Becoming a yoga teacher is something that can be rewarding in a number of ways – including, yes, financially – as well as being something that will get you even closer to the fullest possible understanding of the real ins and outs of yoga. How you go about becoming an instructor is, in many ways, up to you. obviously there are specific channels for gaining official yoga certification, and these are channels you will have to observe. However, it is also true that in a real sense, the method of teaching depends solely on you.

The first step – as with many things – is to find a source of certification near you. Whether this is an individual instructor or an academy is partly up to you and partly up to the level of choice in your area. What you will find is that specific academies tend to have their own specific approaches for teaching yoga instructors. If you have an instinctive impression of how you want to do things, then it is worth a short conversation with each of the places you contact – you may learn a bit more from working with someone whose methods differ from yours, but equally you may find that the conflict in approaches restrains you from progressing.

After all, if you are setting off on an intention to become a yoga instructor, you will have your own philosophy and someone who insists that, before they will put you forward for yoga certification, you must learn Sanskrit (for example) might turn out to be the wrong person to approach for the purposes of becoming certified. As long as you know how to communicate your philosophy and gain results, that is all that matters.

You can find nearby yoga certification authorities by looking on the Internet. A quick Google search for “Yoga certification”, adding on the name of your home town or nearest large town/city, will shed light on the potential sources for you certification, and you can then contact the academies or individuals directly, before making a decision on where you will go to get certified.