24 Day 200-Hour Hatha, Vinyasa, and Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh, India

Certification

Students who complete the training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).

D'vine Yoga

D'vine means brahman, the absolute, the supreme reality, or higher consciousness. Yoga means union, to be one in order to merge with the higher consciousness, allowing your individual self to dissolve into the higher universal self. It means to be aware of your lower and higher tendencies in order to be aware of individual and universal dimensions of yourself.

D’vine yoga is an inner journey:

• From conflict to connection
• From reaction to response
• From duality to non-duality
• From individual self to transcendental self
• From darkness (tamas) to light (sattva)
• From ignorance to wisdom
• From lower-self to higher-self
• From close being to openness
• From small mind to big mind
• From meditativeness to equanimity

200-hour yoga teacher training course in Rishikesh

Namaste! And a warm welcome to this world-renowned yoga teacher training course in Rishikesh that follows the traditional yoga system, including everything from the way they will greet you to the destinations they will take you to for your weekend excursions. With yoga, meditation, and Ayurvedic practices, the training will guide you to live healthily in the traditional way.

It is for these reasons that D'vine Yoga is the answer to your search for a journey of yoga and meditation. There, everything from your meals to your schedule will be controlled, and this makes them one of the best yoga retreats and teacher trainings in India.

While they have courses of different durations, if you are a beginner to the journey, this 200-hour YTTC in Rishikesh is what you can get started with. And finally, this is not just a course wherein you learn yoga, but you will also be given all the training you need to impart all that you have learnt in your YTTC to those around you.

Yes, D'vine Yoga offers you an effective teacher training course, at the end of which you will be certified and accredited by the Yoga Alliance. By then, you can register on completion of the course! So, take the break from work that you have been postponing and join them for a yoga teacher training course in Rishikesh for a change that will last you a lifetime.

Prerequisites

The 200-hour yoga TTC in Rishikesh involves packed hours of sessions, classes, lectures, and activities that students are expected to be present for. This requires a high level of self-discipline, and D'vine Yoga expects its students to be motivated for the same.

Although this 200-hour YTTC is beginner and intermediate friendly, as the training schedule is intense, D'vine Yoga prefers that you have some knowledge of Hatha Yoga or Kundalini Yoga (online/offline). It would also be great if you had practiced some classes of Hatha, Ashtanga, Kundalini, or any other form of yoga regularly or on a frequent basis. If you have already attended some short retreats: Silence retreat, Vipassana kind of retreat, or any other retreat/ workshops/ seminars about the yogic path, that also can be a plus point. As we do keep the partial silence, so that you can have the full benefit of the course.

Apart from this, the yoga school in Rishikesh also follows strict standards of purity, so substances like alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and even caffeine, non-vegetarian food, and nudity are to be strictly avoided.

What will you learn?

There at D'vine Yoga's teacher training course in Rishikesh, you will get to know all that there is to know in order to be a certified and eligible yoga teacher, be it in your small neighborhood or a huge corporate office. You can have a look at them here:

• How to incorporate a personal daily practice into your routine
• Everything about yoga, its philosophy, anatomy, postures, and history
• Skills to eliminate health problems, including stress and other mental problems
• Training to guide, motivate, and gain the confidence of students

Course highlights

• Hatha and Hatha Vinyasa
• Ashtanga Vinyasa
• Power and flow yoga
• Every day detailed explanation of one by one asana techniques
• Ancient and secret techniques of pranayama
• Shat kriyas
• Mudras
• Mantras yoga
• Bandhas
• Pranayama
• Meditation
• Patanjali Yog Sutra
• Definition of yoga
• 8 limbs of yoga
• Teaching methodology
• Yoga Nidra and asanas for good yoga Nidra
• Anatomy and physiology
• Introduction to Ayurveda
• Ayurveda and yoga Therapy

Curriculum

Yoga techniques, training, and practice

• Styles of yoga: Hatha, Hatha Vinyasa, Ashtanga (primary series).
• Asanas - Traditional Hatha and Hatha Vinyasa yoga poses along with their physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual effects, incorporating from beginner to intermediate and advanced levels
• Ashtanga (primary series)
• Various breathing exercises and types of pranayama
• Mudras (gestures) and bandhas (locks)
• Pranayama
• Shat Kriyas - The classical yogic purification technique
• Initiation to uddiana bandha (abdominal suction) and nauli kriya (abdominal churning)
• Guided deep relaxation techniques, including yoga Nidra
• Meditation - Various meditations (guided and unguided), mantra meditation, and breath-based meditation
• Daily teaching and practice class to understand how to teach the asanas - Break the asanas down and understand alignment, common errors, and how to correct students' posture

Teaching methodology

• Setting up of the class
• Supporting and helping students, demonstration, and adjustment
• Breath-based teaching style
• Alignment and adjustment-based teaching style
• Use of props, blankets, belts, cushions, chairs, etc.
• Qualities of a good yoga teacher and the learning process of yoga students
• Sequencing and structure of the class
• Beginning, building, and concluding a yoga class
• Art of teaching - 3 types of listening, voice modulation, eye contact, and tools to stay present
• Art of anchoring students' minds
• Spiritually oriented business of yoga
• A tool for the successful business of teaching yoga
• Marketing your services and yourself
• The secret of powerful personal practice

Yoga anatomy and physiology

• Understanding major body systems and organs, particularly emphasizing on digestive, respiratory, and neurological systems
• Gross anatomy, also called physical anatomy (human skeleton, different joints with movement and functions, a detailed discussion of shoulder, pelvis, and knee joints; definition and types of fascia)
• Subtle anatomy, also called energy anatomy (nature of prana, prana vidya, pranic body, panch kosha, panch vayus, chakras, nadis, and Kundalini energy)
• Functional anatomy (understanding main muscle groups and their movement and functions, muscle-bone connection, impact on the performance of yoga asana, spinal cord function, and structure)

Yoga philosophy, lifestyle, and ethics

• Definitions of yoga
• Intention and purpose of yoga
• Patanjali's Yoga Sutra
• Eight limbs of yoga (Ashtanga)
• 3 gunas of nature and beyond
• History of yoga
• Introduction to Ayurveda
• Introduction to white (sattvic) Tantra
• 9 kinds of obstacles
• Overcoming obstacles
• Yamas and niyamas
• Karma yoga
• 3 gunas and three doshas
• Shat karmas
• How asanas work
• Yoga Nidra
• Vedic / Tantric mantra and initiation
• Kirtan and chanting of mantras

Practicum

• Practice practicum in small groups
• Receiving or giving feedback
• Observing and learning from each other's teaching
• Practice teaching the whole class
• Listening, learning, and uplifting each other

Styles of yoga practice

• Hatha yoga - Here, you will learn how to calm your body, mind, and spirit. This is a lesson on breathing control while performing the different asanas
• Ashtanga yoga - This is a kind of practice that aims to purge both your body and your brain, similar to the poses performed by the sage Patanjali
• Vinyasa yoga - In this lesson, D'vine Yoga will show you how to coordinate your body and your breath with a series of poses for better mental health, breathing, stronger muscles, and a cardiovascular system

So, at the end of your 200-hour YTTC in Rishikesh, you will have all that you know to build a yoga studio of your own.

Daily schedule

At D'vine Yoga School, they will get you all into following the right form of discipline, and this is surely one of the many changes that their yoga teacher training course in Rishikesh will bring about in you. That being said, the following shows how a typical day in your life at the teacher training course is going to look:

• 05:30 - 06:30 Pranayama, meditation, and shat karmas
• 06:30 - 08:00 Ashtanga yoga
• 08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
• 09:00 - 10:00 Anatomy
• 10:00 - 11:30 Yoga Sutra/philosophy of yoga
• 11:30 - 12:30 Group discussion
• 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
• 14:00 - 15:00 Yoga Nidra
• 15:00 - 16:00 Alignment/adjustment/details explanation of each asana
• 16:00 - 17:30 Hatha / Hatha Vinyasa
• 17:30 - 18:00 Break
• 18:00 - 19:00 Meditation/kirtan/bhajan
• 19:00 - 20:00 Dinner time