A New Chapter in the Himalayan Yoga Tradition – Teacher Training Program (HYT-TTP)
In 2025, we celebrated two sacred events with our global family—the birth centenary of Gurudeva Swami Rama and the 10th Mahasamadhi of our beloved Swami Veda Bharati. These sacred occasions brought forward a new wave within our global sangha as we came together in gratitude towards the loving guidance and teachings of the Tradition that continues to flow and guide us each day.
During this same period, Swami Ritavan Bharati, AHYMSIN’s Spiritual Guide and Ashram Pramukha, shared his vision for the next chapter of the Himalayan Yoga Tradition – Teacher Training Program (HYT-TTP). Swami Ritavan shared that it was Swami Veda’s wish to offer this program from Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama Ashram in Rishikesh—the global headquarters of AHYMSIN and the spiritual home of the global sangha.
For several decades, the HYT-TTP has served sincere aspirants worldwide in discovering the authentic teachings of yoga meditation, and in experiencing the subtler teachings in their personal lives. Over the years, the program has trained and helped transform hundreds of teachers across the world to first deepen their own practice and then to share the wisdom of the Himalayan Tradition with their students.
In Swami Veda’s own words:
“This program has been designed to pass on the essential principles and practices of the Tradition, which fosters personal development on all levels. For the aspiring as well as the experienced teacher, the program presents all aspects of yoga/meditation in a spiritually inspiring context…
Our practical, experiential approach to teacher training encourages students to incorporate these skills into their daily lives.”
A Renewed Approach to Teacher Training
Announcing this renewal, Swami Ritavan Bharati shared:
“The teaching as taught by Gurudeva Swami Rama and Swami Veda has been carrying on for 55 years. We are starting another era of the teacher training program here at our ashram. It will be a month-long intensive residency that will be full days of all aspects of training yoga teachers. Not so much for the purpose that they will do research, not for the purpose that they will go out and teach the philosophy, but that they will practice, and they will teach from their experience of practicing.”
The renewed program is dedicated to making the teachings of Gurudev Swami Rama available to a new generation of sincere aspirants. It carries forward the essence of what Swami Veda offered us as the foundation of a teacher in the Himalayan Yoga Tradition: self-transformation through personal practice and teaching through one’s own experience.
The program offers an integrated approach to learning, practice, reflection, and self-study, allowing participants to experience the teachings not merely as knowledge, but as a way of life.
Key Highlights of the Renewed Teacher Training Program
1. An Integrated Program in Self-Transformation
The renewed program is offered in a hybrid format, combining an immersive period of 4-week in-person learning with continued personal practice, self-study, and online guidance for 20 weeks.
4-week Intensive Residential Retreat at SRSG offering experiential and practical training into the study and practice of yoga meditation, within the spiritually energised environment of Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama.
21-week Guided Self-study and Personal Practice that is supported by live online weekend classes with internationally acclaimed faculty, thus allowing opportunity for receiving continued guidance from the teachers and providing space and time for self-observation, self-examination, and self-purification.
2. Beginning with Level One – 200 Hours
The renewed program begins with the first-ever 4-week Level One, 200 Hours retreat At SRSG from 14 March to 10 April 2027. The program will be offered twice each year—in March and November.
3. Ten Study Areas
In line with the teachings of Gurudeva Swami Rama and Swami Veda Bharati, and rooted in the traditional texts of yoga, the program continues to offer the same ten integrated study areas, as in the previous format of HYT-TTP:
- Yoga Foundation Studies
- Yoga Sadhana
- Hatha Yoga
- Breathing and Pranayama
- Relaxation and Meditation
- Anatomy and Physiology
- Holistic Health and Ayurveda
- Yoga Psychology
- Yoga Philosophy
- Teaching Methodology
4. An international faculty rooted in the Tradition
The program brings together an internationally recognised faculty of teachers, who have been trained within the Himalayan Yoga Tradition under the guidance and inspiration of Gurudeva Swami Rama, Swami Veda Bharati, and Swami Ritavan Bharati.
Registrations for the March 2027 program will begin on 20 October 2026.
For further information about the program, please write to Namita Sinha at ahymsinttp@gmail.com
With a deep commitment to preserving and carrying forward the teachings of the Himalayan Yoga Tradition, as per the wishes of our beloved master Swami Veda Bharati, we pray to continue to receive the guidance of the Himalayan Sages on this renewed path,
In loving service of the Sages of the Himalayas,
Namita Sinha
