How to Become a Yoga Instructor

Posted on October 21st, 2009 by Carmelia

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Yoga is steadily being taken up by more and more people everyday. Yoga is also considered as a form of alternative medicine. Keep yourself fit and healthy while helping others keep fit and healthy too. Here’s how to become a yoga instructor.

Before you get started, keep in mind that there’s a high possibility that you won’t be earning buckets of money just yet. Many yoga instructors actually keep regular jobs while teaching some classes in between days.
Practice yoga yourself before even think about teaching. Be as good at it as you can, both to be a good teacher and to ascertain if you really enjoy doing it.

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Decide on what type of yoga you want to teach. You can focus on Bikram yoga, vinyasa yoga or hatha yoga. A wider range, will, of course make you a more flexible. Other yoga specializations are Baptiste Power Yoga, Anusura and Iyengar. (For more information on Yoga, read The Guide to Yoga)
Ask your yoga teacher if there are any yoga teacher training programs. Make sure that the training program is certified by the Yoga Alliance, a nationwide organization that provides the standards of certification. If there aren’t any training programs, you can always enroll in an ashram or a yoga institute.
Be prepared to pay around $3,000 in completing your course of training. Training may range from three months with daily training sections to a year, with training sessions taking place a few days a week. There are two levels that you need to complete: A 200 hour training for yoga instructor trainess and 500 hours for those who want to advance their level.
Other than yoga, expect to learn ashana, anatomy, the philosophy behind yoga and teaching techniques that you should master.
Once you’ve completed the required training course, fulfill the requirements for certification, which vary from state to state.
Once you’ve passed the required certification process, you can have the acronym RYT after your name, which means Registered Yoga Teacher.