So that you’ve created a 200 hour and have been working 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 instructor coaching. The place do you begin?
To begin with, don’t panic.
Making a 300 hour yoga instructor 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 instructor coaching, they typically have a way of how they need to educate in principle, however treasured little talent in apply. A part of the objective of a 300 hour is to assist your college students combine, embody, and innovate upon these basic expertise. This objective signifies that you can be spending a great chunk of time having your college students engaged on the sensible features of their craft, which can take a great chunk of time:
- Apply educating work with detailed, particular suggestions from trainers ~ 50 hours
- For instance: 2.5 hours on Saturday and Sunday for 10 weekends, spherical robin of educating or structured apply educating
- Aiding college in public lessons ~ 30 hours
- College students can observe lessons or help college in lessons with choose apply educating moments after they’re prepared; maybe they educate a by donation class for the studio beneath 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’ll need 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 many others.) will take time and apply. So guarantee that you’re creating time and area in your 300 Hour to yoga instructor coaching to work on these foundational expertise 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 must you embrace?
Think about:
- Class Kinds. The category kinds of your studio or group: which kinds do college students have to be taught? How would you like your academics to show? What are present gaps in data that you’d handle should you may?
- Sequencing. Oh sequencing! There are such a lot of prospects right here! Creating sequences, creating sequences in numerous kinds, educating these sequences, adapting sequences, evaluating one another’s sequences, engaged on pacing, creating well-rounded lessons, making a progressive sequence…the chances are countless.
- Anatomy. Ahhh anatomy! You know the way a lot I like yoga anatomy! When 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 potential to create a strong and compounding journey withe one group of scholars. That mentioned, when you’ve got a very robust specialty type at your studio, resembling scorching or Yin, then chances are you’ll contemplate incorporating a mode into your 300, resembling a 50-hour Yin Coaching.
- Philosophy. Which texts are essential in your college students to know? And should 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 strategies. What would you like them to know? Construct first on the fundamentals. Reinforce the strategies out of your 200 hour yoga instructor coaching program (meditation and pranayama) after which add loads of time to each apply and group educate extra superior strategies that you really want your academics to know.
- Ethics and values. How does an expert yoga instructor comport themselves? How do they contextualize battle or handle difficult conditions? What thorny points could emerge for a yoga skilled and what instruments do they should navigate these challenges?
- Yoga Enterprise Modules. Educating on-line is right here to remain. By together with sensible enterprise modules on branding, advertising and marketing, educating on-line, learn how to plan a retreat, and making a workshop can assist place your trainees for fulfillment as an expert. (Need assist? Take a look at my intensive enterprise electives right here.)
- Different cool stuff. Fingers on assists, theming, mudra, mantra, chanting, kirtan, the delicate physique, adaptive yoga, educating inexperienced persons, yoga outreach, trauma knowledgeable yoga, speciality populations.
Your process: contemplate your excellent graduate. What expertise, attitudes, and data should they need to be a consultant of your small business? Brainstorm! Create a wild and loopy checklist!
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 would possibly begin to plan:
- 50 hours of apply educating and suggestions by trainees
- 30 hours of precise apply (guided apply by college)
- 10 hours of practicum (formal evaluation)
- 30 hours of helping and observing lessons
- 50 hour: Yin educating 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 arms 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 at the moment (as of Feb 2024) extra easeful and versatile with their 300 hour requirements than they’re with their 200 hour requirements. There’s a whole lot of latitude for studios to create trainings which might be reflective of their mission and imaginative and prescient and because of this, they don’t dictate the “classes” of content material as strictly.
Listed here 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 Educating Methodology
- 30 hours (not less than) have to be allotted to Yoga Philosophy, Way of life and Ethics for Yoga Academics
- 30 hours (not less than) have to be allotted to practicum (apply educating, remark, helping)
- And YES you’ll be able to educate on-line.
Last Ideas
Hopefully this has helped de-mystify the 300 hour YTT and put it just a little nearer into attain!
The 300 hour yoga instructor coaching is a strong and thrilling providing in your group that may help your academics to realize confidence of their expertise and authenticity of their educating 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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