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28 Day 200-Hour Ashtanga and Hatha Yoga Teacher Training at Stunning Varkala Beach, India
Devvrat Yoga Sangha, VMC 1/152 A B C Kurakkanni, North Cliff, Varkala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
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This yoga teacher training is a comprehensive certified program. It covers 200 hours of curriculum. This training offers not only the strengthening of your own asana practice but also an immersion into yoga philosophy, meditation, and pranayama. What is essential, the yoga classes of anatomy and art of teaching provide with the tools you need to develop as a yoga teacher.
Meet the instructors
Devvrat, Ania, & Abhishek
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Highlights
- Ashtanga, Hatha, Yin, and Restorative yoga classes
- Mechanics of asanas, art of teaching, and sequencing of yoga sessions
- Meditation and pranayama sessions
- Introduction to Ayurveda and consultation with an Ayurvedic doctor
- Yoga and Samkhya philosophy, anatomy, and physiology
- Field trip to Munroe Island and local village temple tour
- 27 nights accommodation and daily meals
- Receive post-course lifetime continuous support over Zoom meetings
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Styles
27 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: Hindi
Airport transfer available:
Cochin International Airport (US$ 98 per person)
Cochin International Airport (US$ 98 per person)
Airport transfer available:
Trivandrum International Airport (US$ 24 per person)
Trivandrum International Airport (US$ 24 per person)
Accommodation
Facilities
- Dining area
- Kitchen
- Yoga studio
- Bicycle rental
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Newspapers
Your surroundings have a direct impact on how you find your mindspace and how you think and feel. Therefore, situated very close to the beach, the rooms at the Yoga Sangha are simple, pleasant, and clean to enhance one’s experience of both the training as well as the retreats. You can choose between single and double occupancy.
Yoga shala
They have two yoga shalas. It is fully equipped with yoga props that you use during your practice and theory classes. They use eco-friendly yoga mats. This is their little effort to promote an eco-friendly culture.
Program
Certifications
Students who complete the training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).
Overview
In Devvrat Yoga Sangha's course, they combine the wisdom of two ancient traditional styles of yoga by drawing from the strengths and beauty of both—the dynamic yet meditative quality of Ashtanga yoga and the focus on proper alignment of Hatha yoga. The course offers not only the strengthening of your own asana practice but also an immersion into yoga philosophy, meditation, and pranayama. The yoga classes of anatomy and the art of teaching provide you with the tools you need to develop as a yoga teacher.
Journeying on the yogic path is in itself incredibly transformative. However, becoming a yoga teacher dedicated to assist others in walking that path can be even more rewarding. At Yoga Sangha, they intend to create an opportunity for serious practitioners who wish to explore the journey of spreading yoga as a way of life and helping people raise their self-awareness through the experience of yoga practice.
The quality of the course comes from giving each student their maximum attention. For this reason, each group counts around 15 students only, which gives them a chance to look after everyone well and make their learning experience as effective as possible.
The course encourages self-study and self-awareness, which they believe to be crucial features of a yoga teacher. They invite you to become part of the community where they support each other in the learning process, inspire each other, and collaborate to create an even broader scope for yoga practice.
Curriculum
The day starts with asana and pranayama practice. During this two-hour class, they help you build a disciplined practice by focusing on proper alignment, connecting with your breath and channeling the Prana, your vital energy. In order to be able to help your future students maximise the therapeutic benefits of yogasana practice, the class will equip you with practical knowledge of using yoga props to support and correct the postures.
Throughout the training, the asanas of the Ashtanga Primary Series are discussed and practiced in-depth in the morning Hatha class, while the afternoon class is devoted to deepening the practice of Ashtanga Mysore Style in which the students practice the sequence at their own pace with the teacher’s support and adjustment given individually. Every alternate day, the class follows the Led class format in which the teacher instructs the breath and the asanas of the sequence.
Yoga philosophy
Yoga is one of the six classical schools of Indian philosophy. This class is designed to give you an understating of the objective of yoga and the path to reach it. They talk about the Eight Limbs of Yoga from the perspective of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras but they also discuss their connection to your contemporary day-to-day life.
Yogic texts reading
As a complement to the philosophy class, every week students get familiar with ancient classical texts about yoga to advance their understanding. Fragments of four classical texts are read, explained and discussed in class: Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita, Hatha Yoga Pradipika, and the Upanishads. By being exposed to the ancient scriptures, students get a deeper understanding of the various paths of yoga.
Yogic anatomy and physiology
In order to teach and guide your students, to check and correct their alignment as they practice asanas, it is necessary to have a solid foundation and proper understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the human body. Knowing anatomy empowers the practitioner and gives him / her tools to address the imbalances in the body and to deepen the postural practice by moving to more advanced yoga poses. The knowledge of muscular engagement and anatomical alignment becomes a key to self-awareness at the physical level of yoga practice.
The art of teaching
Being a strong yoga practitioner is different from being a good yoga teacher. They designed this class to help you master the art of teaching. In this class, you acquire and refine such skills as precise instruction, clear demonstration, mindful observation, and effective adjustment. They dedicate a significant amount of time to the sequencing process in order to help you develop a balanced class in one of the different styles of postural yoga. Throughout the course, you get hands-on teaching experience followed by peer and teacher feedback. Moreover, this class will help you generate a vision for yourself as a yoga teacher and give you ideas for how to continue on your yoga teaching path.
Meditation
In the Eight Limbs of Yoga, achieving the state of deep meditation is necessary to achieve the true goal of yoga. In the yoga teacher training, they emphasise the practice of meditation as an equally significant part as asana practice. During the course, you become familiar with various types of meditation and contemplative techniques, both ancient and modern, which gives a unique opportunity to learn, deepen and incorporate such styles of meditation as:
- Cyclic meditation
- Chakra meditation
- MSRT meditation
- Kundalini meditation
- PET meditation
- Mind to No-Mind meditation
- Third Eye meditation
- Sufi meditation
- Intensive breath meditation
- Silent meditation
- OM meditation
- Nadanusandhana
Ayurveda
In the course, they introduce the elements of Ayurvedic principles and follow in the everyday functioning of the course. Every student is going to have an opportunity to meet an Ayurvedic doctor in order to find out their constitution (dosha) and discuss their health condition during an in-depth personalised consultation. The doctor will give dietary and lifestyle suggestions to improve the student’s well-being.
Food preparation
Ayurveda states that you are what you eat. Following this principle, they set it as a goal for themselves to help students incorporate an Ayurvedic diet, whose quality is sattva (pure, honest, clean), into their everyday life. Sattvic food brings lightness to the body and is very complementry to yoga practice.
Daily schedule
Weekly schedule (might undergo slight changes):
Monday to Saturday
- 07:00 - 08:45 Hatha and pranayama practice
- 09:00 - 10:15 Breakfast
- 10:15 - 11:15 Yoga and Samkhya philosophy
- 11:30 - 12:30 Art of teaching and mechanics of asana
- 12:30 - 14:45 Lunch and rest
- 14:45 - 15:45 Anatomy and physiology
- 16:00 - 17:45 Ashtanga Vinyasa
- 18:30 - 19:30 Meditation
- 19:30 - 20:30 Dinner
Prerequisites
1. You are required to have a preliminary self-practice before joining the course. As a yoga school, they cannot quantify the time of practice necessary to participate in the course, however, they suggest you consider it if you have regularly practiced a minimum of 3 times a week for a minimum of 6 months. In case you are not sure if you are ready, scroll down to check special features and find out what options you have at the Yoga Sangha.
2. It is not necessary to have practiced Ashtanga Vinyasa before. The practice of Hatha yoga is sufficient to join the course.
3. The following readings are recommended: Siddhartha (120 pages) by Hermann Hesse, Yoga Body: Yogamala by K Pattabhi Jois, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, Many lives many masters by Dr. Brian Weiss, the classic Light on Yoga and Light on Pranayama by B.K.S. Iyengar. They also recommend listening to lectures by Sadguru (easily available on youtube), and watching such films as Seven Years in Tibet, Little Buddha, and Siddharta (the 1972 adaptation of Hermann Hesse’s book). They will all serve as good preparation and tuning in with the mind frame present during the course.
4. They also encourage you to come with an open mind and keep an attitude of humble learning and non-judgment as everything you encounter during the course can greatly benefit you.
Special features
- 100 hours + 100 hours
At Yoga Sangha, they wish to be accommodative to those for whom taking a month off from their daily life to do the might be challenging. There is an option of dividing the course into two parts and coming twice for two weeks to do 100 hours of the course at a convenient time. Please enquire.
Non-practitioners
They also realize that different circumstances inspire you to undertake a certain journey in life. There are those who discover they would like to pursue the path of yoga and yoga teaching without having an established practice. If you want to dedicate yourself to a course but your self-practice is not strong, you are most welcome to come to Yoga Sangha and participate in a one-month-Iong preparatory course just before the 200-hour one. You are required to take care of your expenses including food and accommodation.
Dedicated practitioners
The idea of introducing the practice of Bhakti yoga, the path of love and devotion, consists in that they encourage dedicated students to stay with them after the course and assist in the further course(s). That way by offering to demonstrate and adjust in classes, students already get their first experience of teaching but also express their dedication to yoga. You are required to take care of your expenses including food and accommodation.
Continuous support
At the heart of their values lies the idea of a community. Therefore, after the course you can count on their support – you are welcome to stay in touch with them, ask questions, clear your doubts, propose joint ventures such as workshops or talks, or write for their blog. They encourage an exchange of ideas and experiences with other students from the course to enrich your teaching and continue to grow through the closed group.
Important
If you are a beginner in your yoga practice or you have a doubt about whether your asana practice is enough to do the course, get in touch with Devvrat Yoga Sangha. They’re there to support you before the course by offering study material: readings and videos as well as calls to clarify your doubts and to provide you with the foundation you will need to start the course with a good degree of comfort.
What is Ashtanga yoga?
Ashtanga yoga means the eight limbs of yoga. It was first referenced around (500 - 300) BC by the great sage Patanjali. He categorized yoga into eight branches, and it is the reason it’s known as eight-limbed yoga or Ashtanga yoga. It is an art of conscious living combined with a spiritual practice that leads one to self-knowledge, freedom, and better physical health.
What is Hatha yoga?
Hatha yoga is the ‘Discipline of Force.’ It uses physical force to channel the vital energy of the body. The Sanskrit word Hath means force, and physical techniques are used to preserve and move this energy. This technique is thus known as Hatha yoga. One more definition of Hatha yoga is derived from the Sanskrit word, ‘Ha’, means Sun and ‘Tha’ means moon. Thus it is a yoga of alignment of the two energies.
Included excursions
- You will join one field trip to Munroe Island during this training
- Local spiritual nearby villages and temple
Instructors
Devvrat
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A graduate in Electrical Engineering, a yoga therapist in training at SVYASA University. To Devvrat the practice of yoga asana means meditation in motion. He understands yoga as awareness but also as therapy for psychosomatic diseases. He is a practitioner of Ashtanga yoga at KPYAJI in Mysore. He teaches Ashtanga and Hatha, philosophy, anatomy, and meditation. He has completed 500 hours of yoga teacher trainings. He is a registered yoga teacher in Yoga Alliance (E-RYT 500/ YACEP)
Ania
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A graduate in English Philology, a researcher of yoga as a science and current social phenomenon, and an anthropologist in training. Ania sees yoga as a practice of self-awareness. She explores yoga philosophy and Buddhism and their application in contemporary life. She teaches Hatha yoga, pranayama, meditation, and art of teaching with anatomy. She has completed 500 hours in yoga teacher trainings.
Abhishek
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Abhishek was born and bought up in the World's Yoga Capital, Rishikesh. He was inclined towards Yoga from Childhood and received a Master's Degree in Yogic Science from Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya (DSVV) University in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India. He has completed 500 hours of yoga teacher training, from Aatma Yogashala in Rishikesh and studied with various great Indian teachers, and attended intensive Ashtanga and Iyengar yoga courses in Rishikesh. His vision is to spread the learning that he has earned from his Gurus and to help people to live meaningful life.
Location
This training takes place in Varkala, Kerala, India. It’s a beautiful destination for yoga practitioners for a few reasons: its natural beauty, its spiritual significance, and its quietness but also attractiveness for surfers and paragliders. Varkala is a lovely coastal town in Kerala, in South India. It is located 40 kilometers northwest of the capital city of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. Varkala is the only place in Kerala where you can find cliffs overlooking the Arabian Sea. Just seven kilometers away, you can enjoy the tranquillity of the backwaters, where you can simply relax.
It is also considered to be the Varanasi of the South since it is a sacred pilgrim center with its more than 2,000-year-old Janardana Swami Temple, an important Vishnu shrine. It is an important Ayurveda treatment center too. Another important landmark is the Sivagiri Mutt Ashram, which was founded by Sree Narayana Guru, a philosopher and a social reformer. Since it is the resting place of the guru, it attracts thousands of pilgrims, particularly from 30th December to 1st January.
Distances
- Thiruvananthapuram, 40 kilometers
Food
All three meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) served at the Yoga Sangha follow the principles of the Ayurvedic way of cooking. Only vegan and vegetation food, and daily Ayurvedic tea for detoxification. The traditional South Indian dishes Devvrat Yoga Sangha makes are composed of sattvic foods, which are those that promote the maintenance of mind-body balance and help to experience lightness, clarity, and peace. For this reason, sattvic food excludes meat, fish, and eggs and includes fresh fruit, vegetables, cooked whole grains, milk, legumes, nuts, and seeds. It is possible to opt for a fully vegan diet too.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Yogic
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
What's included
- 27-day program with 6 days of classes and 1 free day per week
- Daily teachings of yoga philosophy, anatomy and physiology, methodology, and hands-on practice
- Daily yoga asanas and meditation practices
- 1 field trip as part of the course
- Few sightseeing around Varkala (i.e. boat tours and meditation on Golden Island)
- 27 nights accommodation
- 6 days of a full vegetarian yogic diet (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) per week
- 19% GST tax (on request, Devvrat Yoga Sangha can issue a formal receipt)
- Certificate of completion
- Wi-Fi
What's not included
- Airfare
- Airport pick-up (can be arranged for an additional fee)
How to get there
Recommended Airports
COK
Cochin International Airport
161 km
Transfer available for additional US$ 98 per person
TRV
Trivandrum International Airport
37 km
Transfer available for additional US$ 24 per person
Airport: Cochin International Airport
Airport transfer available:
Cochin International Airport (US$ 98 per person)
Additional charges may apply. You can request this in the next step.
Airport: Trivandrum International Airport
Airport transfer available:
Trivandrum International Airport (US$ 24 per person)
Additional charges may apply. You can request this in the next step.
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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