I AM Yoga®
500-Hour Yoga Teacher Training
A journey from your head to your heart
Taught Directly with A Living Yoga Master
Select Dates | April 7 – December 15, 2024
START YOUR TRANSFORMATIONAL JOURNEY TODAY
- Build resilience
- Break the momentum of stress
- Regulate the nervous system
- Increase flexibility, strength and mobility
- Cultivate energy & vitality
- Experience Meditation in Motion®
Benefits:
- Experience the heart of yoga and become an expert guide
- Deeply rest, recalibrate, and develop a resilient brain and nervous system
- Understand science-based health benefits of yoga and how to speak with confidence to your students and clients
- Recognize and release unhelpful behaviors that affect health and wellbeing
- Actualize your role as an inspirational presence
- Apply the secret teachings of yoga to live more fully
One program, three sequenTial modulEs
I AM Yoga® | Advanced I AM Yoga® | I AM Yoga Nidra™ Training
Authentic Yogic Tradition backed by science and psychology…
We have been accredited for over 20 years. Our versatile body of teachings are a unique distillation of authentic yogic tradition backed by science and psychology while maintaining its mystical eastern roots.
Develop your role as an inspirational & transformational yoga facilitator. Learn the skills, tools and techniques to help others in search of relaxation, well-being, spiritual unfoldment and purpose.
In a uniquely energetic group setting, you will gain the specific techniques that will aid you in guiding others into the heart of yoga.
Throughout our intensive, we will follow the Yoga Sutras as our roadmap while employing the specific tools of the I AM Yoga® system to bring the relevance of this ancient knowledge into our current experience.
Each component of our 500-hour training is highly complementary to the others and was developed to empower you with a wide range of techniques, practices, and applications customizable for any practitioner and demographic.
Our 500-Hour training provides the understanding and direct experience necessary to layer I AM Yoga® techniques onto any style of yoga practice.
Learn from our world-class training faculty
All of our instructors have been practicing and teaching for over 20 years.
KAMINI DESAI, PHD.
Curriculum Developer, Yogeshwari
Nirali Lauren McCrea
Senior Training Faculty, Yogacharya
Indu Heather Arena
Senior Training Faculty
with classes and sessions WITH:
Chandrakant John Hiester
Senior Training Faculty, Yogacharya
Gurudev Shri Amritji
Founder, Living Yoga Master
John Vosler
Senior Training Faculty, Acharya
“Within each one of us resides a silent but powerful spiritual potential.
The true purpose of becoming a teacher is to explore new avenues that are totally engaging and deeply fulfilling. In class, a teacher has a unique opportunity to create a resonating core group—a group that supports and creates an ideal environment where heart centered people can discover their own divine nature. This allows a teacher to access their own potential while empowering others to do the same. A sangha, a heart-centered core group, emerges from the teacher’s work.
Spiritual unfolding becomes the natural outcome for both teacher and student.”
~Gurudev Shri Amritji
“Within each one of us resides a silent but powerful spiritual potential.
The true purpose of becoming a teacher is to explore new avenues that are totally engaging and deeply fulfilling. In class, a teacher has a unique opportunity to create a resonating core group—a group that supports and creates an ideal environment where heart centered people can discover their own divine nature. This allows a teacher to access their own potential while empowering others to do the same. A sangha, a heart-centered core group, emerges from the teacher’s work.
Spiritual unfolding becomes the natural outcome for both teacher and student.”
~Gurudev Shri Amritji
YOUR Yoga Teacher JOURNEY STARTS NOW
Combining science with the ancient wisdom of yoga, you will graduate with an advanced range of practices and techniques:
ESSENCE OF YOGA
Learn how to synthesize and transmit the felt-energetic depths of your practice while teaching
APPLIED ANATOMY
Practical understanding of how the areas of the body move and are impacted during yoga practice
ART OF TEACHING
How to structure theme-based classes and workshops for your students’ needs, skill levels and interests
SLEEP MEDITATION
Combining science with the ancient wisdom of yoga, you will be able to develop customized Yoga Nidra protocols
EXPERIENTIAL WISDOM
This intensive reveals the innermost depths of I AM Yoga(R)
I AM Yoga® Training
- Posture assists and modification clinics accessible for any body type and customized for a wide-range of limitations
- Learn to practice and guide students safely and effectively through the 28 poses in the I AM Yoga® sequence
- Coaching to foster confidence, personal empowerment and masterful use of voice and expression
- Work with the nervous system to optimize the benefits of yoga in yourself and students
- Weave the original teachings of yoga into your classes in a relatable way for modern practitioners
Advanced I AM Yoga® Training
- Tools to help you understand and experience the deeper energetic meaning of the yogic scriptures
- Accessible for everyone at any level of physical capability
- Understanding and direct experience necessary to layer I AM Yoga® onto any style of Hatha yoga.
- Pranayama (breathing) practices for class openings, while in poses, yoga nidra, savasana and closing meditation
- Additional postures and techniques to initiate the awakening of the innate intelligence of the body (Pranakriya).
I AM Yoga Nidra™ Training
- Deeply rest, recalibrate, and develop a resilient brain by fostering a healthy relationship with yourself.
- Your own unique yoga nidra card deck system which will allow you to easily customize Yoga Nidra experiences
- Our I AM Yoga Nidra™ training is considered one of the 5 major schools of Yoga Nidra across the globe.
- Spiritual foundations of Yoga Nidra including the Kleshas, Koshas, Turiya and the science behind the brainwaves
- Create & incorporate core intentions with the practice to profoundly heal, restore, and free yourself from an unresolved past.
Supportive Course Structuring
Designed Specifically for Your Success
Sometimes we start online courses but lose the momentum needed to finish or the attention to fully absorb the material. This is why we offer our 500-Hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Training as a hybrid of self-paced learning and live online sessions with the added components of mentorship and community.
As the pace of life speeds up, it’s easy to get busy and distracted despite our sincerest desires to study, learn and practice. If there’s no one holding us accountable, it’s only natural that our attention and energy gravitate towards what’s urgent or distracting.
We are here to help keep you on track, answer questions and offer guidance along the way.
Through live, interactive sessions, you’ll have the opportunity to share and learn from senior training faculty members and your fellow participants. Together, we will create intentions, understand the nuanced facets teaching and practicing I AM Yoga® and most of all, connect with like-minded individuals.
Mentorship provides clear, individualized insight and understanding of what’s possible for you as a practitioner and facilitator. Experience powerful learning, connected community and begin your path of certification to become an expertly trained facilitator.
Here’s What Some Past Participants Have To Say
About Our Teacher Training
I was looking for a yoga school that would train yoga teachers in the classical Indian yoga tradition with all of its rich spiritual depth. Amrit Yoga Institute provided this training above and beyond my expectations.
The sense of community among students that developed over three months was wonderful. I highly recommend this yoga school to anyone who is looking for
a) instructors who are excited about and exude what they teach and
b) a curriculum that is comprehensive and steeped in a living yogic tradition.
I have been practicing yoga since 2004 and decided to deepen my practice by becoming a teacher for others. I have always intended my practice to be more than just physical, and have never felt the spiritual depth of yoga more than I have when receiving this training from Amrit Yoga Institute.
I truly believe Gurudev is transmitting the possibility for awakening that is accessible to anyone who gives themselves fully to the practice.
I would absolutely highly recommend this program and training to anyone looking to deepen their meditation and spiritual lives.
Didn’t know what exactly to expect from a virtual teacher training program conducted entirely over Zoom —
What Amrit offered was incredible and I attribute this largely to my gifted instructor, Nirali, as well as the course program as it is designed.
I highly recommend and hope to partake in another course with Amrit sometime in the future.
The Amrit Yoga Institute emanates the spirit of Yoga.
If you want to learn the inner dimension of yoga and understand the philosophy of Yoga and healing this is the place.
Yogi Desai/Gurudev, Kamini, Chandrakant, and Nirali are fantastic teachers that teach from experience and deep knowledge.
Amrit Yoga Institute programs make available traditional yogic spiritual traditions to students.
My practice and studies took me on a transformational journey of expanding inner stillness and improving physical health.
The teachers were knowledgeable, passionate, and kind.
Nirali Lauren McCrea was the yoga teacher at the Amrit Yoga Institute who led the training I took in 2021.
She beautifully and compassionately conveys a depth of knowledge, understanding, and spiritual integrity that is reflective of the breadth and deep substance of this beautiful lineage.
I am forever grateful to Nirali, AYI, and the lineage of Babaji, Dadaji, and Gurudev.
Join our 500-hour YOGA teacher training
Attend 100% Online or Combine with In-Person Immersion Retreats
Register Today in 2 Easy Steps!
Step 1:
Register for the 500-Hour Training with access 100% live & self-paced online.
*Click payment link for exact dates and times.
$465/12 months
$5575
Step 2 (Optional):
Want to come in person? Select an optional In-Person Immersion Retreat and register for housing and meal plan!
*Tuition included for 500-Hour registrants.
Tuition Included
With your 500-Hour Registration
STEP 2: Optional In-Person Immersion RETREATS
Hosted at our Salt Springs, FL campus with Senior Teachers
I AM Yoga® Immersion Retreat
April 7-12, 2024
I AM Yoga® Nidra™ Immersion Retreat
August 22-26, 2024
Advanced I AM Yoga® Immersion Retreat
September 2-8, 2024
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Schedule A Free, 15-minute Consultation
Speak directly with Nirali (Senior Training Faculty, Yogacharya) to discuss the roadmap to success for your training.
Yoga Teacher Training FAQs
Everything you need to know about Yoga Teacher Traning with us.
What is included in the Amrit Yoga Institute's 500-Hour Yoga Alliance Training?
Our 500-Hour training consists of I AM Yoga, I AM Advanced Yoga and I AM Yoga Nidra Professional Training.
Do I need to do all three parts?
To become a 500-Hour Yoga Alliance certified teacher, you need to complete all three parts.
Do I need to complete all three parts in a particular order?
You need to complete the I AM Yoga training before the I AM Yoga Advanced Training, and the scheduled dates in 2023 ensure that. You can complete the I AM Yoga Nidra at your own at any time before December 31, 2023. We recommend focusing on one course module at a time.
What do I need to do to prepare once I've registered?
Once you register, you will receive a welcome letter and instructions. For I AM Yoga and Yoga Nidra training, we have recommended reading and encourage registered students to practice I AM Yoga and I AM Yoga Nidra with suggested materials.
When can I become registered with the Yoga Alliance?
You can register with Yoga Alliance as a 200-Hour teacher as soon as you graduate from the I AM Yoga Training and as a 500-Hour teacher as soon as you complete I AM Yoga, I AM Yoga Advanced and I AM Yoga Nidra training.
How long will Yoga Alliance recognize online education?
For Yoga Alliance recognition in 2023, you must complete your coursework before December 31, 2023.
What will my schedule be like?
I AM Yoga and I AM Yoga Advanced are offered live, online through zoom over select weekends in 2023 and incorporate self-study assignments, personal practice and partner work. Your course load is balanced with live classroom hours and weekly homework assignments designed for your success. I AM Yoga Nidra is self-paced with a live, personalized mentorship component to help keep you on track, on your time.
What if I've already taken Yoga Nidra Professional Training?
No problem. You can register for Yoga Teacher Training and Advanced Yoga Teacher Training here:
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What if I've already taken Yoga Teacher Training?
No problem. You can register for Yoga Nidra Professional Training and Advanced Yoga Teacher Training here:
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What if I have my 200-Hour Certification from a different school?
No problem. You can register for our 300-hour program with a mentored bridge course to catch up here:
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