This is a specialisation, not a general survey. Over twelve focused days on the banks of the Ganga Ji , in the quiet of Upper Tapovan, you go deep into just two practices — the science of the breath through Pranayama, and the stillness of the mind through Meditation — and leave a confident, certified Pranayama & Meditation teacher, ready to guide a room of your own.
Twelve focused days on the banks of the Ganga Ji — go deep into breath and meditation, and leave a certified Pranayama & Meditation teacher.
We call this our Pranayama & Meditation course, and the focus is the whole point. Most general trainings rush through a dozen subjects in a few weeks. Here we do the opposite — twelve unhurried days spent on just two complementary practices, so you leave genuinely fluent in both rather than passingly familiar with many.
You do not need a prior certificate or years on the mat. The course starts from the foundational practices and builds toward the more advanced, at a pace that lets a genuine beginner keep up while still giving experienced practitioners something to chew on.
You live on ashram for the full twelve 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 real command of both an active and a still practice — the energising science of pranayama, the deep quiet of meditation — and the confidence to design and lead sessions in either, for students of any level.
There is something worth saying plainly, right at the start: these twelve 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.
Pranayama & Meditation Yoga TTC — twelve focused days. Everything you genuinely need is already inside these numbers is already inside these numbers, from your room to your meals to your certificate.
Begins on the 13th of every month — there is almost always a batch coming up soon.
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It is tempting to want a course that covers everything at once. We have chosen the opposite path. A dozen subjects crammed into a few weeks leaves you with a shallow taste of each; twelve days spent on two related styles leaves you genuinely able to teach them. Depth beats breadth, every time.
So we refuse to rush. In Pranayama, each technique is learned patiently — the ratios, the locks, the subtle effects on body and mind. In Meditation, you learn to sit, to watch, and to guide others gently into the same stillness. By the end these are not ideas you have heard about — they are practices living in your own hands.
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, honest 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 breath they have always taken for granted — moving from simply breathing to knowing, in your own body, what each technique actually does.
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Anyone hoping to teach one day, and wanting a recognised Ministry of Ayush 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 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 twelve days of breathing drills and nothing else. The course pairs pranayama and meditation with philosophy, subtle-body anatomy, gentle asana and real teaching skill — so you leave understanding not just the techniques but the intelligence beneath them, which is exactly what separates a confident teacher from someone reciting instructions.
Wrapped in rivers and forest, Rishikesh gives you a setting no city studio can borrow. One guided excursion each batch, the evening aarti 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 the Adhiroha Pranayama & Meditation certificate, accredited under the Ministry of Ayush, Government of India — a mark of authentic, traditional training that studios and retreats recognise almost anywhere you might want to teach.
Two practices at the centre — Pranayama and Meditation — with everything a teacher needs built around them: subtle-body anatomy, philosophy, gentle asana and the craft of teaching. Fewer subjects than a general course, studied far more deeply, and taken from your own mat to the front of the room.
Pranayama Techniques — from foundational to advanced breathwork, learned step by step.
Meditation — guided and silent practices that steady and clear the mind.
Alignment & Adjustment — positioning a body safely, and adjusting with care.
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.
People always want to know what the days really feel like, so here is the honest 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 guided meditation as the mind settles into the day
Breakfast — warm and simple, eaten without hurry
Theory and physiology — the science behind the breath
Silent sitting — meditation without guidance, just awareness
Lunch, then a real rest through the warm part of the day
Philosophy and ethics — discussion more than lecture
Antarmukha asana — gentle, inward postures 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 twelve 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 these twelve days 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 full 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.
A practice always takes on the shape of the space it happens in, and we have spent years making ours feel right. The ashram spreads across three quiet acres beside a flowing brook, ringed by hills and forest — and every corner of it exists for a reason.
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.
On rest days there is a cosy cafe serving healthy organic drinks and snacks, and an Ayurvedic massage centre for when the body asks for it. After a hard week of practice, an hour of traditional massage is less a luxury than genuine self-care.
Quiet spaces dotted around the ashram, 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.
Finish the twelve days and you leave with a recognised teaching certificate — the Adhiroha Pranayama & Meditation certificate, accredited by the Yoga Certification Board under the Ministry of Ayush, Government of India. It marks you as trained in an authentic, traditional lineage, and it is what lets you step in front of a class and teach with real authority. A studio in Berlin, a retreat in Goa, a wellness centre closer to home — a certificate earned in Rishikesh rarely needs explaining.
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 the confidence of a certified Pranayama & Meditation teacher.
Registered with the Yoga Certification Board — a mark of authentic, traditional training.
Design and lead both pranayama and meditation sessions for students of any level — at studios, wellness centres and retreats.
“A resume that reads ‘trained in Rishikesh’ carries a weight the very same hours elsewhere simply do not.”
You could learn these same techniques 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.
Your first step toward teaching deserves more than a bed and four walls. The ashram sits on three quiet acres beside a flowing brook, wrapped in hills and forest, and the accommodation is designed to do one thing above all — keep your mind free for the practice.
Satvik & Ayurvedic
Local organic farms
Herbal teas & morning fruit
Desserts — a small fan club
The kitchen runs on one quiet belief: over time, you become what you eat. Three nourishing vegetarian meals arrive each day, cooked in the Satvik and Ayurvedic way, built around exactly what a body under a full practice load actually needs. The ingredients come fresh from local organic farms, and everything is prepared simply, without fuss.
Do not mistake simple for plain, though. Most students are quietly surprised by how good the food is. Eating this way for twelve days does something you notice slowly: lighter mornings, steadier energy, a clearer head on the mat.
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 Pranayama & Meditation 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.
A real education never stops at the edge of the shala — so woven through the course are one 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 river 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 — pranayama 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anyone can learn to talk through a breathing technique. 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 twelve 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 Pranayama & Meditation certificate — accredited by the Yoga Certification Board, Ministry of Ayush, Government of India.
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.
We will be honest with you: a certificate is a beginning, not a finish line. Real confidence to teach comes from hours logged under good guidance — which is why even these twelve days give so much time to real teaching practice rather than theory alone.
There is no pressure to rush. Many teachers build a whole practice around pranayama and meditation alone. But if you want the full, internationally registered credential, a complete 200-hour training is the natural next step — and a good number of our graduates come back for exactly that.
This focused specialisation — a certified Pranayama & Meditation teacher in twelve days.
The complete teacher training, for the internationally registered Yoga Alliance credential.
Explore the 200-HourFoundation and advanced combined — the qualification senior teachers carry.
Explore the 500-HourAlmost 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.
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The practical questions we hear most about the Pranayama & Meditation 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.
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Delhi Airport is about 250 km away — most students fly into Dehradun, where our pickup is waiting.
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