The Inspiring Yoga Teacher: An apprenticeship course

A Blueprint for Teacher-Student Transformation

Imagine you could become the 'go-to' person in your area of yoga expertise, no matter what style you offer. The Inspiring Yoga Teacher will help you to increase your knowledge, skill and professionalism, as well as upskilling your ability to work with students of all levels with confidence, clarity and insight. It will help you to expand your teaching tool kit, deal with students who have injuries and other limitations, and offer a vast range of simple, accessible modifications. The journey may also give you the confidence to work one-to-one and integrate those students into your ongoing classes. 

The Inspiring Yoga Teacher provides a template for a series of classes with a clear curriculum carefully progressed over eight weeks. For new teachers, this curated content will save you years of trial and error as the material and sequencing has been trialled and tested with multiple student cohorts and models the language and cueing used in a shared-inquiry teaching. 

Course Overview

The Inspiring Yoga Teacher is made up of eight weekly classes, each of which is guided by a detailed lesson plan. Together these eight classes comprise the foundations course you’ll learn to teach by first becoming a student of the course and developing an embodied, experiential understanding of the material. 

Each weekly lesson plan provides a template and a thorough teaching curriculum that models how to build the foundation for a yoga practice in a warm, informative way that is easy to digest and leaves your students hungry for more. Taken together, the eight classes show you how to work in a pedagogic model of shared inquiry, unpacking what that means in terms of practice, language, cueing, pace, sequencing and hands-on adjustments. 

Course Hours

The course is 34 hours in total: 12 hours of pre-recorded content, 12 hours of live online, 10 hours of self-study

What Will I Learn as an Experienced Teacher?  What Will I Learn as an Early Career Teacher?

The Inspiring Yoga Teacher provides a template for a series of classes with a clear curriculum carefully progressed over eight weeks. 

For new teachers, this curated content will save you years of trial and error as the material and sequencing has been trialled and tested with multiple student cohorts and models the language and cueing used in a shared-inquiry teaching. 

For experienced teachers, the course offers you fresh insights and inspiration. It extends a helping hand to any teacher who may not have time to design a new course while laying the groundwork for innate creativity to naturally and spontaneously emerge. Teaching a foundations course like this helps identify teaching priorities and may provide inspiration for designing a series using your own curated content. You may learn what is important to communicate, how to contextualise your message, and create the optimum conditions for safe, effective, inspiring, motivating and educational learning.? With clarity on your intention and themes, it’s easier to progress class content, layer in new information and skills and grow your sequences from week to week. 

For new and experienced teachers alike, teaching at a slower-pace in a shared-inquiry model with curated content and carefully sequenced classes make it less likely students will injure themselves. Once you’ve establish a good relationship with them, they’re less likely to drop out and more likely to continue studying with you after they complete the course.