The most affordable 200 hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh at Rishikesh Nath Yogshala costs $440 all-inclusive in the dormitory tier, $880 for a twin-shared room and $1,100 for a private room. It runs 22 days, residential, starting 5th & 15th monthly, and is Yoga Alliance certified. The price covers accommodation, three sattvic meals a day, study material, weekend excursions and certification — there are no hidden charges.
Rishikesh Nath Yogshala runs a 200 hour yoga teacher training in a school on the northern edge of Laxman Jhula, on the bank of the Ganga where the town of Rishikesh gives way to forest and hill. The training is for two kinds of student: the practitioner who has kept a home practice going for a while and now wants the structure, the anatomy and the confidence to teach it to others, and the person who loves yoga enough to want to understand it properly before they ever stand in front of a class. Neither has to arrive with a certificate already in hand. What matters more is a willingness to show up early in the morning for weeks in a row and keep showing up.
The school takes its name from the Nath sampradaya, the lineage of Himalayan yogis associated with Guru Gorakhnath, whose teachings on breath, posture and the subtler workings of the body run underneath much of what is taught today as hatha yoga. You will not find that history taught as a museum piece here. It shows up in how the asana classes are sequenced, in the emphasis on pranayama and the purification practices known as shatkarma, and in the philosophy classes that connect the physical practice back to where it came from. Ashtanga, Vinyasa flow and Iyengar-influenced alignment work sit alongside the Hatha foundation, so a graduate leaves able to teach more than one style convincingly, not just one sequence memorised for an exam.
There is also a simpler idea behind this page, worth stating plainly: you should not have to break the bank to train as a yoga teacher. Rishikesh Nath Yogshala runs on one honest price, with no discount gimmicks and no surprise fees on arrival. What that price includes is set out in full below, and the exact fee, dates and next available batch are shown further down this page. What follows here is what the training actually contains, module by module, day by day, so you can decide for yourself whether it is the right fit before you book.
Here is exactly what your course fee covers at Rishikesh Nath Yogshala, item by item, so there is nothing left to guess at once you have arrived.
| Included in the course fee | Not included in the course fee |
|---|---|
| Free pickup from Dehradun (DED) airport on arrival | SIM card, phone data or personal calls |
| Shared or private accommodation for the full residency | Visa costs and any visa service fees |
| Three sattvic meals a day, plus herbal tea | Flights to and from India |
| Filtered drinking water throughout your stay | Travel insurance |
| Course manual and printed study materials | Extra nights before the course starts or after it ends |
| A weekend excursion into the Himalayan foothills | Optional excursions outside the included itinerary |
| A guided visit to the Ganga aarti | Additional spa or wellness treatments beyond the included massage |
| One ayurvedic massage during the training | Personal dry cleaning beyond regular laundry access |
| Wifi and laundry access | Postage for a physical copy of your certificate |
| Your Yoga Alliance-recognised certificate on completion | |
Free pickup from Dehradun airport is included with every residential course on arrival; ask the school about return drop-off when you book.
The fee is one number, quoted before you book, and it stays that number. There is no seasonal discount code that quietly means someone else already paid less, and there is no line item that appears only after you have landed in Rishikesh with nowhere else to stay. You should not have to break the bank to train as a yoga teacher, and you should not have to negotiate to find out what you are actually paying for. The exact fee, along with the current batch dates, is shown further down this page.
The 200 hour training at Rishikesh Nath Yogshala is deliberately multistyle. Rather than certifying you in one narrow lineage and leaving you to work out the rest on your own, the curriculum moves you through Hatha, Ashtanga, Vinyasa and Iyengar-influenced alignment work inside the same residency, with Yin and restorative practice folded in alongside the more active styles. The aim is a graduate who can walk into a general studio class, a gentle beginners' class or a faster flow class and teach all three competently, because a multi style foundation is what most studios are actually hiring for. Below is what each module covers.
Hatha is the foundation the rest of the training builds on: joint-freeing warm-ups, standing and seated postures, backbends and forward bends, and the alignment principles that make each pose safe to hold and safe to adjust. You will spend more time in Hatha classes than in any other single style, because the cueing language you learn here, how to bring a student into a pose, how to read whether their alignment is safe, how to bring them out of it again, is the language you reuse when you teach every other style on this list.
Ashtanga classes work through the primary series: the standing sequence, the seated postures that follow it, and the finishing sequence, led at a pace that matches where the group actually is rather than where a syllabus says they should be. You will practise it enough times to feel its internal logic, the vinyasa count that links one posture to the next, and understand why a set sequence practised daily is such a different teaching tool from an improvised class.
Where Ashtanga hands you a fixed sequence, Vinyasa hands you a set of principles for building your own: how to move breath and movement together, how to build heat and intensity across a class and bring it back down before savasana, and how to sequence toward a peak posture without the class feeling like a random string of poses. This is the module most directly useful if you plan to teach flow classes in a studio setting.
Alignment work draws on the Iyengar tradition's precision, using blocks, straps and bolsters to let a student feel a posture correctly before attempting it unsupported. You learn to use props as teaching tools rather than as a concession to weakness, useful for beginners, for injury modification, and for advanced students refining a pose they have practised for years.
Not every class needs to be active to be useful. Yin and restorative practice, long-held, passive postures that work into connective tissue rather than muscle, supported by props and stillness, rounds out the multistyle training so you leave able to teach a slow, quiet class as competently as a fast one, and understand why a body sometimes needs the slow class more than the fast one.
Pranayama is breath as a practice in its own right, not just a warm-up for asana. You learn the major pranayama techniques and their effects, alongside shatkarma, the traditional Hatha Yoga Pradipika purification practices such as jal neti and kunjal, taught with the care and hygiene they require. This module sits at the heart of the school's Nath lineage roots.
Daily mantra chanting, opening chants, Om, the Gayatri mantra, Patanjali's invocation, sits alongside seated and guided meditation practice, taught by Swami Anand. You do not need a singing voice or a religious background to take part; you need a willingness to make an unfamiliar sound out loud in a room with other beginners, which is most of what makes this module useful later, when you have to do the same as a teacher.
Philosophy classes work through Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and relevant sections of the Bhagavad Gita, taught by Rahul Badoni, the school's co-founder. The aim is not to memorise Sanskrit terms for an exam but to understand the framework the physical practice sits inside, so that when a student asks you why yoga is more than exercise, you have an answer that goes deeper than a slogan.
Anatomy classes cover the skeletal, muscular, circulatory, nervous and respiratory systems as they relate directly to asana: which joints are moving in a given posture, which muscles are working and which are lengthening, and where a student is most likely to get hurt if a posture is rushed or forced. This is the module that turns "hold this pose" into "hold this pose safely."
This is where everything else in the training becomes teachable. You learn how to plan and run a class from the first minute to the last, classroom management, verbal cueing, hands-on adjustment, and how to modify a posture for a student with an injury or a physical limitation, led by Mayuri Shewale, the school's founder and lead teacher and an E-RYT 500 with Yoga Alliance.
You will teach. Not once, in a token slot at the end of the course, but repeatedly, to your fellow trainees, under supervision and with feedback each time, so that the first real class you teach after you leave Rishikesh is not actually your first class.
Every module above is taught by one of the school's named core teachers. Meet the full team, including Mayuri Shewale, Rahul Badoni and Swami Anand, on the teachers page.
The training runs on a fixed daily rhythm because a fixed rhythm is itself part of what you are here to learn. Most of what makes an asana or a pranayama practice work is showing up for it at the same hour, every day, whether or not you feel like it that morning. Sunday is the day off, and most students use it to sleep in, explore Rishikesh, or simply sit by the river and do nothing in particular, which after a run of early starts is its own kind of practice.
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 05:30 | Wake up |
| 06:00 | Herbal tea |
| 06:30 | Hatha yoga practice |
| 08:00 | Pranayama and shatkarma |
| 09:00 | Breakfast |
| 10:30 | Anatomy, mantra or teaching methodology, rotating through the week |
| 11:30 | Tea break |
| 11:45 | Teaching methodology or anatomy |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 15:30 | Yoga philosophy |
| 16:00 | Tea break |
| 16:30 | Ashtanga or Vinyasa practice |
| 18:00 | Meditation or yoga nidra |
| 19:30 | Dinner |
| 21:00 | Lights out |
Sound healing is not an add-on at Rishikesh Nath Yogshala; it is part of the 200 hour training itself. Sessions with singing bowls are built into the schedule, and you experience sound as both a personal practice, what it feels like to lie in savasana while a bowl is played around you, and as a teaching tool you can bring into your own classes once you are certified.
For students who want to go further, the school also runs a separate sound healing program structured across three progressive levels, for those who want a specialisation beyond what the 200 hour training covers. You do not need to take that program to get the sound healing content inside this course. It is already included in what you pay for the 200 hour training, at no extra cost and with nothing to upgrade to during the residency itself.
Accommodation is on-site, in separate dormitories for men and women, priced exactly the same regardless of which one you are staying in. Nobody pays more or less based on gender, and nobody is mixed into a dorm they did not choose. Rooms are simple and clean, with the basics you need for a residential course. Full room layouts, including bathroom arrangements, are shown on the food and accommodation page. Wifi covers the school, and there is a laundry service on-site, so you are not hand-washing yoga clothes in a sink after a full day of practice.
Food is three sattvic meals a day, vegetarian, prepared in the school's own kitchen, with herbal tea served between meals and filtered drinking water available at all times. Sattvic food, in the yogic sense, means simple, fresh and easy to digest, not seasoned to numb the palate, and not heavy enough to make an early pranayama class miserable the next morning. If you have a genuine allergy or dietary restriction, raise it with the school before you arrive so the kitchen can plan around it.
A full walkthrough of the rooms, the kitchen and what a typical day of meals looks like, with photos, is on the food and accommodation page.
Rishikesh Nath Yogshala is a Registered Yoga School at the 200 hour level (RYS 200) with Yoga Alliance, the international body most studios and employers check against when they hire a yoga teacher. Completing the training and meeting the attendance and practicum requirements earns you a certificate from the school itself, which is what most graduates use to start teaching.
If you want the credential to show up on Yoga Alliance's own registry as a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200), that is a separate step you take yourself, directly with Yoga Alliance, after you finish the course. It involves creating a profile on their site, submitting your completion certificate, and paying Yoga Alliance's own registration fee. That fee belongs to Yoga Alliance, not to the school, and it is not part of what you pay Rishikesh Nath Yogshala for the training. Plenty of working yoga teachers never register with Yoga Alliance at all and teach professionally on their school certificate alone; others register because a specific studio or insurer requires it. Either way, the choice and the paperwork are yours to make after you graduate, not a condition of finishing the course.
For graduates who want to keep going, the natural next step is the 300 hour yoga teacher training, which builds on this course rather than repeating it, and is the second half of the path toward a 500 hour registration. There is no obligation to continue, and no pressure while you are here to sign up for the next course before you have finished this one. But if teaching is where this is heading for you, it helps to know the next step exists and what it builds on.
The nearest airport is Dehradun (DED), Jolly Grant Airport, which has direct flights from Delhi and a handful of other Indian cities. From Dehradun, Rishikesh is a straightforward taxi ride, and the school can help arrange transport if you share your flight details ahead of time. If you are travelling by train rather than flying the whole way, the nearest railhead is Haridwar, which has far better long-distance rail connections than Rishikesh itself and is a short drive from the school.
Plan to arrive the day before your batch begins, not the morning it starts. Flights get delayed, trains run late, and arriving with a buffer day means your first day of class is not also your first hours in the country. Most nationalities can apply for an Indian e-Visa online in advance; requirements and eligible countries change, so check the current rules for your passport well before you book flights rather than assuming a previous trip's rules still apply.
What to pack: comfortable, modest clothing you can move in for asana practice, since Rishikesh is a spiritual town and how you dress around the school and its temples matters more than it might at a yoga studio back home, a light jacket for cooler mornings and evenings, a reusable water bottle, and any personal medication you take, since finding a specific foreign brand locally is not guaranteed. A yoga mat is useful to bring if you already have one you like; check with the school ahead of arrival about what is provided.
Rishikesh sits at the base of the Himalayan foothills, and the weather shifts noticeably by season, so pack for the season you are actually training in. In spring and autumn, light daytime layers plus the light jacket already on your packing list for early mornings are enough. In summer, prioritise breathable, quick-dry clothing for the day, but keep that jacket on hand: the 5:30 start is cooler than the afternoon heat suggests. In winter, add a proper warm jacket, closed shoes and a thermal layer or two for the pre-dawn walk to the shala, since the cold surprises visitors who picture Rishikesh as tropical year-round. Whichever season you train in, clothing you can layer will serve you better than a single-weight wardrobe, because mornings and afternoons in the same day can differ sharply.
You do not need a prior yoga certification to join this training, and you do not need to already manage advanced postures. What the course does assume is that you have kept some kind of regular practice going for at least a few months beforehand, even a modest one, so that your body has some familiarity with sitting cross-legged for an extended period, holding a plank, and moving through sun salutations before the training asks you to do all three daily and analyse how to teach them.
If you have never practised yoga at all, or only tried it a handful of times, consider the 100 hour foundation course first. It is not a lesser version of this training; it is a shorter, gentler entry point built for exactly that starting position, and it gives you the base this 200 hour course is designed to build on.
Be realistic about the physical demand. Most days involve two full asana sessions on top of seated study, and by the second week your body will be tired in ways a single weekly studio class never makes you tired. This is not a wellness holiday with yoga attached to it. It is a training, with attendance requirements and a practicum you have to complete to graduate. Students who get the most out of it are the ones who arrive expecting structure and discipline, not a spa.
All classes are taught in English, and that includes the philosophy and anatomy lectures as well as the asana sessions. The training assumes a working conversational level of English, since so much of teaching methodology depends on precise verbal cueing. For students more comfortable in Spanish, Spanish-speaking support is available on request; let the school know when you enquire or book so they can arrange it ahead of your arrival, rather than trying to sort it out on your first morning.
Trainees come from a range of countries and backgrounds, and the school is used to hosting a genuinely international group in every batch. If you have a specific language or communication need beyond English or Spanish, ask before you book. The school would rather know in advance than have you discover a gap once you have already arrived.
No formal certification is required, but you should have kept some kind of regular yoga practice going for a few months before you arrive. If you are a complete beginner, look at the 100 hour foundation course first. It is built for exactly that starting point.
Accommodation for the full residency, three sattvic meals a day plus herbal tea, filtered drinking water, your course manual and printed materials, a weekend Himalayan excursion, a guided Ganga aarti visit, one ayurvedic massage, wifi, laundry access and your Yoga Alliance-recognised certificate on completion. What is billed separately is listed in the table above.
Rishikesh Nath Yogshala is a Registered Yoga School at the 200 hour level (RYS 200) with Yoga Alliance. Your school certificate is what most graduates use to start teaching; registering yourself as an RYT-200 on Yoga Alliance's own registry is a separate, optional step you take directly with them afterward.
It means the training does not certify you in a single narrow style and leave you to work out the rest yourself. You practise and learn to teach Hatha, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Iyengar-influenced alignment work, and Yin and restorative yoga inside the same 200 hours, so you graduate able to teach more than one kind of class.
The nearest airport is Dehradun (DED), Jolly Grant Airport. If you are arriving by train instead, the nearest railhead is Haridwar, which has stronger long-distance rail connections than Rishikesh itself.
No. Men and women stay in separate dormitories, and both are priced exactly the same. Nobody pays more to be housed separately.
Yes. Sound healing sessions with singing bowls are built into the 200 hour schedule at no extra cost. A separate, more advanced sound healing program across three progressive levels is available for students who want to specialise further after this course.
All classes are taught in English, and a working conversational level is assumed. If you are more comfortable in Spanish, Spanish-speaking support is available on request. Mention it when you enquire or book so the school can arrange it in advance.
Training runs on a fixed schedule six days a week, from an early wake-up through asana, pranayama, lecture blocks and an evening meditation or yoga nidra session, with Sunday off. The full timetable is set out in the day-in-the-shala table above.
You can book directly through the school's booking page, where the current deposit amount, payment options and next available batch are shown. If you have questions before committing, the general FAQ page and the teachers page are both good places to look, or you can reach out to the school directly.
22 days · 5th & 15th monthly · all-inclusive of accommodation, three sattvic meals a day, study material, weekend excursions and Yoga Alliance certification.
| Batch dates | Dorm | Twin shared | Private |
|---|---|---|---|
| Batch dates5 – 26 October 2026Filling fast | Dorm$440 | Twin shared$880 | Private$1,100 |
| Batch dates15 October – 5 November 2026Limited seats | Dorm$440 | Twin shared$880 | Private$1,100 |
| Batch dates5 – 26 November 2026 | Dorm$440 | Twin shared$880 | Private$1,100 |
| Batch dates15 November – 6 December 2026 | Dorm$440 | Twin shared$880 | Private$1,100 |
| Batch dates5 – 26 December 2026 | Dorm$440 | Twin shared$880 | Private$1,100 |
| Batch dates15 December – 5 January 2027 | Dorm$440 | Twin shared$880 | Private$1,100 |
Men and women have separate dormitories at the same price. A small deposit reserves your place; the balance is payable by PayPal or in cash on arrival.
Founder & Lead Yoga Teacher
Mayuri Shewale is the heart and soul of Rishikesh Nath Yogshala, bringing over 15 years of dedicated teaching experience to every class. As the founder and lead teacher, she has guided thousands of students from around the world through transformative yoga journeys that extend far beyond the mat.
Co-Founder & Philosophy Teacher
Rahul Badoni brings a rich understanding of yoga philosophy and ancient wisdom to Rishikesh Nath Yogshala. With over 12 years of dedicated practice and teaching, Rahul specializes in the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of yoga, helping students understand not just the physical practice, but the deeper purpose behind it.
Aerial Yoga Specialist
Priya Sharma is our resident aerial yoga specialist, bringing creativity, playfulness, and expert technique to the practice of yoga in hammocks. With extensive training in both traditional yoga and aerial arts, Priya has developed a unique teaching style that combines strength, flexibility, grace, and fun.
Meditation Master
Swami Anand brings over 20 years of dedicated meditation practice and teaching to Rishikesh Nath Yogshala. Having spent years in ashrams and meditation centers across India, Swami Anand offers students authentic guidance in the art of meditation, pranayama (breathing techniques), and inner awareness.
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