VIRTUAL 200 HOUR YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
Start your YTT journey today and meet your future teachers!
VIRTUAL 200 HOUR YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
Start your YTT journey today and meet your future teachers!

4.78 on Yoga Alliance!

4.78 on Yoga Alliance!

AKHANDA’S TIME-HONOURED 200-HOUR YTT
NOW ONLINE!
Imagine having access to Akhanda’s time-honoured 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training program virtually, right from your home location!! Uniquely in 2021, our Yoga Alliance registered program can be offered online!
Reveal a more radiant version of you! This life-changing opportunity is both a personal development and professional qualification that opens the doors to the world of Yoga teaching! Study with Yogrishi Vishvketu and our exceptional teaching team and step with confidence into teaching and the rest of your life.
The virtual YTT program will include five weekends and a 7-day intensive of live online classes that are scheduled to be attended by students across North America and Europe.
Let us guide you to become a radiant and inspired holistic yoga teacher — Register now with our early bird discount of $2000 for the first 15 students, and start your pre-course today!
WEEKEND DATES
This virtual program will be conveniently scheduled in time zones from LA (Pacific Time) to Milan (European Time) in four 1.5 hour sessions on both Saturday and Sunday. There will also be a special 2-hour seminar Friday evenings for the two groups individually. The weekends will start on alternate weekends to aid with assimilation of the material, and end with a seven-day intensive.
AKHANDA’S TIME-HONOURED 200-HOUR YTT
NOW ONLINE!
Imagine having access to Akhanda’s time-honoured 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training program virtually, right from your home location!! Uniquely in 2021, our Yoga Alliance registered program can be offered online!
Reveal a more radiant version of you! This life-changing opportunity is both a personal development and professional qualification that opens the doors to the world of Yoga teaching! Study with Yogrishi Vishvketu and our exceptional teaching team and step with confidence into teaching and the rest of your life.
The virtual YTT program will include five weekends and a 7-day intensive of live online classes that are scheduled to be attended by students across North America and Europe.
Let us guide you to become a radiant and inspired holistic yoga teacher — Register now with our early bird discount of $2000 for the first 15 students, and start your pre-course today!
WEEKEND DATES
This virtual program will be conveniently scheduled in time zones from LA (Pacific Time) to Milan (European Time) in four 1.5 hour sessions on both Saturday and Sunday. There will also be a special 2-hour seminar Friday evenings for the two groups individually. The weekends will start on alternate weekends to aid with assimilation of the material, and end with a seven-day intensive.
Learn with World Renown Experts

Yogrishi Vishvketu
Himalayan Yoga Master and Co-founder of Akhanda Yoga

Kathryn Mills (Kamalika)
Akhanda Yoga Teacher and Trainer

Dr. Gaytri Kalia
Vaidya (Professor) BAMS, MD, PhD (Ayurveda)

Vish Chatterji
Certified executive coach, Yoga & Ayurveda teacher.

Christine Withiel
Senior Akhanda Teacher Trainer

Pranav Baba
Akhanda Teacher Trainer
GAIN A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF YOGA PRACTICES, TEACHING METHODS AND YOGA WISDOM
Dive Deep into the Five Elements of Yoga
- Movement
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- Guiding students in and out of all the main postures
- Breathing
- Six main breathing techniques
- Sounding
- Vedic and Upanishadic mantras and Chakra mantras
- Meditation
- How to introduce beginning meditation in every class
- Yoga Wisdom
- An exploration of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and the Paths of Yoga
- How to bring Yoga into your daily life in modern times
Dive Deep into the Five Elements of Yoga
- Movement
-
- Guiding students in and out of all the main postures
- Breathing
- Six main breathing techniques
- Sounding
- Vedic and Upanishadic mantras and Chakra mantras
- Meditation
- How to introduce beginning meditation in every class
- Yoga Wisdom
- An exploration of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and the Paths of Yoga
- How to bring Yoga into your daily life in modern times
Learn and Experience
- Subtle anatomy and the chakras
- Physical anatomy as it relates to Yoga and teaching
- Wisdom themes and how to weave them through your classes
- How to effectively cue Yoga postures
- Lead both dynamic and contemplative classes
- Art of sequencing design for unique holistic classes
- And much more
Learn and Experience
- Subtle anatomy and the chakras
- Physical anatomy as it relates to Yoga and teaching
- Wisdom themes and how to weave them through your classes
- How to effectively cue Yoga postures
- Lead both dynamic and contemplative classes
- Art of sequencing design for unique holistic classes
- And much more
Holistic Approach
Akhanda means whole and indivisible. Akhanda Yoga, designed by Himalayan Master Yogrishi Vishvketu (PhD) offers a holistic toolkit to bring forward ancient wisdom for a modern age. In Akhanda Yoga Teacher Training you will learn to teach artful, balanced sequences including a full repertoire of yoga techniques: asana, pranayama, mantra and meditation linked with themes to yogic wisdom. Our YTTs are renown for our interactive philosophy, Ayurveda, detailed techniques and engaged anatomy segments. You will also learn to lead foundational posture and breath workshops. Read more about Akhanda Yoga ..
Holistic Approach
Akhanda means whole and indivisible. Akhanda Yoga, designed by Himalayan Master Yogrishi Vishvketu (PhD) offers a holistic toolkit to bring forward ancient wisdom for a modern age. In Akhanda Yoga Teacher Training you will learn to teach artful, balanced sequences including a full repertoire of yoga techniques: asana, pranayama, mantra and meditation linked with themes to yogic wisdom. Our YTTs are renown for our interactive philosophy, Ayurveda, detailed techniques and engaged anatomy segments. You will also learn to lead foundational posture and breath workshops. Read more about Akhanda Yoga ..
Professionally Written and Designed Manuals
Students commend us for our Akhanda YTT manual – an incredible resources on all aspects of holistic yoga including techniques, yoga philosophy, chakras, yogic lifestyle, Ayurveda and more. In addition to professional photos of each asana, our manual includes the benefits and precautions of each pose and indications on the associated chakra. The philosophy section has reflection questions helping you bring ancient wisdom to modern life.
Professionally Written and Designed Manuals
Students commend us for our Akhanda YTT manual – an incredible resources on all aspects of holistic yoga including techniques, yoga philosophy, chakras, yogic lifestyle, Ayurveda and more. In addition to professional photos of each asana, our manual includes the benefits and precautions of each pose and indications on the associated chakra. The philosophy section has reflection questions helping you bring ancient wisdom to modern life.
Charitable Initiatives
The Ashram offers food, medicine and scholarships to those in need. It also founded a rural school that offers free education to more than 250 under-served children. A percentage of your tuition goes to the Canadian charitable organization Helping Hands for India that raises funds to support the school. Yoga gives us so much – why not give back! Donate Here.
Charitable Initiatives
The Ashram offers food, medicine and scholarships to those in need. It also founded a rural school that offers free education to more than 250 under-served children. A percentage of your tuition goes to the Canadian charitable organization Helping Hands for India that raises funds to support the school. Yoga gives us so much – why not give back! Donate Here.
Daily Schedule
Fridays evening satsang pods – 4 – 6PM Pacific (North American Group) and 6 – 8 UK Time (Europe Group)
Saturdays and Sundays – four sessions per day with half hour breaks between
6 – 7:30am Pacific (equivalent to 9 – 10:30am Eastern)
8 – 9:30am Pacific (equivalent to 11 – 12:30 Eastern)
10 – 11:30 Pacific (equivalent to 1 – 2:30pm Eastern)
12 – 1:30 Pacific (equivalent to 3 – 4:30pm Eastern)
The Curriculum
The Yoga Alliance has set a widely-accepted international standard for YTT programs. Uniquely in 2021, our Yoga Alliance registered program can be offered online! The virtual program will include 180 hours as a combination of live virtual on Zoom and prerecorded AYO and philosophy sessions. There are five areas of teaching: techniques, philosophy/lifestyle/ethics, teaching methodology, anatomy, and a teaching practicum. Here is how Akhanda Yoga explores these teaching areas in our 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training.
Techniques
Asana, pranayama and kriya techniques will be taught, practiced and trainees will then practice teaching them to their peers. There will be time to develop one’s own asanas, learn about benefits, checkpoints and contraindications, as well as to teach their peers during group teaching sessions.
Asanas
A variety of asanas from the following groups of asanas will be covered including gentle beginner and intermediate variations. Trainees will learn how to enter and exit a pose, how to use the breath in the asana, checkpoints for alignment, benefits and contraindications for the asana, and how to assist students in the pose.
Categories of asanas: standing and balancing asanas, forward bends, back bends, side bends, twisting poses, crouching and seated poses, poses on the abdomen, poses on the back, inverted poses and meditation poses. Trainees will also learn how to adapt the techniques for specific ages, levels, some ailments, and in the case of pregnancy. They will learn warm-up techniques and relaxation poses including the importance of deep breathing in relaxation to prevent muscle fatigue and the build-up of lactic acid in the muscles.
Pranayama
Teacher trainees will learn the form, benefits and contraindications of the following pranayama techniques, as well as when to incorporate them into the class and how to introduce pranayama techniques: abdominal breathing, the three-part breath, ujjai pranayama, bhramaree pranayama, anuloma viloma, and kapalabhati pranayama. Trainees will learn how to perform these pranayamas with the bandhas and with relatively short breath retention (Kumbhaka) when appropriate.
Bandhas
In order to perform the retention in the Pranayama breathing techniques, it is necessary to teach and learn Mula bandha, Jalandara bandha and Uddiyana bandha, the latter also being instrumental to kriyas such as nauli. The purpose of the bandhas will be discussed in its relation to the uniting of prana and apana to channel them into the shushumna nadi.
Kriyas
Trainees will learn the following kriyas, their benefits, primarily for their own practice, and later how to introduce the kriya to a class: jal neti, jal kapalabhati, agni sara, and tratak.
Meditation
In the theory section, the goal and paths of yoga will be discussed, thereby leading to the concept and techniques of meditation. Guided meditation will be explored, including creative visualization, meditation using yantra, mantra, ideation, ishta chakra and the withdrawl of the senses from external objects. Students will be guided in choosing a mantra for meditation, as well as an ishta chakra.
Mantra
We will explore the idea of mantra as a mystical energy encased in a sound structure in relation to both saguna (nama) mantras and nirguna mantras such as Om. Trainees will learn to chant and present yogic mantras for the beginning and/or ending of yoga classes (such as the Shanti mantra or the Jyothi mantra). Bija mantras for purifying the chakras will also be explored including the timing and procedure for using these mantras in meditation.
Transformational Experiences
During the transformational experiences evening program, students will delve into the practice of both nama and abstract kiirtan, as well as Vedic mantras such as: the Gayatri mantra, the Mahamrityunjaya (healing) mantra, the Shanti mantra, the Loving-kindness mantra, and the Akhanda mantra. Transformational experiences will also include some rituals, sharing, healing circles and creative movement.
Lifestyle
We will present and compare Yogic and Ayurvedic concepts of nutrition, as well as those of daily cleansing rituals, self massage, and other practices.
Lifestyle
We will present and compare Yogic and Ayurvedic concepts of nutrition, as well as those of daily cleansing rituals, self massage, and other practices.
Philosophy, Lifestyle and Ethics
Our program attributes quite a bit of emphasis to this section, as we believe that Western students of yoga tend to focus more thoroughly on the physical aspects of yoga: alignment, health benefits etc. than on the philosophical base and framework of yoga, including the practice of yoga off the mat. This section will introduce yoga psychology and philosophy through discussions on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, Chapters One and Two. Trainers will present sutras, and also use pairwork and group work discussions to give trainees the opportunity to explore how these sutras relate to their practice, and how they live their lives.
Patanjali’s eight-fold path is the climax of chapter two, and the trainers will offer concrete examples of how to implement Yamas and Niyamas in our daily lives. Trainees will have the opportunity to discuss their understanding and experience of these yogic guidelines. They will also be guided to see the interrelationship of all of the ten principles, as well as the interrelationship of the different paths of yoga. The paths (Bhakti, Karma, Raja and Jnana) will also be introduced in both a philosophical and practical light.
Students will be required to give a 15-minute talk on one of the Sutras or on a comparison between Yoga and another esoteric system.
Ethics
As a natural extension to the ten principles (Yamas and Niyamas), as well as the discussions on Teaching Methodology, we will flow into a discussion of professionalism and ethics in the teaching profession in general and the yoga profession in particular. We will present our Statement of Professional Standards, and discuss as a group the importance of having and maintaining codes of professional standards.
Teaching Methodology
Practical teaching methodology includes how to demonstrate, observe, cue and assist students. This will be integrated with the Techniques class. We will also model the importance of language used to describe entry, maintaining and exiting poses. For example, in the forward bend, the image of “surrendering the body to the force of gravity” is a useful, and gentle image, as is “inhale release slightly, exhale and sink into the pose – feel the pulse of the pose”, as opposed to “pull” or “push”-style language.
Theoretical discussions of methodology (pedagogy) aim to explore how to become a transformational facilitator, or teacher rather than just an instructor. This includes such topics as: the art of sequencing, creating a safe space, establishing a student-centered class, managing group dynamics, language and cuing, the ethics of assisting, and creating a yogic environment for learning, (including the dress of the teacher, yogic colours, the direction of the class etc). Trainees will also discuss qualities that will be instrumental to them as teachers.
Anatomy and Physiology
In the 21 hours of anatomy and physiology class, students will be learning both about the physical system and the subtle body.
Physical Anatomy
This class aims to teach trainees about anatomy and how it relates to yoga. Teachers and students will be guided by resources such as Anatomy and Asana, and The Anatomy of Movement. Subjects will include the study of the skeleton, muscles and joints, the cardio-vascular system, the respiratory system and the endocrine system and how they are benefited by yoga.
Subtle Anatomy
Subtle anatomy is the yogic teaching regarding the three bodies, the physical body, the astral body and the causal body, as well as the five corresponding sheaths, and the yogic techniques that purify each sheath. Further, the concept of nadis, and chakras will be explored. The shape, location, associated glands, and characteristics of each chakra will be explored. This subject will be complemented by the practical meditation sessions and chanting sessions which will explore meditating and chanting to purify the chakras. It will also complement the discussion of the ida, pingala and shushumna nadis that is intrinsic to any discussion of pranayama and the bandhas.
Practicum
In the first half of the program, trainees will be gradually introduced to teaching by teaching a peer one pose in the Techniques class. This will progress towards teaching one pose to the whole group ‘Group Teaching’. In second half of the course, the trainees will each teach three classes with a peer. Each will teach 40 minutes for a whole 1 hour and 20 minute class. They will then get 20 minutes of feedback from their peers and from the trainer. The first round will be a beginner’s class; the second round will be an intermediate class; and for the third round, teams can choose to teach either a gentle, prenatal, dynamic, beginner, all levels or intermediate class. The practicum is the main factor in graduation from the 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training.