This guide is your starting point for building a complete yoga teacher training. Before exploring the materials, please review the Associate & Trainer Members Guide to understand what’s available in the Download Center and how to access and use it effectively.
Excellent teaching rests on two complementary pillars:
While mentorship, transmission, and lived experience may be considered the essentials, a well-structured knowledge base is also critical for teachers—and too often missing from what has passed for “approved” yoga teacher trainings in recent years.
We want you to have the freedom and inspiration to focus on your practice, without missing out on high-quality, evidence-based education. This foundation supports continual growth and strengthens your capacity to serve students responsibly.
The knowledge base we provide offers a strong, adaptable infrastructure from which you can develop your own unique voice and approach.
Our materials are fully customizable, allowing for individual expression, emphasis, and teaching style. However, just as teachers must first understand the principles of safe and effective sequencing before creating original sequences, trainers benefit from understanding the scope and structure of a comprehensive teaching curriculum before deciding where to customize.
The Foundations Curriculum meets this need by starting at the beginning of each essential subject and building knowledge progressively, creating clarity, confidence, and coherence across your training.
We offer a wide range of curricula for different types of trainings and immersions, providing you with:
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