In this 300 hour YTTC journey our meditation becomes effortless, natural and it becomes a part of our daily lives. Our progress into deeper meditation frees us from our desires and ignorance which are the undoing of the human race. Students are thought the advanced techniques of meditation by which one can master our true Self.

Meditation Timetable

• Week 1: Strengthening Foundation of meditation
 
• Week 2: Intensifying the focus and mindfulness
 
• Week 3: Advancing meditation techniques
 
• Week 4: Awareness and kundalini meditation

Content

• What is mind and its role in meditation?
 
• Nature of mind and why it is restless?
 
• Meditation is Pratiprasava- Reverse Journey
 
• Brain waves in meditation
 
• Importance of music in meditation
 
• Emotional purification meditation
 
• Meditation and past life healing
 
• How to attain samadhi in meditation

Styles Of Meditation Practices

Himalayan Meditation Practices

• Advancing your foundation in meditation
 
• Awareness and mindfullness
 
• Anapana
 
• Jyoti Tratak meditation

Nada Meditation Practices

• Music meditation
 
• Pranava meditation
 
• Advance mantra meditation

Active Meditation Practices

• Dynamic meditation
 
• Contemplative walking
 
• Meditation in daily life

Tantra & Kundalini Meditation Practices

• Meditation for Muladhar Chakra
 
• Meditation for Swadhisthana Chakra
 
• Meditation for Manipura Chakra
 
• Meditation for Anahata Chakra
 
• Meditation for Visuddhi Chakra
 
• Meditation for Ajna Chakra
 
• Meditation for Sahasrara Chakra
 
• Guru chakra Meditation
 
• Kundalini Meditation

Vipasana & Passive Meditation Practices

• Breath Awareness
 
• Mindfulness and Sensation
 
• Total Awareness Practice
• Kirtan Dhyan
• Mantra Japa
• Silence Practice

In this 300 YTTC pranayama is taught in a more sensitive and advanced level to experience the deeper powers of your prana. You will learn how pranayama can be used to heal body and mind. So that in the end of the course you will have acquired skills to educate others.

Weekly stages of experience.

• Week 1:Moving towards advancement of your pranayama practices
 
• Week 2: Variations and experiment
 
• Week 3: Breathing for awakening nadis and chakras
 
• Week 4: Teaching practices and mastery on breathing

Discussion for study of Pranayama:

• Pranayama- link of happiness
 
• Physiology of prana
 
• Elements in nature of prana
 
• Prana body types
 
• Astrology of Breathing science
 
• Prana and it routes
 
• How prana flows in the body
 
• Relationship between prana & consciousness
 
• Number of breaths we take
 
• Resarch on prana – to obtain favorable outcome
 
• Health parameter with breath length
 
• Guideline and discipline of pranayama

Intermediate and Advance Practices of Pranayama

• Upper chest -Clavicular Pranayama
 
• Middle chest – Thoracic Pranayama
 
• Koshtiya – Diaphragmatic Pranayama
 
• Full body Yogic Pranayama
 
• Om Chant Pranava Pranayama
 
• Nadisodhanam Pranayama
 
• Bhastrika Pranayama
 
• Kapalbhati Pranayama
 
• Bhramari Pranayama
 
• Ujjayi Pranayama
 
• Sitli Pranayama
 
• Sitkari Pranayama
 
• Murcha Pranayama
 
• Surya bhedi Pranayama
 
• Chandra bhedi Pranayama

Silence is the ultimate goal of Yogic practice. As you go deeper into your practice you find the intensity of thoughts decreases, the mind becomes steady, calm, tranquil, and serene and one can easily attain deep concentration. Silence cannot be achieved as long as there is turmoil in the mind. 

Two nights and one day silence practice will be given to our students to experience absolute silence. Students will gain a clear awareness and the ability to withdraw the conscious mind into silence.  

Additional Awareness:

• Contemplative Buddha walk
 
• Breath awareness
 
• Mindfulness
 
• Witness
 
• Sleep Awareness
 
• Soul Awareness

You will during silence have the opportunity to:

• Journalling
 
• Reflection
 
• Understanding the importance of silence in Yoga

Yoga Anatomy is one of the most important subjects for yoga teachers, as a Yogi has to know what his body is doing while practicing Yoga, as well as knowing the limitations of the body. Students are familiarized with the two types of Yoga namely; physical and spiritual.

Physical Anatomy

• The supply of prana to the respiratory system
 
• Function of cells
 
• Digestive system
 
• Circulatory system
 
• Endocrine system
 
• Yoga and physical transformation
 
• Hormone secretion in Yoga
 
• Effects of pranayama in respiratory system
 
• Effects of Yoga practice and Nauli in digestive system
 
• Muscular and skeletal system with advance postures
 
• Therapeutic applications of Yoga postures and how to avoid injury in asana class
 
• Anatomy of pelvic griddle and spine

Spiritual Anatomy

• Advanced details regarding the energy channel
 
• Anatomy of Muladhara Chakra
 
• Anatomy of Swadhisthana Chakra
 
• Anatomy of Manipura Chakra
 
• Anatomy of Anahata Chakra
 
• Anatomy of Visuddhi Chakra
 
• Anatomy of Ajna Chakra
 
• Anatomy of Sahasrara Chakra
 
• Chakras
 
• Kundalini
 
• Panchakosha

Practicing Satkarm a regularly prepares you to understand your inner being and purification. By removing the physical, mental and emotional vail you enter into your real Self. That is why Satkarma is very important to practice. In this advanced course students are thought advanced Satkarma that demands expert guidance and care.

• Understanding the 11 major systems
 
• Why purification of the body is necessary
 
• Is it satkarma or Satkriya
 
• What does the scriptures of Hatha Yoga Pradipika say
 
• What does Gheranda Muni Says
 
• Precautions

Knowledge imparted

• Vamana Kriya
 
• Vastra Dhauti
 
• Laghu Sankha Prakyalana
 
• Bama Nauli Kriya
 
• Dakhina Nauli Kriya
 
• Vyaghra Kriya

Yoga Nidra is a unique practice in that you are completely aware of your subtle body, although you are in an entirely different world, and your awareness demonstrates to you that you are not only a physical body. Advance techniques of Yoga Nidra gives you unbelievable experiences like; body ascending, body warming, chakra vibration and so on. But that is not the real reason, the real purpose of Yoga Nidra is to master our sleep and to reach the higher state of consciousness.

Practices Include

• Week 1: Antar Mauna Yoga Nidra (Inner Silence)
 
• Week 2: 61 Point Blue Star Yoga Nidra
 
• Week 3: Subtle body Yoga Nidra
 
• Week 4: Chakra awareness Yoga Nidra

You will also study the basics of Yoga Nidra.

• Sleep awareness
 
• Awareness of subtle body
 
• A journey from conscious to superconscious
 
• Yoga Nidra Therapy
 
• Is yoga Nidra a healing practice?
 
• Why is sleep called Yoga here?
 
• Transforming new habit patterns
 
• Transforming personality through Yoga Nidra
 
• Learn Language through Yoga Nidra

Yoga Philosophy in this 300 Hour YTTC is much more innovative than the 300 hour where we had some preparatory grounding of Yoga in reality. This course takes us into a much more intense awareness of our soul and Samadhi. It will make you even more proficient to realize the Self. This subject matter also includes; Yoga Sutra, Adweta Vedanta and Tantra Philosophy that enables you to grasp how Yoga is explained in the diverse scriptures.

Week 1. Entering to the World of Enlightenment (Yoga Samadhi)

• What is Yoga & Samadhi
 
• How can we be in present moment in order to achieve Samadhi
 
• Yoga discipline
 
• Different states of mind
 
• How to control the mind
 
• Why Samadhi
 
• What if we are not in Samadhi
 
• Controlling right knowledge, wrong knowledge, imagination, sleep & memory
 
• The benefit of practice & non attachment
 
• How to mastery self-practice
 
• Two kinds of Samadhi
 
• Know about Yogi who born with Yoga and bodiless Yogi
 
• Different ways to achieve Samadhi
 
• What is God and why His name is Om
 
• Obstacles of Yoga
 
• Experience of highest Samadhi

Week 2: Original practice of Yoga (Yoga Sadhana)

• How to do Tapasya (Intense practice of Yoga)
 
• How to do Swadhyaya (Self-Analyasis, self-discovery)
 
• How to do Self-surrender/surrender to Divine
 
• Kriya Yoga – Why
 
• What is ignorance and emotional attachment
 
• How to lessen your pain
 
• How your past life influences your pain and pleasure
 
• What is pleasure & pain (sukha & dukha)
 
• How pain lives with you and how it generates and vanishes
 
• Clear perception, right action, stability, control of sense organ and experience of self is the source of liberation
 
• How to achieve total withdrawal and separation of mundane psychology
 
• Viveka kyati – insight discrimination
 
• Eight limbs of yoga

Week 3: Miracles and gift of Yoga (Yoga Vibhuti)

• What is concentration?
 
• What is meditation?
 
• What is Samadhi?
 
• External and internal yoga
 
• How can a yogi know the past and future
 
• How can you understand the language of animals
 
• How can one know about the past life
 
• How a Yogi make their body’s invisible
 
• How Yogi’s receive the knowledge of the entire cosmos
 
• How cessation of hunger and thrust is achieved
 
• How to acquire complete stillness
 
• How can you see celestial beings
 
• How the flash of illumination happens
 
• How can one have knowledge of mind
 
• Siddhis are helpful or hindrance for Sadhana
 
• How can one enter in another’s body
 
• How can a Yogi walk on thorns and water
 
• How can we achieve the divine sense of hearing
 
• How can one make the body as light as cotton wool that can soar in sky
 
• Achieving glorification and indestructibleness of the bodily qualities.

Week 4: Life receive Endless Grace and freedom – Yoga Kaivalya

• How Siddhi generates
 
• How to achieve Kaivalya(liberation)
 
• Revise: first week- Samadhi Yoga
 
• Revise: second week –Sadhana Yoga
 
• Revise Third week –Vibhuti Yoga
 
• Revise fourth week – Kaivalya Yoga

In this advanced 300 hour Yoga Teacher Training Course, students will absorb in detail Yoga therapy. Diseases to be discussed are listed below and these diseases can be cured by the practice of asana, pranayama, meditation etc.

• Head and neck disease
 
• Headache
 
• Thyroid
 
• Heart and circulatory problems
 
• Disorder of respiratory system
 
• The common cold
 
• Bronchitis and Eosinophilia
 
• Asthma
 
• Sinusitis and Hay Fever
 
• Tonsillitis
 
• Disorder of Digestive system
 
• Upper Digestive disorders
 
• Peptic Ulcer
 
• Constipation
 
• Colitis
 
• Acute Gastro Enteritis
 
• Diabetes
 
• Hepatitis
 
• The problem of Obesity
 
• Arthritis
 
• Cervical Spondylitis
 
• Back pain
 
• Slipped Disk and Sciatica
 
• Kidney stones
 
• Menstrual disorder
 
• Disorders of the male reproductive system
 
• Hernia
 
• Skin problems

Yoga is not just an academic education but it is a life education. In order to qualify for this advanced 300 hour training program, the following criteria has to be achieved;

• The student has to be certified in the 300 hour training program with a certified Yoga school
 
• As this is an advanced course, the student has to be present for all lectures
 
• All written assignments has to be submitted timeously
 
• Conduct a full Yoga session to the class
 
• A pass mark to be achieved in the exam at the end of the course