Transformational Training Program
It fosters an authentic self, leading to actual and sustainable behavioral changes developed through deep experiential understanding. When it’s your turn to guide others, you’ll be able to do so from a place of authentic knowledge, personal experience, and deep insight.
This Program is Different....
One-on-One Mentorship
As a participant in the UYLS’s Training, you will connect
personally with International Yoga Guru Pundit Radheshyam
Mishra, who will:
• Guide and direct your daily, personal practice
• Answer informational questions related to the training
• Mentor you in developing your yoga teaching
This personal support will hold you throughout the course of the training and beyond. When tailored to the individual needs and capabilities of each person, the tools of yoga can coax tremendous positive transformation out of us.
Authentic Teachings
Yoga is an ancient discipline with deep theoretical and practical roots, passed down through generations for thousands of years. Sri Yogendra of The Yoga Institute, Mumbai, one of the most influential yoga masters of modern times, possessed unmatched knowledge of Yoga, Ayurveda, Sanskrit, and Indian philosophy. His work focused on therapeutic yoga aimed at supporting health, healing, and personal transformation for householders.
Pundit Ji, who studied under Dr. Jaydev Yogendra in the 1990s, continues this tradition. Yoga is a lifelong journey, providing continuous opportunities for learning and growth. The UYLS teacher training program embodies this philosophy, promoting the active application of yoga teachings both inside and outside the classroom.
Comprehensive, Coherent Teachings
One of the most important aspects of Shri Yogendra’s teaching is that they have shown, simply and clearly, how all of the different aspects of yoga fit together as a single, coherent whole. All of the pieces, including movement/asana, breathing techniques/praṇayama, meditation, gestures/nyasa, sound/mantra, chanting, philosophy, ethics and daily life, etc., work together as a single, unified practice.
At the UYLS Institute, we do not mix various philosophical disciplines. This program is a complete yoga program. Yoga for body, breath, mind, philosophy, personal transformation,therapeutics, etc.; all of it. And all of it explained in ways that makes sense and applies to our modern day culture and life. We’resure you will find it very intellectually satisfying and affirming to see and feel how each aspect prepares for, aids and enables all the others.
Beyond Information, Deeply Experiential
The UYLS‟s Teacher Training will provide you with a deep understanding of:
How to practice and teach asana (physical postures), including
- Techniques: how to correctly practice the main postures, in the classical way.
- Primary effects and purposes of each asana / posture.
- How to adapt each posture to achieve the proper function of the posture.
- How to organize postures into different sequences to achieve different results.
How to practice and teach praṇayama (conscious breathing), including
Definition of praṇayama, what it means, why it’s practiced, etc.
- How to create a praṇayama practice
- How to develop the quality and length of the breath
- Praṇayama techniques: how to practice, use and teach diferent praṇayama techniques
- Praṇayama ratios: how to practice, development
and teach different breathing ratios
How to practice and teach meditation (dhyana), including :
- Different understandings of meditation: How to create and develop meditation practices
- Meditation techniques: their practice, effects and how to teach them
- Meditation objects: fundamentals of how to choose them
How to practice yoga in daily life or "off the mat", including
- In depth learning of Patañjali’s Yogasutra. This is the traditional main presentation of how to live the path of yoga.
- Overview of the Yoga teachings on navigating difficult life situations.
OUR STRUCTURE
Environment
Shala
Stay
Our Kitchen
Personal Transformation, The Foundation of Teaching.
While a wealth of information is shared during the training, the focus is always on how to apply that knowledge and facilitate real experiences. Yoga is not simply informational; it is experiential. To truly understand and feel its effects, yoga must be practiced and experienced. The UYLS training emphasizes the practical application of yoga and its tools, covering not just what the tools are, but also how to think about using them and how to understand their functions within traditional frameworks.
The result of this process is gradual, sustainable self-transformation, achieved through the deeply fulfilling path of yoga. These are proven, profound teachings aimed at helping you—and, by extension, your students—attain joy, freedom, and health by living in balance with your most authentic self.
A Therapeutic Tradition
The UYLS’s program provides a precious opportunity to be trained in the therapeutic yoga tradition of Śri Yogendra. A tradition rooted in “The Yoga Institute”, a world famous and oldest Yoga Institute. The training equips students with the tools, experiences and understandings necessary to teach group classes and general individual sessions in this tradition, where:
- The approach to healing is truly holistic, the mind,
body and spirit are seen as completely interconnected, yet discernible aspects of a single entity - Where each person is viewed an individual; the yoga is uncompromisingly adapted to the student, and not just the student to the yoga
- Where the student-teacher relationship has always been viewed as the heart of the teaching for the transformational process