Yoga Alliance Certification - How Does it Work?

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yoga teacher trainees often email and call asking how does yoga certification work meaning what about yoga Alliance what about American Council on exercise what about all these different accreditation and registration boards that are out there the reality is right now yoga is not very well regulated there are places where you can register like yoga alliances and American Council on exercise but there isn't a lot of industry oversight like there is in things like chiropractic care and Massage Therapy the good news is this is coming and it's coming in some regions in a state and province level in some places I think it'll actually happen on a countrywide level it's happening here at where we are in Spain is happening in India North America it's rolling out slowly and it's complicated because how do you quantify and how do you measure what a quality yoga class is how do you accredit that it's a complicated decision to make but I'm really excited about it because when it comes it'll raise the standards for our entire industry right now unfortunately people will go to some random yoga course in India where they eat beans and they sing songs and they get a certificate and then someone else will go to an amazing course in San Francisco and spend two years and they know the body inside and out and they get that same little piece of paper but obviously their credentials are very very different so that's a long answer to tell you right now accreditation is pretty weak the good news is the yoga alliances of the world the organization's American Council on exercise everybody knows this is a problem and they're all working on it I'm talking to them and they're talking to other teachers and I think all of it will approve our job as yoga teacher trainees and yoga teachers is to simply keep asking for better and more regulation the industry as a whole is fighting regulation because people don't want to uplevel my suggestion is we should embrace regulation and try to really raise the standards of yoga teaching around the world