Nobody drifts into a 500 hour training. It is a deliberate decision to give this practice two entire months — and that is exactly why it gives so much back.
01Two Months, One Unbroken Arc
The 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh combines our foundational and advanced programs into a single sixty-day immersion. Month one builds your foundation — posture, breath, anatomy, philosophy. Month two deepens everything: advanced practice, subtle-body work, and the long apprenticeship of actually teaching, day after day, until it stops feeling like performance and starts feeling like service.
02What Sixty Days Does That Thirty Cannot
Shorter courses teach you the material. Sixty days lets the material rearrange you. Habits have time to take root — the early nights, the morning sadhana, the plain food eaten slowly. Students who arrived convinced they could never sit still find, somewhere in the fifth week, that twenty silent minutes have slipped by unnoticed.
“You arrive thinking you are signing up for a syllabus. You leave with a practice that runs on its own.”
03The Credential at the Top
RYT 500 is the highest standard Yoga Alliance registers, and ours arrives with Ministry of Ayush recognition beside it. It is the credential that opens the most doors: graduates lead teacher trainings of their own, open studios, and design retreats. If teaching is going to be your living and not your hobby, this is the qualification employers and students trust first.
04The Practical Details
- Duration: 60 residential days, two months, starting the 1st of every month
- Level: open to all — no prerequisite; the foundation is built in
- Fees: from €2790 triple-sharing, All-Inclusive; €750 registration, part of the total
- Includes: stay with ensuite hot water, three sattvic meals daily, materials, excursions, certificate
Planning tip: the course spans two calendar months — check visa validity for the full stay, and we will provide the admission letter for your application.
05Who Should Not Take It
Honesty first: if you cannot clear two continuous months without the outside world tugging at you daily, take the 200 now and return for the 300 — the summit is the same. The 500 rewards people who can truly hand over the season. For the right person, it is the most rewarding decision they will ever make; our graduates say so in words very like those, again and again.
Key Takeaways
- 60 continuous residential days — foundation and advanced in one arc
- RYT 500: the highest Yoga Alliance standard, plus Ministry of Ayush recognition
- From €2790 All-Inclusive; starts the 1st of every month; no prerequisite
- Best for those who can commit two full months — otherwise take 200 now, 300 later
On the path since 2014 and professionally qualified from the Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga, Guru Shankar Das writes the way he runs the ashram — plainly, patiently, and from lived practice.
The Deep End Awaits
Full syllabus, month-by-month arc, dates and seat availability on the course page.
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