Advanced Yoga Teacher Training Course Curriculum
Earn your 300-500-800-1100-hour certification levels.
Learn more about our 100-hour ATT modules that can help you reach RYT-500 level & beyond!
Overview: Aim, Key & Purpose
The aim of this Advanced Yoga TT curriculum is to give the continuing teacher, as well as highly interested practitioner, a thorough exposure to both ancient and modern aspects and insights of yoga. It is based on years of study in both practice and intensive research. Centered Yoga began offering advanced training courses in 2004 with a thorough, updated, and informative curriculum now available from 2023 on.
The key to the Advanced Yoga TT curriculum is found in six core courses and three Breath Training courses. Each course delivers 100-hours of Advanced credit hours towards the Yoga Alliance 300-hour level and beyond, while also giving Continuing Education Credits to interested students. As such, these programs are open to all interested and sincere students, whether teaching or not, adding the minimum of 300 hours and up to 900 hours of training.
The purpose of these courses is to deepen in your understanding of yoga through direct personal experience and enhanced learning, while increasing your teaching qualification. A focus on practice ensures Prānāyāma is both begun and developed effectively, as āsana and kriyas continue, while key knowledge in anatomy and physiology, philosophy, and other related areas are presented.
We provide the setting to optimally support your body and mind so the time invested in your training is most beneficial and personally rewarding.
The ATT Curriculum Six Core 100-hour Courses
These courses can be taken in any order when available.
They can also be combined with the Breath courses.
All courses are two-week 100-hour residential programs.
Follow the Guide to complete your ATT-300 below.
Course 1. Yoga, The Body & Anatomy: Functional Anatomy, Biomechanics & Āsana Intensive (offered next in 2026)
Explore functional anatomy and biomechanics relating to the core, spine, shoulder-arms-hands, and the pelvic girdle relationship with lower limbs. Plus, build your practice and teaching repertoire through āsana detail, sequencing & teaching of arm balances, deep hip opening, and backbending posture categories
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Course 2. Yoga, The Body & Movement: Movement Science, Functional Anatomy & Āsana Intensive (offered July 14 - 27, 2024)
Explore functional anatomy and movement science relating to the foot-core connection and pelvis-core base, along with energy use in āsana. Plus, build your practice and teaching repertoire through āsana detail, sequencing & teaching of core-focused, balancing-oriented, and advanced standing categories.
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Course 3. Yoga, The Body & Restorative: Science of Āsana & Restorative Yoga Insight (offered next in 2025)
Explore the range of the fascial network and its role in stability, mobility, and movement. Study the nervous system in relationship to āsana and learn about stress, fear, and trauma. Plus, build your teaching repertoire through restorative āsana detail, sequencing & teaching, along with basic breath routines for a yoga class
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Course 4. Breath & Philosophy: The post-Vedic Classical Yoga Tradition & practice of Prānāyāma (offered next in 2026)
Discover how the philosophy of Yoga and later systematization of ‘yoga’ is detailed in the early Classical material of Upanisads, Brahmanical texts, and the Yoga Sutra of Pātanjali.
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Plus, build and develop your breath-to-prānāyāma practice with an āsana-for-prānāyāma routine, kriyas, and dynamic āsana practice, with ongoing Q&A relating to breath practice.
Course 5. Breath & Tantra-Hatha: The Tantric to Hatha-Rāja Yoga Tradition & practice of Prānāyāma (offered July 28 - August 10, 2024)
Discover how the meaning of Yoga was systematized as ‘yoga’ through the early Śaiva and Buddhist Tantric, Vaisnava, and Nath traditions, to arise as a well-formed Hatha-Rāja Yoga.
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Plus, build and develop your breath-to-prānāyāma practice with an āsana-for-prānāyāma routine, kriyas, and dynamic āsana practice, with ongoing Q&A relating to breath practice.
Course 6. Breath, Yoga & Science: Modern Science on the Breath and Yoga Methods & practice of Prānāyāma (offered next in 2025)
Go in to greater detail on the human biology of the Yoga Process, how physical activity in yoga is differentiated from exercise, and learn the anatomy and physiology of breathing, with updates on research in the scientific and cultural realms.
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Plus, continue to develop and deepen prānāyāma, kriyas, and āsana practice, with ongoing Q&A relating to breath practice.
Each Advanced Yoga Teacher Training 100-hour module is fully inclusive of the training program, all practical sessions and lectures, as well as the full facilities of Samahita Retreat, guest rooms of your choice, and all buffet meals and drinks.
Breath Training 50 & 100-hour Courses and Prānāyāma Teacher Training
Visit our Breath Training page for the 50 & 100-hour Breath Courses and Prānāyāma Teacher Training (PTT) details.
A guide of how to complete your ATT 300-hours and apply for the RYT-500 level
- Complete your 200-hour YTT – this can be done through Centered Yoga or elsewhere.
- Choose three of the core 100-hour ATT courses to complete at Samahita over a 1 to 3 year period. You can follow one of our suggested course paths, or choose whichever three of the core 100-hour courses align to you and your interests.
- Add your 300-hours ATT to your already completed 200-hour YTT to be eligible to apply for Yoga Alliance’s RYT-500 (you will also be asked to prove 100-hours of teaching experience). The 300-hour minimum of Advanced courses must be completed at one dedicated yoga school. In this case, all three 100-hour modules must be completed with Centered Yoga at Samahita Retreat.
- There is no application form to complete – just book your place on each course in the year they are offered. Once you have completed the required courses we will confirm your 300-hours and double-check your 200-hour YTT certificate. We can then officially issue you the ATT 300-hour certificate.
Examples of ways to build your ATT-300 path of Advanced teaching credentials
| Optional RYT-500 Course Paths | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Path A: Body & Anatomy
Interested to major in |
Course 1: Yoga, The Body & Anatomy | Course 2: Yoga, The Body & Movement | Course 3: Yoga, The Body & Restorative |
| Path B: Breath & Philosophy
Interested to major in |
Course 4: Breath & Philosophy | Course 5: Breath & Tantra-Hatha | Course 6: Breath, Yoga & Science |
| Path C: Body-Breath
Interested in adding -Select main course
-Followed by 1st Yogi’s choice
-Complete with 2nd Yogi’s choice
|
Course 1: Yoga, The Body & Anatomy | 1st Yogi’s Choice:
OR |
2nd Yogi’s Choice:
OR OR |
| Path D: Breath-Body
Interested in adding -Select main course
-Followed by 1st Yogi’s choice
-Complete with 2nd Yogis choice
|
Course 6: Breath, Yoga & Science | 1st Yogi’s Choice:
OR |
2nd Yogi’s Choice:
OR OR |
| Path E: Know-the-Breath
Interested to major in |
Breath Training 2: Prānāyāma Intermediate | Yogi’s Choice:
Course 4 or 5 or 6 |
Breath Training 3: Prānāyāma Advanced |
Increase to 800-hour Level:
Complete all six courses by adding on the three remaining core 100-hour ATT courses OR one of them along with Breath Training courses 2 & 3
Complete 1100-hour Advanced Teacher Level:
Complete all six core 100-hour ATT courses
PLUS repeat any one them along with Breath Training courses 2 & 3
Go Beyond 1100-hours with Continuing Education Credits:
This material is constantly being updated. Though the same course may be offered a few years apart no course is ever the same, especially with the focus on practice and instructing through interactive Q&A’s. So, repeat any or all of the six core 100-hour ATT courses and the three Breath Training courses.
Why Continue to Study?
While professional organizations, such as Centered Yoga and Yoga Alliance, require continuing education for teachers, we hope you choose to take these courses out of a sincere and genuine interest in learning rather than obligation or necessity. If you put your growth and development first, everything else follows easily and automatically, even any requirements you may need for certification.
The yoga path and continued learning
The yoga path is continuous. To grow in your practice, some focused time in the study under proper guidance is essential. The Advanced Yoga Teacher Training courses serve as part of this continuing education by covering specific subject matter in depth, furthering practice, and offering the opportunity for you to spend time in direct contact with your teacher(s).
We are always students, whether teaching or not. A teacher must engage in ongoing study, as well as cultivate growth in his or her daily practice. Personal retreats, away from your daily routines, are also helpful because the practice and teachings take time to really sink in and have their impact.
The deeper we grow ourselves, the better a service we can offer our students. But we’re also on a path inward in our own growth. For me, as a student, and then as a teacher, I have always put the time in study and growth first. Every year, I take time to study, be inspired and grow. Studying keeps alive that lifeline to the teachings, so they can penetrate me deeper. This way I stay fresh; I stay open.
Even if you do not teach, time to go further in a focused way is the key to growth. With this in mind, we offer a variety of on-going courses in an ideal setting. Immersing yourself in an environment charged with the energy and enthusiasm of others, and being exposed to the full-on guidance of the teachers, will reveal a clear path to your personal development and transformation.
I have watched this myself as I have embraced the path over the years. These courses and the special environment we try to cultivate are a deliberate attempt to duplicate that experience and to encourage others to keep growing and teaching better.
Paul Dallaghan, PhD
Founder and Director
Rates
For all 2-week 100-hour programs listed above.
Rates are in US Dollars, are per person, and are fully inclusive of your chosen room, all buffet meals, use of full facilities, and all training and practices for the duration of the program dates.
| NEW “Inhale” Beachfront Rooms |
Beachfront Private | $4,114 |
| Beachview Private | $3,494 | |
| Beach Private | $3,234 | |
| “Exhale” Gardenview Rooms | Garden Private | $2,714 |
| Garden Semi-Private | $2,454 | |
| Garden Shared Loft | $2,194 |
If you plan to book two or more ATT courses in a row, please email reservations at info@samahitaretreat.com to book your room for the full length of your stay.
Each Advanced Yoga Teacher Training 100-hour module is fully inclusive of the training program, all practical sessions and lectures, as well as the full facilities of Samahita Retreat, guest rooms of your choice, and all buffet meals and drinks.
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