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London is home to many great yoga teacher training schools with popular instructors and high standards of teaching. Most of the teacher trainings in London are at least year-long courses with weekend training days to fit the busy schedule of Londoners but you can also find one-month intense courses. Below you find the top 12 Yoga Alliance accredited teacher training schools to choose from.
The Yoga People Teacher Training
The Yoga People yoga studio is probably the most popular choice in London if you want to train to become a traditional Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga teacher. The course is designed in a modular structure, allowing flexibility to mix training and locations for your convenience.
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The Yoga People have a worldwide mentorship program that ensures you have all the support you need even after your yoga teacher training. The training days are on weekends and the whole course can be done in 3 months. Apart from the eight weekends of training, you will have to do an anatomy course online (included in the course tuition).
And most importantly you`ll be required to attend 27 hours of yoga classes. As they like to quote the wise words of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois: “Yoga is 99% practice, 1% theory”.
- Price: £3100 (Early Bird discount) – £3500, payment plans available
- Duration: 8 weekends over 3 months
- Website: http://theyogapeople.com/
- Yoga Style: Ashtanga vinyasa
The House Of Yoga Teacher Certification
This yoga teacher training is an innovative program that was designed to provide you with inspiration, education, and personal transformation in body, mind, and spirit. The teacher training team at The House Of Yoga believes that training to become a yoga teacher should be more than just taking classes and attending training sessions.
Their objective is to help you take a step from being a student to becoming a teacher. This support won`t end with the finishing of the training, they believe that serving a community is the most important thing about what they do.
The schedule of the training is built on a weekend format, you will be attending eight-weekend workshops over eight months time before gaining your Yoga Alliance teaching certification.
- Price: £2600 (Early Bird discount) – £2800
- Duration: 8 months – 1 weekend every month
- Website: https://thehouseofyoga.co.uk/teacher-training/
- Yoga Style: Vinyasa
Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre Certification
Sivananda’s London yoga teacher training course was developed and first taught by Swami Vishnudevananda, the yoga master who brought yoga to the West. This course is still taught by his senior disciples.
With over 40,000 graduates to date, the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre is the largest yoga organization in the world. Situated in a quiet residential area in South West London, the Centre provides an ideal setting for the training where you`ll be spending the one month of the training. Central London is only about 30 minutes by Tube from this peaceful center.
The intense four-week course is styled after the ancient system in which students live, study, and work with their teachers and fellow students in an intimate setting. Through hands-on learning and guidance, you`ll be able to deepen your practice and gain the skills needed to teach yoga. Upon completion of the course, you`ll receive a Yoga Alliance approved certification.
- Price: £2620 (shared room) – £3340 (double room) – £3600 (single room)
- Duration: 1 month intensive, live-in
- Website: https://sivanandalondon.org/
- Yoga Style: Hatha
Intelligent Yoga Teacher Training & Certification
Intelligent Yoga Teacher’s approach to yoga is to provide you with the most current scientific anatomical and movement researches that will give you a solid foundation to produce intelligently sequenced classes.
The program content will be practical and skills-based, and will also facilitate a personal yoga journey diary to keep track of your personal practice. The training is designed in a modular system. There will be 6 training modules in total, five are 5 days each, and one is 4 days. In addition, there will be mock exam assessments to attend as well as a final exam which will be externally assessed.
On these training days, you will be attending formal lectures, guided asana technique classes, group work, teaching practice and you`ll also be required to allocate time for individual studying and reading. Upon graduating from the course, you will receive a Yoga Alliance Accredited 200hr Teaching Certificate.
- Price: £4245 (early bird discount) – £4495, payment plans available
- Duration: 6 modules over the course of 1.5 year
- Website: https://www.intelligentyogateachertraining.co.uk/
- Yoga Style: Hatha
TriYoga Yoga Teacher Certification
TriYoga offers comprehensive training as one of the leading yoga schools in the UK. Whether you are just starting your journey to become a teacher, seeking to enhance your teaching skills or simply wishing to develop your personal practice, TriYoga`s teacher training programs will provide you with the tools to improve your practice and teach authentically.
The training lasts for six months and consists of 28 tuition days delivered through 6 modules. The first module will be 4 full days and the following weekends will be running from Friday evening to Sunday evening.
The final module will be made up of a 9-day intensive and an assessment weekend. On successful completion of the training, you will be able to register with Yoga Alliance as a 200-hour RYT.
- Price: £2430 (early bird discount) – £2700
- Duration: 6 months – weekends
- Website: https://triyoga.co.uk/services/yoga-teacher-training/
- Yoga Style: Hatha
Sangye Yoga School
Sangye Yoga School has strict training that has been planned for students who wish to deepen their understanding of the yoga practice in a closely mentored 5 months program. This 200hr gives you a foundation of yoga principals with a strong emphasis on vinyasa.
There are a lot of pre-requisites and requirements from the students on this course. Applicants are expected to have a minimum of 3 years of dedicated yoga practice in order to be accepted to this course. When you apply, first you have an informal interview and you have to submit a written assignment on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
Before the course starts you have to complete anatomy modules online and do the pre-course reading. For the duration of the training, you are expected to maintain a daily meditation and a consistent daily asana practice. Sangye Yoga School believes that upon completion of this training all graduates are ready to be the best yoga teachers in the world.
- Price: £3200 (early bird discount) – £3700
- Duration: 7 weekends over 5 months
- Website: https://www.sangyeyoga.com/
- Yoga Style: Hatha, vinyasa
Lumi Power Yoga Training
Lumi yoga teacher training – as they like to say, is an opportunity to discover your authentic, extraordinary power and through this personal transformation, you will also learn how to inspire others on their own path of yoga. The schedule of this one-month course will consist of a “kick-off weekend” and two “immersion weeks”.
Prepare yourself for learning everything about the asana technique including alignment, actions, modifications and assists, learn about breathing techniques and when to use them – or not, and learn about the history and philosophy of yoga.
Many more topics will be covered in a fun environment with lots of laughter. Also, there`s going to be lots of practice, cause the best way to find your feet as a yoga teacher is to actually start teaching. After completing all modules and exams you will gain a Yoga Alliance registered certificate.
- Price: £2690 (early bird discount) – £2890
- Duration: 1-month intensive
- Website: https://www.lumipoweryoga.com/
- Yoga Style: Hatha
The Power Yoga Co.
The Power Yoga Co.`s mission is to train teachers to the highest possible standards so they can offer their students a challenging, safe and fun environment in which to practice yoga. They divide their program into five modules: teaching methodology, technique training, anatomy & physiology, yoga philosophy, and the practical aspects of teaching yoga.
These five modules will be taught in two 9-day intensive sessions and at the completion of all these modules, you will have acquired a solid foundation of both theoretical knowledge and practical experience to a degree that you feel confident to start teaching.
You will gain a Yoga Alliance approved certificate when successfully completing the course. Students, check this one out, you`ll get a 15% discount with a valid student ID!
- Price: £2780. 10% off Early Bird, 15% off for students
- Duration: 18 days
- Website: http://thepoweryogaco.com/
- Yoga Style: Power Vinyasa
Yoga Campus
Yogacampus yoga teacher training is one of the most popular Yoga Alliance-approved training in the UK. Their approach is non-dogmatic and still authentic, giving everyone an opportunity to find their own path.
The basic approach to training great yoga teachers is that you are allowed to find a unique combination of a scientist, an artist, and a spiritual guide within yourself. Rather than focusing on any particular style of yoga, this course draws on a range of leading teachers from a variety of yoga traditions for you to experience enough options to find what resonates with you the most.
This non-residential training runs over an 18-month period with 12-weekend workshops and one 5-day intensive. By the end of the course, you will be able confidently to convey your own experience of yoga’s transforming power to your students with ease and confidence.
- Price: £3550
- Duration: 18 months – 12 weekends
- Website: https://www.yogacampus.com/teacher-training-diploma
- Yoga Style: Hatha
Elton Yoga
Elton Yoga has a comprehensive course accredited by Yoga Alliance. The prerequisites for this course are having a regular (daily) yoga practice for a minimum of two years – this will ensure that you have the necessary physical stamina and mental discipline to complete the course.
Yoga teacher training is a truly transformative journey where you’ll take your own practice deeper and gain the skills to teach. At this course, space is limited to 16 students so everyone can get as much individual attention as needed. The main modules of the course are the following: the practice of asana, learning how to create a class and adjust posture, yoga anatomy, and yoga philosophy.
The course will last for 5 months and you`ll attend weekend workshops on 14 occasions. The deposit of the course is the full payment in advance, so make sure you have the finances covered before applying.
- Price: £2695, payment plans available
- Duration: 5 months – 14 weekends
- Website: http://www.eltonyoga.com/london-yoga-teacher-training/
- Yoga Style: Hatha, Vinyasa
Yoga West
We believe a great yoga teacher is a unique combination of being anatomically informed, inspiring, and a spiritual guide seeking to develop both their personal practice and the practice of their students. Yoga West is delighted to host a yoga alliance accredited yoga teacher training to nurture future teachers.
- Price: £2690 – 2990, payment plans available
- Duration: 8 months
- Website: https://yogawestlondon.com/teacher-training/
- Yoga Style: Vinyasa
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