So that you’ve created a 200 hour and have been operating it for a few years. Now your college students are on the lookout for extra and are asking you to create a 300 hour superior trainer coaching. The place do you begin?
To begin with, don’t panic.
Making a 300 hour yoga trainer coaching could also be simpler than you suppose!
First: Why It’s Simpler Than You Assume
When college students graduate from a 200 hour yoga trainer coaching, they typically have a way of how they need to educate in principle, however treasured little talent in observe. A part of the aim of a 300 hour is to assist your college students combine, embody, and innovate upon these elementary abilities. This aim signifies that you’ll be spending chunk of time having your college students engaged on the sensible facets of their craft, which can take chunk of time:
- Apply instructing work with detailed, particular suggestions from trainers ~ 50 hours
- For instance: 2.5 hours on Saturday and Sunday for 10 weekends, spherical robin of instructing or structured observe instructing
- Aiding school in public lessons ~ 30 hours
- College students can observe lessons or help school in lessons with choose observe instructing moments once they’re prepared; maybe they educate a by donation class for the studio below supervision
Holy heck! You’ve simply deliberate 80 hours of your 300 hour coaching!
Not too shabby.
Now, these hours can’t be haphazard, summary, muddy, inconsistent, or unplanned. You will have to create clear benchmarks for talent improvement in addition to measurable and particular standards for fulfillment. However reinforcing your cuing fundamentals (direct language, cuing from the bottom up, cuing misalignments, stabilizing transitions, and so on.) will take time and observe. So guarantee that you’re creating time and area in your 300 Hour to yoga trainer coaching to work on these foundational abilities till they’re natural and second nature.
Content material for Your 300 Hour
So now that you simply’ve deliberate 80 hours of your program, what else do you have to embody?
Contemplate:
- Class Kinds. The category kinds of your studio or neighborhood: which kinds do college students have to study? How would you like your academics to show? What are present gaps in information that you’d deal with when you may?
- Sequencing. Oh sequencing! There are such a lot of potentialities right here! Creating sequences, creating sequences in several kinds, instructing these sequences, adapting sequences, evaluating one another’s sequences, engaged on pacing, creating well-rounded lessons, making a progressive sequence…the probabilities are limitless.
- Anatomy. Ahhh anatomy! You understand how a lot I really like yoga anatomy! Should you’re on the lookout for help right here, I’ve a 50-hour on-line anatomy program for 300 hour applications led by Gil Hedley. Take a peek right here and ask me for a backstage tour.
- Specialty Yoga. Candidly, I’m not a fan of placing collectively a bunch of speciality kinds and modularizing them right into a 300 hour yoga coaching. Although it could sound tempting from a enterprise perspective (hey, I’ll simply have a bunch of a la carte choices and switch them right into a YTT!), it undermines your capacity to create a robust and compounding journey withe one group of scholars. That mentioned, when you have a very sturdy specialty model at your studio, equivalent to scorching or Yin, then you might contemplate incorporating a mode into your 300, equivalent to a 50-hour Yin Coaching.
- Philosophy. Which texts are necessary in your college students to know? And when you’re on the lookout for help with lesson plans, try my Purchase A Classes and save a while! The Historical past of Yoga, Sutras, Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, Ayurveda, Chakras, Koshas, Tantra, Hatha?
- Pranayama and meditation methods. What would you like them to know? Construct first on the fundamentals. Reinforce the methods out of your 200 hour yoga trainer coaching program (meditation and pranayama) after which add loads of time to each observe and group educate extra superior methods that you really want your academics to know.
- Ethics and values. How does knowledgeable yoga trainer comport themselves? How do they contextualize battle or handle difficult conditions? What thorny points might emerge for a yoga skilled and what instruments do they should navigate these challenges?
- Yoga Enterprise Modules. Instructing on-line is right here to remain. By together with sensible enterprise modules on branding, advertising, instructing on-line, methods to plan a retreat, and making a workshop may help place your trainees for fulfillment as knowledgeable. (Need assist? Try my in depth enterprise electives right here.)
- Different cool stuff. Palms on assists, theming, mudra, mantra, chanting, kirtan, the refined physique, adaptive yoga, instructing rookies, yoga outreach, trauma knowledgeable yoga, speciality populations.
Your activity: contemplate your very best graduate. What abilities, attitudes, and information should they need to be a consultant of your small business? Brainstorm! Create a wild and loopy listing!
Pattern Hourly Breakdown
Okay of us, so let’s say that I’m serving to you out with come of your content material. Let’s break that 300 hours down into manageable chunks. Right here’s the way you may begin to plan:
- 50 hours of observe instructing and suggestions by trainees
- 30 hours of precise observe (guided observe by school)
- 10 hours of practicum (formal evaluation)
- 30 hours of helping and observing lessons
- 50 hour: Yin instructing specialty
- 50 hours: Gil Hedley’s Integral Anatomy for Yogis course
- 10 hours of pranayama and meditation practices
- 10 hours of mantra, chanting
- 30 hours of philosophical research and ethics
- 10 hours of fingers on helping
- 10 hours of enterprise
Uh…wait, we’re already at 290 hours, which is 20 previous what we want for contact hours (Yoga Alliance solely requires 270).
Really feel extra manageable?
Yoga Alliance
Yoga Alliance is presently (as of Feb 2024) extra easeful and versatile with their 300 hour requirements than they’re with their 200 hour requirements. There’s plenty of latitude for studios to create trainings which might be reflective of their mission and imaginative and prescient and in consequence, they don’t dictate the “classes” of content material as strictly.
Listed below are a couple of key factors (see extra right here):
- College must be registered as E-RYT 500 hour academics
- 50 hours (not less than) have to be allotted to Strategies, Coaching and Apply
- 5 hours (not less than) have to be allotted to Instructing Methodology
- 30 hours (not less than) have to be allotted to Yoga Philosophy, Life-style and Ethics for Yoga Academics
- 30 hours (not less than) have to be allotted to practicum (observe instructing, remark, helping)
- And YES you’ll be able to educate on-line.
Closing Ideas
Hopefully this has helped de-mystify the 300 hour YTT and put it a bit of nearer into attain!
The 300 hour yoga trainer coaching is a robust and thrilling providing in your neighborhood that may help your academics to realize confidence of their abilities and authenticity of their instructing voice. Launching your 300 hour YTT could also be nearer than you suppose!
I’m right here to assist! Attain out anytime for an informational chat or brainstorm and let’s make it a actuality.
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