Certificate Courses
Our certificate courses for yoga teachers are designed to enrich both personal practice and professional expertise.
Whether you’re interested in learning adjustments for yoga asanas, adapting your classes for specific life stages – like yoga for children, pregnant women or seniors – or diving deep into yoga philosophy and meditation, each certificate course empowers you to fine-tune your teaching skills, expand your horizons, and find fresh inspiration.
With options ranging from short, skill-focused courses to immersive multi-week and even nine-month programmes, these certificate courses allow you to choose the pace and depth that suit your goals.
Reconnect with the community, strengthen your own practice, and gain specialized knowledge to elevate your teaching journey.
Our certifications for yoga instructors offer a range of durations, tailored to fit your schedule and learning goals.
For those looking to expand their teaching skills in specific areas, our shorter courses, lasting 3–5 days, provide targeted insights to help you better support diverse groups of students.
Once a year, we invite past graduates to join our one-week TTC Refresher at our ashram in France. This immersive experience offers the chance to reconnect with teachers and peers, deepen your personal practice, and refine your teaching approach in a supportive environment.
For those desiring a more intensive personal practice, the two-week Sadhana Intensive focuses on asanas and advanced pranayama. This rigorous course is designed for practitioners ready to explore the deeper layers of their practice.
If you’re seeking an extended stay in a spiritual setting, our six-month Yoga Life Immersion Training may be the perfect fit. This residential program is a journey of study, practice, and service, allowing you to live the yogic lifestyle fully, expand your knowledge, develop your teaching skills and discover hidden talents.
For a comprehensive program, the nine-month Sivananda Yoga Academy offers a hybrid learning model, combining lectures, online sessions, retreats, and personal guidance for a deep, well-rounded education in a particular yoga path.
Completion of the Sivananda Yoga Teachers’ Training Course.
Graduates of other teacher trainings: please contact tyrol@sivananda.net (for courses in Austria) or orleans@sivananda.net (for courses in France) regarding eligibility.
Certificate courses are offered at the Sivananda Yoga Retreat House, Austria and at the Ashram de Yoga Sivananda in Orleans, France.
Seven unique days with Acharyas and experienced teachers of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres in Europe. Reconnect with the Sivananda family, deepen your practice and refine your teaching skills.
This intensive two-week practical course focuses on asanas and advanced pranayama, gradually building up to eight hours of daily practice. Swami Vishnudevananda crafted this Sadhana based on his own profound Hatha Yoga training in the Himalayas.
The programme includes the study of sacred texts along with detailed instruction and practice of Mudras, Bandhas, and Mantras.
This new six-month guided residential program combines study, practice, and service, inviting you to fully immerse yourself in a yogic lifestyle. Expand your knowledge, refine your teaching skills, and uncover hidden talents while residing in the nurturing, spiritually uplifting environment of an ashram community.
Yoga LIT marks the first step toward establishing a yoga university at the Ashram de Yoga Sivananda in Orléans, France, dedicated to the long-term study of yogic and Vedic sciences in the traditional Gurukula system of learning.
The European Sivananda Yoga Centres aim to carry forward the vision of Swami Sivananda and Swami Vishnudevananda through the establishment of the Sivananda Yoga Academy, an extension of the Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy.
This nine-month teaching program (running September to June) follows a hybrid learning model, blending in-depth practical instruction, lectures, interactive online sessions, residential retreats, and personalized guidance to deepen understanding of one of the traditional yoga paths.
