Self-Paced Certified 200 Hour Hatha, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Yin, Ayurveda Yoga Teacher Training Course

Pre-application requirements

• A yoga mat
• Laptop, desktop, smartphone, or tablet choose one of any
• A good internet connection
• Two yoga blocks
• Pillow, cushion, and bolster
• One yoga strap
• Dedication for learning yoga teacher training online

Vinyasa Yoga Shala recommends you to use Bluetooth earphones or attach speakers to listen to your yoga trainer easily.

Certifications

Students who complete their training before 31 December 2021 are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).

How the training works

The course contains 5 contact hours of live sessions via Zoom and 195 non-contact hours of recorded videos, study books, self-practice, and self-study. There will be live streaming software for which access will be given to all students. The technical team will help every student individually to set up this software on your PC, mobile, or tablet. It is very easy and user friendly where all students will have the same access to your yoga trainer in high-definition video quality. The classes will be from Monday to Saturday.

After every session, there will be free time where you can clear your queries with your trainer directly. If you even miss any session, a recorded video of that session will be shared after completing class so in case you wish to go through with any session again, you can do it anytime. Only students will have access to their yoga classes conducted by their trainer.

Daily schedule (GMT+5:30)

To give you the maximum of the yogic study and asana practice, Vinyasa Yoga Shala planned the schedule in a way in which all the students can adjust easily to the daily routine. In the beginning, it will feel a little intense but the fruit in terms of the knowledge it bears at the end of the session is way more delightful. Here is the sample of daily schedule:

• 15:30 - 16:30 Anatomy or mantra (video and live)
• 17:00 - 18:30 Hatha yoga, adjustment and alignment, or teaching methodology
• 19:00 - 20:00 Philosophy (video and live)
• 20:30 - 22:00 Vinyasa flow
• 22:15 - 23:15 Meditation or pranayama

Course information

According to the W.H.O (World Health Organization), most countries have seen cases of COVID-19. In response, many countries, territories, and local governments have adopted social distancing policies to slow down and control of the virus. These efforts helped a lot to reduce transmissions and save lives. Yoga Alliance recommended that in-person yoga instruction ceases in locations where social distancing had become the requirement or the norm.

Due to this pandemic, Vinyasa Yogashala associates with the Yoga Alliance U.S.A happy to announce that their online yoga teacher training courses are designed for those who are really interested and eager to learn the art of yoga from the best teachers of Rishikesh (the world capital of yoga). This yoga teacher training will be a completely new experience. According to the situation, be safe and learn from home with Vinyasa Yogashala.

In this 200-hour online yoga teacher training course, you will learn the traditional way of yoga practices. After completion of this course, you will go beyond your limits and will get the opportunity to learn traditional yoga studies and the science behind it from the well-known yoga masters of Rishikesh.

Asana teachers are world champions who fought many yoga championships and won the gold, silver, and bronze medals. As well as they served their teachings globally like Rishikesh (North India), Kerela (south India), Nepal, Thailand, Egypt, Kazakhstan. So learning through these masters of Vinyasa Yogashala will enhance you the proper knowledge to improve your teaching and self-practice and self-confidence to start your yoga journey.

Who are eligible for this course?

• This course is open for all, and it has a range of asanas from moderate to intermediate and it has many variations to reach some advanced poses
• To open up the new dimensions of yogic learning, exploring the deep understanding of traditional yoga
• The student applying for the online 200-hour yoga teacher training course should be at least 18 years old
• Make sure you do not have recent or new surgery or any chronic problems because, during the course, you will do various asana, pranayama, and Shatkriya that will stretch various muscles and body parts that will challenge your body limit
• Do not want to be a yoga teacher but a desire to deepen your own yoga practice and knowledge

Curriculum

Hatha yoga

Asana's you are going to practice in the training

• Pawanmukhta series 1
• Pawanmukhta series 2
• Pawanmukhta series 3
• Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation) practice with Beej (root) Mantras
• Adhomukha Swanasana (Downward facing dog)
• Aho Mukha Vrikshasana (Handstand)
• Balasana (Child pose)
• Bhujangasana (Cobra pose)
• Urdhwa Mukha Swanasana (Upward facing dog)
• Veera Bhadra Asana (Warrior 1)
• Veera Bhadra Asana (Warrior 2)
• Anantasana (Lord Vishnu Asana)
• Tad Asana Triyak Tadasana
• Marjariasana (Cat and Cow pose)
• Santolasana (Plank pose)
• Bakasana (Crow pose)
• Vyagrasana (Tiger pose)
• Dhanurasana (Bow pose)
• Chakrasana (Wheel pose)
• Sarvangasana (Shoulderstand)
• Halasana (Plough pose)
• Karnapeedasana (Ear press pose)
• Pincha Mayur Asana (Feathered peacock pose)
• Tittibhasana (Firefly pose)
• Sirsasana (Headstand)
• Shashank Asana (Rabbit pose)
• Raj kapotasana (Pigeon pose)
• Simhasana (Lion pose)
• Eagle pose (Garudasana)
• Camel pose (Ushtrasana)
• Ushtrasana (Camel Pose)

Pranayama

The word 'pranayama' has two etymological explanations. It has been in interpreted as a combination of the words pranayama. The word ‘prana’ means the ‘vital force’. The word ‘ayama’ means 'expanding the dimension'. So, in the first sense, pranayama means expanding the dimension of ‘vital energy’. The word ‘yama’ means 'restraint' or 'control".

So, here pranayama refers to the 'control’ or ‘restraint’ of prana. In pranayama (yogic breathing), here the students will learn the clear concepts and practices of pranayama including different breathing exercises mentioned in Hatha yoga and with benefits and contra-indications.

• What is pranayama?
• What are five sub prana in yogic science?
• What is Ida, Pingala, and Sushumna Nadi?
• What is Nadi?
• Psychological effect of yogic breathing
• Importance of diaphragmatic breathing
• Kumbhaka (breath retention)
• Kapalbhati pranayama
• Bhastrika pranayama
• Brahmari pranayama
• Ujjayi pranayama
• Sheetali pranayama
• Nadishodhana

Vinyasa Flow yoga syllabus

• What is Vinyasa flow yoga?
• What is yoga sequencing?
• Standing asanas sequencing
• Sitting asanas sequencing
• Backward bending sequencing
• Forward bending sequencing
• Kneeling asanas sequencing
• Balancing sequencing
• Inversion sequencing
• Advance group of asana sequencing

Yoga philosophy

Things you will learn are

• Introduction of yoga, origin, and its history
• Principles of yoga
• What is Ashtanga yoga? (eight stages or steps of yoga and self-realization)
• Pancha Koshas: The five sheaths of existence
• What is Brahmcharya (Celibacy)?
• The three characters of the human constitution
• The three states of consciousness in yogic science
• What is chakra?
• Mantra yoga: tools for freedom and perfection

Anatomy and physiology

Understanding one’s body, its motions, and limitations is the step to understand and deepens your yoga practice. Yoga anatomy is an essential part of the yogic study as it is aware of the gross body and the mechanism that is working inside. You will learn about body basics and food basics according to Ayurveda.

Structural anatomy

• Bones system
• Joints
• Muscular system

Physiology according to the yogic system

• Respiratory system
• Digestive system
• Central nervous system
• Spinal anatomy
• Yogic management of disease

Mantra

Mantra is the powerful sacred word that they believe that mantra is very important from the perspective of self-practice so at Vinyasa Yogashala. In your Vinyasa Yogashala mantra session, they guide you to understand and learn the pronunciation of the mantra's word by word so that you can feel the vibration, and ultimately, it will help you in the path of self-realization. You will learn:

• What is mantra? What are the types of mantra?
• What is chanting (japa)?
• What is OM? How one should pronounce OM?
• What is the discipline of mantra chanting?
• What are the benefits of mantra chanting?

List of mantra you are going to practice

• Gayatri Mantra
• Omkara Mantra
• Self-realization Mantra
• Guru Mantra
• Obstacle removable mantra

Ashtanga Vinyasa syllabus

Covers: alignment, adjustment, Drishti (Gaze), Ujjayi breathing, Surya Namaskar A, Surya Namaskar B

• Padangusthasana
• Padahasthasana
• Utthita Trikonasana
• Parivrtta Trikonasana
• Utthita Parsvakonasana
• Parivrtta Parsvakonasana
• Prasarita Padottanasana A B C and D
• Parsvottanasana
• Eka Pada Padangusthasana A B C and D
• Ardha Baddha Padmottanasana
• Utkatasana
• Virabhadrasana A and B
• Dandasana
• Paschimottanasana A B C and D
• Purvattanasana
• Ardha Baddha Padma Uttanasana
• Triang Mukha-Ika-pada Pashimottanasana
• Janu Sirsasana A B and C
• Marichyasana A B C and D
• Navasana
• Bhujapidasana
• Kurmasana
• Supta Kurmasana
• Garbha Pindasana
• Kukkutasana
• Baddha Konasana A and B
• Konasana
• Upavishta Konasana
• Supta Konasana
• Supta Padangusthasana A and B
• Ubhaya Padanghusthasana
• Urdhva Mukha Pashimottanasana
• Setu Bandhasana
• Urdhva Dhanurasana
• Salamba Sarvangasana
• Halasana
• Karnapidasana
• Urdhva Pindasana
• Matsyasana
• Urdhva Padmasana
• Sirsasana
• Urdhva Dandasana
• Baddha Padmasana
• Yogimudrasana
• Utpluti
• Savasana

Meditation and Yoga Nidra

Meditation or Dhyana is the seventh limb of Ashtanga yoga. Dhyana is a self-practice, which can remove the thoughts leading to the worldly attachments. It can withdraw the sense from worldly things and bring all the awareness within. You will learn to do:

• Antar Mouna (inner silence)
• Breathing awareness meditation
• Mantra awareness meditation
• Yoga Nidra
• YIN Yoga
• Ayurveda Yoga Course
• Definition and importance of Ayurveda
• Ayurvedic approach to healthy life
• Concept of health and hygiene
• Know your body nature by understanding the 5 element
• Tri doshas
• Different branches of Ayurveda
• What to eat and what not to eat according to your body
• Physical strength
• Nature of material substances
• The seven fundamental tissue
• Managing Waste matter of our body
• Digestion and metabolism
• Prakriti- know your constitution
• Supporting pillars of the body
• Body channels

This teacher training is held online. Vinyasa Yoga Shala is located in Rishikesh, India (GMT+5:30), and they will live-stream yoga classes via Zoom which you can participate from the comfort of your home.

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• 5 contact hours of live classes via Zoom
• Recorded sessions shared after live streaming
• Vinyasa yoga
• Hatha yoga
• Adjustments and alignments
• Pranayama
• Meditation
• Yoga philosophy
• Mantra chanting
• Anatomy and philosophy
• Teaching methodology
• Eligible to register with Yoga Alliance on course completion before December 31, 2021
• Certificate

• Accommodation
• Food

• A reservation requires a deposit of 100% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.