200hr Qualification

In short, you need a qualification.

In yoga qualifications are talked about in terms of the number of hours to obtain the certification.

The industry standard to become a yoga teacher is a 200hr Yoga Teacher Training.

Further qualification

500hr is then another standard in yoga - some places offer the 500hrs all as one course while others (like Aruna Yoga) offer a 200hr course and then a 300hr course that combine to give you the 500hrs.

There are also specialist courses such as Aruna’s Yoga for Teens, Restorative Yoga and so on. These are add ons to your 200hr Teacher Training qualification and focus on a specific type, style or skill.

Choosing a course

There are so many courses out there. Some are intense, others more family friendly, ones that combine styles, in person, online, hybrid and so on.

So now its on to how to choose a yoga teacher training, which we have another blog on!

So now that you know a 200hr Yoga Teacher Training is the industry standard to become a yoga teacher, let me plug Aruna Yoga’s teacher training!

Our teacher training combines 200hr Yoga Teacher Training certification and 50hr Meditation Teacher Training so you will be qualified to teach both yoga and meditation.

Aruna’s Embodied Method

At Aruna Yoga we take an embodied approach so we look at the pose from the internal rather than the external. Our aim is not to look like a photo in a book but rather to connect with our body and do the pose that suits us on that day. In practise this might look like cueing “Step one foot forward to a position where you are stable and strong” rather than “Square your hips to the mat” or “Turn your foot 45 degrees”.

Aruna’s Hybrid method

We combine online pre-recorded material with in person workshop days. The online material lets you take it at your own pace and then in the in person days we explore it together. Having the pre-recorded material means we can skip the boring long lectures and jump straight in to the practical on the in person days.

Why Aruna?

We could tell you we have over 100 graduates or that we’ve been perfecting this course for the last 7 years or that Laura has been training yoga teachers since 2017 or that it’s internationally certified but really and truly what matters more is the personality match. Do you like Laura’s style? Do you like the idea of embodied yoga? Do you gel with the Aruna values and principles? We will train you to be an excellent yoga teacher that can teach anyone who walks through the door by giving you the skills and knowledge but you have to decide if the course is for you.

You also have to be aware of the fact that 200hrs is a lot of hours, it is a lot of work and a big commitment but oh god is it worth it (but only if you can fit it in your life without killing yourself). We want you to want the course, the be ready for the course and to really immerse yourself, we aren’t just trying to fill seats!