YOGA TEACHER TRAINING SYLLABUS & SCHEDULE

200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Course Syllabus

Practice of Transformational HathaYoga Asanas
- Basic Transformational hatha yoga asana sequence includes about 80 positions
- Techniques of transformational yoga within the asanas
- Surya Namaskar and Chandra namaskar (sun & moon salutations)
- Basic preparatory joint movements to warm up & prevent injuries
- Sanskrit names of all positions

Mantras : building awareness with vibrations & chanting
- Seed Sounds for chakras: relaxation, purification, and activation
- Five Element mantra
- Invocation technique with mantra
- Gayatri Mantra
- Sanskrit training includes: chanting mantra, asanas, pranayama & other yoga vocabulary

Theory for Transformational Yoga
- Functions of 7 chakras
- 5 bodies and Koshas
- Pranic body and 5 pranas and their functions
- Impurities of the 5 bodies, effects and purification techniques for each
- Energy mechanics of Transformational yoga

History and Philosophy 
- The Wheel of Yoga
- Comparison and brief history of main branches of yoga
- Patanjali’s Yogic philosophy and the 8 limbs of yoga
- Intro to Yoga Sutras, Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita & the yoga tradition
- History of Hatha Yoga

Pranayama - 'Control of the prana'
- Kapalabhati (cleansing breaths)
- Nadi shodana (alternate nostril breathing)
- Bhramari (humming bee breath)
- Ujjayi (victorious breath)
- Shitali & Sitkari (cooling breath)
- Discussion on bad breathing habits and correction techniques
- Conscious breathing techniques
- Kewal Kumbhanka (peaceful pause)
- Science of Swara Yoga Introduction
- Breathing techniques for 5 Prana activation

Bandhas
- Moola Bandha
- Uddiyana Bandha
- Jalandhara Bandha (throat lock)
- Maha Bandha (the great lock)
- Mudras
- 3 Granthis
 
 Meditation Techniques
 - Various Osho Meditations (Kundalini, Chakra, Vipassana, Dynamic…)
 - Meditations from the Tantras
 - Walking Meditation
 - Five body medtiation
 - Zen Meditiation
- Observation and awareness techniques
- Yoga Nidra relaxation techniques

  Teaching Methodology
- Principles of demonstration & observation
- Assisting, modifications, correcting, instructing
- Finding your own teaching style
- Lesson planning
- Ethical guidelines for yoga teachers
- Classroom safety

 Anatomy and Physiology
- Physical Anatomy and Physiology- basic knowledge of body systems including respiratory, digestive, circulatory, nervous, musculoskeletal, endocrine systems
- Psychic Physiology of yoga: Ida, pingala, shushumna
- Kundalini theory
- Nadis and the nervous system
- Endocrine system and the Chakras
- Health benefits of yoga techniques, contraindications, and theraputic use
- Intro. to Ayurveda: body types & diet

Yoga Teaching Methodology
- Student teaching & observing & assisting in classes taught by others.
- Basic healthy yogic lifestyle
- Intro to Yoga for Children
- Intro to Prenatal Yoga

Daily Schedule

7:30 wake-up & Tea
8:00 Pranayama & Mantras
8:30 - 10:00 Transformational Hatha Asanas
10:00 Breakfast
11:00 - 13:00 Transformational Yoga Theory
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:30 Free time/ study time
16:30 - 17:30 General yoga Theory
17:30 -19:00 Asana evening practice /workshops
19:30 Dinner

(Saturdays free)