In-Person - Yoga Alliance Approved

70H CET

forrest yoga advanced teacher training

with Ana Forrest & Jose Calarco

Course Dates: 9 - 17 May 2026

OVERVIEW

The Forrest Yoga Advanced Teacher Training is a life-changing 9-day immersive adventure into the rich world of Forrest Yoga.

This training welcomes yoga teachers from any lineage and graduates of the Forrest Yoga Foundation Teacher Training. Participants need a daily personal practice and to be ready to go deeper into the Great Mystery.

This extraordinary immersion teacher training is co-taught by Ana Forrest, Creatrix of Forrest Yoga and Jose Calarco, co-director of Forrest Yoga and Musical Shaman, with our team of exceptional Forrest Yoga assistants. Our featured esteemed guest presenters including Indigenous elders, singers, dancers, and diverse cultural musicians.

The Forrest Yoga Advanced Teacher Training is a highly experiential deep dive into your personal transformation through pranayama, asana, teaching, and life changing ceremonies. As we journey into Ceremony and connection to Spirit, this training will take your practice and understanding of Forrest Yoga into deeper wisdoms. The cosmically charged duo, Ana and Jose, have co-created an evolutionary experience for you. Together, Ana and Jose provide a profound, focused and rich training.

Course Information

The Forrest Yoga Advanced Teacher Training weaves together the following essential elements that will quantum-leap your teaching:

• Daily Forrest Yoga practice and Ceremony Lead by Ana & Jose

• Forrest Yoga principles of class sequencing for advanced poses

• Introducing Ceremony into your practice

• Invaluable feedback and coaching on your teaching and hands on assists

• Experience ancient healing technologies

• Working with injuries

• A tool kit to help address the physical and emotional needs of students of different levels and abilities

• Mentoring for your own practice & challenges

• Compassion, ecology & health: Jose teaches about the intelligence of the Vegan lifestyle, based on his 30 years of deep research into how our food choices affect our health, bring animals into extinction and either balance or destroy our planet.

• You will leave this training feeling inspired and confident in your knowledge, methodology, and your unique teaching voice

What to expect

You will work with advanced asanas together with Ana & Jose’s blend of live music, invocation, smoke blessing, storytelling, prayer, philosophy, and primordial Shamanic healing practices. You will be guided in how to approach and teach advanced poses - you do not have to have mastered them.

With them, you will:
•         Up-level your personal practice
•         Invest in your own self-care
•         Detoxify your body and your mind
•         Learn to work with and heal injuries you may have
•         Learn to make advanced poses more accessible
•         Push the edges of what is possible in your body in a supported and safe way

Eligibility and Prerequisite

All participants are required to have an intermediate yoga practice.

This training is open to:

• Teachers coming from different lienages

• Graduates of the Forrest Yoga Foundation Teacher Training

• Practitioners who are not yoga teachers but would like to deepen their knowledge.

Accreditation

This Advanced Yoga Teacher Training Course is a total of 70 hours and is accredited by Yoga Alliance USA and Yoga Alliance Professionals (UK).

70 Hours Continuing Education digital certificate will be provided to those who have successfully completed the full course.

All the modules must be attended in order to receive the certificate.

If you already hold a 200hr teacher training in any other style (different from Forrest Yoga), after successfully completing the Advanced Training, you will be able to call your classes 'Forrest Yoga Inspired”.

Venue:

London. Exact location will be confirmed at a later stage.

Tuition Fee

Super Early Bird (First come, first served): £1000 (Limited to 3 spots)

Early bird - Until 1st July : £1300 (Limited to 20 spots)

Full price - From 2nd July : £1500

LEAD TEACHERs

Ana Forrest

Ana Forrest is an inspiration and has been changing people’s lives for over 45 years. She is an internationally-recognised pioneer in yoga and emotional healing. She is the Creatrix of Forrest Yoga, a mystic, visionary, philanthropist, author, and Medicine Woman. Ana crafted Forrest Yoga while working through healing from her own life’s traumas - abuse, addictions, and the ongoing suffering from chronic injuries and illnesses. The process of healing herself inspired her to teach others how to heal themselves physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

Forrest Yoga is a powerfully physical, internally focused practice that emphasizes how to integrate the transformative experiences from the mat into purposeful daily life. Ana took her first yoga class at age 14 and became a certified instructor in 1975. Ana used yoga and Native American ceremony to save her own life. It is her intent to pass that lifesaving ability forward. Her study and clinical application of healing modalities is vast, and includes homeopathy, naturopathy, anatomy, reflexology, acupressure, craniosacral treatments, regression therapy, reiki, polarity, hands on healing and Ceremony. All these inform her work and lead to her becoming a wise, intuitive teacher & healer. In her life-long love for evolving,

Ana has journeyed into Indigenous Sacred ceremonies, like Sweat Lodge, Pipe Ceremony, Vision Quest, and Sundance. Ana has now taught and toured in over 33 countries. Ana is at heart a woman of the wilderness. She has spent many years in the mountains and forests learning from the animals, trees, rocks, water, and the seasons. Prior to becoming a yoga teacher, Ana spent her early years training horses, dogs, cats, birds, and the occasional snake. It was a natural progression to move to teaching humans.

“I’m proud & honored to work with the US military.” Ana has worked with fighter pilots, ground crew, soldiers, and the Explosive Ordinance Disposal (“bomb squad”), at the US base in Lakenheath, England. In the US, she has taught war veterans in VA hospitals in Florida and Washington DC. She has received a medal of gratitude for her work with the wounded warriors of the Warrior Transition Battalion, and a medal of excellence for her work with veterans in Fort Carson, Colorado. Ana is a consultant to the United States Air Force 48th Fighter Wing, as well as to the Exalted Warrior Foundation. Ana is the recipient of a Los Angeles Mayoral Commendation recognising her outstanding teaching and healing work in the community, the first time a major U.S. city bestowed such an honour on a yogi or yogini.

Ana and Jose have a saying “Authenticity in Spirituality can be gauged by our conduct in everyday life” With their dedication to global healing, the couple co-creates a magical and safe arena for transformation. To learn from Ana & Jose means to dive into a transformational treasure chest. They continue to teach throughout the year around the world. Discover the sacred potency of “JoseAna’s” life’s work at a Forrest Yoga event.

Jose Calarco

Jose Calarco is Ana’s co-director of Forrest Yoga. Jose comes from a long history of shamanism, the arts, music and healing, bringing his decades of experience as an artistic prodigy to Forrest Yoga. Jose is also Director of the legendary Australian Indigenous company Descendance Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Dance Theatre www.descendance.com.au. Descendance won the UNESCO (United Nations) competition as the world’s best Indigenous live show in a field of over 70 countries in Seoul Korea 2004. Descendance won the UNESCO (United Nations) competition as the world’s best Indigenous live show in a field of over 70 countries in Seoul Korea 2004.

Jose’s Ceremonies acknowledge the custodians of the land & build a bridge to the Spirit World, calling on the ancestors to participate. Jose creates ceremonies based upon his lifetime of experiences, innovatively weaving creation stories, poetry & music into the yoga practice. Jose brings his passion, playfulness and heartfelt respect for the ceremonial traditions of the First Peoples to every Forrest Yoga event. A musician, singer and songwriter, Jose uses the language of music to convey messages of the spirit for which there are no words. Jose’s music invites students to attune to the cosmic vibrations all around us, which helps us realize that we are the vibration: Jose’s music is an invitation into the feeling of coming home.

Jose’s experience as a faith healer and Medicine Man spans over 30 years. He has collaborated with many Indigenous wisdom keepers like Medicine Woman and Aboriginal cultural treasure, Kathy Marika, of the Yirrkala People of East Arnhem shire Northern Territory, and he co-created Descendance Aboriginal with Indigenous elder and Song Woman, Imelda Willis, of the Yidinji and Kandju tribes of far Northern Australia. Imelda is Jose’s Spiritual Mother; she adopted him in order to share the knowledge & plight of the Aboriginal people to the world.

Jose’s extensive travels with Descendance to over 40 countries have guided him to participate in a multitude of Indigenous ceremonies from a vast array of different cultures from around the world.

Terms & Conditions

Course cancellation by student

• If you cancel your place prior to 1st August 2025, we will offer a refund minus 15% admin fee.

• If you cancel your place after 1st August 2025, Indaba is unable to offer you a refund. Indaba will endeavour to offer the course place to another student if the course is sold out and there is a waiting list. If your place can be offered to someone on the waiting list, Indaba will issue a refund minus 15% admin fee.

• Injury/medical conditions (includes Covid-19 and pregnancy) before the training starts:

  In the difficult circumstances of you suffering a serious injury or any medical conditions before the training starts, Indaba School of Yoga team will support you and work out the best way for you to continue the course. You may still attend sessions and either adjust poses or just observe the classes.

  • Pregnancy: Forrest Yoga is safe and can be practiced at any stage of an healthy pregnancy, but cannot replace the advice of a fully qualified doctor.

  • Injuries: Forrest Yoga is known for its intelligent approach to work with and heal injuries, but cannot replace the advice of a fully qualified doctor.

  If you are unable to participate in the training in any capacity due to the gravity of the condition, we can offer a refund minus 15% admin fee after receiving a certificate from a fully qualified medical practitioner. Please note that in order to consider a refund we need to be notified immediately.

• Injury/medical conditions (includes Covid-19 and pregnancy) once the training has started:

  In the difficult circumstances of you suffering a serious injury or any medical conditions during the occurrence of the training, Indaba School of Yoga team will support you and work out the best way for you to continue the course. You may still attend sessions and either adjust poses or just observe the classes. If you are unable to continue the training in any capacity due to the gravity of the condition, we can offer a refund for the remaining modules minus 15% admin fee after receiving a certificate from a fully qualified medical practitioner. Please note that in order to consider a refund we need to be notified immediately.

• If you leave the course for any reason not related to a medical condition after it has started, no refund or deferral will be granted.

• It is mandatory to attend all of the teaching modules on the course in order to receive the certificate.

Course cancellation by Indaba

• In the unlikely event of extenuating circumstances, Indaba reserves the right to cancel the course at any time. If the course is cancelled prior to the course start, the course may be rescheduled and if students cannot attend the new course then 100% refunds will be made. If the course is cancelled part way through the course, Indaba will rearrange the remaining modules of the course and if this is not possible for students to attend, we will refund the remaining course on a pro-rata basis.

Course Policy:

• Indaba reserves the right to change the training venue at its discretion. Please note that students will not be eligible for a refund due to such changes. Any adjustments to the venue will be made solely at Indaba's discretion.

• Pets and children are not permitted in the training venue. Please refrain from bringing them, as we cannot grant access to the room, and our team is unable to look after them during the course. No refunds will be issued if this results in you having to leave the training.

• By making a booking, you consent to us sharing your details with the Forrest Yoga team.

• After booking, you will be required to complete an application form. If, upon review, the Forrest Yoga team determines that it is not safe for you to attend the training, your booking will be canceled, and you will receive a full refund.

• It is your responsibility to ensure that your credentials and contact details on your Indaba account are accurate. All training-related communication will be sent using the details registered on your account.

• If you arrive late, you may be denied entry, causing you to miss part of the training and become ineligible to receive the certificate. Refunds will not be issued for late arrivals.

• Polite and respectful behavior toward staff, teachers, assistants, and fellow students is mandatory. Failure to comply may result in removal from the training program without the opportunity to complete it, and no refunds will be issued.

Photography

Indaba reserves the right to photograph or film during the programme and to use these images for our website and marketing purposes.

FAQ (FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS)

What level of physical practice is required for this training?

This is an advanced training, so participants should have a consistent yoga practice, at intermediate level, and be physically prepared for intensive daily sessions. The training includes strong asana practice, hands on assists, and deep emotional work.

Is this training suitable for someone who isn’t a yoga teacher or isn’t currently teaching yoga?

Yes! Even if you are not a yoga teacher or actively teaching, this training is valuable for deepening your personal practice, expanding your knowledge, and developing your confidence. Many participants attend for their own personal growth and transformation.

What if I have an injury? Can I still attend?

Yes! Forrest Yoga is known for its intelligent approach to work with and healing injuries. Modifications and alternative practices will be provided, but it is your responsibility to listen to your body. If you have a significant injury, consult with Indaba Yoga and your healthcare provider before committing. Once enrolled, you will receive a form from the Forrest Yoga team where you can include any information on your physical and emotional health. This will help teacher better address your situation.

Can I take this training if I am pregnant?

Yes, but with caution. This training is physically demanding and involves deep core work, breathwork, and hands-on assists. If you are pregnant or trying to conceive, speak with your doctor first and inform Indaba Yoga ahead of time so modifications can be considered.

What happens if I need to leave the training early?

To receive the full 70 hour certification, you must attend all scheduled sessions. If you miss training time due to illness or unforeseen circumstances, you will not be eligible for certification. Partial refunds are not granted for early departures.

Is accommodation included in the training fee?

No, accommodation is not included. Participants are responsible for arranging their own lodging in London.

Can you advise for accommodation in London?

The best way to find accommodations that suit your needs is to check Booking.com.

Where will the training take place?

The training venue has not yet been decided and will be confirmed a few months before the training begins. However, it will be in London, within

the first three zones of the city. This page will be updated with specific details as soon as the venue is finalised.

Is there a payment plan available?

No, Indaba Yoga does not offer payment plans for this training. Full payment is required upon registration to secure your spot.

What is the cancellation and refund policy?

Cancellations made by August 1 2025, are eligible for a refund, minus a 15% administrative fee.

Partial refunds, credits for Indaba classes or workshops, and transfers to other or future trainings are not available.

No refunds will be issued for no-shows.

Will there be photography or filming during the training?

Yes, there will likely be photos and videos taken throughout the training for marketing and promotional purposes. No photos or videos are allowed during the training, except by Indaba Yoga or designated training assistants. You may take pictures before the training begins, after it ends, or during breaks, but please be mindful of others, as some participants may not wish to be photographed.

What time should I arrive each day?

We recommend arriving at least 15- 20 minutes before the start of each session to settle in and prepare. Late arrivals won’t be admitted once the session has started, as this can disrupt the experience for others. Plan your journey ahead of time as London public transport may sometime present challenges and roads might be busy.

Lateness: If you arrive late, you may be denied entry, causing you to miss part of the training and become ineligible to receive the certificate. Refunds will not be issued for late arrivals.

Will there be breaks during the training?

Yes, but they are limited due to the immersive nature of the course. There will be short breaks between sessions, but participants should expect full training days.

What if I feel overwhelmed or emotionally triggered during the training?

Forrest Yoga is known for its deep emotional and energetic work, and it is normal to experience strong feelings during the training. If you feel overwhelmed, you are encouraged to take a break, breathe, or speak writh one of the assistants for support. We hold space for transformation, and your well-being is our priority.

Are there kitchen facilities available for participants?

Participants are encourage to bring food that can be stored in the bag without spoiling or causing odours. There are cafés and supermarkets nearby where you can buy food during breaks.

What is it recommended to eat during the training?

Participants will be asked to consume garlic and onion free food throughout the duration of the training. Adopting a vegan diet is also recommended as one of the main pillars of Forrest Yoga.

Can I bring my child or dog to the training?

Unfortunately, it is not possible for you to bring your child or pets to the training.