Certificate IV in Yoga Teaching

Course details

The Certificate IV in Yoga Teaching is your first step into teaching yoga. This national qualification allows you to be a 'yoga teacher'. You will learn to plan, organize and conduct yoga classes to groups of clients.

What do you learn in a Certificate IV in Yoga Teaching?

The Certificate IV in Yoga Teaching course will prepare you to:

• Establish client relationships 
  
• Develop your own yoga practice 
  
• Monitor a client's yoga technique and development 
  
• Provide yoga teaching to groups of clients 
  
• Recognise healthy bodies 
  
• Apply anatomy and physiology to yoga teaching 
  
• Undertake small business planning and manage compliance 
  
• Deliver first aid. 
  

Some of the topics you will study include:

• Client relationships 
  
• Health and Safety 
  
• Partnerships 
  
• The Yoga Business 
  
• Personal Practice 
  
• Anatomy and Yoga 
  
• Yoga Teaching 
  
• Healthy Bodies 
  
• Yoga Classes 
  

Job Outcomes:

The job outcomes for this course are:

• Yoga teacher in gyms or studios. The teacher may be self-employed or contracted by a larger company 
  
• Yoga studio owner/manager 
  
• Program Coordinator 
  

The program outcomes for this course are:

• At this level, yoga teachers will be equipped with the essential components to understand the yoga asanas (physical postures of yoga), differences in yoga styles, anatomy, ethics, philosophy of yoga teaching and risks associated with opening a yoga business. After attainment graduates of the Certificate IV Qualification can register as a Level 2 (intermediate level) accredited teacher with Yoga Australia or the International Yoga Teachers Association.