Rohit Yoga AcademyRohit Yoga Academy
30-Hour Live Online Training
Teach pranayama without guessing.
Learn pranayama as a complete, teachable discipline. Across twelve live sessions, study the classical practices in their source context, understand what the breath is actually doing physiologically, learn where retention becomes unsafe, and practise teaching with a teacher watching.
3 payments of $132 available · 14-day refund · Yoga Alliance CE hours
Why Pranayama Gets Skipped
Two minutes of breathing at the end of class, if there's time. A vague cue about breathing into the belly. Then back to the sequence you're confident in.
It isn't a discipline problem. Ask around and you'll find the same four things, everywhere:
You're not confident in your own practice. Hard to share something you're still unsure you're doing right yourself.
You don't know where it goes. Before asana? After? Its own segment? Nobody ever told you, so it ends up wherever there's a gap.
You've never been taught to cue it. Your 200-hour was mostly asana. Pranayama got a weekend, maybe an afternoon.
You're worried about hurting someone. Which is the correct instinct. Kapalabhati is contraindicated in more conditions than most teachers know, and you can't screen for what you can't name.
What you don't know, you avoid. And your students get a yoga class with the breath left out of it.
What Changes
How This Training Is Built
That's why the self-paced pranayama certifications didn't fix this, and why this training is built the opposite way round.
30-Hour Pranayama & Breathwork TTC
30live hours
$397
Loka Yoga (20-hr breathwork TT)
0live hours
$395
Typical online pranayama TTC
WeeklyQ&A only, no live teaching hours
$199–600
At $397 that's $13 per live contact hour with an E-RYT 500 in Rishikesh.
Course Curriculum
Practice-led training · 12 live sessions
Capacities You Build
Accuracy
Each practice as the source texts describe it, rather than as it has been passed along through repetition.
Physiology
Diaphragm mechanics, carbon dioxide tolerance and vagal influence, explained plainly and without exaggeration.
Judgement
When kumbhaka is appropriate, how to progress it, and when to hold a student back.
Safety
Condition-by-condition decision trees, and a clear line where your scope of practice ends.
Instruction
Where pranayama belongs in a class, how to cue it, and how to read a room while you teach it.
Discernment
How to evaluate a breathwork claim critically — useful in a field whose marketing runs some distance ahead of its research.
What You Will Learn
Knowing how to perform Nadi Shodhana is not the same as being able to teach it. A competent teacher understands the purpose of each stage, the effect of ratio and retention, the physiological reason a practice settles or stimulates, and the conditions under which a student should stop.
Course Curriculum
Prana and the vayus. Nadis. What the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Gheranda Samhita and Yoga Sutras actually say about breath. And the honest genealogy of pranayama versus modern breathwork — where it came from, what it added, what it dropped.
Diaphragm mechanics. The Bohr effect and why CO₂ drives the urge to breathe. Vagal tone. Why extended exhalation settles — the mechanism, in language you can use with a student. Plus how to read a breathwork claim critically, because the field runs well ahead of its evidence.
Assessing someone else's seat, not just your own. Prop height, chairs, kneeling. Jala neti. Bandhas and mudras, with contraindications.
Every technique taught as: mechanism → source → how to practise → how to teach → contraindications → common errors. Nadi Shodhana, Bhramari, Kapalabhati, Bhastrika, Sheetali, Ujjayi, Viloma, Surya and Chandra Bhedana, and the modern set — box breathing, coherent breathing, the physiological sigh.
1:4:2 or 1:2:2 or 1:1:2? You'll leave with a written progression protocol — weeks per stage, and a readiness test for each. Plus the harder skill: assessing whether a student is ready for retention, and spotting from the outside what they can't feel from the inside.
Decision trees by condition: hypertension, cardiac, pregnancy by trimester, glaucoma, epilepsy, asthma, hernia, post-surgical, panic and PTSD. How to screen. How to manage hyperventilation, tetany, syncope, emotional release. Trauma-informed language. And where your scope of practice ends.
Where pranayama goes in a 60-minute class. Sequencing it into asana rather than bolting it on. Cueing language and why every cue needs a why. Reading a room from the front. Managing a student who reacts. Building a studio series. Plus the live practicum.
Ethics, waivers, insurance, pricing your own workshops, pitching a series to a studio.
Included
Dates and Commitment
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30–8:30 pm IST, six weeks.
| Rishikesh | London | Berlin | New York | Dubai |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:30 pm | 2:00 pm | 3:00 pm | 9:00 am | 5:00 pm |
Weekly commitment: 4 hours live, roughly 2 hours independent practice and assignments.
Miss a session? Every session is recorded. You need 80% attendance to certify, so you can miss two.
Health and Adaptation
Everyone completes a health screening at enrolment, and Tara reviews every one personally before Week 1.
Some students need permanent modifications to the forceful and retention practices — pregnancy, hypertension, glaucoma, epilepsy and others.
You can still complete the training and certify. A teacher who can't personally perform bhastrika can still teach it competently and safely, and this training is built to get you there. Tara will email you before we start to work out exactly how.
Your Teacher
E-RYT 500 · M.A. Yoga · Rishikesh
Tara teaches pranayama for Rohit Yoga Academy. Alongside the E-RYT 500, he holds a Master's degree in Yoga — meaning his training is in the tradition itself rather than a method invented on top of it.
That distinction matters more than it sounds. The best-known breathwork certifications on the market cost between $1,000 and $8,000 and are largely built on proprietary trademarked systems. This training teaches the source material.
Student Experiences
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Who This Training Is For
Yoga teachers of any lineage who want to teach breath properly. No RYT required — this is continuing education, not a foundational training.
200-hour graduates filling the gap left by a training that covered pranayama in an afternoon.
Serious practitioners with an established daily practice who want depth, whether or not they ever teach.
Looking for RYT-200 or RYT-500? This isn't that. It's a 30-hour continuing education certificate. It won't qualify you to run a teacher training.
Want cathartic, emotional-release breathwork? Different practice, different aims. We teach the traditional material and name clearly where our scope ends.
Complete beginner? Start with Seven Days of Breath — free, one week.
In Australia or on the US West Coast? 6:30 pm IST is the middle of your night. Join the waitlist for the morning-IST cohort instead.
Certification
Learning to teach pranayama begins with practising it under supervision. Throughout the training you'll practise between sessions, observe how ratio and retention affect you over weeks rather than minutes, and bring what you notice back to the group.
That personal foundation is what makes the teaching credible. The objective isn't to imitate your teacher's cueing or reproduce a fixed sequence. It's to understand the practice well enough to make sound decisions in front of a student you've just met.
Students who complete the requirements receive a 30-hour Certificate of Completion from Rohit Yoga Academy, eligible for 30 Yoga Alliance continuing education hours — the full three-year requirement.
This is a specialised continuing-education course. It doesn't replace a foundational 200-hour qualification, and it doesn't qualify participants to provide medical, psychological or respiratory-therapy services.
Join the Waitlist
20 seats. Or 3 payments of $132.
Includes everything above, plus your seat at The Breath Reset workshop, lifetime access, and a free retake of any future cohort.
Zero risk — 14 days from the first session. If it isn't what you needed, email and we'll refund you. No form, no questions.
FAQ
No. Serious practitioners are welcome. It's continuing education, not a foundational training.
30 — which covers an RYT's full three-year Yoga Alliance requirement.
All 30 hours are taught live on Zoom.
No. It's a 30-hour CE certificate, not an RYS credential.
Everything is recorded. You need 80% attendance to certify — so you can miss two.
6:30 pm IST is the middle of your night. This cohort won't work for you, and I'd rather say so than take your money. A morning-IST cohort is planned — join the waitlist.
Quizzes with unlimited retakes, a practice log, a recorded teaching submission, and a final series design. Nobody fails — you resubmit after feedback.
4 hours live plus roughly 2 hours independent, weekly, for six weeks.
Yes, taught progressively, with contraindications treated as core material. You'll leave with a written progression protocol including a readiness test at each stage. A significant part of the training is learning when not to teach retention.
Twelve, written as word-for-word cueing rather than outlines. A starting point for your own teaching, not a substitute for understanding the material.
Yes — 3 monthly payments. Certificate issues once payment completes.
One free deferral to the next cohort if you ask before Week 2.
Then you won't do it. Screening comes first, and modifications are built in.
Yes, and you keep lifetime access. Your camera can stay off during recorded segments, and you can ask to be edited out of anything you appear in.
Join the Waitlist
You already know pranayama belongs in your classes. The only thing missing is someone to teach you to teach it — properly, safely, and with enough practice that you stop hesitating.
Six weeks. Thirty hours live. Your full CE requirement covered.
$397 (or 3 × $132) · 20 seats · 14-day refund