We have yoga teacher training in Puerto Vallarta three times per year at davannayoga. We have been certified since 2009 and have graduated many yoga teachers already.
To date davannayoga is the only yoga school in Puerto Vallarta that is a Registered Yoga Alliance school. What does this mean? This means that our curriculum has been reviewed and approved by a qualified board at the Yoga Alliance in the USA. The Yoga Alliance is the single most recognized certification in the world. Once you graduate from the davannayoga program you qualify instantly for Yoga Alliance Certification. You simply send in your copy of your certificate of graduation from davannayoga and a small fee to the Yoga Alliance and you will be on their directory of teachers and receive a card with your registration number.
Why is it important to be Certified?
These days yoga studios, community centers, schools and other places offering yoga classes will hire only certified yoga instructors. What a certification gives the teacher is a well rounded education. Many “teachers” may be great in teaching asana but have no idea about Yoga History and Philosophy or what Mantras mean or how to teach people to breathe correctly. In an approved curriculum (by the Yoga Alliance) all of the most important areas of yoga study are there. The teachings include: The Art of teaching, Teaching Methodology, Anatomy and Physiology, and History and Philosophy, Ethical guidelines for teachers and Teacher Apprenticeship time. In the davannayoga teacher training program there is also Thai Yoga Massage training, Mudra training, Bandha work, extensive Pranayama (breathing) training, and many more useful areas to those teaching in the davannayoga style of Vinyasa Flow. This curriculum is well rounded giving the teacher many tools for teaching students of all walks of life and of all physical abilities. We even teach special applications such as teaching to children, pre-natal students, overweight students and senior citizens.
Davannayoga is a small yoga shala and the teacher trainees get many hours of hands-on training, working with the students, teaching in classes and managing the studio door for classes daily. This is important work and can’t always be done in larger schools.
How to know if the school you’re looking at is a Yoga Alliance Registered school – look
for the “goodhousekeeping seal” of yoga schools:
This will tell you that your training will be world-standard yoga teacher training.
If you want to learn more about davannayoga’s teacher training program, visit our site at www.davannayoga.com and click on teacher training.
