500 Hour Yoga Teacher
Training in
Rishikesh, India

The importance of Yoga asanas cannot be overstated. Effective and regular practice of Asanas helps recover several ailments and disorders. Some physical benefits of asanas are improved flexibility and muscle tone, strength, good blood flow, and balanced metabolism. Better heart health and improved agility.

Psychologically, stretching of the body releases anxiety and stress, thereby calming the mind. If practiced regularly, it can help in diseases such as asthma, diabetes, heart disease, bronchitis, arthritis, and many more. The yogic journey requires you to work your physical and mental faculties at their peak and so, regular asana practice works towards that.

At Global Peace Yoga, our asana classes are designed on the foundation of correct alignment and posture. If you are not in correct alignment, you cannot achieve the full benefits of yoga poses as it is a science and not a make-believe ideology. This 500 hour course curriculum lays emphasis on five major categories of asanas which are forward bends, backbends, balancing/standing poses, spinal twists, inverted poses and have a deep understanding of the form and benefits of each group of asana.

When you enroll for this program with Global Peace Yoga School, rest assured that our teachers will help you master the form of each Asana and get to know its benefits in detail. If you find a particular asana too difficult to execute, our experienced teacher will relay the knowledge of alternate Asanas to work up towards achieving advanced Asanas.
You would also be equipped with knowledge of when shouldn’t you perform an asana and what odifications/alternate asana could be performed to reap the same benefits.

To perform the asanas correctly and effectively, there is a need to learn about the physiology of the human body. The knowledge of biomechanics lets you know how the joints function within the human body so that you can prevent injuries to yourself or your students.
As a knowledgeable yoga teacher, your students entrust you to understand the human organism, physiology, through which you can their yoga practice and create a safe and healthy learning environment in the class. During our 500-hour teacher's training program in India, students will gain extensive and detailed knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the human body, significant for yoga. You would learn all about energy anatomy, chakras, and nadis, etc.

This is aimed to reinforce their classroom handling and explanations, as well as corrections of
asana, modifications.

Our anatomy classes cover the following in depth: 

• Understanding the human body and its systems such as the Nervous, Musculoskeletal, and respiratory system.
• Enhancing immunity.
• Benefits and contraindications of different yogic poses and practices
• Understanding healthy movement patterns.
• Learning the therapeutic effects of asanas on the body.
• Learning asanas for disease management.

At Global Peace, the Yoga philosophy classes cover in-depth history as well as the science behind the study of Yoga. You will learn and understand the five basic principles of an effective Yogic practice, which are breath control/pranayama, proper exercise/asanas, relaxation/yoga Nidra, diet, and meditation.

Our philosophy classes during the 500-hour yoga teacher training course include: 

• Foundation of Yoga and its history.
• Six Philosophies of self-realization.
• Yogic concepts and ideas.
• An introduction to Patanjali Yoga Sutras, Bhagavad Gita or Hatha Yog Pradipika.
• Yogic Ideologies and thought such as non violence, and the cycle of karma.
• Study of Yog Sutras and other yogic literature.
• Student teacher ethical guidelines.
• Understanding teaching yoga as a service to the community.

Breathing-We do know that air (oxygen) is essential for our survival. Not only that, if we can regulate our breath in the desired manner, the air not only helps us survive but thrive. From the yogic lens, Prana is the life force that enables each living being on this planet to exist. The yogic heritage tells us that the regular practice of pranayama has life-altering benefits.

In our 200-hour teacher’s; training course, we teach all kinds of pranayama along with their benefits and contraindications. There are many types of pranayamas and a competent teacher knows which one is suitable for a particular individual. If practiced regularly, pranayama rids the body of impurities and naturally increases your focus and mental capabilities. You could be someone who believes in scientific research and if that is the case, all around the world, it is being proven that regular practice of breath regulation exercise is potent enough to alter your brain structure and enable you to function at an elevated level of consciousness The practice of pranayama is generally right after the asana session.

When you come for a pranayama session at Global Peace Yoga School, you will appreciate the fact that our class is methodically crafted so that you get the best of asanas as well as pranayama sessions in alleviating your physical, mental, as well as emotional ailments. If you are not interested in looking at just the physical and psychological benefits, pranayama can also be your vehicle towards achieving self-realization.

You will learn:

• Breathing techniques to improve respiratory functioning.
• Natural breathing techniques.
  Pranayama for specific ailments and conditions.
• Study of Kumbhak.

There is no point in listing the benefits that regular meditation can have on you. Though in modern times, meditation is widely being used as a tool for managing stress, relaxation, and helping to sleep, you would miss out on a great deal if you do not dive deep into the process. Though the use in modern times is limited, if you can learn the skill/art of meditation properly, you will need nothing more in your life. Effective meditation practice has the potential to change your physical and mental faculties.

Meditation should be aimed at not only solving mundane problems like stress and insomnia. We believe that it is a process by which any individual can self-realize. Meditation will act as a vehicle that enables you to go beyond your body, mind, and emotions and achieve the ultimate of yoga. While we do touch upon the theory of meditation, the practice must be taught in person under the guidance of a trained professional.

Key learning from these sessions at Global Peace Yoga School would be:

• Guided meditations for relaxation.
• Teaching the skills of guided meditations.
• Use of breath in meditation.
• Study and Use of Yoga Nidra Chanting mantras with correct modulations.
• Using mantras as a way to self-realize.
• Use of sound specific mantras (beej mantra) to achieve goals.

We conduct teaching methodology classes that cover the following aspects:

• Ethics to take care of while conducting a class.
• Designing sequences and lesson planning.
• The skill of demonstrating, assisting, and correcting the postures.
• Alignments from beginner to advanced poses.
• Managing a big or small class, time management, and boundaries.
•  Addressing individual needs.
•  Various styles of teaching and quality of a good teacher.