I was here for the July-August teacher training. I want to make it very clear that the teachers and resident hotel staff are all good people, who made my experience, overall, a positive one. Without the teachers and hotel staff, this teacher training would be awful. ||||However I want to warn other people of what this school is actually like - ||||1) there was no A/C in the yoga rooms, as advertised on their website.||2) the toilets in the school were regularly broken.||3) half of the students were put in terrible accommodation, totally different to that advertised on their website.||4) the meals, whilst prepared every day by a team of incredibly kind and hard-working kitchen staff, is by no means Ayuverdic and is hugely restricted in terms of ingredients, contrary to what is (or was) advertised on their website.||5) there were no Sunday excursions until we forcefully complained, and then suddenly we were offered a morning trip to a cave, that was simply, a cave.||6) the wiFi is completely unreliable and doesn't support anything more than occasionally messaging people - emails and websites do not load, and don't even think about trying to Skype call (or similar) your people back home.||||Half way through our course, people were so unhappy that we demanded to see the owner - it took three days for him actually to show up (he disappears after the first few days of each batch 'on family business') - so that we could voice our complaints. He was wholly unapologetic and had an answer for any of our comments, essentially that the website FAQs cover all of the above in some way or another. For the students in the horrendous accommodation, the offer to move and find accommodation themselves was all that was offered. For the rest of the students, no compensation of any kind was given, not even a sincere apology by the school owner.||||After this 'meeting' suddenly the school was cleaned daily (before then it was rarely cleaned), the awful accommodation was suddenly in the process of being renovated, the AC systems were 'looked at' (to no positive effect), and a technician came to check the wiFi (again, to no positive effect). And I'm sure the claims on the website have been changed to cover his back.||||I could go on, but it's boring me wasting my time on someone like this man. In short, BE WARNED. If you choose this school, do not expect ANY of what the website advertises. You must be prepared to really make the best of the situation yourself. I would strongly recommend checking out other schools - they are not the only school in Rishikesh that offers vinyasa TT. ||||And if you've already signed up and paid, don't worry - the teachers are an amazing team, just focus on them and the positivity they...
Read moreWhile my YTT course provided me with life long friendships, and with valuable knowledge, I would not recommend this school to any of my friends. I want to make it clear that the teachers were outstanding, as well as the staff. However, the owner is one of the most unprofessional persons I have ever dealt with. The school's website is full of lies. The change their website constantly, due to all the complaints that they get from the students. For the price of the course I was expecting much more than what I got. I talked to students from other schools (who were paying almost half of the price) who were given A/C private rooms, working Wifi, a balance diet, and excellent training. The room that I was given had had a fan that only worked half of the time (in the middle of an extremely hot summer), broken bathroom, no Wifi. ||Even after complaining to the owner, no apologies were given. He should not own a school, as he does not care about the students.Sadly, the negative experience that I had with the owner makes me feel like I was robbed, lied to, and taken advantage of. Do not believe anything that is on their website, and do you research into other schools. There IS another school in Rishikesh that offers vinyasa training, and I have heard great things about it.||||While I got to learn a lot, and met amazing people, as a student who saved for years to be able to afford this, it saddens me that an owner of a yoga school could treat his students the way...
Read moreWent there for 200 RYT, terrible experience. ||Good location but that's it. Dirty, noisy, a total scam for the money you pay. Here's a great example of judging the book by the cover. Fantastic web site that changes every now and then from the review of the students staying there to fit the market for western people. You can send mail the the owner of questions and the answers will lur you in that it's all good and fine.||When confronting the maneger and owner of the place when you arrive and about false marketing, about yogic food and clean environment all you get is a laugh or aggressive answers making you uncomfortable. ||I would say this is the flip side of the coin, a total scam, underpaid yoga teachers that try the very best of lifting the school up. Also for the staff that works there 24/7. This school is well known in Rishikesh an by that in not a good sense. For seeking the spiritual greatness of yoga this is not the place to go nor to stay at.||Students got sick and there was a shuttle to the hospital were the staff was well known. Still weeks later I'm on probiotics.I will take this to life experience as one of the worst traveling experience ever, sad and amazed of the greed in...
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