300 Hours Advanced Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training Course

Our 300 hour Advanced Vinyasa TTC is curated to give you all the knowledge, skills and confidence to enhance and augment your yoga practice and teaching. The focus is on Vinyasa style and also to deepen the understanding on applied anatomy, alignment and adjustments. The course is designed in a way to help see yourself as a confident senior yoga teacher. Pranayama, meditation and applied philosophy are integrated into the course. This course is based on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. Apart from the rigorous asana practice, we emphasize on the other limbs - Yamas, Niyamas, Pranayama and Meditation also. The course curriculum is comprehensive which includes Yoga philosophy, Yogic lifestyle and Ethics, Yogic diet, Anatomy and Physiology for yoga practitioners. Our school is rooted in traditional teaching of yoga that can be applied to present times and challenges. We encourage you to explore and be creative in your teaching style. At the end of the course you will be ready to sequence your own Vinyasa flow with various themes and also practice and teach the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series. You will be exposed to the practice of Yin and Restorative yoga.

06.30 – 08.30 Asana Practice

08.30 – 08.45. Tea break

08.45 – 10.00 Chanting, Pranayama & Meditation

10.00 – 11.00 Brunch

11.00 – 13.00. Philosophy / Anatomy

13.00 – 14.30. Free Time

14.30 – 16:30. Workshops on Alignment, Adjustment, Techniques, Student Teaching.

16:30 – 16:45. Tea Break

16.45 – 18.00. Asana Practice / Student Teaching

18.00 – 19.00. Posture Clinics / workshops / student teaching

19:00 – 20.00. Dinner

19:45 – 21.00. Satsang (weekly twice)

OVERVIEW

Our 300-hour Advanced Vinyasa Flow Yoga Teacher Training Course is a 27-days intense program designed to

• Bring out the best version of yourself
• Empower you to share your passion with confidence
• Deepen your existing knowledge and skills of yoga
• Add additional tools to your yoga kit.
• Deal challenging life situations with balance
• Help you discover the joy within and share the same with your students
• See yourself as a senior and passionate yoga teacher.

Our 300 hour Advanced Vinyasa TTC is curated to give you all the knowledge, skills and confidence to enhance and augment your yoga practice and teaching. The focus is on Vinyasa style and also to deepen the understanding on applied anatomy, alignment and adjustments. The course is designed in a way to help see yourself as a confident senior yoga teacher. Pranayama, meditation and applied philosophy are integrated into the course.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS 

ASANA SECTION

• Sequencing Vinyasa yoga classes for beginners and advanced practitioners
• Learning from senior and highly experienced yoga teachers
• Principles, technical aspects and structural components
• Expanding the knowledge of asanas while paying attention to key alignments and anatomical structures
• Deepen your own practice as well as learning how to teach others safely
• Analyzing the sequences and developing creative sequences with themes
• Theoretical / practical differences between Yin Yoga and Restorative Yoga. Also to understand their effect on the joints, tissues, breath, and the mind
• A platform to exchange the experience of teaching different target audiences by interacting with teachers and fellow students.
• Practices based on yin and yang and understanding different energies.

ANATOMY

Anatomy classes will help you to refresh your knowledge and understand the key muscles, bones used in asana practice associated with health benefits and contraindications. Muscular and skeletal anatomy is given emphasis to understand in depth the limitations and differences. The anatomy class is closely knit and designed specifically for alignment classes.

• Human physical anatomy and physiology (bodily systems, organs, etc.) and energy anatomy and physiology (chakras, nadis, etc). Includes the application of its principles to yoga practice (benefits, contraindications, healthy patterns of movement etc).
• Practical anatomy with a major emphasis on muscular and skeletal structures
• Introduction to different body systems: skeletal system, muscular system, connective tissue, nervous system, breathing and respiratory system and major joints of the body.
• Understanding of yoga asanas from an anatomical perspective.
• Therapeutic applications of postures and working with injuries in asana class.

PRE READING

You will be given a list of books and yoga related DVDs to read and watch before coming to the course. These will be counted as non-contact hours.  You will receive this list along with the enrolment instructions upon acceptance of your place. You should endeavor to complete this reading before your course begins.

ALIGNMENT & ADJUSTMENTS

• Daily alignment and adjustment class
• Demonstration of asanas and more advanced asanas by category (standing closed-hip poses together, standing open-hip poses together, forward fold, backbends, twists, inversions) in a progressive way.
• Enough time is given to practice and explore
• Detailed study of how to get into the asana, how to modify, teaching beginners, what body part needs to be open, what body part needs to be strengthened for each posture
• Hands on adjustments and its nuances. Focus on verbal and visual cues.

TEACHING SKILLS AND SEQUENCING

This is covered in 6 modules as below:

Module 1 : To understand the structure of a class and the fundamentals for a good yoga teacher.

Module 2 : Basic guidelines and principles of Alignment and Adjustments. Understanding different types of adjustments possible (active/passive/resistance/partner) and developing a deeper sense of touch, pressure, and body weight relative to receiving and giving adjustments.

Module 3 : Insights on how to maintain and 'hold space' while teaching different audiences and in different spaces/locations.

Module 4 : Art of Sequencing and Creating Flows

Module 5 : Preparation for Deeper Arm Balances and Inversions

Module 6 : Prenatal workshop

• One of the significant aspects of the course is to gain confidence in teaching and share one's knowledge, experience, passion and energy
• Many opportunities to teach from day one
• Start teaching one-on-one and progress to teaching larger groups.
• Will be guided on how to improve and enhance teaching skills
• How to plan and structure a class
• Opportunities to assist and adjust practitioners in asana classes
• Discover on the path YOUR unique personal style
• Regular feedback from the lead teacher and assistant teachers
• Planning and structuring a class based on student requirements
• Dealing with injuries and safety precautions

PRANAYAMA & MEDITATION

You will learn

• the theory and practice of all important seven Pranayama practic
• to practice Pranayama along with bandhas and mudras
• Take the practice to a deeper and next level
• the theory and practice of Jala Neti (Nasal cleansing technique)
• to practice different Meditation techniques (Breath based meditations, Mantra meditation, Mudra meditation, Vipassana, Metta Meditation and Chakra Meditations)
• chanting of mantras
• tools to keep oneself motivated to practice
• will be guided and encouraged to discover your own suitable meditation practice
• daily practice throughout the course
• minimum one yoga nidra practice per week
• two intense breath work practice sessions
• personal guidance and help

PHILOSOPHY

The Yoga Philosophy section covers the following topics and in addition covers application of Philosophy in asana practice and daily life. There will be a number of interactive sessions to understand complex philosophical concepts.

• Review of topics covered in 200hr TTC. Refresher of Patanjali Yoga Sutras
• Understanding of Karma and Dharma at a deeper level.
• Historical and cultural background of Bhagavad Gita
• Bhagavad Gita : A complete overview and its application to life and asana class.
• Learning of different life tools through Bhagavad Gita
• Ethics for a yoga teacher
• Yogic lifestyle for the modern world
• Guided group discussion based on issues related to yoga
• Basics of Ayurveda and the concept of Doshas

Emotional Empowerment and Emotional Self-sufficiency through applied Yoga Philosophy 

BUSINESS OF YOGA

In this class, your teachers will guide you through how to develop your career as a yoga teacher setting up your own studio, school or a yoga retreat centre, marketing strategies, advertising and PR, ethics in yoga business, building network with other yoga teachers, schools, studios and retreats, among other related topics.

PRE-REQUISITES

You are eligible to apply if you hold a 200 hour YTTC in any style of yoga from any YA registered yoga school. It is suggested that you must have a minimum 50 hours of teaching experience or practicing yoga for at least one year, to be able to gain the most from this course

CERTIFICATION

You will receive a 300-hour certificate eligible to be registered with Yoga Alliance US as RYT-300 or RYT 500 over a 200-hr certificate recognised from Yoga Alliance US.

Meals are purely Indian Vegetarian food.