Almost everyone who teaches this practice for a living started with a course exactly like this one. Over twenty-four days in the surroundings of Ganga Ji, in the quiet of Upper Tapovan, you learn the postures from the inside out, and you leave a Registered Yoga Teacher, ready to guide a room of your own.
Twenty-four days on the banks of the Ganga Ji, learn the postures from the inside out and leave a Registered Yoga Teacher.
We call this our Root of Yoga course, and the name is not decoration. Everything else, the advanced work, the specialisations, the years of teaching that might follow, grows out of what happens in these first twenty-four days. So we take this course seriously, and we ask you to as well.
Most people who arrive have never taught a single class, and a good number have only ever practised from videos at home. That is completely fine. The course is built for beginners and gentle intermediates, and it assumes nothing except that you are willing to show up each morning and do the work.
You live on ashram for the full twenty-four days, the same simple food, the same early hours, the same small group from the first morning to the last. Somewhere in the middle of all that, the practice stops being something you do for an hour and becomes something closer to how you live.
What you walk away with is a real grounding, in technique, in alignment, in philosophy, and in the quiet confidence that lets you stand at the front of a room and mean it.
There is something worth saying plainly, right at the start: these twenty-four days will ask something of you. This is not a resort with a little stretching bolted onto the side, and we would rather you knew that before you booked than felt misled once you arrived. It is a fair trade, though. Here is both sides of it.
And your full attention through the day. The schedule is real, and it starts before sunrise.
A willingness to put your usual habits and small luxuries aside, just for a while.
Ready to turn inward, rather than reach for the next distraction.
An ashram, not a resort
Calm by design, not a party with a timetable attached.
The parts of you that you had been far too busy to notice for years.
Learning, at last, to sit comfortably with your own thoughts.
The month is never really about becoming someone new. It is about finding your way back to the person you quietly already were.
200 Hour Yoga TTC, the Root of Yoga course. Everything you genuinely need for the twenty-four days is already inside these numbers, from your room to your meals to your certificate.
Begins on the 1st of every month. There is almost always a batch coming up soon.
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It is tempting, when you are excited, to look straight past the beginning toward the advanced work. We would gently steer you the other way. Everything after this, the 300-hour, the 500-hour, the years of leading your own classes, grows out of the habits and understanding you build in these twenty-four days.
That is why we refuse to rush the unglamorous parts. Alignment drilled slowly. The breath learned patiently. Philosophy read and actually discussed rather than skimmed. Done carefully, these hours give you roots deep enough to hold real weight later, building on solid ground rather than papering over gaps.
People worry, before they book, that they are somehow not the right sort of person for this. Too stiff. Too old. Not spiritual enough. Not fit enough. In nearly every case the worry is misplaced. This course was built for ordinary people who feel a genuine pull toward the practice, whatever shape they happen to be in when they arrive.
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Who want a strong, deep foundation before anything else. The course assumes no prior teaching experience at all, you build everything from the ground up, at a pace that never leaves you behind.
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Ready to understand the why behind the postures they already love, moving from following along with videos to knowing, in your own body, what each posture is actually doing.
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Anyone hoping to teach one day, and wanting an internationally recognised Yoga Alliance certificate to do it, with the real, practised confidence to stand at the front of a room.
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Looking for a month of clarity, discipline and quiet more than a career change. A stretch of days that make sense again, and space to hear yourself think.
What it actually asks for is not flexibility or youth. It is willingness, turn up open, do the work, and the course meets you exactly where you are.
There is no shortage of schools, and choosing well from the other side of the world is genuinely hard. So here, without the marketing gloss, are the things that actually set this course apart.
Teachers Who Have Lived It
Every subject is led by a Yoga Acharya with somewhere between ten and twenty years behind them, not a recent graduate reading from notes. They know their material in their bones, and share it without a trace of ego. More than anything else on this page, they are the reason people travel across the world to train with us, and the reason so many come back.
This is not twenty-four days of postures and nothing else. The course weaves together Hatha, Ashtanga Vinyasa and Yin, and sets them alongside pranayama, meditation, philosophy, anatomy and teaching skill. You leave understanding the whole tradition, not just a memorised sequence, exactly what separates a confident teacher from someone demonstrating shapes.
Wrapped in rivers and forest, Rishikesh gives you a setting no city studio can borrow. Two guided excursions each week, the evening Ganga aarti in Rishikesh by the Ganga, kirtan, and a sound healing session are all part of the course, so the culture you are training inside becomes part of the training itself.
You finish with two credentials, the Adhiroha certificate, accredited under the Ministry of Ayush, and a Yoga Alliance RYT 200. Together they turn a 200 hour yoga teacher training in India into a qualification recognised in studios and retreats almost anywhere you might want to teach.
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All three run at the same ashram, with the same teachers and the same food. What changes is how long you stay, what you need before you arrive, and what the certificate lets you do afterwards.
Everything a first course should be: the postures, the breath, and enough supervised teaching that you have already stood in front of a room before you leave.
The advanced month. Less about learning postures, more about learning to read the person in front of you and change what you had planned.
Both syllabi run back to back, one arrival, one room, the same teachers throughout. The longest course we run and the one people finish most changed.
Twelve subjects, taught across twenty-four days, each carried by a teacher who has genuinely lived it. They sort naturally into four pillars, and together they take you from your own mat to the front of the room.
Hatha Yoga Asanas, the classical postures, learned slowly from the inside out.
Ashtanga Yoga, the flowing primary series, linked breath to movement.
Vinyasa, the art of moving between postures with grace.
Shat Karma, six ancient cleansing practices that prepare the body.
Pranayama, breathing techniques, the engine of the whole practice.
Meditation, learning to sit with, and finally settle, the mind.
Yoga Philosophy & Ethics, the old texts and ideas, made alive and practical.
Anatomy & Physiology, what each posture actually does inside the body.
Basics of Ayurveda, the sister science of living and eating well.
Teaching Methodology, how to sequence, cue, adjust and hold a class.
Teaching Practice, real practice teaching, in front of real people.
Mantra Chanting, opening and closing a room with sound.
By the last week the pillars stop feeling like separate subjects at all, the practice, the breath, the knowledge and the craft settle into one thing, and that one thing is you, teaching.
Yoga Alliance sets the categories; how a school fills them is what makes the difference. This is exactly how the 200 contact hours of our 200 hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh are allocated.
Asana, pranayama, kriya, chanting and meditation. The bulk of your 200 hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh happens here, on the mat, twice a day.
How to sequence, cue, demonstrate and hold a room. You start teaching each other in week two, not on the last day.
Both the physical and the subtle body, taught so it changes how you adjust rather than how well you memorise.
The Sutras, the Gita and the lifestyle of a teacher, discussed rather than lectured.
Supervised teaching in front of the group, with feedback the same hour.
People always want to know what the days really feel like, so here is the tentative shape of one, full but never frantic. It looks like a lot written down, and the first two days can feel that way. Then something clicks.
Shatkarma, gentle cleansing practices as the light comes up
Pranayama and breathwork, while the air is still cool
A strong Hatha asana practice to wake the body properly
Breakfast, warm and simple, eaten without hurry
Philosophy and ethics, discussion more than lecture
A restorative Yin session to open & release/adjustment alignment to refine postures
Lunch, then a real rest through the warm part of the day
Yoga anatomy, the science behind everything you practise
Ashtanga and Vinyasa flow as the afternoon softens
Bhakti chanting, then meditation as the day winds down
Dinner, and lights out early, because dawn comes early too
By the end of the first week, the rhythm carries you rather than the other way round.
This steady repetition, day after day in clean mountain air, is the real teacher, far more than any single clever class.
The twenty-four days are not a flat stretch of identical mornings. They have a shape, and knowing it ahead of time helps. Most people move through roughly the same arc, whatever level they arrive at.
You land, shake off the travel, and meet the group you will share the month with. The first sessions are deliberately gentle, nobody is thrown in the deep end. You find your rhythm with the food and the early nights, and let the noise of the journey settle.
This is the week the body complains a little. Muscles you had forgotten make themselves known, and the new information can seem like a lot. Stay with it, by the end of the week the aches fade and the pieces start to fit together.
Almost without warning, something turns. You stop copying the teacher and start noticing alignment in the people beside you. You anticipate the next cue, the moment it stops being something done to you and becomes something you can do.
You plan and lead classes to your peers, take honest feedback with good grace, and sit your final assessment. Then the certificates come, and the goodbyes, almost always harder than anyone expects.
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Finish the course and you leave with one certificate, issued by Adhiroha and carrying both recognitions on it. Because the school is a Registered Yoga School with Yoga Alliance and accredited by the Yoga Certification Board under the Ministry of Ayush, that single certificate is all a studio in Berlin, a gym in Melbourne or a retreat in Costa Rica needs to see. You will not have to explain yourself. The certificate does that for you.
To receive it, you simply need to be present and take part, a minimum of 90% attendance and a genuine effort through the final assessment. Meet that, and you leave with a qualification that never expires and a title, Registered Yoga Teacher, that stays with you for good.
One document, both recognitions, and it never expires. Meet the attendance requirement and you may register with Yoga Alliance as an RYT 200.
Ministry of Ayush · Yoga Certification Board
Yoga Alliance · register as an RYT 200Once the certificate is in your hands, the next step for most graduates is the 300 hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, which takes the same registration one level further to RYT 300. Taken together the two complete the 500-hour standard.
“A resume that reads ‘trained in Rishikesh’ carries a weight the very same hours elsewhere simply do not.”
You could learn these same postures in a studio in almost any city. What you could not do is learn them here. Rishikesh sits exactly where the Ganga Ji leaves the mountains and meets the plains. A threshold place that has drawn seekers and teachers for thousands of years. The air feels cleaner and somehow more awake; temple bells carry across the water at first light.
Choosing to train here means choosing all of that as your backdrop, not as scenery but as part of the teaching. You practise where the tradition has been kept alive across centuries, and learning tends to go deeper, faster, simply because the place keeps drawing you quietly inward.
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A foundation course spends more hours in the shala than anywhere else, so that is the room to judge us on: sprung floor, open sides, and enough space that nobody practises with a wall at their back. The rest of the three acres is there for the hours in between. Every facility on the ashram.
A bright, purpose-built shala that opens onto forest and mountains on every side, props, a small library, and space enough that a class never feels crowded. Practising with green and sky all around you does something four studio walls simply cannot.
Set on three acres beside the brook, the grounds stay calm even when a full batch is in residence, a small Shiva temple for quiet sitting, shaded corners for reading, and the soft sound of running water that slows everyone down within a day or two.
A dedicated space for the evening sittings: sound healing with singing bowls and gongs, mantra, and the guided meditation that closes each day. It is where a lot of people find the part of the course they did not expect to matter most.
Quiet spaces dotted around the ashram in Rishikesh, made simply for unwinding, reading, journalling, or easy conversation with people who stop being strangers within weeks. A surprising amount of the real learning happens in these unhurried in-between moments.
Twenty-four nights on site, and for most people on a 200 hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh this is a first month of ashram living. Ensuite twin and triple rooms, hot water morning and evening, and a desk you will use more than you expect once the anatomy module starts. See the rooms and grounds in detail.
Register now, and we handle the rest
We keep the pricing clear so you can plan without second-guessing. The fee covers far more than the classes themselves. It is put together so that from the moment you land, the practical worries are already handled.
We would rather say so plainly than bury it. Beyond this, what you see is what you pay.
When you enrol on the 200 hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, add any one of these short programs to your stay and a €90 scholarship comes off it automatically. A gentle nudge to keep going while you are in the right place and the right frame of mind.
Plenty of students take us up on it, very few regret the extra days.
Satvik & Ayurvedic
Local organic farms
Herbal teas & morning fruit
Desserts, a small fan club
Three sattvic vegetarian meals a day, which for a first course is often the biggest surprise of the month: bodies that were tired at 6am stop being tired by week two, and most students trace it back to the kitchen rather than the asana. What the kitchen serves, and how dietary needs are handled.
Do not mistake simple for plain, though. Most students are quietly surprised by how good the food is. Eating this way for twenty-four days does something you notice slowly: lighter mornings, steadier energy, a clearer head on the mat.
Four rest days across the twenty-four, and the excursions fall on them. On a first course these are where a room of strangers turns into a group that knows each other, which is half of what people remember a year later. Where the excursions go and what they involve.
A real education never stops at the edge of the shala, so woven through the course are two excursions and a handful of small rituals that tie you to the living culture all around you. For many students, these turn out to be the memories they hold onto longest.
01 · At Dusk
As dusk falls you walk down to the Ganga in Rishikesh for the aarti at Parmarth Niketan, where priests circle great brass lamps and the whole bank glows amber against the dark. A lot of people describe it as the first time in years they felt completely still.
02 · On Rest Days
On rest days a short trek climbs to the waterfalls hidden in the hills above Rishikesh, cold water, green shade, and the best kind of tired.
03 · Some Mornings
Some sessions leave the shala entirely, asana and meditation right on the ghat, with the Ganga Ji moving past as your soundtrack.
04 · In Silence
A short trip takes you to the ancient Vasishta caves, where sages have sat in silence for centuries. Meditating inside, in the cool and the dark, is the kind of quiet that stays with you long after you have left.
05 · Living History
Guided visits to the old temples of Rishikesh, thirteen storeys of Trayambakeshwar, riverside shrines, places where the tradition you study in class has been practised without pause for centuries.
06 · Between Practice Days
Gentle walks into the hills and slow time by the sacred river, none of it compulsory, none of it rushed.
Your transformation starts with a single step
You do not need to be fit, flexible or experienced to begin. Most people on the course are new to all of this. Still, five easy things in the weeks before you travel make the first days much smoother.
A few minutes of stillness and simple breathing most days, just enough to build a little focus.
Move in whatever way you enjoy, so the early mornings feel less of a shock.
Look after yourself in the final week before you fly, future you will be grateful.
Tell us your arrival time, and the airport pickup will be waiting for you.
Leave your expectations loose. The only item on this list that really matters.
Think of it as easing yourself toward the door, not training for a marathon, and if you can only manage one of these, make it the last one.
Your foundation is taught by the teachers below, with Yogacharya Jagjeet Singh on asana and alignment and Yogacharya Ajay Pundir on anatomy. At 200 hour level the teaching is patient and deliberately repetitive: the same postures revisited until they stop being shapes you copy. Full profiles for all eleven teachers.
In the end, a school is only ever as good as the people teaching in it, and ours are the reason students come back. Each is a Yoga Acharya with years of dedicated teaching behind them.
These texts are not old. You are simply the newest person to read them.
Born in Haridwar, Jaggi learned yoga from his yogi grandfather, took a Master’s in Yoga Science, and mastered Hatha in the Himalayas. He teaches anatomy and philosophy with rare compassion and energy. His are the sessions students quote months after they leave.
Discipline is not punishment. It is the structure that finally lets you move freely.
A seasoned yogi who began practising at an early age, Pratap holds a Master’s in Yoga & Vedic Sciences and is recognised as one of the region’s top Ashtanga teachers, leading the disciplined, sequence-driven practice across our 200, 300 and 500 hour programs.
You don’t need to travel far to find stillness. Sometimes it was always right where you were born.
Born and raised in Rishikesh, Sunil was drawn to the local yoga culture from an early age. He studied at renowned institutions, Kriya Yoga, Sivananda Yoga and Kaivalyadham, and now teaches Hatha Yoga, Pranayama, Meditation, Mantras, Philosophy and Ayurveda with a calm, kind and balanced presence students and fellow teachers deeply respect.
Breath is the one thing you carry into every posture, and the one thing most people forget to practise.
Jitendra’s path began at the Sivananda Ashram, immersed in traditional yoga, spiritual living and the study of Vedanta. A master’s degree in Yogic Science later deepened a practice already decades old, and it shows in the calm, unhurried way he teaches breathwork.
Strength follows breath. Get the breathing honest, and the practice builds itself.
Ajay embarked on his yoga journey at seventeen and went on to earn an M.A. in Yoga. Today he is one of our most sought-after Ashtanga teachers, running the sunrise practice with the kind of energy that makes six a.m. feel like a gift.
Hatha is not about force. It is a steady conversation between effort and ease.
Ashish began his journey in 2017, studying traditional Hatha Yoga alongside Hatha rooted in the Iyengar approach, under the close guidance of experienced gurus. He leads the grounding morning Hatha classes, and stays back until the last question is answered.
Every body in the room is different. Teach the one in front of you, not the one in the book.
Anil brings the science. With in-depth knowledge of anatomy and physiology, a background in therapeutic applications of yogic science and expertise in acupressure therapy, his quiet, precise adjustments are the moment when everything suddenly clicks.
Yin doesn’t ask you to do more. It asks you to stay a little longer than feels comfortable.
Sudhanshu specialises in adjustment and alignment, bringing a deep understanding of body mechanics and quiet precision to his restorative and Yin yoga classes, the slow, held postures that undo what the rest of the day tightens up.
Alignment is not about a perfect posture. It is about a body that finally listens to itself.
Anil’s journey began in Rishikesh with a deep curiosity that soon became a way of life. He studied Yogic Sciences and now guides students through hands-on adjustment and alignment work. The quiet corrections that keep a practice safe as it deepens.
Progress in yoga is quiet. You will not always feel it happening, but one day you will notice you have arrived.
Prashant found his way to yoga through the Hatha and Ashtanga traditions, and has spent years refining a teaching style that balances strength with stillness. Known among students for his patience and clear, practical instruction, he brings steady energy and encouraging guidance to every class he leads.
We never hand a whole course to one person, and we never put an intern at the front, every subject is led by someone who has genuinely lived it for years.
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Anyone can learn to call out a sequence of postures. The teachers people remember are made of something quieter, and this course is built to grow exactly that.
You leave able to hold a room
to keep a class of mixed abilities safe
to adjust a body without ever forcing it
and to speak with the calm authority that lets people trust you.
When you have sat with your own restless mind and learned to breathe through it, you can see the same struggle in a student across the room and meet it with patience instead of judgement. But you also leave gentler with yourself, which, oddly enough, is what makes you a good teacher for anyone else. That blend of skill and humanity is what these twenty-four days are quietly designed to produce.
A few practical things worth knowing before you enrol, laid out plainly, no surprises hiding in small letters.
English is the language of instruction, and classroom English is plenty. If you can read this page, you can follow the course.
This is an immersive course, and all classes and sessions are mandatory. It only works if everyone is genuinely in it, together.
Keep at least ninety percent attendance and take part in the final assessment. Meet that, and you receive the Adhiroha 200-hour certificate, accredited by the Yoga Certification Board, Ministry of Ayush, along with your Yoga Alliance registration.
We ask every student to read and follow a simple code of conduct, a handful of ashram etiquettes that keep the space calm, focused and kind for everyone in it.
None of it is heavy. It is just the frame that lets the real work happen.
A certificate is a beginning, not a finish line. The real confidence to teach comes from hours logged under good guidance, which is exactly why this course gives so much time to real teaching practice rather than theory alone.
There is no pressure to rush. A great many people teach happily for years on the foundation alone. But when you are ready to go further, the natural next steps are waiting, and many of our graduates come back a year or two on to take them.
Twenty-four days that take you from student to Registered Yoga Teacher.
Advanced practice, therapeutic work and the art of sequencing, most return for it within a year or two.
Explore the 300-HourThe whole path, walked end to end. The qualification senior teachers carry.
Explore the 500-HourStill deciding? We are here when you are ready
Almost everyone hesitates a little before booking a month away, and that hesitation is completely normal. It is usually one of a handful of quiet worries, so let us meet them head on.
If a different worry is sitting on your mind, write to us and ask. There is no script waiting at the other end, only people who once stood exactly where you are standing now.
Ask Us AnythingA kilometre uphill from Tapovan market, which on a first course matters more than it sounds: close enough to walk down for a chai on a rest day, far enough that the 6am class is not competing with traffic. More about the ashram and its surroundings.
Delhi Airport is about 250 km away, most students fly into Dehradun, where our pickup is waiting.
Almost everyone arrives at a first teacher training quietly wondering whether they are flexible enough, or young enough, or serious enough to be in the room. These are graduates of the 200 hour course answering that. Read what students wrote after they went home.
Unscripted and unedited, students talking about the course in their own words, straight from the Adhiroha YouTube channel. Tap any card to play.
Student Review · 01
Most students on a first course fly into Delhi and come up the same day. Here is the route almost everyone takes to reach the ashram in Upper Tapovan.
An Indian e-Tourist visa covers a twenty-four day course comfortably. Apply two to four weeks ahead; you do not need a student visa to train in Rishikesh.
Delhi (DEL) has the widest international choice for reaching Rishikesh. Dehradun (DED) is forty minutes from Rishikesh and worth the connecting flight if the timings work.
From Dehradun the transfer is about an hour. From Delhi it is a six-hour drive or an overnight train to Haridwar, then thirty minutes on to Rishikesh.
Courses begin on the 1st, so plan to be at our Rishikesh ashram on the last day of the previous month. Arriving rested matters more than people expect.
Pickup from Dehradun to Rishikesh is included. From Delhi we can arrange a car for an additional charge; tell us your flight number when you register.
Rishikesh sits where the Ganga leaves the Himalayas, so the weather changes more than the plains do. Every season here is practisable; they simply ask for different clothes.
Nobody fails a course at Adhiroha for being inflexible. What we mark on the 200 hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh is whether you can teach safely and honestly at this level.
The single biggest thing we mark on a first course. Can you spot a knee that is about to go, and do you say something before it does?
Whether a beginner who has never seen the posture can get into it from your voice alone, without watching you.
A minimum of 90% across the 24 days. Classes run Thursday to Tuesday; Wednesday is a rest day.
Anatomy, philosophy and methodology, discussed openly beforehand. Understanding rather than recall.
Issued on the final day with Ministry of Ayush recognition and our Yoga Alliance registration, so you can register as an RYT 200 immediately.
By the end of the month you will have built and taught a full sixty-minute beginner Hatha class of your own. This is the shape most first-time teachers arrive at, and what the faculty watch for while you teach it.
Seated in the Rishikesh shala, breath first. Learning to open a room without filling it with words is harder than it looks, and it is the first thing that gets marked.
Joint rotations and a gentle spinal sequence, the way we open every morning class in Rishikesh. The question is whether your warm-up actually prepares the postures you have chosen, or is just a habit.
Your first real test of cueing. One clean demonstration, then hands off and voice only, at a pace a beginner can follow.
Three or four postures, safely sequenced, with the modifications ready before anyone needs them rather than after.
Closing rest. Most first-time teachers rush this. You are marked on whether you can hold the silence.
A certificate is a beginning rather than a destination. These are the paths our graduates from Rishikesh most often take once they are home.
The most common first step: covering classes, then a regular slot. An RYT 200 is what most studios ask for.
Community halls, gardens, offices, the same way most teachers here began in Rishikesh. Small and local is where most teachers genuinely start, and it is where you find out what kind of teacher you are.
A certificate registered from Rishikesh is what most platforms verify. Several of our graduates teach entirely online to students in their own language.
Co-teaching a retreat with a more experienced teacher is the usual way in, and a good one.
The natural next step is the 300 hour course, which many graduates return to Rishikesh for within a year or two.
The practical questions we hear most about the 200-hour course, answered plainly. If yours is not here, just write to us, a real person replies, both before you come and long after you have gone home.
Click for more FAQsDo not let distance, or doubt, or a crowded calendar stand between you and the practice you keep quietly promising yourself. The course begins on the 1st of every month, send us a message, and we will come back with everything you need to know: dates, travel, and the small handful of things to bring.
Ask us anything about the course, we usually reply within a day.
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