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Associate & Trainer memberships include access to flexible curriculums that you can use for trainings, courses, workshops, presentations, and consultation. For example, choose from templates such as these, or build your own.
Scroll down to peruse free samples of bundles, lessons, assessments, presentations, and fact sheets.
The samples provided here are in PDF format, but Associate & Trainer Members get customizable versions (in Word or PowerPoint) for making their own.
Deep immersions like this one feature a series of related lessons in one download. This immersion features these three lessons (available individually as well). Each lesson is carefully structured so that if you wish to use only a subset, you can easily pick and choose what you need.
In this lesson, we explore the vital role and impacts of sleep and sleep issues on health and wellness.
In this lesson, we explore evidence-based techniques for inducing quality sleep and responding to issues such as leg, cramps and restless legs syndrome, and sleep apnea.
In this lesson, we explore evidence-based yoga techniques, including poses, breathwork and meditation, for promoting quality sleep.
In this lesson, we specify the general and specific ways that yoga techniques support health, including its impact on various bodily systems.
In this lesson, we examine forward bending and hip stretching poses as a category, and ways to apply this knowledge in teaching.
The Forward Bending category lesson (sample above) may be accompanied by up to 14 more lessons on specific forward bending poses.
Fact sheets can serve as helpful memory aids. Fact sheets aren’t designed as primary learning tools, but they’re great for recalling key points.
I am writing to say a giant THANK YOU for all of your wonderful resources. I’ve spent the last few months slowly using your materials to create my [training] manual. I am greatly appreciative of the clarity, structure, and organization of these resources. I love the broad and diverse perspectives you have included, along with the extensive links to further information. Not to mention the wonderful service you provide by alerting me when updated versions of my downloaded files are available. I was nervous to make such a large purchase, but it was sooooo worth it. Thank you for all of the time, energy, and thoughtfulness you put into the creation and organization of these thorough resources. I truly appreciate them and look forward to using them with my students this year! Thank you again.
I was overwhelmed in producing my first teacher training manual and couldn’t believe the training information I found on Yoga Teacher Central.
It made my first 200Hr Teacher Training so much easier as I was looking to align with Yoga Alliance for a 200hr Registered Yoga School.
I have also used the Advanced 300hr material and just completed my first 300Hr Teacher Training. All the teachers complimented me on the material for the manuals.
One of my teachers is from India and she can’t believe the advanced material Yoga Teacher Central provides. She says it is excellent.
Thank you so much Shelly/Yoga Teacher Central for your excellent material for Teacher Trainings. I couldn’t have done it without you!
— Janice Mousseau, Yoga by Janice
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I have to say, the info is fantastic– as I’ve been looking through it, it is so comprehensive and amazing!! Yes, it gives us the support to teach and communicate with students in a way that brings out the best we can be. We can deliver the knowledge in a way so that they can be the best they can be, too… and to know it’s only the beginning. Thanks for all this.
From an experienced and knowledgeable teacher whose formal training has been in India and his practice and teaching has been primarily in the U.S.
As I’m working with these resources in a more in-depth manner, I remain blown away by their quality and detail. They align so well with all of my own resources, and I am having the *MOST* fun creating with it. As I’m creating more and more, I see how your promise of helping yoga teachers be their best is not just good marketing– its something you are truly doing. Having help organizing this material has allowed me to present it with a maximum of efficacy for retention and understanding for students with such varied interests and backgrounds.
The resources that you provide fit together so nicely [and inspire me to share my love for mythology, chanting, and so on.] It feels a bit like I’m now prepared to defend a thesis — able to speak extemporaneously on each of the many topics and then field questions as they come up dynamically… its just SO much fun.
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I wanted to share with you that I heard from Yoga Alliance today for the first time about my Yoga School application. He said the outlines and information shared was so well done that just minor technical tweaks were needed. He said I made his job easy and that it was not “if” my application would be approved, it is just a matter of ‘when’. I used the syllabus you offered with the purchase I made from Yoga Teacher Central with just some minor changes. I so appreciate the information you are making available to the yoga community and am beyond grateful.
This trainer summed up exactly what we’ve been trying to achieve with a brilliant analogy.
It’s definitely been a valuable investment. I feel like I received the blueprint for the ideal house structure and now I can decorate with my own style. 🙂
Our customizable materials have been used by providers across the globe. We have clients throughout the US from Alaska to Maine… across Canada from BC to Newfoundland… in Mexico, Costa Rica… South Africa, Australia and New Zealand… the United Arab Emirates, Greece, France, the UK and the Netherlands.
We offer you a precise guide to ensure delivery of core knowledge that your students and clients need, but the materials aren’t “cookie cutter” and no two providers using our material are likely to have materials that look the same because every provider can pick and choose content and customize it to make it their own.
You may choose curriculums (that you can then customize as desired). A curriculum is a Word doc that provides a high-level look at the learning modules and then provides a step-by-step progression of learning objectives followed by a concise description of every lesson within each module.
The curriculums are just the beginning. You also have complete flexibility to choose lessons and other training materials from a vast library.
The library is vast — more than any provider or team of providers could ever use — and the content can be edited and custom branded.
You choose components from a vast library that can be mixed and matched and integrated with other material as you wish. Everything may be edited and branded as desired and thus, no two pieces using our materials will look the same.
Write us if you need anything or wish to schedule a call.
The training content is comprehensive, and organized with meticulous care. It can lend structure to your thinking, or prompt you to include something that you overlooked.
However, your in-class training need not be dictated by our material. The content can be used in any number of ways: it may be a valuable supplement to what you teach, providing background, contextual support, details or inspiration.
We consult dozens of expert sources on every topic, and scrutinize every single teaching. You see only that which meets high quality standards.
You can see the approach for yourself with an Individual Provider Membership and by perusing the free samples above.
With all topics, you’ll find that the content:
This organizational structure is not only a powerful way to approach topics, it gives you the flexibility to select content that best suits your needs for various trainings. For instance, how you present chakras will depend on the training (200RYT, 300RYT 500RYT, specialization, or a workshop) and on how much you wish to focus on the topic overall. For example, when choosing content for chakras, you can choose exactly what you need from these content pieces:
Every subject has been placed within a precisely organized structure. This gives you:
In summary, you get:
Occasionally we make significant content updates that we want to be sure our trainers have access to. In those cases, we send them the updated content free of charge, even after their membership has expired.
As you know, a good training is just the beginning. Continued study is a must. Our materials help your students and clients to be well-resourced. They can get up-to-speed efficiently and, just as importantly, as they are out working in the world and their interests and questions evolve, they’ll have excellent material to consult for years to come.
The Foundations Curriculum is an ultra-complete syllabus of knowledge standards that meets and exceeds the Yoga Alliance 200-hour core curriculum. It includes:
Here are a few snapshots from the Foundations Curriculum.
Here are a few snapshots from the Foundations and RYT200 Training Manual & Workbook. It’s a fully customizable template and has been successfully used by many trainers in their Yoga Alliance registration application.
Also included in the manual template is a customizable letter with guidance to trainees for developing a learning system for maximum retention and application.
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