Yoga Alliance Teacher Training

Is yoga a quest for enlightenment, spirituality, or just wellness? Yoga's surge in popularity is due to the fact that it offers all this and more. Every individual has a different goal and experience with their practice, which is why it is crucial for teachers to be well versed in different approaches and styles of yoga and yoga classes.

Due to its popularity, teacher trainings have also begun to be in abundance in the United States and throughout the world. Although thorough examination is required of each school before deciding upon where to delve into a teacher training, the organization Yoga Alliance helps potential trainees sort through the wealth of options.

The organization is an asset to teachers who wish to be certified with a widely recognized group that guarantees particular standards for its schools and teachers. Attending a Yoga Alliance teacher training program will place aspiring teachers in the best possible position for pursuing teaching and will enable their potential employers to know that they have been exposed to the necessary information to ensure their classes will be safe and thorough.

Yoga Alliance has strict guidelines that studios must follow when providing yoga teacher trainings. The educational categories include Techniques and Training, Teaching Methodology, Anatomy and Physiology, Yoga Philosophy, Practicum and Electives. Each of these categories has specific educational content and a certain number of hours that must be adhered to during training. Those studios that provide training programs that meet this criteria are designated as Registered Yoga Schools through Yoga Alliance.

Although Yoga Alliance teacher trainings all have certain requirements that their trainees must complete, there is still a great deal of variance within Yoga Alliance certified programs as to the depth and quality of exposure to these requirements.

In searching for a Yoga Alliance teacher training program it is important to visit and take classes at the studio where one hopes to train. Doing so enables the practitioner to get a sense of what will be the most important elements of their training program - the people and teachers at the studio or center. Although the information presented in these programs is certainly crucial, it is the teachers that provide this information that can truly "make or break" a program.

Teachers that walk the walk (or pose the pose in this case) are a vital part of a teacher training program. Those who are clearly knowledgeable and thorough as well as inspirational will make all of the difference in a teacher training program.

Caroline Voldstad is a yoga enthusiast who trains at ISHTA Yoga in New York City.

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