Yoga teacher training
Being one of the oldest and largest yoga schools in Australasia, the Auckland Yoga Academy (established 1991) is committed to passing on the traditional teachings of yoga that originated in India. We aim to ensure these teachings survive and continue to be a path that helps us to organise life as a transformation space, and to realise the true nature of our mind and our heart.
The teachings of yoga have been handed on from teacher to student for over 5000 years, with the intention of preserving its essential scientific method.
By honouring the yoga lineage, students at the Academy are taught the pure essence of the eight limbs approach. The teachings are packaged into an accredited Yoga Alliance training course that initiates aspiring yoga teachers into their long and everlasting journey to becoming not only competent instructors and ethical business owners, but setting them on a path of personal growth and transformation.
The Auckland Yoga Academy is a fertile learning ground in which the teacher trainees are able to practice their freshly-learned teaching skills on real paying students of all body-mind types, in multi-leveled asana and meditation classes.
Most years the Auckland Yoga Academy is able to offer at least 3 – 5 gradutates teaching positions as well as the opportunity to apply to do continued study as apprentices. Feedback from graduates who have gone on to seek employment in gyms, corporate yoga schemes and community yoga schools strongly indicates that the Auckland Yoga Academy trained teachers are widely sought after.
These are not six week, quick fix courses. These are for the serious, dedicated and sincere practitioners who appreciate this powerful discipline, understand the time and dedication it takes to learn yoga, and who want to share this knowledge professionally for the good of all.
You can take our 6 month part time course receiving the Yoga Alliance 200 hour certificate and Yoga Academy 400 hour certificate or take our 12 month part time course receiving the Yoga Alliance 300 hour certificate( which can be added to the 200 hour to have a Yoga Alliance 500 hour certificate after you complete 100 hours of teaching) and the Yoga Academy 800 hour certificate.
Costs for all courses: $200 deposit $510 per month paid on 14th of previous month no penalty for early withdrawal.
Meet the teachers
Peter Nilsson
Director of the Auckland Yoga Academy
