15 Day 200-Hour Multi Style Hatha, Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh, India

200 hour yoga teacher training course (YTTC) in Rishikesh, India

In the present time, yoga is an important part of people's lives for various purposes. Everyone wants to get a strong and flexible body, lose weight, have beautiful skin, a peaceful mind, and good health. Yoga gives all of this to you; you just have to adopt it in your life. To understand the benefits of yoga, it is necessary to do it at the physical level. Yoga is not just another name for breaking up your body. The old-age benefits of yoga are not only acknowledged by the people of India but by people around the world.

The best career yoga course for professional career advancement is the 200-Hour Yoga TTC. No student can get better teaching than a professional and complete yoga course based on Ashtanga, Hatha, and Vinyasa Flow given by certified yoga teachers. RYT200 Yoga Certification covers asanas, meditation, pranayama, yoga philosophy, anatomy physiology, alignment and adjustment, teaching methods, and Ayurveda's value.

Teachers will teach all yoga classes, so students may trust the teachings when they teach others. After finishing the course material, students teach their classmates in front of the teacher, which boosts their confidence. Living Yoga School offers yoga teacher training in Rishikesh for beginners, intermediates, and those who desire to change millions of lives.

More about the 200-hour yoga TTC in Rishikesh, India.

Rishikesh, the land of yogis, is the right destination to experience true yoga traditions in the hub of like-minded, friendly people. Offering nourishing Indian food, sattvic meals and pleasant rooms, this program is a transformative experience that couples your yoga study with the peace and quiet of a calm retreat and training.

The 200-hour YTTC in Rishikesh is ideal for beginners wishing to incorporate yoga into their everyday lives, as well as those who want to become yoga teachers. Regardless of your aim, this course provides a solid foundation in yoga asanas and meditation, supervised by world-class experienced teachers who will help you master all of the ancient traditional practices.

200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training in India is also considered an intensive training program based on traditional types of yoga, Hatha and Ashtanga. The 200-hour yoga TTC is a course that is designed for new and intermediate-level yoga practitioners. As a result, if you desire to be a proper and dedicated yoga instructor, then the 200-hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh will give you great practical, as well as theoretical understanding of Yoga, so that you are ready to divulge your expertise to others and share it with the world with confidence.

The yoga courses are designed not only to teach but also to provide incredible peace of mind and genuine inner delight. The course provides a solid foundation in both Hatha and Ashtanga yoga and is regarded as the first step toward becoming a competent and certified yoga instructor.

Short overview of the 200-hour YTTC In Rishikesh:

• Holistic yoga
• Modern and ancient yoga combination
• Lifestyle yoga
• Hatha and Ashtanga
• Body alignment
• Asana adjustment
• Nutrition
• Yoga therapy
• Ayurveda
• Science of chakra and Kundalini
• Yoga Nidra
• Bandha
• Mudra
• Pranayama
• Meditation
• Anatomy
• Philosophy
• Contemplation
• Mantra
• Dance and kirtan
• Inspiration movies
• Satsang
• Mindfulness
• Silence
• Breath awareness
• Contemplation

Your transformation after the RYT 200 certification course

• Become a yogi
• Certified yoga teacher
• Eliminate bad habits
• Healthy and holistic lifestyle
• Life free from trauma
• Self-motivated and disciplined
• Personality development
• Nature lover

Overview

The 200-hour YTT Course will provide you with a certificate to teach yoga and run your own classes. This means you’ve absorbed all the material on yoga philosophy, anatomy, postures, and history, and you’re prepared to share that knowledge and wisdom. Yoga is a multi-faceted system with thousands of years of history, complex postures and the ability to change people’s lives, but it can also help you change your career.

The 200-hour yoga teacher training in India is equivalent to beginner practice and learning. During this time you will be able to learn this ancient wisdom and gain great skills to easily eliminate various health problems.

Unique teaching methods and curriculum

The 200-hour yoga certification course stands out for its original teaching strategies and well-thought-out course of instruction. Inspired by the rich traditions of yoga, our method mixes modern concepts with ancient knowledge to provide a significant educational opportunity. The course is meant to combine theoretical knowledge with practical application so that students not only understand yoga ideas but also grow in confidence and authenticity-oriented teaching skills.

You will be taught asanas, pranayama, meditation, anatomy, yoga philosophy, and instruction techniques. With an eye on its physical, mental, and spiritual aspects, this all-encompassing approach lets students examine yoga as a whole. Interactive classes encourage group discussions, hands-on teaching practice, and active participation, so as to build a welcoming and lively learning environment.

Highly qualified and experienced teachers provide students with individualized attention to meet their particular needs and help them to grow at their own speed. Emphasizing mindfulness and self-awareness, the course helps students develop personally and deepen their relationship with their practice. The course offers a strong cultural experience, enabling students to explore the core of yoga's beginnings.

The 200-hour course will enable you to transform your passion for yoga into a meaningful and fulfilling teaching tool regardless of your level of experience or desire to grow.

What makes Living Yoga School's course unique?

• High quality of teachings
• Highly qualified yoga teachers
• Satsang and motivation from a real yogi
• Safety and secure environment specially for the women
• Expanded curriculum that cover also yoga Nidra, Ayurveda, life style etc.
• Situated in the best location
• Family type environment
• Spiritual, lifestyle and therapy-oriented yoga course

Walk on a yogic path with Living Yoga School

If you are an individual who is open to the unseen dimensions of life and its mysteries, Living Yoga School offers a 200 hour yoga teacher certification in India.

This short-duration yoga school contains all tools for the yoga teachers to make a solid foundation to be yourself. The experience that you gain here in this program yoga teacher certification course can become a milestone for exploiting the traditions, concepts, practices, and principles.

Schedule

• 05:00 Morning bell / wake up
• 05:30 - 06:15 Silence meditation
• 06:15 - 07:15 Pranayama and meditation
• 07:30 - 09:00 Hatha yoga
• 09:00 - 09:45 Breakfast
• 10:45 - 11:45 Yoga anatomy
• 12:00 - 13:00 Yoga alignment and adjustment / teaching methodology
• 13:15 - 14:00 Lunch
• 14:30 - 15:30 Self-study
• 15:45 - 16:45 Yoga philosophy
• 17:00 - 18:30 Ashtanga yoga
• 19:00 - 20:00 Dinner

Depending on the season, weather, the timetable and timings can be subject to change.

Complete curriculum of the 200-hour TTC

Life style yoga

Lifestyle is the most important practice of yoga. When one lives with yoga, yoga starts giving fragrance to their life. Yoga can be practiced in every moment. For the first time in Rishikesh, yoga lifestyle education is included, something that no school teaches. This lifestyle is often misunderstood. People think that practicing asana and pranayama is the lifestyle, but it is not. Here, one needs to live every moment with awareness. That’s why the Living Yoga School Teacher Training Program offers this special class on lifestyle. Here, students learn:

• What and how to eat?
• How to walk?
• How to watch?
• How to sleep?
• How to act?
• How to sit?
• How to breathe? Etc.
• There are much more things to learn which make your life simple, healthy, and happy.

Mantra yoga healing

• Mantra science
• The power of mantra
• Origin of mantra
• Mantra is not a religion
• The vibration of sound
• Om chanting
• Om Namah Shivaya chant
• Dum Durgayi Namah
• Kundalini mantra chant
• Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya chant
• Om Ganapati
• Asato ma sadgamaya
• Twameva mata cha pita
• Trayambakam yajamahe
• Gayatri mantra
• Sahana babatu
• Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu
• Yogena chittasya
• Suryanamaskar 12 mantra (Om Mitraya)

Hatha yoga

Living Yoga School teaches the traditional ancient style of Hatha yoga that:

• Pavan muktasana series 1
• Pavan muktasana series 2
• Centering postures series
• Surya namaskar
• Chandra namaskar
• Standing postures
• Kneeling postures
• Sitting postures
• Forward bending postures
• Backward bending postures
• Supine postures
• Prone postures
• Fire series
• Inversions
• Twisting postures
• Balancing postures
• Relaxing posture
• Meditative asana

Yoga theory

• Hatha yoga philosophy
• Ancient scriptures
• Aim and objectives
• Yoga therapy
• Balancing
• Hatha yoga with the connection of chakras and nadis

Ashtanga yoga

• Introduction
• History
• Awakening
• The breath of life
• Prana
• A chakra contemplation
• How to do bandha
• Drishti
• Cleansing and purification
• Creating a sacred place
• The challenging asanas
• Props and instruments
• Sun salutation A & B
• Standing asana series
• Sitting asana series
• Finishing asana series
• Teaching practices
• Pādāṅguṣṭāsana
• Pāda hastāsana
• Utthita trikoṇāsana
• Utthita pārśvakonāsana
• Prasārita pādottānāsana
• Pārśvottānāsana
• Utthita hasta pādāṅguṣṭāsana
• Ardha baddha padmottānāsana
• Utkatāsana
• Vīrabhadrāsana
• Dandasana
• Paścimattānāsana
• Pūrvattanāsana
• Ardha baddha padma paścimattānāsana
• Tiryaṅgmukha ekapāda paścimattānāsana – intense stretch
• Jānuśīrṣāsana
• Marīcāsana
• Nāvāsana
• Bhujapīḍāsana
• Kūrmāsana
• Supta kūrmāsana
• Garbha piṇḍāsana
• Kukkuṭāsana
• Baddha konāsana
• Upaviṣṭha konāsana
• Supta konāsana
• Supta pādāṅguṣṭāsana
• Ubhaya pādāṅguṣṭāsana
• Ūrdhva mukha paścimattānāsana
• Setu bandhāsana

Finishing postures

• Ūrdhva dhanurāsana
• Salaṁba sarvāṅgāsana
• Halāsana
• Karṇa pīḍāsana ūrdhva padmāsana
• Piṇḍāsana
• Matsyāsana
• Uttāna pādāsana
• Cakrāsana
• Śīrṣāsana
• Baddha padmāsana
• Yoga mudra
• Padmāsana
• Utpluthiḥ
• Savasana

Pranayama

• What is prana
• What is pranayama
• What is breath and connection with the prana
• Importance and benefits of pranayama
• How to prepare ourselves to practice them
• Aspects of breathing
• Ancient texts of breathing
• General understanding
• Understand all about nostrils and how to activate them
• Secrets of pranayama
• Breath flow in 5 elements
• Unit of prana and function of prana
• Three levels of prana
• Three gunas
• How does prana flow
• Quality of breath
• Imbalance of prana
• Retention of breath
• 6 sitting positions for pranayama practices
• Breathing pattern
• Prana connection with chakras and Kundalini
• Clavicular pranayama
• Thoracic pranayama
• Diaphragmatic pranayama
• Yogic pranayama
• Pranava pranayama
• Nadisodhanam pranayama
• Bhastrika pranayama
• Kapalbhati pranayama
• Bhramari pranayama
• Ujjayi pranayama
• Sitli pranayama
• Sitkari pranayama
• Murcha pranayama
• Surya bhedi pranayama
• Chandra bhedi pranayama

Meditation (Dhyana)

• Introduction to meditation
• History of meditation
• Preparation to meditation
• What is meditation and what it is not
• Why- how- where- when meditation
• Philosophy of meditation
• Meditation traditions
• Meditation scriptures
• Aim and objectives of meditation
• Sitting positions
• How to sit correctly
• Preliminary practices before practicing meditation
• Role of diaphragmatic breathing in meditation
• Correct breathing in meditation
• How to relax in meditation
• Lifestyle- diet- sleep- sex- job- rules in meditation
• Basics foundation meditation practice
• Breath- mind- mantra awareness
• Tratak meditation
• Music meditation
• Om meditation
• Mantra power meditation
• Dynamic moving meditation (Osho)
• Buddha walking meditation
• Karma yoga meditation
• Natraj meditation
• 7 chakra awareness meditation
• Ajna chakra awakening meditation
• Kundalini active meditation
• Breath awareness (Anapana)
• Mindfulness and sensation
• Total awareness practice
• Mantra and kirtan meditation practices
• How to do japa (recitation)
• Kirtan event and creating a spiritual vibe
• Silence practice
• One day silence meditation

Yoga Nidra (Psychic sleep)

• Meaning and purpose of yoga Nidra
• Different schools and traditions of yoga Nidra
• Tantric origin of yoga Nidra
• Lifestyle and rules for yoga Nidra practitioners
• Benefits and risks of yoga Nidra
• Difference between yoga Nidra and meditation
• Yoga Nidra experience
• Yoga Nidra and healing
• 4 states of consciousness
• 3 body awareness
• Tension relaxation

Yoga Kriya and cleansing (Shatkarma)

• What is satkarma
• Benefits and risks
• Who should and should not practice it
• Experiences
• Preparation to satkarma
• Practices after completing it
• Nadi cleansing
• Jihwa dhauti
• Danta-dhauti
• Karna-dhauti
• Rubber-neti
• Jalaneti
• Kapalbhati
• Agnisara

Yoga philosophy (Yoga Darshana)

• Introduction to Indian culture and spirituality and Himalayan tradition
• Introduction to the ancient scriptures of yoga and spirituality
• Meaning and purpose of Indian philosophy
• Introduction to 9 major Indian philosophies
• Why is yoga philosophy the most important among all?
• History of yoga
• Types of yoga
• Patanjali and his work
• Introduction to Yoga Sutra text
• Eight limbs of yoga
• Yamas and niyamas
• Philosophy of asana and pranayama
• Science of karma
• Philosophy of concentration, meditation, and samadhi
• Overview of first chapter
• Overview of second chapter
• Overview of the third and fourth chapter of Patanjali
• Mind and its control
• Introduction to Bhagavad Gita & Upanishads
• Chakras
• Nadi
• Kundalini
• Threefold pain
• Three bodies (Sharira)
• Panchakosha
• Tri-guna
• Mahabhuta (theory of elements)

Anatomy and physiology

• Introduction to body and its structure
• Body planes
• Anatomical movements
• Bones of the skull
• Cervical vertebrae
• Shoulder girdle/ arm bones/ pelvic region
• Deformities of the spine
• Lower extremity
• Tendons and ligaments
• Muscular system
• Nervous system
• Respiratory system
• Nadi (energy channel)
• Chakras (energy centres)
• Kundalini (prime energy and source of all creativity)
• Panchakosha (5 layers)
• Pancha Mahabhuta (5 elements and body structure)
• Tri-guna (three attributes)

Yoga therapy and Ayurveda

Yoga theraphy

• What is yoga therapy
• Rules and regulations of yoga therapy
• Healing through asana, pranayama and meditation
• Therapy for common diseases

Ayurveda

• Unique features of Ayurvedic treatment
• Ayurveda and its diversified areas
• Ashtanga Ayurveda
• Fundamentals of Ayurveda
• Panchamahabhuta
• Kapha (the theme of structure and lubrication)
• Vata (the energy of movements)
• Pitta (the energy of bio-transformation and heat generation)
• Prakriti - know your constitution

Mudra and bandha

Mudra

• The secrets of mudra
• The position of elements in the hands
• The need of mudra
• The importance and advantages of mudras
• Special guidelines about mudra
• Gyan mudra (gesture of wisdom)
• Purn gyan mudra (gesture of complete wisdom)
• Vairagya mudra (gesture of dispassion)
• Abhaya mudra (gesture of blessing, fearlessness)
• Dyan mudra (meditation mudra)
• Vayu mudra (gesture of air) & pran mudra (gesture of prana)
• Prithvi mudra (gesture of earth)
• Surya mudra (gesture of sun)
• Varun mudra (gesture of god of water)
• Shoonya mudra (gesture of openness, space)
• Pran-apana mudra (gesture of prana apana)

Bandha (Energy lock)

• Meaning and importance of energy lock
• Why the energy lock and how our energy gets drained
• Energy knots and how to open them
• Understanding the three chakras; Muladhara, Manipura, Visuddhi
• Experience of energy lock
• Benefits and risks of bandha practices
• Agnisar (preparation to uddiyana)
• Vahir kumbhaka (external retention)
• Antar kumbhaka (internal retention)
• Ashwini mudra to prepare mulabandha
• Vajroli mudra to prepare mulabandha
• Mulabandha
• Uddiyana bandha
• Jalandhara bandha

Teaching methodology

Here is what you will learn

• Proper demonstration of a yoga practice
• Proper way to instruct and guide a lesson
• Proper alignment of yoga postures
• Proper adjustment with/ without props
• Yogic personality establishment

Evaluation and certification

• Performance during the course
• Attendance
• Practical asana demonstration test
• Written test (Objective and subjective type)
• Behavior
• Performance
• Attendance
• Demonstration
• Practical test
• Written test
• Behavior

Certification and curriculum

This RYT 200 Certification Course is designed to provide a comprehensive grasp of yoga, including both traditional roots and modern applications. It offers an in-depth examination of:

• Learn about alignment, corrections, and the importance of each pose in promoting physical and mental well-being.
• Discover breathing techniques for harnessing life energy and promoting consciousness.
• Use a variety of techniques to develop inner serenity and focus.
• Study ancient books such as the Yoga Sutras to obtain insight into yoga's ethical and spiritual roots.
• Learn about the mechanics of the human body, including how yoga affects muscles, joints, and systems.
• Practice excellent communication and class management skills to ensure you are ready to lead various groups.
• Gain hands-on experience through peer teaching and feedback sessions to boost your confidence and improve your techniques.

The training also incorporates Ayurveda, mantra chanting, and mindfulness, resulting in a holistic approach to yoga education. Students who complete the training not only obtain the certification, but also experience a profound shift, departing with the knowledge, confidence, and inspiration to share yoga with the world.

The 200-hour yoga teacher training course at Living Yoga School in Rishikesh meets all of the rules set by Yoga Alliance USA. If you study from the yoga gurus, they will do so with a lot of energy and talents gained through years of experience.