Students will study theoretical and practical aspects of teaching yoga with a focus on teaching methodology and real teaching experience plus yoga classes to deepen personal practice.
What do you learn while studying to be a Yoga Teacher?
The course will prepare you to:
- Establish client relationships
- Develop your own yoga practice
- Monitor a client’s yoga technique and development
- Provide yoga teaching to groups of clients
- Recognise healthy bodies
- Apply anatomy and physiology to yoga teaching
- Undertake small business planning and manage compliance
- Conduct yoga lifestyle assessments
- Develop advanced teaching techniques
- Adapt yoga for different life stages, conditions or special needs
- Undertake research
- Provide advice on nutrition
- Apply advanced anatomy and physiology to yoga teaching
- Extend your personal practice
- Deliver first aid.
Some of the topics you will study include:
- Client relationships
- Health and Safety
- Partnerships
- The Yoga Business
- Personal Practice
- Anatomy and Yoga
- Yoga Teaching & Advanced Teaching Techniques
- Healthy Bodies
- Yoga Classes
- Yoga Lifestyle Assessments
- Yoga for Life Stages
- Yoga for Special Needs
- Yoga for Chronic Disease
- Nutrition
- Yoga Philosophy
Job Outcomes
The job outcomes for this course are:
- Yoga teacher in gyms or studios. The teacher may be self-employed or contracted by a larger company
- Yoga studio owner/manager
- Program Coordinator
The program outcomes for this course are:
- At this level, yoga teachers will be equipped with the essential components to understand the yoga asanas (physical postures of yoga), differences in yoga styles, anatomy, ethics, philosophy of yoga teaching and risks associated with opening a yoga business.
Additional outcomes include:
- The attainment of a First Aid Certificate.
- Preparation for further study and vocational skills with development of study and research skills, language and literacy skills, communication skills, time management, planning and managing projects, interpersonal skills and the development of techniques.
