Want to become a yoga teacher and achieve a personal breakthrough this year? Deepen your practice or start a new career that you will truly love and become passionate about!

This 200-hour training course is open to all levels of yogis but requires practice. Regardless of the level of
your practice, the course will teach you the fundamentals of yoga and help you to develop a strong
the foundation upon which to build your teaching and practice.
This course is also a great foundation for those who wish to make yoga teaching a career and fulfill their
passion for Yoga. As the course is demanding, the applicant should be in good physical condition. What is most important is that the applicant arrives with an open mind and an eagerness to learn.

For this course, you can choose a weekend option of 24 sessions or a weekday option of 40 sessions.

This Course Is Open To:

• Regular practitioners of meditation and yoga willing to deepen their practice
• Students who want to take meditation teaching as a career
• Yoga teachers willing to acquire meditation teaching skills
• Anyone who wants to commit to a disciplined lifestyle
• Anyone seeking personal transformation

Course Outline:

• Asanas:
  • Historical context
  • Technique, training and practice
  • Poses specific to RYS's lineage - includes sukhasana and savasana
  • Complete sequencing (asana, pranayama, meditation) to achieve particular effect safely
  • Anatomical and alignment principles plus contraindications
• Pranayama and Subtle Body
  • Historical context
  • Effects of pranayam on anatomy and subtle body
  • Complete sequencing of pranayama safely, including alternatives and adaptations
  • Ujjayi, Nadi Shodhana, Kapalabhati, among others
  • Koshas, kleshas, chakras, nadis and prana vayus
• Meditation:
  • Key Meditation terms
  • Meditation methods by lineage
  • Ability to practice meditation
  • Chanting, mantras and mudras
• Anatomy
  • Major bones
  • Types of joints
  • Major muscles involved in asanas
  • Types of muscles contraction
• Physiology
  • Nervous system includes fight, flight, stress response, vagal theory, overall mind-body connection
  • Cardiovascular/circulatory, endocrine, digestive systems as they relate to yoga practice
  • The respiratory system includes muscles that affect breathing, involuntary breath, how air enters and leaves the body
• BioMechanics
  • Types of join movements
  • Join stabilization
  • Safe movement as it pertains to balancing, stretching awareness and physical limitations
  • Contraindications, misalignments, adaptations
• History
  • Term 'yoga'
  • School's lineage, style and methodology
  • Dates and key ideas such as Vedas, Vedanta, Hatha, Modern
• Philosophy
  • Definition of yoga and key terms
  • Relationship between asana, pranayama, meditation
  • Familiarity with major yogic texts (Yoga Sutras, Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, Hatha Yoga Pradipika)
  • Self-reflection on how philosophy relates to the practice
• Ethics
  • Awareness of Yoga Sutras
  • Comprehension of responsibility to increase equity in yoga
  • Accountability measures
  • Self-reflection on how yoga ethics relate to the practice
• Teaching Methodology
  • Sequencing
  • Pace
  • Environment
  • Cueing (verbal, visual, physical)
  • Class management
• Professional Development
  • Lifetime of learning and continuing education
  • General professionalism including timelines, consistency, cleanliness
  • Marketing and promotion
  • Yoga teaching process
• Practice Teaching
  • Knowledge , skills and experience teaching yoga
  • Mentorship component includes apprenticeship and feedback

About the instructors:

Dr. Swami Mahavanam

Dubai-based professional and experienced yoga teacher with more than 40 years of experience and featured in Khaleej Times and Yogalife UAE

• Bachelor's degree in alternative medicine, Ph.D. in yoga and energy therapy, quantum therapy practitioner, Chinese and ayurvedic acupressure practitioner, graduate in astrotherapy, and classical homeopathy
• Currently teaching traditional hatha yoga and various meditation classes, conducting several corporate even

Rachita Bhat

• Certified ashtanga, vinyasa, meditation, and yin yoga teacher
• Earned certificate of yin yoga with Sebastian Pucelle
• Sound healer expert for nada yoga
• Certified reiki healer
• REPS UAE certified instructor
• Registered Yoga Alliance 200-Hour E-RYT

Peeyush Paliwal

• Certified ashtanga, hatha yoga, and vinyasa teacher
• Studied and gained yoga knowledge in Rishikesh, India
• Expert in alignment-based yoga with excellent teaching skills

Kala Shekhar

• Certified anatomy and hatha yoga teacher from the UK
• Expert in chair yoga and hatha yoga with a traditional approach
• Expert in teaching methodology