50 Day 500 - Hour Hatha, Ashtanga, Ayurveda, Sound Healing Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh, India

Certifications

Students who complete their subsequent trainings are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).

This teacher training is a multi-style course for beginners with basic knowledge of yoga. After the completion of the course, the students will be given a yoga alliance certification for the 500-hour yoga training course, from Yoga Vidya Mandiram School. This 500-hour yoga teacher training will be held by experienced reputed meditation guides and the team of accomplished yoga teachers.

The teachers and guides are including an Ayurvedic doctor who feels privileged to share his/her knowledge and practice of ancient traditions with modern elements of medical sciences (yoga anatomy and physiology).

This training course aims to provide a solid foundation in different aspects of yogic disciplines that prepare them to adopt yoga as their life profession. In addition, this 500-hour yoga training course includes mantra recitation (mantra - Japa), daily joints and glands practices (granthi - vimochana - kriya), yoga postures (yoga asanas), meditative steps of doing asanas, six cleansing exercises (shat karma), science of breath (pranayama), yoga energy locks (Bandha) and yoga gestures (Mudra), meditation (Dhyana), yogic sleep (yoga Nidra), history and philosophy of yoga (yoga Darshana), yogic anatomy and physiology of human body, basic principles of Ayurveda, asana alignment practicum classes, yoga teaching practice, and teaching methodology. Yoga psychology enhance the students' learning at various levels; mentally and emotionally by which they learn to adopt the yogic disciplines in daily life. Thid intensive course helps the students to establish a harmonious lifestyle.

• Course curriculum
• Mantra chanting
• Intro to Mantra science

Basic mantras: aum, gayatri, trayambakam, guru, shanti etc.

• Morning prayers and Evening prayers
• Meal prayers
• Study prayers
• Health prayers
• Surya-namaskara 12 mantras along with bija mantras
• 1-20 Sanskrit counting
• Names of the asanas
• Selected yoga-sutras recitation
• Hatha Yoga Asanas

Meditative steps of performing the hatha yoga; centering, entering, refining, holding, coming out, and reflection

Astanga vinyasa flow - series 1 & 2

Surya namaskar (sun salutations) - dynamic surya namaskar, surya namaskar with breathe awareness, surya namaskar with bija-mantra chanting

Modifications of yoga asanas

Types of yoga asanas - standing, sitting, backward bending, forward bending, spinal twisting, fire series, inversion, shavasana etc.

• Alignment and art of adjustment
• Preventing common injuries
• Counter pose

Contraindications

• Yoga asanas benefits
• Pranayama (the science of breath)
• Introduction to science of breath
• Physiology of pranayama
• Postures for pranayama
• Establishment of diaphragmatic breathing
• 1:1, 1:2 and 1:4 breathing practices

Different practices of pranayama: nadi shodhana, ujjayee, kapalabhati, bhastrika, shitali, shitkari, brahmari, and anuloma viloma, suryabhedi, and various types of kumbhaka pranayama and others

• Benefits or pranayama practices
• Guidelines for regular pranayama
• Bandhas (lock)
• Jalandhara-bandha (chin lock)
• Uddiyana-bandha (abdominal lock)
• Moola-bandha (root lock)
• Maha-bandha (great lock)
• Mudra Vijnana (Science of Graceful Gestures)
• Intro to mudras and their importance in yoga practices
• Mudra and its psychology

The elements residing in the fingers and five mudras: akasha-mudra, jnana-mudra, agni-mudra, varuna-mudra, and prithvi-mudra

Other important mudras: dhyan-mudra, prana-mudra, apana-mudra, linga-mudra, shunya-mudra, vishnu-mudra, bhairava-mudra, and hridaya-mudra

Satkarma or Cleansing Exercises

Jala-neti

Sutra-neti

Kunjala

Trataka

Agnisara

Nauli

• Practice Relaxation and Yoga Nidra
• Introduction to the concept and practices of relaxation
• Relaxation in daily life
• Sequence of relaxation
• Tension and relaxation exercises
• Systematic relaxation exercises
• 31 points relaxation exercise
• 61 points relaxation exercise
• Preparation for yoga-nidra
• 61 blue star relaxation

Meditation

• What is meditation and what is not?
• Meditation in daily life
• Yoga asanas for meditation
• 2-5 minutes meditations
• Steps into basic meditation
• So-ham mediation
• Mantra and meditation
• Spinal breath
• Sushumna breath through chakras
• Yoga Anatomy and Physiology
• Introduction about Yoga anatomy and physiology

Systems: Digestive system, Circulatory system, Respiratory system, Muscular system, Nervous system, Endocrine system, Skeletal system, Excretory system, Lymphatic system, Homeostasis

• Stress: Introduction
• Humoral theory (in ancient Indian medicine, Greek medicine and modern medical science)
• The Brain and its sub cortical centers
• Stress and Neuro-endocrinal changes
• Therapy principles for stress disorders

Stress management through yoga: Asana (physical postures), Pranayama (breathing practices), Dhyan (meditation)

• Effect of yoga posture on muscles and systems
• Nadis (energy channels)
• Chakras (energy plexus)
• Pancha tattva (five great elements)
• Panchakosha (five sheaths)
• Pancha pranas (five vital energy)
• Yoga philosophy, Life-style and Yoga Ethics
• General introduction: six schools of Indian philosophy
• Philosophy in daily life
• Elementary intro to Samkhya and Yoga philosophies
• The Yoga-sutras of Patanjali
• History of Yogic science
• Astanga-yoga: yama, niyam, asana, pranayam, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi
• Introduction to Vedanta (Yoga of the Upanishads)
• The yoga of the Bhagavad-gita
• The tantric yoga
• Yoga Ethics: Yamas and Niyamas; More on the ethics of a teacher
• Daily life style of a sadhaka
• Yoga and Ayurveda (Science of Life)
• Intro to Ayurveda
• Philosophy of Ayurveda
• The concept of tri-dosha
• The concept of tri-gunas
• Ayurveda and the balanced diet
• Balance of the mind and body through proper diet as prescribed in Ayurveda
• Teaching Methodology
• Learning to instruct and guide

Main points: Teaching to what you observe, Timing a class, Greeting/Centering, Sequence in teaching,

• Theme-ing a specific posture
• Classroom Organization

Demonstration

Health Concerns

Language

• Modification in Posture
• The role of a teacher
• The practice and service of teaching yoga
• Yoga Practicum
• Class sequences
• Develop intention for classes

Self-evaluation

Assignments

• Practice teaching
• Feed back
• Group discussion
• Questions and answers
• Home work
• Typical Daily Schedule
• 05:00 Wake up!

21:00 Go sleep!

Schedule is subject to slight changes without prior notice.

Please note that on the first day, the course will start with an opening fire ceremony at 10.30 a.m. Yoga Vidya Mandiram advises that you arrive at least 1-2 hours early to settle into your room and take your time before the course starts. However, if your journey will be a long one, you may plan to arrive a day early to give yourself time to recover from your journey.

• Important note
• Official Check-in Time: 14:00 - 21:00
• Official Check-out Time: 12:00

Please take into account our check-in time to plan your arrival at the school. Many international flights landing in Delhi and overnight transports means arriving in Rishikesh at night. Their school does not have 24 hours check-in, but they can help with taxi pick-up 24 hours and transfer you safely to a hotel / hostel with 24 hours check-in service, if needed.

Early check-in is possible only if room is available, ready and requested in advance before arrival. Early check-in would be possible only starting from 09:00 onwards.

Late check-in is not possible after 21:00.