| Hello Annette,
It's fabulous that you are so interested in teaching yoga! Teaching requires, more than anything else, a committment and dedication to one's own practice. There are numerous places to study, with teacher trainings ranging in duration from two days to two years. First, you may want to ask yourself how much time and money you would like to commit to a training, as well as what style of yoga you would like to teach. A good, general, baseline teacher training standard set by the Yoga Alliance is 200 hours. Some places, such as Kripalu (www.kripalu.org) and Nosara (www.nosarayoga.com) have yoga teacher trainings that cover these two hundred hours through month long residential programs. Other programs, including those run by studios, generally range from one week intensives to two year programs (usually held one or two evenings a week.) If you're interested in going that route, I'd suggest either checking around with local studios for training programs (try our yoga studio search engine) or going to the main page of the yoga style you are interested in teaching. (ie, for Ashtanga yoga, the main page is www.ashtanga.com) Cost for trainings varies greatly, from several hundred dollars for a two day training to three or four thousand for some of the month long or two year long programs. Pay for yoga teachers varies on geographic region and proximity to a major metropolitan area, as low as $20 per class and as high as $100 class (corporate classes.) Gyms near metro areas generally pay $30-$40 per hour. Hope this helps!
Namaste,
Jess
jess@yoga.com |
Teaching yoga
