There are 3 stages of Yoga Training. The first level is the beginner’s or starters who are learning to practice yoga for the first time or novice. This stage of students is generally called practitioners or just yoga students. All the regular classes happening in various yoga centers satisfies this category of training. The second stage involves training of yoga instructor. The entry criteria for this stage are yoga students and exit criteria are to learn the capacity of teaching the beginner level students which is first stage. The third stage involves the training of yoga teachers who can create or train the teachers, simply put creators of the second stage.
WHAT IS YOGA
IN VEDIC SANSKRIT, THE MORE COMMONLY used, literal meaning of the Sanskrit word yoga which is “to add”, “to join”, “to unite”, or “to attach” from the root yuj, already had a much more figurative sense, where the yoking or harnessing of oxen or horses takes on broader meanings such as “employment, use, application, performance” (compare the figurative uses of “to harness” as in “to put something to some use”). All further developments of the sense of this word are post-Vedic. More prosaic moods such as “exertion”, “endeavour”, “zeal”, and “diligence” are also found in Epic Sanskrit.
An Yoga Instructor as mentioned before is a trained professional to teach yoga students to perform yoga practically. An instructor may not have thorough philosophical background but sufficient knowledge on practical instruction. Institutes that provide instructor level training.
To become a Yoga teacher is very simple.
NLiTN offers different levels teacher training course.