30 Day Self-Paced Online Hatha Yoga Teacher Training Course

Certifications

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

How the training works

There will be 6 hours of live sessions per day including 2 yoga practical classes, 1 alignment and technique, 1 functional anatomy, 1 teaching methodology class, and 1 yoga philosophy class. There will be 180 contact hours and 70 non-contact hours for self-study and self-practice through videos and books.

Daily schedule (GMT+5.30)

• 09:00 - 09:30 Mantra chanting and pranayama
• 09:30 - 10:30 Techniques, training, and practice
• 10:30 - 11:00 Tea break
• 11:00 - 12:00 Asana/Vinyasa
• 12:00 - 13:00 Vinyasa/Gentle yoga
• 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
• 14:00 - 15:00 Restorative yoga
• 15:00 - 15:30 Teaching methodology
• 15:30 - 16:30 Patanjali yoga sutra/Bhagavad-Gita
• 16:30 - 18:30 Tea break/refreshment
• 18:30 - 19:00 Chanting
• 19:00 - 19:30 Anatomy and physiology/ upanisad
• 19:30 - 20:30 Asana/Vinyasa
• 20:30 dinner

Curriculum / course information

Join this 200-hour live streaming yoga teacher training classes with experienced yoga teachers. Start your course with online classes, study, and practice. Get certified like in the residential yoga teacher training programs. This online 200-hour yoga teacher training is suitable for yoga beginners and intermediate level students, so that you can complete the yoga training at your pace. The yoga masters are highly qualified from and will help you throughout the course. At the end of the training module, a set of the questionnaire and online practical exam will be sent to the candidate, after that a certificate will be mailed to the candidate by Karuna Yoga.

All the modules taught to meet and exceed Yoga Alliance requirements. Karuna Yoga Vidya Peetham comprehensive course schedule includes Hatha yoga at beginners and intermediate level asana practice, asana alignment, pranayama, advanced topics of yoga theory, anatomy, and yoga sutra. These topics which Karuna Yoga has preferred are very much intensive and interesting. Weekly, you will also experience the essence of mantra chanting.

Overview of the 200-hour yoga teacher training course

Karuna Yoga Vidya Peetham covers a 200-hour yoga teacher training course. This program is certified and recognized worldwide through Yoga Alliance. For years, Karuna Yoga Vidya Peetham’s vision is to offer meditation and yoga programs that help transform the consciousness and help the people live a spirituality fulfilling life stranded in genuine inner experience and knowledge.

Some of the courses included

Asana, teaching practice, pranayama, anatomy and physiology of yogic practice, meditation, yogic philosophy, cleansing processes, Hatha yoga pradipika, bandhas, mantra chanting, and mudras.

The objective of the TTC course is to provide beginners and experienced yoga students with strong practical and theoretical experience. This will enable them to perform Hatha Yoga practices with perfection and correct alignment. The course will equip the future teachers to be completely autonomous and ready to run their own yoga classes to the highest standards.

At Karuna Yoga Vidya Peetham, students can easily learn a unique combination of different yoga principles and practice the injury-free yoga for all ages and genders. Every morning will start with mantra chanting and pranayama classes focused on different breathing techniques and this gives a good foundation for Hatha yoga class.

The subject of classes changes every week, going from yoga philosophy to anatomy of asana, from Hatha yoga to Ashtanga yoga. On the top of that, the students also provide marketing classes during which students will get tips on how to promote themselves as yoga teachers and how to market themselves for their future yoga studios.

Course outlook

• Techniques training and practice
• Basic elements of asanas and pranayamas, mudras, and bandhas
• Three principles of practices, alignment, relaxed respiration, and consciousness
• Transitioning into asana – transitioning out of the asana
• Asana modification variations and the use of props
• Classical surya namaskara and ashtanga surya namaskara
• Touch, somatic, and self-transformation, beginner to intermediate level
• Standing forward bending – balancing and twisting asana
• Core strengthening asana, arm balancing asana, backward bending asana,
• Seated forward bending, and twisting asanas
• Balancing asana, supine twists – backward bending, hip and pelvic opening asanas,
• inverted asana
• Shoulder work, arm strengthening, arm balancing, rotation of arms, and shoulders.
• Pranayama- going deeper into the essence of breath, chakra balancing asana sequence
• Mantra meditation, chakra meditation, and breathe awareness
• Teaching methodology
• Creating space for self-transformation
• Classroom set up and orientation
• Class levels and prerequisites
• Exploring clear and precise verbal expression
• Class etiquette
• Teaching styles and the varieties of approach
• Waking up the spiritual environment
• Techniques and tools in teaching yoga
• Application of modifications for individual needs
• Business approach

Yoga, anatomy, and physiology

• Pranas, upa-pranas, chakras, nadis, and granthis. Pancha kosa (five layer of existence)
• Introduction to human anatomy and physiology, cardiovascular system, nervous system
• Respiratory system, musculoskeletal system, and spinal cord
• Yoga and spine; structure and function of spine
• Types and functions of bone; skeletal system and asana
• Physiology of stretching during asana practice
• How to stretch safely with their individual limitation
• Biomechanics of stretching
• Kinesiology: to understand different movement of human body at minor and major joints levels
• Yoga philosophy, lifestyle, ethics, health and wellness
• Karma yoga, Bhakti yoga, Jnana yoga, and Raja yoga
• Vedas, katha upanisad, taittiriya upanisad, and mandukya upanisad
• The Bhagavad Gita (selected chapter)
• Patanjali Yoga Sutras (selected sutra)
• Yogic diet and nutrition
• Ethics: dharma, artha, kama, moksa. Brahmacharya, grihastha, vanprastha, sanyasa ashrama.
• Health and wellness, lifestyle
• Practicum
• Practicing of asana, pranayama, mudras, kriyas, and bandhas
• Practicing the basics of assisting and adjusting
• Methodology of asana, contraindications, and benefits
• Observing others teaching, receiving/giving feedback
• Elective
• Vinyasa yogic
• Gentle yoga
• Project writing
• Project writing (50 to 100 pages)
• Tutorials, assignment, and examination

Trainee will be required to engage in self-study and submit daily and weekly assignments on the basis of the day’s lectures and discussions. There will be a practical and a theory exam at the end of the course to assess the students on their learning, practice and teaching during the teacher training course.

This teacher training is held online. Karuna Yoga Vidya Peetham is located in Bangalore, 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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• Tuition to 200-hour online yoga teacher training
• 180 contact hours
• 70 non-contact hour
• PDF books
• Manual
• Live teachings
• Live meditation with dr. Karuna Murthy
• Learning documents
• Guidance
• Question and answer sessions

• Accommodation
• Meals

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