Sivananda Yoga
Teacher Training Course Online
Asia Time-zones
Sivananda Yoga Teacher Training Online
4 WEEKS – 6 DAYS PER WEEK
+ OPTIONAL 9 DAY IMMERSION (ONCE WE OPEN AGAIN)
Yoga Alliance Certified 200 hours training
March 13 – April 10, 2022 (for Asia time-zones)
Right from the start of the closedown due to corona virus we started offering group yoga classes and courses with many people joining in. The regular practice helps to cope with the stress of isolation and connecting with a universal energy brings solace and positivity.
This encouraged us to offer a Sivananda Yoga Teacher Training Course Online.
- Authentic yogic teachings at home in real time
- Daily personal coaching with your mentor
Registration closes 3 weeks prior to the course start date, so that we have enough time to do the welcome zoom interview and send your books and uniform to your home.
The online experience
Needless to say it is a different experience than the hitherto existing Sivananda Yoga Teachers’ Training. But it appears that the online-version brings a great amount of nearness and authenticity.
- This is a great way to use our time at home in a meaningful way: This is the time to intensify our practice, learn new aspects of yoga and implement a healthy and positive lifestyle.
- The exit restrictions give us a chance to reflect on ourselves: our habits, our mental tendencies, our perspective on life. The TTC online will support this process of deep inquiry and will enable you to gain insight into your inner world.
- It seems this lockdown will deeply impact the society and life as we know it: the TTC online will give you tools to develop adaptability, openess of mind and creativity to reinvent your life, your relationships, and your connection to the world.
- You will learn how to transform your living place into a mini center of spiritual power, which will inspire you to maintain a systematic pratice at home after the course.
- The training includes practical cooking instructions. During the four weeks you will learn to prepare healthy and tasty vegetarian meals.
- Guest speakers and artists will share their knowledge in the fields of Ayurveda, mantra chanting and Indian arts.
- Individual coaching every day with a personal mentor enables individual optimization of your personal practice of asana, pranayama, meditation and mantra. Question and answer on the teaching contents.
- Since there are no costs for room and board, people with a tighter budget can also participate.
Cost
OF THE ONLINE TTC
$1,650 USD
Initial deposit of $300 is due on registration for the course.
Full payment is due 1 week before the course start date.
Cancellation Policy
Cancellation must be at least 2 weeks prior to starting date then we will refund the paid amount minus $300 deposit.
The $300 deposit will be refunded as a credit note minus the handling fee of $100 (credit note is $200)
Credits can be used at the Yoga Farm, Ashrams and Centers in Vietnam or Japan, and the online programs by SYVCJapan.
Course Description
- 4-week theoretical and practical training in all aspects of Yoga, consisting of 267 teaching units of 45 minutes each
- Internationally recognised certificate from the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres (ISYVC) upon successful completion of the course. The title of the diploma is ‘Online Sivananda Yoga Teachers’ Training Course’. The course is recognized by the Yoga Alliance (based in the USA) for the 200-hour training standard as RYS (Registered Yoga School).
- This course was founded by Swami Vishnudevananda in 1969 and is the first Yoga Teachers’ Training Course for students from the West with over 48,000 graduates since then.
- Prerequisite for participation is the sincere desire to learn and to open up to the techniques of yoga. It is of advantage to become acquainted with the basic exercises of yoga and the principles of yoga philosophy even before the training, but it is not absolutely necessary. In the online training you will learn to teach yoga postures, breathing exercises and relaxation practice for beginners and intermediate levels, as well as to improve your personal yoga practice.
- In 1969 Swami Vishnudevananda developed a yoga teachers‘ training as the first Indian Yogi in the West. It is part of a universal vision of peace: The more people experience peace within, the more this peace will manifest in outward action. In this way, a glow of peace envelops the world.
- Today the yoga teachers’ training courses are under the supervision of senior instructors who were personally trained by Swami Vishnudevananda. The goal of this training program is to produce qualified and inspired yoga teachers who are able to draw on their own practice and personal discipline in imparting the yoga experience to others.
- Method of online conferencing chosen: We have chosen zoom teleconferencing software that is easy to manage with the possibility of chat and group work. We can help you to get access. We have been working with this software satisfactorily for the past 6 months for all our satsangs online and online courses. There is also a feature for simultaneous translation.
Course Curriculum
ONLINE YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
The curriculum is based on the five points of yoga which can be understood as the practical application of the four traditional yoga paths:
Proper exercise (Asanas)
Proper breathing (Pranayama)
Proper relaxation (Savasana)
Proper diet (vegetarian)
Positive thinking and meditation (Vedanta and Dhyana)
Daily: one meditation session, one yoga class, a workshop on online teaching techniques, two lectures. One day a week is lecture-free.
Course books
The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga by Swami Vishnudevananda, Three Rivers Press
Bhagavad Gita with a commentary by Swami Sivananda, the Divine Life Trust Society
Yoga: Your Home Practice Companion by the Sivananda Yoga Centres (Dorling Kindersley)
They can be purchased via our online shop.
Teaching Language
The course will be taught in English with translation into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese.
Timezone
Even though anybody can register, it is preferable that the applicants live in the Asia time-zones in order to take advantage of the proper timing of activities which follow the rhythms of nature.
Additional Immersion Retreat
Once we are able to open again, we will schedule a 9-day immersion retreat for all the online TTC graduates to come to the ashram and learn in-person with the teachers. This will include some advanced practices, such as learning the headstand, advanced kriyas, advanaced pranayama, and mantra initiation.
ASANAS (Yoga Postures)
The daily in-depth practice with individual corrections comprises:
- Sun salutation
- 12 basic yoga postures
- 100 asana variations, from intermediate level to advanced
- Postural alignment
- Deep relaxation with autosuggestion
- Release of blocked energy
Benefits of asanas on the body:
- Control emotions
- Improve power of concentration
- Rid the body of excess fat
- Enhance physical fitness
- Relieve chronic ailments such as constipation, rheumatism, stomach complaints
- Stimulate circulation
- Stabilise thyroid functions
- Keep muscles youthful and supple into old age
PRANAYAMA
Pranayama, the science of prana control, consists of breathing exercises to enhance the health of body and mind. In summary pranayama will give you the following benefits:
NUTRITION
Food is responsible for building our physical body. The foods we eat and the manner we eat, also affect our mind, senses, energy, capacity of thinking, intellect, and environment.
Course topics include:
• Proper Diet
MEDITATION AND MANTRA
Meditation is an integral part for the practice of Yoga. During this course you will learn:
- the practical steps of meditation,
- what meditation is
- what meditation is not.
- techniques of concentration and positive thinking
- In addition, you will learn techniques of Self-Inquiry for Self-Knowledge. Meditation is a spiritual journey to the realisation of oneness
During the course there will be a focus on:
- japa meditation, or mantra repetition.
- We will learn how a sanskrit mantra is a mystical energy encased in a sound structure
- Furthermore through repetition we will create a positive thought pattern
KRIYAS
- The 6 classical cleansing exercises for the eyes, nose, respiratory tract, esophagus and stomach, abdominal organs and large intestine: Explanation of the exercises and their effects. Practice of Tratak, Neti, Kapalabhati and Nauli
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
This study helps you to improve the understanding of your body during your own yoga practice, and to apply it in your teaching practice. You will learn:
YOGA PHILOSOPHY
- Yoga philosophy will give you insights into our mistaken beliefs of who we are and what reality really is.
- A deeper understanding of yourself will help you to detach and release stress which will bring your mind and body in harmony with your life purpose.
- You will learn about karma and will understand the causes of your obstacles and challenges.
- The philosophy classes are considered the main teaching and will benefit you for a long time as the seeds of knowledge are being transmitted.
- The study of classical yoga texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and the writings of our own yoga masters will also take place to enrich you.
KIRTAN
- Kirtan is singing of the Sanskrit sacred mantras which are considered pure vibrations of the divine names. Kirtan helps with development of devotion, love and faith.
Daily schedule
OF THE ONLINE TEACHERS´TRAINING COURSE
All times listed are Japan Time-zone
- 7:00 – 8:15 am Satsang: Meditation, Mantra chanting, Spiritual lecture
- 8:30 – 10:15 am Hatha Yoga Practice: Asana and Pranayama class
- 10:15 – 12:15 pm Lunch Break / Meeting with Mentor
- 12:15 – 1:15 pm Bhagavad Gita, mantra chanting, nutrition & lifestyle at home
- 1:30 – 3:00 pm Yoga Philosophy and Anatomy class
- 3:15 – 5:00 pm How to teach asanas and pranayama
- 7:30 – 9:00 pm (Optional) Meditation, Mantra chanting, Spiritual lecture
Plus one hour of individual coaching every day with a personal mentor:
- Questions and individual optimization of your personal practice of asana, pranayama, meditation and mantra
- Question and answer on the teaching contents
One day a week is lecture-free. The optional participation in an online yoga class and the evening meditation is recommended.
Course Teachers
OF THE ONLINE TEACHERS´TRAINING COURSE
Swami Sitaramananda, RYS 500
Vedanta and Yoga Philosophy teacher
Swami Narayanananda
Vietnam Yoga Resort Ashram Manager
Swami Narayanananda, who was born in London, England, has been a teacher of Yoga and meditation in the International Sivananda Yoga vedanta Centers since 1999. He has served in the ashrams in California and New York, also as director of the centers in New York and Chicago. He is a regular teacher for our Teacher Training and Advanced Teacher training courses in the USA, India and Vietnam. Swami Narayanananda has a compassionate and accessible teaching style firmly based in his own practice and in the study of scripture.
Swami Pranavananda, RYS 500
Hatha Yoga Teacher & Anatomy
Swami Pranavananda, hails from the USA, and has been a Yoga and Meditation teacher since 1995 in the US and abroad. He teaches mainly the Hatha Yoga and Anatomy sections for the TTC courses. He was the director of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers in Los Angeles, CA and San Francisco, CA for a few years. Currently he is serving in Vietnam teaching in the Hochiminh center. He enjoys taking classes to learn Vietnamese.
Ganga Chaitanya, RYS 500
Hatha Yoga Teacher
Ganga Chaitanya graduated from International Sivananda Yoga teacher training course in 2009 and Advanced yoga teacher training course 2010 at the Yoga Farm in Grass Valley USA. She is also a graduate of the “Yoga as Medicine”, “Yoga Psychology”, and “Ayurveda and Yoga Wellness” course. She has been the director of the very dynamic Sivananda Yoga Centre in Ho chi minh City since 2011 and took her brahmacharya vows in 2017.
Swami Sivasankariananda, RYS 500
Meditation teacher, Yoga and health teacher, Bhakti Yoga teacher
Swami Sivasankariananda had 23 years experience of teaching both in San Francisco Sivananda Yoga center and Los Angeles Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center where she is serving as director. She is a member of the faculty of Sivananda Yoga Health Educator Training program. She is a compassionate teacher and is able to convey devotion and enthusiasm through kirtan and Bhakti Yoga teachings.
Swami Adiparashaktiananda, RYS 500
Hatha Yoga Teacher
Swami Adi Parashaktiananda is a Hatha Yoga teacher for more than 10 years. He has taught the Hatha yoga section in many International Sivananda Teachers Training Courses in many countries Vietnam, China, USA and has taught many Hatha Yoga intensive courses. He is a dedicated sadhak and pranayama practitioner.