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 Qi Yoga Studio and Yogasan Wellness Centre
Course Overview
Qi Yoga School 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, offered in Bukit Mertajam, is built on 26 weekend modules. Each module is self- contained, and contains all elements required to fulfil the latest Yoga Alliance USA Core Curriculum 2025 criteria: Techniques, Anatomy, Yoga Humanities and Professional Essentials.
History, Vision & Objectives
Qi Yoga was the first local yoga school in Penang which offered Yoga teacher training program accredited by the USA Yoga Alliance. This course was first established in 2012 with the vision of Mei 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 were 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.
As yoga is gaining popularity, the intentions of this course are extended 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:
- Practice yoga anytime, anywhere.
- Study the full spectrum of yoga as a complete tradition—not just postures.
- Gain exposure to styles such as Yin, Iyengar, and Ashtanga Vinyasa.
- Design practices tailored to yourself and to others.
- Develop skills to teach private sessions, group classes, and workshops in varied settings.
- Teach yoga influenced by different styles—not limited to Hatha or Flow.
- Safely adjust and modify postures.
- Understand human anatomy and body systems and apply them in your teaching.
- Lead breathwork, meditation, and chanting.
- Apply yogic wisdom to daily life and teaching.
- Adapt to changes in the yoga industry using the teaching tools provided.
Course Content
Module 1: Techniques and Practice (90 hours)
Trainees will learn how to enter and exit a pose, correct 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 (28 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 (20 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 (8 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 (24 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.
Yen demonstrated one of the yoga cleansing technique, Nauli
”I set out to teach, but I discovered that my destination is be taught.
Mei YenFounder and Lead Trainer
Teaching Faculty
Learn from our experienced and dedicated trainers. We commit to give our best in each training.
Technique, Philosophy, Assisting & Adjustment, business aspects of yoga
Learn from a lead trainer who has a background as an auditor, accountant and lecturer
A passionate yoga teacher from Penang. Mei 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.
Mei 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.
Sixteen 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 氣) 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.
Anatomy & Yin Yoga
Learn from a trainer who is also a certified physiotherapist, anatomy teacher of pilates, founder of JoyLity Physiotherapy and co-founder of Core Essence Studio
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.
Technique and Ashtanga Vinyasa
Learn from an international teacher who has teaching experience in various countries and the founder of Namaha Yoga Indonesia
A loving and compassionate yoga teacher from Lombok island of Indonesia, Indra has been practicing yoga for 23 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 23 years and 20 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
March 2026
1, 7, 8, 14, 15, 28, 29
9AM to 1PM
Qi Yoga Studio
April 2026
4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19
9AM to 1PM
Qi Yoga Studio
May 2026
9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24
9AM to 1PM
Qi Yoga Studio
June 2026
7, 14, 21, 28
9AM to 5PM
Yogasan Wellness Centre
August 2026
1, 2, 15, 16, 22, 23
9AM to 1PM
Qi Yoga Studio
September 2026
5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20
9AM to 1PM
Qi Yoga Studio
October 2026
3, 4, 10
9AM to 1PM
Qi Yoga Studio
October 2026
11, 17, 18, 24
9AM to 5PM
Qi Yoga Studio
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