YTT 500

Overview

Our 500-hour teacher training course combines our 200 hour-  and 300-hour  courses to create a long-term immersive experience. Uniting both courses provides the opportunity for you to truly adopt the habits of the yogic lifestyle. You will first spend 28-days completing our 200-hour yoga teacher training program. In this course, you will get the foundational knowledge necessary to be a confident teacher and you will gain experience living a yogic life with your fellow teacher trainees. Then, in the 300-hour component of the course you will transition to more advanced study. Only a small number of students are accepted as advanced students at any given time, enabling you to go deeper with interactive philosophy discussions, a customized curriculum, and many opportunities to teach asana and pranayama classes to cement the knowledge you gained in the 200-hour course with immediate application. There is no better way to learn than through teaching.

Why Nepal for 500-hours yoga course?

Nepal is a welcoming country. Here, Namaste is the standard greeting you will receive walking down the street, and it means so much more than “hello”. Namaste is a recognition and deep respect of the divine energy that each person has at their core. When using this greeting, it is with the intention of seeing past any outward flaws to the true self in each of us. It is the true self that we seek to realize with yoga. In Nepal, the people understand and hold great respect for this goal. Feel the energy of support for your practice in this magnificent country! There is no better place to spend two months and feel at home.

Why Nepal Yoga Academy for 500-hour yoga teacher training course?

The Nepal Yoga Academy is located just outside Kathmandu on a hilltop, with beautiful views of the Himalayan foothills. Many amazing cultural and natural sites can be reached in a short hike from the Academy. As you walk, you will see the white capped Himalayan mountains up over the horizon. Here, you can live a true yogic lifestyle. Many students from all corners of the world have successfully commenced from their yoga studies here. Our experience in teaching diverse students has helped us to develop effective methods for teaching complex topics. Dr. Chintamani Gautam  is the director and head instructor at the Nepal Yoga Academy. He has spent over 22 years exploring both the theoretical and practical aspects of teaching yoga and is passionate about sharing his knowledge. When you attend our 500-hour training course, you will be able to learn most effectively from him and his team of experienced teachers. It takes time to feel at home somewhere and to get to know your teachers and the questions you are seeking answers for. Give yourself that time by going beyond the standard 200-hour course to learn what yoga really is at a deep philosophical, spiritual, and practical level.

What are you looking for? 

• Are you looking to discover the most authentic meaning and roots of yoga?
• Do you want to experience the ethics, food, and practices of a yogic lifestyle?
• Is it your goal to be a technically qualified, knowledgeable, and confident teacher?
• Do you seek to know yourself better?
• Are you interested in the philosophy and history of yoga?
• Do you want to learn about how yoga philosophy relates to practice?
• Are you looking for a way to advance your personal practice?
• Do you need feedback and experience to develop your own teaching style?
• Are you interested in advancing your understanding of sequence planning?

Objectives of 500 hours teacher training course:

• Enabling you to become an effective teacher
• Learning to juggle the demands of leading individual, small and large classes
• Building your ability to teach students of all levels
• Providing you with high level knowledge of yogic philosophy
• Helping you understand how anatomy and yoga relate to each other
• Teaching you key Sanskrit names and phrases
• Giving ample opportunities to apply your learning as a teacher
• Last but not least, inculcating the yogic lifestyle in you

Key topics of the 500-hour course:

PHILOSHOPY

• Ethics of yogic living
• Classic yogic texts, including the sutras and selected passages from the Ghita

Asana Practice

• Twice daily practice to deepen your personal practice
• Special focus on learning new and advanced postures

Pranayama practice

• Daily classes to deepen your individual practice
• Learn many different techniques that you can use to prepare your mind for meditation

Meditation

• Practice meditative sleep (Yoga Nidra)
• Meditate in a seated position, both guided and alone
• Use mantra chanting to focus the mind

Teaching methodology

• Learn to plan sequences to stretch the whole body effectively
• Teach classes and receive feedback
• Understand how to teach students of different levels and with diverse needs

Anatomy

• Take classes on the musculoskeletal system as it relates to yoga
• Get detailed information about the spine and its movement

Please see our descriptions of the 200- and 300-hour courses for more information

• 200-hour yoga teacher training
• 300-hour yoga teacher training

Requirements/Eligibility:

• An open mind, learning attitude, and motivation to become a well-intentioned yoga teacher
• Respect and acceptance of people from all backgrounds and lifestyles
• 16 years and older
• Basic education in reading and writing English
• No serious or chronic conditions that would prevent you from practicing yoga regularly. Please contact us if you have any concerns. We will try to accommodate you at the best of our abilities. yogichintamani@gmail.com

Terms and conditions

• The course starts on the 15^th of every month and has a duration of 35 days
• We require a 300 USD deposit
• The deposit is non-refundable but may be applied to another month in the same calendar year
• Please email yogichintamani@gmail.com for further information and queries