Yoga Teacher Training Certification

In order to ensure your first yoga job, you'll want to investigate yoga teacher training certification. Qualified instructors carry two different qualifications: certification is offered by a certified teacher training course, and registration is offered by the Yoga Alliance, where one registers as a Registered Yoga Teacher, or RYT. This registration is based on having completed a certified yoga course; therefore, completing a certified course is the first step to holding both certification and registration.

In order to start teaching yoga, you'll be required by most studios to have completed a yoga teacher training certification course. Such a course can be of the 200-hour or of the 500-hour variety, and the type of studio and the location of the studio will influence which number of hours are required, or desired, for the teachers at that school to have completed.

In a 200-hour course, students divide their time between five important aspects of yoga teaching:

1. Technique: Training and Practice: In this element, future teachers work on their yoga technique and practice their yoga skills with master teachers. Becoming a good yogi is the first element important to becoming a good yoga teacher.
2. Teaching Methodology: In addition to doing well with yoga asana practice, a certified yoga teacher should also be able to teach others how to do yoga well.
3. Philosophy: Lifestyle is important to yoga, and yoga teachers should understand and embody the yoga lifestyle and philosophy both inside and outside the yoga classroom.
4. Anatomy and Physiology: Like anyone else who works with the human body, anatomy and physiology are important concepts to understand. Yoga certified teachers complete a light anatomy course, but it is an essential part of teacher training.
5. Practice: Yoga teachers about to become certified through completion of a 200-hour training course are required to teach a minimum number of hours in an environment where they can get feedback from other, more experienced, yoga teachers. As part of the practicum, students must also work in the role of giving feedback and assistance to other students in the class, just as one would do as the instructor of any yoga class in the studio.

A more advanced certification for yoga teachers is the 500-hour certification. This certificate requires one to work in the same five domains mentioned above, but with more contact and more practice hours in all domains.

In order to get a job in a big or competitive yoga studio, this more detailed certification course is an important consideration, and may even be required by some larger studios. Something that will make you an even more attractive job candidate is completing some intern programs for yoga teachers before applying for jobs.

Yoga teacher certification is different from yoga teacher registration. Basically, the certification courses (200- or 500-hours) give you a certification at the moment when you have completed them. This will make you a certified yoga teacher. In addition, you can register as a yoga teacher; the difficult thing to understand is that it's the certification that grants one access to becoming registered, so to many people, it sounds like certification and registration are one and the same thing.

What are the additional benefits of being registered as well as being certified? Yoga teachers register themselves in addition to holding their certification in order to show that their own yoga teacher certification and experience is top-notch.

Some yoga certification programs are not recognized by the Yoga Alliance as being accredited programs; only if you have completed an accredited 200- or 500-hour certification program can you hold the designation as a RYT. Therefore, this designation increases your chances of getting a good job and/or finding top-paying private students. In addition, the registration puts you into a database for students and schools to find you, and you'll receive special offers on yoga-related merchandise.

Whether or not you choose to become registered as well as being certified will depend on where you are looking to get your first job teaching yoga and what kind of studio you would like to work in.

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