Deepen Your Practice • Discover Your Inner Teacher • Embrace Yogic Living
At Kantipur Yoga Academy, our 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training Course is more than just a certification — it’s a life-transforming experience rooted in the classical Himalayan yoga tradition. Designed for sincere seekers, aspiring teachers, and personal explorers, this intensive training offers you the tools to embody yoga as a complete way of life.
Set in the peaceful surroundings of Budanilkantha, Kathmandu, the course invites you to live a yogic lifestyle while gaining deep insight into traditional knowledge, personal discipline, and mindful teaching techniques.
🕉️ What Makes Our Training Special?
- Taught by authentic yoga masters, healers, and spiritual guides with decades of experience
- Blend of Hatha, Ashtanga Vinyasa, and meditation-based yoga styles
- Emphasis on yogic psychology, ethics, and conscious teaching
- Integration of healing arts like mantra, mudra, sound therapy, and Ayurveda
- Balanced schedule with practical and philosophical depth
📚 Course Curriculum Overview
Our curriculum meets and exceeds the standards of Yoga Alliance (RYT-200), while offering authentic Eastern depth rarely found in commercial trainings:
1. 🧘 Asana Practice (Yoga Postures)
- Classical Hatha Yoga: alignment, holding, awareness
- Introduction to Ashtanga Vinyasa (Primary Series)
- Morning dynamic sessions & evening restorative classes
- Adjustments, variations, and use of props
2. 🌬️ Pranayama & Breathwork
- Nadi Shodhana (channel purification)
- Bhastrika, Kapalabhati, Ujjayi, Anulom Vilom
- Scientific and spiritual aspects of prana
- Breath-body-mind connection
3. 🧠 Meditation & Mindfulness
- Trataka (gazing), Om chanting, silent sitting
- Guided meditations for focus, calm, and healing
- Yoga Nidra and relaxation techniques
- Introduction to Dharana and Dhyana practices
4. 📖 Yoga Philosophy & Psychology
- Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and 8 limbs of yoga
- Concepts of Karma, Samskara, and Liberation
- Bhagavad Gita and Eastern spiritual thought
- Inner discipline, dharma, and sattvic living
5. 🩺 Anatomy & Physiology
- Functional anatomy for yoga practitioners
- Skeletal, muscular, respiratory, and nervous systems
- Safe practice: contraindications and injury prevention
- Energy systems: Chakras, Nadis, and Kundalini
6. 🎓 Teaching Methodology & Practicum
- How to sequence and structure classes
- Voice, presence, and student connection
- Observation and hands-on adjustments
- Peer teaching practice and feedback sessions
- Ethics of a yoga teacher (yamas & niyamas)
7. 🌿 Lifestyle, Healing & Ayurveda
- Daily dinacharya and yogic routines
- Ayurvedic nutrition, body-mind types
- Detox principles and sattvic food
- Sound therapy, mantra chanting, and mudra meditation
- Optional: Panchakarma detox (available as add-on)
🛏️ Daily Schedule (Sample)
(Subject to change depending on teacher and group needs)
05:30 am – Wake up call
06:00 am – Herbal tea & cleansing practices
06:30 am – Morning Asana Practice (Hatha / Ashtanga)
08:30 am – Yogic breakfast (sattvic meals)
09:30 am – Theory Class (Philosophy / Anatomy)
11:30 am – Pranayama & Meditation
01:00 pm – Lunch and rest
03:00 pm – Teaching methodology / Alignment class
05:00 pm – Evening Asana or restorative yoga
07:00 pm – Dinner
08:00 pm – Evening mantra / silence / satsang
09:00 pm – Lights off