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Pre-application requirements
- The participants should have already completed 200 hours of yoga teacher training course.
- They should be able to practice the discipline of yoga such as purity, punctuality, early waking up, participation in daily activities, and so on.
- They should be able to motivate themselves to continue with the lifestyle, the school prescribes for them such as attending the classes on time, food, and other guidelines according to the need.
Certifications
Students who complete their training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).
How the training works
During this training, there will 3 daily live sessions for 6 days a week that you have to attend. In total, there are 121 contact hours and 179 non-contact hours (including self-study, assignments, and videos).
Timing of sessions (IST/GMT+5:30)
Tentative schedule
- 06:30 - 08:00 Hatha yoga asana, pranayama, kriya, and relevant practices
- 08:00 - 09:30 Anatomy and teaching methodology
- 16:30 - 18:00 Philosophy and meditation
All times are based on IST/GMT+5:30.
Course Information
The course incorporates a variety of topics. All these topics come under the following heads:
1. Techniques, training, and practice
It incorporates several practices of Hatha yoga which students will study in the yoga teacher training course. They are:
- Asana - Postures of Hatha yoga such as standing, supine, prone - (backward, forward, spine twist), inversion, and balance at intermediate and advance levels
- Pranayama - Udar Svashan, Vaksha Svashan, Griva Svashan, Yogic Svashan, Kapalabhati, Bhastika, Nadi Shodhana, Sheetali, Sheetkari, Bhramari and Ujjayi. In addition, altogether 12 classical pranayama.
- Mudra - Specific, selected, and important gesture to affect the energy in the body.
- Bandha - Important locks to block the flow of energy in the body (Jalandhara Bandha, Uddiyana Bandha, and Moola Bandha).
- Shat-karma - Purificatory practices in yoga (Laghu Sankhaprakshalana, Vaman, Jala Neti, and Sutra Neti).
- Meditation - Intermediate practices of Yoga Nidra, intermediate Kaya asthairyam (stillness of body), intermediate awareness of breath, Antarmouna (inner silence) with conscious creation and disposal of thought and awareness and disposal of spontaneous thoughts, Japa (chanting) of sacred mantra or holy syllables with rosary, Ajapa Japa (spontaneous chanting) with awareness of frontal psychic passage and awareness of frontal psychic passage with SOHAM, Fundamental Dharana (concentration) practices and concentration with sacred mantra, Trataka (gazing) and Group meditation for universal peace and harmony.
2. Teaching methodology
This is a combination of complex topics such as designing yoga class, how to teach different practices of yoga, how to be a good yoga teacher, ethical guidelines, developing communication skills, time management, principles of demonstration, assistance, awareness, correction, styles of teaching, specific needs of individuals in a yoga class and business aspects of yoga teaching, etc.
3. Anatomy and physiology
- Modern human anatomy and physiology - Overview and additional details of (skeleton, muscular, digestive, respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine, and nervous system), urinary system and reproductive system (female and male), immune system, important joints and their movements in different asana and important muscles and their movements in different asana.
- Yoga human anatomy and physiology - discussion on the human body according to Hatha yoga and its relation to the study of the human body in modern study regarding three bodies, five elements, five Kosha, Prana, mind, five sense organs, and five motor organs, Nadi, Chakra, and Kundalini.
- Holistic approach of yoga - Learning how the system of Hatha yoga needs to be incorporated for the human well-being of body, mind, emotion, and spirit.
4. Yoga philosophy, lifestyle, and ethics for yoga teachers
Overview of the fundamental topics from 200-hour Hatha yoga teacher training course, Sristi (creation) and Pralaya (dissolution), concept of Dharma, Dharma and Karma relation, religion and its true essence with reference to the comparative study of different faiths of the world, Hinduism - a way of living with reference to other ism’s as ways of living, Reflection on the life of great Gurus of different parts of the world with special reference to Swami Vivekananda, Bhakti Yoga as the Yoga of Kaliyuga, yogic lifestyle, ethics for a yoga teacher, ethical guidelines as an individual and as a yoga teacher and Yoga Sutra of Patanjali (important topics from all four chapters - Samadhi Pada, Sadhana Pada, Vibhuti Pada, and Kaivalya Pada).
5. Practicum
Practice of teaching different practices in groups as the lead instructor, observing and assisting while others teaching, focusing on specific practices, compiling feedback, etc.
6. Suggested yoga books for the training:
- Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha - Swami Satyananda Saraswati
- Raja Yoga - Swami Vivekananda or
- Four Chapters on Freedom - Swami Satyananda Saraswati
- Yoga Darshan - Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati
- Anatomy and Physiology - not specified
Eligibility
Anyone can join. If the participants have some basic understanding of Yoga classes, then they can receive the knowledge easily. The participants must have proper access to the internet and useful devices that help them follow the program conveniently.
Instructors
Rohit Kumar
Rohit is the founder and lead trainer of Sanatana Yog Sandesh. Literature, metaphysics, Tantra, and yoga have been matters of interest in his life since a young age. Having started yoga classes at Yoga Sansthan, he visited several places to disseminate the principles of yoga along with its practices. He traveled to many countries of the European Union such as the Netherlands, Germany, etc, where he received a lot of exposure to various aspects of human life and could feel how yoga could be implemented into several walks of life.
Niveda Arora
Niveda Arora comes from Delhi. She has been a trained yoga instructor with 5 years of long teaching experiences to various yoga teacher training courses across different states of India and abroad. For the last 2 years Niveda has been in Rishikesh teaching at various toga schools to students coming for yoga teacher training from all parts of the world. In yoga teaching her interests are Hatha, Vinyasa and Anatomy lectures.
Neha Baliyan
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Naomi Nakajima
Naomi Nakajima is a very experienced yoga teacher. She studied many fields of education. She worked as a designer, a stylist and an assistant photographer but she continued as a professional photographer. She moved to the Netherlands and studied medicine for a decent livelihood. After her study, she started working as a pharmacist. She travelled to India to fulfil promises to her mother. Here yoga and meditation became her interest. She did for several years different kinds of yoga trainings like Hatha, Ashtanga, Yin, Kundalini, meditation, Kriya, chanting, prayer, kirtan and rituals etc.
Danny Knight
Danny, from the UK, found his calling much later in life, spending the first 25 years of his career working in London culminating in him becoming head of the department at what is now the world’s largest insurance broker. However, feeling unfulfilled and in great personal suffering he sought out answers and relief through the study of various modern esoteric modalities, as taught by people such as Dr Joe Dispenza. However, this opened Pandora’s box to many experiences he was not able to understand, or in fact, be ready for. This led him to seek knowledge of the forces behind these experiences.
Dr. Rohit
Dr. Rohit Chobe was born and brought up in Haridwar which is one of holy pilgrimages in Uttarakhand, India. He has more than 12 years of experience in Yoga Philosophy and Indian Culture. He did his doctorate in Yogic Science from Uttarakhand Sanskrit University, Haridwar in 2018. He has a wonderful teaching experience as an Assistant Professor in Shoolini University, Solan, Himachal Pradesh from Sep 2021-Sep 2023 which is one of India’s best private Universities. He is a Certified Sound Healer and Reiki Master. His specialisation is in Meditation and Sanskrit Recitation.
Rajia Nautial
Rajiv is a very experienced Yoga teacher. Academically he holds a bachelor’s in Engineering from Graphic Era University. He worked in this field for some months. Later he felt a need to make a substantial change in his life. He found Yoga and he immersed himself in this to experience life deeper. He graduated in Yogic Science from Uttarakhand University and also in Yoga Naturopathy. He is an ERYT 500 Hours. He teaches Asana, Pranayama and meditation.
Yogi Mann
Yogi Mann comes from Delhi, India. He is a very calm and humble yoga practitioner who is always ready to help others in whatever way he can, be it guiding or counselling, teaching the techniques of Pranayama and meditation or teaching the therapeutic effects of Yoga. His main intention is to share with others the real essence of Yoga by which we can make the best use of this human form of life. His journey of Yoga started in teenage when he was quite inquisitive about the deeper truths of life. In search of the real goal of life he came across this beautiful process of Yoga and started practic
Pradeep Singh
Pradeep Singh comes from Rishikesh, Uttarakhand. Pradeep has done a bachelor in Arts. His inclination to Yoga was more dominant so he went for Yoga education. He completed a Yoga Course from Uttarakhand Sanskrit University and another 200 Hours Yoga Teacher Training. He trained students at Nomad Yoga – (May to Aug 2019), taught Hatha Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga and Vinyasa as a part of Yoga teacher training. He trains international clients and International School students conducting online training sessions since 2015 and has trained approximately 150 students in the last 5 years.
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