This is the whole journey, walked end to end. Over sixty days on the banks of the Ganga Ji, in the quiet of Upper Tapovan, you move from the very first posture into the advanced work, the first month builds your foundation, the second deepens it, until you leave at the highest level, a Registered Yoga Teacher at 500 hours. No prior training required; you can begin right here.
Sixty days on the banks of the Ganga Ji, the complete journey from foundation to mastery, and you leave certified at the RYT 500 level.
We call this our Crown of Yoga course, and the name is not decoration. It is the entire journey in a single stretch, the 200-hour foundation in the first month, the 300-hour advanced work in the second, so you leave with the complete education, RYT 500, rather than piecing it together over years. You can start here as a beginner and finish at the highest level.
No prior training is needed. This course carries you the whole way. The first month lays a genuine foundation from the ground up; the second builds on it with advanced asana, subtler breath and the finer points of teaching. By the end you have walked the complete path without ever leaving the mat.
You live on ashram for the full sixty days, the same simple food, the same early hours, the same small group of no more than twelve 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 the confidence to lead any room, clean cueing, honest hands-on adjustments, thoughtful sequencing, and a deep well of philosophy and anatomy to teach from. Two months of full immersion turn a beginner into a Registered Yoga Teacher at the very top of the ladder.
There is something worth saying plainly, right at the start: two months will ask a great deal 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 the fairest trade we know, though. Here is both sides of it.
The length is the gift and the ask both, sixty days of early mornings and undivided attention.
A willingness to step out of your usual world entirely, and let the practice fill the space.
Ready to be carried all the way from foundation to mastery, without rushing any of it.
An ashram, not a resort
Foundation and advanced in one unbroken arc, nothing skipped, nothing rushed.
Two months is long enough to change how you practise, teach and live, not just what you know.
Sixty days turns a room of strangers into people you will still be writing to years later.
The month is never really about becoming someone new. It is about finding your way back to the person you quietly already were.
500 Hour Yoga TTC, the Crown of Yoga course. Everything you genuinely need for the sixty 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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There are two ways to reach the 500 level. You can take a 200-hour, go home, and come back years later for a 300-hour, or you can walk the whole path here, in one unbroken sixty-day immersion. We built this course for the second kind of person: the one who would rather give it two full months and be done, complete.
It is not two courses stapled together, either. The first month lays a genuine foundation, alignment drilled slowly, breath learned patiently. The second builds straight on top of it with advanced asana, deeper philosophy and the craft of teaching. Done this way, the five hundred hours settle in as one continuous education rather than scattered fragments.
There is no prerequisite here. This is the complete path, so a genuine beginner is as welcome as a seasoned practitioner. What it truly asks for is time and commitment: two unbroken months to give yourself fully to the practice, and the willingness to be changed by it.
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Who want the whole thing in one stretch rather than a foundation now and the rest “someday”. You start from the very first posture and, sixty days later, leave a fully qualified teacher, no prior training needed at all.
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Ready to make yoga a profession and wanting the strongest possible credential to do it. Two months earns you the complete RYT 500, the qualification senior teachers and studio owners carry, without spreading it over years.
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Who would rather not spread their training across years and separate trips. The 500 hour folds the 200 and the 300 into one continuous immersion, so you leave with the highest Yoga Alliance level in a single journey.
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Looking for real transformation more than a certificate alone. Two months in the hills above the Ganga Ji, long enough for the practice to genuinely reshape how you live, think and move.
What it asks for is not experience or perfection, only the willingness to commit two full months and be present for all of it. Turn up open, and you leave a complete teacher.
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 nine 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 sixty days of postures and nothing else. The course weaves together advanced Hatha, Ashtanga Vinyasa and adjustment-alignment work, and sets them alongside deeper pranayama, meditation, philosophy, anatomy and refined teaching methodology. You leave with command of the whole tradition, exactly what separates a seasoned teacher from someone repeating a memorised sequence.
Wrapped in rivers and forest, Rishikesh gives you a setting no city studio can borrow. Two guided excursions each batch, the evening Ganga aarti in Rishikesh by the Ganga Ji, 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 500. Together they turn your 500 hour yoga teacher training in India into a master-level qualification recognised in studios and retreats almost anywhere you might want to teach.
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Twelve subjects, taught across sixty days, each carried by a teacher who has genuinely lived it. They sort naturally into four pillars, and together they carry you the whole way: from the very first posture to leading an advanced room, foundation and mastery in one unbroken stretch.
Asana, Foundation to Advanced, from the classical postures to inversions and deep backbends.
Ashtanga, Primary & Intermediate, both series, built up patiently over two months.
Vinyasa & Sequencing, moving with grace, then building intelligent flows of your own.
Shatkarma, Mudras & Kriyas, the full range of cleansing and gesture.
Pranayama & Bandhas, from first breathwork to the energetic locks.
Meditation, Chakras & Koshas, settling the mind, then mapping the subtle body.
Philosophy & the Yoga Sutras, from the core ideas to Patanjali, line by line.
Anatomy & Yoga Therapy, how the body works, and how to work with injuries.
Ayurveda & Applied Anatomy, the sister science, and the deeper mechanics of the postures.
Teaching Methodology, from first cues to sequencing advanced classes.
Teaching Practice & Adjustments, practice teaching, plus hands-on assists.
Mantra & Mentored Practicum, sound, and mentored teaching with real feedback.
By the final weeks the pillars stop feeling like separate subjects at all, foundation and advanced, the practice, the breath, the knowledge and the craft settle into one thing, and that one thing is you, teaching with authority.
Yoga Alliance sets the categories; how a school fills them is what makes the difference. This is exactly how the 500 contact hours of our 500 hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh are allocated.
The foundation and advanced syllabus run back to back across sixty days at our Rishikesh ashram, so the practice compounds instead of restarting.
From first cue to full course design, with the second month spent on the things only experience usually teaches.
Physical and subtle anatomy across both levels, revisited once you have taught enough to have questions.
The full arc, from an introduction to the Sutras to teaching from them in your own voice.
Repeated supervised teaching, which is what separates a certificate from a teacher.
People always want to know what the days really feel like, so here is the honest shape of one, full but never frantic, and sustainable across two whole months. It looks like a lot written down, and the first two days can feel that way. Then it simply becomes your life.
Shatkarma, gentle cleansing practices as the light comes up
Pranayama and breathwork, while the air is still cool
A strong Ashtanga and Vinyasa practice to wake the body properly
Breakfast, warm and simple, eaten without hurry
Yoga anatomy, the science behind everything you practise
A restorative Yin session to open and release
Lunch, then a real rest through the warm part of the day
Philosophy and ethics, discussion more than lecture
Hatha asana, refined for alignment, 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 sixty 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 two whole months 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.
The first weeks build the base, for many, from the ground up. Muscles you had forgotten make themselves known, and the classical practice is drilled slowly until it is truly yours. This is the 200-hour, lived properly.
Somewhere past the halfway mark, the foundation becomes advanced. Inversions, the subtle body, therapy, real teaching craft, and with it the quiet shift from practising like a student to seeing like a teacher.
You plan and lead full classes to your peers, take mentored feedback with good grace, and sit your final assessment. Then the RYT 500 certificate comes, the full path walked end to end, and goodbyes made harder by two months together.
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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 500.
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“A resume that reads ‘trained in Rishikesh’ carries a weight the very same hours elsewhere simply do not.”
For two months you will not just visit Rishikesh. You will live inside it. And no city studio can offer this ground. Rishikesh sits exactly where the Ganga Ji leaves the mountains and meets the plains. A threshold place that has drawn masters and seekers for thousands of years. The air feels cleaner and somehow more awake; temple bells carry across the water at first light.
Choosing to walk the whole path here means choosing all of that as your backdrop, not as scenery but as part of the teaching. Over sixty days you settle into where the tradition has been kept alive across centuries, and the learning goes deeper, simply because the place keeps drawing you quietly inward.
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Sixty days uses the whole ashram rather than just the shala. The library gets read, the smaller hall becomes the practicum room in month two, and the gardens turn into the place where most people do their thinking somewhere around week five. 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.
Sixty nights in one room, which is a different proposition from a month. You unpack properly, the walk to the shala stops being a route and becomes a habit, and by the second month the ashram is somewhere you live rather than somewhere you are staying. No moving mid-course. See the rooms and grounds in detail.
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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 500 hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, add any one of these short programs to your stay and a €200 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 meals a day for two months. Sixty days is long enough that the food stops being catering and becomes your actual diet, and it is usually the change students notice most clearly when they get home. 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 sixty days does something you notice slowly: lighter mornings, steadier energy, a clearer head on the mat.
Eight rest days across the two months, so you see considerably more of Rishikesh than a single-month student does: the aarti more than once, the further waterfalls, and the quieter temples upriver that most visitors never reach. 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 a week 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. The 500-hour starts from the very foundation. Still, before two months away, 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.
Across sixty days you work with the full faculty rather than one lead teacher. Yogacharya Jagjeet Singh and Yogacharya Pratap Rawat carry both halves, so the corrections you are given in month one are built on in month two instead of starting again with someone new. 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 take a room from first breath to advanced posture
to lay hands on a posture and adjust it with confidence
and to teach with the calm authority that only the full path gives.
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 complete skill and humanity is what these sixty days are quietly designed to produce.
A few practical things worth knowing before you enrol, laid out plainly, no surprises hiding in small letters.
No prior training is needed. The 500-hour includes the foundation, so you can start from the very beginning. Classroom English is the only real prerequisite.
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 across the two months and take part in the final assessment. Meet that, and you receive the Adhiroha 500-hour certificate, accredited by the Yoga Certification Board, Ministry of Ayush, plus Yoga Alliance RYT 500, the qualification senior teachers carry.
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.
The 500 hour is the top of the Yoga Alliance ladder. There is no higher training to climb toward. What comes next is simply teaching: your own classes, your own students, and a practice that keeps deepening for the rest of your life.
That is the quiet promise of the complete path. You leave not wondering which course to take next, but ready, fully qualified, at the highest level, to build a teaching life wherever in the world you choose.
Your first month, from the very first posture to a Registered Yoga Teacher, built from the ground up.
Your second month, advanced practice, refined teaching and the art of sequencing, built on the first.
Both months together, RYT 500, the whole path walked end to end and the qualification senior teachers carry.
Still 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. Over sixty days you will come to know this stretch of Rishikesh properly, which is something a single-month student never quite gets to. More about the ashram and its surroundings.
Delhi Airport is about 250 km away, most students fly into Dehradun, where our pickup is waiting.
Sixty days is a serious commitment of time and money, and the honest question is whether the second month earns its place. Graduates who did both halves in one stay are the ones to ask. 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
Sixty days means a longer visa and a little more planning than a single month. Here is the route almost everyone takes to reach the ashram in Upper Tapovan.
An Indian e-Tourist visa covers a sixty-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 500 hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh is whether you can teach safely and honestly at this level.
Both modules are assessed together at the end, so the second month has to show what the first one taught you.
The four-week series is marked as one piece of work, not four classes, and revision after feedback counts as much as the original.
A minimum of 90% across the full 60 days. The bar is the same, but sustaining it for two months is its own test.
Covering both syllabi, taken at the end of the second module rather than twice.
One certificate on the final day, Ministry of Ayush recognised and Yoga Alliance registered, at RYT 500.
Sixty days is long enough to design something a single month cannot: a four-week progression that takes a group of students from where they start to somewhere measurably different, then teach it and revise it after feedback.
You design an opening class in Rishikesh for students you have never met, and work out what you can safely assume about a room on day one.
The same group, more range. Marked on whether the progression is real or whether you have simply added harder postures.
Where the series has been heading. This is where a plan that looked good on paper usually meets its first real problem.
Consolidating rather than escalating, which most teachers find the hardest week to design well.
You teach the series, take the feedback, and rebuild it. Almost nobody's first version survives intact, and that is the point of having two months.
A certificate is a beginning rather than a destination. These are the paths our graduates from Rishikesh most often take once they are home.
An RYT 500 is the credential studios look for when they are hiring someone to lead, not just to teach.
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.
With 500 hours behind you, leading a retreat is a realistic next year rather than a distant plan.
Specialisations: prenatal, yin, sound healing, or the Sadhana Immersion for your own practice rather than your teaching.
The practical questions we hear most about the 500-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 FAQsAll 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.
Do not let distance, or doubt, or a crowded calendar stand between you and the whole journey 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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