YOGA ALLIANCE^SM STANDARDS FOR REGISTRATION

Other Important Information about Revised Standards for Schools

The Director of Teacher Training must be an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT^SM) or equivalent at the corresponding level of the training (200 or 500 hour).

Requirements for E-RYT^SMs are:

Note: "RYT^SM" means registered as a RYTSM with Yoga Alliance^SM, or equivalent.

• E-RYT^SM 200 is RYT^SM 200 with a minimum of 2 years and 1,000 hours of yoga teaching experience since becoming a RYT^SM 200
• E- RYT^SM 500 is RYT^SM 500 with a minimum of 4 years and 2,000 hours of yoga teaching experience after becoming a RYT^SM, 500 hours of which must be after becoming a RYT^SM 500

Other Faculty - All teachers other than Primary E-RYT^SMs in the yoga teacher training (YTT) must be documented as either: 1) being a RYT^SM, or 2) having substantial training in the subject category they are teaching (at least 100 hours of education and/or experience). Note: In a 500-hour YTT that doesn't have a preliminary 200-hour YTT, RYT^SMs 200 and E-RYT^SMs 200 could teach some of the earlier contact hours in the program.

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