26 Day 200-Hour Ashtanga, Hatha, Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training and Sound Healing in Rishikesh, India
Yoga Teacher Training India
Breathe fully. Embrace life. Connect within. Open your heart. Welcome to Rishikesh Yog Nirvana! Participating in Rishikesh Yog Nirvana's 200-hour Vinyasa flow yoga teacher training program, one that meets the standards of Yoga Alliance can be the first step in a life-changing journey of health and wellness. In this program, you will get the best of the best teachers for this unique certification training with a bonus of an extra lecture on women cycle and personality development. Your wonderful future as a professional and knowledgable yoga teacher begins here!
Meet the instructors
Highlights
- Exceptional program of training
- Eligible to register with Yoga Alliance upon completion
- Lifetime access to daily yoga classes at the school
- Sunday excursions to refresh your body, mind, and soul
- Extensive manuals for anatomy, practice, and theory
- 3 organic, vegan and, yogic meals a day
- Airport pick up from Jolly Grant airport
- 25 nights accommodation
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Yoga styles
25 days with instruction in English
Accommodation
Facilities
- Dining area
- Kitchen
- Yoga studio
- Currency exchange
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry
- Medical assistance
During your yoga teacher training course, you will be staying at Rishikesh Yog Nirvana in Hotel Hariyali View, Rishikesh, India. The school is situated in the heart of Rishikesh. The ashram is peaceful and surrounded by beautiful green mountains. In the ashram, there is a yoga studio, dining area, and a rooftop. Everything is close to the ashram such as shops, cafes, restaurant, ATM, organic stores.
The yoga ashram has both private and shared rooms. Every room has attached bathroom with western toilet and hot shower, a balcony with a nice view. You will get bed sheets, pillows, bath towels, toilet paper, a blanket. Good Wi-Fi is included in the whole campus. Laundry service is also available.
Ashrams usually represent a return to a simpler way of living, which is very different to a hotel. Generally there is a more communal atmosphere and often an expectation that guests will pitch in with whatever needs doing.
Program
Certification
Students who complete the training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).
The aim of this training is to spare authentic traditional yoga and dynamic yoga worldwide. Rishikesh Yog Nirvana is a Registered Yoga School with Yoga Alliance and you will become eligible to register with Yoga Alliance after the course completion. 200-hour yoga teacher training is a traditional yoga training program and this is a wide-ranging course recognized to work with many sides involved in the study of yoga. Courses are complete and all-inclusive, requiring no additional hours or effort post-training to be completed in your own time.
Who can apply for the 200-hour yoga TTC?
Age and experience does not matter here! Whether you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced level practitioner, you can be a part of these yoga courses in Rishikesh. This 200-hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh enables you to build a strong foundation for your teaching and personal practice. As long as you are a true yoga enthusiast, you can apply for these courses.
200-hour yoga teacher training course curriculum
- 6 types of Satkarma (body cleansing) for awakening the chakras
- 6 types of pranayama with specific angles related to chakras
- Anatomy - physiology of yoga poses, meditation, pranayama and body cleansing related to chakras
- Story of postures with their Sanskrit names
- 6 types of meditation techniques
- Mantra chanting with music instruments
- Study of yoga asanas with alignment, variations, modifications, adjustments with details about chakras
- Vedic tradition of yoga and its diets
Daily schedule
- 05:30 - 06:00 Herbal tea
- 06:00 - 07:00 Shatkarma / yogic cleansing, pranayama, and chanting
- 07:00 - 08:30 Vinyasa / Ashtanga
- 08:30 - 09:30 Breakfast
- 09:30 - 10:30 Yoga anatomy
- 11:00 - 12:00 Yoga philosophy
- 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
- 15:00 - 16:00 Body alignment and adjustment
- 16:00 - 17:30 Advanced Vinyasa / Hatha yoga class
- 17:30 - 18:30 Yoga asana practice including teaching practicums
- 18:30 - 19:00 Meditation
- 19:00 - 20:00 Dinner time
- 22:00 Lights off
Course syllabus
Vinyasa Flow (Dynamic Flow of postures synchronized with breathing)
- Warm Up Postures
- Sun Salutaions
- Standing postures
- Balancing postures
- Hip opening postures
- Backward Bending postures
- Forward bending postures
- Inversion postures
- Cooling down postures
Pranayama (breathing practices)
- Introduction of pranayama
- Benefits of pranayama
- General guidelines
- Clavicular
- Thorocic and diaphragmatic breathing (yogic breathing)
- Ujjayi
- Bhastrika
- Kapalbhati
- Nadi - Sodhana
- Bhramari
- Surya - Bhedi and Chandra - Bhedi Sheetali and Sheetkari
Sitting postures for pranayama sadhana
- Easy pose
- Half-lotus
- Swastikasana
- Siddha yoni asana
Recitation of sacred sound (mantra chanting)
- Om Asato Maa Sadgamaya (mantra from Upanishad)
- Tvameva mata ca pita Tvameva (Sloka on gods)
- Om Tryambakam Yajamahe (mantra on lord Shiva)
- Om sahana vavatu (mantra from Upanishad)
- Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu Gurudevo maheshwara (guru stotram)
- Yogena Cittasya (Sloka on sage Patanjali)
- Hare rama, Hare Krishna (Maha mantra)
Meditation
- Open Awareness Meditation
- Mindfulness
- Anapana Sati
- Vipassana
- Humming mediatation
- Love and kindness meditation
- Gratitude Meditation
- Gazing Meditation
- Chakra Meditation
- Dynamic meditation
- Dance meditation
- Guided Energy Balancing
Mudras (yoga gestures)
- Jnana mudra
- Chin mudra
- Yoni mudra
- Bhairava mudra
- Shambhavi mudra
- Nasikagra
- Khechari
Yoga bandhas (energy lock)
- Preparation
- Uddiyana
- Jalandhar
- Mula and Maha Bandha
- Teaching
- Doubts
Yoga cleansing (shatkarma)
- Rubber-neti
- Jalaneti
- Kapalbhati - cleansing the lungs
Yoga Nidra (psychic sleep)
- Tension relaxation
- Full body relaxation
Yoga philosophy (yoga Darshana)
- Introduction to yoga, its philosophy, and evolution
- Introduction to yoga sutras of Patanjali
- Definition of yoga
- 4 aspects of mind and its functions
- Daily schedule of a yoga student
- Principles of 5 basic element and 10 senses
- Yama, Niyama (4 days)
- Asana, pranayama, and Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyan, Samadhi (2 days)
- Pancha - Vayus
- Panchakoshas
- Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas (Triguna)
- Introduction to chakras and its functions
- Three doshas
- 4 padas of yoga sutras
- Lives of yogis (inspiring stories)
- Diet and nutrition for a yogi
- Question and answers
Anatomy and physiology
- Digestive system
- Respiratory system
- Circulatory system
- Nervous system
- Endocrine system
- Organs bodily systems
- Nadis
- Chakras
- Muscular system
- Skeletal system
- Muscle functions according to joint movements
- Breathing
- Inversions
- Svasana
Teaching methodology
- Positive and conscious communication, friendship, and trust
- Time management
- Qualities of a teacher
- Principles of demonstrating, observation, assisting, correcting
- Use of voice in class
- Mental and emotional preparation for teaching
- Class preparation
- Step by step class structure planning
Pre-requisites
- All body types and physical abilities accepted
- Willingness to participate in group study
- Ability to give and receive feedback skillfully
- Read, speak, and comprehend English because right now yoga classes are in English only
- Dedication towards the yoga
Included excursions
During this course, you will enjoy these following excursions every Sunday:
- Famous Parthmarth Niketan Aarti
- Meditation session infamous Vasisth Cave
- Waterfall trekking
- Sunrise Himalayan tour
- Local city tour
Instructors
Yogi Manish
A talented and enthusiastic teacher in the school. He is even called the master of body alignment and Ashtanga Vinyasa. According to students who have studied under him, he has a great knowledge of body alignment and postures he knows very well how to modify postures according to the level of students. He is teaching for the last 8 years, he has gained a lot of knowledge about Ashtanga, students can feel this while attending his classes. He knows everything about the correct movement of the body while performing Asanas. He is very popular among the schools in Rishikesh.
Sajan Negi
A calm and composed soul living his life in a yogic way. Having a master's degree in yoga, he chose meditation and Yoga philosophy because he always wanted to be a calm and composed person. He has a good strong texture of voice, which certainly makes the environment holy when he chants the mantras. He believes as all are running behind the materialistic world, everyone is getting more and more stressed and depressed and this needs to be changed. He teaches some beautiful meditation techniques that help people to let go of all the negativity they are carrying inside.
Yogi Deepraj Bhandari
Yogi Deepraj is one of the best Hatha yoga teachers in Rishikesh. He has been teaching hatha yoga for the last four years. Born and raised up in the holy city of Rishikesh, he is carrying yoga in his lifestyle. Yogi Deepraj has been invited for so many workshops overseas because of his great level of knowledge in hatha yoga. He is a very humble and helpful teacher who is always looking to make a comfortable atmosphere in his classes. He has also done his masters in yoga.
Yogini Priyanka
Yogini Priyanka is the youngest teacher at the school. She is a great example of women's empowerment. Leading Ashtanga classes for the last 6 years, she surprises everyone with her young age and great skills. She is one of the favorite teachers they have here in Rishikesh Yog Nirvana. As a hard-working person, she continuously grew herself on the yogic path and helped her students by motivating them throughout the entire month. She has been practicing Ashtanga from a very early age and now she has a great level of knowledge of her subject that makes it very easy for students to learn.
Heena Thakwani
Yogini Heena is very well experienced instructor in the team. A strong personality guiding people in wellness sector for more than 10 years. She has done multiple yoga teacher training courses and is ERYT-500. She guides students in Teaching methodology and helps develop an instructor skills in them. She is always a source of solutions to all the doubts or questions students may have during training as she utilizes all her skills and experience as a wellness trainer to help students in any possible way.
Retreat location
Rishikesh Yog Nirvana School is located in Rishikesh, it is situated in the lap of nature in the holy town Rishikesh where people find peace of mind. Being the world capital of Yoga Rishikesh, it leads you to the way of a happy and stress-free life. The flow of holy Ganges has a great impact on one’s mind, body, and soul as its water continues to flow it takes away the negativity from one’s life.
With all of these extremely beautiful surroundings, they teach one of the best and ancient subjects of life: Yoga. In the school, they have blended the ancient knowledge of yoga with the modern dynamic teaching techniques which makes the whole course interesting and easy to understand. Rishikesh Yog Nirvana prepares the students in a way that makes them a highly qualified teacher for future.
Food
You will be served 3 yogic and nutritious meals daily. The school prepares healthy and yummy food, as well as share ideas while cooking in a cozy environment. They have lots of good stuff such as fresh vegetables, salads, fresh fruits, juices, and so much more.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
- Detox juices
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten Free
- Organic
- Yogic
- Other dietary requirements on request
- Ayurvedic
Things to do (optional)
In Rishikesh, you can do a lot of adventure things. Kindly note that the following activities are not included in the package but the school can assist you.
- Local villages visit
- Shopping at the markets
- Walking trails
- Bungy jumping
- Giant swing
- Flying fox
- Kayaking
- Camping
- Paragliding
- Rock climbing
What's included
- Daily yoga classes
- Excursion to Himalaya and Ganga Arti
- Eligibility to register with Yoga Alliance after completion
- Meditation and pranayama with mantra recitation
- Airport pick up from Jolly Grant airport
- 3 times daily vegan meals
- 25 nights accommodation
- Sound healing session
What's not included
- Personal expenses
- Airport drop off (departure)
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Transfer included
Jolly Grant Airport
15 km away from your destination
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 30% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.
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