500-Hour Yoga Teacher Training

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

The 500-hour full certificate is a combination of the 200-hour and 300-hour course.

Some students take the whole 500-hours as a continuous immersive study program. It spans across 26 weekend intensives for about 18 months. The course allows plenty of scope to work at your own pace. 

Teaching yoga is so much more than teaching postures and we encourage trainees to have the view of a extended or lifelong studentship with the yogic tradition and its priceless bodies of wisdom. Shantarasa intentionally offers such in depth trainings to encourage this kind of love for the study and dedication to transpersonal growth and practice.

Many people today are hungry for the understanding yoga affords them. We view it as important to equip teachers with the depth to meet and assist this genuine inquiry in students of yoga.

The 500-hour training combines the curriculum of both the 200-hour and 300-hour courses. For information on the course curriculum, please refer to the individual course page for each.

The course facilitators are a husband-and-wife team, 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. He brings decades of study in Yogic philosophy, he communicates the practical wisdom of the yogic traditions in ways that are accessible, relevant, infectious, and that touch the fabric of our daily life. He has taught yogic philosophy, mantra and meditation globally now for 50 years. 

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.

NOTE: Shantarasa is offering an extension to this program with added curriculum and hours- The Foundations in Yoga Chikitsa (Therapy). It will be offered accross 4 weekend intensives giving 60-hours of additional training and professional development. To the enrollees in the 500-hour training this addition will be offered at a significantly reduced fee.

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)

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.

Course Fees

• Full certificate course $5,700

• Study Program Only $3,500

• Resit $1200

• Payment plan option includes deposit and nominated Instalments (+ admin fee $200)

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