YOGA TEACHER
COURSES
Register NOW for YTT 200 - Commencing November 2026
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Pre-Post Natal Teacher Training - Commencing July 2026
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Register NOW for YTT 200 - Commencing November 2026 * Pre-Post Natal Teacher Training - Commencing July 2026 *
Shantarasa Yoga Darshana
delivers deep and comprehensive
trainings in yoga education.
The Shantarasa aim is to equip ‘teachers’ with all the requisite skills to safely guide and inspire others. The skills gained far exceed the study of physical postures, extending into the practices and foundational knowledge that inspire a more balanced mind and approach to life. The physical postures are also given deeper value and meaning. The philosophy of asana enables students to better understand and communicate the unique benefits the asanas generate, placing them in a more wholistic context.
We invite you to join us in exploring the rich experiential levels and practical wisdom Yoga has to offer.
You are welcome to study with us if your interest is personal or to develop the professional capacity to teach others.
We would love for you to join us for the experience of a lifetime!
2025-2027 we offer the full package, YTT 200-hour | 300-hour | 500-hour | and additional extra curriculum covering The Foundations of Yoga Chikitsa
Upcoming Course dates
YTT 300 hour - 15 November 2025 -September 13 2026
YTT 500 - March 8 2025 - September 13 2026
Foundations in Yoga Chikitsa - November 21st - April 18 2027
YTT 200 hour - Commencing November 7th 2026
Pre Post Natal - July 25 - August 16 2026
internationally accrediteD COURSE
available 2025-2027Shantarasa offers all levels of training
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The YTT 300-hour has a unique focus on a more therapeutic approach to practice to facilitate change, healing and transformation at the level of body, breath, energy, heart, mind and consciousness. More and more teachers today reach out for mentorship to guide the individual needs of students. In this course we equip teachers to meet individual needs in the context of a group class or in private one on one teaching . Every practice can be adapted to work with the unique constitution, predisposition or life circumstance of the student. Training teachers must learn to first apply this method to their own needs and then extend to others. The rich depth of the philosophical subjects, including yoga psychology, will open the heart and mind in ways perhaps never experienced. This course will bring your personal practice, your teaching skills and life experience to a whole new level of direct interface with the intended intentions and deeper dimensions of the yogic path.
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The YTT 500-hour will create a seamless body of study that includes both 200-hour and 300-hour trainings from which you will emerge as a radically changed version of your SELF. There are a few weeks between to pause and give time for integration and practice.
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The Foundations for Yoga Chikitsa (yoga as therapy) is an exposure to the tools, practices, principles of a healing and awakening form of traditional yoga therapy. It is not a form of ‘yogapathy’ which remains focused on symptomology and treatment, it is a holistic means to find the root causes of suffering. Once the roots of pain and discord with life are identified we can truly begin to heal and find an ever increasing experience of wholeness, fullfillment and freedom. The methods are unique in our contemporary environment and mindsets. The results can be exceptional and irrevocable.
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The YTT 200-hour will give you a well-rounded skill base to teach all the basic asanas, breathwork, entry point pranayama, yoga nidra, mantra and meditation, with a superb exposure to the practical wisdom unique to the yogic traditions. The study of the philosophical principles is also a practice called swadhyaya, Support is individually given to grow an ever-evolving personal practice. Access to online support materials for review and ongoing study.
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Post Graduate course
offering foundational principles of Traditional Yoga as Therapy
pre-requisit YTT 2oo
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training
11 weekend intensives.
300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training
15 weekend intensives.
500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training
26 weekend intensives.
YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
POST GRADUATE
COURSES
Develop your yoga knowledge and skill by engaging in a broader range of training & practices. This will benefit you, and those you instruct, to live a joyful, healthy life, supporting them through life’s different stages and inevitable challenges.
Yoga Chikitsa (Therapy) Foundations
4 weekend intensives
18th July - 23rd August 2026
Applied Ayurveda
70-hour training for yoga teachers, health practitioners and interested people which will provide knowledge and practices to restore or maintain prakriti (constitutional) balance.
Pre-Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training
50-hour post graduate training. Recognised by Yoga Australia.
FAQs
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All courses include online support material and access to ongoing mentorship.
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The trainings are a combination of study and practice.
The study components include lively discussions that invariably touch on all things life related in meaningful and provocative ways.
The practices engage an integration of body, breath, mind and awareness, facilitating change and expansion.
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Students study the various levels of asana, breathwork, pranayama, bandha, mudra, yoga nidra, contemplation and focusing practices, meditation, applied yoga anatomy both physical and subtle, yoga philosophy and psychology and the yogic texts.
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The instruction is in traditional forms of practice and study with an intentional influence of Yoga Chikitsa (yoga as therapy) to assist individual needs more specifically. This is a step away from contemporary forms of ‘postural yoga’. Postural yoga tends to stop at muscles and bones and features of human anatomy in very specific forms of yoga architecture. Traditional Yoga seeks an inner alignment to the currents of energy that sustain, animate and heal the body/mind from within. The subtle energy (prana) is amplified through conscious forms of practice that free up the channels through which it flows, increasing the space in which it moves. The physical and subtle functions of the human form are empowered and refined for greater integration of all body systems. Effective and guided breath are central to such a practice.
Traditional forms of practice harness the scattered and busy energies of the mind to a point of focus and presence. The mind can then become a powerful instrument enhancing the qualities of discernment, perception, joyous calm and stillness. Stillness in asana with conscious breath gives entry to the liminal spaces of our subtle being. The physical practices of traditional yoga purify the form and open us to our depths beyond the dominance of external orientation and image.
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Our Yoga Teacher Training and Post Graduate courses are delivered in person and some also online.
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Yes, please contact us for details.
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Yes, we have the following current training guides for download, with more to be added soon.
NEW COURSES
COMING IN 2026!
Register your interest for our new courses coming in 2026, dates TBA. Training guides will be available later this year.
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