Ashtanga is yoga in its most honest form — a set sequence of postures you practice at your own pace, guided but never rushed. A personal conversation between body and breath, with a teacher nearby to support. Every student follows the same map; each journey is entirely their own.

Once a week, before the world has woken, we carry our mats to the banks of the Ganga. The river moves silently beside you. The Himalayas rest in the distance. This is not a regular class — it is a reminder of why yoga was born here, in this land, beside this water. Students often say this single morning stays with them long after the course ends.

If yoga were a tree, Hatha would be its roots. Slower, more deliberate, and deeply connected to the breath. You will learn not merely how to do a pose, but why it works, what it does to the body, and how to teach it clearly and safely to others.

Three thousand years old and still remarkably relevant. The word itself means "the knowledge of life." You will learn your personal body type, why you feel the way you feel, and the simple daily practices that keep you well.

A mantra is not merely a word — it is a sound that carries energy. When chanted with awareness, that vibration moves through the body, settles the mind, and gradually shifts the way you feel. This module includes Mantra Diksha, a traditional fire ceremony on the first day.

Seven invisible energy centres running along your spine. When open and balanced, you feel healthy, calm, and clear. Understanding your chakras helps you understand yourself — and helps you guide your future students toward greater wellbeing.

If the body is a garden, meditation is the water. You do not need to empty your mind — that is a myth. You simply practice watching your thoughts without being pulled into them. Over four weeks, this becomes natural, and its effects on daily life impossible to ignore.

Your hands are more powerful than you think. Specific positions direct the flow of energy through the body. Science confirms that certain gestures activate specific regions of the brain. Subtle, but genuinely transformative.

You breathe 20,000 times a day without thinking. Pranayama teaches you to breathe on purpose. When you guide the breath, you gain quiet but profound influence over your energy, your mood, your nervous system, and the depth of your meditation.

A great teacher understands what is happening inside the body when a student moves. Physical anatomy and spiritual anatomy together give you a complete picture of the human being you are working with.

Before you can build a fire, you clean the hearth. Six ancient cleansing techniques prepare the body from the inside out — clearing toxins, freeing energy channels, creating the inner clarity that makes all other yoga practices more effective.

Psychic sleep — a guided practice at the edge between waking and sleep. In this deeply restful state, old patterns begin to loosen, and the body repairs itself with remarkable efficiency. A 45-minute session is said to equal four hours of ordinary sleep.

At its heart, yoga philosophy simply says this: body, mind, and deeper self are not separate — they are one. The texts we study are not dry books. They are maps drawn by people who understood the human mind extraordinarily well, thousands of years before modern psychology existed.

This is where yoga becomes genuinely life-changing for your students. Therapy applies the tools of yoga to specific health conditions — allowing you to work with real people who have real challenges, not just healthy students seeking a workout.

Students who meet the requirements receive a Yoga Alliance recognised certificate — qualifying as a RYT. The assessment is fair, supportive, and designed to reflect genuine progress rather than performance under pressure.