29 Day 500-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training in Kathmandu, Nepal

Objectives

• If you want to teach right after here that you will get enough information but if you do not want to teach, this course will help you to find your own way of practice for your mental peace and good health.
• The advanced yoga teacher training course is focused on both internal and external aspects. Internal aspect is also known as the spiritual facet, where your inner growth and understanding will be heightened. You will be guided in your transcendental journey with mystical teaching of yogic science. This course will play a great role in enhancing your awareness level, developing the faculty of mindfulness, living in the present moment and ultimately preparing to reach out super-conscious stage of mind. *Though to reach a constant superconscious stage may require whole life, yet initiation and depth level of practice will be achieved here.
• Whatever profession you do, when you go back from here you can manage few hours per day which will be helpful to grow your business and to find a great harmony in life.
• All the factors, components, types, and branches of yoga will be taught both pragmatically and philosophically, which will give you depth knowledge of yoga due to which you can swim in the ocean of yoga, you can fly in the sky of yoga, you can move on the land of yoga, you can get celestial ingress in the new realm of yoga. The yogic practice will lead you to a new human.
• Health is the most important factor for a happy and peaceful life. This training does great to maintain your good health. You will understand how to achieve real health.
• The 500-hours advanced yoga teacher training also focuses on exploring the ancient and secret yogic knowledge from Vedas, Upanishad, Bhagavad Gita, Yoga Sutra etc. This will help to flourish this sacred science throughout the world.

Features of the training

• You will leave the advanced yoga teacher training course being fully confident and ready to start your own yoga business.
• The course is fit for all age groups and beginners to advance level. You will be trained according to your capacity and body type.
• Both theoretical and practical aspects of yoga will be taught at a depth level. Detailed philosophical explanation and scientific analysis of yoga provided here will help you to reach the source of being.
• You will be given attention personally for each and every step of learning. Your queries and curiosities will be vividly solved.
• All the teachers in Nepal Ayurveda Home is carefully selected from all over the Nepal. They have different teachers who learned not only from school or university, they also learn informally from cave, jungle, ashram, monastery, etc. The highly qualified professional expert yoga teacher who have traditional yoga background also have studied in master degree and doctorate in meditation from university will provide you real essence of yoga in it’s true from.
• The organization believes in teamwork of teacher rather than just giving courses by a single teacher. They have teacher whos have decades of teaching experience in the field of yoga and meditation.
• You have to practice and study yoga and meditation six days a week from morning 7 a.m. to evening 7 p.m. with different teachers during this 500 hours advanced yoga teacher training. You will also have interval in between the classes to do self-practice and self-study.
• There are many intense and challenging asanas which demand stamina, endurance flexibility, balance, and enthusiasm. So these aspects will be improved with the practice.
• This advanced yoga teacher training has no restriction of age, sex, culture, religion, and country. Open for all human beings of the world.
• You will learn how to be a qualified yoga teacher, how to teach yoga, how to create great yoga sequences, how to live a happy and healthy yogic lifestyle.
• The practical aspects of eight organs of yoga is a serious process. Some are (such as Yama and Niyama) to be applied in daily life while rest (asana, pranayama, Bandha, Mudra, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, and Samadhi) are practiced in class. The practice will bring change in daily life as well.

Yoga styles

Nepal Ayurveda Home is offering multi style of yoga with a very expert team of teachers. The main yoga style are: Hatha, Ashtanga, and Kundalini yoga. They focus all dimensions of yoga in its depth like yoga poses, meditation, breathing, philosophy, chanting, relaxation, Bandha, Mudra, detox, anatomy, lifestyle, and Chakra system of the body.

Course of study

On this course you will learn many dimensions of yoga so that you can find your own path of practice. You will be more clear understanding of yoga through the yoga philosophy classes which go deeply in to origin of yoga, organs of yoga, types of yoga, and several aspects of yoga. You will get information of health secrets; way of healthy life-style. You will be clear on the relation among life, world, and yoga. During this short stay you will learn over 300 asanas and 20 pranayamas, various mudras and bandhas, and various meditation techniques.

Interestingly you will also learn sequence of Ashtanga Vinyasa series. Besides these you will have guided asana practice through Iyengar’s book. Yogic practice through the book of Satyananda Saraswati will be helpful for deeper understanding of yoga poses including the part of awareness, benefits, contraindication, breath process, name, etc. Basic concept of yoga anatomy and teaching methodology will be included on this training course.

Curriculum

1.Asanas

You will learn a wide variety of yoga poses based on Hatha yoga, Shivananda yoga, Iyanger yoga, Ashtanga Vinyasa, yoga poses from ancient scripture, etc. You will also get concept how to generate sequence of yoga poses. You will get the ideas how the people are branding yoga poses like restorative yoga, gentle yoga, child yoga, women yoga, seniors yoga, etc.

You will lean name of asana, alignment of asana, benefits of asana, breathing process of sana, contraindication of asana, modification of asana, way to fixing dristi on asana, counter pose of asana, etc. On this certified advanced yoga teacher training course you will learn the great art of integrating body and mind during the practice of yoga poses. You will learn the very basic poses to advance level poses more easily.

At the end of the course you will surprise seeing your flexibility and lightness of the body. If you are less flexible of out of shape do not worries about that you are here to improve your ability. May people are worried about their flexibility but more important is to connection of the body and mind to be free from stress. This poses will bring you more relaxation in your body and clearness in your mind. You do not believe some magic of poses to show someone but you focus how intensely you can make closer relation of body and mind. On the end of this course you will able to teach rest of the world.

2. Pranyama

Pranayama has very important role in yoga practice. The word Pranayama has made by two different Sanskrit words they are Prana + Ayama. Prana means life force and Ayama means to expand so the pranayama means the art of expansion of life energy through the help of different breathing activity.

On this certified yoga training course you will learn many different activities of breathing so that you can enhance your life energy. During this yoga training you will learn the science of breathing, benefits of breathing, right process of breathing, relation of breath and mind, process to achieve control over breathing, etc. You will learn following breathing process during your advanced yoga teacher training course.

• Akara pranayama
• Ukara pranayama
• Makara pranayama
• Omkara pranayama
• Quiet / silence Breathing
• Deep Breathing
• Fast Breathing
• Udar pranayama
• Vakshya pranayama
• Skanda pranayama
• Shanti pranayama
• Moolabanda pranayama
• Uddyanabanda pranayama
• Jalandara banda pranayama
• Tribandha Pranayama
• Anuloma – Viloma (Alternate nostril breathing – I)
• Anuloma – Viloma (Alternate Nostril Breathing – II)
• Nadi Soddhan Pranayama
• Suryan Bhedan Pranayama(Right Nostril Breathing)
• Chandra vedi pranayama
• Ujjayi Pranayama
• Bhramari Pranayama
• Bhasrika pranayama
• Agnisara pranayama
• Shitali pranayama
• Sitkari pranayama
• Bhramari pranayama
• Murchha pranamaya
• Plavini Pranayama

3. Meditation

Meditation is the most important dimensions of yoga and is included in this advanced yoga teacher training. All the Asanas and pranayama are the just elevator to reach up to meditation. Without meditation nobody can understand the real meaning of life. So in this yoga training you pay big priority for meditation practice.

Meditation is the best way to achieve the mastery over the monkey mind. During this course you perform around ten different meditation process which help to change your way of life you live. To learn under experienced meditation guru could be the great privilege for whole life. During your stay you will learn following meditations tools:

• Breathing meditation
• Here and now meditation
• Buddha style of meditation
• So ham meditation
• Dynamic meditation
• Vipassana meditation
• Mantra meditation
• Kundalini meditation
• Mantra meditation
• Soulful meditation, etc.

4. Yoga Philosophy

The foundation of realization is to get deeper understanding through listening. Without listening you cannot practice any process of yoga in proper way. Philosophy can help you know the yoga in its broad sense. During this stay your eyes of the knowledge will awaken listening the guru who does not speaks from mouth he speaks from the core of heart.

This certified advanced yoga teacher training course summaries the many scriptures within this month. You are focusing into more practical approach of yoga philosophy which you can adopt in your daily life. Basically you will learn more about:

• Introduction of yoga
• Meaning and definitions of yoga
• History of yoga
• Different Types of yoga
• Eight limb of Astanga yoga
• Five sheaths of body
• Pancha pranan and Pancha Tatto
• Life style and yoga
• How to balance mind through yoga
• Different between Modern Yoga and Ancient yoga
• Essence of bhagvad gita, hatha yoga pradipika, gherenda samhita, Shiva Samhita, and yoga sutra and vigyan bhairav tantra.
• Introduction of Veda and Upanisha
• More detatils information about Kundalini and chakras
• The relationship between Yogic guru and a discipline (sisya)

5. Chanting and relaxation

Chanting and relaxation paly grate role to discover the harmony and is key part of advanced yoga teacher training and advanced practice of sadhana. Different mantras have different impact in your body and mind so you so many powerful antra to generate good energy and to unblock the energy in your body.

Relaxation is major bone of the yoga. So to learn the different way of self-healing and relaxation will generate profound peace. You will learn most important mantra and famous yogic relaxation tools so that you can control your emotional distraction. During this life transforming yoga training course you will lean following mantras and relaxation.

• Gayatri mantra
• Maha Mirtunjaya mantra
• Shanti mantra
• Universal mantra
• Guru mantra
• Mantra for success
• Mantra for trauma and phobia
• Mantra for food
• Mantra for blessing the universe
• Bija mantra
• Mula mantra to transform the life
• Yogic relaxation
• Yoga Nindra
• Charka relaxation
• Full body relaxation through prana
• Relaxation trough singing bowl
• Relaxation through music
• Relaxation through humming bee
• Relaxation through light
• Relaxation through no mind, etc.

6. Yogic Detox

Main objective of yoga is to detoxify body and mind completely which is included in this advanced yoga teacher training class. To detox body, you will learn Neti, Dhauti, Basti, Nauli Kriya and to detox mind you will learn the Kapalbhati Kriya and Trataka (fixing of gaze and and mind in a single point). Besides this Shatkarma you will learn the process of fasting. Fasting is the best process to achieve healthy body and peaceful mind. First of all, you will learn the theories of this detox then you will encourage you to practice. After this yoga training course you will able to practice at your own home.

7. Anatomy of yoga During Advanced Yoga Teacher Training

You will learn basic anatomy of yoga so that you will able to know the alignment of mussels and joint to prevent injury cases. In this anatomy you will integrate different body system with yoga poses, breathing and meditation. You will learn how to cooperate the concept of muscular, and skeleton system in yoga poses. Impact of mediation in nervous system. Impact of breathing in respiratory and circulatory system. Relation of different chakras (energy system) and endocrine system. You will also learn ancient yogic anatomy lite Nadis, Chakra, pancha prana, Pancha Kosha, etc.

8. Mudra and bandha

Mudras are different gesture of hand and body. Making different gesture of hand you can awaken the bioenergy of your body. There are many hands gesture which are very unique to each other. You will learn following mudras and bandhas:

• Meditative mudra
• Element mudra
• Pranic mudra
• Therapeutic mudra
• Mana Mudra
• Kaya Mudra
• Mudra for chakra activation
• Jalandar Banda
• Udyan Banda
• Moola banda
• Tribanda etc

9. Life style and ethics of yoga

To get proper benefits of yoga the practitioner need to fallow the yogic lifestyle. You will live in yogic lifestyle which would perfect place to learn how to live rest of the life with full of the pleasure and peace. Practically you will learn how to fallow Yama and Niyama. Practice of selfless action will really bring real change in your life. How to be free from expectation and ego will be taught in right way. During your yoga training course you will practice the equality of the all being.

The practice to see the same consciousness within all the creature will remove the conflict of mind and suffering. Buddhas way of non-violence and implementation in your daily life can bring big change in seekers life. You will learn how to balance the celebration and mediation in your busy life. What are the real ethics of yogi will be more clear after this advance level certified yoga and meditation course. How to balance food, rest, thoughts and emotions will be illustrating during your certified advanced yoga teacher training course.

10. Teaching methodology

During your teaching practice you will focus on Asana adjustment, Asana alignments and art of sequencing from one asana to another. How to do demonstrations, observation and correction will be taught. How to begin and end the class will be included on this advance level yoga training course. How to do intense poses without injury and using of essential yoga props will be taught on this yoga training.

You will get information of Management of the yoga hall to create serene environment in this 500 hours advanced yoga teacher training course. You will learn the art of handing the small group and big group of people. Different yoga teaching techniques for beginner, intermediate, advance will be clearly informed during this course. Characteristics of a good yoga teacher will be included during this session. You will learn following things for your better performance during teaching:

• Lesson planning according to group of people
• Principles of demonstration, observation and correction
• Art of Assisting, modifications, instructing
• Way of Finding your own teaching style
• Art of sequencing

Daily schedule

• 07:00 - 08:00 Asana
• 08:00 - 09:00 Philosophy and meditation
• 09:00 - 10:00 Breakfast
• 10:00 - 12:00 Free time
• 12:00 - 13:00 Sequence of yoga poses
• 13:00 - 14:00 Advance series of Asana
• 14:00 - 15:00 Lunch
• 15:00 - 16:00 free time
• 16:00 - 17:00 meditation, breathing and relaxation
• 17:00 - 17:30 tea break
• 17:30 - 18:30 Hatha Yoga
• 19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
• 21:00 Nobel silence

This schedule is subject to be changed. This is just sample schedule it could change according to teacher, climate, topic and requirement.