Ashtanga & Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh

Curriculum

Our Ashtanga-Focused Curriculum

Within our 200-hour program, the Ashtanga Vinyasa module builds week by week toward full sequencing competence, safe adjustments and genuine teaching confidence by graduation day.

• Primary Series breakdown: Surya Namaskar A & B, the standing sequence, the seated sequence, and the finishing sequence — taught posture by posture with detailed alignment cues and common-mistake corrections
• Vinyasa Krama: the traditional method of linking breath to movement, correct entries and exits between postures, and building a full sequence with clear intention and pacing
• Pranayama & Bandhas: Ujjayi breath, drishti (gaze point), and the three bandhas — Mula, Uddiyana and Jalandhara — and how each supports a safe Ashtanga practice
• Teaching methodology: cueing in plain language, hands-on assists, counting the traditional Sanskrit vinyasa count, and adapting the series for mixed-level classes and injuries
• Mysore-style practice: guided self-practice sessions where each student moves through the sequence at their own pace while receiving individual, hands-on correction from Deepa

This module sits inside our Yoga Alliance RYS 200 program: 24 days, 23 nights, residential, in batches of 6-10 students, from $1150 twin-shared. See the full 200-hour curriculum for the complete daily schedule.

Is This For You

Who Should Choose Ashtanga

Patanjali Yoga Sutra calls Ashtanga the eightfold path that helps one in building the yoga disciplines that offer complete inner balance and overall well-being. Ashtanga Yoga teacher training must be chosen by those individuals who are looking to learn an intense yoga form for enhancing and advancing their yoga training and practice. Ashtanga includes a primary series of six sequences that helps in enhancing focus, concentration, and breath work. Ashtanga Yoga helps in improving one's immunity and stamina. Thus, this practice is quite intense in nature. So, if the wellness goal of your class is boosting physical strength, enhancing coordination, bringing equilibrium, stabilising the mind, spiritual growth, or a powerful cardio workout, then learning Ashtanga is a must for you!

Ashtanga also offers various yoga postures at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. During our yoga teacher training in Ashtanga and Vinyasa flow, you go step by step and learn everything that makes you an expert in Ashtanga. So, in short, if you want to learn the theory and methodology of the primary series of Ashtanga yoga, Mysore style yoga along with the use of props, guided meditation, pranayama practice, japa, intense physiology, advanced level physiology and anatomy, and the eight limbs of Patanjali yoga, cleansing kriyas and more that enhance your alignment, teaching instructions, as well as demonstration skills as a yoga teacher then this is the perfect YTTC for you!