Welcome to the ISSA Yoga Evaluation Kit
This quick and easy guide will help you decide if becoming a Yoga instructor is right for you, and will give you the tools you need to get started.
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What can you do with a Yoga 200 Instructor certification?
As an ISSA Yoga 200 student, you’ll explore the ancient practice responsible for healing hearts, minds, and bodies around the world. As you learn to cultivate a deep sense of physical and mental well-being, you’ll root yourself in the knowledge and skills that help you share that with others. Yoga is a powerful pathway to healing, alignment, and connection and this online course lays the foundation to truly change your life- and the lives of others.
The Yoga 200 Instructor certification will provide you with a solid foundation in teaching, cueing, and sequencing principles, anatomy and physiology, meditation and pranayama, yoga history and philosophy, ethics, and professional development so you can confidently design and teach Hatha and Vinyasa-style classes. Yoga 200 is a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga School (RYS), and upon course completion, you'll be eligible to become a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200) so you can teach at any boutique studio, fitness center, gym, or lead your own private or group classes.
What Is Yoga Alliance?
Yoga Alliance is the largest non-profit organization representing the yoga community. They are the industry leaders in upholding ethics in yoga instruction and course framework standards to ensure safe, high-quality, accessible, and equitable yoga teaching. ISSA’s Yoga 200 course is a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga School (RYS), which meets the elevated standards of the Yoga Alliance. Students who complete ISSA’s Yoga 200-Hour Teacher Training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200).
What qualities do you need to be successful?
The need for yoga instructors is endless, and you can begin changing lives - starting with your own.
Do you have a passion for yoga and for making a positive impact on the lives of others?
Do you thrive on improving quality of life through physical, mental, and emotional well-being?
If so, you're in excellent company. The strength of the ISSA community is deeply
rooted in the love of wellness and fitness.
Passion for Yoga
Do you look forward to your yoga classes? Do you live to down dog, or seamlessly flow through your Vinyasa practice? You're in the right place!
Personal Transformation
Countless graduates have personally experienced the transformative power of health and wellness and they want others to know the same triumph. Nothing is more effective than a trainer who has been there.
Sociable
There are no two ways about it, you'll be working closely with people. You'll need to form good relationships with your clients to get the most out of them and make sure they keep working with you.
Motivating
You know that changing your body or meeting a challenge takes commitment. A yoga instructor who brings needed enthusiasm and support when the going gets tough is key to permanent gains.
What do you do next?
Contact our friendly support staff if you have specific questions you need answered.
Questions? Call 1-800-545-4772
Our support staff is made up of certified specialists who have gone through the program and know what to expect.
They will be able to answer any questions you have about the course material, exam, business support,
or anything else you're curious about.
What do you want to accomplish?
What do want to do with your certification? Do you want to work for an organization or gym, or work
for yourself? Do you just want to deepen your knowledge of yoga? You can change your mind at any time,
but you'll feel more secure with a goal in mind. ISSA gives you exclusive information to help direct you in
your career path or get your business up and running.
Get ready for the studio
You know that changing your body or meeting a challenge takes commitment. An instructor who brings needed
enthusiasm and support when the going gets tough is key to permanent gains.
Study, take the test and get started!
Once you're signed up, start studying, complete the practice quizzes and take the online final exam.