Learn Hatha & Vinyasa Yoga in Rishikesh

What you can realistically reach: A 200-hour teacher training (3–4 weeks, residential) genuinely qualifies you to register as a teacher and lead a basic class — it is a foundation, not mastery. A one-week retreat deepens your own practice but will not certify you to teach.

200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Course (YTTC)

A residential teacher-training run inside Parmarth Niketan, the large ashram on the banks of the Ganga in Rishikesh. Days combine asana practice, pranayama, yoga philosophy, anatomy and teaching methodology, with students living in the ashram and attending the evening Ganga Aarti. Graduates can register as 200-hour teachers with Yoga Alliance USA.

Full-time residential immersion living in a working ashram at the historic home of modern yoga, in a group cohort, leading to a recognized 200-hour credential.

Masters & lineage

• Lineage of Swami Sivananda Saraswati

Why Parmarth School of Yoga (Parmarth Niketan Ashram)

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Parmarth School of Yoga is the dedicated training arm of the Parmarth Niketan Ashram on the Ganges, running structured 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training courses and hosting the week-long International Yoga Festival each March under spiritual head HH Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati.

Schools in Rishikesh

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• Parmarth School of Yoga (Parmarth Niketan Ashram)
  200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Course (YTTC)
  A residential teacher-training run inside Parmarth Niketan, the large ashram on the banks of the Ganga in Rishikesh.
  https://courses.parmarth.org/
• Parmarth Niketan (Parmarth School of Yoga)
  Yoga Teacher Training Course (200-Hour YTTC)
  A large riverside ashram in Rishikesh whose Parmarth School of Yoga runs a residential 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training Course covering asana, pranayama, meditation and philosophy that qualifies graduates to register at the RYT-200 level with Yoga Alliance.
  https://courses.parmarth.org/
• Sivananda Ashram (Divine Life Society)
  Residential Yoga-Vedanta sadhana and yoga courses
  The Rishikesh headquarters ashram of the Divine Life Society, founded by Swami Sivananda in 1936, offering residential study of Hatha yoga, Vedanta and meditation in a traditional ashram setting rather than a commercial teacher-training format.
  https://www.sivanandaonline.org/
• Rishikesh Yog Peeth
  200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training (RYT 200)
  A Rishikesh yoga school running a three-week residential 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training at its Abhayaranya Yoga Ashram, with accommodation and meals included and graduates eligible for Yoga Alliance RYT-200 registration.
  https://www.rishikeshyogpeeth.com/
• Yoga Niketan Ashram
  Residential Hatha and Raja Yoga sadhana program
  A 25-acre ashram in Rishikesh established in 1964, offering residential programs in Hatha and Raja yoga, meditation, pranayama and yoga philosophy on a fixed daily schedule.
  https://www.yoganiketanashram.org/

The room

• Group — Cohorts of roughly 15–30, with several teachers across asana, philosophy and pranayama.
• A normal day — Pre-dawn practice, philosophy and anatomy through the day, a second practice at dusk — usually six days a week.
• Who comes — Mostly dedicated practitioners, often solo, a wide age range; many planning to teach.

Want the rest — a normal day, first hour to last? Ask the school; a serious one answers in two minutes.

The credential

RYT-200 / RYT-500 (Registered Yoga Teacher) · Certifying body: Yoga Alliance

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

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What I check before I send you anywhere

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