The 500-Hour Yoga Teacher Training at Sambodhi Yoga Home is a comprehensive and transformative program designed for students who want to deepen their practice, expand their knowledge, and become confident, authentic, and spiritually grounded yoga teachers.
This course combines both 200-hour foundational training and 300-hour advanced training into one complete journey. Students learn classical Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa, Ashtanga principles, pranayama, meditation, yoga nidra, mantras, kriya practices, and yogic lifestyle. The training also emphasizes modern anatomy, biomechanics, injury prevention, posture analysis, sequencing, and therapeutic applications to ensure safe, effective teaching.
Through daily guided practice, philosophy lectures, discussions, teaching practicums, and personal mentorship, students gain a profound understanding of the yogic system—from physical practice to subtle energy work.
The peaceful environment of Sambodhi Yoga Home, along with its private garden, spiritual atmosphere, and small student groups, provides the perfect setting for deep learning, reflection, and personal transformation.
By the end of this course, students graduate as 500-Hour Certified Yoga Teachers, prepared to teach globally with confidence, clarity, and authenticity.
After completion of the 500-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Course at Sambodhi Yoga Academy:
You will find a great change in your mind and body after this course. Your body becomes more flexible, healthier and stronger by the end of course. You will find your mind peaceful, happy and positive. Life will be changed towards a positive path due to a positive attitude. After the yoga teacher training course, you can apply this yogic wisdom to uplift your physical and spiritual life. Along with this, you can also make yoga teaching as a profession. You will also be eligible to teach yoga any part of the world after yoga teacher training course.
Program:
Certification- Yoga Alliance
Upon successful completion of the 500-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training at Sambodhi Yoga Home, students will be eligible to register as 500-hour yoga teachers (RYT-500) with Yoga Alliance. This certification acknowledges that the graduate has met the rigorous standards set by Yoga Alliance for advanced yoga teaching and is qualified to teach yoga globally.
Design:
The training is designed to challenge and evolve individuals at all levels by academically graduated teachers and researchers. This 500-hour course mainly focuses on Hatha yoga and Ashtanga, with an emphasis on the breath and synchronizing with the movements, alignment and adjustments. By understanding these main styles of yoga: Hatha and Ashtanga, you will cover around 80% of the practices followed around the world. This course is for those who want to taste the essence of yoga science (from where yoga is originated) and want to transform life. As a result, you may experience more liberation, blissful and peaceful.
How everyday looks like:
You will begin with the morning yoga practice (mantra chanting, two hours of Hatha yoga class followed by pranayama and meditation) by listening to the chirping sound of birds, a pure natural breath of the Himalayas inside the yoga retreat. The afternoons are focused on deep analysis of each asanas, breathing of asanas (yoga poses), alignment and adjustments of yoga, pranayama (control over prana) with breathing, mudras (yogic/psychic gesture) and teaching methodology. You will also learn yoga anatomy (mechanism of yoga). In the evening you will practice the Ashtanga style of yoga.
Yoga teacher training syllabus:
Yogasana (yoga pose):
- This training includes 100 yoga postures with four main Sthiti (standing asanas, sitting asanas, supine asanas and prone asanas).
- You will learn breathing, awareness, benefits and contraindication of each yoga pose.
- You will learn from simple yet effective yoga poses to advanced toga poses such as headstand, king pigeon pose, arm balancing pose etc.
- Modification, variations, and advanced variations of the asana.
Yoga philosophy:
Knowingly or unknowingly, we search for real happiness, bliss and celebration within. With the support of yoga philosophy with the highly spiritual master in Sambodhi Yoga Home will help you to go deep into this. Which helps you to transform your life positively.
- Etymology of yoga and definitions of yoga in different classical yoga texts
- Brief introduction to the origin, history and development of yoga
- Different streams of yoga
- Purification of thoughts
- Purification of emotions
- Stess Management
- Ashtanga yoga (eight-fold path of yoga) according to sage Patanjali
- Yoga Sutra (yoga aphorism)
- Bhagavat Gita on the life-changing aspect
- Layers of human existence from Upanishad
Yoga Anatomy:
You will learn about the anatomy and biomechanics of the body to better understand safe and stable physical alignment in yoga poses. Pick up in-depth knowledge to take to the mat to fine-tune and deepen your practice.
Sample Schedule:
06:30 - 08:30 Hatha yoga class with pranayama, mudra, bandha, and meditation
08:30 - 09:30 Breakfast
09:30 - 11:00 Analysis of asanas, adjustments, and teaching methods
11:00 - 12:00 Anatomy / philosophy class
12:00 - 01:00 Free time / self-study / self-practice
01:00 - 02:00 Lunch
03:00 - 04:00 Yoga Nidra / Reiki healing
04:00 - 05:00 Ashtanga Vinyasa class
05:00 - 05:30 Himalayan herbal tea / coffee
05:30 - 06:30 Time to make your own lessons with your teacher’s guidance (practicum)
07:00 - 08:00 Dinner
08:00 - 08:30 Mantra chanting / celebration
