Yog Niketan Dham

200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh

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Yoga Alliance’s US-accredited 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh is highly suitable for beginners, enthusiasts, healers, and experienced yoga teachers who want to enhance their healing, yoga, and wellness skills after visiting our wellness sanctuary.

This yoga teaching certification is for anyone who wishes to experience professional traditional yoga training in Rishikesh, have an ashram experience for spiritual growth, and be zealous about becoming a registered yoga teacher.

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Our yoga 200 hour training follows Yoga Alliance US standards and guidelines. However, we also provide quality multi-style Hatha, Yin, Yang, and Ashtanga yoga teaching with 200 hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh.

We emphasize yoga practices and healing techniques during our teacher training in Rishikesh. It is a truly unique experience to stay in nature and practice yoga alongside healing practices.

What makes Yog Niketan Dham's Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh unique?

After 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh with hundreds and thousands of yoga enthusiasts from all around the world, we are proud to say that our yoga courses stand out as :

Yog Niketan Dham is a serene yoga-healing sanctuary that offers the ancient Gurukul Vedic education and aims to welcome the entire globe with the spirit of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, "The World is One Family."

To become a Registered Yoga School (RYS) 200, after completing a 200-hour yoga training, we offer each student a 200-hour yoga teaching certification that enables them to register with the Yoga Alliance.

During our 200-hour yoga training, we focus on delivering high-quality teaching and providing extensive knowledge about Ayurveda, Pranic HealingJin Shin JyutsuReiki, and other complementary practices.

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A 200-hour yoga teacher training program is a spiritual retreat that allows you to delve deeper into the spiritual world for self-exploration and analysis.

It combines nearly 150 asanas (by name), pranayamas with proper uses, bandhas, shat karmas, mudras, a variety of meditations, mantras, and healing practices, with an intensive knowledge of structuring a yoga class.

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Daily, our sessions include mantra chanting, Asanas practice, breathwork, lockings, and gestures, followed by Savasana in Yoga Nidra.

We guide our students to assist others with their yogic wisdom for healing purposes and to those eager to learn yoga education for their well-being.

This Yoga Alliance-accredited 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh is designed for yoga practitioners who want to pursue professional yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, India, for personal sadhana or to become a registered Yoga teacher.

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The 200-hour yoga teacher training course in Rishikesh combines asana training with an intensive knowledge of proper alignment, pop-ups, meditationYoga philosophyKundalini, and breathing techniques.

To be an RYS 200 (Registered Yoga School) accredited by Yoga Alliance US, Yog Niketan Dham offers a Yoga Alliance RYT 200 completion certificate to each student upon successful completion of a 200-hour yoga teacher training in India.

Our students might use this certificate to work as a Registered Yoga Teacher anywhere or as mentors in their yoga studios.

Why should you have a Yoga Teacher Certification?

Key Benefits of a 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh India

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Professionals with years of experience but lacking formal and advanced yoga teacher training.

All our students receive a Yoga Alliance, US 200-hour Yoga teaching certification. We polish their yoga skills with proper observation.

Daily practitioners who wish to enhance their yoga skills with our best 200 hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh.

We have a dedicated team of well-trained, reputable, and highly revered experienced yoga teachers in India who deliver their expertise to daily yoga classes.

Enthusiasts who want to teach yoga methodologies and philosophy professionally after having yoga teaching certification.

When you step into the teaching world, we guide you in teaching methodologies. To become a yoga teacher, we guide you through the teaching methodologies. We prefer small class sizes so that our students can receive personal attention from all of us.

Aspirants looking to start their yoga studios after completing 200 hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh.

We provide comprehensive information on setting up your own yoga studio, including detailed equipment specifications and step-by-step instructions on proper setup.

Healers who wish to complete Yoga teacher training in a healing sanctuary.

Auspicious yoga wisdom with traditional practices like healing practices, different therapies, Pilates, and Ayurveda principles.

Beginners with basic knowledge of yoga wish to expand their yogic wisdom.

We facilitate the most traditional and authentic yoga-healing teachings to our students during our 200-hour yoga training.

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Daily Schedule of a 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh
Timing   Session

6:00 am

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Wake-Up

6:30 am -7:00 am

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Shatkarma / Pranayama

7:00 am – 8:30 am

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Hatha yoga/ alignment sessions

8:30 am – 9:30 am

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Breakfast

10:00am – 11:00 am

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Yoga Anatomy/ Teaching practice

11:00am – 12:00 pm

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Adjustment and pop-ups class

12:00 pm – 2:30 pm

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Lunch/ Free time

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

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Yoga philosophy/ literature class

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

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Ashtanga yoga/ kundalini yoga/ pilates

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

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Mantra chanting /self-healing/meditation

7:30 pm- 8:00 pm

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Dinner

9:00 pm

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Yoga Course Rishikesh Syllabus
  • The definition and history of Hatha Yoga. Teaching more than 150 Hatha Yoga asanas with their terminologies.
  • Surya Namaskar (12 asanas) has specific mantras to cultivate inner and external awareness.
  • Chandra Namaskar (moon salutation) for rejuvenation and calming the body.
  • Sukshma Vyayama (warming up exercises, Joint and gland workings).
  • Standing series of postures. (30-40 postures)
  • Kneeling series of asanas. (20-25 poses)
  • Sitting series of poses. (35-40 postures)
  • Prone series of postures. (10-15 asanas)
  • Supine series of asanas. (20-25 postures)
  • Inversion series of asanas. (20-30 poses)
  • Proper sequencing of asana practice during the 200-hour yoga teacher training in India.
  • Importance of alignment and adjustment of particular asanas.
  • Asanas, benefits and their contraindications.
  • An introduction and briefing on Patanjali’s eight limbs, the Ashtanga yoga system.
  • Ashtanga practices with all four Warrior pose extensions during the 200-hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh.
  • Practice extensions for adjusting the body.
  • The practice of Strength building, stretching, endurance, and balancing poses with alignment.
  • Primary first 3 levels during the best 200-hour yoga teacher training in India.
  • Drishtis in the Ashtanga series and their importance.
  • Importance of Ujjayi breathing and Bandhas in the Ashtanga yoga series.
  • The meaning of prana and pranayama. Their differences and workings.
  • Types of pranayamas and their workings during the best 200 hour yoga teacher training in India.
  • The practice of the eight major traditional pranayamas and their effects on the human body.
  • Thoracic breathing, Chest breathing, & Diaphragmatic breathing. Their workings and usages.
  • What is Nadi?
  • Introduction of significant nadis in our body.
  • Indian darshan or the six Indian philosophies during the best 200-hour yoga teacher training in India.
  • Basic introduction to Yoga Science. History of yoga.
  • An introduction about moksha or liberation.
  • The five Koshas or sheaths in the human body.
  • Self-realization & liberation. Why?
  • What is consciousness? How does it differ from super-consciousness?
  • The four foundational pillars of life.
  • Eight limbs of yoga by Maharishi Patanjali.
  • What is the waking state in yoga science?
  • What is a dreaming state in yogic science?
  • What is meditation and yoga nidra? How are they alike?
  • Introduction of Yoga Anatomy and Physiology during 200 hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh.
  • Introduction of the Human Skeletal and Muscular Systems. The contraction in the Muscular System.
  • Introduction of the respiratory system and Yogic breathing during the best 200 hour yoga teacher training in India.
  • Connection of Pranayama practices to circulatory, digestive, and Immune Systems.
  • How asanas work and their various effect on Joints, the Spinal cord, and the muscles.
  • The structure of our spine and its movement in Yoga practices.
  • To know the basic structure and types of joints to avoid injury during Asana classes.
  • What is Dhyana or Meditation? Different types of Meditation.
  • What is the difference between Dharna and Dhyana?
  • Chakra Meditation or Chakra Balancing.
  • Breath Awareness Meditation during the best 200 hour yoga teacher training in India.
  • Contemplative Walking Meditation.
  • Mantra Awareness Meditation. How is it similar to Mauna Sadhana?
  • Inner Light Meditation.
  • Full Moon Meditation.
  • An Introduction to Yoga Nidra or Yoga Sleep. Benefits of Yogic sleep.
  • Three states of consciousness.
  • How is Yog Nidra different from Meditation?
  • How does Yoga Nidra practice cure Insomnia & other mental problems?
  • Six steps for doing Asana correctly. How do you use props for protection?
  • Introduction of side bending and front & back bending.
  • How can the mind be made flexible by making the body flexible?
  • Alternative Asana styles for various benefits.
  • Various limitations and contraindications of specific Yoga practices.
  • What are Shatkarmas? An Introduction to Shat Karmas according to classical Hatha Yoga.
  • Daily practicum of Jal Neti and Sutra Neti (Cleansing Mucous or blockages from nasal passages and sinuses).
  • Practicals of Kunjal Kriya (Cleansing the excessive mucous from the digestive tract).
  • The practice of Danda Dhauti is to cleanse the stomach and heart, tracking.
  • Importance of Shatkarmas in Yogic tradition. 
  • Introduction of Mantra Yoga. Importance of (OM)-AUM.
  • Mantra for Meal Purification during the best 200 hour yoga teacher training in India.
  • Mantra for Obstacles. Mantra for Self-Realization.
  • Mantra for universal masters to bless.
  • Chanting for self-confirmation.
  • Mantra for well-being. 
  • Learn almost 25 Mantras for a better life.
  • Hatha Yog Pradipika explains the importance of mudras or gestures. Types of Mudras.
  • Knowledge of Mudras for curing the Ailments.
  • Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Benefits of Mudras.
  • Practicum of Gyana & Chin Mudra. Practicum of Ashwini Mudra.
  • Discipline for Yoga Teachers and Students.
  • A suitable and convenient teaching procedure.
  • A scope of listening, presence, directive, and non-directive dialogue between a teacher and student.
  • How vital is demonstration?
  • What preparations are needed for the classroom?
  • What are the several steps to becoming a great Yoga teacher?
  • Nine Main Doors in the Human Body.
  • What are Bandhas or Yogic locks?
  • What are their preparations & benefits?
  • Three Main Bandhas (Mool Bandha, Uddiyana Bandha, & Jalandhar Bandha) and their importance.
  • Maha Bandha- The Great Lock.
  • What is Ayurveda? History of Ayurvedic practice.
  • How does Ayurvedic science help in Yogic life?
  • Pulse reading.
  • How do I find different Prakaritis after seeing people?
  • What are the six tastes? How can six tastes balance the mind and body?
  • What are the three primary mind-body constitutions?
  • What is the overall health meaning in Ayurveda?
  • Reiki practice.
  • Jin Shin Jyutsu.
  • Pranic Healing.
  • Tibetan Healing.
  • Group Discussion.
  • Non-contact hours preparation and sharing.
  • Preparation of class and discussing the difficulties.
  • The root cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance. How?
  • How do you manage a Yoga class?
  • The alignment and adjustment of body parts before Yogic practices.
  • Proper warm-up and well-suited guidelines for the students.
  • A long and intensive practice of teaching and attaining command over the class.
  • Checking the proper poses and techniques of students.
  • Proper instructions for practising Asanas, Pranayamas, and Meditation to the students.
Why is Rishikesh the best place for a Yoga Teacher Training?

Yoga is known to have originated in Rishikesh, Garhwal Himalayas, a few thousand years ago, where the ancient sages practised and preached this art of living for spiritual objectives.

Since ancient times, Rishikesh has been established as the world’s yoga capital. Every year, hundreds of practitioners visit to enhance their yogic wisdom with 200 hour yoga teacher training in rishikesh.

Devprayag, a quaint spiritual town next to Rishikesh, enjoys a pristine location on the foothills of the majestic Himalayas and the banks of the Ganges.

We offer yoga sessions in different locations around the ashram. Dev Prayag is known for merging two rivers, Bhagirathi and Alaknanda.

Fee: $999/-

Duration : 28 Days

*Extra requirements are chargeable.

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