Āyurveda Yoga Teacher Training

Are you a yoga teacher or health and wellness practitioner ready to enhance your practice with the ancient wisdom of Āyurveda? This course will help you seamlessly integrate Ayurvedic principles into your work, whether you're teaching yoga, guiding clients, or incorporating holistic healing practices. Unlock the full potential of both traditions to support your students and clients in achieving a balanced, more mindful life. 

With practical instruction and personalized guidance, you’ll learn how to create an Ayurvedic self-care routine tailored to your well-being while honing the skills to adjust your yoga classes according to seasonal rhythms. Learn and practice Āyurvedic yoga, breathwork, mindfulness and self care techniques in meaningful online classes with your cohort and in self-study hours. This powerful integration helps you provide more effective, mindful care for yourself, your students and clients year-round.

Whether teaching group classes, working with private clients, or incorporating Ayurvedic yoga into a clinical setting, this course offers refined sequencing techniques that address individual mind-body disparities, allowing you to serve all levels more effectively. Deepen your practice, elevate your teaching, and expand your professional toolkit with this transformative course.

CPS is partnering with Prema Yoga Institute (PYI).  PYI offers holistic yoga instruction to empower the healing process and has been providing advanced yoga education since 2012.   CPS referrals will get you a discount!

Learning Objectives

  •  Personalized lifestyle choices and self- care to bolster your effectiveness in the healing arts, including:
    • Your present Āyurvedic constitution, or dosha (vikruti)
    • Āyurvedic oils and scents (abhyanga)
    • Daily cleansing techniques and skin care (dinacharya)
    • How to make the right dietary choices for your dosha (constitution)
    • Maintaining digestive fire and energy (agni and ojas)
  • Teaching and Essential Therapeutic Tools:
    • Introduction to East/West comparative psychology
    • The classic intention behind the āsana types, and how to modify āsanas for each individual ("Āsana Chikitsa")
    • The classic psychology of chakra theory, kosha theory, and how to use these systems for client assessment
    • How to alter your teaching to promote balance according to dosha, chakras and vāyus
    • The classic esoteric philosophies of health and happiness

    • How to alter your practice and teaching for the era, season, time of day, and time of life
    • The necessity of down-regulating techniques in haṭha yoga (PNS-inducing yoga)
    • The constitution of different yoga practices and lineages
    • The Ayurvedic perspective of wellness
    • Improving your business and listening skills in private yoga practice
    • Use the paradigm of Āyurveda as an intuitive, effective and efficient tool in your teaching practice.
    • How to appeal to the "higher self" of your client while engaging them (sattvic state, etc.)
  • Prepare teaching strategies based upon the classical systems of Āyurveda and yoga, addressing the current state practically. 

Training teachers will practice teaching one on one and in small groups, improving your ability to assess learning styles and provide customized teaching.
  • Review the parameters of yoga teaching, how to refer out, and how to teach to all communities.

Needed Learning Materials

Included with Course:

  • Electronic Copy: PYI Āyurvedic Yoga Therapy Manual by Dana Slamp, C-IAYT

Optional (available for purchase online):

  • Textbook of Āyurveda Volume One: Fundamental Principles by Dr. Vasant Lad, M.A.Sc
  • Eastern Body, Western Mind by Anodea Judith, PhD

Gained Certifications

  • Certification of Completion

  • May be submitted for Continuing Education credits with Yoga Alliance

  • 100 hours towards the IAYT-accredited Yoga Therapist Certification with PYI (application and prerequisites required)

  • 100 hours towards an advanced 300 hour Yoga Alliance Yoga Teacher Certification with PYI (prerequisite: 200 hr Yoga Alliance Certification)
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You may use code CUNY100 to receive $100 off tuition when registering

Last Updated: 03/28/2025 11:26