Find your place (where you feel comfortable yoga style-wise) then seek the teacher, though if tradition has it he/she will find you!
Therefore sit back and wait!
I jest, of course.
Get out and do some serious yoga investigation.
Join a respected yoga organisation, seek out a yoga teacher training course that is comprehensive and in-depth. If it is of any help - remember, a yoga certificate after a couple of weeks intensive or a month or two correspondence course is hardly going to impart confidence in your future students nor seriously approach the matter in hand - so do not waste your pennies - if you are really serious.
Start by attending teachers who have trained in the style that you feel most drawn to. Investigate what each of the yoga teacher training courses offer, how they are structured and see how easy it is to fit in with your time and commitments. If it's difficult and you are dead keen - make space, start something new, commit yourself to your dream!
Go on a yoga retreat with great teachers and learn all you can.
Whilst there you may be able to combine it as part of a yoga teachers training program.
Some useful Yoga Associations and organisations
who have yoga teachers training programs:
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Yoga teacher training courses in the United States and Canada
Sivananda Org. - Having five main areas of operation woldwide - USA and South America are responsible for having several centres and ashrams across their continents.
Himalayan Institute - Apart from publishing the excellent Yoga International Magazine they run a 200 hour yoga teachers training course:
" Drawing from traditional yoga theory as well as modern knowledge of the body and mind, this program is designed to maximize your effectiveness as a yoga teacher and practitioner. A combination of workshop and lecture advances your own practice as well as your teaching skills, and provides the theory and context to understand your experiences. Immerse yourself in all aspects of yoga—theory and practice."
Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga teachers training program -
Through rigorous study in India and America that began at the early age of 12 years old, Baron has created a yoga practice without boundaries - it is a dynamic combination of strength, sweat and spirituality. It heals, detoxifies and electrifies the body and mind at their deepest levels. With this practice, Baron has knocked yoga off of its pedestal and demystified it by bringing it into people's lives across America.
" As a certified baptiste power vinyasa teacher you can approach your life and work with:
commitment, courage, faith, imagination, creativity, honesty, persistence, knowledge, integrity, defined values, focused thinking and the truth that sets you and others free."
The Yoga Alliance - Yoga Alliance registers yoga teachers who demonstrate qualifications that meet minimum teaching standards established by the organization’s founding members. Yoga Alliance also registers yoga schools whose teacher training programs address those standards, assuring graduates are well-qualified to teach the practicing public.
Kripalu Yoga Teachers Training - The 500-hour Certification is comprised of core required courses, supplemented by electives that allow you to pursue areas of particular interest. Subjects include pranayama, meditation and asana techniques. The curriculum also calls for a significant number of hours in anatomy and physiology and training in professional ethics.
There are also 30 hours of required mentoring that must be completed with a Certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher Mentor.
ViniYoga Yoga Teachers Training program - Viniyoga is not so much a name of yoga, but more of a methodology for developing personal practice using asana, pranayama, meditation, ritual and prayer for protecting and maintaining our health, promoting our ability to be productive in this world and inspiring the deeper quest for self-realization.
Iyengar Yoga Teachers Training -
Comprehensive (two-year) program designed under the guidance of B.K.S Iyengar. Classes held at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco. Please visit our website for complete details and application information.
Oldest Iyengar teacher training program in the country. Taught by senior teachers from around the San Francisco bay area. First year focuses on deeping personal practice, including pranayama, along with courses in Anatomy, Physiology, and Philosphy (the Yoga Sutras and Bhagavad Gita). Second year focuses on aspects of how to teach in the Iyengar Tradition with classes in ethics, student teaching, and apprenticing with a senior teacher.
Advanced Studies / Teacher Training
Quality, Experience & Integrity since 1974. The original California yoga teacher training and the only State Accredited Iyengar Yoga teacher training program. 500 hours: Asana, Pranayama, philosophy, anatomy & physiology.
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Yoga teacher training courses in the UK and Europe
Ruth White School of Yoga - The training program and syllabus outline for the yoga teaching diploma certificate, certified by the Yoga Alliance, an internationally acknowledged certificate. Each candidate has an attendance card, which they present at their assessment at the end of each module/term. The complete course consists of 6 modules, which may be completed, in not less than two years but no more than four.
British Wheel of Yoga - This organisation is the umbrella group that is appointed by the Sports Council of Britain to nurture Yoga and its best practice. Their yoga teachers training course is amongst some of the most thorough in the world. Accreditation through their courses is a well respected mark of good yoga teaching and indicator of competence.
London - UK
Karam Kriya School of Kundalini Yoga - KRI Level 1 International programme in Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan -Yogi Bhajan, Master of Kundalini Yoga, arrived in the United States in 1969 witha stated mission "I have come to create Teachers, not to gather disciples." Since then he has traveled internationally teaching Kundalini Yoga, the Yoga of Awareness. In 1969 Yogi Bhajan founded 3HO -- the Happy, Healthy, Holy organization, based on his first principle "Happiness is your birthright." Karam Kriya - is those actions which transforms our patterns of reaction in a healing and liberating manner. It is the science and art of changing the shape of our lives in order to create opportunities and renegotiate the way we shape our lives... Read Shiv Charan Singh on Kundalini Yoga
Iyengar UK Yoga teachers training (introductory courses) - The Institute runs introductory teacher training courses, commencing each year in September. The course is approved by the BKS Iyengar Yoga Teachers? Association (BKSIYTA), which oversees training, arranges assessments and awards certificates. The qualifications are recognised internationally.
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Leicester - UK
Sun Power Yoga - - an eclectic mix of three yoga styles. Iyengar for Alignment, Sivananda for Subtle Mind and Body work and Ashtanga for Heat, Flexibility, Strength and Stamina.
There is a Yoga Teachers Training program for all who wish to qualify to teach
Cleveland - UK
Pam Gorst - Redcar - Offers British Wheel of Yoga Teacher Training and foundation courses - contact her
Northumberland - UK
Maria Houston-Knight - FOUNDATION COURSE (British Wheel Certificated Course) for those who have been Commences Oct/Nov ends in July of the following year. Enrolement anytime throughout the year. Weekly classes, retreats, holidays - tel: 01661 854636 - contact her
Yoga teacher training courses in India
Purple Valley Yoga Centre Goa - this idyllic location in the heart of yoga country not only hosts the top Ashtanga Yoga teachers yoga holidays and retreats but also runs a fully accredited yoga teachers training course. The teachers both visiting and resident allow the aspiring yoga teacher the great atmosphere, peace and tranquillity of a tropical paradise but also the immersion in on your doorstep yogic history and resources.
