Pranayama Yoga Teachers Training

This is a course for yoga teachers who would like to teach prānāyāma, integrate breathing exercises into their existing classes and deepen their own practice.

Student-teacher contact hours are balanced with personal practise:

• 10 LIVE SESSIONS via Zoom (3 hours each) + recordings posted online for additional review
• Extensive hand-outs (PDF)
• Weekly assignments
• Daily personal practice
• Personal mentoring with Swami Saradananda

Learn innovate techniques for introducing your students to yoga breath-work and the ways in which these vital exercises can enhance their practice. Simultaneously deepen your own understanding of prānā and prānāyāma.

In this 10-session course for yoga teachers, Swami Saradananda will introduce you to a variety of powerful revitalizing and regenerating effects that breathing exercises can have on your body and mind. It promises to be unique in its simple, yet in-depth approach to the yoga practice of prānāyāma.

The first half of the course is about teaching prānāyāma; the second half will give you the tools to deepen and advance your own practice.

In this 6-session course for yoga teachers, Swami Saradananda will introduce you to a variety of powerful revitalizing and regenerating effects that breathing exercises can have on your body and mind. It promises to be unique in its simple, yet in-depth approach to the yoga practice of prānāyāma.

The first half of the course is about teaching prānāyāma; the second half will give you the tools to deepen and advance your own practice.

What you, as a yoga teacher, will get out of this course

• A working understanding of the physical structure and function of the breathing mechanisms.
• The ability to introduce prānāyāma and related breathing techniques to all levels of students.
• Teaching prānāyāma to beginners
• Powerful tools to enable students to make more efficient use of their breath and vital energies, including helping them with issues related to stress.
• Ways that you, and your students, can use the power of breath to manifest your ideas and dreams.
• A more breath-centred and meditative approach to asana practice and teaching.

You will learn

• How to integrate prānāyāma into asana classes, group meditations, workshops and retreats
• To perfect prānāyāma teaching techniques
• Ways that students can make prānāyāma a part of their daily lives
• Use the breath to overcome distractions in meditation
• How the mind and breath interface in meditation
• Prānāyāma practices specific to meditation
• Effects of lifestyle and diet on prānāyāma
• How to encourage students in their prānāyāma practice
• Online teaching methods
• Introduction to the use of mudras and bandhas in prānāyāma

Requirements for participation:

• Completion of yoga teachers’ training
• Computer access, basic computer literacy and an email address
• A copy of "The Power of Breath" by Swami Saradananda (either as a book or in Kindle format)