300 Hours TTC
The 300 Hours Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh
- Duration: 28 Days
- Module: Residential with Ayurvedic Meals
- Level: Open to All Sincere Beginners
- Certification: Yoga Alliance RYT-500 Eligible (with prior 200-hour)
- Style: Advanced Hatha
- Batch Size: Maximum 15 Students
- Daily Hours: 10+ Hours of Instruction
For Practitioners Who Are Done with the Surface
Advanced training for those who have completed a 200-hour and are ready to go where most TTCs do not reach. You have a 200-hour certificate. You may already be teaching. You can demonstrate the postures, sequence a class and pronounce the Sanskrit. And yet if you are honest you know there is a depth you have not touched yet.
You suspect the philosophy goes further than the summaries you were given. You suspect there is more to pranayama than the techniques. You feel that your asana is good but your practice is incomplete. You may have noticed that the teachers you most admire seem to know something you don't and that this something does not appear to be on any TTC syllabus.
The Prakruti 300-hour is built for this exact moment.
You suspect the philosophy goes further than the summaries you were given. You suspect there is more to pranayama than the techniques. You feel that your asana is good but your practice is incomplete. You may have noticed that the teachers you most admire seem to know something you don't and that this something does not appear to be on any TTC syllabus.
The Prakruti 300-hour is built for this exact moment.
“A practitioner must grow with Viveka discernment knowing how they are moving forward. The systems must be perfected. There must be no chance of error. This is the work most courses skip.”
— Darshan | Founder, Prakruti Yogashala
The Honesty This Course Is Built On
Most 300-hour TTCs are 200-hour TTCs in slightly longer trousers. The schedule is similar, the curriculum is similar, the level of philosophical depth is the same with marginally more reading. They produce RYT-500 certificates. They do not produce transformed practitioners.
The Prakruti 300-hour is built differently because it begins from a different question: what does an advanced practitioner actually need to know, that the 200-hour could not yet give them?
The answer is: depth in the simple things, range across disciplines, and the philosophical and linguistic equipment to read yoga from the inside rather than from translation.
The Prakruti 300-hour is built differently because it begins from a different question: what does an advanced practitioner actually need to know, that the 200-hour could not yet give them?
The answer is: depth in the simple things, range across disciplines, and the philosophical and linguistic equipment to read yoga from the inside rather than from translation.
Who This Is For?
This is for you if...
- You have completed a 200-hour TTC, whether at Prakruti or elsewhere
- You have a genuine and consistent yoga practice
- You are seeking depth and transformation, not simply another certificate for your bio
- You are willing to dedicate yourself to ten hours of daily practice and study for four weeks
- You are open to ideas that may reshape how you teach, practice, and understand the world
- You are ready to question assumptions and explore yoga beyond the familiar
- You are sincere in your commitment to learning and growth
If this is you, read on.
This is not for you if...
- You are looking for another yoga holiday with a few classes each day
- You want a certificate more than a transformative learning experience
- You are unable or unwilling to maintain a ten-hour daily schedule
- You prefer comfort and certainty over challenge and inquiry
- You hold a fixed religious framework that cannot engage with diverse philosophical traditions
- You are unwilling to explore tantra, non-dualism, Jain karma theory, and other perspectives presented in the curriculum
- You are not prepared for the level of discipline, study, and self-reflection this training requires
Why So Few Schools Can Teach This
Most schools cannot teach this curriculum because most schools do not have the faculty for it. Prakruti can.
The team includes lineage holders in Hatha Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Indian classical arts, and Kaula Tantra. Where most Rishikesh schools have two or three good teachers, Prakruti has eight to ten many of whom guest-teach at the city's largest schools. The school is deliberately not centered on a single guru. It is built on the older Indian model a team of master practitioners across traditions, in dialogue with each other, each contributing what they have spent their lives mastering.
The founder, Darshan from a Jain family, an engineer and physicist by training, with a background in plant management and physics teaching before turning fully to yoga is the unifying mind. His teachers include three Iyengar masters, a Hatha master, a Kaula Marg Tantra guru in Kerala, masters of the Gwalior gharana in Indian classical music and mentors in Ayurveda, Jyotisha, and Kalaripayattu. His original work on the semantics of Sanskrit and English translation is one of the things that makes the philosophy taught here readable rather than recited.
The team includes lineage holders in Hatha Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Indian classical arts, and Kaula Tantra. Where most Rishikesh schools have two or three good teachers, Prakruti has eight to ten many of whom guest-teach at the city's largest schools. The school is deliberately not centered on a single guru. It is built on the older Indian model a team of master practitioners across traditions, in dialogue with each other, each contributing what they have spent their lives mastering.
The founder, Darshan from a Jain family, an engineer and physicist by training, with a background in plant management and physics teaching before turning fully to yoga is the unifying mind. His teachers include three Iyengar masters, a Hatha master, a Kaula Marg Tantra guru in Kerala, masters of the Gwalior gharana in Indian classical music and mentors in Ayurveda, Jyotisha, and Kalaripayattu. His original work on the semantics of Sanskrit and English translation is one of the things that makes the philosophy taught here readable rather than recited.
What Becomes Possible at This Level
Asana with no chance of error. Not harder poses more precise ones. You will learn to read your own compensations and your students' compensations with a clarity that most teachers never develop. The systems will be perfected.
Prana, moved at will. Advanced pranayama, including extended Kumbhaka, Bhastrika, Surya and Chandra Bhedana, with the understanding of subtle body anatomy (nadis, vayus, chakras as functional maps) that makes these practices coherent rather than mystical.
The Yoga Sutras, Chapters 3 and 4. The siddhis. Kaivalya. The chapters most courses gesture at and few actually teach.
Tantra philosophy non-dual tradition. Vedanta and the Upanishads in depth. Indian epistemology the Pramanas, the sources of valid knowledge. Karma theory in depth via Jain Darshana.
Ayurveda as a diagnostic tool. Reading constitution (Prakriti) and imbalance (Vikriti). Adapting practice for dosha. Counseling students intelligently on the relationship between food, lifestyle, and their yoga.
Sanskrit as a living language. Devanagari script, grammar foundations, reading selected sutras in the original. The semantic gap between Sanskrit and English Darshan's particular area of work becomes navigable.
The classical arts as path. Indian classical music, Rasa theory, aesthetics as a path of self-knowledge. This dimension does not exist in standard TTC curricula. It exists here because the team has the lineages to teach it.
Advanced teaching. Not how to teach a class - how to design, adapt, and hold space for any student in any state. Significant in-class practice with feedback from Darshan and the team.
Prana, moved at will. Advanced pranayama, including extended Kumbhaka, Bhastrika, Surya and Chandra Bhedana, with the understanding of subtle body anatomy (nadis, vayus, chakras as functional maps) that makes these practices coherent rather than mystical.
The Yoga Sutras, Chapters 3 and 4. The siddhis. Kaivalya. The chapters most courses gesture at and few actually teach.
Tantra philosophy non-dual tradition. Vedanta and the Upanishads in depth. Indian epistemology the Pramanas, the sources of valid knowledge. Karma theory in depth via Jain Darshana.
Ayurveda as a diagnostic tool. Reading constitution (Prakriti) and imbalance (Vikriti). Adapting practice for dosha. Counseling students intelligently on the relationship between food, lifestyle, and their yoga.
Sanskrit as a living language. Devanagari script, grammar foundations, reading selected sutras in the original. The semantic gap between Sanskrit and English Darshan's particular area of work becomes navigable.
The classical arts as path. Indian classical music, Rasa theory, aesthetics as a path of self-knowledge. This dimension does not exist in standard TTC curricula. It exists here because the team has the lineages to teach it.
Advanced teaching. Not how to teach a class - how to design, adapt, and hold space for any student in any state. Significant in-class practice with feedback from Darshan and the team.
What Graduates Say
Students who have come through the 300-hour at Prakruti including Carlo (Italy, decade-plus practitioner), Brook and Karina (American teachers), Heidi (UK studio owner), and graduates of some of Europe's most well-known teachers have consistently described the same realization: that they had been operating on a far shallower layer of practice than they had believed, and that the 300-hour gave them the equipment to teach and practice from the depth they had been intuiting for years.
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