The Art of Teaching - 180hr Yoga Teacher Training

March 28th - May 24th, 2026
Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany • Zoom, Worldwide

Taught by Three Boons Yoga Berlin • In-person or online

If you feel a strong connection to the teachings of yoga and you want to explore this in more depth, while also learning how to share with others what you feel in your heart, then our Three Boons Yoga Teacher Training will support you on your quest.

The Three Boons 180+hour Yoga Teacher Training is especially for you:

if you have sincere connection to the teachings of yoga and you want to explore them more deeply
if you want to be able to share what you feel in your heart with others, by teaching yoga
if you want to immerse yourself deeply in teaching yoga and/or refresh your teaching skills by
- deepening your own practice
- studying yoga philosophy and Sanskrit
- learning to create meaningful yoga class sequences that are serving the purpose of yoga
- developing clear communication skills that support the ultimate goal of the yoga practices
- working intensely on yoga assists

This teacher training will take your own yoga practice and your yoga experience to the next level. Yoga foremost is an experiential science, so this training, along with your regular practice of yoga, will eventually enable you to share your passion for yoga with others, be it by teaching yoga classes or by being more skilled to deal with life and all its multiple situations.

What you can expect

create a strong and deeply rooted foundation in the depth of your own Being; by continually working on integrating the teachings of yoga in your own life
establish a solid foundation for becoming the best possible yogi and yoga teacher
study and understand the core yoga philosophy and Sanskrit teachings essential for this goal
be able to teach effectively and safely assist a 75 minutes set sequence yoga class
understand the asanas and key yoga class sequencing principles, thus building a foundation for potentially creating your own classes/sequences
learn about the key yoga anatomy foundations of the asanas and sequencing of yoga classes
receive a signed official certificate confirming you successfully completed 180 hours of Yoga Teacher Training at Three Boons Yoga Berlin.

What are the prerequisites?

You should be passionate about your yoga practice and you should have practiced yoga regularly for quite some time before the start of your teacher training at Three Boons Yoga. During the training, you should be able and willing to have a daily yoga practice at Three Boons Yoga Berlin (on-site or online) and take part attentively in all the sessions of the training.

How long is the training?

The 180+hour yoga teacher training “The Art of Teaching Yoga I” at Three Boons Yoga Berlin will spread over a period of two consecutive months/8 weeks. The upcoming Spring 2026 180+hr Training will start at the last weekend of March 2026 and then take place through April and May 2026.

Meeting Times

You will come together in a group setting on 5 weekends and 8 Wednesdays during this period. There will be approximately 3 hours of homework after each weekend and 2 hours preparation time for the assignments. This will set up a strong foundation for the sessions you will be spending together as a group. Weekend sessions are Saturday and Sunday from 08:00 to 18:00 and on Friday evening (except for the first weekend) from 16:00 to 19:00.

Wednesday sessions are from 18:00 to 20:00.
There are “Catch-up Wednesdays” which are the ones that precede the weekends on which you will meet. They are designed for everyone to catch up on the training material and will include a Q&A session. The homework of the week before will be corrected. You will also talk about the upcoming schedule and mentally prepare yourselves for the upcoming weekend intensive. These meetings also serve for the facilitator to assess the progress you are making and to ensure that you are well prepared for the upcoming weekend.

The Wednesday in the other weeks is "Work&Study Group Wednesday". Here you deepen and cover assists which will have been covered on the TT weekend and you will also work on material that you have covered on the TT weekends that needs to be repeated. Both Wednesdays will be at the school, but you could also join via Live-or Flex-stream. The Wednesday meetings are equally as important as the weekends. Right afterwards, you could have your daily practice at the school, at the Three Boons The Razor's Edge class from 20:15-21:30.

On the schedule you’ll see that the meeting times for Wednesdays are 17:00-20:00.

The extra hour from 17:00 - 18:00 is not mandatory to take part in every week but helpful. Here you will practice and work on assists with the mentors.

Practicing asana regularly (5 times a week) at Three Boons Yoga Berlin (on site or through the live-stream classes with your camera on) is required throughout the entire duration of the training (April and May 2026).

Participants are also asked to have a daily meditation practice and write a meditation journal over the course of the two months that the training takes place.

March 28 & 29

April 8

April 10, 11 & 12

April 22

Sat & Sun — 8.00 - 18.00

April 1

Wed. — 17.00-20.00

April 24, 25 & 26

May 8, 9 & 10

Wed. — 17.00-20.00

April 15

Fr. — 16.00-19.00 / Sat & Sun — 8.00-18.00

Wed. — 17.00-20.00

April 29

May 6

May 13

Fr. — 16.00-19.00 / Sat & Sun — 8.00-18.00

Wed. — 17.00-20.00

Fr. — 16.00-19.00 / Sat & Sun — 8.00-18.00

May 20

Wed. — 17.00-20.00

May 22, 23 & 24

Wed. — 17.00-20.00

Why 180 hours?

Based on Three Boon’s extensive experience with teacher trainings and newly certified yoga teachers, they find that ideal foundation to become a solid yoga teacher is 300+ combined hours of foundational training complemented by a close mentorship period with a mentor yoga teacher (for a total combined certification of around 1,000 hours).

It is often said that it takes 10,000 hours of intensive practice to begin to master complex skills and materials. This definitely also applies to the path of becoming an accomplished yoga teacher. With combined approx. 1,000 hours of guided training, they’ve experienced that new teachers will have a solid foundation to deepen their further path mainly through their own personal efforts, commitment and dedication.

As every yogi and aspirational yoga teacher follows his/her own path, Three Boon’s offers two volumes of small-group training (a.k.a. The Art of Teaching Yoga I and II) for a combined foundational 335+hour teacher training and, in addition, a one-on-one 630+hour mentorship program (a.k.a. The Art of Teaching Yoga III).

This three step approach allows you to create your own mix-and-match path on your way to achieve the best training as a yogi and a yoga teacher:

This training is a 180+hour training that is aimed at enabling you to teach the Three Boons The Razor’s Edge 75 minute yoga class. You will receive a 180+hour certificate of completion if you actively took part in all sessions of the training.
An option to teach a test class in front of members of the 3BY teacher training faculty is offered to all 180+hour Three Boons teacher training participants after completion of The Art of Teaching Yoga I and 20 hours of additional self-study, practicals and preparation. This includes trial teaching sessions to your fellow trainees or other friends, producing and sending in a recording of yourself teaching the Three Boons The Razor’s Edge75 yoga class to a fellow trainee/friend as a pre-requisite to be admitted to holding the in-person test class exam. Upon passing the test class exam, you will receive a 200+hour certificate from Three Boons Yoga Berlin that authorizes you to teach. The exam fee for the first test class is already included in the 180+hour tuition.
This is a second teacher training offering in the form of a 153+hour yoga teacher training that will enable you to deepen your studies and understanding of yoga and, combined with our 180+hour training, achieve a 333+hours certification.
can be endeavored by you after having taken a Three Boons (The Art of Teaching Yoga I or II) or a Jivamukti Yoga training and upon acceptance by a mentor teacher at our yoga school. Please reach out for information.
If you already took other trainings before or are planning to do so later, you could choose to pick one of Thre Boons 180+hour trainings or their 153+hour trainings as a continuing education or a foundational training. Both trainings are a great way to dive deeper into how we teach at Three Boons Yoga Berlin, to continue your education as a yoga teacher and to qualify you to take part in our 630+hours mentoring program. The Art of Teaching Yoga II is also very well suited to be combined with 75-hour foundational trainings, especially ones that are Jivamukti/Vinyasa Yoga based, in order to achieve a combined 200+hour certification.

How to prepare for the training

Please make use of the unlimited yoga classes at Three Boons Yoga Berlin that you will receive after signing up for the training.

You are also asked to complete the following reading requirements and write the following essays and elaborations on your readings. This should be done before the beginning of the training. Please bring a print-out of your work to the first day of the training:

1. Read "Essence of the Upanishads" by Eknath Easwaran and write a review of the chapter of the book that inspired you the most.

2. Read Eknath Easwaran version of The Bhagavad Gita. Elaborate on three teachings that are given in the text that you find inspirational for your own spiritual practice.

3. Read "Jivamukti Yoga - Practices For Liberating Body and Soul" by Sharon Gannon and David Life. Write a short review of each chapter. In your reviews elaborate on two or three points from each chapter that you found especially interesting and inspiring.

4. Read "Yoga and Veganism: The Diet of Enlightenment" by Sharon Gannon and write a review of the chapter of the book that moved you the most.

About the team

The lead facilitator of the Three Boons 180+hour Yoga Teacher Training is Anja Kuehnel, Three Boons Yoga Berlin Director, Advanced Certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher, long time Jivamukti teacher training facilitator and 13 years Jivamukti Yoga Berlin JTAP program director.

Three Boons Yoga managing teacher Annie Schwalm (800+hr Jivamukti Yoga teacher) will also serve as lead-mentor.

800+hr Jivamukti Yoga teacher and additional mentor throughout the entire training.

800+hr Three Boons Yoga teacher and serving as an additional mentor throughout the entire training

Yoga Anatomy - (senior Alexander technique teacher - ACAT’98 - and long time advanced certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher with more than 20 years of experience, extensive private practice as well as teaching at diverse settings including universities, retreats, and teacher trainings, making her an expert on Anatomy & Physiology)
Yoga & Veganism (long time Advanced Jivamukti Yoga teacher, passionate cook and nutrionist and solo mother of a young feral boy, who she is raising vegan, anti-speciesist and punk rock)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
(Advanced Certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher, 3BY mentoring program facilitator)

Investment

2.799€ (see below for payment plans & discount options)

When you sign up, you can opt for a payment plan, under which you can first only pay the first down-payment of 540 EUR and then pay the remaining fee (including an deferred payment admin fee) later in two installments of 1,197 EUR each (so 540+1,197+1,197), or in three installments of 819 EUR each (so 540+819+819+819).
If you already have made an investment in paying for daily classes at 3BY (like a contract with 3BY), this can be paused free of charge from the time you sign up for the training.
PRACTICE (and) STUDY (for free): If you sign up on a payment plan for the TT, your upcoming installments can be reduced to up to 0 EUR if you choose to practice in our 3 studios in front of our live-stream camera. For each time you do that, your next installment will be reduced by 11 EUR. So for instance, if you sign up now and pay in three installments and practice 75 times in front of the camera by the time your next installment of 819 EUR is due, you do not have to pay this installment at all. Or, if you only practiced 10 times in front of our live-stream camera, then your next installment will be reduced by 110 EUR .
From the moment you signed up for and paid (in case of a payment plan the first down-payment of) the tuition, you receive unlimited access to all regular classes at Three Boons Yoga Berlin (on-site, live-stream, flex-stream and 3Boons.tv) until the end of May 2026 at no extra cost. It is recommended that you sign up as early as possible to make use of this offer. Three Boons came up with this to give you (1) a super early bird deal, but most importantly to (2) encourage you to establish a regular yoga practice within our Jivamukti yoga lineage at 3YB from as early on as possible. This is because from their long-time experience with teacher trainings within the Jivamukti Yoga lineage, this will help you immensely during your TT by optimizing your TT learning curve. So the earlier you sign up, the more you save, potentially up to 9 months of yoga membership.
If you already have made an investment in paying for daily classes at 3BY (like a contract with 3BY), this can be paused free of charge from the time you sign up for the training.
PRACTICE (and) STUDY (for free): If you sign up on a payment plan for the TT, your upcoming installments can be reduced to up to 0 EUR if you choose to practice in our 3 studios in front of our live-stream camera. For each time you do that, your next installment will be reduced by 11 EUR. So for instance, if you sign up now and pay in three installments and practice 75 times in front of the camera by the time your next installment of 819 EUR is due, you do not have to pay this installment at all. Or, if you only practiced 10 times in front of our live-stream camera, then your next installment will be reduced by 110 EUR .
In case you pay your TT upfront in full you can still save by practicing at the Three Boons studios in front of our live-stream camera until the training starts. In this case Three Boons will extend your free unlimited classes beyond the end of your teacher training by one month for every 6 times you practiced in front our our live-stream camera (counted from the time you enrolled for TT until the end of the TT). Or, if you choose to go on the next step of the path and do the Advanced Teacher Training or the 630+hour Mentoring Program, your Advanced TT or mentoring fee will be discounted by 11 EUR for each time you practice in front of the live-stream camera at the Three Boons studio classes after you signed up for your 180+hour Teacher Training.

Your full presence is required during all sessions of the training (options to take part via live- or flex-stream are offered in case you cannot be present physically).

To reserve your spot, a non-refundable down-payment of 540€ is required. The remainder of 2.259€ has to be paid within 2 weeks after receiving confirmation from Three Boons in form of a formal acceptance to the training and an invoice for the training fee.

Certification you’ll receive from this training

After successfully completing the training (which requires your presence and active participation during all parts of the training), you receive a signed official certificate of completion from us confirming you successfully completed 180+hours of Yoga Teacher Training at Three Boons Yoga Berlin.
Optionally, after 20 hours of additional self-study, practicals and preparation, you can receive a 200+hour certificate from Three Boons Yoga Berlin that authorizes you to teach. These extra 20 hours include trial teaching sessions to your fellow trainees or other friends, producing and sending in a recording of yourself teaching the Three Boons The Razor’s Edge 75 minute yoga class to a fellow trainee/friend as a pre-requisite to be admitted to holding the in-person test class exam in front of Three Boons Teacher Training faculty members that you need to pass. The exam fee for the first test class is already included in the 180+hour tuition.

Where you’re meeting

The training will take place physically at Three Boons Yoga Berlin in Berlin-Mitte, Brunnenstr. 29. For those coming from outside Berlin, there is the option to take the training online via Zoom. You will need to decide before the start of the course if you want to take part in person in Berlin or online via Zoom.

In important instances (like illness or unavoidable travels) the online option will also be available to in-person teacher trainees as a backup alternative to missing sessions. Vice-versa, online teacher trainees are welcome to visit us in person for parts of the training (prior notification to the program director is required).

The training requires your time and presence at all scheduled class times, i.e. even if you are taking the training on-line you should be present with your camera on when the training is actually happening. Replays of recordings of the training are offered to trainees for re-cap or to cover unavoidable circumstances.

Language: The teacher training will be taught in English, however, many of the teachers are native German speakers, so even if your English is not the best, you will be able to communicate in German during the training if needed.