Our teacher training runs as a 24-day residential course in Rishikesh, the town on the Ganges where this practice has been taught for centuries. It is the internationally recognised foundation level — the qualification you need before you can teach a class of your own.
The course covers far more than postures. You will study alignment and adjustment in Hatha and kriya, functional anatomy, pranayama, meditation, yogic philosophy and the ethics of teaching. From the second week you begin teaching your peers, so by graduation you have already led real classes rather than only read about them.
We keep groups to twelve students. That means your teacher knows your body, your questions get answered properly, and nobody disappears at the back of the room. Most of our students arrive with a home practice and no teaching experience at all — that is exactly who this course is built for.
The largest part of the course. You practise twice a day and study complete kriyas — the posture, the breath and the bandhas that hold them together — broken down piece by piece rather than simply followed.
Hatha asana is taught alongside as the foundation the kriyas sit on, and you learn to read other bodies: where a shape is being compensated for, when to offer a prop, and how to adjust safely and with consent. By the end you understand not only how a practice should look, but what it is moving and who it is not for.
Knowing a posture and being able to teach it are different skills. This module covers how to build a safe, intelligent kriya sequence, how to cue with your voice instead of demonstrating everything, and how to hold a room of mixed abilities without losing anyone.
From the second week you teach your peers, with a senior teacher watching and giving feedback afterwards. It is the part students find most daunting and, almost without exception, the part they say changed the most by graduation.
Every morning begins with breathwork before the body moves. You learn nadi shodhana, kapalabhati, bhastrika and ujjayi properly — the contraindications as much as the technique — along with the shatkarma cleansing practices the tradition treats as preparation.
Meditation is taught the same way: gradually, and with enough repetition that it becomes practice rather than theory. You learn how a mantra is used and how attention is held, and you close most days with chanting and silent sitting.
Enough functional anatomy to keep your future students safe. We work through the spine, hips and shoulders — how they actually move, where they commonly get injured, and which postures are unwise for which conditions.
The second half turns to the subtle body: nadis, chakras, the prana vayus and the granthis — the map the tradition works from, taught as a working framework rather than decoration. The two sit together more comfortably than most people expect.
We read Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and parts of the Bhagavad Gita in plain language, with time to argue about them. The eight limbs are treated as something to practise off the mat, not a diagram to memorise for an exam.
The module closes on ethics, and we do not rush it: consent in adjustment, the power a teacher holds in a room, and the boundaries that matter in any room where people practise. It is the conversation most trainings skip and the one graduates thank us for.
Yoga and Ayurveda are sister sciences, and you live the second one for the whole month. You will identify your own dosha, learn what aggravates and settles it, and understand why the food served here is cooked the way it is.
We cover dinacharya — the daily routine — along with seasonal eating and simple home remedies. These are the habits that keep a practice sustainable long after the certificate is in your hands.
Choose the certification path that matches your journey — from foundational training to a complete master’s course.
Beginner
Foundation Course
A strong foundation in asana, pranayama and yogic philosophy — the perfect start to your teaching journey.
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Advanced Course
Deepen your practice with advanced kriyas, the chakra system and refined teaching methodology.
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Master Course
The complete path — combining 200 and 300-hour training into a full master’s certification.
Book NowRishikesh has hundreds of schools. These are the four things that genuinely set our training apart.
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Plenty of schools in Rishikesh run courses of thirty or forty. We cap every batch at twelve, because past that a teacher stops correcting individuals and starts managing a crowd.
It means your alignment gets adjusted by name, your questions get answered properly, and nobody spends a month quietly struggling at the back of the room.
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Our teachers grew up inside this tradition and have between ten and twenty-five years behind them. They are not visiting instructors working through a franchise syllabus.
That shows up in the small things — knowing three ways into a kriya, spotting the compensation before you feel it, and answering a question on philosophy without reaching for a book.
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From the second week you teach your peers, with a senior teacher watching and giving you honest feedback afterwards. Not one demonstration at the end of the month — repeated practice.
Graduates consistently tell us this is the difference between holding a certificate and being able to walk into a studio and lead a class on their first day.
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Your room, three sattvic meals a day, course manual, materials and every session are covered by one fee. No surprise costs halfway through the month.
Living on campus also means you are not commuting between a hostel and the shala at five in the morning — the practice and the rest sit in the same place.
Settling in, and rebuilding the basics from the ground up.
The syllabus widens and you teach for the first time.
The harder work, and how to sequence it safely.
You run real classes and close the course.
Course materials and the full printed manual are provided on arrival. Ask us for a detailed day-by-day schedule.
Training days start before sunrise and run until the evening meditation. The rhythm is demanding at first, but by the second week most students say it is the steadiest their body and mind have ever felt.
Saturdays finish after the morning session and Sundays are free for rest, self-study or exploring Rishikesh. Timings shift a little with the season.
Your room and your meals are included in the course fee from the day you arrive to the day you leave. Both are looked after for you, so the only thing left to think about is the training itself.
Every trainee stays on campus, a two-minute walk from the shala, in a room that looks out over the Himalayan foothills or the valley below. Rooms have an attached bathroom with hot and cold running water, fresh linen and towels, and daily housekeeping. They are quiet enough to sleep properly, which matters more than you would expect on a course that starts at half past five in the morning.
Twin-share rooms are included as standard and are how most students prefer to stay — sharing the month with someone on the same journey is part of the experience. Private single rooms and air-conditioned rooms are available for a supplement if you would rather have your own space; just tell us when you book.
Our kitchen is purely sattvic. Three fresh vegetarian meals a day are cooked with seasonal produce from local farms, and there is no meat, no fish and no eggs anywhere on campus. Sattvic food is light and easy to digest, which is exactly what you want when an afternoon practice follows lunch by a couple of hours.
Breakfast follows the morning practice, lunch is the main meal of the day, and dinner is deliberately lighter and served early so you sleep well. Herbal tea is available throughout the day. If you are vegan, gluten-free or have any allergies, tell us before you arrive and our cook will adjust your plate rather than your experience.
Sundays are free and the afternoons are yours. The festival arranges these trips for anyone who wants to see the town their practice comes from.
Almost everything you need for the 24 days is already in the price. Here is exactly what is covered, what is not, and what to put in your bag.
Arrive with your bag and the rest is arranged for you.
No hidden extras — the course fee is the total you pay us.
Budget for these separately — we are happy to help arrange any of them.
Tell us what you need before you travel and we will arrange it at cost.
Rishikesh has shops for anything you forget, so pack light.
Laundry is included, so a week of clothes is plenty for the whole course.
Our courses run every month of the year. Every price includes your room, three sattvic meals a day and all course materials.
Prices are per person in US dollars for the full 24-day course. A deposit secures your place and the balance is due on arrival. Group discounts are available for three or more students booking together.
Our next course begins on 1 October 2026. Group sizes are held deliberately low so the teaching stays personal, and the seats go early.
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