Certification & Quality

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Yoga Moves maintains the highest standard of safety and instruction for all Yoga teachers. As an instructor of Yoga, it is important not only to have the ability to properly convey the value and technique of the various yogic practices, but also to realize the importance of this position and what a powerful impact it may have on the future of each student.

The Yoga Moves Teacher Program is a registered yoga teachers program with internationally recognized Yoga Alliance Registration (USA), at the 200-hour level. When you graduate from our program, you will gain a jointly recognized teaching certificate from: Yoga Moves in Holland and you will qualify to register yourself with Yoga Alliance Registration (USA). Yoga Alliance is internationally recognized as the standard in yoga teaching. A 200-hour program is the minimum level recognized for a beginning yoga teacher. All of the instructors in our program have advanced trainings in Yoga or in the area they are teaching. We do not cut corners here.

The background of certification

Currently in the Netherlands, yoga teaching is not regulated. Thus, you will find many teachers who have not actually studied in depth or submitted themselves to the rigor of teacher training. One of the challenges for countries and communities who want to regulate yoga teaching, is there are so many different types of yoga, yoga teaching, and approaches, that making a standardization for what should be included has been difficult. Over many years of trial and error, the Yoga Alliance in the USA has, from our perspective, been the most successful in setting basic standards for programs to follow in order to determine qualification. And hence, the majority of schools are voluntarily applying these standards and they are now becoming world wide accepted. In some countries the 200-hour Yoga Alliance certificate is required to work as a yoga teacher, or get insurance. In others, at least 500-hour program is needed.

Note: 200 hour is the minimum set for a beginning yoga teacher. Yoga Moves program is over 300 hours long and we will offer an extension into 500 hour teaching certificate, starting 2009.