This 200 hour yoga teacher training will not only equip you to teach yoga asana in a variety of settings with confidence and ease, but it will instill within you the values and principles of yoga culture that can help enhance your personal life in deep and transformative ways.

SUMMER 2024 INTENSIVE YOGA TEACHER TRAINING

200-hour Yoga Alliance certified

presenters – Brinda Kumari (Susan Hu), Jamuna Jaya, & Kishor Chandra

dates – July 8th – July 31st (Monday – Friday with weekends off)

times – 9am – 5pm each day

location – Bhakti Center / 5E Yoga Studio

admission –

$2,800 early bird (sign up before June 1st)

$3,300 regular (after June 1st)

For any questions, please write to us at yoga@bhakticenter.org 

* In addition to the above schedule, students will be required to take 2 yoga classes per week, practice teaching, and do other homework outside of class

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Overview

This training will not only equip you to teach yoga asana in a variety of settings with confidence and ease, but it will instill within you the values and principles of yoga culture that can help enhance your personal life in deep and transformative ways.  Physical asana is one part of the vast landscape of personal development that is yoga.  This training highlights the spiritual culture of yoga as a means for personal transformation.  Over the course of 18 days, you will be immersed in yoga philosophy, lifestyle, culture, meditation practices, holistic health and wellness, and personal spiritual connection to self and others.  

Together, we will explore yoga’s timeless teachings and how they apply to your life today.  As you apply these teachings regularly, in a supportive community, you will notice yourself transform from the inside out. This course is not just about gaining textbook knowledge, but about applying the teachings and living the lifestyle of a yogi, leading to a profound and deep experience of what yoga has to offer. 

​As a graduate, you will head into the world confident and ready to lead grounded, safe, and inspired yoga classes. You’ll also learn how to offer modifications, posture options, clarification of contraindications, and how to create classes with progressive levels of difficulty. More than that, you’ll have the tools and knowledge to instill life-changing principles into your classes. 

Provided that you have completed all requirements upon graduation, you will receive a 200-hour yoga teacher training certificate and have the option to register as a RYT 200 via Yoga Alliance.

What to Expect

  • be a part of a supportive community
  • learn from experienced and adept teachers
  • explore and experience variations of yogic techniques
  • gain skills to lead a yoga class
  • deep study of yoga philosophy
  • unlimited yoga membership included throughout the training

Curriculum

  • SANKALPA:  A discipline for empowered change
  • HISTORY OF YOGA: understanding the origin of yoga
  • ASANAS: Beginner to intermediate postures
  • MEDITATION: What is meditation + basic meditation techniques
  • YOGA ANATOMY: Understanding how the body moves and functions while performing yoga
  • SEQUENCING: How to structure various types of yoga classes
  • MANTRAS: Science of establishing change through sacred frequency / attunement for healing, wisdom, purification, and spiritual evolution.
  • BHAGAVAD GITA AND YOGA PHILOSOPHY: Living our yoga practice and taking our teachings off the mat
  • PRANAYAMA: Control of the life energy
  • YOGA NIDRA: Art of conscious relaxation 
  • RESTORATIVE YOGA: Yoga as a means of relaxation and healing
  • AYURVEDA: Intro to Ayurveda, the sister science of yoga
  • BANDHAS: Gain control and intentionally lock energy in specific areas of the body
  • ETHICS OF TEACHING YOGA: Servant leadership and leading by example
  • BUSINESS OF YOGA: Developing your yoga career
  • ADJUSTMENTS: How to properly assist students
  • BHAKTI: The yoga of devotion

Please note that if you miss a class or homework assignment, it will need to be made up, potentially at an increased cost.

Interested in taking one of Kishor, Brinda, or Jamuna’s classes before registering for the training? Check out our Yoga Class Schedule and sign up today!

Cancellation Policy

  • $1,000 Non-refundable deposit due upon acceptance
  • Full Tuition is due ONE week prior to school start date
  • $1,000 deposit is forfeited upon cancellation
  • Refund window closes 3 weeks prior to school start date; all monies forfeited thereafter
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Needs-based scholarships are available on a case by case basis. Please complete the Scholarship Application if you would like to be consider for a partial scholarship.

Applications are due no less than 6 weeks prior to the start of the training. We will let you know if you have been awarded a scholarship or not 4 weeks prior to the start of the training.
Late applications may be considered on a case by case basis.
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Kishor Chandra is a yoga teacher, bhakti practitioner, and kirtan leader. Always seeking deeper truths and a higher purpose Kishor moved to India when he was 21 years old. There he lived in ashrams and studied the ancient yogic philosophy of the Vedas and yoga asana under the tutelage of master yogis. Since then he has travelled all over the world and refined his yoga asana teachings with a focus on healing injuries. Having suffered many himself Kishor is passionate about sharing an asana practice that is both transformative, well informed, and sustainable. With over 1000 hours of training Kishor’s signature blend of Katonah Yoga®, Vinyasa, Functional Mobility, and Advanced Asana helps students reach their yoga potential in a safe and sustainable way. Kishor leads workshops, trainings, and retreats all over the world but his home base is the Bhakti Center where he serves as the Yoga Director. He has studied under the guidance of master teachers His Holiness Radhanath Swami, Kulavadhuta Satpurananda, Dr. Gajendra Kumar, Raghunath Cappo, Jaya Jagannath das, Dhyana Masla, Dana Flynn, Abbie Galvin, Nevine Michaan, Benjamin Sears and others.

Brinda Kumari (Susan Hu) is an E-RYT® 500, YACEP®, and founder of an RYS® 200 based in NYC. Born and raised in Shanghai, she has always been searching for the deeper meaning and purpose of life beyond the body and the mind. After obtaining two master’s degrees in Media and Journalism and working in marketing/communications for over seven years, she listened to her inner calling to share the teaching of yoga and became a yoga and meditation teacher. Brinda believes when you take the time to care for yourself with genuine self-love and live an aligned life, you have the power to heal yourself and the world around you.

She has been assisting Yogi Charu and teaching in over 30 yoga and meditation teacher trainings. Brinda was initiated into the Brahma Madhava Gaudiya Sampradaya as a disciple of HH Radhanath Swami.

With over 2,000 training hours, Brinda’s teaching style is very nourishing, grounding and uplifting with a focus on breathing and the relationship with Self. As a senior lead teacher at the Bhakti Center, she offers different styles of yoga classes, workshops, and trainings both one on one and in group settings. Her style includes Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative, Yoga Nidra, Prana Nidra, Pranayama, Prana Vidya Healing, Chakra Meditation and other yoga and meditation techniques. Brinda also leads local and international retreats and offers Ayurveda self-care treatment and consultation.

Jamuna Jaya, Senior Yoga Teacher

Being a yoga philosophy nerd, an alignment geek, and a gym rat, Jamuna’s classes are irreverently reverent, sweaty and precise, and full of laughs! A practicing bhakta, 500-hour certified Yoga Instructor, a professional clown in hospitals for children, and a professional storyteller, Jamuna loves to  serve anyone who walks into her class!