Teacher training Level 3
Advanced and Yoga Therapy - Leading students into teaching advanced practices & applying yoga therapy.

Duration: 1 x 10-day residential retreat and 1 x completion workshop day.

This expands into the deeper aspects of yoga and the study of manifestation from spirit into matter, and the evolution of matter into spirit, which covers most facets on which yoga practices are based.
This is for graduates of Level 2.

Our Teacher Training courses have 200 and 500 hour Yoga Alliance accreditation option (click here for details).


Investment: $2500
To ensure a place, send a $300 (non-refundable) deposit to Ashram Yoga. The balance can be paid on the first day or by regular instalments (please arrange with us). Please confirm your registration or interest asap as there are limited spaces available.

Dates 2010:
10 day retreat 15 - 24 January
at Ohui
and completion day 27 February
at Parnell

Course duration: Ohui 10-day residential ashram-style retreat, and a 1-day workshop.

Progressive intermediate to advanced: for those who have completed Level 2.
This course moves even further into the deeper aspects of yogic understanding and technique in a profound manner which greatly expands the teaching, knowledge and capabilities of the participants. All techniques are presented at a more advanced level for body, energy and mind. As with Levels 1 and 2, the practices have been systematised for ease of teaching in a progressive way, knowing how to introduce them to students and then deepening the practice as your students experience and abilities increase.

Course includes:

  • Asanas and pranayamas
  • Extended dhara yoga asanas (flowing postures)
  • How to “assess” your students physically
  • Teaching for special needs
  • Elementary asana therapy for the muscular/skeletal system
  • Asanas for therapeutic application
  • Using chakras, their khestrams (trigger points for chakras) and sounds in yoga nidra (psychic sleep), and also with asanas
  • The use and practice of mudras in yoga teaching
  • The deeper yoga symbols of the psyche and how to use these in yoga nidra
  • In-depth meditation series
  • Dharana Akasha – study of the main inner spaces of the subtle body
  • Nada Yoga (yoga of sound) in a teaching situation
  • Sankhya system of manifestation
  • Mantra and Sanskrit chants
  • Kundalini Yoga practices
  • Havan – fire purification ceremony
The Teacher Training Level 2 and 3 courses have 500 hours Yoga Alliance accreditation option

24 Cheshire St or P O Box 37029, Parnell, Auckland •  Phone: (09) 302 2110 Email: yoga@ashramyoga.com