The Elements of Yoga – 10-Day / 100-Hour Course
“Props are not for those who can do less, but for those who want more.”
The Elements of Yoga is an invitation to deepen your understanding and use of props within the practice, while exploring the connection between the physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions that yoga offers as an integrated system. This approach is complemented by writing exercises that act as a guiding thread for learning and personal transformation.
What does it mean to want more?
A deeper understanding and greater comfort in the body within each posture gives us the possibility to transform rigidity into mobility, weakness into strength, restlessness into calm, and curiosity into a powerful guide.
The elements must be understood and discovered through experience.
Working with them can lead to important insights, allowing us to create space within the physical, emotional, and mental fields.
The purpose is to develop a practice that combines technique and creativity, giving you tools to deepen your own experience or to guide others with greater sensitivity and clarity along the path of yoga.
Where does the course take place?
At our home base, Casa Naia, in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico.
When?
From February 12 to 22, 2027
Arrival: February 12
10 days / 100 hours
What is the cost?
The price is $1,750 USD
$1,400 USD if paid before February 5.
The course includes:
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Tuition
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Training materials
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Yoga Alliance certification
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Accommodation
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All meals
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Airport transfers
Who is this course for?
If you already have experience practicing and teaching yoga, this course will allow you to:
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Incorporate the use of props as a technical, creative, and therapeutic tool.
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Analyze how props can transform alignment, safety, and accessibility within postures.
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Reflect on the relationship between physical movement and thought through guided writing exercises.
If you are not a yoga teacher, but would like to experience a practice that combines bodywork, introspection, and creativity, this course will help you to:
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Identify physical, emotional, and mental patterns while exploring how props can influence them.
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Develop greater awareness of the relationship between body and mind through writing.
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Create a more conscious, adapted, and meaningful personal practice.
Topics we will explore:
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The history of props: their origins in yoga and the influence of other disciplines on their use.
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Analysis of the impact of props on biomechanics and asana alignment.
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Strategies for integrating props into restorative, therapeutic, and strengthening practices.
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Writing as an introspective practice: exercises that connect physical experience with mental and emotional experience.
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The connection between the physical, mental, and spiritual elements of yoga as an integrated system.
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Ways of creating sequences that balance creativity, technique, and purpose.
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Reflection on the body as a changing territory: how props can help us adapt to its daily needs.
All of this will be explored from a perspective that combines restorative and reparative work with dynamic, stable, and transformative practices.
Daily Schedule
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6:30–7:30 am: Sunrise practice: breathing exercises, meditation, and writing.
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8:00–9:30 am: Conscious Hatha practice focused on the theme of the day, integrating props.
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9:45 am: Healthy breakfast.
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11:00 am–2:00 pm: Theoretical and practical session: history, analysis, and creative uses of props.
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2:00 pm: Lunch.
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4:30–6:30 pm: Combined restorative practices and meditation.
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7:00 pm: Dinner.
Who will be teaching?
Mariné Larripa
“I have dedicated thousands of hours to teaching and practicing along this path over the course of a couple of decades.
The roots of yoga—what sustains this path, the sacred and ancient texts that speak to us about the Self, the mind, and its qualities—are, for me, untouchable and an extraordinary source of wisdom for living a life of well-being and communion with the Divine.
When it comes to asanas, perhaps the most popular aspect of yoga in the West, I have many observations, changes, and adjustments based on our current understanding of biomechanics, anatomy, the spine, and more. Ancient teachers did not have access to as much information, nor did they live within the society we inhabit today. They did not spend their lives sitting in chairs from the age of four through university and then continue into office jobs. Our bodies and habits are nothing like those of the people of ancient India.
As contemporary yoga teachers, we need to refresh and renew our knowledge, develop the mental flexibility to make changes, and perhaps say no to certain postures that do not provide meaningful benefits. Challenge and discernment are two things that come naturally to me.
I am a mother, wife, yogini, surfer, and, in recent years, also a tennis player. Anything but sedentary. Restless and active. Yoga has taught me a great deal about serenity and calm—two adjectives that did not originally fit my nature.
The beauty lies in transforming ourselves, growing, and illuminating our lives and those of the people we love with that clear and distinctive light that appears when you commit to yoga.
Yoga is a faithful companion throughout life. I love sharing it. My students have always been my greatest teachers and my deepest source of inspiration.
Hari OM.”
Nahuel Sanguinetti
At 35 years old, with 15 years dedicated to yoga, Nahuel Sanguinetti began his journey in the world of movement as a professional football player. The injuries accumulated during that period led him to search for alternatives to heal his body, and at the age of 18 he discovered yoga. From his very first class, he knew he had found a transformative path that would remain with him throughout his life.
His training includes a rich variety of styles and approaches, ranging from traditional Hatha Yoga and the precision of Iyengar Yoga to innovative practices such as AeroYoga. He has also explored the use of props as a way to enrich the practice, as well as Zazen meditation under the guidance of renowned teacher Alberto Silva.
More recently, he has incorporated studies in kineflaxia and biomechanics, always motivated by the idea of integrating contemporary knowledge that can add value to this ancient discipline.
Today, Nahuel focuses on restorative yoga with props. In response to the hyperstimulation and acrobatic imagery that proliferate on social media, he proposes a more accessible and genuine approach, grounded in a real connection with the body.
His mantra, “less is more,” summarizes his philosophy: a conscious, balanced, and deeply restorative practice.
In his classes, Nahuel combines technique, sensitivity, and an integrated vision of yoga. His aim is to create a space where each student can heal, explore, and reconnect with what is essential, while moving through a process of personal transformation and authenticity.
