Swasti Yoga Center is an ISO 9001:2015 accredited Yoga Training Center by Yoga Certification Board (YCB) for quality education, training, therapy, and research.
Yoga Retreats (18)
30 Day 400-Hour Intermediate Certified Yoga Teacher Training Course in Pune
Available in January & February
from US$ 1,133
50-Hour Online Self-Paced Certified Yoga with Chair Teacher Training for Elderly
January | February | March | April, 2025
from US$ 119
2 Month Self-Paced Certification in Kids Yoga Teacher Training Course
Available all year round
from US$ 179
1 Month 100-Hour Online Self Paced Aqua Yoga Therapy TTC
Available all year round
from US$ 125
4 Month 200-Hour Online Level 1 Yoga Protocol Instructor Training
Available all year round
from US$ 238
2 Month Self-paced Certification in Preconception and Pregnancy Yoga
Available in January & February
from US$ 179
15 Day Flexible 200-Hour 1-to-1 Online AYUSH Yoga Teacher Training
January | February | March | April, 2025
from US$ 500
6 Month 100-Hour Online Yoga Sanskaram - Yogic Personality Development Teacher Training For Kids
January | February | March | April, 2025
from US$ 238
Online 36-Hour Self-Paced Certified Short Yoga Volunteer Course
January | February | March | April, 2025
from US$ 119
4 Month 200-Hour Online Group AYUSH Yoga Teacher Training
Available all year round
from US$ 238
30 Day 400 Hours One-on-One Online Intensive AYUSH Yoga Teacher Training Course
Available all year round
from US$ 715
6 Months 400 Hours Online AYUSH Yoga Teacher Training Course
Available in January & February
from US$ 358
15 Day Flexible 200-Hour Level 1 AYUSH Yoga Protocol Instructor (YPI) in Pune
Available in January & February
from US$ 781
2 Months Self-Paced 100-Hour Certification in Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy
Available all year round
from US$ 179
Online 200-Hour Self-Paced Certified Yoga Protocol Instructor Course
Available all year round
from US$ 179
4 Month 200-Hour Online Level 2 Green Yoga Instructor Program
Available in January & February
from US$ 620
5 Day Sightseeing, Spiritual Bhakti, and Cultural Sojourn Wellness Retreat in Pune
Available from January till November
from US$ 537
15 Month 1600-Hour Advanced YCB Certified Online Yoga Master Training Course
Available all year round
from US$ 596
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Instructors (2)
Dr Vikas Chothe
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Swasti Yoga Centre
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Yoga Certification Board (Ministry of AYUSH)
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Swasti’s founder, Dr. Vikas Chothe, holds an MD, PhD in Ayurvedic medicine and works as yoga teacher and consultant. He has worked as a yoga ambassador for Indian government and invited as guest speaker by Indian Embassy in Armenia, Austria, and Malaysia. He has been working as a lead examiner for yoga certification board (YCB), AYUSH Ministry and has conducted exams for more than 3,000 students to date and visited the USA, Cambodia, China, UAE, France, Italy for promotion of Yoga and Ayurveda. He is also a yoga school auditor and assessment expert for the Yoga Certification Board.
Dr Shwetambari Chothe
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Dr. Shwetambari Chothe is a certified yoga teacher by the government of India, consulting homeopath, assistant professor in LMF Homoeopathic Medical College, Pune, and co-founder of Swasti Yoga Center. Since childhood, she had a keen interest in yoga and Indian culture. She is a great chef with Ayurveda healthy cooking as her specialty. Qualifications: MD Homoeopath, Anatomy and Physiology expert, yoga teacher, and practitioner for six years.
Reviews (27)
Estelle James
from France, January 2025
"Chair Yoga training"
Dr. Vikas Chothe is a very good teacher. Very inspiring !
The content is nice. With a lot of pictures. There is a good reflection about chair yoga and philosophy. I learnt a lot.
Dipali is also very helpful and available to answer all my demands.
Anonymous
from Portugal, September 2024
Everything was great, the training contenta, knowledge sharing, the attention, availability and support provided
Anonymous
from France, September 2024
"An enriching and well-adapted training for senior needs"
I had the pleasure of completing the 50-hour online chair yoga teacher training for seniors with Swasti Yoga Center, and I couldn’t be more satisfied with the experience. What I loved most about the course was the high-quality content, perfectly tailored to the needs of seniors. The course is well-structured and easy to follow at my own pace, which is a huge benefit for anyone with a busy schedule.
The instructors are incredibly knowledgeable and offer constant support throughout the training. Their gentle and caring approach helps build solid skills to teach confidently. I also appreciated the detailed explanations of techniques for working with individuals with limited mobility, which are clearly explained.
In summary, I highly recommend this training to anyone looking to specialize in chair yoga for seniors. It’s a top-quality program that has deeply enriched both my personal and professional development.
Krišjānis Villers
from Latvia, July 2024
As described program was very flexible, up to 3 sessions per day, diving deep into knowledge of yoga. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏 would recommend!
Anonymous
from United States, June 2024
"Self paced online chair yoga training"
The handouts with picture demonstrations of each yoga asana from varying positions are particularly helpful.
Amandine Fouques
from France, May 2024
"Très bien "
Une bonne formation de yoga sur chaise, petit bémol, pas de sous titre ni de traduction possible donc cela peut être parfois un peu dur à comprendre mais sinon la formation est de qualité !
Il est en plus possible d’avoir un certificat de fin de formation après avoir passé un examen !
La communication est facile avec le centre.
Je recommande vivement !!!
Jenna Michaud
from France, April 2024
"Excellent"
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Tamas Farkas
from Ireland, February 2024
"50hrs online Chair yoga TTC"
I liked the information about principles of chair yoga It was great to learn more about yoga philosophy. I loved Dr. Vikas' passion. He is a good mentor and supportive teacher.
I started the Yoga Protocol Instructor level 1 online course with them as well. Later i will visit the school in India to continue my studies with them. I recommend this school.
Stephanie Altrocchi
from Switzerland, February 2024
"A very insightful course "
This course is very interesting and helped me to get more creative in yoga after a knee injury. The chair is indeed a fantastic prop. Dr Vikas Chothe is a well of information, him and his great team have been always available in case of questions and doubts, which i deeply appreciated. Dr Vikas takes care of his students and bring them to a beautiful understanding of yoga philosophy, asanas, and how to approach and create yoga classes for elderly people or people with mobility restriction. Deep from the heart I thank Swasti Yoga Center.
Gessica Puri
from Italy, June 2022
"Top level Competence and good vibes!"
Swasti team is amazing, the material provided is rich, very interesting, well Organized, complete.
Their support and availability throughout the course was warming and sincere.
Absolutely satisfied since the beginning, then I had the opportunity to discover a lot of things thanks to their kind involving presence.
My overall experience is that the course is worth by far a lot more than the cost.
I’d definitely warmly recommend this opportunity.
It be great if all md in the west took this course.
Lionel Jeannin
from France, June 2021
"Formation d'excellent niveau à prix modique"
Très haut niveau de connaissance, d'implication et de pédagogie du formateur, et de plus très "sympa".
Au delà de la théorie, communique de manière très ouverte sur la compréhension du yoga (nombreux exemples pertinents)
Niamh Keoghan
from Ireland, March 2021
"In depth, inspiring, fun, practical and theoretical. "
This course was comprehensive and in depth. It gave a different approach to yoga teaching, and touched on many different areas. It had a good balance between theory and practice; it was flexible and personal; and focus was on how to create yoga classes for children with the goal of identifying, preventing, minimizing and treating the symptoms and experiences of lifestyle disorders and unhealthy attitudes. It was also fun, and inspiring. Highly recommended!
Dwintha Maya Kartika
from Indonesia, February 2021
"Excellent and very informative"
The knowledge passed within short period of time is very valuable. Dr Vikas Chothe is very experienced teacher and explained the subject in a very structured and eloquent manner even for those who have limited medical background can understand. Very good value for money considering the wealth of information I have gained from the course.
Martine St-onge
from Canada, February 2021
"Great experience!"
Thank you Swasti family, my dear friends who studied with me and helped me grow and share their beautiful energy with my growing baby. Thank you Vikas Ji for all the shared and unbelievably useful knowledge for my pregnancy but also to help me achieve a level of understanding that will allow me to share to other pregnant ladies. I have learned about the complications during all state of pregnancy, the changes in the women’s body, how to prevent complications to happen, how to safely and effectively practice yoga before pregnancy (fertility yoga) during pregnancy (prenatal yoga) during labour, and after labour (postpartum yoga) and so much more. All this knowledge put in action makes me so much more confident and at ease with delivering my first baby. And doing this course while pregnant is a gift. Vikas Ji was very understanding and gentle and knew how to transmit the information in a way that wasn’t stressful.
This was an online course so I put excellent for food and accommodation not to lower the score. I would love to visit swasti’s facilities in Pune in the future (after pandemic) and continue to learn some more.
I wish all the best to this beautiful organization in the future and I hope to meet again. 🙏🏼
Jake Lee
from Australia, January 2021
"Excellent experience, a worthwhile course to do"
Dr Vikas knows his stuff. Very patient and good teacher, he cares about his students and answers questions very quickly. The course content has been well thought out and covers a lot of important topics
Sanja Milutin
from Greece, January 2021
"Online Kid's Yoga Teacher Training "
I liked the most teacher's guru kind of approach to teaching. Made our brains work, instead of simply pouring lessons down on us. We've learned so much. I would highly recommend this course to everyone.
Anonymous
from Sweden, January 2021
Very high quality training.
Ayano Ito
from France, December 2020
"Pregnancy YTTC online with Swasti yoga"
I felt home with this YTTC by teacher and students. I'm pregnant right now, I had some problems mentally and physically but this course helped me a lot, couldn't be better if I didn't take it. Teacher is always honest with you, he taught about yoga a lot, not only in pregnancy so you will have much time to experience about your life, yourself, your journey and all with your baby(if you are pregnant). It was just amazing time. You will just enjoy to learn, experience and feel yoga every class or even every moment. You might think that's not easy to feel connected with people by online course but it's wrong, you feel comfortable, connected. If you have a question you can ask during class or by message, teacher will take time for you to explain, also students are helpful for you too. They also invited us to join and celebrate together for Ayurveda day, Diwali ceremony and other students graduate ceremony. I was really grateful to celebrate together as part of it.
I'm proud of myself to have done this with them and still be on my journey.
Thank you so much!
Anonymous
from Latvia, December 2020
"Great teacher, competent, trainings where very valuable"
I liked everything about the training! Quality is very high, turor is very competent and full of knowledge, any given feedback was taken into account, also the ability to learn via zoom was great saving of time and resources. I personally needed more time for each theme and/or homework before each lecture, so that would help to prepare for the in depth themes and sometimes very high speed :) Or one has to have medical background for the training. These are very helpful for ones best interest. In general training has exceeded expectations.
Gerda Vasiliauskiene
from Sweden, October 2020
"Eye opening experience "
I really liked the professionalism of teacher and nice balance between spiritual aspects and science behind yoga. It was eye opening experience with understanding of how much knowledge I got during education and realizing how much more is left to learn.
Olympia Barka
from Greece, October 2020
"Amazing experience! Highly recommended!"
Starting into the Pregnancy Yoga course I had some ideas and expectations of what we may be taught, but Swasti Center has exceeded them all and has offered me so much more!
Apart from the wonderful, very professional and in depth teachings of anatomy, physiology, ayurvedic practices and yoga for the different stages of pregnancy, we were also taught a lot about how to personally develop into a better person.
We were constantly challenged to think out of the box, to research, to be creative, to put ourselves into the shoes of our future clients and to push our limits in order to grow.
At the same time our teacher encouraged a feeling of cooperation and we built a beautiful community of brothers and sisters, alongside whom I am looking forward to keep advancing into this beautiful path that is Yoga.
If you are thinking about booking this course, do not think! Just do it and you will be giving yourself a precious gift! I personally already signed up for the kids yoga course as well and I am definitely going to visit Swasti Center, my second family, in India as soon as the circumstances allow it.
Thank you for everything!
지희 최
from Netherlands, October 2020
"Great lecture, affordable price."
Very professional, they are sweet and kind, will listen to you.
I've been learned a lot of things for 2 months even it's an online class.
Veronica Leonard
from Canada, September 2020
"Amazing Experience! So Glad I Chose SWASTI"
I took this online course during COVID-19, so although I can’t speak for the food or accommodations, the whole experience was so amazing for me. The course itself is super well organized and the material is very comprehensive and well paced. What sets SWASTI apart, though, is the quality of the instructors and the sense of community that is fostered. As an international student, I’ve had to work especially with some of the terminology, and my instructors always responded within the day to any inquiry I had. They always made sure every student understood the material. The additional sessions that were optional were an amazing opportunity to learn even more, and there were so many cool opportunities to learn about aspects of Yoga. The sense of community established with our students and instructors was amazing. Overall, SWASTI Yoga truly works with you and wants to see you excel. Incredible energy that I hope you get the chance to experience too. 🙏😄
Karin Raffa
from Malaysia, September 2020
"Excellent training. Highly recommended !"
In-depth training, great structure, very knowledgeable trainer. Excellent course!