Yoga Teacher Training
Intro
This course is open for anyone who would like to take their practice to the next level or simply to share their joys and discover yoga career. It allows trainees to delve more deeply into the authenticity of yoga, to bring forward the ancient wisdom and techniques for modern age, yet not losing your ability to continue adapt and evolve with the new changing in yoga industry.
Certification
Qi Yoga school is a Registered Yoga School with USA Yoga Alliance. Graduates of this course are eligible to register as Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance.
Yoga Alliance is an international governing board for yoga teachers and training program in the U.S and globally. Becoming a RYT means having a higher profile and gaining international recognition as a yoga teacher, attributes that many hiring studios look for.
Format & Location
In Studio (Yogasan Wellness Centre), and
Virtual Livestream (Zoom)
Course Overview
Qi Yoga School 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, offered in Butterworth, Penang as well as virtually, is built on 25 weekend modules. Each module is self-contained, and contains all elements required to fulfil the latest Yoga Alliance USA Core Curriculum 2024 criteria: Techniques, Anatomy, Yoga Humanities and Professional Essentials.
History, Vision & Objectives
This course was first established in 2012 with the vision of Yen that the demand of qualified yoga teachers in Penang will increase in conjunction with the expansion of yoga market. The initial objectives of this course was to deliver yoga teachers who know how to teach professionally and confidently to any group of students, as well as able to teach anywhere in the world. With the vision and objectives, Qi Yoga became the first local yoga school in Penang which offers Yoga teacher training program accredited by the USA Yoga Alliance.
As yoga is gaining popularity, the intention of this course is also to produce a new generation of yoga teachers who are not just well-equipped with the skills and authenticity of yoga, but the flexibility to choose own individual path of learning and teaching style to thrive in today’s yoga environment.
By the end of the course you can expect to:
- Have deeper connection to yoga and your own practice
- Be able to teach group class influenced by Hatha and Flow style
- Be able to safely adjust and modify postures
- Have an understanding of anatomy and physiology and be able to apply this into your teaching
- Have a full grasp of the ethics of yoga and how this translates into being teacher
- Lead simple breathing works, meditation and chanting within the class
- Have an understanding of history and philosophy of yoga and be able to transmit this into your daily life and teaching
- Adapt to the world changes in yoga industry through teaching tools provided
Course Content
Module 1: Techniques and Practice (90 hours)
Trainees will learn how to enter and exit a pose, proper alignment, benefits, contraindications, how to synchronize breath with movement and modify poses. Equal focus will be given on breathing works which include abdominal breathing, ujjayi breath, brahmari, alternate nostril breathing and kapalabhati. The concept and techniques of meditation will be explored including guided meditation, visualisation, mantra and chakra meditation. Trainees will also discover yogic anatomy (5 layers, energy channels and energy centers) which are very different with western anatomy.
- Hatha Yoga and Yoga Flow based, exploration to Yin Yoga and Ashtanga Yoga
- Poses, breathing work, meditation, chanting, chakra, energy channel, ayurveda, Sanskrit
- Poses breakdown- modification, alignment, benefit, contraindication, breath cue
Module 2: Anatomy and Physiology (30 hours)
Trainees will first assess individual anatomy. Then, more explorations will be putting on skeleton, muscles and bodily system, which are useful for giving strong cues and delivering a safe class.
Major bones, joints and muscles in relation to poses, assessing individual anatomy and physical limitations in relation to poses, poses to improve the strength and flexibility of muscles, impact of yoga practice onto nervous system, digestive system, cardiovascular and respiratory system, safe movement for balancing and stretching
Module 3: The Wisdom of Yoga (20 hours)
History and application of yoga knowledge to the teaching and daily life, through traditional yogic texts- Patanjali Yoga Stura, Bhagavad Gita , Hatha Yoga Pradipika
Module 4: Teaching Skills (25 hours)
Learn how to sequence a class, modify postures for individual’s needs, demonstration, cueing and giving adjustment.
Sequencing, observation, cueing, hands-on adjustment and class management
Module 5: Ethics and professional development (10 hours)
The foundation of yoga and an important aspect of the Qi Yoga Teacher Training, trainees will be introduced to yoga philosophy, psychology, ethics and paths of yoga through traditional yoga texts such as Patanjali Yoga Sutras and Hatha Yoga Pradipika.
- Ethical guidelines by Qi Yoga School, Patanjali Yoga Sutra and USA Yoga Alliance
- Continuing education, marketing and promotion, utilisation of technology tools for teaching yoga
Module 6: Practice Teaching (25 hours)
By consolidating all of the knowledge and techniques, trainees will discover what work best for themselves and practice teaching to their peers. Practice teaching session is challenging yet interesting and trainees always have fun out of it. This is the time where trainees have opportunity to prepare for teaching and collecting feedback from trainer and peers.
Mentorship guidance through group teaching, giving and receiving feedback. In this final module, you will consolidate the whole learning and contribute.
Course Requirements
Good physical health and an open mind are the two pre-requisites. It is preferable that prospective participants have some experience of yoga, though this is not necessary. For those who are already teachers or who may have practiced before, leave your preconceptions about yoga aside, bring in an open and willing-to learn-mindset, this will be a life challenging experience.
We require a participation rate of 100% in order to receive certification. If for some reasons you must miss more than 10% we will work with you individually to make up time privately with one of the trainers (or within a group if there are multiple people missing the same sessions). These private makeup sessions do have an additional fee to compensate the trainers for their additional time.
Qi Yoga School takes COVID-19 precautions very seriously. We follow all Malaysia government guidelines and protocols. You will be required to produce a negative Covid self-test before each in-person class starts. We encourage participants be very mindful of their activities during the course period and we ask that you follow all Malaysia government guidelines.
Yen demonstrated one of the yoga cleansing technique, Nauli
”I set out to teach, but I discovered that my destination is be taught.
YenFounder and Lead Trainer
Teaching Faculty
Learn from our experienced and dedicated trainers. We commit to give our best in each training.
Founder and lead trainer of Qi Yoga
A passionate yoga teacher from Penang. Yen loves to deliver yoga to practitioners start from where they are. Her teaching is supportive holistic and preserve the authenticity of yoga, include a medley of movement, breath work, meditation, deep relaxation, chanting and yoga philosophy through story telling.
Yen holds a professional certificate in Accounting (ACCA), Yoga Teacher Training at 200- hour, 500-hour, kids, prenatal & postnatal. She enjoyed travelling to different countries such as USA, Bali, India, Bangkok and Beijing to attend yoga courses and workshops every year.
Thirteen years ago, she founded Qi Yoga. Qi Yoga was the first name in her thought when she was joining teacher training in India. “Qi” (breath or ?) means life force. To her, breathe correctly to harmonise the Qi in our body is as important as taking correct foods. Practicing yoga with correct breathing can have impact not only to physical body and mind, but open us opportunity to the road of spiritual and wisdom.
She established and worked almost exclusively in Yoga Teacher Training for over ten years, and have taught about 30 teachers in the areas of Yoga philosophy, techniques, Yoga anatomy, adjustment and apprenticeship.
Learn more about Yen here.
Founder of JoyLity Physiotherapy and co-founder of BodyMind Yoga
Kok Su Lynn has been in the field of Physiotherapy since 2009. She completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in Hatha & Vinyasa Flow in 2019, and 50-hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training in 2021.
As a physiotherapist, her initial intention of approaching yoga is to utilize yoga as an exercise tool to complement her physiotherapy practice.
However, as she continues to practice, she found that yoga is not merely about asanas that improve the strength and flexibility of the physical body. On a deeper level, she found that she is able to be more aware of her thought processes, which changes the way she responds to negative stimuli from the environment, leading to better tolerance to stress, feeling calmer and less anxious.
She is excited to bring her knowledge in physiotherapy and incorporates it into her yoga classes to bring the best of both worlds. She hopes more people are able to experience the transformative changes that she herself has experienced.
Founder of Namaha Yoga Indonesia
A loving and compassionate yoga teacher from Lombok island of Indonesia, Indra has been practicing yoga for 19 years, Indra is well verse in many styles as accomplished her teacher training in Hatha Vinyasa from INSPYA school, Sun Yoga for kids, pre and post natal yoga and has 500-hour in Yoga Therapy.
After practicing for 20 years and 17 years of teaching in many different countries, Indra found her style of yoga, Namaha Yoga. A style of yoga which brings an intention into your practice, making every move into a meaningful action. Combining music, touch, breath and movement, as well as mantras and mudra to create this joyful and heartfelt yoga style. Namaha techniques offer a step by step guidance to approach simple or challenging poses with greater awareness and ease.
“Flowing with breath and connection to the heart…feel how joyous your yoga practice can be”
Indra specialized in custom made retreats in Bali and Lombok, bringing the practice of yoga into a meaningful and holistic lifestyle.
Indra shares her practice in few international yoga festival such as: Bali Spirit Festival (Indonesia), Woodford Folk Festival (Australia), and other yoga festivals in China.
Course Dates
June 2023
10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25
9AM to 1PM
July 2023
1, 2, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30
9AM to 1PM
September 2023
2, 3, 9, 10, 23, 24, 30
9AM to 1PM
October 2023
1, 7, 8, 21, 22, 28, 29
9AM to 1PM
November 2023
4, 5, 18, 19, 25, 26
9AM to 1PM
January 2024
6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21
9AM to 1PM
March 2024
2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24, 30, 31
9AM to 1PM
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