The truth is that anyone can start teaching yoga and many have, without any training at all. But you’ll want to be the best teacher you can be and you’ll want to run a successful yoga business, so you’re going to need some help with that.

Here are the top five reasons for doing a teacher training course:

The support of a senior teacher: someone who can teach you all about yoga philosophy - what it’s about, where it comes from, how to tell the difference between genuine yoga philosophy and more recent interpretations that may not be authentic. Someone who loves yoga in all its forms and has a long-standing practice of their own, someone you can trust, someone who is enthusiastic and wants you to be the confident, authentic teacher that you really want to be.
The support of your fellow trainees. You’ll meet like-minded souls, who will support and encourage you during the course and beyond. These are some of the closest friends you’ll have in yoga - they get what you are doing and why, they are exactly as enthusiastic as you are about yoga and they genuinely want you to succeed. They’re on the same jounrney you and they’ll celebrate your successes and comiserate with you when life gets challenging.
You’ll choose a course with a teacher who has an amazing knowledge and understanding of anatomy and physiology so that when you teach your students, you do it with the confidence to help them grow into a deeper yoga practice, whilst keeping them safe .
You’ll have the backing of the awarding body - at Oak Tree Yoga Teacher Training School that is Yoga Alliance Professionals, a world leader in overseeing teacher training courses (none of your ‘learn it all in two weeks’ charlatans here) from whom you’ll go forward with a qualification that is highly respected the world over.
A mentoring relationship after you have finished the course. At Oak Tree Yoga Teacher Training School we continue our interest in you and your teaching, maintain our friendly teaching community and stay in regular contact for as long after the course as you wish. That way you can feel supported and confident in those scary early days of setting out as a teacher.

Oak Tree Yoga Teacher Training runs yoga teacher training courses in Berkshire every weekend a month for 11 months. Click here for our latest trainings. We want you to be the best teacher you can be – 75% of our teachers are teaching within one month of completing the teacher training course. Excellence starts early on during your training, so choosing the right course is crucial.