32 Day 300-Hour Multi-Style Yoga Teacher Training Course in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand

Facilities

Certification

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

Prerequisites

If you are reading this, you would probably already be aware of the things D'vine Yoga requires of you when you come to the yoga teacher training course in Rishikesh. So give you a recap on the few things that they expect from you, their yoga teacher training course in Rishikesh puts in a lot of effort in committing to helping you and would require cooperation in terms of discipline from you. Now that you have enrolled for the 300-hour yoga teacher training course in Rishikesh, your days will be packed with classes, sessions, lectures, and activities for which attendance is a must.

They require their students to be motivated and disciplined at all times be it with regard to attending classes as well as other habits. This means no alcohol, tobacco, or drugs are to be consumed at the center. Non-vegetarian food and caffeine are strictly prohibited and any form of nudity will not be encouraged at the center. All the above rules are to be strictly followed failing by which a student would have to be dismissed from the center.

What you will learn?

Here, at the 300-hour yoga teacher training course in Rishikesh, you get advanced knowledge of what you learned in your previous course, so you can go back now, not just as a certified trainer of yoga but as an advanced trainer, ready to train not just beginners but other students of yoga who would want to advance their learning too. You get in-depth training in all the styles of yoga for the kind of growth and self-progression you need to become a full-fledged yoga trainer.

Your philosophy will now include a detailed study including Patanjali and other such sources. D'vine Yoga also prepares you for advanced asanas and how to adjust and align in the right way so as to prevent incorrect postures. They give you advanced pranayama techniques for healing and meditation. This way you learn to establish a connection between the mind and the body.

The course also teaches you how to manage your diet, how to eat right, the Ayurveda and science behind your food, and how to live the right yogic lifestyle which also includes making the right decisions in your day-to-day life. The course shows you how yoga can be fun too with laughter and dance yoga apart from excursions and other fun adventures.

Course highlights

• More in-depth Patanjali Yog Sutra, BhagvadaGeeta, Hatha Yoga Pradipika, etc.
• Advanced yoga techniques
• More in-depth pranayama and advanced pranayama techniques
• Restorative yoga
• Therapeutic yoga for healthy breath, healthy digestion, healthy stress, healthy Pelvic floor, healthy emotions, healthy mind, balanced nervous system
• Healthy sleep and Yoga Nidra
• Intro and practice of Kundalini yoga
• Anatomy and physiology with Powerpoint
• Intro to Ayurveda with Powerpoint
• Ayurveda and yoga therapy

Styles of yoga practice

Now, you may have learned some styles but the 300-hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh aims to advance these styles for you, making you better learners of the art. You can have a brief look at what they include here:

• Hatha yoga
• Ashtanga yoga
• Vinyasa yoga
• Therapeutic yoga
• Restorative yoga
• More in-depth studies of pranayama

So, with the 300-hour yoga teacher training course in Rishikesh, you can get an advanced study so you can now go back to a better yoga training center at home or a greater height in your yoga teacher training career.

Syllabus

Ashtanga Vinyasa

• Various advanced postures
• Poses in various angles
• Different kinds of stretches

The Vinyasa (to jump back)

• Stretches and bends
• Seating and lying down postures

Mudra (yoga gestures) - teach you how to handle hand gestures

• An introduction
• The various gestures

Yoga cleansing (Shatkarma) - teach you how to cleanse your body so as to make meditation and other forms of yoga more effective

• Cleaning with salted water
• Cleaning with rubber strings
• Cleaning with the right breathing technique

Detailed study - what you need to know about this form of art

• The effects of various exercises
• Knowledge of all the advanced postures
• Anatomy of the nervous system, spine, and the pelvic girdle
• Avoiding injury

Sitting postures

• The staff pose
• The forward bending pose

Pranayama (breathing practices)

• The background, benefits, and how to prepare for pranayama
• Methods to balance, vitalize, and tranquilize pranayama

Hatha yoga

• Methods to align and adjust your body
• Salutations
• A number of sitting, standing, and lying down poses including twists

Teaching practice (Adhyapanam)

• Demo of your classes
• Sessions on alignment
• Effective instruction

Teaching methodology

• Communicate in a positive way and use voice
• How to plan, prepare, and structure your class in a given time
• Assisting, correcting, and maintaining discipline
• Qualities of a good teacher and how to be prepared
• Handling injury

Yoga philosophy (Yoga Dharshana)

• The foundation of your yoga practice
• The key to gaining strength

Patanjali Yoga Sutras

Anatomy and yoga therapy

• Deeper insights into the asanas and pranayama
• Sessions on the respiratory, circulatory, digestive, nervous, muscular, and the endocrine system

Curriculum

Yoga techniques, training, and practice

• Styles of yoga: Hatha, Hatha Vinyasa, Ashtanga (primary series), Restorative, and 100-hour therapeutic yoga
• Asanas - traditional Hatha and Hatha Vinyasa yoga poses along with their physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual effects, incorporating from beginner to intermediate and advanced level
• Ashtanga (primary series)
• Various breathing exercises and types of pranayama
• Mudras (gesture) and Bandhas (locks)
• Shatkriyas - 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, breath-based meditation
• Daily teaching and practice class to understand how to teach the asanas - break down the asanas and understand alignment, common errors, and how to correct students' posture

Teaching methodology

• Setting up of class
• Supporting and helping students, demonstration, and adjustment
• Breath-based teaching style
• Alignment and adjustment-based teaching style
• Restorative or therapeutic yoga poses, use of props, blankets, belts, cushions, chairs, etc
• Qualities of a good yoga teacher and learning process of yoga students
• Sequencing and structure of a class
• Begining, building, and concluding a yoga class
• Art of teaching - three types of listening, voice modulation, eye contact, tools to stay present
• Art of anchoring students' mind
• the Spiritually oriented business of yoga
• Tool for successful business of teaching yoga
• Marketing your services and yourself
• Secret of powerful personal practice

Yoga anatomy and physiology

• Understanding major body systems and organs, particularly emphasizing digestive, respiratory, and neurological system
• Gross anatomy also called physical anatomy (human skeleton, different joints with movement and functions, a detailed discussion of shoulder, pelvis, and knee joins, 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 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)
• The Bhagavad Gita - Ghyan, Bhakti, and Karma yoga
• Three Guna's of nature and beyond
• History of yoga
• Dosha's and Ayurveda
• Intro to white (sattvic) tantra
• 100-hour Kundalini and supernatural powers
• Vedic or tantric mantras 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 in whole class
• Listening, learning, and uplifting each other

Daily Schedule

• 06:00 - 07:00 Meditation / Shatkarmas (Nauli Kriya, Uddiyana Bandha)
• 07:00 - 08:30 Ashtanga Vinyasa
• 08:30 - 09:30 Breakfast
• 09:30 - 11:00 Art of teaching / Alignment / Adjustment / Details Explanation of each Asanas
• 11:00 - 12:30 Philosophy (Yoga Sutra / Bhagavad Gita)
• 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch break
• 14:30 - 15:00 Yoga Nidra
• 15:00 - 15:50 Anatomy / Physiology / Therapeutic Yoga / Restorative / Traditional Kundalini Yoga / Tantra Yoga
• 16:00 - 17:30 Hatha / Hatha Vinyasa
• 17:30 - 18:00 Break
• 18:00 - 19:30 Meditation / Kirtan / Bhajan
• 19:30 - 20:30 Dinner Time

The course will take place in Rishikesh, India.

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You will be served all meals including breakfasts, lunches, tea, refreshments, and dinners as well as a welcome drink with a flower mala and a small fruit basket included in the price. Just like you did on your first days at the yoga teacher training course, you eat good food here at the 300-hour yoga teacher training course in Rishikesh too, and no, this does not mean sumptuous cuisines with a lot of aromatic sauces but healthy yet tasty yogi food to train you with how to eat the yogi way.

Your meals are 100 percent vegan and Sattvic, in the sense that they are planned carefully so as to energize you and at the same time keep you light and enthusiastic throughout the day. At the same time, you get to enjoy a variety so your meal times at the course are not boring but fun and educational too. They show you how yoga alone is not enough but your eating habits matter too, so when you head back home, you are a better eater and you inspire others around you into eating right too.

The freshly cooked veggies that D'vine Yoga offers you here are aimed at calming your mind and purifying your body so you eat not just to be physically healthy but mentally healthy too. Their chefs here come with a five-star experience and the food is hygienic so you eat tasty, healthy, and clean food with them. This will go a long way in making your learning at the course more productive and effective.

• Super comfortable shared accommodation for 32 days on double sharing basis
• Sattvic meals that include breakfast, tea, refreshments, lunch and dinner
• Free yoga materials
• Himalayan tour
• Sightseeing tour on a Sunday
• A welcome drink with a flower mala
• Certificate of completion to register with Yoga Alliance
• Dance yoga sessions

• Flight tickets
• Airport transfers
• Private accommodation (student who wishes to arrange for private accommodation would be required to pay an additional amount of 125 USD)
• Air-conditioner room (student can request for air-conditioned room with an additional sum of 100 USD)

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• 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.