behind Police Station, Laxman Jhula, Rishikesh, Jonk, Uttarakhand 249302, India
Up to 20 in group
29 Days Package (28 nights)
About this Retreat
Dr. Hemlata's teaching sits between classical Hatha Yoga and a more healing-focused approach. Over more than 10 years, she has developed a way of teaching that treats alignment and breath not just as technical details to get right, but as tools that can genuinely help students feel better in their bodies.
Her classes are built around this idea. A student might come in expecting a normal Hatha class and find that she pays close attention to how a pose is held, adjusting it not for looks, but for what will actually support that person's body. Breathwork runs alongside this, since she treats the breath as just as important to healing as the poses themselves.
What tends to bring students to her is her gentle, careful manner. She isn't the kind of teacher who pushes students toward harder poses just for the sake of it. Her focus stays on what will actually help someone, whether that's recovering from an injury, easing tension, or simply building a practice that feels sustainable, not tiring. That care, paired with real warmth, has made her someone students come to trust, especially those who come to yoga looking for healing as much as strength.
If you're dealing with physical limits, an old injury, or a body that needs a slower approach than a typical class offers, Dr. Hemlata's healing background and her 10-plus years of teaching make her a calm, reassuring guide.
Maa Haripriya's path to Samadhi Yoga Ashram started far from India. She was born in the UK to an Indian family, and later moved to India to study yoga deeply, training for years before qualifying as a Kundalini Yoga teacher.
What makes her classes stand out is how she brings different practices together. Kundalini yoga is the base of her teaching, but she also brings in Sound Healing, Cacao Rituals, and Reiki, using them to support the Kundalini work rather than as separate activities. In one class, you might move through breath and movement, then later relax to the sound of a singing bowl.
This comes from more than 10 years of study across Kundalini, Tantra and Pranayama. She treats Kundalini not as one fixed method, but as an energy practice that can be supported with sound, touch, and ritual, depending on what a student needs on a given day.
Her classes tend to feel warm and personal, more like being guided than simply instructed. Her years abroad and her years of study in India both come through in the way she teaches. She moves easily between different traditions without losing sight of what matters most: helping each student reconnect with their own energy, with real care and skill.
Long before Yogi Vishnu Panigrahi ever taught a class, he was growing up beside a Radha-Krishna temple that his grandfather had built in western Odisha. Born into a Brahmin family, he spent his early years around that temple, serving the sadhus who passed through it, and it was there that his relationship with spiritual life began, long before he had a name for it. That upbringing later carried him into the Himalayan yogic tradition, where he studied for years under Swami Veda Bharati, himself a disciple of Swami Rama of the Himalayas.
Over the past 25 years, this early grounding has grown into a life spent almost entirely in service of others' spiritual growth. He now travels widely to teach yoga, meditation, and what he calls inner-faith, and remains closely involved at Samadhi Yoga Ashram, in Rishikesh and Bali, where he guides students who have come looking for something beyond a physical practice.
Swami Shiv Ji has spent more than twenty years studying and practising Vedanta philosophy, and that length of commitment shows in how comfortably he moves through material that can otherwise feel dense or distant to newcomers. His main focus is guiding students into the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita, two of the most significant texts in the Vedic tradition, and both notoriously difficult to approach without a skilled teacher.
What sets him apart is his particular gift for making these scriptures feel immediate rather than academic. It would be easy to teach the Upanishads as a history lesson or a set of philosophical positions to memorise, but that isn't his approach. Instead, he treats the wisdom in these texts as something students can actually apply and feel in their own lives, closing the distance between ancient scripture and a person sitting in front of him today.
Students who study Vedanta with him can expect classes that move slowly through ideas rather than rushing to cover ground. Concepts from the Gita or the Upanishads tend to get unpacked carefully, with time given to questions and reflection, since the goal isn't simply to finish a syllabus but to help students genuinely absorb what they're studying.
Dr. Sanjeev has built his teaching around one simple idea, taken seriously: breath, when properly understood, isn't just a warm-up for meditation, it's a doorway into it. Over more than 12 years, he has focused on advanced Pranayama and yogic breathwork, going well beyond the basic breathing exercises most students learn early on.
His classes are known for being careful and exact. Advanced Pranayama isn't something that can be rushed, and Dr. Sanjeev's teaching reflects that, with close attention paid to how each technique is taught and practiced. But being careful isn't the whole story, he also brings real patience, working with students at whatever pace their own breath and body need, instead of pushing everyone through the same steps at the same speed.
What students usually come away with is a new understanding of what breathwork can actually do. Instead of treating Pranayama as a separate skill, his sessions show how the breath connects directly to meditation and to a calmer, steadier mind overall. For students who've struggled to feel settled during sitting meditation, working through his advanced Pranayama methods often gives them a way in that meditation instruction alone hadn't.
His wider background in Yogic Science supports all of this, giving him the knowledge to explain not just how a technique works, but why it has the effect it does. If you're serious about deepening your breathwork, or curious what lies beyond the basic Pranayama taught in an intro class, Dr. Sanjeev's 12-plus years of focused study make him a genuinely advanced guide.
Since 2015, Yogi Naveen has been running Yoga Teacher Training courses, and in that time he has personally trained over a thousand teachers, in India and abroad. That's a big number, but it really means something: a thousand different students, each with their own questions and their own reasons for wanting to teach, all guided by him on their way to becoming teachers themselves.
His training backs this up. He holds a Master's degree in Yogic Science, a 500-hour Yoga Alliance USA certification, and he is also a certified Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga teacher trainer, a specialty that needs extra care and attention beyond regular yoga teaching.
In his classes, this shows up as a wide range of teaching, from the steady, basic work of Hatha to the more demanding flow of Ashtanga, with Prenatal Yoga as an area where his training runs especially deep. Students preparing to teach can expect him to focus not just on poses, but on how to actually run a class, how to plan it, guide it, and adjust it for different bodies and different stages of life.
Ashutosh Mishra grew up in Rishikesh, the town many people travel far to visit just to learn yoga. Because of this, yoga was never something far away for him, it was simply part of daily life. He later studied it formally too earning a Bachelor's degree in Yogic Science from the University of Patanjali and a Master's in Yoga Therapy from Uttarakhand Sanskrit University.
This mix of growing up around yoga and studying it in depth shows clearly in how he teaches. His classes follow a clear order, with each posture chosen to prepare the body for the next one, not placed randomly. Alignment matters a lot to him, and instead of giving the same correction to everyone in the room, he adjusts his guidance for each student's body, whether that means an old injury, tight hips, or just a different way of moving.
After more than 8 years of teaching, students can expect someone who treats Hatha Yoga as both a physical practice and a way to heal. He is not interested in pushing students into poses they aren't ready for. His focus is on building a practice that actually works for the body in front of him. If you deal with any physical limits, or simply want to understand your own alignment better, his background in yoga therapy makes him a steady and knowledgeable guide, shaped both by his training and by the town where he grew up.
For more than 20 years, Mandeep Bhatt has kept up a serious study of the Vedas, and that kind of long-term dedication shapes the way he thinks and teaches. He didn't come to yoga through the physical practice first, his path has run through scripture and study, and that scholarly base is what defines his teaching today.
In Samadhi Yoga Ashram's teacher training courses, he teaches Pranayama, Mantra, and Kundalini Yoga, three subjects that can easily feel too abstract or too mechanical, depending on how they're taught. Mandeep avoids both problems. His deep knowledge of scripture means he can explain why a mantra is built the way it is, or what a breathing technique is meant to do, according to the old texts, instead of teaching these practices as random exercises. At the same time, he keeps things practical, so students leave with something they can actually use, not just recite.
Trainees who study with him can expect a teacher who treats the Vedic tradition as living knowledge, not just history. He moves easily between explaining the reasoning behind a practice and guiding students through the practice itself, which makes his classes useful for anyone who wants to understand the "why" behind Kundalini work or chanting, not only the "how."
Yogi Sunil Bisht was taught by his own father from the age of four. It's an unusual thing to say about anyone, but it means his relationship with these practices isn't something he picked up later in life out of curiosity; it's simply how he grew up, absorbed the way a child absorbs a language spoken at home.
That early foundation only deepened as he got older. He went on to study at the Kriya Yoga Ashram, then at the Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy at Sivananda Ashram, and later at Kaivalyadham in Pune. Across them, he built a command not just of Hatha Yoga and Pranayama, but of Mudras, Bandhas, Mantra, Yoga Nidra, and Ayurveda.
In the room, this shows up as a calm, kind, and balanced way of teaching. He doesn't rush students through techniques, and his fifteen-plus years of practice come through in how unhurried his classes feel, even when covering demanding material like advanced Pranayama or Mantra work. Yoga Nidra sessions with him tend to be a highlight for students looking for deep rest rather than physical effort.
Because Ayurveda runs alongside his yoga training rather than as an afterthought, students can also expect guidance that considers diet, routine, and constitution, not just posture and breath. For anyone wanting a teacher whose knowledge was built slowly over an entire lifetime rather than assembled quickly, Yogi Sunil offers exactly that kind of grounded, patient instruction.
Details of this retreat
Samadhi Yoga Ashram offers a holistic and advanced 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh for practitioners who wish to deepen their personal practice, expand their teaching knowledge, and progress toward the *Yoga Alliance RYT 500* credential. The program builds upon the foundation of 200-hour training and takes students deeper into advanced asana, pranayama, meditation, yoga philosophy, anatomy, yoga therapy, and teaching methodology.
The training follows a multi-style, Ashtanga-based approach and combines intensive practical sessions with theoretical learning, self-study, reflection, and teaching practice. Students revisit the major pillars of yoga throughout the residential immersion, allowing them to develop greater depth, confidence, and understanding.
*Training Dates & Duration*
The 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training program starts on the *1st of every month* and is a *29-day residential training* in Rishikesh. The program is designed for intermediate to advanced practitioners and is intended for students who have already completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training or equivalent foundational training.
*The curriculum includes:*
• Advanced Hatha and Ashtanga Yoga practices
• Advanced asana techniques and sequencing
• Alignment, assistance and hands-on adjustments
• Advanced pranayama and breathwork
• Meditation and mindfulness practices
• Yoga Nidra
• Shatkarma and yogic cleansing practices
• Bandhas and energy locks
• Mudras and their applications
• Yoga anatomy and physiology
• Nadis, chakras, prana and subtle-body concepts
• Patanjali Yoga Sutras
• Bhagavad Gita
• Hatha Yoga Pradipika
• Sanskrit and chakra sounds
• Mantra and mantra healing
• Yoga therapy and therapeutic applications
• Yogic diet and natural healing
• Teaching methodology
• Demonstration and instruction techniques
• Advanced class planning and sequencing
• Communication and time management for teachers
• Practical teaching and assessment
• Self-study and reflective practice
The 300-hour program consists of *261 hours of classroom training and 39 hours of self-study*, completing a total of 300 hours.
*Residential Accommodation*
The program includes residential accommodation at Samadhi Yoga Ashram, allowing students to fully immerse themselves in an authentic yogic environment throughout the 29-day training. Private and shared accommodation options are available.
*Daily Sattvic Meals*
Students receive *three freshly prepared vegetarian sattvic meals every day*. The meals are designed to support intensive yoga practice and provide wholesome nourishment throughout the training. Vegan options are also available.
*Training Facilities & Inclusions*
The program includes yoga props and accessories, printed and digital study materials, weekly workshops, Neti equipment, excursions to local temples and places of interest, and complimentary pickup from Dehradun Airport. Students can also participate in activities such as sound healing, kirtan, and cultural experiences during their stay.
*Daily Yogic Schedule*
The daily routine combines meditation, pranayama, Ashtanga Vinyasa, anatomy, alignment and adjustment, self-study, yoga philosophy, Hatha Yoga, reflection, and evening community practices. Weekly sound healing and kirtan are also included, along with a Sunday excursion or free day. The schedule may vary depending on the season and weather.
*Certification*
Upon successful completion of the program, students receive a *300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training completion certificate from Samadhi Yoga Ashram*. When combined with a previous 200-hour qualification, the 300-hour training provides the pathway toward the *Yoga Alliance RYT 500 credential*.
*Who Can Join*
The program is intended for students who have already completed a *200-hour yoga teacher training or equivalent foundational training*. It is particularly suitable for experienced yoga teachers, practitioners wishing to deepen their practice, studio owners, trainers, and students interested in advanced yoga teaching, workshops, retreats, and yoga therapy.
The 29-day residential immersion provides an opportunity to study advanced yoga in the peaceful surroundings of Rishikesh, close to the Ganges and the Himalayan foothills, while experiencing traditional ashram life and Indian yogic culture.