13 Day 100-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Beginners Course in Rishikesh, India

This 100-hour yoga beginners course is perfect for those completely new to yoga or who haven't been in a while and would like to refresh. It will give you the full yoga immersion, fundamental yoga asanas, breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga philosophy concentrating on healthy alignment and establishing a deeper awareness of your body through breath, movement, and focus. Learn the main styles of yoga at a beginner level. If you are looking for a new challenge to boost your health, immunity, and wellbeing, help yourself stay in shape, or simply have a little ‘me’ time; We look forward to welcoming you to our 2-week, fun, relaxing, and de-stressing yoga for beginners course with Yogi Vishal at Moksha Yogshala.

Training objectives

• Develop your own personal daily practice
• Develop and practice daily pranayama, kriyas, mudras and dhyana
• Learn about the skeletal and muscular systems and how this affects your practice and your teaching
• Study the Patanjali Yoga Sutras and learn how to incorporate them into your daily practice and life
• Learn how to structure a class and then incorporate all these components into designing your own class
• Learn to teach a class to your peers in a small group environment

This 100-hour yoga teacher training course is artfully structured that during the program, you will not only learn and practice the Yoga techniques inherited from different cultures but also understand the principles of meditation.

Program overview

In this 100-hour certified yoga teacher training program, you will get the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of Mantra meditation, Yoga Nidra, Vipassana meditation, Kundalini meditation, Sufi breathing, pranayama, dance celebration, and more! Most importantly, you can improve your communication skill to become an insightful Yoga teacher and learn how to run your own Yoga workshop.

What makes this program one of a kind

• Using mantras, sounds with the rhythm for meditation, is the most ancient and effective tool. Mantra provides us a crystallized state of mind and the state of beyond mind, into the state of true being.
• The power of Mantra yoga lies in the way you control the flow of energy through the various organs. You will see this in the program as one way to improve the favorable effects of meditation. When you meditate, you open the energy channels, starting from the base chakra located at the base of our spine.
• Each of the chants is associated with a specific organ. One mantra we use is the all-powerful AUM sound. This mantra sounds like the bees and it raises the inner base chakra by stirring it.
• Unlike Yoga Nidra where you can achieve samadhi or total peace in all the organs of the body, here we stimulate them so the metabolic activities become augmented. This is found in Nyasa, where Sanskrit mantras remain placed in specific organs of the body. By stimulating specific organs, you can get rid of ailments and cure infections.
• The other big advantage of using mantras is that you become free of repetitive thought. Through deep meditation, you can go behind the thought and understand why and how you get it in the first place. The emotional upheaval we experience comes from negative thoughts like pride, greed and anger. But, they last only for 90 seconds at a time. When you chant a mantra, you are voiding the mind for that crucial period when you suffer an emotional disturbance. This helps block the drain of energy.

Know Yoga Nidra - a specific form of meditation

Yoga Nidra is a guided yoga technique that helps and directs you in conscious state of sleep. Yoga Nidra is a state of existence of the yogi during the Yoga which goes from wakefulness to sleep and then comes back to wakefulness. It highlights the presence of stages of transitions associated with different states of the mind. Shortly, you can say this is the state of conscious sleep. It is the easiest and most effective Yoga to purify the black edge of our unconscious mind.

Mindfulness meditation

Pranayama and ancient breathing techniques

You will learn about the deeper meaning of the correct breathing techniques and develop knowledge about how you may use them in yoga asanas and how it can improve your life. Changing breathing patterns will affect mind patterns and bring balance in body and emotions.

Advantages of becoming a 100-hour yoga teacher

The student learns how to include the methods of right breathing, right relaxation, right diet, right exercise, and positive thinking both for themselves and in the lives of others. You develop the skill to teach different yoga techniques to others. In this 100-hour yoga teacher training, you will enhance your creative self through yoga techniques and develop self-confidence.

The main drive of the course is to understand how you can help others achieve self-transformation in their lives. After you become adept with self-exploration and self-acceptance, you know about your skills and become an expert in using them. You learn how to use Yoga to cure ailments and strengthen the body. You improve your own lifestyle and gain more independence. Spreading the message of Yoga culture is a beautiful path in this life. Yoga helps to reduce stress and pain in daily life, helps one to feel better and more healthy, to be more grounded and centered and stay strong midst struggles of life.

Daily schedule

• 06:00 - 07:15 Hatha yoga
• 07:30 - 08:30 Pranayama, shatkarma, and mantra
• 08:45 - 09:45 Breakfast
• 10:00 - 11:00 Yoga anatomy
• 11:15 - 12:30 Yoga alignment and adjustment
• 12:45 - 13:30 Lunch
• 13:30 - 15:00 Rest and rejuvenate
• 15:00 - 16:00 Yoga philosophy
• 20:15 - 17:30 Ashtanga yoga
• 17:30 - 18:00 Tea and snack
• 18:30 - 19:30 Meditation
• 19:30 - 20:30 Dinner
• 21.30- 22:00 Lights off goodnight

There will be one free day during the course. You are welcome to check in on the 2nd in the ashram to have some rest before the training starts.

Recommended readings

• Yoga Anatomy - Leslie Kaminoff
• Yoga sutra - Patanjali
• Light on Life - B. K. S. Iyengar

Please let MOKSHA YOGSHALA know if you have any more queries. They will be more than happy to provide you with more details as per your requirement.