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The hour minimum was set by a small handful of people in before Yoga Alliance fully formed. Specifically, the number was set after Dean Ornish, MD, released a peer-reviewed study showing that yoga and meditation greatly helped in reversing heart disease. It was primarily meant to set a standard for medical clinics wanting to add yoga to their skill set.
So it was meant to be a minimum requirement as an add-on for medical professionals who would have already had years of training in understanding the human body. And by the way, it is important to note that Yoga Alliance is not, and has never been, a licensing, accrediting, certifying, regulatory, or governing body of yoga.
I get why so many studios run teacher trainings: In most places, rents are high, classes are priced competitively, and teacher trainings add essential extra income. But because studios are often highly focused on that extra income, there is little thought or attention on what might be the long-term effect of holding two or more trainings every year.
The biggest problem in the watering down of yoga is that my Uncle Bob seriously, I do have an Uncle Bob who has never done yoga in his life could walk in off the street, pay a deposit, get signed up, train and then receive a certificate, sometimes in under a month, no questions asked.
This is abhorrent. And it is not okay. I come across hundreds of teachers who complain that their first or even second Level One training was a waste of time and money because the leaders of the course had to go back to the extreme basics given the number of complete beginners attending—encouraged by the studios to be there, of course. In my opinion, a teacher training is not the place to gain a deeper understanding of yoga. Foundation and immersion courses for students who want to learn more about any subject are the underpinnings of most educational systems.
Creating courses for the layperson will not only increase your connection to your student base but also generate more income. And you can put as many people as you like in a foundation course. Just yoga, the practices, the history and lineages. I propose this model to every studio I travel to and teach in, and the studios that implement these kinds of courses always tell me they are very successful. A market driven by what the client wants is called retail.
Teaching yoga should be a vocation that evokes pride in the practice and in the endeavours each teacher has undertaken to be fully prepared, to know that they are in service, and not to be taken lightly. Back in , when I decided to run my first teacher training and Yoga Alliance was still relatively new, I looked at the hour minimum as just that, a minimum.
I set all my Level One courses at hours and 10 weeks, 6 days a week. A full-time training. Maximum of 12 students. I then set the Level Two at hours. A total of hours of training. Say what you like about John Friend, but for Anusara training, you needed to do two hour immersions before joining their multi-tiered training programme. Nowadays, the primary demographic for my teaching is other teachers: those who have completed a hour, entry-level training and realize they need more information to become good teachers or to push themselves beyond mediocre.
And thanks to the number of hour teacher trainings cropping up under every rock, my demographic is huge and worldwide. Tell the studios you work for to raise their standards for qualifying teachers. If you run a studio, raise your own standards.
No one is bound to any organization in yoga. You are only bound to your own conscience and how you want to be perceived as a provider of trainings. What kind of quality to do you want associated with your brand name?
I love what I do. There is value to what I do, and I deeply respect others who endeavour to raise the bar continually. Edited by Jaimee Hoefert. The Salon and Spa industry is much more established than the yoga industry in that they have state licensing but you get the picture. There is room for all types of hairdressers and aspiring hairdressers. We can use that same philosophy that there is space for all types of yoga teachers and aspiring yoga teachers.
Right now in , COVID is definitely showing the yoga community how adaptable and versatile we can be. Are you just starting out your yoga business and need some guidance? I s there truth to too many yoga teachers?
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