The Health Institute Yoga Teacher Training

Yoga is one of the oldest mind-body healing modalities known to humankind. It originated in India over five thousand years ago. That it is still being practiced and growing speaks for its efficacy and for the truth of the principles upon which it is based.

Whether you are looking to become a certified teacher of this timeless wisdom or simply want to immerse yourself in the remarkable teachings from yoga in order to take your life to the next level, The Shanti Yoga Health Institute provides you with a powerful platform for growth, healing, and personal development.

Shanti Yoga thoroughly grounds students in the classical tradition of yoga, and brings these teachings into relevance for the twenty-first century world. It is a living, thinking, tradition and culture based upon immutable, natural laws that instigates life education. The curricula is grounded in the oldest yogic scriptures, from the Vedas and Upanishads through to Maharishi Patanjali, Shankacharya, Ramakrishna, Ramana Maharashi and contemporary thinkers Swami Vivekananda, Mohandas Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, and Shanti Gowans. These have been passed directly from teachers to student for thousands of years, delivering an authentic lineage. Blending the timeless Vedic cosmology and philosophy, with yoga postures (asana), breath work (pranayama), chakra and kundalini development, concentration and meditation into life guidance with your spiritual purpose, this remarkable training will take your understanding into consciously living the true principles of yoga.

Traditionally yoga was not taught in the usual sense, but is transferred from a yoga master to their student, along the upanishadic lines. Attunement arises after a student sits beside the teacher for classes and practice. Yoga is not dependent on one’s intellectual capacity or spiritual development and therefore is available to everyone. Work on your heart and do things from the quiet space within you. Anyone can access yoga, because it begins within yourself.

The relationship with yoga is a lifelong one.

You never stop being a student of yoga.

Many lifetimes of study and practice have led you here.

Welcome home.

We have been expecting you for some time.

When you are ready for the next step in your learning, you will start to share and teach its practices.

Teaching is much deeper than simply instructing a class or sharing information.

Shanti Gowans

Course	Code	Description
Certificate IV in Yoga and Life Education	30847QLD	PRACTICE. Amazing, comprehensive, vast, organised and completely life-changing. Suitable for both beginners and those who are experienced in yoga practice. This course disseminates classical Yoga and helps you deepen your own practices and understanding of the philosophy and psychology of Yoga. 600 hours. No prerequisites. Read more
Diploma of Yoga Teaching and Life Skills	30848QLD	TEACH. The next step in the Shanti Yoga teacher accreditation path. Study Diploma of Yoga Teaching and become a fully qualified Yoga teacher. 600 hours. Pre-requisites: Cert IV in Yoga and Life Education. Read more
Advanced Diploma of Yoga and Leadership	30849QLD	LEAD. Dive into the endless depths of the yogic ocean, and then integrate that into serving beyond the ordinary, loving boundlessly. Introduces the teachings of enlightened leadership, continuing to expand you with advanced topics. It offers you opportunities to explore teaching at a deeper level with an understanding of the physical, emotional and restorative effects of the postures, together with facilitating students in asana work. 600 hours. Pre-requisites: Diploma of Yoga Teaching and Life Skills. Read more
Training the Trainer		Train the Trainer course is designed for Shanti Yoga graduates and seasoned teachers who would like to advance their levels of study to that of a lecturer. Pre-requisites: Diploma of Yoga Teaching.
Ayurveda for Yoga Teachers		Further vocational and lifestyle educating of yoga teachers in a greater awareness of Ayurvedic Natural Health, so that you may use your knowledge in a therapeutic and inspirational way, to balance, heal and transform your own life, benefiting yourself, your family, your students and others. Learn the benefits of Ayurvedic herbal remedies and medicines to prescribe to your yoga students. Weekend course. Also by correspondence.
Hatha Yoga Teacher Training		This is a teacher training course for those who wish to teach hatha yoga as a supplement to their existing Shanti Yoga classes. This course assumes basic knowledge in teaching yoga asanas and requires completion of the Diploma in Yoga Teaching. Read more
Children's Yoga Instructor Training		Yoga is a wonderful treasure for children everywhere, as throughout life they will get the best out of everything they do and enjoy glowing health. Learn to teach Asanas, physical yoga exercises; Pranayama, yogic breathing; Concentration; Visualisation and Relaxation to children. Read more
Healthy Back Teacher Training		Yoga solutions to reduce lower back pain and stabilise the lower back, mobilise the neck, shoulders, back and joints and improve the range of movement. Teach people how to relieve back pain without surgery and develop a strong, healthy back. Pre-requisite: Diploma of Yoga Teaching. Read more
The Yoga Sutras		Students and teachers of yoga can expect to be given a full picture of what yoga is, what its aims are, how it can be practiced, what powers can be attained by it and finally, what liberation consists of. It is a work of great intellectual philosophy and deep understanding of the principles underlying the ultimate Truth. it is one that you will find deeply satisfying, stimulating and absorbing. Read more
Yoga for Women - pregnancy, post natal		Rejuvenate the body, inspire the soul, integrate the whole. Women's health in general - from menstruation to menopause with stuff in between. Read more
Sanskrit		All yoga practitioners and teachers have a social responsibility to educate for unity, health, progress and peace. Sanskrit is a poignant example of the need to celebrate and preserve our yoga linguistics, culture and intangible heritage. Read more

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Government Accredited Yoga Teacher Training, Austudy approved - 3 Qualifications

Certificate IV in Yoga and Life Education

Diploma of Yoga Teaching and Life Skills

Advanced Diploma of Yoga Teaching and Leadership

This remarkable trilogy is cumulative, hierarchal education and practical skills training, that encompasses rich teachings of the successive steps of raja yoga, known as the 8 limbs of Yoga, each one dependent upon the practice that precedes it. It is about your journey to wholeness and wholesomeness. You begin at the beginning - which is wherever you are - with a firm foundation of philosophical clarity, and proceed from there. The aim of philosophy is to cultivate a world-view. This requires an awareness of the existential condition of life, as also the consciousness of life's ultimate ideal - redemption, not only of the individual but the entire human race.

In this remarkable trilogy, you explore the ultimacy of spiritual values, character-building, culture, belief, attitude, purpose, meaning, body, breath, mind, and so much more that yet demonstrate that the roots of spiritual life lie in conditions that are essentially existential.

The Shanti Yoga Health Institute offers a rare, lifetime opportunity in its yoga teacher training program that helps each person find their dharma (life purpose), relevant to your personal awakening on the path of spiritual realisation. It is said that to hear the teachings from a living master is a miracle and a gift to us in human form. We have this opportunity.

Whether you are interested in learning more about yoga or would like to become a yoga teacher, change your life, and live your dream, Shanti Yoga is for you. There are few yoga training programs today that measure up to the quality, authenticity and comprehensiveness of this training. It is by far the most well developed and in-depth exploration of holistic yoga available today. It offers a system of yoga that represents the science and spirituality of unity, authored by yoga master Shanti Gowans, uniting the 'outer' methods (the physical postures and breath) with the traditional 'inner' methods (cultivating the ethical restraints and commitments, meditation and wisdom) into a powerful synthesis, restoring to yoga the complete set of 'limbs' of Patanjali's eight-limbed (ashtanga) path. These teachings help us understand the unveil the nature of yoga and evoke our sacred, eternal presence. They show us how to voice and act upon universal, timeless truths, how to embody the quality of discernment, clarity, support, love and enjoy the creative possibilities.

Investing in your education is one of the smartest things you can do, and your training will pay for itself many times over (probably within the first 12 months). Professional training of this calibre increases your earning potential as a teacher and your future salary will reflect that.

All students receive an official tax invoice to enable you to offset this professional training expense on your taxes.

Course tuition includes all materials and certification.