Online 100-Hour Hatha Yoga, Pranayama, Mudra, Yoga Nidra & Meditation Teacher Training Course

Pre-application requirements

Please install Zoom to attend the live sessions. You will also need a yoga mat, computer/tablet or smartphone, internet connection, pen, and notebook. Props are also recommended but not mandatory to have. All levels are welcome.

Certifications

To receive the 100-hour certificate as a yoga teacher, you must complete a written exam and submit a video demonstrating your skills and knowledge while teaching a yoga class.

How the training works

There will be 80 non-contact hours of pre-recorded and 20 contact hours of live sessions via Zoom, live classes every week, and two Q&A sessions every weekend. You will also have 80 non-contact hours for self-study and assignments.

Timing of sessions or daily schedule (insert timezone)

The live classes will be adjusted according to your time, from Monday to Sunday around 5:00 a.m. -11:00 p.m. There might be a little time adjustment from month to month. All times are based on IST/GMT+5:30.

Daily schedule (GMT+5.30)

• 09:00 - 09:30 Mantra chanting and pranayama
• 09:30 - 10:30 Techniques, training, and practice
• 10:30 - 11:00 Tea break
• 11:00 - 12:00 Asana/Vinyasa
• 12:00 - 13:00 Vinyasa/Gentle yoga
• 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
• 14:00 - 15:00 Restorative yoga
• 15:00 - 15:30 Teaching methodology
• 15:30 - 16:30 Patanjali yoga sutra/Bhagavad-Gita
• 16:30 - 18:30 Tea break/refreshment
• 18:30 - 19:00 Chanting
• 19:00 - 19:30 Anatomy and physiology/ upanisad
• 19:30 - 20:30 Asana/Vinyasa
• 20:30 dinner

Curriculum / course information

Join this 100-hour live streaming yoga teacher training class with experienced yoga teachers. Start your course with online classes, study, and practice. Get certified like in the residential yoga teacher training programs. This online 100-hour yoga teacher training is suitable for yoga beginners and intermediate level students, so that you can complete the yoga training at your pace. The yoga masters are highly qualified and will help you throughout the course. At the end of the training module, a set of questionnaires and online practice exams will be sent to the candidate, and after that, a certificate will be mailed to the candidate by Karuna Yoga.

All the modules taught meet and exceed Yoga Alliance requirements. Karuna Yoga Vidya Peetham comprehensive course schedule includes Hatha yoga at beginners and intermediate level asana practice, asana alignment, pranayama, advanced topics of yoga theory, anatomy, and yoga sutra. These topics which Karuna Yoga has preferred are very much intensive and interesting. Weekly, you will also experience the essence of mantra chanting.

Overview of the 100-hour yoga teacher training course

Karuna Yoga Vidya Peetham covers a 100-hour yoga teacher training course. This program is certified and recognized worldwide through Yoga Alliance. For years, Karuna Yoga Vidya Peetham’s vision is to offer meditation and yoga programs that help transform consciousness and help people live a spirituality fulfilling life stranded in genuine inner experience and knowledge.

Some of the courses included

Asana, teaching practice, pranayama, anatomy and physiology of yogic practice, meditation, yogic philosophy, cleansing processes, Hatha yoga pradipika, bandhas, mantra chanting, and mudras.

The objective of the TTC course is to provide beginners and experienced yoga students with strong practical and theoretical experience. This will enable them to perform Hatha Yoga practices with perfection and correct alignment. The course will equip future teachers to be completely autonomous and ready to run their own yoga classes to the highest standards.

At Karuna Yoga Vidya Peetham, students can easily learn a unique combination of different yoga principles and practice injury-free yoga for all ages and genders. Every morning will start with mantra chanting and pranayama classes focused on different breathing techniques and this gives a good foundation for the Hatha yoga class.

The subject of classes changes every week, going from yoga philosophy to anatomy of asana, from Hatha yoga to Ashtanga yoga. On top of that, the students also provide marketing classes during which students will get tips on how to promote themselves as yoga teachers and how to market themselves for their future yoga studios.

Course outlook

• Techniques training and practice
• Basic elements of asanas and pranayamas, mudras, and bandhas
• Three principles of practices, alignment, relaxed respiration, and consciousness
• Transitioning into asana – transitioning out of the asana
• Asana modification variations and the use of props
• Classical surya namaskara and ashtanga surya namaskara
• Touch, somatic, and self-transformation, beginner to intermediate level
• Standing forward bending – balancing and twisting asana
• Core strengthening asana, arm balancing asana, backward bending asana,
• Seated forward bending, and twisting asanas
• Balancing asana, supine twists – backward bending, hip and pelvic opening asanas,
• inverted asana
• Shoulder work, arm strengthening, arm balancing, rotation of arms, and shoulders.
• Pranayama- going deeper into the essence of breath, chakra balancing asana sequence
• Mantra meditation, chakra meditation, and breathing awareness
• Teaching methodology
• Creating space for self-transformation
• Classroom set-up and orientation
• Class levels and prerequisites
• Exploring clear and precise verbal expression
• Class Etiquette
• Teaching styles and the varieties of approach
• Waking up in the spiritual environment
• Techniques and tools for teaching yoga
• Application of modifications for individual needs
• Business approach

Yoga, anatomy, and physiology

• Pranas, upa-pranas, chakras, nadis, and granthis. Pancha kosa (five layer of existence)
• Introduction to human anatomy and physiology, cardiovascular system, nervous system
• Respiratory system, musculoskeletal system, and spinal cord
• Yoga and spine; structure and function of the spine
• Types and functions of bone; skeletal system and asana
• Physiology of stretching during asana practice
• How to stretch safely with their individual limitation
• Biomechanics of stretching
• Kinesiology: to understand the different movements of the human body at minor and major joints levels
• Yoga philosophy, lifestyle, ethics, health and wellness
• Karma yoga, Bhakti yoga, Jnana yoga, and Raja yoga
• Vedas, katha upanisad, taittiriya upanisad, and mandukya upanisad
• The Bhagavad Gita (selected chapter)
• Patanjali Yoga Sutras (selected sutra)
• Yogic diet and nutrition
• Ethics: dharma, artha, kama, moksa. Brahmacharya, grihastha, vanprastha, sanyasa ashrama.
• Health and wellness, lifestyle
• Practicum
• Practicing of asana, pranayama, mudras, kriyas, and bandhas
• Practicing the basics of assisting and adjusting
• Methodology of asana, contraindications, and benefits
• Observing other's teaching, receiving/giving feedback
• Elective
• Vinyasa yogic
• Gentle yoga
• Project writing
• Project writing (50 to 100 pages)
• Tutorials, assignment, and examination

Trainee will be required to engage in self-study and submit daily and weekly assignments on the basis of the day’s lectures and discussions. There will be a practical and a theory exam at the end of the course to assess the students on their learning, practice and teaching during the teacher training course.

Certification

Students who complete the training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).