So you’ve decided to become a yoga teacher or are considering a yoga teacher training to deepen your practice. Here, we cover all the bases: from choosing the right YTT for you to everything a new yoga instructor needs to know to get their yoga teaching career off the ground.
Did you finish yoga teacher training with more questions than you started with? That’s why we’ve recruited seasoned teacher trainer Gina Caputo to speak frankly to some of the most common post-TT questions submitted by YOU. In each of the four posts in this series, she’ll address a new subject and offer both insight and practical tips on how to work skillfully with the challenges you face as a yoga teacher.
Wondering whether a yoga teacher training is the right move for you right now? Take this quick quiz to find out.
Did you finish yoga teacher training with more questions than you started with? That’s why we’ve recruited seasoned teacher trainer Gina Caputo to speak frankly to some of the most common post-TT questions submitted by YOU. In each of the four posts in this series, she’ll address a new subject and offer both insight and practical tips on how to work skillfully with the challenges you face as a yoga teacher.
Did you finish yoga teacher training with more questions than you started with? That’s why we’ve recruited seasoned teacher trainer Gina Caputo to speak frankly to some of the most common post-TT questions submitted by YOU. In each of the four posts in this series, she’ll address a new subject and offer both insight and practical tips on how to work skillfully with the challenges you face as a yoga teacher.
D.C.-area yogis, head to the Smithsonian Institution this month for an educational weekend exploring yoga's holistic healing power.
Finding the right yoga teacher mentor can be challenging. Here, Alexandria Crow shares her thoughts on how to tell if you’ve found a good match.
The proliferation of 200-hour yoga teacher trainings may be good for business, but is it keeping the practice safe and true to tradition?
One yoga teacher discovers how much more there is to learn about teaching yoga beyond the 200-hour YTT.
Making ends meet while building a following as a yoga teacher can be draining. Take heart and start employing these simple self-preservation strategies.
Breathe For Change, an organization launched last year by teachers for teachers, is on a mission to save our schools, one teacher at a time, by reducing burnout through yoga and mindfulness training.
Yoga teacher and licensed psychotherapist Ashley Turner says yoga is the key to psychological and emotional healing as well as resolving issues with self-confidence, relationships, and more.
YJ's Liana Ruiz shares why yoga teacher training isn't just for experienced yogis, and how anyone can benefit from the process.
Yoga Journal advertising coordinator Elizabeth Regan takes a life-changing trip to a cadaver lab, where her discovery of the body's interior fosters growth in both mind and spirit.
Yoga Journal digital producer Samantha Trueheart shares how yoga teacher training helped her overcome a lifelong fear and open up her throat chakra.
During yoga teacher training, Yoga Journal associate editor Elizabeth Marglin realizes how hard it is to find words that are true to her own experience, accurate, and useful for others.
We asked Alexandria Crow, who will lead our Art of Teaching Yoga workshop, for 3 ways she stays true to her "sans fluff" teaching style.
Yoga Journal art director Melissa Newman shares four tips for harnessing yoga's power to deepen self-awareness.
YJ senior editor Tasha Eichenseher shares how a teacher training she wasn’t sure she should sign up for has given her a new appreciation for her injury and the way it changed her perspective on yoga.
YJ senior editor Amanda Tust shares five key tips from yoga teacher training that she plans to keep in her back pocket in case she ever actually ends up in front of a class.
Yoga Journal associate art director Abigail Biegert shares two lasting lessons she learned in yoga teacher training this week.