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Plymouth Yoga offers Mindful Yoga Teacher Training (certificate) using yoga, meditation, and contemplative movement to firmly ground the student’s practice in a yoga routine as a way to learn and teach. The curriculum is Yoga Alliance approved and provides qualifications to register as a certified yoga teacher at the 200-hour level (RYT-200).

The program teaches the basics of hatha yoga and lays a foundation for developing teachers. Curriculum includes: A). philosophy and ethics stemming from the eight-fold path of Pananjali’s Ashtanga Yoga; B). Anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology basics as related to asana; C). Teaching techniques involving witnessing, practicum, and class sequencing; and D). Ongoing feedback and review of student progress. Most importantly, the Mindful Yoga Teacher Training program explores why it is important for a yoga teacher to be a skillful observer and a witness to their own and to their students’ movement and learning process