The 300 Hour Online YTTC at Rishikesh Nath Yogshala costs $250. 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 300 hour online yoga teacher training at Rishikesh Nath Yogshala is the advanced course, built for students who already have a 200 hour level foundation, whether earned at this school or elsewhere, and want to go deeper into practice, philosophy and teaching without another trip to India. It is not a beginner's course, and it does not spend time re-teaching the basics a 200 hour training already covers; it assumes you can hold a standing sequence, cue a class competently, and are ready to refine rather than to start from zero.
What it cannot give you is what only a residency can: a teacher's hands on your body correcting alignment in real time, the shared rhythm of practising and eating alongside other trainees, and full days with nothing else to plan around. If those are the reasons you would choose an advanced training in Rishikesh itself, be honest with yourself that online is a different, narrower experience, not a lesser copy of the same one. What it does give you is the same core teachers, the same advanced material, and a schedule you can fit around a life and a teaching practice you may already have underway.
This page sets out exactly what is included, how the live sessions run, what the curriculum adds beyond the 200 hour level, what you need on your end, and what the certificate you finish with actually says. The current fee is shown further down this page.
Here is exactly what the 300 hour online course fee covers, and what it deliberately does not, since an advanced 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, including the advanced practice and philosophy content taught to residential 300 hour students. Sessions assume the working vocabulary of a 200 hour graduate, so the pace moves faster and the discussion goes deeper than a foundation course would.
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 an advanced course is not one you can half-follow while distracted.
If you miss a live session, you are not simply out of luck. 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. Attendance across a course run over video and across time zones is never going to be perfect; the recordings exist so a missed class costs you a delay, not the content itself.
The 300 hour online curriculum builds on the 200 hour foundation rather than repeating it. It goes deeper into advanced asana and sequencing, subtler pranayama and shatkarma work, advanced philosophy, and teaching practice with mentoring, so a graduate leaves able to teach with more depth and more confidence than a 200 hour certificate alone provides.
Building sequences that move logically toward a peak posture, working with students at different levels within the same class, and refining the cueing precision a 200 hour graduate has already started to develop.
A deeper study of pranayama techniques and the traditional purification practices, taught with the care and hygiene they require, moving past the introductory versions covered at the 200 hour level.
Further work through Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and related philosophical texts, taught by Rahul Badoni, the school's co-founder, aimed at a student who already has the grounding a 200 hour course provides and is ready to go further into it.
Guided and seated meditation at a more advanced level, led by Swami Anand, building on the meditation foundation a 200 hour graduate already has.
A closer look at anatomy as it applies specifically to teaching and adjusting others, rather than only to your own practice, so you can recognise and speak to what is actually happening in a student's body.
Supervised teaching practice with direct feedback, led by Mayuri Shewale, the school's founder and lead teacher and an E-RYT 500 with Yoga Alliance, aimed at refining your teaching voice rather than introducing it for the first time.
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 stand to prop your camera at a useful angle matters more at this level, since fine adjustment cues over video depend on a teacher actually being able to see your alignment clearly.
On props, you do not need to buy a studio's worth of equipment. 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 practice space where you can both hear instruction clearly and be heard when you are the one teaching a practicum segment.
Because a practicum segment asks you to lead as well as to follow, it is worth thinking through your camera framing before a session rather than during one: a fixed angle wide enough to show your whole body when you demonstrate, and a space free enough of clutter that a fellow trainee watching from the other end of a call can actually follow what you are doing. This matters more at the 300 hour level than it did earlier in your training, since teaching practice is a core part of what this course is assessing.
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 advanced online course.
On completing the 300 hour online training, you receive a certificate from Rishikesh Nath Yogshala confirming you have finished the course, covering the modules set out above. Whether hours completed online can themselves be registered with Yoga Alliance toward a Registered Yoga Teacher credential, at the 300 hour or combined 500 hour level, is a question with its own rules, set by Yoga Alliance, that can change and that depend on your own circumstances and existing registration. Rather than promise an outcome the school does not control, the honest answer is: ask Yoga Alliance directly, before you enrol, if registration is the reason you are taking this course. Do not assume it based on this page alone.
What the school can promise is the training itself: advanced modules, taught by the same teachers who lead the residential 300 hour course, and a certificate that reflects genuine hours of live instruction, not a document handed out for watching pre-recorded videos on your own schedule.
Both routes lead to the same advanced 300 hour material, taught by the same teachers. What differs is how you experience it, and which trade-offs you are willing to make.
| 300 hour online | 300 hour in Rishikesh | |
|---|---|---|
| Adjustment | Verbal correction, over video | Hands-on adjustment from a teacher in the room |
| Immersion | Fits around your existing life and any teaching you already do | 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 certificate on completion | School certificate on completion, at a Yoga Alliance RYS 300 registered school |
If cost or travel is the only thing stopping you from training in Rishikesh, it is worth asking yourself honestly whether online is a genuine choice for you or a compromise you plan to revisit later. Some students take this course online precisely because they are already teaching and cannot step away from that work for a residency; others complete it online first and travel for the residential 300 hour training when the timing allows. Both are legitimate reasons to choose this route.
Be honest with yourself about self-discipline before you book, especially at this level. An advanced course assumes you can hold yourself to a standard without someone standing over you, and nobody is going to knock on your door if you skip a live session. The students who get the most out of this course are the ones who treat the live schedule the way they would treat a class they were paying to attend in person, use the recordings to catch up rather than to replace showing up, and bring the same discipline to a screen that they would bring to a shala. If your 200 hour training left you needing more structure than that, it may be worth waiting until circumstances allow you to train in person instead.
In practice, yes. This is an advanced course, and it assumes a 200 hour level foundation, whether earned at Rishikesh Nath Yogshala or at another Yoga Alliance registered school. It does not re-teach the basics a 200 hour training already covers.
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 certificate from the school itself. Whether hours completed online can be registered with Yoga Alliance toward an RYT credential is governed by Yoga Alliance's own rules, which can change, so confirm directly with Yoga Alliance before you enrol if that registration is the reason you are taking this course.
Advanced sequencing, deeper pranayama and shatkarma work, advanced philosophy, closer anatomy for teaching and adjusting others, and a supervised teaching practicum aimed at refining a teaching voice you already have rather than building one from scratch.
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.
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.
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.
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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