Do you have a passion for yoga? Keen to turn this in a career? View our guide to working as a yoga instructor around the world and find a dream paid yoga instructor job today.
Latest Yoga Vacancies
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Where to Find Employment
You can find work at yoga studios, leisure centres, gyms, hotels, holiday resorts, activity and surf schools and a lot more places.
Best Places to Work as a Yoga Instructor Worldwide
You can find yoga instructor jobs all around the world, especially in countries like the UK, USA and Australia. Some of the most popular destinations to apply include:
• UK
• Australia
• Bali
• Thailand
• Sri Lanka
• India
• Cambodia
• Mexico
• Italy
• Vietnam
How to Become a Yoga Instructor
Yoga has become an increasingly popular activity especially in recent years, and it has become very easy to find any number of locations offering lessons, even if you’re in small, remote areas. Many people are drawn to yoga as a way to stay in shape and unwind after a long day at work.
Due to yoga’s popularity and the fact that many people deeply enjoy it, it’s natural that there would be a surge of people interested in being yoga instructors.
Yoga instructors lead groups of varying sizes and ages in yoga and teach the different positions to people of varying skill levels. For those who truly love yoga, being a yoga instructor is a great way to enjoy the exercise yourself while teaching it to others.
Getting Started
If you’re interested in being a yoga instructor, it’s important to have a great deal of yoga experience under your belt. If you’ve just started taking classes and enjoy it, you’ll want to learn a great deal more before looking into teaching on your own.
It’s a good idea to have been a student for at least a couple years before beginning the training for being an instructor. In this time, try to take lessons in different styles of yoga, in addition to different instructors, so you have a lot of experience and you have an idea of how different styles of teaching yoga, which can assist in you forming your own methods of teaching.
Yoga Training
The Yoga Alliance is a nationally recognized group, and this is where you’ll go through to get official certification in being a yoga instructor. The Yoga Alliance offers two different distinctions of training. There’s a 200 Level training and a 500 Level training.
The 200 Level often must be completed in order to be an instructor, though if you’d like to do the 500 Level, either right away or in time, it’s a good way to become more competitive in the hiring market and potentially earn more wages. After you complete the program, you are officially a Registered Yoga Teacher.
Finding A Place to Train
If you’ve decided to go through the process of becoming a yoga instructor, look at your yoga studio for training.
Most yoga studios offer training sessions throughout the year, and sometimes they have flexible schedules. Some classes are intensive and meet heavily for an entire month, while others meet only once or twice a week for several months.
Be cautious when selecting a yoga training center. Due to the popularity of yoga, there are centers that offer yoga instructor training, but the training isn’t certified training, so your money and time will be spent for nothing, as you won’t graduate with official certification ensuring you can be a yoga instructor.
Yoga training is often fairly expensive, so there’s even more reason to make sure you’re going to a real training. Double check and make sure the location you’re choosing is certified with Yoga Alliance.
Tips for Finding Employment
After you’ve gotten certified, you’ll want to decide just how much you’re willing to devote to being a yoga instructor. Many people choose to teach one or two classes a couple days a week after work, as a way to supplement their income.
You may be able to find a job at the location you took your training. It’s difficult to set yourself up as a full time yoga instructor, so if that’s what you want to do, be prepared to work hard. Most people will likely start out with teaching a few classes and work their way up to full time yoga instructor.
Advancement
Yoga instructors have a great deal of freedom in how much they wish to devote to the career.
Instructors can decide how many classes they want to teach, and could potentially begin their own class out of their house or a rented location if they needed extra space. This provides the opportunity to run one’s own business, and any number of different classes and different skill levels could be established.
Jobs in more established yoga studios are also possible for well known, experienced yoga instructors, which likely provide higher wages, have nicer facilities, and provide for more flexibility in deciding classes.