500 Hours

The 500-hour Yoga Alliance Registered program is an in-depth offering beginning with the foundational program and continuing to study deeper into the roots teachings of Yoga, Tantra, Flow Arts, and Ayurveda.

500 hr Teacher Training Program – Excavation

Welcome to our comprehensive Prana Vinyasa® 500 hour teacher training program! This is a vast, in-depth offering beginning with the foundational programs and continuing deeper into the roots teachings of yoga, tantra, flow arts, and ayurveda. This 500 hr track is an in-depth offering of Prana Vinyasa® yoga and various electives to expand your understanding, embodiment and integration. Our 500-hour training offers foundation and evolutionary teachings of Prana Vinyasa. These are offered as advanced electives within the program including 20-35 namaskars and 40–64 sequences depending on how your design your program.

To receive your 500 hour certification (450 contact hours) the following requirements are to be completed within a three-year span.

500 HOUR CERTIFICATION MODULE REQUIREMENTS:

Part One: modules of Embodying Prana Vinyasa (Currently titled ‘Art of Namaskar’) / Mandala of Asanas

Part Two: modules of Chakra Vinyasa, Elemental Vinyasa and Rasa Vinyasa

Part Three: Design your own program based on your choice of the advanced elective modules within the program to attain 450 contact hours.

These are offered as advanced electives within the program including 20-35 Namaskars and 40 – 64 Sequences depending on how your design your program.

For 500-hour certification the following requirements are to be completed within a three year span:

• 450-hour program contact hours completed by attending our teacher training modules (Embodying Prana Flow-Mandala of Asanas is required) through:
• One to three-week teacher training retreat modules in Costa Rica, Greece or India;

OR

Prana Vinyasa modules offered in yoga studios from Humaliwo, CA,  Flow Yoga in Washington D.C. and European studios in London and Amsterdam.
Created from the program of your design:

Foundation – Art of Teaching Vinyasa (Previously known as Embodying the Flow) and Mandala of Asanas
and any of the Advanced Vinyasa Immersions:

* Elemental Vinyasa
* Chakra Vinyasa
* Rasa Vinyasa
* Soma Prana Vinyasa
* Kalari Vinyasa (offered in India)
* Prana Danda Yoga
* Shakti Sadhana – Pre-Natal Vinyasa
* Global Yoga Trance Dance

Embody and empower what you learn in live intensives with our required online program that corresponds to your track of study ($64 for each online program) includes 10 videos for the solar-lunar sequence and five namaskars you learn for each module (Rasa and Soma Prana Vinyasa have different format of short-long form practices):

Mandala of Asanas / Foundation Prana Vinyasa / Elemental Prana Vinyasa / Chakra Vinyasa / Rasa Vinyasa / Prana Danda Yoga, Shakti Sahana (Navaratri) or Soma Prana Vinyasa

Certification:

• Final take-home written “exam” 
• Demonstrate teaching embodiment in several videos of the foundational namaskars and sequences you have learned (guidelines available once you enroll)
• Completion of all modules and online programs outlined above.

Upon admission into our program you will be given our private community with direct access to questions for Shiva and Teacher Trainers, enrollment in our year-long Meditation Program and a welcome letter.

Required:

• Part One: Art of Teaching Namaskar (also known as Embodying the Flow) and Mandala of Asanas
• Part Two: Selected Advanced immersions: Chakra Vinyasa, Elemental Vinyasa, Living Ayurveda Soma Prana Vinyasa, Rasa Vinyasa (depending on hours and interest); you may also combine Yoga Trance Dance, Shakti Sadhana and Esalen, Kripalu or YJ Immersions
• Online programs to supplement live trainings.
• Asana Photos