YOGA TEACHER TRAINING EXAM ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2024-2025
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION
What is the gurukula system? Ans✔✔- Tradition in ancient india for students to live in ashram
from the age of 8 for 12 yearsto learn yoga.
What are the main points of swami Sivananda's life? Ans ✔✔- Medical doctor serving in
Malaysia
1932 Sivananda ashram rishikesh
1936 Divine life society
1948 yoga Vedanta forest academy
What's was swami Sivananda's main teaching? Ans ✔✔- The yoga of synthesis. Serve love
give purify meditate realize
What are the main points of swami vishnudevananda's life? Ans ✔✔- Army, rishikesh, west
First Sivananda yoga Vedanta center in Montreal
1962 Sivananda ashram yoga camp
1967 Sivananda yoga retreat in Nassau
1969 True world order
First TTC in 1969
1971 peace mission round the world
1983 Berlin Wall
What is the purpose of the TTC? Ans✔✔- To train future leaders of humanity in inner peace
, What are the five points of yoga? Ans✔✔- Proper exercise-yoga asana
Proper breathing-pranayama
Proper relaxation-savasana
Proper diet-vegetarian/sattvic
Positive thinking and meditation- vedanta and dhyana
What are the four obstacles to the spiritual path? Ans ✔✔- Preconceived ideas: set
expectations that when not met, cause disharmony in your sadhana
Miscellaneous thoughts of ideas and duty: mind deprioritizes sadhana
Opposition from friends and family
Mind is unwilling to follow discipline
What is Brahman? Ans✔✔- ultimate reality
What is Atman? Ans✔✔- the self
What are the upadhis? Ans✔✔- Limiting adjuncts: body and mind.
What does bhagavad ghita mean? Ans✔✔- Song of god
Explain verse 18, chapter 4 Ans✔✔- Action in inaction: appears to be doing nothing, but the
mind is active
Inaction in action: state of the self realized yogi- unchanging self is inactive but the body and
mind are active
What is maya? Ans✔✔- Creative power of brahman
What is satchitananda? Ans✔✔- Existence pure consciousness and bliss absolute