The 100 Hour Online YTTC at Rishikesh Nath Yogshala costs $160. You can start any month, and it combines live sessions over Zoom with recorded material and study books you keep. Taught from Rishikesh by a Yoga Alliance Registered School (RYS 200 and RYS 300) — the same teachers who lead our residential courses. You receive a certificate from the school on completion.
The 100 hour online yoga teacher training at Rishikesh Nath Yogshala is a foundation course, built for someone who wants a real introduction to yoga's practice and theory without yet committing to a longer training or a trip to India. It suits two kinds of student well: someone testing, before spending more time or money, whether teaching yoga is a path worth pursuing at all, and someone who already keeps a home practice going and wants the structure, the anatomy and the philosophy to understand what they have been doing, taught live rather than pieced together from unrelated videos online.
It is a foundation, not a shortcut. If you are looking for the full multistyle depth of the school's longer trainings, or the hands-on correction and daily immersion of studying in Rishikesh itself, this course is not a substitute for either. What it gives you is a genuine, live-taught starting point: the same core teachers who run the school's residential courses, real feedback on your practice, and a certificate that reflects actual hours of instruction rather than a stack of pre-recorded videos watched on your own.
What follows is exactly what is included, how the live sessions run, what the curriculum covers, and what the certificate you finish with does and does not mean, so you can decide with your eyes open. The current fee is shown further down this page.
Here is exactly what the 100 hour online course fee covers, and what it deliberately does not, since a foundation course delivered online cannot promise what only a residency can provide.
| Included | Not included |
|---|---|
| Live sessions over Zoom with the school's core teachers | Accommodation in Rishikesh |
| Recordings of every live session, yours to keep | Meals |
| Digital course manual and study material | In-person, hands-on adjustment |
| A printed course book posted to your address | Your own internet connection and device for Zoom sessions |
| One-to-one feedback sessions with a teacher | The excursions and Ganga aarti visits that come with a residency |
| Access to a WhatsApp group for questions between sessions | A visa, since you never need one for this course |
| A certificate from the school on completion | Postage for a physical copy of your certificate outside the standard book mailing |
The fee is one number, quoted before you book, and it covers the list above, not a shorter version of it that only becomes clear once you have started. If a specific item on this list matters to you, ask before you enrol rather than after.
Classes run live over Zoom, taught by the same core teachers who lead the school's residential trainings, not a separate junior staff kept for the online product. Sessions are pitched for someone starting out: pace and pause built in for questions, rather than assuming a level of familiarity a complete beginner would not have yet.
The school is in Rishikesh, so every session is scheduled around Indian time. In practice that puts most live sessions in the evening in India, which lands in the early morning across most of the United States and around midday to early afternoon across Europe, depending on which side of the Atlantic you are on. Check the current live schedule against your own time zone before you commit, since a training you cannot realistically stay awake for is a training you will quietly stop attending.
If you miss a live session, it is not the end of your course. Every session is recorded, and the recording is added to material that is yours to keep, so you can watch it back on your own time and bring questions to the next live class or raise them in the course WhatsApp group. As a beginner course in particular, nobody expects flawless attendance from day one; the recordings exist so a missed class costs you a delay, not the content itself.
The 100 hour online curriculum covers the ground every new student needs before going any further, taught live rather than left to a self-study playlist. It introduces Hatha and Ashtanga practice, pranayama, anatomy, philosophy and meditation, and closes with an introduction to teaching methodology, so a graduate finishes with a genuine base rather than a handful of postures learned by rote.
Standing and seated postures, basic backbends and forward bends, and the alignment cues that keep a pose safe. This is where most of the course's practice time sits, since a beginner needs repetition more than variety.
The opening portion of the standing sequence, worked through live at a pace matched to a group of beginners, so you feel its structure rather than being rushed through it.
The foundational breathing techniques, taught with attention to how breath and posture support each other, and why pranayama is treated as a discipline in its own right rather than a warm-up.
An introduction to how the body actually moves in the postures you are practising, so "hold this pose" starts to mean something more specific than "copy the shape," taught with study material you keep.
An introduction to the ideas that sit behind the physical practice, taught by Rahul Badoni, the school's co-founder, so you leave with more than a set of postures and no sense of where they came from.
Guided seated meditation, led by Swami Anand, taught as its own practice rather than three quiet minutes tacked onto the end of an asana class.
The basics of how a class is structured and cued, led by Mayuri Shewale, the school's founder and lead teacher and an E-RYT 500 with Yoga Alliance, giving you a first sense of what teaching actually involves before a longer course asks more of you.
Every module above is taught by one of the school's named core teachers. Meet the full team on the teachers page.
You need a reasonably stable internet connection, a laptop, tablet or phone that can run Zoom with the camera on, and a spot at home with enough floor space to move through a full asana practice without knocking into furniture. A second device or a simple stand to prop your camera helps a teacher actually see your alignment, since a phone propped against a water bottle on the floor rarely shows your full body.
On props, you do not need to buy anything specialised for a foundation course. A folded blanket or firm cushion substitutes for a bolster, a stack of books works in place of a block, and a long scarf or a dressing-gown belt does the job of a strap. What matters more than owning the "correct" prop is having something with the right shape and firmness on hand when a teacher calls for one, and a quiet enough space that you can hear instruction and be heard when it is your turn.
A headset or earbuds are worth using if your household is noisy at the time your live sessions run, since instructions for a subtle breathing technique are easy to miss over a laptop's built-in speaker with a family or flatmates moving around in the background. None of this needs to be expensive equipment bought specially for the course; it just needs to be reliable enough that a dropped connection or a muffled instruction does not become the main thing you remember about a session.
Rishikesh Nath Yogshala is a Yoga Alliance Registered School, recognised at the RYS 200 and RYS 300 levels for the residential trainings it runs from Rishikesh. That is a fact about the school, and it is worth being precise about what it does and does not tell you about this foundation-level online course.
On completing the 100 hour online training, you receive a certificate from Rishikesh Nath Yogshala confirming you have finished the course, covering the modules set out above. It is a foundation certificate, not an equivalent to the school's longer, Yoga Alliance registered residential trainings, and it does not by itself register you with Yoga Alliance as a teacher. Whether any part of a shorter foundation course can count toward a future Yoga Alliance registration is a question with its own rules, set by Yoga Alliance, that can change. If that matters to your plans, ask Yoga Alliance directly rather than assuming an answer from this page.
What the school can promise is the training itself: real live instruction from its core teachers, and a certificate that reflects genuine hours completed, not a document handed out for watching pre-recorded videos on your own schedule.
Both routes cover the same foundation ground, taught by the same teachers. What differs is how you experience it, and which trade-offs you are willing to make.
| 100 hour online | 100 hour in Rishikesh | |
|---|---|---|
| Adjustment | Verbal correction, over video | Hands-on adjustment from a teacher in the room |
| Immersion | Fits around your existing life and routine | A fixed daily rhythm, away from ordinary distractions |
| Cost | No travel, visa or accommodation cost on top | Includes accommodation, meals and excursions in the fee |
| Time commitment | Spread across your weeks, fitted around work | Full days, with nothing else to plan around |
| Certification | School foundation certificate on completion | School certificate on completion, at a Yoga Alliance RYS 200 registered school |
If cost or travel is the only thing stopping you from training in Rishikesh, it is worth being honest with yourself about whether online is the choice you actually want or a compromise you plan to revisit. Some students use this course to find out whether they enjoy structured study before booking the residential 100 hour training or a longer course in person. Others complete the whole thing online because that is what genuinely fits their life, and that is a good enough reason on its own.
Be honest with yourself about self-discipline before you book. Nobody is going to knock on your door if you skip a live session, and nobody is watching to see whether you actually unroll your mat between classes. As a foundation course aimed partly at people who are new to structured practice, this matters more here than it might for a more advanced student: the ones who get the most out of it are the ones who treat the live schedule the way they would treat a class they were paying to attend in person. If you know from experience that you need a room full of other people to stay consistent, it is worth knowing that about yourself before you start, not halfway through.
Every live session is recorded, and recordings are yours to keep, so a missed class is a delay, not a loss. Bring questions from the recording to the next live session or raise them in the course WhatsApp group.
Rishikesh Nath Yogshala is a Yoga Alliance Registered School (RYS 200 and RYS 300) for its residential trainings. On completing this online course you receive a foundation certificate from the school itself. Whether any part of it can count toward a Yoga Alliance registration is governed by Yoga Alliance's own rules, which can change, so confirm directly with Yoga Alliance before you enrol if registration is part of your plan.
No. This course is built as a foundation, and it welcomes complete beginners as well as people who already keep a home practice going and want more structure. What helps is a genuine interest in showing up for the live sessions consistently, more than any existing skill level.
A stable internet connection, a device that runs Zoom with the camera on, and enough floor space at home to move through a full asana practice. Household substitutes work for props: a folded blanket for a bolster, books for a block, a long scarf or belt for a strap.
The same core teaching team who run the school's residential courses in Rishikesh, including Mayuri Shewale, Rahul Badoni and Swami Anand. Meet the full team on the teachers page.
Sessions are scheduled around Indian time, which generally puts them in the evening in India, early morning across most of the United States and around midday to afternoon across Europe. Check the current live schedule against your own time zone before you book.
Graduates who want to keep going typically move on to the 200 hour online course, which builds on this foundation rather than repeating it, or to a residential training in Rishikesh if travel becomes possible. There is no obligation to continue, and no pressure to decide before you have finished this course.
You can book directly through the school's booking page, where the current fee and enrolment details are shown. If you have questions first, the general FAQ page and the teachers page are both good places to look, or you can contact the school directly.
Start any month · live sessions plus recorded material you keep · study from anywhere in the world.
| Course | Price |
|---|---|
| Course100 Hour Online YTTC | Price$160 |
| Course200 Hour Online YTTC | Price$220 |
| Course300 Hour Online YTTC | Price$250 |
Recordings from our live online sessions, taught from Rishikesh over video call.
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