Advanced Yoga Teacher Training Course Curriculum
Earn your 300-500-800-1100-hour certification levels.
Learn more about our 100-hour ATT modules that can help you reach RYT-500 level & beyond!
Overview: Aim, Key & Purpose
The aim of this Advanced Yoga TT curriculum is to give the continuing teacher, as well as highly interested practitioner, a thorough exposure to both ancient and modern aspects and insights of yoga. It is based on years of study in both practice and intensive research. Centered Yoga began offering advanced training courses in 2004 with a thorough, updated, and informative curriculum now available from 2023 on.
The key to the Advanced Yoga TT curriculum is found in six core courses. Each course delivers 100-hours of Advanced credit hours towards the Yoga Alliance 300-hour level and beyond, while also giving ongoing education credit to interested students. As such, these programs are open to all interested and sincere students, whether teaching or not, adding from 300 up to 900 hours of training.
The purpose of these courses is to deepen in your understanding of yoga through direct personal experience and enhanced learning, while increasing your teaching qualification. A focus on practice ensures Prānāyāma is both begun and developed effectively, as āsana and kriyas continue, while key knowledge in anatomy and physiology, philosophy, and other related areas are presented.
We provide the setting to optimally support your body and mind so the time invested in your training is most beneficial and personally rewarding.
The ATT Curriculum Six Core 100-hour Courses
These courses can be taken in any order when available.
Follow the Guide to complete your ATT-300 below.
Course 1. Functional Anatomy, Biomechanics & Āsana Intensive: Extremities to Core & Engaged Dynamic Sequencing (offered in 2023 & 2025)
Explore functional anatomy and biomechanics relating to the core, spine, shoulder-arms-hands, and the pelvic girdle relationship with lower limbs. Plus, build your practice and teaching repertoire through āsana detail, sequencing & teaching of arm balances, deep hip opening, and backbending posture categories
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Course 2. Movement Science, Functional Anatomy & Āsana Intensive: Energy Use, Balancing & Engaged Dynamic Sequencing (offered next in 2024)
Explore functional anatomy and movement science relating to the foot-core connection and pelvis-core base, along with energy use in āsana. Plus, build your practice and teaching repertoire through āsana detail, sequencing & teaching of core-focused, balancing-oriented, and advanced standing categories.
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Course 3. Science of Āsana & Restorative Yoga Insight: The Nervous System with Fascial Network & Deep Restorative Sequencing(offered next in 2024)
Explore the range of the fascial network and its role in stability, mobility, and movement. Study the nervous system in relationship to āsana and learn about stress, fear, and trauma. Plus, build your teaching repertoire through restorative āsana detail, sequencing & teaching, along with basic breath routines for a yoga class
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Course 4. Classical Philosophy & the Breath:The post-Vedic Classical Yoga Tradition & Prānāyāma practice (offered in 2023 & 2025)
Discover how the philosophy of Yoga and later systematization of ‘yoga’ is detailed in the early Classical material of Upanisads, Brahmanical texts, and the Yoga Sutra of Pātanjali.
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Plus, build and develop your breath-to-prānāyāma practice with an āsana-for-prānāyāma routine, kriyas, and dynamic āsana practice, with ongoing Q&A relating to breath practice.
Course 5. Tantric-Hatha Philosophy & the Breath: The Tantric to Hatha-Rāja Yoga Tradition & Prānāyāma practice(offered next in 2024)
Discover how the meaning of Yoga was systematized as ‘yoga’ through the early Śaiva and Buddhist Tantric, Vaisnava, and Nath traditions, to arise as a well-formed Hatha-Rāja Yoga.
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Plus, build and develop your breath-to-prānāyāma practice with an āsana-for-prānāyāma routine, kriyas, and dynamic āsana practice, with ongoing Q&A relating to breath practice.
Course 6. Science of Breath & Physical Activity in Yoga: Classic Breath Physiology with Research Updates & Prānāyāma practice(offered next in 2025)
Go in to greater detail on the human biology of the Yoga Process, how physical activity in yoga is differentiated from exercise, and learn the anatomy and physiology of breathing, with updates on research in the scientific and cultural realms.
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Plus, continue to develop and deepen prānāyāma, kriyas, and āsana practice, with ongoing Q&A relating to breath practice.
Each Advanced Yoga Teacher Training 100-hour module is fully inclusive of the training program, all practical sessions and lectures, as well as the full facilities of Samahita Retreat, accommodation of your choice, and all buffet meals and drinks.
A guide of how to complete your ATT 300-hours and apply for the RYT-500 level
- Complete your 200-hour YTT – this can be done through Centered Yoga or elsewhere.
- Choose three of the core 100-hour ATT courses to complete at Samahita over a 1 to 3 year period. You can follow one of our suggested course paths, or choose whichever three of the core 100-hour courses align to you and your interests.
- Add your 300-hours ATT to your already completed 200-hour YTT to be eligible to apply for Yoga Alliance’s RYT-500 (you will also be asked to prove 100-hours of teaching experience). The 300-hour minimum of Advanced courses must be completed at one dedicated yoga school. In this case, all three 100-hour modules must be completed with Centered Yoga at Samahita Retreat.
- There is no application form to complete – just book your place on each course in the year they are offered. Once you have completed the required courses we will confirm your 300-hours and double-check your 200-hour YTT certificate. We can then officially issue you the ATT 300-hour certificate.
Examples of ways to build your ATT-300 path of Advanced teaching credentials
| Optional RYT-500 Course Paths | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Path A: Body
Interested to major in |
Course 1: Functional Anatomy, Biomechanics & Āsana Intensive | Course 2: Movement Science, Functional Anatomy & Āsana Intensive | Course 3: Science of Āsana & Restorative Yoga Insight |
| Path B: Breath
Interested to major in |
Course 4: Classical Philosophy & the Breath | Course 5: Tantric-Hatha Philosophy & the Breath | Course 6: Science of Breath & Physical Activity in Yoga |
| Path C: Body-Breath
Interested in adding -Select main course
-Followed by 1st Yogi’s choice
-Complete with 2nd Yogi’s choice
|
Course 1: Functional Anatomy, Biomechanics & Āsana Intensive | 1st Yogi’s Choice:
OR |
2nd Yogi’s Choice:
OR OR |
| Path D: Breath-Body
Interested in adding -Select main course
-Followed by 1st Yogi’s choice
-Complete with 2nd Yogis choice
|
Course 6: Science of Breath & Physical Activity in Yoga | 1st Yogi’s Choice:
OR |
2nd Yogi’s Choice:
OR OR |
Increase to 800-hour Level:
Complete all six courses by adding on the three remaining core 100-hour ATT courses.
Complete 1100-hour Advanced Teacher Level:
Complete all six core 100-hour ATT courses
PLUS up to any three from Additional Advanced Programming: Special Topics in Yoga
AND/OR repeat one of Course 1, 2, 3 and one of Course 4, 5, 6 to complete a total of 1100-hours.
Additional Advanced Programming
Special Topics in Yoga
Additional Advanced Programming termed under Special Topics in Yoga will also be offered at different times that will include specialist topics related to Women & Yoga, Yoga as Therapy, and an International Conference on Yoga through Art & Music, Science & Culture. (Dates to be confirmed later).
Prānāyāma Teacher Training (PTT)
A Prānāyāma Teacher Training (PTT) curriculum has also been developed. Courses 3, 4, 5, and 6 are required to be taken as part of the PTT overall curriculum. In addition, there will be dedicated PTT private sessions both in-person and online that will be announced in the future. In terms of planning, as an interested student you should complete four of the ATT-100 hour courses: 3, 4, 5, and 6. This will also achieve and surpass the ATT-300 hour qualification. You will then be ready to qualify for the PTT specialist approach. See below for more details:
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Prānāyāma Teacher Training (600-hours)
Train in Practice and Teaching of Breath Regulation and Prānāyāma Techniques with in-depth study of the four chapters of Pātanjali Yoga Sutras
This training is a total of in-person in-residence 600-hours. This includes 4 of the 300-hour ATT courses plus special dedicated private Prānāyāma Teacher Training level 1 and 2 sessions. In addition bi-monthly online check-in sessions will be conducted.
An example of how to navigate your journey with the PTT:
Year One (2024) OR take one in 2024 and one in 2026
1. Take ATT course 3: Science of Āsana & Restorative Yoga Clinic:
The Nervous System and Fascial Network, & Deep Restorative Sequencing
2. Take ATT course 5: Philosophy & Breath: part Two
The Hatha-Rāja Yoga Tradition with Prānāyāma practice
Year Two (2025) OR take one in 2023 and one in 2025 or 2027
3. Take ATT course 4: Philosophy & Breath: part One
The Classical Yoga Tradition with Prānāyāma practice
4. Take ATT course 6: Science of Breath & Insight into Yoga and Physical Activity through Research and Physiology with Prānāyāma practice
Then with a small, prepared group (possibly 2025-26 to 2027) dedicated sessions will be offered:
5. Take PTT-level 1: focused prānāyāma practice, teaching methods, PYS ch. 1+2
6. Take PTT-level 2: focused prānāyāma practice, teaching methods, PYS ch. 3+4
Followed by
7. PTT bi-monthly online check-in (where at least 5 are completed by each student)
Upon completion of all 7 elements noted above the advanced student qualifies with a Prānāyāma Teacher Certification
Why Continue to Study?
While professional organizations, such as Centered Yoga and Yoga Alliance, require continuing education for teachers, we hope you choose to take these courses out of a sincere and genuine interest in learning rather than obligation or necessity. If you put your growth and development first, everything else follows easily and automatically, even any requirements you may need for certification.
The yoga path and continued learning
The yoga path is continuous. To grow in your practice, some focused time in the study under proper guidance is essential. The Advanced Yoga Teacher Training courses serve as part of this continuing education by covering specific subject matter in depth, furthering practice, and offering the opportunity for you to spend time in direct contact with your teacher(s).
We are always students, whether teaching or not. A teacher must engage in ongoing study, as well as cultivate growth in his or her daily practice. Personal retreats, away from your daily routines, are also helpful because the practice and teachings take time to really sink in and have their impact.
The deeper we grow ourselves, the better a service we can offer our students. But we’re also on a path inward in our own growth. For me, as a student, and then as a teacher, I have always put the time in study and growth first. Every year, I take time to study, be inspired and grow. Studying keeps alive that lifeline to the teachings, so they can penetrate me deeper. This way I stay fresh; I stay open.
Even if you do not teach, time to go further in a focused way is the key to growth. With this in mind, we offer a variety of on-going courses in an ideal setting. Immersing yourself in an environment charged with the energy and enthusiasm of others, and being exposed to the full-on guidance of the teachers, will reveal a clear path to your personal development and transformation.
I have watched this myself as I have embraced the path over the years. These courses and the special environment we try to cultivate are a deliberate attempt to duplicate that experience and to encourage others to keep growing and teaching better.
Paul Dallaghan, PhD
Founder and Director
Each Advanced Yoga Teacher Training 100-hour module is fully inclusive of the training program, all practical sessions and lectures, as well as the full facilities of Samahita Retreat, accommodation of your choice, and all buffet meals and drinks.