200 & 300 hour Yoga Teacher Trainings
Accredited Yoga Teacher Trainings in Bali
As well as Yoga Alliance Accredited Yoga Teacher Trainings we offer accredited recognized hours (YACEP) for Yoga teachers and experienced Yoga practitioners for continuing educational purposes (Yoga Alliance & Yoga Associations) and professional development. See YACEP 40 hr course under Yoga Retreats (coming soon).
Uniqueness of our Trainings:
The unique quality of Yoga Arts’ teacher trainings comes from the quality of teachers and from the years of teaching experience Yoga Arts has gained by specializing in Yoga teacher trainings. The Yoga Arts’ teaching staff has between 15 to 40 years of teaching experience and dedicated Sadhana behind them.
Yoga Arts has been dedicated to training Yoga Teachers for over 25 years and is passionate about providing a high standard of teacher training.
Teaching yoga takes passion, dedication, persistence and consistency of personal practice. Ultimately the objective of the Yoga Arts’ trainings is to train participants in quality, professional, safe and knowledgeable teaching skills and to offer, the teacher to be, as many available teaching tools as possible so that their teaching can be available to everyone. Most importantly, to bring about self responsibility, self understanding, spiritual maturity and awakening to the student.The Yoga Arts’ trainings prepare the student on an inner reflective level to move towards a spiritual maturity and self-understanding.
Point of difference for our Yoga Alliance Accredited 200 and 300 hour Yoga Teacher Trainings:
We guarantee a quality training which exceeds the required hours set down by Yoga Alliance.
Our 200 hr TT: Has approximately 57 extra contact hrs + around 47 extra hrs with the Lead teacher (E-RYT500)
Louisa Sear
Louisa Sear is the Founder, Director and Course Coordinator of Yoga Arts. Yoga Arts is well renowned, nationally and internationally, for delivering high quality Yoga Teacher Trainings. The Yoga Arts’ trainings are practical, theoretical and designed to be intense and challenging on a physical and emotional level.
Please visit the Yoga Arts’ Team page > to read our teacher’s bios
Objective: One of the main objectives, on the trainings, is to touch and experience Yoga first hand so that the deeper understanding of the essence of Yoga is felt and integrated. This takes place through the individual transformation that is encouraged and nurtured throughout the course.
With this understanding, we believe that graduates can then go out into the world and teach from their heart and from their own real understanding of Yoga, not just theoretical knowledge.
The Yoga Arts’ team has decades of experience specializing in teacher trainings. Yoga Arts also maintains its reputation of a high teaching standard by continually optimizing the course content of the trainings to keep up with the demand for training better and better teachers. Emphasis on the training is on truth and authenticity.
Yoga Art’s teachers are dedicated to continually updating their Yoga Teaching qualifications, study and skills to ensure their teaching standards are of the highest quality available world wide.
Prerequisite: 200 Hr Yoga Training
To be accepted onto the Yoga Arts 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training, students will need to have completed a minimum of 2 years consistent, dedicated yoga practice under the guidance of qualified yoga teacher(s).
About the 200 Hour Training:
This course offers you a comprehensive, practical training in how to teach Yoga. We welcome yoga practitioners who are ready to refine their yoga skills and learn how to teach Yoga, and also those who would simply like to deepen their Yoga knowledge and practice. On completion of our 200 Hour Training, graduates will be able to register with Yoga Alliance as a RYT200, get yoga teaching insurance and teach anywhere around the world.
For participants with less experience, this course will offer a deepening of knowledge and inner inquiry as a stepping stone toward teaching. Teaching Yoga takes many years of passionate dedication, persistence and consistency of practice. This 200 Hour course offers you a comprehensive, philosophical, theoretical and practical training in how to practice and teach Yoga.
Prerequisite: 300 Hr Yoga Training
To be accepted onto the Yoga Arts’ 300 Hour Teacher Training, students will need to have completed a 200 hours Yoga Alliance accredited training with Yoga Arts or any other Yoga Alliance Accredited Yoga Teacher Training School. Your certificate will need to be sighted by Yoga Arts.
Upon successful completion of the 200 and the 300 hour training, the successful participant will have achieved a total of 500 hours of Yoga Alliance accredited Yoga Teacher Training hours and will be eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as a RYT500 (fee applies). Registration with Yoga Alliance at the RYT500 level is achieved once you have completed a total of 100 hours of teaching. These 100 hours are counted from the day you completed your 200 hour Training.
About the 300 Hour Training:
Our 300 Hour Yoga Teacher training is designed for yoga teachers that would like to broaden and deepen their knowledge and skills in the Art of Teaching Yoga. Emphasis on the 300 Hour training is on professional development, communication, teaching methodology, therapeutic yoga, anatomy of asana, yoga philosophy and long periods of meditation. Teachers completing this training will gain the necessary skills to teach yoga safely and effectively to a broad range of students.
General overview of course contents for 200 & 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Trainings:
Meditation – guided meditation techniques
Pranayama – guided breathing techniques
Asana – yoga postures vinyasa style with focus on alignment
Techniques – alignment, modifications
Teaching Methodology – prop usage, sequencing, adjusting skills, asana & body assessment, personal programs, teaching beginners, injury prevention
Practical Application – practical teaching
Yoga Ethics & Professional Development – ethics related to Yoga teachers
Self Inquiry & Yoga Lifestyle – self analysis & deeper understanding of Self
Yoga Philosophy – Advaita & Tantra, Mantra, Chanting, Bhajans, Nadis, Chakras, Yamas & Niyamas Ayurveda – learn the ancient science of Ayurveda in lifestyle and enhancing your Sadhana
Anatomy of Hatha Yoga – the skeletal, muscular, respiratory, nervous & endocrine systems including movement of joints
Therapeutic Yoga – safely working with students with injuries
Communication – how to be clear, confident and concise with your teaching instruction
300 Hour Specific Subjects:
- Advanced anatomy of Hatha Yoga
- Personal program teaching
- Ritual & mantra
- Therapeutic Yoga
- Practical assessment
- Long periods of silent meditation & self inquiry
- Ayurvedic lifestyle
Most important … on the trainings is that the process of self inquiry is understood. We expect that the students enrolling on our courses have an understanding of the essence of Yoga beyond the techniques. Teaching and studying Yoga is a beautiful lifetime journey. The self-understanding and continual awakening that takes place through the practice of Yoga brings the peace to our lives that we all desire. The added blessing of teaching Yoga is an opportunity to share this gift.
Yoga Alliance:
Yoga Alliance is an International Organization for the quality and standardization of individual Yoga teachers and Yoga Schools worldwide. Completing a Yoga Alliance Accredited training will give the student an internationally recognized Yoga Teaching qualification.
On completion of a 200 Hour or 300 Hour Yoga Alliance Accredited Yoga Teacher Training with Yoga Arts, students then have the opportunity to register individually with Yoga Alliance as a RYT200 or RYT500. Information related to the requirements of this registration including, fees and their application process are available from their website www.yogaalliance.org