Yoga Teacher Training

Yoga Teacher Training Overview

Since 1989, the It’s Yoga Teacher Training program has trained lovers of yoga around the world and certified more than 3000 of them to teach it. Our training supports students in deepening their understanding and relationship to the practice by studying the basic ingredients: breath, bandhas and dristi. With revolutionary methods to make the practice accessible and appropriate, our approach is modern, therapeutic, challenging, supportive and steeped in tradition.

Our Yoga Alliance Certified Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training program is a practical training course designed to make you a confident and effective Ashtanga Yoga Instructor – for all levels of students. The purpose of this program is to provide a supportive environment in which students begin to connect with their inner teacher, internal wisdom and authentic voice. Through pranayama, asana practice, mind-body journaling, group conversation, reading and guided meditation, students will practice the essential process of conscious listening to your own higher self.

The training is designed to provide participants with a solid foundation of knowledge and information with which you can confidently and effectively facilitate an Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga class for beginners.

The training includes the opportunity to learn five different routines based on the Ashtanga Yoga tradition. The routines range in skill level from the basic beginner to the most advanced.

We will share our expertise about marketing, pricing, teaching group or private classes, and setting up your own yoga school.

We intend to support each student as they develop, deepen, appreciate and expand their understanding of their true authentic self. Through basic study of philosophy, personal alignment, modifications of classical poses, pranayama practices, and individual instruction, this intimate training is sure to be a life enhancing experience. We look forward to working with you.

Namaste.

course outline

Yoga Teacher Training Courses Outline

History

Pattabhi Jois
T. Krishnamachayra
The eight limbs of Patanjali
History of Ashtanga Yoga.

Pranayama

Ujjayi Breath – theory and practice.
Working with breath in Ashtanga sequences.
Sun Salutations
Suryanamaskara A and B – theory and practice.

Asanas

Names (sanskrit and english)
Standing, seated, and finishing asanas of the Primary Series with a detailed breakdown of the poses.
Practice and benefits of the asanas.
Verbal and hands-on adjustments.

Chakras/ Naulis/ Bandhas

Names and functions
Locations and importance
Naulis – theory and practice
Bandhas – theory and practice

It’s Yoga Vinyasa System

Practicing and teaching the sequences:

Full Primary Series
Modified Primary Series
Mixed Levels Routine
Modified Intermediate Series (Rocket II)
Minimum Daily requirement)

Becoming a teacher

Principles of teaching
Etiquette/ responsibility in the classroom
Finding your own voice as a teacher
Developing a personal teaching philosophy
Marketing yourself as a teacher

Most important, the It’s Yoga teacher training system is designed to help you find your own unique ‘yoga voice’ and help you to learn to teach from it. After we have taught students the basics and helped students to find their own yoga voice, the last part of the program will offer practical experience training students to lead yoga groups. You will leave our program a yoga teacher, ready and certified by It’s Yoga to teach Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga.

Yoga Teacher Training Course Materials

Pre study, Ashtanga out of the Box.

This compilation of materials shares the ancient practice of Ashtanga in terms that every yoga enthusiast can learn from, both the basic beginner to the most advanced practitioner.

The Ashtanga Yoga Manual

The first written material on the once oral tradition of Ashtanga, written by Larry Schultz. The manual includes detailed information on some of the most fundamental parts of the practice: breath, dristi and bandhas and much more. Also sharing the Full Primary Series with modifications and illustrations, it serves as a classic tool to take your practice anywhere.

It’s Yoga Teacher Training Workbook

With six lessons that coincide with the Ashtanga Manual, these exercises assist practitioners in deepening their understanding in a practical way by allowing students to explore the lessons in their own time and space.

We also bring you the Chant CD and Booklet, which work together sharing pronunciation of the Sanskrit names of the poses and follow along chants. Reema Datta, a Sanskrit scholar shares her deep knowledge of this ancient language of yoga.

Lastly, a DVD of the Primary Series taught by Larry Schultz allows students to bring it all together.

Yoga Teacher Training Graduation Details

Homework, written essays, quizzes and a final practical and written exam must be completed prior to certification.

Upon graduation students will be given a Yoga Alliance accredited diploma from It’s Yoga stating that they have completed our requirements and are now certified yoga teachers. This diploma will be signed by Larry Schultz.

20 years experience teaching yoga
More than 3000 teachers certified
Over 9000 class taught
Worldwide community and Location

Testimonial

Caroline Gray - November 2011 Yoga teacher training

I loved the training, all of it. I wish we had more time to learn more!

My transformation was that I feel that one day soon, I can and will be teaching amazing Yoga to beginners and in time more advanced classes. It feels good to have knowledge and confidence. My inner teacher has been awakened!

Tim Baker - November 2011 Yoga teacher training

I liked everything about the course. I didn’t want it to end!

I've become much stronger physically and mentally as well. I feel better prepared to face challenges in my future. I can’t believe that I’m going to be a yoga teacher! 4 months ago, I would have never imagined coming here to do this. Now I wish I had done it much sooner!!

MarthyLocht - November 2011 Yoga teacher training

Time flies when you are doing nothing but yoga. The 24 days flew by without noticing. I was really nervous about coming to KohSamui in the beginning. Not sure what to expect. I joined the teacher training firstly because I wanted to improve my personal practice, but in the and I have learned so much more than just that. Learning about the asanas, meditation, yoga history, discussing yoga philosophy

FAQ

What makes our Yoga Teacher Training unique? Why should I choose yours over others?

Our Yoga Teacher Training is very unique and the leading school of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga today. The late founder, Larry Shultz, put together the teacher training as a course for students to advance in the yoga practice in a short period of time. This is one of the first programs that were developed by Larry Schultz who remains one of the very first persons in the west to have been introduced to Ashtanga Yoga in India bySri Pattabi Jois, the Ashtanga Yoga master. There is no limit for how long you need to have practiced yoga prior to the course.