What an eye-opening and meaningful experience! Personally I think that this is a course for everyone who loves yoga as it really helps widen and deepen my vision of what Yoga and Yoga Therapy is. I feel lucky and amazing that I had the chance to attend this course in Hong Kong. I learnt a lot of knowledge about the authentic Yoga Therapy from this comprehensive, scientific, theory-based yet pragmatic course. Masters are all very professional, incredibly knowledgeable, enthusiastic, passionate yet humorous and approachable. They created a very joyful learning atmosphere in the classes which made me forget the tiredness after work and be able to enjoy the 3-hour class every time.

The first part of the course (Nov-Dec) was really good and informative. The second part (Jan) could have been more structured, informative and condensed. The last part of the course involving the practical Yoga Therapy was very useful and effective.

I HAVE REALLY ENJOYED THIS COURSE. IT HAS OPENED ME TO SO MANY AREA OF KNOWLEDGE LIKE TRIDOSHA,MARMA POINTS,YOGA NIDRA ,CHAKRAS, DIET ASPECTS, AYURVAEDIC TREATMENTS,PHYSICAL STUDY OF BODY ANATOMY THEN LEARNING IN DEATAILS VARIOUS BODY AILMENTS, THERE CAUSES AND RELATING THEM TO ABOVE CONCEPTS TO TRY TO FIND A COMPREHENSIVE REHABILITATION YOGA THERAPY PROGRAM. MAY BE WE CAN HAVE SOME PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE OF DESIGNING AND APPLYING THE YOGA THERAPY TO A REAL LIFE SITUATION.

This course provides me a more broader understand about yoga and its principles. In addition to asana practice, the combination of meditation, pranayama, diet management and kriyas are essential to maintain a healthy live and can reach therapeutic goals. After this course, I can benefit from the knowledge learned myself and hopefully can share my experience with others to bring healthy live to those who has the will to pursue.

Overall I had a fantastic experience. I found the content appropriate and the teachers knowledgable and helpful. The front desk is very helpful and were always available to help with queries. Maybe a little more physical asana practise and less theory so that I can apply some of the modified asanas would be helpful but overall I am more than satisfied and would recommend this course to others.

It is amazing, enjoyable and rewarding during my yoga journey and teaching journey. Thanks for the support and kindness.

It's been a great learning experience. After I took my first 200-hr YTT in 2014 and started to teach part time, people started to ask me what they should do if they have different kind of conditions. At that time, I had no idea what to advise. This course has helped me in understanding my own anatomy and what and how to observe others. Although it is an introductory for common diseases and injuries, it helps me to understand more about how yoga therapy could help and what I could advise client and design a class specific for different types of condition.

This is my first TT program with Anahata and it's an eye opening experience for me. The course was well structured and had a good balance between theroy and practice. The part I enjoyed the most is the topic on marmas, and I will try and do more studies on it on my own. Sorry for the late submission of assignment, was occupied by work these days, many apoligies. Namaste!

I thought the course was useful by providing me with a better understanding of the body, it's muscular skeletal system and the ailments that a person can be diagnosed with and how to manage it with the practice of yoga therapy. It would have been even better if we could have spent more time on learning about Ayurvedic Medicine in more depth but I understand this a vast subject to cover in such a short amount of time.

The course is meaningful which teaches me a lot of knowledge about yoga therapy. I've found out that yoga therapy can help people with diseases. It also makes me know that practising yoga can change a people’s life and even their family member's.

Overall, the Advanced Practice teacher training was a tremendous growth experience for me, both physically (increased strength & flexibility) and mentally (improved confidence, courage & knowledge). I had reached a point in my personal practice where I was no longer progressing by going to group classes and wanted to learn how to take my practice to the next level. Additionally, I was interested in teaching professionally and wanted to get some experience to see if I would enjoy it and to see if I had the aptitude for it. I was pleased with the variety of postures we focused on throughout the course and the three hour class duration provided the opportunity to really open my body and try more challenging poses. This, coupled with the personal assistance given by the instructors and the knowledge I gained of the muscular anatomy helped me to learn not just which muscles to engage/relax when doing challenging postures, but also how to properly warm up the body and which neutralizing movements and counter-poses to do in order to prevent injury. I found the manuals to be extremely informative. They were instrumental during the course and will serve as an ongoing reference for my personal practice. The photographic sequence for the Warm Up and Steps provided a great visual guide to achieving certain postures and the related text helped to increase my knowledge of the anatomy involved with each pose, as well as the health benefits. As for the supplemental sections, Rope yoga was particularly useful in order to learn how to safely use the props to open the body and practicing the Kriyas was a great experience that seems important for anyone who wants to teach. Partner yoga was fun and probably good for future teachers to be aware of the practice, but I did not find it to be critical and would prefer to work on more individual poses, if I were to do the course over again. Minor suggestions for improvement include: highlighting which of the warm up poses is the eligibility pose, in the text you could suggest a counter pose, highlight risk of injury and add what the main challenge of the pose is, lastly page numbers would be great to save time in class. During the training my greatest challenge, as well as my greatest area of growth, came during the teaching exercises. I appreciated learning more about the anatomy for specific postures, which translated into a better understanding of how to get into the poses myself, as well as how to articulate to someone else how to do so. I was grateful for all the opportunities given throughout the course to practice assisting one another. Personally, I was nervous to lead the class and appreciated that we were eased into the experience over the three modules, starting with leading the chanting, teaching warm up, teaching two poses and ending by running 1/3 of a class. As someone interested in teaching, the more opportunities to practice, the better, if not to get over my nerves on the mat, then to figure out how to put together a comprehensive sequence for a full class. I know time is limited during the actual course, so Ive welcomed the opportunity to work with the Andiappan community. It has provided invaluable exposure to students and has allowed me to find my own voice and become more comfortable with my teaching style. The Teaching Methodology handout has been a helpful resource, providing general instructions on how to conduct oneself as a teacher and a detailed framework for how to structure a class. If you were able to expand on it and offer some sample sequences for classes that focused on back bending, forward bending, shoulders and upper back, hip and hamstring opening or inversions, Im sure future students would appreciate. Lastly, the single greatest value of the course came from Master Yogananth Andiappan. His personal practice is an inspiration and his guidance, wisdom and humility made him, as well as the advanced yoga postures, wholly accessible. I had complete confidence in his knowledge and ability to adjust me in such a way as to get into poses that seemed beyond my reach. Thank you for providing such an amazing experience.

IT WAS AN AMAZING JOURNEY TO FIND OUT THE LIMITATIONS OF OUR BODY AND HAVING THE PATIENCE, TO BUILD THE FLEXIBILITY AND STRENGTH. I LIKED THE INSTRUCTION FOR WARMUP OF ALL DIFFERENT MUSCLE GROUPS WITH ANATOMICAL EXPLANATION. ALSO THE ANATOMICAL REQUIREMENTS IN TERMS OF READINESS FOR APARTICULAR POSE AND WARM UPS DIRECTED TO THAT.

Comprehensive and authentic teacher training program. Namaste!

I could learn the yoga basics overall. Teachers are amazing and very satisfied about the class thank you!

IT WAS A NICE COMPREHENSIVE COURSE TO HAVE A BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF YOGA FROM ALL ANGLES LIKE ASANAS, ANATOMY AND SPIRITUAL CONNECTION,. LEARNING ABOUT VARIOUS YOGA SCHOOLS ,HISTORY OF YOGA, WAS A GOOD INTRODUCTION.

The more the course get into the details of yoga studying, the more there is to explore and learn. Master Yogananth was very patient and very clear in giving explanation which made learning easy and to understand. So is master Anurag. In summaries, I feel I have gained very good fundamental knowledge and authentic understanding of classical Indian yoga. Which I realise the Western approach of yoga is very different and some details are lost in translation. Thanks for the teaching. Namaste.

First of all, I enjoyed every classes thanks to all the qualified teachers. All the teachers were really committed to the class and teaching, and the class atmosphere was always quite professional and comfortable. Through this course, I found that not only my knowledge but also my interest have deepen through the course. Ive made a lot of highly motivational friends from the class also. That is also precious.

I really enjoyed this 2-month training at the Anahata Yoga Studio. I think I discovered the world of yoga and its link with the Indian culture. I believe that I improved my practical skills. I learnt new postures, their variations, their benefits to the body and mind, and the way to teach them. I explored a face of yoga, not well known in Western countries: the techniques of Pranayama, Meditation and more especially the Kriyas. I do appreciate the patience of the teachers. I thank them for having transmitted me their passion for this wonderful discipline.

Below is my feedback and learning experience: I have been practicing yoga since 2011 and suffered from low back pain for several years. I want to learn the correct alignment from yoga so that I took the 200hrs YTT at Anahata Yoga. From this course, I have deeply understood about many information of yoga anatomy, physiology, history, pranayama, mudra and asana. From the 30 hours group class practice, the back care class which were conducted by Master Vishnu, Nirmal and Mahesh were a great help to me. Thank you so much for the team of knowledgeable, experienced and professional masters teaching us yoga from the heart. I look forward to studying and practicing at Anahata Yoga again in the future. Namaste

It was an amazing experience, learning so much every single day of the Yoga Teacher Training Course from knowledgeable masters with a lifetime of experience. Learning at such a pleasant atmosphere, from an authentic source about both the theory and history of yoga was fascinating. As for the practical part, getting very hands-on instruction was great. I felt myself improve in my practice after the course. Despite having to work full-time during the course, with a busy schedule, the early mornings and late nights during the period of the course was worth it. Im beyond satisfied and happy that I decided to join the course and would like to join more teacher training courses in the future to deepen my knowledge and improve my yoga practice.

Although I have practised yoga for almost ten years, I have never experienced such an in-depth self-transformation as what I learned from yoga masters in the Anahata Yoga school. All yoga masters teaches my classmates and I with enthusiasm. They will answer what we queries and interested patiently during class or even after class in order to ensure we understand well. What I learned from the training is all individuals are unique physically and mentally. We should respect the uniqueness during the yoga practice. Hence, we shall never compare oneself with others. Try our best. We sometimes shall accept our limitation and let go if we have already do our best. I am delighted to meet professional yoga masters and supporting classmates during training course. Ending of this 200-hour training course marks the beginning of my next step of yoga journey. In order to advance my horizons in yoga learning, I have already signed up the coming Advanced Hatha Yoga teacher training course. Namaste

I have learnt a lot about different aspects of yoga (history, philosophy, physical, mental etc.) from this Teacher Training Program, and it has made me want to learn further more about yoga. All masters, Anurag, Yogananth, Vishnu, and Mahesh taught us with all their heart and much energy, they gave detailed explanations and answered every question patiently. The program is structured nicely with a well balanced mix of theory and practical. I really enjoyed going through the Program with my dear classmates. It was great synergy having classmates to learn, discuss, practice, and grow together.

This course allows me to establish a more solid foundation in my future practice of yoga. It is a very fruitful three months experience and I am very grateful to get to know a bunch of yoga lovers during this experience.

The course was informative and well structured. The course materials are useful and instructors are knowledgeable and responsive to the students needs. I enjoyed the course and it was a fruitful experience learning more about yoga.

The 200hr Yoga Teacher Training at Anahata was an experience that is truly enriching. During the first month that we discussed all theories, Masters Vishnu and Anurag both were very patient in explaining all the basic theories. After which, we discussed body anatomy, history of yoga, types of yoga, yogic literature, styles of yoga, the 8 limbs of Ashtanga yoga, pranayama, kriyas, mudras and bandas. We also discussed teaching techniques which was very helpful if we are to teach beginners yoga straight after the course. These information learned from all the theory classes are very helpful in attaining a deeper knowledge on my practice, but what I enjoyed learning about most were the different types of asanas, and how to teach them, from Master Yogananth. He was very patient in going through each asana in the module, having us do it first, and then teaching us how to teach the asana effectively to others. This module was also the main chunk of the course. Now that the course is finished, I am so thankful that I decided to finally go ahead with the course. I now have a holistic view of yoga, that it is indeed a way of life. My practice will never be the same again, as from before I started the course. I now view yoga as something that is part of me, a way of living that does not just deal with fitness or physical health, but also mental and spiritual health too. I would like to especially thank our teachers, Master Vishnu, Master Anurag- for being ever so patient with your teaching, and for sharing with us your stories, personal experiences, connecting with us and answering all our questions. And also to Master Mahesh, for helping out whenever he could. I enjoy his classes very much too. I would also like to give Master Yogananth the biggest thank you, because without his patience, and his contagious passion for yoga, this course would not have been so successful. Master Yogananth and his kindness of heart, lightness of being and sincere love for others, has really made me develop a deeper love for yoga. I will be recommending this course to other friends and family, and might even take another course in Anahata Yoga, HK. Truly worth it!