500-Hour Yoga Teacher Training in India

Ryt 500-hour Yoga Alliance certification, residential and affordable hatha yoga teacher training in India at yoga school Samatva Yogalaya - Rishikesh. This is an intensive yoga course based on traditional hatha yoga designed for beginners and intermediate and advanced level yoga practitioners. Are you searching for an advanced yoga teacher training course to enhance your yoga teaching skills? If so then register with Samatva Yogalaya, Rishikesh for 500-hour yoga teacher training in India.

The 500-hour yoga teacher training course (Y-TTC) is conducted according to the standards prescribed by Yoga Alliance with which Samatva Yogalaya is registered. After completing the 500 hour yoga teacher training you can register as an advanced yoga teacher or RYT 500 with Yoga Alliance.

Schedule & Fee - 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in 2026

500 Hour Residential Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh

The 500-hour yoga teacher training is structured to reinforce and advance your basic learning and practice of yoga. This is a highly professional level of training as it prepares yoga teachers at an advanced level. By the time you complete the course you will have gained immense information and become familiar with traditional ashtanga and hatha yoga practices. You will realise you have:

• Much better understanding of the history and background of yoga asana and yogic philosophy
• Sufficient knowledge of anatomy and physiology to enable you toidentify body types and customise yogic practice for individual needs
• Heightened awareness of meditation techniques that will help you guide your students into proper meditation
• Improved knowledge of how nutrition and diet affect both the body and mind
• Better comprehension of the guidelines that will enable you to maintain a good student-teacher relationship

Samatva Yogalaya also offers separate 200-hour, 300-hour yoga teacher training courses and a combined 200 and 300-hour yoga teacher training which is conducted in one go and is called 500-hour yoga teacher training.

Yoga cannot be more refreshing and more fulfilling than at Samatva Yogalaya, Rishikesh. With teachers like Krishna Sikhwal you will only gain in your experience and practice as a yoga teacher of the true Indian tradition. You will learn classical or traditional Hatha & Ashtanga Yoga which are the yoga forms taught at Samatva Yogalaya.

Aims & Objective 500-Hour Yoga Teacher Training India

The comprehensive course will familiarize you with the tenets of yoga philosophy and history, will help you intensify and master yoga asanas in tandem with their effect on anatomy. You will observe daily pranayama and meditation along with chanting so you understand their strengthening and balancing properties. Bring you an understanding of yogic discipline, diet and cleansing rituals and you will be taught how to go about becoming a good yoga teacher.

Overview 500-Hour Yoga Teacher Training India

• Internationally certified yoga teacher training in India registered with Yoga Alliance, USA.
• Yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, also known as yoga capital of the world.
• Yoga teacher training course specially designed for beginners, intermediate and advanced level yoga students.
• An intensive yoga teacher training course taught by yoga teachers who are firmly rooted in tradition yet contemporary in their vision & communication.
• Inexpensive yoga teacher training in India - $ 3460 USD including food & accommodation (private room with attached bath).
• Residential facility midst ashram surroundings yet not far from the city.
• Loving and caring support team.
• Opportunity to experience Indian culture and tradition.

500-Hour Yoga Teacher Training India - Syllabus

• Introduction of Yoga, its meaning and definitions from various authentic scriptures(Aagama). Gradual development in yoga.
• Difference between exercise and yoga.
• Brief introduction of yoga and Sankhya philosophy.
• Ashtanga yoga – mainly yama, niyama, asana and pranayama.
• Human anatomy and physiology in respect to various yogic practices.
• Teaching methodology – ethics, qualities and characteristics of yoga teacher.
• How to learn yoga instead of how to teach. Class management.
• Elaboration of origin and expression of yoga per Bhagavad Gita, Patanjali yoga sutra and different schools of Yoga.
• Important concept of Hatha Pradipika Place of practice, Diet, constructive and destructive aspects. Asana-various types , technique and benefits. Kriyas(cleansing process)-types, technique, effects on psychic level and benefits (physical and psychological cleansing). Mudra and bandhas-various types, technique and benefits.
• Important concept of Patanjal Yoga Sutra. Yoga as a discipline. Concept of chitta and its vrittis. Abhyasa and Vairagya. Factors those accelerate yogic Sadhana. Concept of Ishvara and Ishvarapranidhana.Chitta-vikshepa/Antaraya. Methods of chittaprasadana. KriyaYoga.Concept of kleshas.Yogic view of pain and suffering. Bahiranga Yoga (Yama, Niyama, Asana and Pranayama). Antaranga Yoga (Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi)
• Human anatomy and Physiology in respect to yogic practices.
• Yoga therapy- common psychosomatic diseases and their Yogic management through diet, asana, pranayama and life style. emphasis on neuromusculo- glandular system.
• Yoga Nidra

Daily Schedule 500-Hour Yoga Teacher Training India

(According to the Yoga Alliance Guidelines – some of these hours are contact hours and others are self-study).