Online Self-Paced 300-Hour Hatha, Ashtanga, and Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training
Online 300 Hours yoga teacher training
This advanced study program is designed to enhance your yoga knowledge and deepen your foundational skills. The focus is on effectively teaching Ashtanga, philosophy, pranayama, alignment, meditation, and anatomy to individuals from diverse backgrounds and cultures. This program is ideal for yoga teachers looking to achieve sustainable growth in their careers. Whether you're seeking a healthier lifestyle through self-rejuvenation or aiming to share the benefits of yoga with others by earning a professional certificate, Namaste Yoga India is the perfect place for you. You'll be trained by world-class instructors with over 10 years of experience and internationally recognized certifications.
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Highlights
- 300-hour online teacher training
- Contact hours: 80-90 hours of daily live sessions for 40 days
- Non-contact hours: 220 hours of recorded videos, study books, self-practice, and self-study
- Flexible duration: Complete the course within 12 months
- Live online sessions conducted via Zoom and occasionally Facebook
- Time zone: Rishikesh, India (GMT +5:30)
- Includes meditation and healing sessions, along with daily yoga classes
- Comprehensive 300-hour yoga teacher training curriculum
- Receive textbooks, manuals, and other printed course materials
- Eligible to register with Yoga Alliance upon completion
Skill level
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Yoga styles
Program
Certification
Students who complete the training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).
All students who complete 300 hours and RYT - 300 yoga training can easily register themselves as RYT 500 with Yoga Alliance.
Overview
India is the land of sages. Yoga has now spread all over the world. Although there are several yoga schools across the world, still India is considered one of the best places for learning and practicing yoga. A 300-hour yoga teacher training is a comprehensive yoga teacher training course that involves several forms of yoga such as Ashtanga, Vinyasa yoga, history and philosophy of yoga, Hatha yoga, Mudra pose, human anatomy, along with mantra chanting, bandhas, etc.
In this yoga teacher training course, you will obtain a life rewarding experience. Grab the best opportunity for deepening your self-practice, mounting a solid understanding of yoga asanas, meditation, and philosophy, and be an inspiring yoga teacher with an extensive 300-hour yoga teacher training.
Pre-requisites
Students must hold a 200-hour certification.
How the training works
Required online tools: You will need a reliable internet connection and the Zoom app and Facebook to participate in the online sessions.
Additionally, be ready with your yoga mat.
Timing of sessions (Rishikesh, GMT+5:30)
The course includes 40 days of online sessions. The sessions are scheduled in two batches and you can choose any online batch of your choice.
- 08:00 - 09:00 (Rishikesh time, GMT+5:30)
- 18:00 - 19:15 (Rishikesh time, GMT+5:30)
Course information
To help you feel connected to yourself as well as yoga, this course provides:
- World-class teachers with more than 10 years of experience in their respective fields.
- Live student support
- Multi Style yoga course every day
- More than 250 hours of yoga recorded sessions
- 1 year of recorded access
- Downloadable manual
- E-books
- Reading material
- Everyday homework and assignments
- Certification of completion
- You can register in Yoga Alliance after the completion of this course
- In-depth understanding of Advanced Hatha, Advanced Ashtanga, Pranayama, Kundalini Meditation, Ayurveda, Yoga Therapy, yoga Nidra, chakras and anatomy, philosophy
- 10% discount on in-person courses valid for one year
- 40 days of live sessions
- You can choose any online batch of your choice
How to prepare yourself for the course:
- It is a yoga school at your home
- You can learn from class videos
- Assignments during the study
- Yoga Alliance registration and accreditation
- Final exam
- Certification
- Opportunities after doing the TTC with Namaste Yoga India
- Assignment
Lif style that you follow during the course:
- Following a positive attitude
- Transform your negative emotion
- Daily routine that you should follow
- Assignment
Curriculum for online 300-hour yoga teacher training course
Mantra chanting
Mantras are repetitive hymns that benefit yoga practice and assist the yogi to awaken the self and extend the meditative and practical aspects of yoga. It facilitates peaceful vibrations for the practitioners and creates an atmosphere of serenity.
- Ganesha Mantra
- Gayatri mantra
- Guru mantra
- Shanti mantra
- Om Chanting
Ashtanga yoga
Standing postures
- Samasthiti
- Sun salutation (A & B)
- Padangushtasana
- Pada hastasana
- Utthita Trikonasana
- Parivritta Trikonasana
- Utthita Parshvakonasana
- Parivritta Parshvakonasana
- Prasarita Padottanasana (A, B, C & D)
- Parshvottanasana
Intermediate postures
- Pashasana
- Krounchasana
- Shalabhasana A, B
- Bhekasana
- Dhanurasana
- Parsvadhanurasana
- Ustrasana
- Laghu Vajrasana
- Kapotasana
- Supta Vajrasana
- Bakasana
- Bharadvajasana
- Ardha Matsyendraasana
- Ekapada Sirsasana A, B, C
- Dwipada Sirsasana B
- Yoga nidrasana
- Tittibhasana A, B, C
- Pincha Mayurasana
- Karandavasana
- Mayurasana
- Nakrasana
- Vatayanasana
- Parighasana
- Gomukhasana A, B, C
- Supta Urdhvapada Vajrasana A, B
- Mukta Hasta Sirsasana A, B, C
- Baddha Hasta Sirsasana A, B, C, D
- Urdhva Dhanurasana
- Drop back to Urdhva Dhanurasana
- Paschimattanasana
Finishing postures
- Salamba Sarvangasana
- Halasana
- Karnapidasana
- Urdhva Padmasana
- Pindasana
- Matsyasana
- Uttana Padasana
- Shirshasana
- Baddha Padmasana
- Yoga Mudra
- Padmasana
- Uth Pluthi (Tolasana)
- Shavasana
Hatha yoga
The primary objectives of Hatha yoga is
- Longevity and strength
- Strengthen and quiet the mind
- Awaken the Kundalini
The basics will be thought so that the body can adjust for the advanced level. Once you gain the confidence to hold the postures for longer period, then progress which appears almost like a smooth flow. Listed below are the asana series that will be practiced:
- Sun Salutation
- Chakra awareness
- Moon Salutation
- Standing intermediate and advanced postures
- Kneeling posture series
- Sitting Posture series
- Forward bending posture series
- Backward bending posture series
- Supinated posture series
- Pronated postures series
- Inversion’s series
- Twisting postures series
- Balancing Postures series
- Relaxing Posture series
- Meditative asana series
Vinyasa yoga
- You will be learning to create flows
- Breath awareness
- Continuous practice
Mudra
Mudras play an important role to uplift your energy easily.
- Hast mudra
- Yoni mudra
- Linga mudra
- Bhairava mudra
- Bhairavi mudra
- Energy mudra
- Viparita Karnai mudra
- Mahabandha mudra
- Mahabheda mudra
- Kundalini mudra
- Ashwini mudra
- Vajroli mudra
- Sahajoli mudra
- Shambhavi mudra
Chakras
Muladhara
- Sound: Lam
- Location: Between anus and genitals
- Petal: Four petals
- Color: Red
Swadhistana
- Sound: Vam
- Location: At root of the genitals
- Petal: Six petals
- Color: Orange
Manipura
- Sound: Ram
- Location: Navel
- Petal: Ten petals
- Color: Yellow
Anahata
- Sound: Yam
- Location: Right of the physical heart
- Petal: Twelve petals
- Color: Green / pink
Visuddha
- Sound: Ham
- Location: Throat
- Petal: Sixteen Petals
- Color: Blue
Ajna
- Sound: Om
- Location: Between the eyebrows
- Petal: Two Petals
- Color: Indigo
Sahasrara
- Sound: Silence
- Location: Above the physical skull
- Petal: One thousand petals
- Color: Violet, gold, white
Alignment and adjustment
Alignment
- Role of alignment in daily practice
- How to balance chakras
- Importance of alignment
- Different aspects of alignment
- Alleviate the risk of injuries
- Understand the mobility of joints
- Alignment based on muscles
- Upper Limb and Lower Limb alignment
- Head and neck alignment
- Spinal alignment
- Basic alignment
- How to bring the body in balance
- Create an equality between body and mind
Adjustment
- What is yoga adjustment?
- Why adjustment is required?
- Adjustments during yoga classes?
- Right techniques of adjustment?
- How to exercise a bandhas during yoga poses?
- Exploring the variations of each yoga pose
- How to self-adjust in a posture?
- Methods of adjusting to others during the class
- Uses of props to achieve a proper posture
- Body weight distribution
Yoga philosophy (Yoga Darshana)
Yoga philosophy in this 300-hour course is much more intensive and in-depth. You will be focusing on Patanjali Yoga Sutras, Karma yoga, Bhagwada Gita, Samkhya Darshan, etc.
Week 1: Entering to the world of Yoga Samadhi
- What is yoga
- How to achieve Samadhi
- Yoga discipline
- Different states of mind
- How to control the mind
- Why Samadhi
- Controlling right knowledge, wrong knowledge, imagination, sleep & memory
- The benefit of practice and non-attachment
- How to master self-practice
- Types of Samadhi
- Know about born yogi
- Different ways to achieve Samadhi
- What is God
- Obstacles of yoga
- Experience of highest Samadhi
Week 2: Original practice of yoga (Yoga Sadhana)
- How to do Tapasya (intense practice of yoga)
- How to do Swadhyaya (self-analysis, self-discovery)
- How to do self-surrender
- Kriya yoga
- What are ignorance and emotional attachment
- How to lessen your pain
- How your past life influences your pain and pleasure
- What is pleasure and pain (sukha and dukha)
- How pain lives with you and how it generates and vanishes
- Clear perception, right action, stability, control of sense organ, and experience of self is the source of liberation
- How to achieve total withdrawal and separation of mundane psychology
- Viveka that – insight discrimination
- Eight limbs of yoga
Week 3: Miracles and gift of yoga (Vibhuti Yoga)
- What is concentration?
- What is meditation?
- External and internal yoga
- How a yogi knows the past and future
- How do you understand the language of animals
- How it’s possible to know about the past life
- How a Yogi make their body invisible
- How yogis receive the knowledge of the entire cosmos
- How cessation of hunger and thrust is achieved
- How to acquire complete stillness
- How can one have knowledge of mind
- Siddhis are helpful or hindrance
- How can one enter another’s body
- How can a Yogi walk on thorns and water
- How can we achieve the divine sense of hearing
- How can one make the body as light as cotton wool that can soar in the sky
- Achieving glorification and indestructibility of bodily qualities
Week 4: Life receives endless grace and freedom – Yoga Kaivalya
- How Siddhi generates
- How to achieve Kaivalya (liberation)
- Revise: first week- Samadhi yoga
- Revise: second week –Sadhana yoga
- Revise third week –Vibhuti yoga
- Revise fourth week – Kaivalya yoga
Meditation
In this 300-hour course, meditation becomes effortless and natural. Students are thought the advanced techniques of meditation by which one can master the true Self.
Meditation timetable:
- Week 1: Strengthening the foundation of meditation
- Week 2: Deepen the focus and mindfulness
- Week 3: Advanced meditation techniques
- Week 4: Awareness practice
Content
- What is the mind and why meditation?
- Why mind becomes restless?
- Brain waves during meditation
- Importance of music in meditation
- Emotional purification
- Remembering the past
- How to reach samadhi
Styles of meditation practice
- Advancing your foundation in meditation
- Awareness and mindfulness
- Jyoti Tratak meditation
- Nada Meditation practices
- Advance mantra meditation
- Active Meditation practices
- Dynamic meditation
- Contemplative walking
- Meditation for Muladhar Chakra
- Meditation for Swadhisthana Chakra
- Meditation for Manipura Chakra
- Meditation for Anahata Chakra
- Meditation for Visuddhi Chakra
- Meditation for Ajna Chakra
- Meditation for Sahasrara Chakra
- Kundalini meditation
- Vipassana meditation practices
- Breath Awareness practice
- Mindfulness and sensation
- Mantra Japa
- Silence practice
Ayurveda
Yoga and Ayurveda work together as a science. Ayurveda is about proper health management and is a science of self-healing that all trainees need to understand in order to upskill the students. Here is what you will learn in the Ayurveda class.
- Basic Principles and Introduction Of Ayurveda
- Fundamentals of Ayurveda
- Tridoshas (Vata, Pitta and Kapha)
- Prakriti - know your constitution
- Pancha Mahabhuta
- Prakriti (body constitution)
- Vikarti
- Sapata Dhatu (body elements)
- Mala (waste products)
- Sarotas (body channels)
- Agni (digestive fire)
- Kosta (alimentary tract)
- Ama (metabolic toxins)
Anatomy and physiology
Yoga anatomy is one of the most important subjects for yoga teachers, as a yogi has to know what his body is doing while practicing yoga, as well as knowing the limitations of the body.
Physical anatomy:
- Cells and tissues
- Function of cells
- Digestive system
- Circulatory system
- Endocrine system
- Skin anatomy
- Yoga and physical transformation
- Hormone secretion in yoga
- Effects of pranayama on the respiratory system
- Effects of yoga practice on the digestive system
- Muscular and skeletal system
- How to avoid injury in asana class
- Anatomy of pelvic griddle and spine
Spiritual anatomy:
- Energy channel
- Anatomy of Muladhara Chakra
- Anatomy of Swadhisthana Chakra
- Anatomy of Manipura Chakra
- Anatomy of Anahata Chakra
- Anatomy of Visuddhi Chakra
- Anatomy of Ajna Chakra
- Anatomy of Sahasrara Chakra
- Chakras
- Kundalini
- Pancha kosha
Yoga Nidra (psychic sleep)
Advance techniques of yoga Nidra can give you unbelievable experiences like body ascending, body warming, chakra vibration, and so on. But that is not the real reason, the real purpose of yoga Nidra is to master sleep and to reach a higher state of consciousness.
You will also study the basics of yoga Nidra:
- Awareness during sleep
- Awareness of the subtle body
- Journey: conscious to superconscious
- Yoga Nidra as atherapy
- Yoga Nidra - a healing practice?
- Why sleep is yoga here?
- Coming to new habit patterns
- Transforming your personality with yoga Nidra
- Learn languages through yoga Nidra
Bandha (energy lock)
In this 300 hour you will grab the knowledge to elevate the practice techniques to stimulate blocked energy. Here is what you will learn:
- Energy locks and kundalini awakening
- Unblock your system with the flow of energy
- Unlocking the knots, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva
- Precautions
- Health with spiritual benefits
Practices (beginners and intermediate level)
- Agnisar kriya
- Advancing the internal retention
- Advancing the external retention
- Mulabandha – anal lock
- Uddiyana Bandha – abdominal lock
- Jalandhara Bandha – throat lock
- Maha Bandha – great lock
- Hasta Band-hand lock
- Pada Bandha- Feet lock
Pranayama (breathing practices)
In this 300-hours yoga teacher training course, pranayama is taught at an advanced level so that trainees can experience the deeper powers of the prana. You will learn how pranayama can be used to heal the body and mind so that at the end of the course you will have skills to educate others.
Weekly stages of experience:
- Week 1: Moving towards the advancement of pranayama practices
- Week 2: Variations and experiments
- Week 3: Breathing for nadis and chakras
- Week 4: Teaching practices and advancing the practice
Discussion for the study of Pranayama:
- Pranayama - link of happiness
- Physiology of prana
- Elements in nature of prana
- Prana body types
- Prana and it routes
- How prana flows in the body
- Relationship between prana & consciousness
- Number of breaths we take
- Research on prana - to obtain favourable outcome
- Health parameter with breath length
Practices of pranayama
- Upper chest - Clavicular pranayama
- Middle chest - Thoracic pranayama
- Diaphragmatic pranayama
- Full body yogic pranayama
- Om Chant pranayama
- Nadi shodhanam pranayama
- Bhastrika pranayama
- Kapalbhati pranayama
- Bhramari pranayama
- Ujjayi pranayama
- Shitli pranayama
- Shitkari pranayama
- Surya bhedi pranayama
- Chandra bhedi pranayama
Yoga kriya (Shatkarma)
Practicing Shatkarma will detox you and prepare you to understand your inner being. By removing the physical, mental, and emotional dirt, you enter into your real Self. That is why Shatkarma is very important to practice. In this advanced course, students are thought advanced Shatkarma that demands expert guidance and care.
- Understanding the 11 major systems
- Why purification is necessary
- What does the scriptures of Hatha Yoga Pradipika say
- Precautions
Knowledge imparted
- Vamana Kriya
- Vastra Dhauti
- Laghu Sankha Prakyalana
- Nauli Kriya
- Vyaghra Kriya
Teaching practice
- Demonstration
- Alignment
- Instructions
- *Teaching methodology
Instructors
Minakshi Dhankhar
Minakshi is a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance. She has teaching experience of 8+ years in many countries like Thailand, Maldives, and India. She has learned yoga from the core basics from world Yoga Capital, She is dedicated to deliver the right knowledge from the bottom of her heart and spirituality.
Retreat location
This teacher training is held online. Namaste Yoga India is located in Rishikesh, India (GMT+5:30), and they will live-stream yoga classes via Zoom or Facebook which you can participate from the comfort of your home.
What's included
- Tuition fees
- E-books
- Reading material
- Online 300-hour teacher training
What's not included
- Food
- Accommodation
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 100% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
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