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Yoga Alliance Standards


200-Hour Standards

These standards describe Yoga Alliance’s requirements for a Registered Yoga School that offers a 200-hour teacher training. Topics for a RYS teacher training must be relevant to Yoga Alliance’s five educational categories as defined below. RYSs must provide a minimum number of hours of study in each educational category, and to make up the total 200 required hours, must also provide additional hours of study relevant to these categories, which may be distributed according to the school’s chosen emphasis.


300-Hour Standards

These standards describe Yoga Alliance’s requirements for a Registered Yoga School that offers a 300-hour professional level teacher training. The 300-hour RYS standards are advanced standards of study.


500-Hour Standards

These standards describe Yoga Alliance’s requirements for a Registered Yoga School 500-hour training. Topics for a RYS teacher training must be relevant to Yoga Alliance’s five educational categories as defined below. A RYS 500 must provide a minimum number of hours of study in each educational category, and to make up the required 500 hours, must also provide additional hours of study relevant to these educational categories, which may be distributed according to the school’s chosen emphasis.


Children's Yoga Standards

These standards describe Yoga Alliance’s requirements for a Registered Yoga School that offers a Children’s Yoga training. Topics for RCYS’s teaching teacher trainings must be relevant to Yoga Alliance’s five educational categories as defined below. Additionally RCYS curriculum includes requirements related to ‘General Background in the Specialty Area.'


Prenatal Yoga Standards

These standards describe Yoga Alliance’s requirements for a Registered Yoga School that offers a Prenatal Yoga training. Topics for RPYS’s teacher trainings must be relevant to Yoga Alliance’s five educational categories as defined below. Additionally, RPYS curriculum includes requirements related to: ‘General Background in the Specialty Area.'

 

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