At dusk
The evening Ganga aarti
Priests circle great brass lamps at Parmarth Niketan 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.
Root · Heart · Crown
Yoga Teacher Training in India
Three Yoga Alliance registered trainings at our ashram in Upper Tapovan, Rishikesh, on one continuous path. Two hundred hours to begin teaching, three hundred more to teach with authority, or all five hundred in a single stretch above the Ganga Ji.
Three Yoga Alliance registered trainings at our ashram in Rishikesh, on one path.
The path, to scale
Five hundred hours, and where each course sits on them
The three trainings are not three separate products. They are one path measured out in hours. The 200 hour covers the first stretch of it, the 300 hour covers the rest, and the 500 hour walks the whole thing in one go. If you are new to teacher training, the answer is almost always the 200 hour.
200 hour · Root of Yoga24 days · €1275300 hour · Heart of Yoga30 days · €1500500 hour · Crown of Yoga60 days · €2790
The 300 hour cannot start at zero, and the picture says so before we have to.
Root of Yoga · 24 days · RYT 200
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh
The foundation. Almost everyone who teaches this practice for a living began with a course exactly like this one.
Everything you need for the 24 days is already inside the fee: your room on ashram, three meals a day, all training and materials, both excursions, airport pickup from Dehradun and your certificate.
Before you arrive: No prior training needed. You can arrive having only ever practised at home.
Everything about the 200 hour course What you learn on the 200 hour
Twelve subjects across 24 days, each carried by a teacher who has lived it. They sort into four pillars that run from the body to the front of the room.
Begins with the body
The practice
The body learns first
- 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.
Then the breath
The breath & mind
Turning attention inward
- 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.
Then the why
The knowledge
The why behind it all
- 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.
Ends at the front of the room
The craft
Becoming the teacher
- 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.
Who the 200 hour is for
First timersComplete beginners
Who want a strong foundation before anything else. The course assumes no prior teaching experience at all, and builds from the ground up at a pace that never leaves you behind.
Self-taughtHome practitioners
Ready to understand the why behind postures they already love — moving from following along with videos to knowing, in your own body, what each posture is doing.
Career startFuture teachers
Anyone hoping to teach one day and wanting an internationally recognised certificate to do it, with the practised confidence to stand at the front of a room.
A pausePeople at a crossroads
Looking for a month of clarity and quiet more than a career change. A stretch of days that make sense again, and space to hear yourself think.
How the 24 days unfold
The first few days
Arriving
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.
The first week
Foundations
This is the week the body complains a little. Muscles you had forgotten make themselves known. Stay with it — by the end of the week the aches fade and the pieces start to fit.
The middle weeks
The shift
Almost without warning, something turns. You stop copying the teacher and start noticing alignment in the people beside you.
The final days
Teaching & farewells
You plan and lead classes to your peers, take honest feedback, and sit your final assessment. Then the certificates, and the goodbyes.
Heart of Yoga · 30 days · RYT 300
300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh
The advanced half. It begins where the foundation ended, and finishes the path to the full 500-hour credential.
Everything you need for the 30 days is already inside the fee: your room on ashram, three meals a day, all training and materials, both excursions, airport pickup from Dehradun and your certificate.
Before you arrive: A completed 200 hour training, with us or anywhere else. Bring the certificate.
Everything about the 300 hour course What you learn on the 300 hour
Twelve subjects across 30 days, each carried by a teacher who has lived it. They sort into four pillars that run from the body to the front of the room.
Begins with the body
The practice
Refining the body
- Advanced asana & inversions, headstands, arm balances and deep backbends, approached safely.
- Ashtanga intermediate series, the next series, opening the body further.
- Vinyasa krama & sequencing, building intelligent, creative flows of your own.
Then the breath
The subtle body
Working with energy
- Advanced pranayama & bandhas, the energetic locks that deepen every breath.
- Mudras & kriyas, refined gestures and cleansing for a subtler practice.
- Chakras & the koshas, mapping the subtle body behind the postures.
Then the why
The knowledge
Going to the source
- Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, the source text, studied line by line.
- Yoga therapy & injury care, working safely with real bodies and old injuries.
- Applied anatomy, the deeper mechanics behind advanced postures.
Ends at the front of the room
The craft
Leading with authority
- Advanced methodology, sequencing themed, level-appropriate classes.
- Hands-on adjustments, the art of the safe, confident assist.
- Mentored practicum, teaching advanced classes with honest feedback.
Who the 300 hour is for
Foundation done200-hour graduates
Who finished the foundation, with us or elsewhere, and feel ready for more. We begin where the 200 hour left off and move straight into the advanced work.
Already teachingWorking teachers
Refining the craft: cleaner cueing, honest hands-on adjustments, thoughtful sequencing, and a deeper well of philosophy to teach from when a room asks hard questions.
Completing the pathToward RYT 500
The 300 hour is the second half of the full credential. Complete it and RYT 500 is within reach, opening advanced workshops and retreats worldwide.
Coming backReturning practitioners
Who trained a while ago and want to come back with fresh depth. A month to sharpen what has gone rusty and remember exactly why you began.
How the 30 days unfold
The first few days
Arriving
You meet a group who, like you, already practise and teach. The first sessions revisit the fundamentals so everyone settles back into their body before the advanced work begins.
The first week
Past the basics
The body remembers quickly. Within days you move past what the foundation covered — deeper backbends, inversions, the subtle body, the parts a 200 hour only hinted at.
The middle weeks
The shift
You stop practising like a student and start seeing like a teacher: reading alignment in the room, understanding why a sequence is built the way it is.
The final days
Teaching & farewells
You lead advanced classes to your peers, take mentored feedback, and sit your final assessment. Then the RYT 300 certificate, with RYT 500 now within reach.
Crown of Yoga · 60 days · RYT 500
500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh
The whole path in one journey. Two months, from the first posture to leading an advanced room.
Everything you need for the 60 days is already inside the fee: your room on ashram, three meals a day, all training and materials, both excursions, airport pickup from Dehradun and your certificate.
Before you arrive: No prerequisite at all. Foundation and advanced are taught in one unbroken stretch.
Everything about the 500 hour course What you learn on the 500 hour
Twelve subjects across 60 days, each carried by a teacher who has lived it. They sort into four pillars that run from the body to the front of the room.
Begins with the body
The practice
First posture to advanced
- 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.
Then the breath
Breath & subtle body
Turning attention inward
- 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.
Then the why
The knowledge
The why behind it all
- 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.
Ends at the front of the room
The craft
Becoming the teacher
- Teaching methodology, from first cues to sequencing advanced classes.
- Practice & adjustments, practice teaching, plus hands-on assists.
- Mantra & mentored practicum, sound, and mentored teaching with real feedback.
Who the 500 hour is for
All at onceCommitted beginners
Who want the whole thing in one stretch rather than a foundation now and the rest someday. You start from the first posture and leave a fully qualified teacher.
A new professionCareer changers
Ready to make yoga a living and wanting the strongest credential to do it. Two months earns the complete RYT 500 without spreading it over years.
One journeyFull-credential seekers
Who would rather not split training across years and separate trips. The 500 hour folds the 200 and the 300 into one continuous immersion.
Two monthsDeep immersion seekers
Looking for real change more than a certificate. Long enough in the hills above the Ganga Ji for the practice to reshape how you live, think and move.
How the 60 days unfold
The first few days
Arriving
You land, shake off the travel and meet the group you will share two whole months with. The first sessions are deliberately gentle, whatever level you arrive at.
The first weeks
The foundation
The first weeks build the base, for many from the ground up. The classical practice is drilled slowly until it is genuinely yours. This is the 200 hour, lived properly.
The middle weeks
Into the advanced
Somewhere past halfway the foundation becomes advanced. Inversions, the subtle body, therapy, real teaching craft — and the quiet shift from practising to seeing like a teacher.
The final days
Teaching & farewells
You lead full classes to your peers, take mentored feedback, and sit your final assessment. Then the RYT 500 certificate: the whole path walked end to end.
When you can come
Upcoming batches, the next twelve months
Every course begins on the 1st of the month, whichever level you take, and you arrive on the 30th or 31st of the month before. The nearest batches fill first.
| Batch | 200 hour | 300 hour | 500 hour | Seats |
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Fees are €1275 for the 200 hour, €1500 for the 300 and €2790 for the 500, triple sharing and all-inclusive.
From here on, all three courses are the same
The same shala, the same teachers, the same kitchen, the same early mornings and the same two excursions. The level decides how long you stay and what you study. It does not decide how you live while you are here.
A day in the life
The rhythm of a course day
It looks like a lot written down, and the first two days can feel that way. Then something clicks, and by the end of the first week the rhythm carries you rather than the other way round.
Morning · 5:45 – 8:45
Shatkarma — gentle cleansing practices as the light comes up over the valley.
Pranayama — breathwork while the air is still cool and the ashram is quiet.
Hatha asana — a strong practice to wake the body properly.
Breakfast — warm, simple, and eaten without hurry.
Mid-day · 9:30 – 13:00
Philosophy & ethics — discussion far more than lecture.
Yin or alignment — a restorative session to open and release, or adjustment work to refine the postures.
Lunch, then rest — a real break through the warm part of the day.
Afternoon · 14:45 – 16:15
Yoga anatomy — the science behind everything you practise.
Ashtanga & vinyasa — flow as the afternoon softens.
Evening · 18:00 – 19:30
Chanting & meditation — the day winds down with sound, then stillness.
Dinner, lights out — early, because dawn comes early too.
Where it happens
Three acres in Upper Tapovan, a kilometre above the town
A practice takes on the shape of the space it happens in. 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.
The shala
A shala that opens onto forest on every side
Bright and purpose-built, with 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.
All props providedSmall libraryNever crowded
The grounds
Three quiet acres beside a flowing 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 sound of running water that slows everyone down within a day or two.
Shiva templeFlowing brookHills and forest
Sound & meditation
A hall built 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.
Singing bowls & gongsEvening meditationMantra
Quiet corners
Somewhere to sit and do nothing at all
Reading nooks, garden hammocks and shaded benches dotted around the grounds. A surprising amount of the real learning happens in these unhurried in-between moments.
Reading cornersGarden hammocksPrayer flags
Sleeping and eating
Your room, and three meals a day you did not have to think about
Where you will stay
Clean, airy rooms full of natural light, most looking straight out at the mountains. Students often say it was the best they had slept in years.
- Ensuite washrooms with dependable hot water, around the clock
- Simple, peaceful interiors that make it easy to rest and sit quietly
- High-speed WiFi and safe RO drinking water throughout the ashram
- Twin or triple sharing for the whole course, so you are never quite alone
What you will eat
Three vegetarian meals a day, cooked the sattvic and Ayurvedic way, built around what a body under a full practice load actually needs. Do not mistake simple for plain.
- Ingredients fresh from local organic farms, prepared without fuss
- Different dishes every day, so it never gets boring
- Herbal teas, detox water and fresh fruit in the mornings
- Desserts that have a small and vocal fan club
Ten acharyas
The people at the front of the room
A school is only ever as good as the people teaching in it. 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 lived it for years. You can read more about each of them on the yoga teachers page.
Beyond the mat
Two excursions, and the rituals in between
A real education never stops at the edge of the shala. Woven through every course are two guided excursions and a handful of small rituals that tie you to the culture around you. For many students these turn out to be the memories they hold onto longest.
On rest days
Waterfall treks
A short climb to the falls hidden in the hills above Rishikesh. Cold water, green shade, and the best kind of tired.
Some mornings
Yoga on the ghat
Some sessions leave the shala entirely: asana and meditation right on the ghat, with the Ganga moving past as your soundtrack.
In silence
The Vasishta caves
Sages have sat in these caves for centuries. Meditating inside, in the cool and the dark, is the kind of quiet that stays with you long after you leave.
Living history
The old temples
Guided visits to the temples of Rishikesh, including the thirteen storeys of Trayambakeshwar — places where the tradition you study in class has been practised without pause.
Between practice days
Walks & sacred sites
Gentle walks into the hills and slow time by the river. None of it compulsory, and all of it part of the course.
What you earn
One certificate, carrying both recognitions
Adhiroha is a Registered Yoga School with Yoga Alliance at all three levels, and accredited by the Yoga Certification Board under the Ministry of Ayush. Finish your course and you leave with a single certificate carrying both, which is all a studio in Berlin, a gym in Melbourne or a retreat in Costa Rica needs to see. To receive it you need a minimum of 90% attendance and a genuine effort through the final assessment. Meet that and the qualification is yours for good, with no renewal fee and no expiry.
Adhiroha Yoga School · Rishikesh
Adhiroha 200 hour certificate
Meet the attendance requirement and you may register with Yoga Alliance as an RYT 200.
Adhiroha Yoga School · Rishikesh
Adhiroha 300 hour certificate
Meet the attendance requirement and you may register with Yoga Alliance as an RYT 300.
Adhiroha Yoga School · Rishikesh
Adhiroha 500 hour certificate
Meet the attendance requirement and you may register with Yoga Alliance as an RYT 500.
Ministry of Ayush · Yoga Certification Board
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Student stories, on camera
Unscripted and unedited, students talking about the course in their own words, straight from the Adhiroha YouTube channel. Pick a story to play it.
Student review · 01In their words
What students say once they are home
4.5Yoga Alliance reviewsWhen I walked into this place, I was amazed. It is so beautiful that you feel like you are inside a dream, with all the nature around you, the plants, and the flowers.
Unlike many other schools, which sit right inside the city, this one was a little further away, and that distance turned out to be exactly what I needed.
We had different dishes every single day, so the food never got boring. The desserts were amazing, and the fresh fruit in the morning was something I still think about.
You can probably hear the water behind me. Just being here every day, you truly learn to enjoy the small things.
I think I loved the excursions most, the trips to the temple and the waterfall. They were simply beautiful.
The teachers stayed back until the last question was answered. That is what I tell people when they ask me which school to choose.
The ashram, month by month
What it actually looks like
A few frames from recent batches. There are hundreds more in the yoga gallery.
The fee, itemised
What is covered, and what is not
The same list applies at every level. From the moment you land, the practical worries are already handled.
Included in the fee
- Airport pickup from Dehradun, so your arrival is simple
- A welcome kit and all your study materials
- Your room on ashram, twin or triple sharing, for the whole course
- Three vegetarian meals a day, plus detox water, RO drinking water and herbal tea
- An outdoor practice on the Ganga ghat, and a sound healing session
- Two guided excursions and a kirtan ceremony each batch
- Unlimited high-speed WiFi across the ashram
- Your certificate, with both recognitions on it
Not included
- Laundry, available for a small charge
- Extra nights beyond the course dates
- Flights, visa and travel insurance
- Anything not listed on the left
We would rather say so plainly than bury it. Beyond this, what you see is what you pay.
Before you book
Questions people ask us first
Which level should I book?
If you have never trained before, book the 200 hour — it is the foundation everything else rests on. If you already hold a 200 hour certificate, book the 300. If you want the whole path in one journey and can give it two months, book the 500, which has no prerequisite at all.
Do I need to be flexible or experienced?
No. What the course asks for is willingness, not flexibility or youth. Most people on any given batch are new to it, and the 200 hour assumes no prior teaching experience whatsoever.
What certificate do I actually receive?
One certificate, issued by Adhiroha, carrying both recognitions: accreditation by the Yoga Certification Board under the Ministry of Ayush, and Yoga Alliance registration at your level. It never expires.
Is Adhiroha registered with Yoga Alliance?
Yes. Adhiroha is a Registered Yoga School with Yoga Alliance at all three levels — RYS 200, RYS 300 and RYS 500 — so a course completed here makes you eligible to register as an RYT at the level you trained.
Is there an age limit?
You need to be eighteen or older, and there is no upper limit. Students range from their late teens well into their sixties and beyond.
Can I do the 300 hour if I trained somewhere else?
Yes. A completed 200 hour training from any school qualifies you. Bring the certificate with you.
What does the registration fee do?
It reserves your seat, and it is always part of the total rather than an extra charge. The balance is paid on arrival, and there is nothing else to pay after that.
When do courses start?
Every course begins on the 1st of the month, and you arrive on the 30th or 31st of the month before. There is almost always a batch coming up soon.
What is the difference between YTT and RYT?
YTT, Yoga Teacher Training, is the course. RYT, Registered Yoga Teacher, is the professional title you can register for through Yoga Alliance once you have completed it.
What happens if I need to change my dates?
Talk to us. Batches run every month, and moving to a later one is usually straightforward as long as there is a seat.
More answers on the full FAQ page, or write to us and a real person will reply.
The next batch starts on the 1st
Pick your level, and we will hold you a seat
Every course begins on the 1st of the month, and you arrive on the 30th or 31st before. If you are still deciding between levels, write to us — we will tell you honestly which one fits, even when it is the cheaper one.
Keep Exploring
Read Each Course in Full
This page is the overview. Each course has its own page with the full day-by-day syllabus, fees and dates.
- 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh
The 24-day RYT 200 foundation, and the course most students begin with.
- 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh
The advanced level for teachers who already hold a 200 hour certificate.
- 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh
Both levels in a single two-month immersion, ending at the RYT 500 standard.
- Why Adhiroha Is the Best Yoga School in Rishikesh
The founder’s letter, the accreditations, and what the ashram is actually like.