Online Yoga Teacher Training

Our belief is that online yoga teacher training courses offer certain advantages that in-person trainings cannot match. The opportunity to learn from top-tier authentic Indian yoga teachers is one reason why we say "yes". It has other perks like flexibility in time & payment terms, 20 hours of apprenticeship opportunity, learning from the comfort of your home etc.

You can enroll with our YTT 200-Hour yoga certification online. This fully accredited training will provide you with a Yoga Alliance authorised certificate that enables you to teach worldwide. With a 100% LIVE online course, you can complete this within 6-9 months on a schedule that suits you. Throughout your training & post training, you'll receive full teacher support to help you achieve your goals.

To start a yoga career, you can begin by completing a 200-hour YTT course. Afterward, you can seek employment as a yoga instructor or start your own business.

Yoga is a lucrative career option, with yoga instructors among the highest-paid professionals in India and internationally. You can start making money from yoga without necessarily starting a business. If you enjoy helping people and doing yoga, becoming a yoga instructor might be the perfect career path for you.

The qualifications needed to teach yoga include completing a 200-hour yoga teacher training course. This course should cover topics such as asana, meditation, pranayama, yoga philosophy, anatomy, physiology, nutrition, and how to teach.

Yoga teachers can certainly make money, with many becoming millionaires and countless others earning enough to live comfortably in first-world countries. This is an impressive feat considering the challenges many yoga teachers face in securing work.

• Certificate: Yoga Certification online & offline (Vocational)
• Diploma: Diploma in Yoga, Diploma in Naturopathy and Yogic Science, PG Diploma in Yoga
• Bachelors in Yoga
• Masters in Yoga
• Doctorate/ PhD in Yoga

More than proficiency in Yoga it is important that you have a regular fitness routine, be it exercising, sport or walking / running and should be injury free. The course will cover all the fundamentals of yoga and hence you will learn everything in the course that is required to build a strong Yoga practice. We do recommend that you have about 6 months to a year of Yoga practice so that you have already experienced some benefits of yoga first hand.

You will have to meet our course counsellor before you enroll. The counsellor will screen you to understand the degree of your injury and evaluate whether you can join the course or if there is any bridging program you can attend before you join the course.

We strongly recommend that you take up the course after your pregnancy, It best to focus on your pregnancy and not a new skill. You are most welcome to practice prenatal yoga during your pregnancy.

All sessions are recorded and will be shared with you. You will have to catch up on the topics and practice of all the sessions you have missed before you can attend the next session.

Yes, this course is designed primarily to bring yoga into our lives. Yoga has to work for you as an individual first before you can start sharing this with others. So if personal development is your only goal then this course will have everything you’ll need to make yoga work for you and our needs. You will still have to attend the teaching methods sessions as teaching will help enhance your learning experience. You may however skip the teaching methods assessments

Yes, the classical yoga was primarily developed for the mind and hence all the practices in the course, body, breath, sense practices will help become aware, access and then control the mind. You will be able to be a better manager of your mind as a result of the various practices and philosophical insights experienced during the course.

You will be assessed based on the following aspects:
1. Attendance - you will need 100% attendance (or watch all recording of the sessions).
2. Mid course written assessment - 60 min short answers and one liners.
3. End of course written assessment - 90 min short answers and one liners.
4. End of course practice assessment - 90 min practice.
5. End of course teaching assessment - 15 min each.6. Post course assignments - to be completed in 90 days after the course.

Yes, each of the students who have successfully completed the course will be accepted as apprentice in Shvasa regular classes. You will get a apprenticeship certificate at the end of the program.

1. You can learn it from the comfort of your home.
2. You can access any teacher anywhere in the world.
3. You can learn it at your own pace.
4. It is definitely cost-effective.
5. The online YTT reduces unnecessary effort to travel to the institute or adjust to a new place and new people.
6. You can always have access to all course content for multiple reviews after the course is done.
7. Yoga is an internalising practice and the best way to practice yoga is by yourself.
8. There is better control and more stability of place of practice, you can practice in the same place even when you change teachers. Since you have to practice for years by yourself at home, it's best to do a course at home as well.
9. Access to multiple mediums of instruction like videos, ppt, audio files, whiteboard, making it easier for students to learn from various formats also equipping teachers to deliver a better class. Easy to get in guest faculty, experts in the field for an enhanced learning experience.
10. While doing the online yoga YTT, you can continue to attend to all other responsibilities of life as before. If Yoga is to become a habit yoga has to fit in with everything else you are doing in your daily life.
11. There is reduced inhibition on the part of the student in sharing personal challenges or asking questions.
12. The process of assessing students is much easier in the online space. Hence a detailed assessment is possible that will benefit the students in getting the best out of the course.

1. There might be situations when you face internet issues, sound and visual disturbances - To ensure a seamless experience please ensure you have an internet backup. Also, we at Shvasa, will give you access to the complete recording of the whole session, so you don’t miss a thing.
2. You need to take breaks from screen time for the safety of the eyes -We have carefully designed the course schedule with enough breaks to ensure no strain to your eyes. Also, we recommend you practice eye exercises and Trataka - a yogic cleansing practice ( will be taught in the course ) which will help you to maintain healthy eyesight and refrain from your eyes getting strained.
3.There is not much peer-to-peer interaction - We have ensured peer-to-peer interaction by included many small group assignments that you will need to do with your fellow batch-mates, thus enabling peer-to-peer learning.
4. Cannot have any physical corrections in asana practice - to overcome this limitation our course teachers will dedicate time after the course hours to assist you on a one-on-one basis. You can be assured that every query of your regarding Asana alignment will be resolved by our teachers.
5. You need to be really disciplined to do the online YTT. Though hard-work, this goes well with the objectives of the course. Developing sustained discipline is the key to progress in Yoga and lack of disciple is also the most common hurdle most new yoga practices face. So an online format may actually help improve your discipline.

The Shvasa course manual, course personal-journal, all sessions recordings, PDF Yoga text books. The course manual is a fantastic document of your journey through the course. It has many worksheets that you will be filling out soon after your experience in the practical and theory sessions. This manual will be your guide for many years after the course.

Shvasa believes in small class sizes so that there is a good balance of personal attention and peer interaction and learning. Each of Shvasa YTT batches are limited to only 15 students. Each batch is further divided into 3 groups for a much closer interactions during many group assignments and presentations in the course.

Yes, you can practice in any of the shvasa online live sessions during and after the course for a maximum of 3 months duration. These sessions are optional and do not count towards the course requirement of 200 hours of education.

Yes, Shvasa courses are designed and executed by our head of Yoga Pradeep Sattwamaya, who has a 21 years of yoga experience and training over 2000 teachers till date. The course follows the requirements of AYUSH Ministry, government of India’s level 1 teacher requirements. The school is also registered under Yoga Alliance, USA. You will be able to teach anywhere in the world with Shvasa YTT yoga certificate.