AV108 Yoga School 200-Hr Ashtanga Vinyasa YTT

What a training like this usually involves

A 200-hour yoga teacher training is the usual first level of teacher training. Most courses cover the same broad ground: daily practice, how to teach and cue the poses, anatomy, yoga philosophy, sequencing, and supervised practice teaching, finishing with an assessment. The hours include contact time with the faculty and, in most programmes, some reading and assignments done on your own.

The school publishes more than one format (an intensive and weekends), so you can choose the one that fits your schedule.

An intensive usually means full days of practice and lectures, most days of the week, back to back until the hours are done. It is the fastest route and keeps you immersed, but you need the time off work, and there is little room to absorb the material between sessions. Plan for tired legs in the first week and keep your evenings free for reading.

A weekend format usually stretches the course over two to four months. You keep your job and have time to practise between sessions, but missing a weekend means making up hours, so check the make-up policy and block the dates in your calendar before you enrol.

The style here is ashtanga vinyasa. A training mostly teaches you to teach the style it practises, so pick one whose classes you already enjoy taking. Read what Ashtanga yoga is and Ashtanga compared with vinyasa if you are unsure.

Questions to ask the school before you enrol

• Who are the lead trainers, how many hours of the course do they teach themselves, and how many trainees are in a batch?
• Can you see the full schedule and the syllabus, including how many hours go to practice teaching with feedback?
• How is the course assessed, and what happens if you miss sessions or do not pass the first time?
• The school describes its accreditation in its own words (quoted above). Ask for its Yoga Alliance school listing and check it yourself in the Yoga Alliance online directory before you pay a deposit.
• What does the fee include (manual, materials, meals, lodging), and what are the deposit, instalment and refund terms?
• Can you take a regular class with one of the trainers first?

How it compares with the other trainings we list

Location: 3 other trainings we list are in Metro Manila (Inner Power Vinyasa 200-Hour Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training, Treehouse Yoga 200H Yoga Teacher Training and 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Manila (Philippines Rishikesh Ayurveda Yoga School)).

Fee: 8 of the 10 trainings publish a peso fee for the 200-hour course. The first figure each school lists runs from ₱75,000 to ₱120,000, and this one (₱88,000) is higher than 4 and lower than 3 of the others. Schools list early-bird, regular and instalment rates differently, and some include lodging or meals while others do not, so compare like with like.

Style: 3 other trainings we list also teach Ashtanga.

Format: across the 10 trainings we list, 4 run as an intensive, 4 on weekends and 2 online. The guide to becoming a yoga teacher in the Philippines explains how to weigh these against your schedule.

Other teacher trainings

• Mindful Yoga Cebu RYS 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training
• Yoga Philippines Teacher Training Courses
• Treehouse Yoga 200H Yoga Teacher Training
• Upekkha Yoga School 200-Hour YTT (online, Siargao, Davao)

Compare every teacher training in the Philippines we list. To set this programme beside up to two others on hours, next intake, published fee and accreditation, open it in the teacher training comparer. During the course, the free class planner and YTT study tools help with sequencing homework and Sanskrit.