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Join Sadhana and Keval via zoom on Thursday May 1st 2025

300-Hour/500-Hour YTT - 6.15pm

Yoga Chikitsa Foundations and Pre-Post Natal Teacher Training Courses - 6.45pm

Prerequisite for this training is a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification or certificate of participation as a study program - from Shantarasa or another accredited training organization.

The 300-hour training is the natural extension of 200-hour Training Certificate. 

300-hour Training enables 200-hour certificate holders to complete the 500-hour Certificate. 

The 300-hour Training expands teaching skill sets and enables personal practice to exponentially deepen. You will learn to identify and work more effectively with individual differences and needs, designing practice in the context of a one-on-one private session. Private yoga sessions require a very different set of listening and awareness skills than group facilitation with a higher level of attentiveness to individual needs. The course takes study beyond basic practices and explores pranayama, mudra, self-inquiry, meditation and yoga nidra at a subtler and more powerful level. The thematic components of the training cover essential subjects drawn directly from traditional yogic contexts.

Many already practicing teachers choose this study program to receive the depth of the study components not often found in other trainings. As well, they find this traditional more adept approach to asana a highly rewarding adjunct to their existing training.

Shantarasa specialises in Yoga Chikitsa (therapy) and brings many of the methods of therapeutic training into this program. Yoga Teachers often find themselves unable to answer and meet the specific needs of students, this more rounded form of training educates a more well-rounded and wholistic teacher.

Your principal teachers will be Sadhana and Keval Pezet.

Sadhana is a specialist in hatha yoga and asana (postures), pranayama, yoga nidra, meditation, yoga chikitsa (yoga therapy) and teacher with 50 years of experience. She is also a qualified Transpersonal therapist and trainer. What she brings to the trainings is an incredible depth of knowledge that spans the practical, therapeutic and the philosophical aspects of the Shantarasa Traditional Yoga programs. She is very dedicated to preserving the traditional forms as yoga goes through a phase of immense change in our contemporary speres of yoga practice and popularity and the age of ‘influencers’. Postural yoga is not a full picture, without the full context postures have little if any of their intended benefit and power. Sadhana’s classes give an exceptional experience of what yoga practice can truly give.

Keval is our resident scholar and jnani or wisdom lover.  He brings decades of study and immersion in Yogic principles and practice, He impartsd the practical wisdom of the yogic traditions in ways that are accessible, relevant, inspiring and that touch the fabric of our daily life. He has personally practiced and taught yogic philosophy, mantra and meditation globally now for 50 years; and have been woven into his daily experience.. 

Both received personal guidance and teaching from an incredible line of South Indian Siddhas. Their study has been continuous to this day, having dedicated immense amounts of time during countless extended periods of time in India to study with Yoga Adepts, Hatha Yoga Achayas, Yoga Therapists, Ayurvedic Vaidyas, and Vedic and Sanskrit scholars.

These two therefore instruct a training that carries rare depth and skill as they deliver the content of this pure gem of a program.

Shantarasa is also offering an extension to the 300-hour curriculum for those interested with an additional 4 weekend intensives delivering the Foundations of Yoga Chikitsa (therapy). Enrolees in the 300-hour will receive a fee reduction to this add on of 60 hours.

The additional 60 hours study in the Foundations of Yoga Chikitsa is also a stand-alone program for anyone with a 350 hours of teacher training.

Curriculum

Yoga Psychology & Meditation 

Key Principles & Foundations of Yoga - practice and understanding.

The Yogi’s Mind Map - four-fold psychic instrument, nature of mind, consciousness research East & West.

Transcending Karma, Transcending Death - identifying how karma works and exploring the life, death, rebirth cycle.

Deeper Dimensions of Asana Practice - evolution through the three stages of asana.

Applied Anatomy & Physiology - the yogic view of how the body works.

Facilitating Adjustments - with subtlety; verbally, manually and by example.

Dynamics of Personal Practice - adapting to change, need and development.

Yoga One on One - applying yoga practice to meet individual needs and context with specific conditions covered.

Ayurveda and Yoga Practices - practice according to life stage, constitution and season.

The Yoga of Kashmir Shaivism - Living Yoga potently in the world.

Enlightenment - What is it? Cultivating spiritual intelligence across the full spectrum of human experience.

Cultivating Energy & Subtle Qualities - the higher yogic qualities of Ojas, Tejas and Prana and how they influence spiritual expansion.

Pranayama - practice, breath & pranayama, prana vayus, koshas and the mind, cleansing and awakening the mind.

The Yogic Science of Subtle Energy - Kundalini, evolution and spiritual intelligence, and going beyond duality.

Science and Practice of Nyasa or Yoga Nidra - deep relaxation and the release of impressions.

The Subtleties of Teacher-Student Relationship.

Yoga Psychology – a deep and revelatory view on the origins of meta psychology, encompassing and transcending limited mind states,

Cultivating Lucid Awareness - the nature of essential background awareness, enabling lucid awareness expansion.

Effective Sustained Meditation – how to be with what is and meditate deeply without fighting with the mind. How to guide and instruct others. Asana for effective sitting.

Sadhana - Living Yoga for personal evolution and as compassionate action to assist others.

Many of the subjects can be taken as stand alone study workshops for previous students and yoga teachers and practitioners.

The Foundations in Yoga Chikitsa can be taken as a stand alone course by anyone with 350-hours of teacher training.

Assessment

• Practicums delivering One on One sessions

• Short thematic assessment projects for each intensive

Your Instructors

Sadhana is a specialist in hatha yoga and asana (postures), pranayama, yoga nidra, meditation, yoga chikitsa (yoga therapy) and teacher with 50 years of experience. She is also a qualified Transpersonal therapist and trainer. What she brings to the trainings is an incredible depth of knowledge that spans the practical, therapeutic and the philosophical aspects of the Shantarasa Traditional Yoga programs. She is very dedicated to preserving the traditional forms as yoga goes through a phase of immense change in our contemporary speres of yoga practice and popularity and the age of ‘influencers’. Postural yoga does not provide a full spectrum of experience.  Lacking integration of deeper more subtle components beyond movement and architecture postures have little if any of their intended benefit and power. Sadhana’s classes give an exceptional experience of what yoga practice can truly give.

Keval is our resident scholar and jnani or wisdom lover.  He brings decades of study and immersion in Yogic principles and practice, He impartsd the practical wisdom of the yogic traditions in ways that are accessible, relevant, inspiring and that touch the fabric of our daily life. He has personally practiced and taught yogic philosophy, mantra and meditation globally now for 50 years; and have been woven into his daily experience. 

Both received personal guidance and teaching from an incredible line of South Indian Siddhas. Their study has been continuous to this day, having dedicated immense amounts of time during countless extended periods of time in India to study with Yoga Adepts, Hatha Yoga Achayas, Yoga Therapists, Ayurvedic Vaidyas, and Vedic and Sanskrit scholars.

These two therefore instruct a training that carries rare depth and skill as they deliver the content of this pure gem of a program.

Dates 2025-26

200YTT - 8th March - Completing 6th July 2025 (11 weekend intensives)

300YTT - 2nd Aug 2025 - 21st June 2026 (15 weekend intensives)

500YTT - 8th March 2025 - 21st June 2026 (26 weekend intensives)

Yoga Chikitsa Foundations - 18th July - 23rd August 2026 (4 weekends intensive)

Course Fees

• Full certificate Course $3500

• Study Program Only $2,200

• Resit $900

• Payment plan includes deposit and nominated Instalments  (+ admin fee $150)

A more comprehensive course description is given in the current course training guide.