncovering painful patterns or injuries in their bodies.

David was introduced to Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga in 1999. But it was in 2001 that he met John Scott, presenting his anatomy workshops for the first time overseas. In 2002 David studied with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in the “old” shala. David was authorized in 2004 and returned yearly for extended visits to Mysore, studying with R. Sharath, his grandson, over the years. He brings his unique style and ability to make things simple to the yoga world.

Because of his passion and desire to share the human body with everyone, he delivers this complex and sometimes frustrating topic in a way that is very accessible and understandable to yoga practitioners.

Tuition fees. (Incuding Food and Accommodation)

3250€ for the whole stay based on triple sharing (no balcony)

3450€ for the whole stay based on twin sharing

3950€ for the whole stay based on a single room.

Location.

We are located on the south west coast o f Sri Lanka, tucked away in the jungle passed the rice paddy fields just 1.5 km inland from one of the most beautiful swimming beaches in Sri Lanka, called Wijaya Beach. Sri Yoga Shala is a purpose built open wooden ambalama with a saltwater swimming pool, surrounded by jungle and wildlife.

Before or after the training.

Check out the UNESCO world heritage site Galle Fort, bike ride through the surrounding rice paddies, visit Buddhist and Hindu temples, tea / rubber / coconut plantations, swimming, snorkelling, sea turtles, surfing, bird watching and much more.

Accommodation

Our single / double / twin-share rooms have balconies overlooking the jungle. All rooms feature Air conditioning and fans, furniture made by our local carpenters, bedside lamps for night time reading and en-suite bathrooms.

Nourishment.

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and light refreshments will be served at Cafe Durga which is located at the Shala. We will serve plant based freshly prepared, organic food.

The Shala is located near the famous Wijaya Beach Restaurant, Unawatuna and is 15 minutes by tuk tuk from the Galle Fort.

Want to know more?

Please get in touch so we can send you an Information Package.

innergurutraining@gmail.com
sriyogashala.com/innergurutraining
Instagram: innergurutraining

“What if you felt you had arrived. To a place where you relearn to trust the instinctual knowing that you had as a child, full of compassion, love and kindness. What if this was your chance to practice giving this gift back to others so that they can walk alongside you on this path.”

– Inner Guru

We are sad not to have Stu Girling on this training, however we wish him all the best perfecting his handstands on the beaches of Bali and teaching Yoga Anatomy on the 300hrs Trainings of Yoga Arts with Louisa Sear…. all our love!