Yoga Instructor Training Online | Yoga Alliance Certification Online

• In the Hatha Vinyasa yoga teacher training, you will have the opportunity to immerse yourself in the asana experience as you learn to teach basic Hatha yoga series with a focus on breath coordination, lines of energy, modifications, and adjustment.

  The practices of pranayama (science of breath), meditation, and chanting will be introduced to enrich you as well as provide you with the skill to lead these practices as they might relate to a yoga class. You will learn how to give guided classes and become teachers of asana and meditation.

  • Learn asanas in a traditional Indian way
  • Learn the different aspects of yoga: pranayama, mudras, bandhas, kriyas
  • Study the Vedanta philosophy and the most important yogic text, Bhagwad Gita

• The Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga teacher training will push you to go further than you ever thought possible. Known as the most physically demanding of yoga, Ashtanga Vinyasa embraces the philosophy that it is through your physical bodies that you will clear your mental bodies which allows the true self to shine forth. This process unfolds by carefully following an eight-limited path laid out by the Sage Patanjali.

  In the training, you will focus on the eight limbs of Ashtanga yoga. You will study in-depth all eight limbs and practice them. You will be learning the primary series of Ashtanga yoga (yoga Chikitsa), how to give guided classes, and become teachers of asana. You will also learn to steady the mind (dharana) focus the mind (dyhana) and work towards entering into mediation (samadhi).

  For both trainings, you will be studying the yoga sutras of Patanjali, Hatha yoga Pradipika, anatomy of yoga, pranayama, and Ayurveda among other subjects.

  • Practice the primary series of Ashtanga Vinyasa by K. Pattabhi Jois
  • Lead class and self-practice (Mysore style)
  • Learn how to adjust the students
  • Learn how to modify the difficult poses
  • Create your own Vinyasa sequence
  • Key points: Ujjayi breath, Drishti, and bandhas

• On the surface, a Yin practice might seem uneventful. In Yin yoga, one of many types of yoga, sequences are a series of slow, long holds and mat-based postures that stretch out the connective tissues and fascia in the body. It is a practice for all levels of yogis.

  Unlike Vinyasa and other yoga styles, in Yin, all you need to do is relax in the pose. But this, as most people know from meditation, often is not as easy or comfortable as it sounds! To do Yin is to give over control such a rare and therapeutic concept in modern-day lives.

  • Yin yoga meridian opening practice
  • Heal your body and calm your mind
  • Introduction to Chinese medicine: meridians, organs, fascia
  • Yin yang theory

• Philosophy is the core of any subject and yoga is no different, without philosophy similar body without yoga is a consciousness. Philosophy classes at Bhakyi Yogshala are conducted in an environment, where the interactive process not only allows participants to learn and navigate how to form questions but also helps them reach their own answers regarding mundane, emotional, and spiritual life.

  Bhakti Yogshala has experienced that the quality of questions determines the quality of life and if one knows the techniques or the path to reach the answers, life becomes the playground of possibilities. One of the major outcomes of this is the development of interpersonal communicational skills, which refine the perception and responses towards the events of life for an enhanced experience of it.

  • Yoga history, philosophy, and lifestyle
  • What is yoga
  • History of yoga
  • Yogic texts
  • Paths of yoga
  • Ayurveda
  • Koshas
  • Pranas
  • Nadis
  • Chakras
  • Pranayama
  • Bandhas
  • Mudras
  • Shat Karmas
  • Meditation

• As humans, you are expressions of the universal pranic energy or the prana (life force). However, improper lifestyles and unconscious untrained ways of breathing processes hamper your life force and unbalance your body and mind increasing stress, anxiety, and fears in your mind. In your course, you will learn how to breathe properly and to guide and expand prana or life force in the right way to connect to your higher self.

  • Nadi Shodhana pranayama
  • Surya Bheda pranayama
  • Sheetali pranayama
  • Seetkari pranayama
  • Bhramari pranayama
  • Bhastrika pranayama
  • Kapalbhati pranayama

• Yoga Nidra
• Breathing meditation
• Sufi meditation
• Trataka (candlelight meditation)
• Cyclic meditation (stress management)
• Active meditations

• In Bhakti yoga, you draw heavily on cultivating and expressing love and devotion for deities in the Hindu pantheon. The ecstatic experience of singing, chanting, and Satsang cultivates an atmosphere for emotional expression and healing while at the same time allowing the practitioner to set the stage for experiencing the divine within the self.

  • Meditation
  • Chants and pranayama (forms of chanting, Om, various pranayamas)
  • Sanskrit (Basic Sanskrit)
  • Performing bhajan-kirtan
  • Havan (opening fire ceremony for invocation of energy)
  • Ajapa-Japa (repetition of a mantra)
  • Dancing / music

• Mud therapy
• Colour therapy
• Fasting
• Other basic detoxification techniques

• Lifestyle and ethics of a yoga teacher
• Classroom management
• Principles of observation
• Demonstrations
• Assisting and hands-on adjustment techniques
• Correct alignment and potential risks of yoga postures
• Practicum classes
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Ayurveda is considered by many scholars to be the oldest healing science. In Sanskrit, Ayurveda means “The Science of Life.” Ayurvedic knowledge originated in India more than 5,000 years ago and is often called the “Mother of All Healing.” It stems from the ancient Vedic culture and was taught for many thousands of years in an oral tradition from accomplished masters to their disciples.

Some of this knowledge was set to print a few thousand years ago, but much of it is inaccessible. The principles of many of the natural healing systems now familiar in the West have their roots in Ayurveda, including homeopathy and polarity therapy.

• Learn the basics of Ayurveda: principles and theory
• Body constitutions: three doshas
• Relation between Ayurveda and yoga
• Five elements
• Diet and nutrition according to Ayurveda

Anatomy in a Western context is about physicality. But according to yoga, anatomy also includes energy and subtle body systems. As the students delve into the five vital energies, the seven tissues, three fundamental qualities (gunas), and subtle channels (nadis), they gain an understanding of a deeper level of their existence that grounds their nine systems of the human body.

• Introduction to anatomy
• Skeletal system
• Muscular system
• Nervous system
• Endocrine system
• Respiratory system
• Circulatory system
• Digestive system
• Excretory system
• Reproductive system

In the asana clinic, students will learn about posture.

• Learning bodies (posture, body assessment, appreciating the uniqueness of different body types, Bandhas, and more)
• Asanas (70+ asanas covered across 9 asana categories), modifications, benefits, and contraindications Included for every asana

Topics:

• Entering
• Exiting
• Alignment cues
• Common errors
• Modifications
• Variations
• Benefits
• Contraindications