25 Day 300-Hour Advance Multi-Style Meditation & Yoga Teacher Training in Kathmandu, Nepal

Certification

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

Overview

This course includes many dimension of yoga like yoga asana, pranayama, meditation, yoga philosophy, yoga detox, and mantra chanting, and yoga anatomy. Whatsoever you give the name and brand, yoga teaches the tools which are supportive to every tradition and style of yoga.

This course is advanced not only in twisting and stretching but in the sense of realization and spirituality. This advanced training is for serious and regular practitioners who have already completed a 200-hour teacher training program and want to dive into broad sense of yoga. This course will be one of the best course for those who want to learn more detail art of yoga asanas, pranayama, and meditation.

This is open for anyone who is interested in learning the ancient science of health and spirituality. Those who are good and advance in yoga they have higher understanding, simplicity, less ego, and more positivity.

This TTC is suitable for those who have already gained yoga knowledge but want to sharpen their skills and want to be an expert in the various art of yoga and meditation. After developing a deep commitment to live life like yogi this course will support you. This is a unique opportunity to seek your authentic nature of peace.

They hope including all aspect of yoga will make you a very authentic and all-rounder yoga Guru (master). They believe learning this 300 hours YTT course would supportive to every tradition and style of yoga.

Nepal Yoga Home is established registered yoga school and teachers are recognized as leaders in the field of yoga and meditation in Nepal.

The course is to deepen your yoga and meditation practice and with the support of your experienced teacher, it will be a life-changing experience on the foot of Himalayan and lap of Nagarjuna Jungle. The classes are held in a peaceful place where you find the Himalayas' view in front of you and mountain at the back side. They hope you will fully immerse in your practice in this natural space.

This course is advance in mental and spiritual aspect. They provide high priority for meditation, breathing, philosophy, relaxation, chanting etc. They believe the actual advance practice of yoga is to achieve profound peace transforming the self.

The training is open for sharing your past yoga experience, what you learned, and how you teach. Please do not expect a lot of magic because you have already learned the most popular tools of yoga in your 200 hours certified course but you will try to deepen your own practice to find yourself. This advance TTC believes the highest achievement in life is to achieve oneself rather than postural magic. This course helps to understand your authentic source that who you really are.

This course will be one of the best course for those who want to learn more detail information of eastern yoga philosophy, meditation, and pranayama.

Trainees come out of their advanced yoga teacher training course as confident teachers with a strong and solid teaching skills set ready to begin their yoga career. They have been running this yoga teacher training course for more than a decade so you will achieve the best version of the modified advance level yoga course.

They designed the course for advance yoga seekers. This established method of training has been developed over many years to ensure trainees graduate, be competent, and professional certified and qualified teachers.

Advanced yoga teacher training Nepal Yoga Home will be an interesting and amazing experience to be a part of the Yoga Home family. During this course unknowingly you will find many physical and mental toxics have removed, rest of you will be simple, natural and spontaneous like a yogi. This will be very supportive to make you a qualified yogi, not an exercise master. They will help to nourish your physical, mental, and spiritual body.

Objectives

• Develop higher skills to teach yoga and meditation
• Helps the exploration of student’s past experience
• Helps to advance your yoga career
• For self-transformation and self-realization. This is not only for teaching but it is firstly for self-transformation, then secondly world transformation through teaching
• Helps to transform physical and emotional pain into a journey toward freedom, healing, and liberation
• Teach the mechanism to control the monkey mind
• It provides the environment to deepen your own personal physical and spiritual practice through asanas, pranayama, meditation, and yoga detox (Shat Karma)
• Make capable to guide their students through higher understanding and an effective yoga class after this yoga teacher training course
• To guide you into a greater understanding of your own challenges, both in your yoga practice and in your everyday life

Who can join this training?

• Anyone who wants to discover a peaceful life
• Yoga lover who has completed a 200 hours yoga teacher training or similar and wish to refine and deepen their teaching skills (irrespective of tradition, style, lineage, and school of yoga)
• Those who have many certifications and teaching experience still seeking for true way of practice
• Yoga teachers who are qualified but are looking to take their teaching to the next level
• It is available for all of those who have some past experience with yoga although your eligibility will be assessed after you send them your email. After going through it, they will e-mail you and you can proceed to book your spot by advance deposit
• Those who never have 200 hours yoga teacher training course needs to pass on an online interview. They may ask some questions through email or online talking
• You will receive certification only upon 100% completion of the teacher training course

If you are a beginner or don’t have any certification but very interested in an advanced course, you can join for their 500 hours registered yoga teacher training course directly.

Highlights

• This course starts from the beginning level and reaches up to the higher level
• Expresses the wisdom of your spirit under the pure energy of Himalayas and mountains
• Help you to develop your unique teaching style and command in the yoga and meditation field
• Under the guidance of highly experienced certified Yoga gurus, this will be great knowledge for life and peace
• You will practice this course in a peaceful place on the foot of Nagarjuna Jungle with a panoramic view of Himalaya
• You will be given good guidance on how to deepen your practice of asanas, pranayama, and meditation from your senior teachers
• Deeper knowledge of research based on Hath yoga, traditional Patanjali based Ashtanga yoga (eightfold path of yoga)
• Deep insight into the yoga philosophy
• This is cheapest teacher training course in comparison to other yoga institutes
• After the graduation of this course, you can write the title ‘Registered Yoga Teacher’ or Grand Yoga Master, Acharya etc.
• The students get chance to do teaching practice under the guidance of competent teacher which helps to share knowledge with each other
• Involvement in selfless activities conducted at ashram without any ego and development of a positive atmosphere in the yoga ashram
• Study of Chakras and their natures
• Learning about mudra and lock system in detail
• Cleansing your body with nutrition and traditional yoga and meditation techniques
• You will get a chance to study yoga therapies (yoga for specific diseases)
• Increase strength, flexibility, and self-natural discipline
• The students also get an opportunity to meet the Ayurveda experts who help to arrange your diet and lifestyle
• Good to develop the stamina to increase your mental, physical, and spiritual health
• Helpful to elevate motivation and energy level
• Nepal Yoga Home is located in a peaceful environment amidst the mountains yet not far from the city which helps in the inner transformation of body, and mind
• Experience expanded connection with spiritual powers and self-realization

What will you learn in this training?

They explain the details of asanas and its therapeutic effect on the human body including benefits. You will learn the alignment of the postures and secondly to adjust the postures. You will learn more importantly how to integrate the body and mind during the practice and after practice.

Nepal Yoga Home teaches a yogic lifestyle, which is healthy for happy living and the release of stress from a past life. This advanced course includes therapeutic yoga for some non-communicable diseases like heart disease, high blood pressure, stress, anxiety, sleep disorder, back pain, cervical pain, gastritis, obesity, etc.

Students will learn yoga with the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of the human body which is good for balancing every aspect of life. Yoga philosophy makes you clear about the illusion and misconception about yoga and inspires to be positive and happy living.

You will learn how to manage a class for different groups and levels. Also, you achieve knowledge of safety and interpersonal teaching skills. Mantra chanting will help to purify your mind and yoga detox will helpful to purify your body. Their powerful tools of meditation will be a life-changing experience for your whole journey of life.

Syllabus

Advanced yoga teacher training includes different dimensions of yoga like asana, pranayama, meditation, yoga detox, yoga philosophy, mantra chanting etc. So every style and tradition student can be benefited from this advanced level of yoga training course in Nepal Yoga Home.

• Yoga asana
• Meditation
• Pranayama
• Philosophy, lifestyle, and ethics
• Yoga anatomy
• Banda
• Mudra
• Teaching methodology and practicum
• Yoga detoxification
• Mantra chanting and Kirtan
• Yogic relaxation and yoga Nidra

Yoga asanas

Concept and practice of Multi-style yoga – Hatha yoga, Patanjali-based Ashtanga yoga, Sivananda yoga, Restorative yoga, Iyengar yoga etc. They teach the most popular and more than 100 asanas and hands-on adjustments.

You will learn the primary series and intermediate series. Only if you get perfection in this series you will get the advanced series. Otherwise, you can practice later when you're back at home but they will provide you with all the ways to reach to advance level.

You will get the concept of Sanskrit name of asana, adjustment of asana, benefits of asana, the contradiction of asana, awareness of asana etc. The main asana group that will teach are as follows:

• Beginner, intermediate, and advanced series yoga posture according to the capacity
• Antirheumatic yoga posture
• Sun salutation classical and modern approach
• Moon salutation
• Yogic warm up
• Strengthening yoga postures
• Arm balance yoga postures
• Balancing yoga postures
• Inversion yoga postures
• Chest opening yoga postures
• Core strengthening yoga postures
• Hip opening yoga postures
• Forward bending yoga postures
• Back bending yoga postures
• Restorative yoga postures
• Seated yoga postures
• Standing yoga postures
• Lying yoga postures
• Twisting yoga postures
• Some classical sequence of yoga postures

Meditation

Trainees will learn different styles of meditation. They teach meditation based on Vijnana Bhairava Tantra which has 112 techniques of meditation. It was directly given by Lord Shiva to his devotee Parbati. They teach meditation based on Buddha Style and their old scripture Veda, Purana, Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita. The meditation course is led by a highly experienced yoga guru in Nepal.

The major attraction of this course is the different styles of meditation in-depth level. They think all the practice of asana, pranayama, and chanting are just preparation to achieve deeper meditation. The objective of yoga is to liberate your monkey mind. Without meditation, it seems impossible.

So, meditation has a vital role in yoga. You also will learn yogic relaxation. Yogic relaxation is the foundation to prepare your mind for meditation. They teach the following meditation techniques:

• Breathing meditation
• Naada Brama Meditaiton
• Jyoti meditation
• Kundalini meditation
• So-Ham meditation
• Chakra meditation
• Colorful meditation
• Buddha Style of meditation
• Vipassana meditation
• Soulful meditation
• Dynamic meditation
• Walking meditation

Pranayama

Pranayama is made by two words “prana'' which means vital energy in the body and ''Ayama'' mean expansion. So the Pranayama is the expansion of life energy through the regulation of breath. The student will learn basic to advanced level breathing art during the discourse.

Trainees will do teaching practice of pranayama as part of the exam. This teaching practice of breathing science helps to share different ways of breathing with your friends, also you will gain the many varieties of breathing.

This pranayama course takes place under the guidance of a highly experienced yoga and meditation teacher. You will experience how a disturbance in the mind may be related to disturbances in the breath and ways to still the mind by breathing science.

This is supportive to learn how to manipulate and control the 'Prana' to develop your life energy. The practice of pranayama will be helpful to purify the Nadis (nervous and blood circulatory channels). Also, you will learn how to combine breathing with yoga posture.

In pranayama you will learn the following things:

• The process of awakening pranic energy
• Benefits of pranayama and difference between prana and pranayama
• The pranic body and Prana and lifestyle
• Breath, health, and pranayama
• Breathing and life span
• General notes and contraindications of pranayama
• Five kinds of pranic energy-Prana, Apana, Samana, Udana and Vyana
• Mechanism of breathing
• Mantra and pranayama
• The concept of pranayama in ancient yoga texts books
• Techniques covered abdominal, thoracic and clavicular breathing, yogic breathing
• Kapalabhati, Bastrika, Ujjayi, Nadi Shodana, Surya bhedana, Chandra bhedana, Anuloma-Viloma, Shithali, Shitkari, Bhramaree, Anulom Viloma Pranayam and their advanced variations.

Practical aspect of pranayama

• Four aspects of pranayama- Antar Kumbhak, Bahir Kumbhak, Purak and rechak
• Natural breathing: Stage A and stage B
• Yogic breathing: Abdominal breathing, Thoracic breathing, and Clavicular breathing
• Bhastrika pranayama: Stage A, stage B, left nostril, right nostril, and both nostril
• Kapalbhati pranayama: Left nostril, right nostril, both nostril, alternative nostril
• Anulom-Vilom pranayama
• Nadishodhana pranayama: Three- dimensional Nadishodhana pranayama and Four- dimensional Nadishodhana pranayama
• Bharamari pranayama
• Ujjsayi pranayama
• Moorchha pranayama
• Surya Bheda pranayama
• Chandra Bheda pranayama
• Sheetali pranayama
• Seetkari pranayama

Bandhas

Bandha means to lock or close-off. In the practice of a Bandha, the pranic energy flows to a particular area of the body. Then you lock by the practice of bandha to activate the energy of any specific part.

• Meaning and concept of Bandha
• Benefits and effect of bandha
• Relation of bandha and pranayama
• Jalandara bandha
• Uddiyana Bandha
• Moola bandha
• Maha Bandha

Techniques of mudras

Mudras mean gestures of hands or body combining with pranayama. Mudra directs a flow of energy into different parts of your body and mind. The main mudra that they teach are as follows:

• Jnana mudra
• Yoni mudra
• Bhairava mudra
• Bhairavi mudra
• Hridaya mudra
• Shambhavi mudra
• Nasikagra mudra
• Khechari mudra
• Kaki mudra
• Bhujangini mudra
• Bhoochari mudra
• Akashi mudra
• Shanmukhi mudra
• Unmani mudra etc.

Teaching Methodology and Practicum

By observing yourself, and others, and receiving direct feedback, you will be guided by highly experienced yogis. This process will be helpful to develop an understanding between your actions and their effects. You will also be capable of further development of your particular yoga style through this effective guidance of teaching practice.

The student may participate from all different backgrounds and since each student has a different level of experience in practice and teaching, the teaching practice can be the best way to share knowledge with each other. The main attraction of this course is all the students are from different yogic traditions and are very interested to exchange knowledge with each other.

Practicum

• Art of lesson plan
• Class observation
• Design and teach your own style and learn different styles with your yoga friends from a different corners of the world
• Yoga and meditation teaching practice
• This moment makes you the perfect teacher in the yoga and meditation world!

Philosophy, lifestyle, and ethics

The training covers yoga philosophy, lifestyle, and ethics of yoga. You will learn yoga philosophy to a higher standard which helps to change your mathematical mind to a yogic mind.

Nepal Yoga Home believes that yoga is your lifestyle. Your stay in Nepal Yoga Home can be a great lesson for your yogic lifestyle. The food you eat, love you share, a life you celebrate which will encourage you to be a real yogic living.

This course covers the basic concept of Vatha, Pitta, and Kapha. Which is the principle of the classical medical system in Nepal. In this training, they also teach yoga ethics and ethics of yoga teachers which makes you higher standards of the yogi (male yoga practitioner) or yogini (female yoga practitioner). Also, you will learn the following main topics:

• Concept of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras
• Eight dimensions of yoga
• History of yoga
• Handling of the mind and emotions according to yoga principle
• The role of ritual and ceremony in stress management in modern life
• The business of yoga: how to market your skills and where to teach
• The ethics of yoga: The yoga code for teachers
• How to stay inspired yogi
• Hindrance in yogic path
• Type of Chitta and type of Vritti
• The concept of yoga according to Bhagavad Gita
• The concept of yoga according to Veda and Upanishads
• You will learn much more about your life and your mind stuff
• Raja yoga, Bhakti yoga, Karma yoga, and Gyana yoga
• Seven different body
• Eight Nobel truth of Buddha etc.

Yoga anatomy

They do not focus on vast anatomy of yoga but they provide general concept on how you can prevent injury and some relation between the body system and practice of yoga.

• Anatomy terminology
• Knee, Hip, shoulder, and elbow joints
• Joint health and mobility
• Introduction of an important system in the body
• Musculo-Skeletal system
• Digestive system
• Respiratory system
• Cardiovascular system
• Endocrine system etc.

Subtle yogic anatomy

• Seven chakras system and glandular system
• Nadi system and Kundalini energy
• Concept of yoga and pancakosa: Annamaya, Praṇamaya, Manomaya, Vijnanamaya, and Anandamaya kosa etc.

Yoga detoxification

Hatha Yogi Gherand says posture gives steadiness, breathing gives lightness, and meditation help to realize the self and yoga detox (Shat Karma) purifies a whole body. This course covers the yoga detox (six cleansing processes of yoga). You are not only learning the process, but also you will experience the best time to detox your body and mind.

Part of yoga detoxification includes cleansing practices of the body and mind. Ancient yogic purifying practices called Sat Karma (six processes of cleansing) which is very effective tools for detoxification in this modern time.

While attending the training, you will detox your mind through meditation and physical body by Sat karma and Pranic body by pranayama. You will not only start to feel good internally you will also look good with a new lush on your skin and shining in your face.

This is a perfect time to change your in new healthy yoga life by yogic detox process. After this course, you will be capable of cleansing the body by yourself and able to teach other people too. Yogic detoxification is very supportive for the elimination and excretion of toxins from the body and mind.

Mantra chanting and Kirtan

Mantra has a literal meaning to guide or control of the mind. You will uplift your emotional life through the chanting of powerful mantras. Mantra chanting is the best way to inspire in mantra meditation which is very supportive to go beyond the body and mind. The practice of chanting mantras, sharing love, and dancing in Kirtan will nourish your life at Nepal Yoga Home.

Kirtan is a higher tool to connect the individual soul to the universal soul. Kirtan is a Sanskrit word which involves the singing and praying the divine in his/her devotion. This sacred mantra and Kirtan help to develop spiritual power. Students will learn the following:

• Chanting of different mantras which are universally relevant and acceptable
• The basic rules of chanting, with an explanation of the meanings of these chants
• Correct rhyme and spelling of the mantras
• Kirtan chanting in a group
• Positive effects on emotions
• Correct pronunciation and mental attitude of chanting - Mantra
• Mantra for the Modern Yogi
• Mantra meditations
• Mantra and divine dance

Yogic relaxation and yoga Nidra

There are a lot of ways you can take your mind into a deep relaxation state, among them yoga Nidra is the most effective technique to get relax. While the practitioner rests comfortably in savasana (corpse pose), there will be a systematic process of breathing, and visualization for deep relaxation. On this profound relaxation, students can experience near-death experiences. For a while, students get free from their minds, thoughts, desires, suffering etc.

Yoga Nidra offers a space to explore what you are, as well as an opportunity to work on releasing long-held emotions from this life to past life. So yoga Nidra is an effective way of detoxification. Over time you continue to experience the suppressed emotion and associated feelings are removed on a deeper level. Finally, you will be free from all the negative emotions and thoughts, just your purse conscious state will have left.

Rules and regulation

Nepal Yoga Home respect you very much but they have some rules to maintain the purity and quality of the yogic lifestyle. Here are some rules and regulations:

• 1. This is a yoga home place to balance your body, mind and soul. Please do not compare it to a hotel or resort. This is your laboratory of life to experiment with yourself in front of truth.
• 2. Alcohol, cigarette or any other drugs are not allowed.
• 3. Nepal Yoga Home are vegetarian so they are providing you with vegetarian/ vegan food. You are not allowed to bring meat inside the yoga home.
• 4. If you have difficulty to adjust in vegetarian, Nepali and yogic food there is a restaurant within 5-10 minutes' walking distance. If you like to take additional food or something you can bring yourself from the city which is just 20 min walking distance from the yoga home.
• 5. Nepal Yoga Home provide laundry service at an additional cost
• 6. Please try to deepen in your own practice and try to deepen the silence after 9 p.m. Nepal Yoga Home normally closes the gate after 9 p.m. Their principle is early to bed and early wake-up.
• 7. Nepal Yoga Home are not responsible for injury cases but they suggest practicing according to your own capacity.
• 8. Nepal Yoga Home provide a shared yoga mat. If you need personal yoga you can buy an organic yoga mat with them.
• 9. Keep your room, toilet and yoga hall clean feel more responsible for cleanness as part of karma Yoga (selfless action).
• 10. Nepal Yoga Home have pure drinking water if you are very sensitive to changing the water you can buy distilled water in shops.
• 11. Upgrade of course is possible but downgrade is not possible.
• 12. Please do not speak during mealtime.

Daily Schedule

The daily schedule includes yoga classes on different topics. Daily yoga classes, guided meditation, pranayama, philosophy, and yogic discussion by nationally renowned teachers (Guru).

This is a sample schedule so it may change according to subjects, topics, and situations:

• 07:00 - 08:30 Yoga asanas (Yoga posture)
• 08:30 - 09:00 Tea break
• 09:00 - 10:00 Self-practice/ advanced asana
• 10:00 - 10:30 Breakfast
• 10:30 - 12:00 Sight-seeing, countryside hiking / Karma yoga (it depends on student choice)
• 12:00 - 13:00 Yogic Relaxation and mantra chanting
• 13:00 - 14:00 Rest
• 14:00 - 15:00 Lunch
• 15:00 - 16:00 Meditation
• 16:00 - 16:30 Tea break
• 16:30 - 18:00 Yoga workshop
• 18:00 - 18:30 Break
• 18:30 - 19:30 Yoga Philosophy
• 19:30 - 20:30 Dinner
• 20:30 Free time/ Celebration/ question answer/ campfire etc.
• 20:45 Bed

Note: classes are held 6 days a week and the 7th day is the day off for optional trips to cultural and spiritual places (They provide free guidance then students go themselves in groups). One hour of selfless service (Karma yoga) to the yoga home community is optional.