Sri Yoga™ 500-Hour Certification

In the 500-Hour Sri Yoga™ Teacher Training program you will gain more mastery over your physical and energetic bodies to clear your space for more effective transmission. Become more than a yoga and meditation teacher. Become an innovator and conduit for the deeper teachings of yoga. 

Sri Yoga™ trainings give you a chance to go deeper. In the 500-hour program modules, you will have an opportunity to take your practice and understanding of the yoga teachings to a new, experiential level enabling you to teach from a place of deep “knowing” instead of classroom memorizing.

Six Life-Changing Modules

The 500-Hour Sri Yoga™ Teacher Training is divided into six modules that can be taken in any order. 

1. Sun Moon Fire: Everyday Techniques for Enlightened Living

2. Chakras, Kundalini and the Path of Self-healing

3. Koshas: The Journey from Self to Soul

4. Wake up and Manifest Your Resplendent Life

5. Alchemize Your Asana: Harness Your Power to Heal

6. Embodied Systems Anatomy : Your Body's Roadmap to Higher Consciousness

For more information, read our 500-Hour Teacher Training F.A.Q. 

1. Sun, Moon, Fire - Everyday Techniques
for Enlightened Living

From conception to the present moment, your Prana (intelligent life force) has been the leading voice.  In this 45 hour training, we explore the fundamentals of energy (prana) management.  Learn how to employ the three main practices of yoga, Lunar (Steady the Mind) , Solar (Build Physical and Mental Stamina) ,and Fire (Transformational) to change your life for the better now.  Transformation happens on all levels and dimensions as we explore and support our physical, mental, emotional, spiritual bodies.

Topics include:

• Experience and application of yoga and meditation Solar, Lunar, and Fire practices

• The gunas and how to work with them

• Your spiritual spine - the notochord

• Working with bandhas

• Understanding doshas and subtle essences (prana, tejas, ojas) for better health

• Conscious use of Tapas

• Everyday healing techniques to help keep you clear and support your transformation

• Everyday language for esoteric ideas

• Experience the power of yoga nidra

  
  Sun Moon Fire Required Reading:
  The Power of Mantra and the Mystery of Initiation, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait
  Yoga Nidra - Swami Satyananda Saraswati

  Sun Moon Fire Suggested Reading:
  Hatha Yoga Pradipika
  Yoga and Ayurveda - David Frawley
  Yoga for Transformation - Gary Kraftsow

2. Chakras, Kundalini and the Path of Self-healing

Through the alchemy of asana, pranayama, and meditation and other daily Energy Managements tools we learn how control and master Prana (our life force). In this 45 hour immersion, we work with the subtle body (Nadis, Chakras, Vayus, Agni, and Kundalini)  to transform our lives physically, mentally, and emotionally.  We will map out and apply techniques to cultivate balance in our Nadis and Chakras, build and harness our Agni, the transformational fire, to create permanent change in our lives. Learn how to work with chakras through Laya Yoga (yoga of dissolving), to free ourselves of physical, mental, and emotional baggage. Practice asana from the “mind of the endocrine system” for a unique and powerful experience as we go even deeper into the mystical aspects of our nervous systems. 

Topics include:

• De-mystifying kundalini

• Exploration and experience of your central channel aka sushumna nadi

• Understanding chakras as way to understand our tendencies

• Balancing energy channels and polarities in body and mind (Nadis)

• Duality and non-duality philosophy

• Experience the power of the mystical endocrine system and how the glands relate to our chakras

• See the path from agni (fire) to tejas (radiance) to sri (seeing the world as beauty and bliss)

• Healing techniques and worldview to support your transformation as you live in the real world

• Experience the power of yoga nidra

Chakras Required Reading:
Yoga and Ayurveda - David Frawley
Path of Fire and Light Volume 1 -- Swami Rama

Chakras Suggested Reading:
Hatha Yoga Pradipika
Kundalini Tantra - Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Tools for Tantra - Harish Johari
Laya Yoga - Shyam Sundar Goswami

3. Koshas - Journey Through the Layers from Self to Soul

In this training, you will gain more mastery over your physical and energetic bodies to clear your space for more effective transmission. Become more than a yoga and meditation teacher. Become an innovator and conduit for the deeper teachings of yoga. In this immersion, you will have an opportunity to take your practice and understanding of the yoga and meditation teachings to a new, experiential level, enabling you to teach from a place of deep “knowing.” We will go to the heart of Yoga by expanding your light so that you can ignite the light of others. By transcending our limiting beliefs and Ego, we learn to walk our talk and take our yoga off the mat in a practical way. More advanced asana, pranayama, meditation, and healing techniques will be introduced, with an emphasis on the experiential aspects.

Topics include:

• Learn how to purify the Koshas (Yoga’s view on the 5 layers of being Human) through asana, pranayama, meditation, and yoga nidra

• Understand how the 5 sheaths of consciousness, the koshas, really work

• Unearth the unconscious material stored in your physical and subtle anatomy and the mind through the use of asana, pranayama and kriya.

• Experience how Yoga Nidra helps to close the gap between intention and manifesting your soul’s purpose

  Koshas  Required Reading:
  Yoga Nidra, Swami Satyananda Saraswati  
  Yoga Nidra, Richard Miller
  The Upanishads (any translation)
   
  Koshas Suggested Reading:
  Path of Fire and Light by Swami Rama (Vol. 2)

4. Wake up and Manifest Your Resplendent Life!

“You can’t always get what you want.” Or can you? In this training we discuss the 4 states of consciousness: Awake, Dreaming, Deep Sleep and Turiya. Investigate how the mind works, storyboarding the movie of your life. Unearth the parts of us that sabotage (vikalpas) and learn how you can replace those parts with your heart’s desire (sankalpa). Experience technologies such as mantra meditation and Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep) and why they are powerful tools in helping you manifest your more expanded reality, as well tools to help you reduce stress and gain clarity. This session will help you become a clearer channel for all that you seek, as you learn techniques that you can apply to your classroom, as well as techniques only appropriate for your personal practice.

Topics include:

• How to manifest your Intentions and break the cycle of self sabotage

• Karma and transcending your “story, aka “ego”

• The Art of Sankalpa/vikalpa- Intention and Manifestation

• Yoga Nidra, lucid dreaming, and the unconscious mind

• Discover your Dharma, your life’s purpose

• The power of mantra, vibration, sound, light, and internal fire

• Understand Siddhis (fruit of your practice) and their application
  
  Wake Up Required Reading:
  Yoga Nidra, Swami Satyananda Saraswati  
  Yoga Nidra, Richard Miller
  The Path of Fire and Light Volume 2, Swami Rama
  
  Wake Up Suggested Reading:
  The Four Agreements - Don Miguel
  

  5. Alchemize Your Asana: Harness Your Power to Heal
  (formally the Art of Transmission: Part 1)

  
  The foundation of an alchemical yoga practice is skillful use of Prana.  In this immersion, we will take our sadhana to a whole new level where Yoga and meditation is management of the energetic body (Pranamaya Kosha).  Sequencing (Vinyasa Krama) through the lens of prana has the power to clear and heal every layer of your being - physically,mentally, and vibrationally.  This increased level of clarity will allow you to bring your highest Self more fully into every aspect of your life, both on and off the mat.  More advanced pranayama, meditation, yoga nidra and healing techniques will be introduced, with an emphasis on the experiential aspects.

• Exploration of the concept of the Prana, Space, and Life Force

• Developing and inspiring your personal practice and/or teaching

• Tantra as alchemy: Understanding and application of Tantric teachings and techniques in asana, pranayama, and meditation

• Understanding and applying the bio-energetics of asana and pranayama

• Adhikara, sequencing, vinyasa krama and use of themes and bhavana for clearer transmission

• Find your voice: Application of the Yoga Scriptural Texts, i.e. Yoga Sutras, Shiva Sutras, Upanishads, and Bhaghavad Gita

• Alchemical integration with Yoga Nidra

Alchemize Required Reading: 
The Upanishads(Prashna Upanishad) - Eknath Easwaran
Tantra Unveiled - Pandit Rajmani Tigunait
Yoga and Ayurveda - Dr. David Frawley

Alchemize Suggested Reading:
Yoga Sutras - Practice of Yoga Sutra Pandit Rajmani Tigunait
Tools for Tantra - Harish Johari
Yoga Nidra - Swami Satyananda Saraswati

6. Embodied Systems Anatomy : Your Body's Roadmap to Higher Consciousness

Tantra says, “Yatha pindande, tatha brahmande—Whatever is in the body is also in the universe.” Learn how to recognize the Universal Truth expressed in your body - your personal roadmap and toolbox to understanding.  As you refine your listening, you gain access to more of your Highest Self, allowing you to be a larger conduit for Joy and Resplendence.  As you become softer and  more still, you hear the voice of your more subtle anatomy.  Discover deep communication as you embody the "mind" of your different physical systems (bones, muscles, connective tissue, organs, etc…) By taking this potent and subtle journey into Self as Body,  converse with the space between the cells as the pathway to ultimate healing.  Learn how to practice, teach, and heal from your Dhi, your clear and receptive heart.  This immersion also addresses yoga as healer by refining our ability to see, listen, and touch.  Explore the healing power of touch as you experience and embody delicious hands-on adjustments.

• Learn to listen through your Systems Anatomy

• Practice the art of refined touch - yoga teacher as healer - to reach different systems of the body

• Use of System Anatomy themes and bhavana for clearer transmission and practice

• Explore classroom and communication dynamics by understanding the different “minds” of the room

• Delve deeper as you expand and refine your concept of Ahimsa (non-violence)

Embodied Required Reading:
Yoga Anatomy -- Leslie Kaminoff, Amy Matthews

Embodied Suggested Reading:
Yoga Sutras -The Secret of Yoga Sutras - Pandit Rajmani Tigunait
Yoga Sutras - Practice of Yoga Sutras Pandit Rajmani Tigunait
Sensing, Feeling, and Action - Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

Words From Our 500-Hr Sri Yoga™ Graduates