Hatha Yoga Teacher Training & Yoga Certification

Charles MacInerney in collaboration with his partner, Ellen Smith, offer Hatha Yoga teacher training and Yoga Certification in Austin, Texas. Our yoga certification program, called the Living Yoga Program, is approved by the Yoga Alliance registry, and the Yoga Register. Graduates receive their yoga teacher certification at the 200 hour yoga teacher training level.

If you want to become a yoga teacher and you are looking for yoga instructor training and/or yoga certification, we hope that you will consider The Living Yoga Program's residential yoga teacher training.

In addition to catering to students from Austin, and throughout Texas, our yoga instructor certification regularly draws students from Canada, Mexico, and Europe. For those students not needing Yoga Alliance registration, we offer a special 200 hr. yoga certification track, approved by the Yoga Register, which only requires one 10-day trip to Austin and provides half of the 200 hours required for yoga certification and registration. The remaining 100 hours can be satisfied in your own community, overseen by your LYP advisor. The ten day intensives are held at the Radha Madhav Dham Ashram in the beautiful hill country just Southwest of Austin, Texas. This magical setting plays a large part in the success of our yoga instructor training. Participants are immersed in the yogic lifestyle, amidst the beauty and seclusion of one of the nicest residential retreat centers in America.

A large part of the yoga teacher training intensives involve detailed instruction in primary asanas. Students learn not only how to practice these poses, but also how to teach them, along with contra-indications, adjustments, benefits, and much more.

In addition to learning asanas during the yoga instructor certification intensives, students are also instructed in the art of teaching, designing class plans, yogic philosophy, Sanskrit, meditation, and the business of yoga.

What really distinguishes our yoga certification program is that from the very beginning, students are given the opportunity to teach yoga classes and get feedback on all aspects of their teaching. Our students find this is an invaluable part of their yoga instructor training.

Yoga Anatomy and Physiology are included in hatha yoga teacher training certification. Mark Uridel teaches a hands on workshop for LYP students. Mark is a physical therapist, teaches anatomy at massage schools, and is also an accomplished yoga teacher in his own right. For those who cannot attend in person, an excellent online yoga anatomy program is provided.

Our yoga instructor course and yoga certification program recognizes the importance of community and ongoing support for our students and just as importantly, for our graduates. The yoga teacher training intensives are designed to help students forge lasting relationships with their classmates. Students stay in touch with each other via list serves and communal web-sites, and are encouraged to rely upon their class mates for ideas, support, encouragement, and friendship, long after graduation from the program. We also sponsor a yearly reunion for our yoga instructor certification graduates at Radha Madhav Dham to further strengthen these relationships. For more information about pursuing your yoga certfication with the Living Yoga Teacher Training Program, please visit our site at: www.livingyogaprogram.com.