Foundations of Swara Yoga
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training

Exploring Yoga For Health, Happiness And Wisdom

This 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training is a truly unique experience, designed for all students who are ready to open body and mind, and explore Yoga as both a practice and a way of life. True yoga is no different than life itself. The way we practice is the way we end up living when yoga is integrated into the fabric of our daily lives. Our yoga is designed to help you be as vibrant, radiant and happy as you can be!

Swara 200 Hour TTC March 2-28, 2025 $2400, 4 Weeks
New! Training Packages to suit your needs. 1 Week, 2 Weeks or 3 Weeks of the Training Course.

THE FIRST STEPS ON THE PATH OF YOGA LIFE

It is our aim at Swara Yoga Academy that all students of the 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training gain an intuitive knowledge of yoga methods and practices. We have a special method of teaching, which students gain knowledge through direct experience. Each training is unique and we’ve never taught the same training twice!

Our approach to teaching is more intuitive than informational, more feeling than thinking. Knowledge and experience lead to wisdom; students not only learn about the practices of yoga, but more importantly students learn about themselves and the yoga through direct experience.

From this foundation, yoga teaches us about the flow and grace of life. Yoga means ‘connection’ and the most important thing you can learn is how to connect what happens on the mat with what happens off the mat. It’s “The Yoga of Everyday Living”. This kind of yoga can then open the way for intelligent and intuitive teaching.

Our 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Course Features:

Asana and Postures in Slow Flow VInyasa Style
Pranayama, Breathwork and Our Signature Swara Yoga Breath System
Meditation Including Yoga Nidra
Nurturing Yin Yoga Practice

Careful and Detailed Alignment Lessons
Using Props and Modifications to Help Each and Every Student
Teaching Practice Daily
Anatomy and Yogic ‘Subtle Anatomy’

Our Easily Digestible ‘Practical Philosophy‘
Mantra and Fire Rituals
Reggae Yoga for Fun and Good Vibes
Traditional Lessons from the Heart of Indian Spiritual Practice

Our 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Course: Flexible Options

Our 200 Hour Course can be done all in one go, taking 4 weeks to complete. If you cannot make it for a month, you can do as much as you can or want to. If you have limited time, you can do 1, 2, or 3 weeks of the course. You can come back to complete the experience or just be happy with what you can do. The cost is $700 USD per week including breakfast and call classes and class materials.

Dates, Costs and Packages

Location: The Sanctuary Thailand, Ko Phangan

Cost: $2,400

Our base price includes breakfast and dorm accommodation. Private accommodation can be arranged with The Sanctuary for additional cost

1 Week Package: $700

2 Weeks $1300

3 Weeks $1900

The 200 Hour Course in Detail:

The Foundations

We believe that a quality yoga practice is built on a grounded, solid understanding of the core principles of yoga practice. These core principles are actually the essence of life itself, so as we learn about yoga, we learn about life.

Our trainings begin slowly by creating a stable structure that is accessible to all students, regardless of ability or experience. At first we concentrate on the alignment of the postures and the cultivation of breath. Students get plenty of individual attention, and receive ongoing alignment adjustment within the morning asana practice so that they can refine the quality and longevity of their own poses. These early stages of the course also build the physical strength and flexibility required to move toward more complex expressions of asana with ease and safety.

Postures and Alignment

It is vital for everyone to have a clear knowledge of the foundations of asana alignment and sequencing, and how to modify each posture to suit individual students. Regardless of the level of experience, all participants benefit from our detailed and fascinating look at the essence of the postures.

You will learn how to modify and prop postures so that students can practice well and avoid injury and strain. It is only through quality practice will postures evolve and improve. Each person has different needs, so students will learn how to address the needs of individuals.

Pranayama and Breath

The Breathwork is one of the essential part of the foundation practices. Breath is a major focus of the course and is cultivated daily through our unique Swara Yoga breath system.

This system teaches a full scope of Pranayama techniques, and also begins with the essentials of the practice. We pride ourselves on delivering the very best training in Pranayama available in a 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Course.

Students will learn how to guide and cultivate breath in classes and will understand the energetics of the breath and the effects of the techniques. One of the unique features of our Swara Yoga Breathing method is how easy it is to practice. Students of any level can gain access to breath practice with our system.

The Schedule

One of our priorities is what we call ‘sustainable yoga’. Instead of leaving you exhausted after a month of yoga, we have created a programme that students feel amazing and full of energy after the month. We have learned this after many years of running 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training courses.

07:30-08:30: Swara, Pranayama & Meditation

08:30-10:00: Asana Class

10:00-11:15: Breakfast break

11:15-12.30: Yoga Theory and Philosophy Discussion

12:30-15.30: Lunch, Rest and Beach Break

15:30-17.00: Asana Workshop and Teaching Practice

17:00-18.30: Yoga Nidra, Yin Yoga and or Slow Flow

Internal Practice

Our day begins and ends with what we call internal practice. This generally refers to practices where we focus on our inner, subtle being such as meditation, concentration, Tantra and Swara/breath/pranayama. Yoga is not a balanced, healthy practice unless we spend some time detached from the outside world and connected to our internal reality.

The course explores a variety of accessible and powerful techniques to develop inner calm, insight, clarity and wisdom.

Many of our meditations are based on the 5 Essentials of Life: Stability, Flow, Intensity, Movement and Space. Other techniques are also utilized such as those based on witnessing, visualization or using sounds such as mantras. These meditations source from the lineages of traditional Tantra, Buddhism & Taoism. Some meditations are active, some seated, and even laying down for deep restoration.

Our Movement Style

We generally practice with a ‘Slow Flow’ Vinyasa style of asana, which is based on alignment, awareness and breath. We practice ‘sustainable yoga’ and we begin our trainings with practice which gradually builds the strength and flexibility required to approach challenging postures.

Students are expected to guide their own development by practicing at the intensity level that suits them. In this way, students learn how to take care of themselves and listen to their own inner wisdom, instead of just taking orders from a teacher. The activation of inner wisdom is one of the primary goals of our program. It takes intelligence from the practitioner to know when it is appropriate to work intensely and when it is right to rest, in order to maximize the benefits of their practice, building energy & vitality and avoiding injury and burnout.

Our movement style is often appreciated by dancers and other movement lovers, as there is lots of room for personal expression and flowing shapes. In a sense, the practice is a dance.

Advanced Practice

The more intense and challenging postures such as headstand, backbends and arm balances are also explored in depth. We teach a step-by-step process so that students can develop postures that may be currently beyond their ability, but will become accessible if they follow the stages building up to the asana. This step-by-step method helps students understand the steps necessary to progress. This is useful both for personal practice and for teaching others how to get into poses. We provide a printed asana manual which includes this step by step process of over 100 yoga asanas as a teaching and study guide.

Philosophy and Discussion

Each day includes a discussion of yoga philosophy, energetics & practices. These classes address the foundations of yoga and include texts such as the Yoga Sutras & Hatha Yoga Pradipika. We also use these open sessions to discuss in detail the physical & energetic practices of yoga, giving students the opportunity to share and ask questions relating to their practice.

As yoga philosophy can often come across as dense and complicated, we tend to keep the content of these lectures quite simple (but profound) so that all students grasp the core meaning in a way which is relevant to their own practice and daily life.

Throughout the course, these classes also expand to cover a broad scope of topics including; yoga history, meditation, traditional Tantra traditions, yoga as a spiritual path, Ayurvedic medicine, Jyotish (Indian Astrology) and much more. We reference these systems in relation to their ‘practical wisdom’, the intuitive and intelligent wisdom which relates to the yoga of everyday life. We offer small tastes of these different lineages which students may feel drawn toward investigating for themselves.

Auurveda

The main healing modality in the Vedic tradition is called Ayurveda, the art of living. It’s an incredibly powerful system for both healing and living a better, richer and healthier life. Even a person who gains a little bit of Ayurveda’s wisdom can benefit greatly from it.

Our course is based on the deep wisdom of Ayurveda and Yoga; we teach practical, simple methods to bring you as an individual back into balance and radiance. We feel that this wisdom is one of the most important things a person can learn, so we build our courses around sharing this timeless way of life.

Foundations of Swara Yoga 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training