Yoga teacher trainings provide certifications which enable you to teach yoga classes. Most of the schools which offer yoga teacher trainings in Nepal and elsewhere offer a residential yoga course which range from 22 to 28 days. Yoga alliance is the governing body which accredits the yoga schools world over to follow a common curriculum and provide certifications.
Yoga courses offered by these schools are popular and lots of yoga students come from various parts of the world to attend these yoga teacher training programs.
This blog is mainly intended for people who are planning to do yoga teacher training in the near future.
200 hrs yoga programs offer an insightful introduction to the subject of yoga. These programs teach different styles of yoga asana. Mainly these yoga courses offer certifications in:
- Hatha yoga way of doing yoga postures
- Vinyasa yoga way of doing yoga postures
- Ashtanga yoga way of doing yoga posture
- Most of the yoga schools offer a mix of these yoga styles
- Wait a minute, would that mean that your yoga journey ends with the certification?
- Plain and simple answer is “no”.
Considering that yoga asana and pranayama techniques are a vast subject and require constant, committed and aware practice to master them it becomes important that the fire to learn and practice more is kept igniting throughout in our careers as a yoga teacher.
Every class a yoga teacher teaches is a complete yoga teacher training in itself. A yoga class incorporates learning of all the teaching tools which are required to make a good yoga teacher. Pacing of a yoga asana class, making asana delivery friendly and fun, taking care of students who require adjustments and variations and sequencing of the yoga asanas all require a deep thought process and first had understanding of the movement.
Yoga teacher trainings do cover the above mentioned subjects however experience speaks for itself and more we teach more experience we get. After every class a yoga teacher should reflect on the different aspects of the class and make notes on how the class could be make better through:
- Making yoga asana instructions more student friendly
- Incorporating anatomical cues in ones teaching
- Breaking down complicated yoga asana
- Grouping yoga students intelligently
- Making yoga asana sequencing physiologically friendly
Even a yoga teacher with basic 200 hrs yoga teaching certification should aspire to learn constantly and keep themselves aware of ever evolving subject of yoga teaching.
To surmise yoga teacher training begin with the certification and never ends throughout the career of a yoga teacher. Salamba yoga invites students to experience yoga teacher training in Nepal. This yoga program offer an in depth study of different yoga subjects and gives yoga students a chance to explore the beautiful Himalayas of Nepal and its culture as well.
Curriculum has been designed to make yoga studies as practical as possible and each and every yoga student is given an ample room to assimilate the essentials of yoga teaching.