300 hr Yoga Therapy Training Ireland
300hr Hybrid Yoga Therapy
Foundation Training
accessible globally online and in-person in Ireland
Rolling Admissions – Start Any time
Deep dive into the transformative power of Yoga Therapy with our 300 hour hybrid Yoga Therapy Foundation Training. This training, designed for certified yoga instructors and is also accessible online via Zoom or on recordings. Rooted in evidence-informed practices and the wisdom of yoga, this training provides the tools to support students with a wide range of needs — from stress and anxiety to postural issues, chronic pain, and overall nervous system regulation.
This comprehensive course delves deep into the principles and practices of Yoga Therapy, equipping you with the skills to support individuals with diverse needs. Through a rich curriculum that blends ancient wisdom with modern science, you will explore advanced anatomy, therapeutic sequencing, and the art of adapting postures for specific conditions. Whether your aim is to enhance your personal practice or to expand your teaching repertoire, this training offers the tools and insights to guide others on a profound healing journey.
TRAINING CALENDAR
With Zoom And Live Recording Options
Slow Flow Foundations offers a gentle, holistic style of vinyasa inspired by Viniyoga. This accessible, breath-led practice integrates beautifully with Yin and Restorative Yoga, and forms the asana foundation for the Ayurveda & Women’s Health, Breath Coach, Energy Medicine, and Heal modules within the training.
Slow Flow Foundations offers teachers the opportunity to build confidence in teaching mindful, breath-centered flow. Rooted in the principles of Vinyasa Krama — a systematic, intelligent approach to yoga that emphasises progressive sequencing — this style guides practitioners from simple to more complex postures in a deliberate, step-by-step way, always anchored by the breath.
The word “Vinyasa” means mindful placement, and “Krama” means step or sequence. Together, they describe a practice that is both adaptable and therapeutic, honouring the individual needs of each student while cultivating strength, mobility, and inner awareness.
This section of the training offers a beautiful winter wind-down and equips you with everything you need to confidently teach both Yin and Restorative Yoga. It’s an opportunity to slow down, reconnect, and immerse yourself in the art of conscious rest, deep release, and inner stillness.
Through the practice of Yin Yoga, you’ll explore long-held, floor-based postures that gently target the body’s deeper connective tissues — improving mobility, releasing tension, and supporting energetic balance.
In Restorative Yoga, you’ll learn to skillfully guide your students into a state of profound relaxation and nervous system regulation. Using supportive props and mindful sequencing, you’ll discover how to create nurturing spaces that invite deep physical, emotional, and mental restoration.
This empowering training dives deeply into Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine in the context of Women’s Health, exploring the menstrual cycle, menopause, and the unique needs of women at every life stage. We’ll also build on some of the foundational TCM and Ayurvedic principles introduced in the Yin and Restorative Yoga training, expanding their application specifically for hormonal health and women’s wellbeing.
You’ll gain practical tools to balance your hormones, understand common imbalances, and nurture your health in alignment with your unique constitution. This training offers more than symptom management — it’s an invitation to reclaim your sovereignty, release unconscious anxieties, and step into greater confidence and inner wisdom.
Both Ayurveda and TCM provide profound insights into supporting hormonal balance through diet, lifestyle, and daily practices. You’ll learn how to ease symptoms, reduce HPO-axis stress, and cultivate a healthier, more compassionate relationship with your cycle and life transitions.
This module is an ideal addition for Yin and Restorative Yoga teachers wishing to deepen their therapeutic knowledge, guide women’s circles, and support others in navigating their cyclical nature with grace, ease, and empowerment.
In this module, you’ll unlock the transformative power of breath to support physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. Blending modern science with ancient yogic wisdom, this training offers an in-depth exploration of breath as a therapeutic tool for healing, stress management, and nervous system regulation.
You’ll learn how to consciously regulate your own nervous system and reset habitual breathing patterns using accessible, evidence-based techniques. The module also covers how to observe and assess the breath in others, gathering valuable insights into their physical, mental, and emotional states, and how to develop personalised breath practices to support their specific needs.
This module weaves together the science of breath, polyvagal theory, and the art of pranayama, offering both theoretical understanding and hands-on application. Whether you’re deepening your personal practice or preparing to guide others, you’ll gain practical skills for working with the breath to address stress, anxiety, trauma, and to build emotional resilience.
This foundational training also complements and builds on the practices explored in the Yin and Restorative Yoga modules, offering additional tools for nervous system care and self-regulation.
This module offers a deep dive into the world of subtle body energetics and their connection to physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing, through the lens of Slow Flow Vinyasa Krama Therapy. Rooted in the traditional teachings of Sri T. Krishnamacharya, this practice explores the art of mindful movement, breath, and alignment with a therapeutic, person-centred focus.
You’ll learn to work with Vinyasa Krama, a systematic and intelligent approach to sequencing where each step is deliberately placed to support a safe and effective practice. The module explores this method in relation to subtle energy systems — including the vayus (vital energy currents), doshas (constitutional types), gunas (mental qualities), and chakras (psycho-energetic centres).
We’ll explore how to apply this knowledge in practical ways, offering therapeutic sequencing and adaptations for a variety of health conditions such as autoimmune issues, cancer, heart disease, and other systemic imbalances. By integrating movement, breath, and energetics, you’ll gain the skills to create practices that support holistic healing, emotional resilience, and energetic balance.
This module complements the Slow Flow Foundations, Yin, and Restorative trainings within the 200-hour course, expanding your understanding of yoga as a therapeutic, energetically-informed practice.
This module offers a comprehensive introduction to supporting students navigating trauma, grief, anxiety, and depression. You’ll explore the effects of trauma on the body, mind, and nervous system, and learn how to safely hold space for healing through integrative, embodied practices.
Combining somatic awareness, breathwork, gentle movement, and mindfulness techniques, this training equips you with practical tools to help students reconnect with a sense of safety, agency, and emotional resilience. Whether for group classes or one-to-one sessions, you’ll gain skills to guide others toward balance and empowerment through compassionate, trauma-aware teaching.
Soma Yoga Therapy is a somatic and functional yoga therapy method that integrates mindful movement, breathwork, interoception, and biomechanics to support healing on physical, emotional, and nervous system levels.
This training teaches yoga teachers to perceive the body from within, uncovering how stress, trauma, and life experiences are held in the body. Through practices that re-educate the neuromuscular system and restore functional movement, Soma Yoga Therapy helps address joint instability, scoliosis, chronic pain, emotional tension, and nervous system dysregulation.
The training combines:
- Somatic awareness practices
- Functional asana and mobility-based movement
- Myofascial release techniques
- Breathwork for nervous system regulation
- Therapeutic sequencing and one-to-one applications
Format:
Delivered over two weekends, each including:
- 4 Experiential Workshops (for students and teachers)
- 4 Teacher Integration Labs (for teachers only)
Ideal for:
Yoga teachers with a grounding in anatomy and alignment seeking to develop therapeutic skills for group and one-to-one sessions.
Outcomes:
Teachers will gain the tools and confidence to offer Soma Yoga Therapy classes and private sessions addressing postural dysfunction, pain management, stress, trauma, and overall well-being.
The Chair Yoga Teacher Training trains yoga teachers how to adapt the teachings of yoga for students with limited mobility or anyone looking for a gentle practice. Chair Yoga offers a supportive and accessible way for students of all ages and ability levels to enjoy the benefits of yoga.
Being able to teach yoga to a range of groups, abilities and bodies is so important to ensure yoga is inclusive and accessible. It also makes practical and financial sense, allowing you to offer more classes at different times of the day. Throughout the chair yoga training you’ll learn how to teach seated yoga, use the chair as a prop when standing and incorporate aspects of yoga that can easily be done seated into a class including pranayama and meditation. You’ll explore the needs of your students, including physical and health reasons that might require a seated yoga practice. Understanding and responding to this adds a sensitivity to your yoga teaching that feeds into all other classes you teach.
SomaSensing Inquiry is a transformational training where rest becomes revelation. Inspired by the therapeutic applications of Yoga Nidra, Breathwork, Polyvagal theory, and the inner work of trauma recovery, this method weaves together deep relaxation, body-based awareness, conscious breath, and skilled verbal facilitation.
You’ll learn to guide students or clients into a receptive, mind-body state through breath and relaxation practices, then gently support them in sensing into emotional patterns, belief systems, and inner narratives held within the soma. This approach helps dissolve unconscious holding patterns, regulate the nervous system, and opens the doorway for meaningful, embodied self-inquiry.
SomaSensing Inquiry is a core module within the 300HR Therapeutic Yoga Training, designed to complement and deepen your work in other modules such as iHeal: Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, Soma Yoga Therapy, SomaRoll, and Breathwork for Therapeutic Application. Together, these modules form an integrative, body-based toolkit for supporting physical rehabilitation, nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and embodied transformation.
Expand Your Therapeutic Yoga Toolkit on Your Schedule
The SomaRoll Yoga Method is an integrative, embodiment practice. It combines Myofascial Release Therapy and gentle mobility-inspired yoga. The mobility-yoga exercises work on stabilising the joints and neutralising muscle imbalances relating to bad posture, excess sitting, repetitive stress etc. Muscle imbalances can also lead to other more serious issues such as bursitis, nerve impingement and sciatica to name but a few. Myofascial Release Therapy is not like the ordinary myofascial release that you see at the gym. We use tools and techniques that are suitable for inflammatory conditions such as arthritis, bursitis, sacroiliitis, fasciitis and other inflammatory conditions to help reduce inflammation. The method also works on re-setting the auto-pilot nervous system response in relation to how stress and trauma express themselves in your somatic body, through the waves, arches and domes that create stability through the fascial system.
This yoga anatomy and alignment training is designed to bridge the gap between modern anatomy and the dynamic, integrative principles of yoga. It combines traditional biomechanics to help break down poses and biotensgrity-based anatomy, which explains how everything in the body is connected through the fascial system. This unique approach sets our training apart and provides a comprehensive understanding of the body in relation to yoga.
By merging these concepts, this training empowers yoga teachers, putting them in control of their teaching. It provides a deep understanding and articulation of the body’s structural and functional complexities, enhancing their ability to teach with precision and clarity.
As part of your 300-hour Therapeutic Yoga Training, you’ll receive 10 hours of dedicated business and teaching mentorship via Zoom. These live sessions are designed to support you not only throughout your training journey but also as you step into your role as a therapeutic yoga professional. Mentorship topics will include:
- Space to discuss personal, professional, and teaching-related challenges that arise during your training.
- Guidance in preparing for your final teaching assessment.
- Support in integrating therapeutic approaches, such as Soma Yoga Therapy, into your existing teaching style, whether in studio classes, private sessions, workshops, or online offerings.
On the business side, we’ll cover essential topics including:
- Branding and positioning yourself as a therapeutic yoga teacher.
- Pricing therapeutic sessions, one-to-ones, and specialist workshops.
- Diversifying your teaching — from public classes to private clients, online programs, therapeutic workshops, and retreats.
- Building and sustaining a student base, especially for therapeutic offerings.
- Social media, marketing, and ethical communication in the wellness space.
- Managing the day-to-day realities of working as a therapeutic yoga professional: finances, legalities, scheduling, and work-life balance.
This mentorship ensures you leave the training feeling supported, resourced, and confident — both on and off the mat— with clear, practical steps for bringing your therapeutic yoga work, including Soma Yoga Therapy, into the world.
Next Upcoming Module
Yoga And Women's Health
March 7th-8th
Hybrid Training: Slieve Aughty Centre, Galway, Ireland | Zoom | Recordings
Empowering Women’s Health: Ayurveda & TCM Insights for the Cycle and Menopause.
Meet Your Lead Trainer
Carol Murphy is the founder and lead trainer of Green Lotus Yoga, with over 28 years of experience exploring and teaching the many facets of yoga. Since 2006, she has been training yoga teachers in Ireland and internationally, and in 2018, she created the Green Lotus Yoga 300-hour Yoga Therapy Foundation Training, which she continues to offer annually.
Carol’s diverse training background includes Iyengar, Ashtanga, Vini yoga and an 800-hour IAYT Yoga Therapy Certification with Soul of Yoga, where she studied extensively with world-leading yoga therapists such as Leslie Kaminoff, Richard Miller, Nischala Joy Devi, Indu Arora, Amy Weintraub, Brian Dorfman, Dr. Stephanie Sutherland, Durga Leela, and Dr. Sangeeta Sahi. She is also a neuromuscular therapist, FRC® Mobility Specialist, and has pursued additional studies in TCM, Ayurveda, Women’s Health, Somatic Experiencing, Tantra, and Yin Yoga.
Hybrid Yoga Therapy Training Format & Student Online Platform
The live training will take place at the Slieve Aughty Centre in Galway, Ireland. The centre has a fully popped studio, organic restaurant and is set is a quiet, rural environment. For accommodation at Slieve Aughty, please see ‘More Details’ below. Students also have the option of doing the training as they wish on Zoom or via recordings.
Whether you are attending live, on Zoom or recordings, this training is supported by our 300 hr online student platform, a dedicated space to stay connected throughout your journey. Here you’ll find everything you need — from Zoom links, manuals and recordings to a community chat where you can share insights and connect with fellow trainees.
Pre-requisite
This training is an Advanced Training for Yoga Teachers. To attend, you should already be a qualified yoga teacher and display a genuine passion and commitment to learning and developing your practice.
Please note: If your primary training was not with a Y.A Registered School, it may still be possible to join this training.
Accreditations
Registered Yoga Training School In Ireland since 2006.
Although the 300hr hybrid Yoga Therapy Training offers rolling admissions, the best time to begin is in September, when we start with two months of Slow Flow Vinyasa Krama. This is followed by four months of Yin and Restorative Yoga. Together, these asana modules create the embodied container for the therapeutic, philosophical, and somatic content that follows.
- March 7th-8th 2026 – Ayurveda, TCM and Women’s Health
- April 11th-12th 2026 – Breath Coach
- May 16th-17th 2026- Energy Medicine
- June 13th-14th 2026 – Heal, Trauma-informed Training
- July 11th 2026 – Yin Fusion Assessment
- August 2026 – Holiday
- September 5th-6th – Slow Flow Foundation 1
- September 12th-13th 2026- Chair Yoga
- October 3rd -4th Slow Flow Foundations 2
- October 10th-11th 2026- Soma Yoga Therapy 1
- November 14th-15th 2026- Soma Yoga Therapy 2
- Nov 28th-29th 2026 – Yin and Restorative
- Dec 5th 2026 – SomaSensing
- Dec 12th-13th 2026 – Yin and Restorative
- Jan 16th-17th 2027 – Yin and Restorative
- Feb 13th-14th 2027- Yin and Restorative
On-Demand Hours
- 32 hrs SomaRoll Myofascial Mobility
- 10 hrs Yin and Restorative
- 20 hrs Align (Anatomy and Alignment) comes free with the training. These hours are not included in the 300 hr hours.
This Yoga Alliance Registered training is suitable for qualified Yoga Teachers who have completed a 200 hr Yoga Training or equivalent. Your 200 hr does not have to be recognised or registered with Y.A. Y.A have given GLY permission to assess eligibility. Therefore if your 200 hr foundation training is not Y.A recognised, you can jump into the Y.A system after you complete the 300 hr and register as. SYT, Senior Yoga Teacher at a 300 hr level or a 500 hr level.
Please note that this training does not qualify graduates as “yoga therapists”. In affiliation with IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapy) protocol, to become recognised as a yoga therapist requires 800 hrs of Yoga therapy training after the 200 hr foundation training. GLY is working towards providing the full 800 hrs Yoga Therapy Certification and this 300 hr can be used as the first stage towards the full 800 hrs programme. Also IAYT does allow schools to adopt hours from one to another, so you could do 300 hr with GLY and then change to another registered IAYT registered school for the remaining 500 hrs if you want a full Yoga Therapy Certification.
This training is registered with Yoga Alliance and is designed to empower you to integrate yoga therapy practices and principles into your group classes, private sessions, and community offerings. Upon graduation, you will be a registered Yoga Therapy Teacher. To become a full ‘yoga therapist’, 800 hr IAYT training is required.
However, these 300 hours can be adopted into IAYT 800-hour programmes for those who wish to continue their yoga therapy education. Additionally, IAYT is currently in the process of creating a 300-hour Therapeutic Yoga Strand, which we hope to align with in the future.
Scope of Practice:
Graduates of this 300-hour Yoga Therapy Foundation Training are trained to:
Integrate basic yoga therapy principles and tools into group and private yoga sessions.
Offer movement, breath, and relaxation practices to support general wellness, posture, mobility, and stress management.
Understand safe sequencing and modifications for common musculoskeletal and wellness concerns.
Recognize the limits of their knowledge and refer clients to appropriate healthcare or allied health professionals when issues fall outside the scope of yoga practice.
Graduates are not qualified to diagnose, treat, or provide therapy for medical conditions. The program emphasizes safe, ethical, and responsible teaching, with an emphasis on client safety and professional boundaries.
Accommodation rates vary depending on the season, length of stay, and room type.
Hostel Accommodation
- Shared hostel room (4 beds)
- €45 per person per night (low season rate)
- Includes breakfast
- There is no option to book on the website. Please email to phone.
High Season: Easter: March 27th – April 13th | June 1st – September 1st | October 26th – November 2nd (Halloween week)
All other dates fall within the low season.
Bed & Breakfast Rooms
- Double or Single Room: €140 per night
- Triple Room: €175 per night
- Breakfast included.
- All rooms are bookable online when available. You can book via the Sleive Aughty Accommodation Website page.
One-Night Stays for Green Lotus Students and Discounts
Students attending Green Lotus Yoga retreats or weekend trainings may book a single-night stay by contacting the venue directly via email or phone.
20% discount apply for 2 nights stays.
Investment
- One-time payment – €2900 – save €300.
- Staggered Payment : €3200 – broken down into:
- 200 non refundable deposit to secure your place
- €187.50 per month for 16 months
Includes
- Manual PDFs for every module
- Printed Yin and Restorative manual
- All tuition and assessments
- Continued support and mid-month online mentorship throughout your training.
New Year’s Special Offer
Reduced instalment option available until 10th March.
