Best 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Courses in South Africa

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We listed the top 10 schools in South Africa below to save you from all the hassle of trying to find the best ones from the thousands of hits Google comes up with. In South Africa, most of the training is located around Cape Town and will offer a month-long or weekend format. You will find options to combine your training with volunteering, going to nature, or just being still, away from everyday life.

JIM HARRINGTON YOGA TEACHER TRAINING – Cape Town

Jim Harrington is the leading yoga teacher in South Africa’s yoga community. Internationally trained, Jim was registered with the International Yoga Alliance as an Experienced Yoga Teacher Trainer (the highest ranking in Yoga Alliance) in 2005 and has trained and mentored hundreds of teachers since then.

The 200-hour course can be taken with no aspiration to be a teacher, but just as an experience to deepen one`s connection to yoga. It is guaranteed that this course will change the way that you view, teach, and practice yoga.

Visiting international students enjoy an unforgettable stay in Cape Town, but don`t forget that the course fee doesn`t include food and accommodation. Upon successful completion of the course, you`ll get an internationally recognized, Yoga Alliance registered certification.

  • Price: $2300 (early bird discount), $2500, doesn`t include food and accommodation
  • Duration: 30-day intensive OR 3 months – weekend format
  • Website: https://www.jimharringtonyoga.com/
  • Yoga Style: Mysore style Ashtanga

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KARIN KHUNE TEACHER TRAINING – Cape Town

This unique program is a blend of intensive study of yoga, combined with heart-expanding nourishing volunteer work. Karin, the lead teacher, is dedicated to promoting South Africa and puts emphasis on the act of selfless service as part of the yoga teacher training – giving back to those less fortunate is an integral part of any spiritual practice, says Karin.

Through volunteer work, you will have the opportunity to see directly some of the challenges being faced by people in South Africa. But in doing so you will find yourself inspired by the stories of individuals, projects, and communities that have overcome barriers and found success, happiness, and purpose amidst hardship.

The modules of this course include yoga anatomy, philosophy, yoga asana, and breathing techniques, and also business planning, musicality, and developing relationships with your students.

  • Price: Tuition only: $2850 (early bird discount) – $3100, Tuition + Shared Accommodation: $3950 (early bird discount) – $4200
  • Duration: 25-days intensive
  • Website: Karin Kuhn Yoga & Lifestyle
  • Yoga Style: Hatha

GURU RAM DAS YTT– Cape Town

Whether you wish to deepen your personal practice or long to become a certified Instructor, this Kundalini yoga teacher training is your starting point. It is a chance to immerse and transform into your authentic self, and go deeper into your personal transformation, meditation, and academic studies. You will surely complete the course with a solid foundation to confidently teach.

This training requires personal commitment and 100% attendance. Students are expected to be willing to explore the deeper dimensions of yoga and to have a regular Kundalini yoga practice before enrolling. the course will last for 3 months with 6-weekend modules and a five-day retreat. GuruRamDas is a Yoga Alliance-registered school so you`ll be able to register with Yoga Alliance upon completion of the training.

  • Price: $2200 (early bird discount) – $2300
  • Duration: 6 weekends and a 5-day retreat over 3 months
  • Website: Shangri La Centre Yoga
  • Yoga Style: Kundalini

THE WELLNESS CONNECTION YOGA – Hout Bay, Cape Town

The Wellness Connection works from an intimate small studio and only accepts a small group of students believing that this enables a higher standard of Yoga Teacher Training and individual attention to each student.

There are no prerequisites to this training, there are no expectations to be an advanced yogi, super fit, or flexible. All that`s needed is that you have a yoga practice, a love for yoga, and a commitment to the course and to your practice.

Over the course, you will develop and deepen your practice, and begin to understand how to do many poses safely and well. You will be able to demonstrate all postures to intermediate level and advanced postures determined by you as an individual. You will also develop extensive skills specific to yoga – you will understand the anatomy of poses as well as alignment, injury/weakness modifications, and prop use.

We cannot list all the things that will be included in the training here, but according to the reviews of past students, we`re happily recommending that you check The Wellness Connection out.

  • Price: Students and South Africans: $1100, Other: $1600 – don`t include accommodation and food
  • Duration: 25-days intensive
  • Website: The Wellness Connection
  • Yoga Style: Vinyasa flow

YOGA LIFE TEACHER CERTIFICATION– Cape Town

Based in the heart of De Waterkant, next to the Old Cape Quarter the teacher training is led by a dynamic group of teachers. The training consists of a balanced Eastern philosophy and psychology and offers plenty of opportunities to practice and learn how to teach.

You will study the foundations of the asana practice from alignment, physiology, and anatomy perspectives and gain an appreciation for how different bodies embody the physical practice. You will also learn the 5 research-based principles of the YogaLife method as they relate to the chakra system and how the yoga and mindfulness practices initiate growth and connection in the mind-body.

Training will take place on Wednesday evenings and weekends and will last for 2 months. At the end of the course, you`ll receive a Yoga Alliance-approved certification.

  • Price: $2000 (early bird discount) – $2200
  • Duration: 2 months – weekend format
  • Website: www.yogalife.co.za/
  • Yoga Style: Vinyasa flow

ASANGA TEACHER TRAINING– Cape Town

This program is located in Cape Town and is one of the oldest schools in South Africa founded 20 years ago. With a strong focus on classical yoga training – incorporating the body, breath, mind, and soul this school is run by Ananda Sanga who bases her teachings on Swami Sivananda and the Vinyasa Krama principles of Sri Krishnamacharya.

The emphasis of this yoga teacher training is to train well-qualified and dedicated yoga teachers, with an understanding of the theory and practice of classical yoga postures. About the details of times, schedule, pricing, and application process you`ll have to email Asanga. Asanga is registered with Yoga Alliance.

  • Price: upon request
  • Duration: 20-day intensive
  • Yoga Style: Hatha

RISHIKUL YOGA SHALA TEACHER TRAINING – Cape Town

This 21-day program is a Scholarship Program. It means that genuine teaching from traditional teachers of India will now be available at much-discounted prices to allow more and more people to witness the benefits of yoga.

The course is designed to impart yogic wisdom on varied aspects of yoga and will offer information at the hands of genuine and traditional yoga teachers from the motherland of yoga, India itself.

Integrating all aspects of yoga, the program covers the Ashtanga yoga primary series and Hatha yoga series along with theoretical guidance on yoga philosophy and human anatomy. Meditation and pranayama are an integral part of the program as well. You`ll gain a Yoga Alliance certification upon successfully completing your exams.

YOGA WARRIOR CERTIFICATION- Johannesburg

The Yoga Warrior yoga teacher training course consists of 8 compulsory intensive training weekends over a period of six months. Each weekend will cover a particular section of yoga postures, independent study, regular yoga class attendance, and homework. The course requires at least 6 months of yoga practice and 45 classes to be taken at Yoga Warrior with an additional 20 classes required for certification which can be taken anywhere and are to be completed before the final exams. The final theory examination will be on the final weekend, as well as a final practical exam where you will teach a class. Your certification will be Yoga Alliance registered, which means that you`ll be able to teach yoga anywhere in the world. 

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