This yoga teacher training is a unique program for national and international yoga students from different traditions of yoga to experience the intensive and spiritual learning of traditional yoga. For many years, Vasishta Yoga has trained several yoga teachers all over the world. The focus of this course is to bring a practitioner's level to the teacher level and eventually, the master level, both in life and yoga.
The aim of the training is to prepare students to be competent and confident yoga masters whilst guiding them to deepen their own understanding of yoga and its practical application in everyday life.
Course content
The main purpose of advanced yoga practice is to help the student develop mentally, physically, and spiritually. The systematic and regular practice of classical asanas, pranayama, kriyas, mudras, bandhas, and deeper relaxation techniques will help to remove internal blockages and is a deep internal cleansing process. The three main aspects covered by the course are physical, pranic, and mental.
The physical aspect of the course aims to teach different advance asanas on a deeper level, incorporating special sequences and different styes and variations of asanas. Special techniques will be taught that allow the performance of complex asanas in a simple way.
Asanas not only increase physical fitness and flexibility of the body, but also help overcome physical blockages such as tension and stiffness of muscles. Each student will be expected to participate in daily practice (including morning practice on weekends).
The second part of the course will develop the student’s deeper practice on a pranic level. You will develop advanced pranayama practice to cleanse the nadis (energy channels) and learn how to release the inner blockages in chakras through chakra purification techniques. Advanced techniques of asana, pranayama, mudra, bandha, as well as various kriyas for cleansing the internal organs, are the special contribution of this course.
Finally, the course will also look at the mind through different ancient Tantric meditation and the techniques of Kriya yoga meditation, which help cleanse and strengthen the manomaya kosha. You will also practice mantra chanting, selected part of yoga philosophy, and basic and advanced yoga Nidra.
This course is offered once every two years in India for a very limited and select number of students only. The training will incorporate a 70% practical and 30% theoretical course structure. The daily schedule includes seven to eight hours of classes a day and every weekend is given to the student to develop personal practice or free time.
Daily schedule
- 05:30 Wake up
- 06:00 Meditation
- 06:30 Classical asana practice
- 09:00 Breakfast
- 10:00 Karma yoga
- 11:15 Mantra chanting
- 11:45 Advanced prayanama or meditation
- 13:15 Lunch and rest
- 15:45 Teaching and methodology of practice or lecture
- 19:00 Advance asana practice
- 20:00 Dinner
Training curriculum
Advanced practice of asanas
- Alignment techniques
- Basic to advance flow in asanas
- Special sequence
- Styles in postures
- Variations
- Works with physical blockages
Advanced practice of pranayama
- Ancient methods of Tantric pranayamas
- Mantra pranayama
- Sequence of classical pranayama
- Swara yoga pranayama
Advanced practice of Shat Kriya
- Basic and advance Shat Kriya from ancient Hatha yoga system
Advanced practice of mudras and bandhas
- Classical bandha follow with Tantric mudras
Advanced practice of meditation
- Advanced Tantric meditation
- Ajapa japa meditation
- Antar Mouna meditation
- Kriya yoga meditation
- Mantra yoga meditation
- Prana yoga meditation
- Tattwa Shuddi meditation
Ayurveda
- Basic introduction to Ayurveda
Naturopathy
Naturopathy is a natural approach to improving health and treating illness which focuses on the use of natural substance and treatments. Naturopathy believes that all healing power are within your body. It advocates aiding the human system to remove the causes of diseases, such as toxins, by expelling the unwanted matter from the body.
Tantric Japa yoga
- Mantra chanting - pure Tantric approach to inner purification practice of Japa yoga
