200 hour vs. 300 hour Yoga Teacher Training | Yoga Alliance Certified

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om and welcome to so School of Healing Arts where I will help you deepen your practice polish your teaching skills and have a happy healthy and Wealthy life in today's episode I'm going to talk about what's the difference or the main difference between the 200h hour and the 300 hour training programs many people ask me all around the world what is this mean I don't understand so I'm going to give you a little bit of the outline of how it works in yoga Alliance because this is where our framework is set to be like there's many different kind of Frameworks but the most legitimate right now at the moment is through yoga Alliance because through them you do have the ability to become certified and teach all around the world so yoga Alliance has R YT 200 hour R YT 300 hour and then you'll see e YT is 200 300 500 there's a lot of little like gadgets so I'm just going to break it down for [Music] you will [Music] shine you blowing up my mind Hey the 200h hour foundational course is the beginning of it all so when you take a first training you want it to be well you can have take workshops or Retreats and things like this which are going to also differ from a training because workshops are a lot more simpler and they're not certified like you don't get certified and so are Retreats also you'll find that Retreats and workshops are are taught by maybe teachers that have around four five maybe six years teaching where if you find a teacher training hopefully this is what I advise obviously not in every school it works like this but my full advice is that if you're going to take a yoga teacher training at least your facilitators will have had at least 10 years of experience if not 15 or 20 which is what we have in my school SOA School of Healing Arts so starting with the 200 hour program um you get to find the foundations so what is a 200 hour what will you find yoga Alliance gives you like okay well you have to do this amount of Errors of anatomy this amount of hours of teaching methodology you'll have practicums while you're learning you're you're practicing to teach you'll have um Hands-On adjustments you'll have alignment and like basically technicalities of how to you know execute poses and so on and so forth so they give you ch ch ch like little framework that you need to follow as a 200h hour yoga teacher training now these like experiences are much more than yoga especially if you have a very good school if you pick your school correctly you'll find that these trainings can go way Far and Beyond you just learning how to do yoga and teach yoga many of my students all around the world come not because they want to become teachers but rather because they just want to transform something in their life they want to change their lifestyle they're going to they want to heal something that's going on they want to clear cleanse they want to learn how to meditate they just want to deepen and kind of connect a little bit more with the yoga universe but not everyone wants to be a teacher the fact is that after the training happens many of the people that didn't think we going to end up teaching end up saying like oh my God this is completely accessible this works this is amazing this could make my life so much more beautiful and meaningful so many people do end up teaching and many just don't but all of these tools are definitely going to trans transform how you live your daily lives they're going to transform the way that you look at things the way that you you know manage yourself and understand that your body is not just your body your body is connected to your mind your mind is connected to your emotions your emotions connected to your spirit so when you're doing yoga the difference between yoga and gymnastics or Pilates or any other kind of Fitness is that yoga incorporates Body Mind spirit and what happens is that you're breathing and you're doing yoga as you breathe and you're moving energy and you have an intention and you have a set meaning a set Direction which starts dissolving the layers between you know is this body is this coming from my emotionals is this coming from my mind like these layers start to dissolve and you begin to understand that you are one whole being with so many layers and so much within you so as you do yoga you clear you cleanse you purge you kind of like you stretch you fold you it's kind of like washing a shirt like you have to twist it you have to stretch it you have to scratch in between the fibers to get all the toxins and take all the stuff the mental clusters everything kind of starts purging out especially when you're using the breath you're using everyday meditation to integrate the teachings and the Dharma right so the teachings the emotional intelligence the cognitive way of understanding who you are and then grabbing all of this once you purge you clear you cleanse you have so much space within you that a lot of creativity starts bursting on your purpose kind of takes space within you and your unique expression of like your gifts your virtues your natural born virtues that are different from any other human in this planet are going to start blossoming through and so when you have a nourishing environment a nourishing environment meaning inside and outside of yourself these channels of information this body becomes a vessel of channeling your purpose in a much more fluid way you become more like there's more reciprocity with the inside outside all around so life flows through you and you become this you know vessel of transformation so that's what the 200h hour training is going to give you a foundation for you to clear cleanse understand breathe everything the Dharma the body the movement the understanding The Meditation the spirit all together Blended in one big pot of Life transforming experience especially if you find a school with beautiful amazing facilitators live music like any training is going to you know just make sure that you connect with the teacher make sure that you connect with the teachings that the 200 hour is offering you and then dive in and through so if you've never done a training this is where you start you start in a 200 hour and also if you've already done a 200 hour but you're still not confident enough to teach and you want to teach then you go to a 200h hour now the 300H hour training so that's the foundation the 300H hour training comes after the 200 hour hopefully right so in my school what we do is we separate the 300 hour into three modules of 100 hours and these modules are a lot more free in their Genesis in their you know in their way of being like you don't have yoga Alliance telling you it's got to have this it's got to have that like you do have some sort of you know framework that you have to follow but it's a lot more free in what you want want to specialize on so schools like me will specialize on something schools like other schools will have different Specialties and so the magic here is watching or looking at the specializations that are attracting or that you are attracting that are magnetizing that you would like to learn more about so what we do in so is we divide this into so Elements which is the first module of 100 hours meaning you have yoga and traditional Chinese medicine so traditional Chinese medicine TCM having you know learning the meridians learning the five elements learning everything that has to do with the healing modality of yoga right how are you going to heal how are you going to understand your organs what elements these organs are your attitudes your emotions what is your most prominent element that you need to treat what's the kind of food that you need to eat which are the meridians that you need to play with which are the poses that accompany those meridians and then also there's thai yoga massage involved so um there's TCM uh with yoga and TCM with tyoga massage which is amazing so this is why it's called School of Healing Arts because you'll have Chinese medicine you have Tha massage you have Dharma you have Anatomy you have meditation ation you have like breath practice you have all of the Petals of this flower to basically bring you back into yourself so that's going to be Soha element it's kind of more focused on the health you and healing yourself starting from you and then blossoming into everything that's outside of you including environment students work you know environment colleagues family relationships so and so forth so how elements then we go to the second module which is lucid flow and that's 100 hours also and Lucid flow is dedicated to understanding movement in the modality of like how to structure practice how to come into mandala vyasa sequences like it's more the methodology of how to move smartly on your mat how to create sequences that bring bring flow into your life that bring like the how to make outstanding or classes that really stand out or classes it really bring a huge experience to the practitioner or to yourself so Lucid flow is all about the Flow State it's coming with healing water aquatic body work it's coming with spinal waves in the water it's coming using the water to bring your creativity onto the mat creating your own sequences Anatomy that helps you support these sequences and then like bringing out the creativity that we were talking about for you to be that own Creator so that's going to be Lucid flow you're also learning manthra unfoldment and mythology why the why of Mythology and why like in this in the yoga they keep these stories alive um um can they keep these stories these myths to keep the teachings alive so the teachings are threaded and waved in and through the mythology and the Mantra these tools to protect your mind so beautiful unfoldment beautiful invocations that you learned also Lucid flow and then finally the third module of our 300 hour would be related to VI Dharma and this is where you learn the deepest layer of yoga which is the Dharma this is the power of your values the Dharma is it could be your purpose and it also that it's got two different meanings where it could be like how to use your purpose bring it to this world but Dharma is also related to your values that you use here on this planet the vtic teachings the value of values the bhagavat Gita the cognitive way of understanding it and then the physical way way of understanding it and then bringing the teachings to life bringing the devotional side of yoga understanding how to sit down make your own rituals make your own puas your own offerings understand how to sit down and meditate into one intention understand how to hold space What are the main values of the Dharma of the vas and of the ancient scriptures you're going to learn Sanskrit you're going to learn and you can also do hand on adjustments uh using different kinds of props and you go into more like the holding space and the understanding of the spiritual world of this beautiful yoga universe so A beautiful training you also go into the nervous system breath work and how to incorporate all of this knowledge you know Vegas nerve Theory parasympathetic sympathetic how you know how to acquire Health through the understanding of your inner body technology so this is um V so in a 300 hour you will find all of these specifics and where to specialize so that your class has become really like a trademark and they become really truly yours and you kind of like go a little bit deeper now these three modules can also be taken as immersions not just as trainings so people who don't already have their 200 hours can also take these and have just um continued education hours that will also count for your yoga Alliance certification so this is my little Brave brief um understanding of what's the 200 hour in relation to a 300 hour what's the difference between having a yoga training or having a proper training or having like a workshop and a a retreat and then which one to pick so I underneath I'm going to place a link here so that you can find what are the five main things that you want to look out for when you're picking a right yoga school so I'm going to write the five most important things so that you understand what you need to know before you click on the link and before you spend all this money which in reality it's not spending you are investing you are investing in something that is most valuable it's the most valuable investment that you'll ever make it's the most powerful one and it's the most important one is you investing in yourself you investing in your health you investing your lifestyle you investing in your own healing so thank you so much hopefully you like this video if you did like it please click like click write a little comment and otherwise I'll see you on the next episode thank you so very much [Music] umay of Will [Music] Shine you're blowing up my mind Hey w