How To Become A Yoga Instructor?

How exactly does one become a Yoga Instructor? How long would it take?

[Spiritlite]

I don't know but I am looking forward to hearing from others'
Spiritlite

Francesco....there are ashrams, yoga temples and centers which will offer accredited courses to be a teacher.

When i taught during the 1970s-80s formal learning was not required. However, people were teaching who had no real understanding of what they were doing and students suffered injuries from hatha yoga practices. Most gyms, physical fitness establishments, YMCAs and such will not hire non accredited teachers.

For instances, people with high blood pressure, thyroid problems and some heart conditions should not do inverted postures, no child under 8 years old should sit in full lotus....etc.

Try googling 'hatha yoga teacher's training' and see what is available to you and where. The length of the courses should also be part of the info.

Good luck.

Check out British School of Yoga who have so many courses and have a great reputaion for training.

There is a 200 hour cert and 500 cert and more. Most people look for an instructor with at least 200 hours of practice from an academy of the pro's. something like that anyway.

There are so many different styles of yoga, types of teachings, programs of certificates that it's an impossible e way to answer correctly.

I mean there are yoga programs in which you become a yoga teacher under the guidelines of a guru in India within 5 weeks and others at a university which take 4 years. Both of whoma could be very serious in its approach and studying ethics.

A safe bet is that the course would offer some sort of recognized certificate or diploma and also that the course involve studies of anatomy, study of the yoga sutras and all the things it entials to be a teacher of yoga and not only knows how to make a cetian amount of postures correctly. The best way is actually to hear around about what other students of that particular class, or course had to say about the program you would like to checkout and see if it resonates with what you have in mind for it.

Its a continuous process of learning.But any how at least two years are required for this.If you show your full involvement in learning then two years are required other wise it depends on you.I am talking in complete process in which the little bit medical and psychological terms are also offered.

In the US and Canada, the Yoga Alliance aims to ensure quality yoga teaching. There are 200, 300, and 500 hour training programs on how to instruct asana classes. And to be a yoga teacher, one is to live a yogic lifestyle. The Eight Limbs of Yoga are a good place to start. Enlightenment is the central qualification for teaching yoga.