Certification
Students who complete the training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYTยฎ).
Who this is for
This course is open to anyone interested in using yoga as a tool to uncover deep truth, well-being, and healing. The 200-hour yoga teacher training is a transformative, in-depth experience that exceeds certification requirements by fusing mind, body, and soul.
What you'll learn
- Vedas
- Upanishads
- Bhagavad Gita
- Yoga sutras
- Tantra
- Hatha
- The seat of the teacher
- Yogaโs journey to the west
- Yoga styles
- Bandhas
- The five sheaths
- Prana
- Nadis
- Chakras
- Gunas
- Doshas
- Subtle energy
- Creating space for self-transformation
- The physical setting
- Classroom set-up and orientation
- Class levels and prerequisites
- Class etiquette
- Waking up the spiritual environment
- Archetypes and mythology
- Creating happy space
- Space for healing
- Holding integrated space
- Teaching who is in front of you
- Voice and language
- Basic elements of asana practice
- Instructing asana
- General principles in physical cues and adjustments
- Modifications
- Variations and props
- Teaching meditation
- Guided meditation techniques
- When to meditate
- Meditating amid the flow of body and breath
- Principles of sequencing
- Basic arc and structure of a class
- Sequencing within asana families
- Planning specific classes
- Chakra model of sequencing
- Popular Hatha sequences and creating your class
- New to yoga
- Working with injuries, working with depression
- Teaching in alternative settings
- Working with pregnant students
- Yoga teacher training and certifications
- Apprenticing
- Teaching opportunities and remuneration
- Business of yoga
- Cultivating abundance
- Preserving abundance
- Regulation of the profession
- Path of the teacher
Asana labs
- Warm-ups
- Sun salutations
- Standing postures
- Stabilization postures
- Hip openers
- Twists
- Backbends
- Lateral bends
- Forward bends
- Balancing postures
- Inversions
- Chaturanga
- Arm balances
Sample daily schedule
- 06:30 - 08:00 Daily morning 75-minute yoga practice, Hatha/Vinyasa Infused with Restorative/Yin and adjustments
- 0โ8:00 - 09:00 Breakfast break
- 09:00 - 12:30 Chapter workย
- 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
- โ13:30 - 15:30 Pranayama, asana study, cuing, alignment, adjustments, and modifications
- 15:30 - 17:30 Practice teach
- 18:00 Dinner break
Homework is nightly consisting of short writing assignments that complement your studies, readings, and working on class sequencing based on that day's asana learning. Full Circle Yoga School sends you these short exercises as soon as you enrol so you can complete them prior to training if you wish.
Required textbooks
Reading materials mandatory to bring to training:โโ
- Teaching Yoga-Essential Foundations and Techniques by Mark Stephens
- Yoga Toolbox for Teachers and Students, 4th Edition
- Yoga Anatomy Coloring Book by Kelly Soloway
Please order these books at least two weeks prior to coming to the training to ensure their arrival as it is essential to the course.
Come to the training having read at least Chapter 1 of the teaching textbook. The more you can read and familiarize yourself with these books prior to Day 1 the more ease you'll feel during the training.
Each training evening you are usually assigned one chapter to read with additional small writing exercises and asana sequence and study.
Excursions
You will have a trip to the sacred city of Cusco and four days off for sightseeing: a trip to Machu Picchu, plant medicine ceremonies, etc.