Last reviewed June 2026 by Lori Lowell, E-RYT 500, YACEP · Director, Drishti Beats School of Yoga
This training carries you from foundation to mastery, and prepares you not only to teach, but in time to lead and to mentor. It is educational, and it is not a substitute for medical care or physical therapy, for you or for the students you teach. It holds both the 200-hour foundation and the 300-hour advanced training, so you begin as a new teacher and finish eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as an RYT‑500, a step you complete yourself after you finish. Teaching at this level is a real responsibility, and we treat it that way through every step of the path.
Welcome to the complete journey.
This is the full 500-hour path, from your first day as a student to your work as a teacher. It holds the 200-hour foundation and the 300-hour advanced training as one continuous experience, and it leads to the RYT‑500, the highest level of registration Yoga Alliance offers.
You will begin by building your foundation, where you find your teaching voice and learn to guide others with clarity. Then you will go deeper, refining your craft, studying the classical texts and the subtle body, and learning to teach across styles. Twenty chapters in all, foundation to mastery, moving at your own pace, from wherever you are, and you will not walk it alone.
This path is for the person ready to go all the way, from their first pose to teaching classes of their own. You do not need any experience to begin. You need the willingness to commit to the whole journey, and to keep showing up for it.
When you are ready, take the first step.
From root to teacher.
Two trainings, taught as one journey. You build your foundation first, then you deepen it into artistry. The seven areas of study run through both stages, once to build you and once to master, across twenty chapters, from your first pose to teaching classes of your own.
Stage One: The 200-Hour Foundation
You start on the ground, building your base. You learn The Drishti Beats Method, where every posture begins with the breath, its name, and clear direction, and you find the teaching voice that is yours. You study the body and the breath, yoga philosophy and history, Sanskrit, pranayama and meditation, and the craft of sequencing that turns a class into an experience. This first stage follows our Six Layers of Learning across twelve chapters, and you finish it able to teach, and eligible to register as an RYT 200.
Stage Two: The 300-Hour Advanced Training
Then your foundation becomes artistry. You refine your sequencing across styles, from strong Vinyasa to Yin, Restorative, and Yoga Nidra, and you read the classical texts more closely, the Yoga Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Yamas and Niyamas. You learn the subtle body as something you can feel, work with sound and hands-on assisting, and take three advanced workshops in Yin, Restorative, and Inversions. This second stage follows our Eight Layers across eight chapters, and you finish eligible to register as an RYT 500, ready to teach advanced classes, lead workshops and retreats, and mentor teachers of your own.
Is this path for you?
We would rather you know before you enrol than discover it three weeks in. So here is the honest version, both sides of it.
This is for you if
- You want the whole path in one journey, from your first pose to teaching advanced classes of your own.
- You are beginning fresh, or you do not yet hold a Yoga Alliance 200-hour, and you want the full route to RYT 500.
- You want the highest training Yoga Alliance recognizes, and one day to lead your own workshops, retreats, and trainings.
- You learn best with mentors who know your name and a community that stays, not videos handed over and left behind.
- You are ready to be seen teaching and to grow through honest feedback, the whole way through.
This is not for you if
- You already hold a Yoga Alliance 200-hour certificate. You want the 300-hour advanced training, not the full path, so you do not pay for the foundation twice.
- You only want to start teaching and are not sure about the whole journey yet. Begin with the 200-hour foundation; you can always continue.
- You want the RYT 500 as fast and as quietly as possible, with no one watching your teaching.
- You are not ready to record yourself teaching and take honest feedback across the whole path.
- You want a fixed weekly schedule with set class times. The whole path is self-paced by design.
Self-paced but never alone.
The whole curriculum is yours on demand, to move through at your own pace. What you do not do is disappear into it. There is always a call to join, a mentor who knows your name, and a global community that does not close.
Most online trainings hand you videos and leave. The lectures and masterclasses here are available 24/7, so you study when it suits your life. But the part that makes you a teacher is the part where someone is paying attention, and that runs through every week of the training.
While you train, you are held four ways.
Weekly Gather Round calls
Every Thursday we gather live. Some weeks we flow together, some weeks we meditate, some weeks we talk philosophy or a student teaches. These are not classes. They are conversations, and they are your standing reminder that you are walking this path alongside real people.
One-on-one mentor sessions
Time set aside for you and a mentor alone, for personal feedback and guidance. You ask what you need to ask, and you are met where you are.
Live web chat
A chat service is built into the platform, and a real person answers. We believe yoga is human connection, so when you reach out, you reach us, not a bot.
The Drishti Sangha
Our private, global community, open to every student and graduate across all our trainings. It is where you introduce yourself, ask your questions, and find a dozen others who felt exactly what you are feeling. It does not close between Thursdays. Step inside the Sangha.
Two Gather Round calls, every Thursday, so wherever you are in the world one of them is yours.
Thursday · Midday · 12 PM EST
- New York · Thu 12 PM
- Los Angeles · Thu 9 AM
- London · Thu 5 PM
- Sydney · Fri 4 AM
Thursday · Evening · 7 PM EST
- New York · Thu 7 PM
- Los Angeles · Thu 4 PM
- London · Fri 12 AM
- Sydney · Fri 11 AM
Times shown are for US standard time and shift by an hour or two around daylight saving. Your dashboard always shows the next call in your own timezone.
The Gather Round calls stay open to graduates. The Sangha stays yours. The mentors stay reachable. The relationship was never built to end at the certificate, because a community that disappears the moment you finish was never really a community.
It also moves off the screen. We host immersive retreats in beautiful places, from Bali to Colorado to Europe, where students and teachers finally meet face to face, practice together, and celebrate in flow. You will find us performing live at festivals, bringing yoga and original music to the same stage. These are the moments people remember for years, and you are invited to them as part of this family, long after your training is done.
Not only did I feel like part of the family during my course, but since graduating, I have been in contact with the team and feel connected with them more than ever.
Meet the family.
You are not enrolling in a platform. You are studying with people who have taught this work for more than twenty-five years. On the calls, in the feedback, and in the community the whole way through.
Lead Trainers
Lori LowellLead Trainer · E-RYT 500 · YACEP
Lori is the lead teacher and curriculum voice of Drishti Beats, and a Yoga Alliance school Director. She has spent over twenty-five years teaching yoga, and every lecture, every flow, and every word of feedback in this training carries her voice. She built the way we teach here, where Sanskrit unfolds gently, where you grow from practitioner to artist, and where perfection is never the goal. When you record your first flow, hers is the response you will read. She believes teaching is learned by doing, and she will meet you exactly where you are.
Jeremy LowellLead Trainer · E-RYT 500 · Co-Founder
Jeremy is co-founder of Drishti Beats and Lori's husband of thirty-nine years. He is the reason this training sounds the way it does. Every piece of music you hear was originally composed in-house, written to guide breath, emotion, and rhythm, because we believe yoga and music are one creative language. Jeremy also built the platform you will learn on, designed from 2018 to connect students and mentors in real time. He brings the music, the art, and the steady hand behind everything that makes this school feel like a family rather than a course.
Your Teaching Team
What holds this school together is simple. It is a family. Three of your teachers grew up, or grew into, the same practice and the same music, and they meet you at specific points along the journey, in the masterclasses, in the practice of every chapter, and in the workshops that go deeper.
Ariel LowellE-RYT 500 · Masterclasses
Ariel leads the masterclasses — the deeper-dive sessions that sit alongside the core curriculum. When a subject calls for a teacher who lives inside it, Ariel is the voice that takes you further than the syllabus alone can, and shows you what mastery of a single practice looks like. She is Lori and Jeremy's daughter. She did not find this practice. She was raised inside it.
Alysia LowellE-RYT 500 · Practice & Workshops
Alysia is with you in the doing. She leads the practical practice in every chapter, where knowledge becomes movement in your own body, and she teaches both 200h and 300h masterclasses as well. She also guides the workshops that go deeper still: yin, restorative, and inversions, each one an invitation to slow down, open, or turn upside down under a teacher who has been there many times before. Alysia married into this family, and into its music and its practice. It is home to her now.
Asaf B. GoldfridE-RYT 500 · Platform Architect
Asaf appears throughout the training rather than in one place. As Platform Architect he also built and tends the experience you learn inside, so the technology stays quiet and the practice stays in front. He is the through-line who keeps the whole path connected, so there is always a familiar voice walking beside you.
Student voices
Not written testimonials. Real graduates, in their own words, talking honestly about what the training was actually like.
Arti · Ohio
On finding the yoga beneath the poses, and carrying it off the mat.
Stefan · London
A gymnast who came for the movement and stayed for the philosophy.
Chaz · Florida
On why he chose Drishti after comparing four trainings side by side.
Amparo · Argentina
Training at her own pace, in her second language, from across the world.
Begin the whole path
One honest price for the complete journey. The 200-hour foundation and the 300-hour advanced training bought separately come to $1,188. Taken together as one path, they are $897, a saving of $291. No countdown, no pressure, the same training either way.
Pay in full
$897
One payment. Lifetime access.
- The complete 500-hour path: the 200-hour foundation and the 300-hour advanced training
- Your route to registering with Yoga Alliance as an RYT 500
- Three advanced workshops, personal mentor feedback, and the Drishti Sangha for life
- $291 less than the foundation and advanced trainings bought separately ($1,188)
Payment plan
$149.50 / month
3 payments of $299, or 6 of $149.50. $897 total, the same price.
- Everything in the full-payment option, still $291 less than separately
- Spread across three or six equal payments
- Start today, at no extra cost to pay over time
- Lifetime access from the moment you begin
Your enrollment is protected. Begin the training, and if it is not the right path for you, request a full refund within seven days of registration. No forms to argue with, and no risk in beginning.