Yoga Foundation Certification Course (YFC), Bangalore, India.

Become a skilled & successful Yoga Professional with two months of Globally Accepted Yoga Teacher Training.

RYT-200 Hr Level – 1 Yoga TTC

Week-Days Yoga Teacher Training Certificate courses are designed for college-going students and working professionals. The duration of this course is approximately 2 months. The classes are conducted from 06.30 am to 8.00 pm, on weekdays early morning and on public holidays. Since the total teaching hours required for completion of certificate course, if it is not available on weekdays and public holidays hence efforts are made to complete the course. Personal attention and doubt clearing time were given to each and every student. The classes can be extended during public holidays in order to complete the syllabus on time. Batch venue and timings are subjected to periodic changes as per the availability of classrooms and faculties.

Karuna Yoga provides a completely student-centered, authentic comprehensive approach to Hatha Yoga. This training program has been properly structured keeping in mind the diversity of students based on their mental and physical capabilities. You will be gradually encouraged in a supportive atmosphere to strengthen your learning, practicing and teaching skills. Karuna Yoga aims to assist all level of students to complete the Teacher Training course successfully and to become one of the best Teachers in the World.

This would not only assist to transform a Yoga student’s life  to betterment,  but also make them as a  tool to transforming other’s quality of  life towards health, happiness and harmony, thereby making this planet a better place for Human survival and self-realization.

This training program, based on the traditional Hatha Yoga practice which has been practiced by Yogis for thousands of years. Our Yoga Teachers are trained in the traditional methods by exemplary Yoga Gurus. This programme has been designed not just to train the physical body, but to initiates ones spiritual journey towards self-realization by unioning the body, mind and soul.

Course Content

The syllabus consists of Hatha Yoga, Asana, Pranayama, Mudra, Bandha, Yoga Nidra, and Meditation. This course also covers additional topics on Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Patanjali Yoga sutra, Yoga Philosophy, Hatha Yoga-based anatomy, and physiology.

Yoga Styles

• • Hatha Yoga(B.K.S. Iyengar Alignment Principles & Satyananda Style), Vinyasa and Gentle Yoga

This course is open to all students who wish to deepen their knowledge and application of some of the highest teachings of yoga. Participants do not need to be yoga teachers. Mastery of any yoga practice is not necessary. Only your sincere desire for knowledge and your commitment to personal growth. Even if you do not wish to are required be a yoga teacher, you may attempt this course to deepen the understanding of the philosophies as well as for the intense purification experience and for the personality development.  Classes start at the Beginners’ Level and progress through to the Intermediate Level.

Curriculum

Yoga is a Profitable & Knowledgeable Business

• Start earning money immediately after completing the course. Working as freelance (part time or full time) Yoga Trainer.
• After getting International Yoga Certification, you are eligible to work as a yoga expert anywhere in the world.
• Become financially stable with an additional income.
• Start your Own Yoga Studio, we will guide you.
• Increase your knowledge, skill, and experience with lifetime of yoga learning and continuing education.
• Get your own unique voice and tone as Yoga Teacher.
• Organize Yoga Workshops, Yoga Seminars and increase your Yoga knowledge so financially become sounder.

Theory and Practice of Hatha Yoga

• • Yoga Asanas

• • Asanas beginners to intermediate level

• • Sun salutation and its advanced variations

• • Proper posture alignment

• • Benefits and limitations of Yoga Asanas

Asana

• Understanding Five Principles of Asana Sequencing
• Movement in Yogasana
• Contraindications
• Misalignments
• Adaptations
• 80+ Asanas
• Standing, kneeling, seating, supine, prone, inversion and balancing asanas.
• Contraindications & Benefits of each Asana
• Get confidence in Postures with use of Props
• Surya Namaskar- different variations

Techniques Training and Practice                       

• • Basic elements of Asanas and Pranayamas, Mudras & Bandhas.

• • Transitioning into Asana – Transitioning out of Asana.

• • Classical Surya Namaskara & Astanga Surya Namaskara

• • Standing forward bending – Balancing & Twisting Asana.

• • Core Strengthening Asana, Arm Balancing Asana, Backward Bending Asana,

• • Seated forward bending & twisting Asanas.

• • Balancing asana. Supine Twists – Backward bending. Hip & Pelvic Opening Asanas.

• • Inverted Asana

• • Shoulder work, arm strengthening, arm balancing, rotation of arms and shoulders.

• • Pranayama- going deeper into the essence of breathe. Chakra balancing asana sequence.

Teaching Methodology

• • Classroom Set up and Orientation

• • Ethics in Teaching and Touching

• • Yoga Marketing

• • Seven Principles of Hands on Adjustments

• • Basic Arc Structure of Classes

Yoga, Anatomy and Physiology

• • Pranas, Upa-pranas, Chakras, Nadis, Pancha Kosa(five-layer of existence)

• • Anatomy & Physiology

• • Nervous system & Yoga

• • Respiratory system & Yoga

• • Cardiovascular system & Yoga

• • Endocrine system & Yoga

• • Immune system & Yoga

• • Excretory system & Yoga

• • Digestive system & Yoga

Yoga Philosophy, Lifestyle and Ethics

• • Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jnana Yoga, & Raja Yoga

• • Taittiriya Upanisad

• • Patanjali Yoga Sutras (astanga yoga)

• • Ethics: Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksa. Brahmacharya, Grihastha, Vanprastha, Sanyasa Ashrama.

Pranayama

• • Pranayama Sequencing Safely With Alternatives and Adaptations

• • Four aspects of Pranayama

• • Benefits and Contra-indications of each pranayama

• • Nadis & Prana-Vayus

• • The psychic breath pranayama

• • Balancing Pranayama

• • Energization Pranayama

• • Immunity Booster Pranayama

• • Detox Pranayama

• • Tranquilising Pranayama

• • Cooling Pranayamas

• • Science of Breath retention

• • Cooling Pranayamas

• • Healing Pranayama

• • Mood lifting Pranayama

• • Stress buster pranayama

Meditation

• • What is Meditation?

• • Pre-meditation stage?

• • Breath Meditation

• • Mantra Meditation

• • OM Meditation

• • Awareness Meditation

• • Benefits of Meditation

What you can expect from us?

• • Well qualified and experienced faculty with their own specialties.

• • Yoga Alliance USA certification as RYT 200 – international certification that allows you to teach yoga anywhere in the world

• • Giving adequate guidance to the individuals and groups during training session.

• • Yoga helps in self-discipline, leading to immense amount of awareness, concentration and higher level of consciousness.

• • To enable the student to have sound body and sound mind, along with Yoga ethics.

• • Yoga course help, to learn to handle oneself well in all situations, to learn techniques of gaining good health, to develop a discriminative mind capable of knowing the real from the unreal and to face the dualities of life with equanimity.

• • Yoga course increase level of awareness and balance attitude for social activity.

• • At the end of the course not only you would have adapted a healthy life style but you would also be fit to show others this path by becoming a skilled Yoga teacher.

• • At the yoga TTC at Karuna Yoga, students learn a unique combination of Hatha Yoga and Iyengar alignment principles. This approach has an ultimate goal of practicing injury free yoga.

Certification

On successful completion of the course, trainee is qualified to register with Yoga Alliance, USA, to recognize as a Certified International Yoga Teachers-RYT 200.

Assessment and Certification

The students are continuously assessed throughout the course at all levels. There will be a practical as well as written examination at the end of the course to evaluate the understanding of the philosophy of Yoga and skills of the students. Participant should pass all different aspects of the course to be eligible for the Yoga teacher Training Course.

Teaching Tradition

While contemporary in application and language, all our teachings are based on the thousands of years old Vedic and Yogic  tradition of India.

The  source  of  our  practice  and  teachings  is  Swami  Satyananda  Saraswati from  bihar school of yoga, asana, pranayama, mudra, bandha , shat-karma, yoga nidra , trataka, ajapa japa, meditation. B. K. S. Iyengar’s alignment principle and Vinyasa style of yoga inculcated from Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Ashtanga Yoga, from Mysore.

We practice and teach Swami  Satyananda  Saraswati, B. K. S. Iyengar’s  & Tirumalai Krishnamacharya. Yoga  of  Synthesis  which  aims  at  the harmonious development of a human being through  the  practice  of   all  three styles of  hatha yoga.

Accreditation

ACCREDITED BY YOGA ALLIANCE USA

WHAT MAKES THIS COURSE UNIQUE

SMALL GROUP SIZE

Our TTC provides you with an intensive, small-group learning environment where there is ample room to come forward with your questions and receive individual guidance for your practice and teaching skills.

AUTHENTIC TEACHINGS

The program honors the traditional Yogic knowledge system as it has been passed down to us via a lineage of thousands of years. Our focus is on applying the ancient practices in modern day life while maintaining the integrity of the teachings.

MODERN APPROACH

We explore connections between the Yogic science and modern scientific findings to give you the theoretical, practical as well as the spiritual foundation to teach Yoga to anyone in all its aspects.

HONORING INDIVIDUALITY

All techniques and teachings acknowledge and honor the individuality of each students’ path and the different physical, mental  and emotional conditions they come to the course with.

To Whom This Training For?

1. a) All levels welcome

The course i s designed for anyone – from complete beginner to longtime student on the path of Yoga – who wishes to deepen their knowledge and practice.

This  course  is  a  deep  immersion  into  all  aspects  of Yoga  both  for  those  who  feel  called  to  teach  and those  who  simply  want  to  advance  their  own  studies.

1. b) Yoga teachers from any tradition

The  course  is  also  open  to  Yoga  teachers  who  have already  completed  200  hours  of  yoga  teacher training and who look to deepen their knowledge and bring new impulses and  inspiration to their own practice and teaching.

Admission Process

Karuna Yoga Vidya Peetham will review the applications and select the applicants according to the norms of the current section procedure pursued by the Board of Studies.

Application and Admission Requirements

Checklist of documents to enclose with this application:

1. Current passport-size photos (2)
2. Certificate of educational qualifications
3. Photocopy of Drivers license / Voters ID / Aadhaar card
4. Photocopy of passport and visa (overseas applicants)
5. Medical Fitness Certificate
6. Curriculum vitae (CV)
7. Filled in application form

Written Examination: Each applicant will also be required to write and send in an essay (each 1000 words) on any two of the questions given below:

Sample Questions:

1. 1. Relevance of Yoga in today’s world

1. 1. Why do you wish to become a Yoga teacher?

1. 1. What is your own understanding of Yoga?  Write from your experience.

1. 1. Do you think Yoga will help in personal transformation?  If yes, how?

Interview: On receipt and approval of your application. Each applicant will be required to attend an online interview via Zoom or Skype with one of the members of the selection committee.

Response: After the evaluation and selection procedure is over, selected applicants will be notified.

CONTACT NUMBERS AND ASSISTANCE

Whom to Contact:

Mr. Murthy  the course facilitators. Any yoga questions should be directed to Mr. Murthy. All administration and payment

queries should be emailed to karunaayoga@gmail.com

Course Queries:

If needed once you commence you can arrange a meeting with Mr. Murthy, to go over the course and answer any questions you may have please email karunaayoga@gmail.com to arrange an appointment.

Email contact: karunaayoga@gmail.com

Student Grievances and Complaints:

Student grievances and complaints will only be accepted in writing to the Director of the yoga Centre (Mr. Murthy (+91 9686549129). They will be responded to and remedied as soon as possible.

Other General Information: Please Contact (Mr. Murthy +91 9686549129)

Frequently Asked Questions

I am travelling to India for the first time. Is their anything I need to know?

Our confirmation email contains detailed information regarding transportation and from the course site. Indian visa and health recommendations, and FAQ s about the location and daily schedule. If you have any questions before receiving the confirmation email or if any questions has not been answered, please feel free to contact us anytime by email, WhatsApp or phone. We are happy to support you in your first journey to India.

What is the process to register?

if you are interested in any of our yoga teacher training, please fill out the registration form on our website once your application is approved deposit must be made to hold your spot in the course. Full payments due weeks prior to start date of the course,  as specified in our confirmation email.

Can I take yoga as soon as I complete this course?

You will leave the curse with the knowledge and skill to teach hatha yoga classes and we recommend that you do so. Teacher training is the very first step on a continued learning journey to becoming the yoga teacher you can be, and teaching practice is crucial, as with anything else in life. If you wish to teach in a studio, you may be asked to present your graduation certificate and register with the yoga alliance. This course prepares you with the foundational requirement of  yoga teacher training course.

Do you speak any other languages than English ?

The course language is english. Ur team member also speaks tamil, kannada, hindi.

is this course only for people who want t teach yoga ?

Many people attend the training session to learn more about the postures, benefits and alignments for this own bodies/or to take time to connect themselves and deepen their yoga practice. Each session typically has a mix of people exploring the possibility of teaching and those seeking personal development.

Do I need to be a yoga expert to take this training?  

No. this training is designed to meet you wherever you are in your journey. Prior practice of yoga is suggested but by no means necessary. People have attended in the past with just a little experience, alongside those who have been practicing for many years. The course typically has nice balance of experience, ages and objectives.

How to register

To reserve your place for Yoga Teacher Training, You can apply online with Registration fees, which is a non-refundable.

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