Are yoga teachers missing out on one of the greatest opportunities to advance their teaching skills and build a solid yoga teaching niche?

With the worst of the Covid epidemic seemingly behind us and more teachers return to the studios, we find that we are faced with many of the same problems before:

Too few students to make ends meet, drop-in classes that mix beginners with experienced students, lack of retention, difficulty getting the word out, inability to effectively serve students' needs, and on and on and on.

That's the bad news. The good news is that behind these issues lies one big misunderstanding. And, if we learn to address this, we can not only serve the needs of our students better, we can build a solid yoga teaching niche where students will return again and again - with very little need to market your classes.

So, What Is the Greatest, Biggest Misunderstanding Holding the Yoga Teaching Profession Back?

It is this: The assumption that you can teach yoga in individual stand-alone classes and not courses. That model will work if you live in an area with an abundance of young, fit, slender people with previous yoga experience.

But it doesn't work AT ALL when it comes to teaching what is hands down the largest audience for yoga:

Aging baby boomers and the not-so-fit, young or slender who are looking for ways to improve health and wellness.

And that is by far the largest potential audience of yoga teachers.

The only problem? Yoga teachers have not been trained to serve the unique needs of this demographic. And this is causing us as a profession to lose out on one of the largest opportunities to expand and solidify the yoga teaching profession.

Expand Your Yoga Teaching Skills: Learn How to Serve the Vast Wellness Market

Most people over the age of 50 fall victim in one way or other to the epidemic of back pain, poor posture, achy joints, growing stiffness, limited mobility, and increased susceptibility to falls and injuries.

But people are catching on to the fact that this is not just a normal “part of getting older.” There are numerous things we can do to slow the degenerative processes the lie at the root of most aging-related changes. 

In fact, if we learn the right techniques, it is possible to rebuild our body and reset our aging trajectory and start down a better aging path.

And, importantly, if you’re a yoga teacher, you can build a successful teaching niche showing other people how to reset their aging trajectory and build their unique aging success path.

How? Well, changing your aging trajectory simply requires understanding the hidden causes that trigger the vicious cycle of aging, These are the factors that slowly trap us in limited mobility, growing aches, an increasingly stooped and unflattering posture and/or chronic back pain.

Once you learn how to slow or reverse the underlying dynamics that accelerate the aging process, you can become one of the privileged "Superagers," i.e., people empowered to stay well and healthy well into their older years. 

This is particularly the case of issues that lie at the root of degenerative changes in the spine and back that lead to back pain and mobility issues over time.

The only problem? To effectively teach to the vast wellness market, you need to learn how to address the unique needs of this group of people. And this cannot be done in individual, stand-along classes. You must learn how to teach yoga in courses, not classes.

The fitness profession has long since caught on to the fact that the wellness market of aging baby boomers and the not-so-fit crowd is by far the largest market for their services. So why is yoga lacking behind?

One of the main reasons is that the training yoga teachers need to serve the unique needs of this market simply is not easily available. Most yoga teacher training courses target the young, fit, flexible and slender. But when it comes to serve the needs of people with the typical American body, well, most yoga teachers just don't have the training needed to teach effectively to this demographic.

Why We Created the Yoga Wellness Suite of Advanced Teacher Certification Programs

The knowledge of how to teach yoga effectively to serve the needs of the wellness market is out there, but it is not that easy to come by. It is developed by a select handful of teachers who typically combine four to five decades of yoga teaching experience with a health professional background or other advanced training. 

But typically, these teachers specialize in one area of advanced work, and to study with them, you'd literally have to travel all over the country for years to accumulate the knowledge needed to serve the wellness audience.

This is why we created the Yoga Wellness Suite of Advanced Yoga Teacher Certification Programs.

The Yoga Wellness Advanced Yoga Teaching Training programs offer training in specific areas of wellness, compiling the skills of top teachers in the respective areas.

One of the most sought-after areas in the wellness market are yoga practices for back issues like posture improvement, sciatica, and adult-onset, degenerative scoliosis.

For this reason, we are pleased to invite you to join us for our new groundbreaking Yoga Wellness certification course with leading yoga therapists Doug Keller, Elise Browning Miller, Robin Rothenberg and other pioneers in integrating cutting-edge Western knowledge with yoga techniques for effective back care.

The Ultimate Yoga Back Care System represents a paradigm shift in how to approach aging with a special focus on addressing the particular issues that undermine our health and mobility over time.

Learn about the subclinical processes that accelerate aging of your spine and how that spills over into numerous age-related conditions - and not just back pain! - that you really don’t want to have.

Learn to Teach an 8-Session Yoga Wellness Course with The 7 Steps to Posture Improvement

As part of the certification training, you will learn to teach a Yoga Wellness Course wtih The 7 Steps to Posture Improvement. You will learn:

1) How to observe the common postural patterns that are affecting the structural balance of students

2) how to adapt poses to enable students to practice comfortably within the range of their limitations, and

3) how to structure your teaching in incremental steps to help students progress over time.

4) how to help students develop greater body awareness to make their practice rich and empower them and motivate them to continue.

Teaching yoga courses enables students to go through a more in-depth, progressive learning process and addresses most of the problems beginning students have no matter their age.

Teaching in courses also enables you to build incremental steps of learning, so the students can gradually pick up the skills and experience they need to practice the poses.

Students can enjoy their practice and enjoy progressing instead of forcing themselves into a pose they are not ready for, and the class can progress together in relation to the theme of the course.

A course also forces a commitment. When students have signed up and paid for a course with a series of classes, they are much more likely to stick to it, creating a much more tenable learning situation for both teacher and student.

In fact, if you teach the 8-session Yoga Wellness course on Yoga for Posture Improvement: The 7 Steps to Better Posture to nine students just once, you will earn your entire investment in the Certification Track back!

Track 1: Yoga for Posture Improvement

Learn the 7 Steps to Posture Improvement and 
how to counteract Forward Head Posture and Hyperkyphosis (Dowager's Hump)

Track 2: Yoga for Pelvic Imbalances, Sciatica & Scoliosis

Learn the Keys to Preventing or Slowing Adult-Onset Scoliosis and How to Prevent Pain Issues Like Sciatica and SI Joint Problems

Track 3: Yoga for Back Care Specialist Certification

Build your unique teaching niche with our 65-hour Yoga for Back Care Specialist Certification program! Includes both Track 1 and Track 2, plus 20 hours of specialized live yoga teacher training.

Take a Sneak Peek: What's In the Course? 

The 24 Pound Head - How Forward Head Posture Messes Up Your Body

 Why T-Rex Hates Chaturanga​​

From Forward Head to Dowagers Hump - What the Research Says

How Poor Posture Compresses the Abdominal Organs

Lengthen to Realign Your Posture: Finding Axial Extension

Improve Posture: Help Decrease the Rotational Component of Your Curve

Strengthen Your Back: Cobra Pose Variation with A Chair ​​

Scoliosis Exercise: Find Your Psoas Muscle and Uplift Your Warrior I ​​

 Improve Proprioception and Reduce Spinal Rotation with Half Moon

This Track Includes:

• Yoga for Posture Improvement - The 7 Steps to Better Posture - Learn our propriety system for improving posture and enhancing the health of your back. 12+ Hours Recorded Online Learning with lectures and yoga practices to restore postural alignment.

• Restoring Back Health and Mobility: The New Science of Stretching - Live Online Trainings: 5-Hour Session with Dr. Joe Vella and Lynn Crimando, February 18, 2023

• Aligning the Gravity Centers of the Body: Integrating the Three Cores with Robin Rothenberg, C-IAYT. Five 90-minute Livestream sessions, February 21 thru March 21, 2023, 11 am Eastern, 8 am Pacific

• Bonus! Yoga for the Back - Spine Anatomy for Lifelong Back Health - A 3-Hour Online Course with Board-certified Structural Integrator Anita Boser.

This course package includes 25 hours of training, including:

• Yoga for Pelvic Imbalances, SI Joint Issues, Sciatica, and Scoliosis. 
  12 hours of online lectures and practices with Doug Keller, author of Yoga as Therapy to help understand how to assess whether pelvic imbalances affect you, and how to work with issues that may lie at the root of sciatica and sacroiliac joints issues.
• Yoga for Adult-Onset, Degenerative Scoliosis. Study online with renowned yoga for scoliosis expert Elise Browning Miller, author of Yoga for Scoliosis. Learn the system Elise has been teaching and practicing for almost five decades to manage and slow the progression of scoliosis. This section includes recorded material with Elise Browning Miller plus live Q&A sessions with Elise.
• Bonus! Youthful Spine, Youthful Body: Keys to Spinal Fluidity and Myofascial Release with Board-certified Structural Integrator Anita Boser.​​

Includes all the material in Track 1 and 2:

PLUS 25-hours of Live, Online Yoga Teacher Training Intensives with Doug Keller, C-IAYT, Robin Rothenberg, C-IAYT, Dr. Joe Vella, Lynn Crimando, C-IAYT and Eva Norlyk Smith, C-IAYT.

Yoga Teaching Certification Intensive 1: Yoga for Posture Improvement and Hyperkyphosis Prevention

Join yoga therapists Lynn Crimando and Eva Norlyk Smith for a live online immersion over two weekend days. Learn how to structure and teach an 8-Session course on Yoga for Posture Improvement - The 7 Steps to Better Posture, which creates the progression of learning the students need and are looking for.

Also learn a groundbreaking system for advanced mobility training that empowers students to break through common structural limitations underlying common posture issues.

Saturday and Sunday, March 4 and 5, at 11:30 am EST/8:30 am PST, Saturday April 8, at 11:30 am EST/8:30 am PST.

Yoga Teaching Certification Track Intensive 2: Yoga for Pelvic Imbalances, Sciatica and Scoliosis Prevention

Study online with acclaimed yoga therapist and anatomy expert Doug Keller. 

This intensive includes a two-day, ten-hour online immersion with Doug. Learn why pelvic imbalances often lie at the root of problems like SI joints pain, sciatica or adult-onset scoliosis.

Doug will demonstrate best assessment techniques as well as therapeutic practices to restore balance.

Saturday and Sunday, March 18 and 19, at 11:30 am EST/8:30 am PST

Also Check Our Amazing Bonus Package for Track 3 Valued at $700!

Looking to Specialize in Teaching Therapeutic Yoga Wellness Courses for Posture Improvement and Adult-Onset Scoliosis? Our Amazing Bonus Package Gives You All the Background Training You Need

Bonus #1: Julie Gudmestad: Assessment Tools for Yoga Teachers- A $150 Value

Most yoga teachers can see when something isn't right in the way a student does a pose. But chances are that you have not been trained in observing the underlying biomechanics that are causing the issue and how to correct the problem.

In this 3-part bonus course with Julie Gudmestad on Assessment Tools for Yoga Teachers, learn how to develop your observational skills and how to identify the common muscle imbalances that lie at the root for compensation and misalignment issues in yoga. 

This knowledge is essential in order to learn how to structure your teaching to overcome the issues to keep your students safe and motivated in their practice. 

In Our Advanced Posture Solutions, take your teaching one step deeper and develop expertise in helping people with forward head posture and text neck. 

In this 4-hour bonus course on Counteracting Forward Head Posture, learn about the underlying dynamics that lock forward head posture in place. Also learn how to distinguish between different types of forward head posture as well as essential yoga approaches to help counteract text neck and forward head.

Bonus Package 3: Advanced Posture Solutions: 

Curbing Hyperkyphosis and Vertebral Fractures - A $150 Value

Hands down, preventing or reversing hyperkyphosis - a.k.a. Dowager's Hump needs to be on the top list of goals for posture improvement. 

Hyperkyphosis leads to many of the same issues as osteoporotic vertebral fractures. And while the two conditions sometimes can be related, we now know that hyperkyphosis is most often an independent condition.

Once these issues have developed, they can be hard to completely reverse. However, there are numerous things we can do to help prevent hyperkyphosis and Dowager's hump.

And, research shows that yoga can be an effective tool for preventing and improving hyperkyphosis. Learn more in this 3-part course.

Also learn what predisposes you and your students to vertebral fracturs and the essential yoga practices you must include in your daily routine to prevent vertebral fractures.

Bonus Package 4: The Ultimate Yoga for Scoliosis Teaching System with Elise Browning Miller - A $250 Value

In Track 3, you will learn the fundamentals of creating a yoga teaching practice targeting scoliosis. 

In this bonus package, also get a library with all the essential yoga poses included in the Yoga for Scoliosis Teaching System that Elise Browning Miller has developed over the past 40 years.

There are many nuances to targeting a yoga for scoliosis practice to the individual needs of students. 

This library of more than 50 yoga pose variations for scoliosis is hands down one of the most comprehensive online resources available today with yoga poses to target the different types of scoliosis.

Calendar Overview! For a Complete Overview of the Live Sessions of the Course, See the Calendar Below