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Level 1/18 Rawlins street, Southport QLD 4215 | National Provider No. 45524 CRICOS No. 03791F
Level 1/18 Rawlins street, Southport QLD 4215 | National Provider No. 45524 CRICOS No. 03791F
Diploma of Yoga Teaching – accredited course code 10886NAT, CRICOS course code 105456F – from the Health Institute Australasia is the second part of our Yoga Teacher Training Core Program. It is a 1200-hour Government Accredited, CRICOS Approved Course.
This 2-year course has no prerequisite and is inclusive of material taught in Certificate IV in Yoga 10885NAT. This Diploma of Yoga Teaching course fully qualifies you as a yoga instructor.
The style of yoga we teach is called Shanti Yoga® which is integrated yoga made easy. Shanti Yoga incorporates the physical aspects of hatha yoga and amalgamates it with all the other yoga paths, combining the spiritual and mental in the traditional and classical form of hatha yoga.
Course Dates:
There are 4 intakes a year, in alignment with Queensland school terms
2023 Starting Dates
23 January
17 April
10 July
3 October
2024 Starting Dates
22 January
15 April
8 July
30 September
2025 Starting Dates
28 January
22 April
14 July
7 October
Timetable:
* NOTE: The Weekly Practicum schedule in the above 2023 timetables may be subject to change. Please download these timetables again or check the times with our Office Administrator at the beginning of your term.
Fees:
Our campus is located on the beautiful Gold Coast of Australia, with proximity to shops, beaches, libraries and other facilities.
Read more about our location and facilities.
| Qualification | Diploma of Toga Teaching |
| CRICOS Course Code | 105456F |
| Accredited Code | 10886NAT |
| Delivery mode | On-campus or online study (online option is available for both domestic & international students). |
| Duration | 104 weeks |
| Start Dates | 17 April 2023, 10 July 2023, 3 Oct 2023 & Dates in 2024: 22 Jan, 15 April, 8 July, 30 Sept (You may choose one of four course start dates in which the course is presented per year) |
| Hours | 600 |
| Awarded by | Health Institute Australasia |
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Fee | Click here for forms, fees and policies |
| Entry requirements | IELTS score 5.5 is required for international students |
Diploma of Yoga Teaching Course Tutorials (20) + Course Manuals (10):
For Diploma of Yoga Teaching, the second year, tutorials are conducted on Thursday afternoons, from 2-5 pm. Regardless of your level of experience, you are guaranteed to gain practical skills for transformation through attending lectures, practices, and discussions. They accrue 60 face-to-face course hours per year.
CORE UNITS OF COMPETENCY
| Unit Code | Unit Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | NAT10886001 | Communicate and promote yogic concepts |
| 2 | NAT10886002 | Communicate effectively with clients about yoga and ayurvedic health |
| 3 | NAT10886003 | Instruct yoga asana |
| 4 | NAT10886004 | Instruct yoga breathing |
| 5 | NAT10886005 | Instruct yoga relaxation |
| 6 | NAT10886006 | Instruct clients in the use of yoga for effective concentration |
| 7 | NAT10886007 | Conduct yoga meditation sessions |
| 8 | NAT10886008 | Lead individual and group yoga chanting sessions |
| 9 | NAT10886009 | Provide leadership as a yoga instructor |
| 10 | HLTAAP002 | Confirm physical health status |
| 11 | CHCDIV001 | Work with diverse people |
The Diploma of Yoga Teaching is available via distance for domestic students and international students who wish to obtain an Australian Government recognised qualification.
If you are a domestic student and elect to study online:-
The majority of your units can be completed via distance education with the facilities of online training, Skype tutorials, resource materials, homework and assignments.
The flexibility of online study allows you to start at any time. Online study can take advantage of our private 1-1 Skype tutorials with our lecturers (optional); these can be arranged at a mutually suitable time, 30 minutes once a month for a duration of 10 months.
The duration of online study is 2 years.
The Diploma of Yoga Teaching presents comprehensive training in teaching the world’s most ancient and holistic mind-body health practices. The course gives the participant thorough knowledge and skills of the essential components for teaching a yoga class at a Diploma level and to become an accomplished and qualified yoga teacher.
This course provides the participant with the knowledge, training and authorisation to teach the path of classical yoga to others and has both vocational and educational outcomes.
In this course participants will:
The diploma of yoga teaching is also a pathway towards higher qualifications and level of yoga teaching such as the Advanced Diploma of Therapeutic Yoga Teaching.
In this course you will:
THE DIPLOMA OF YOGA TEACHING presents comprehensive training in teaching the world’s most ancient and holistic mind-body health practices. Modules are well organised and fit in perfectly with the requirement as set out by the standards of rishis (sages), making it a completely fulfilling course. The modules are carefully chosen to give you a thorough knowledge of the essential components for teaching a yoga class and include:-
GUIDED TRAINING & PRACTICE
Your course includes guided training and practice during classroom attendance of the traditional yoga practices such as asanas, pranayama, nidra, concentration, meditation, mantra, chanting.
To role-model teaching styles, classroom dynamics, and how these practices will work for you when you teach in the community, practices are conducted are in an environment where the general public are also present. Attending class in a relaxed, non-pressured, supportive, group environment with like-minded people will further consolidate your personal practice of yoga, pranayama, and meditation, greatly increase your concentration, patience and general feeling of wellbeing, thus enabling you to impart this more authentically to others. This presents a platform for ongoing and continued evaluation regarding your yoga skills, attendance, attention, concentration etc.
Please note: Even though personal private practice is highly recommended, no contact hours for the course are allowed for personal, private practice.
MENTORING and MICRO GROUPS
Personal guidance and a one-to-one feel lay the foundations for study, practice and also lessen the distractions that divert the mind from the serious path of yoga teaching.
SUPERVISED PRACTICUM & TEACHING METHODOLOGY
Practicums
in learning how to teach are sessions for you to put into practice what you’ve already learned in your foundational education from your Certificate IV in Yoga studies, and you will be required to deliver the work to fellow students, Advanced Diploma students and other Shanti Yoga teachers. These session are not open to the general public. Here you will:-
PRACTICUM ASSESSMENT
These sessions also consist of you being assessed as competent or not as yet competent for your Diploma or Advanced Diploma qualification. These assessments are logged in, and they also count towards ongoing professional development for your professional association membership.
PRACTICUM ASSESSMENT is based upon your knowledge and ability with:-
Please note: Teaching without permission, qualification, outside your scope, or risk-taking, can bring on instant expulsion.
Please understand that the course curriculum is changed periodically to reflect the changing needs of the profession, to retain leadership in academic standards, and to fulfil the changing needs of the end-user in the world.
ASSIGNED STUDY WITH ASSESSMENT PROCESS
Embedded in the course are:-
Assignments: You are also required to study the materials that are provided and submit the appropriate assignments. The assignment process could include a written report, class discussion, class presentation, test etc.
Supporting Tutorials and Lectures
Optional tutorials and lectures are conducted in:-
These tutorials and lectures are conducted weekly on a Monday afternoon (1-2pm), Tuesday evening weekly (8-9pm) and monthly on a Friday night (6.30-9.30pm – attendance is optionally, but highly recommended). These topics and practices are thoughtfully chosen to support your teacher training process and are directly relevant to the subject of yoga (its practice, living and teaching).
LIVING THE YOGIC PATH – yoga immersion
In addition during your course time on the mat and tutorials, you are invited to attend, at no extra fee, 4 week-end, residential, time-out retreats which include shared accommodation, delicious Ayurvedic, home-cooked, vegetarian meals, reflective time, program and yoga duties, so that you can “live your yoga”. These restore the body, expand the mind and refine your power for positive thinking in the postmodern age.
Massages, wellness treatments, single room upgrade and special diets are available as optional extras.
Teaching Shanti Yoga Asana Series (Practical):
During your course of study, you will be provided study material to facilitate your learning, including the necessary textbooks and training manuals. In addition, you will be attending regular classes, talks, video learning and retreats that incorporate relevant lectures and practices which make your learning wholesome and fulfilling.
Shantiji’s natural gifts, an insightful teaching approach, wherein she can understand the individual and assess the individual capabilities is coupled with a compassionate approach that ensures no one is left out or lagging behind.
Class attendance (on-campus students only) for your period of study in group classes as per the timetable and schedule in:-
These are held on campus, or via skype for correspondence students:-
Your course includes three residential weekend retreats comprising shared accommodation, delicious vegetarian meals and program and yoga duties.
We often ‘get it’ intellectually, yet rarely live and experience our understandings in our everyday life. Body, mind and the universe are inseparable. Being absent from any of these shuts us off from a full realisation of our creative potential.
Residential retreats address this disconnect and immerse you in a lifestyle curriculum where you can expand your experience and knowledge through discussion, satsung, study and practice, participate in daily seva, hiking, yoga, organic meals, healthy eating, meditation and pranayama.
Note: Massages, wellness treatments, single room upgrade and special diets are available as optional extras.
Inclusive in the fees for this course are the following:
Inclusive in the fees for this course are the following CD’s:
You will get a Contact Journal for monitoring your attendance.
You will be provided with a Student ID card which is for concessions on transport, movies etc.
Not only do you get to help others achieve their goals, but you will also find yourself achieving your own goals much more easily. However, the first thing you need to understand is that teaching is not for everybody. Most people who choose to become good teachers are tired of the older “what’s in it for me“ mentality and are ready to serve others instead. They know that by helping others, they are helping themselves and there’s a bigger picture involved.
Teaching rides on your learning, openness, passion and genuine communication. Your specific level of authorisation as a Shanti Yoga teacher will be based upon your meeting the prerequisites for that authorisation: i.e. your performance during your yoga teacher training.
You will receive a Diploma at the completion of your course. The Diploma of Yoga Teaching qualifies you as a yoga teacher. In this course, you will learn how to structure and effectively teach a yoga class.
This course will provide you with a range of knowledge, skills and generic and specific competencies to become yoga teachers in the community.
Diploma of Yoga Education graduates will:-
Have specialised knowledge and skills for skilled/paraprofessional work and/or further learning.
Have technical and theoretical knowledge in a specific area or a broad field of work and learning.
Have a broad range of cognitive, technical and communication skills to select and apply methods and technologies to:
– analyse information to complete a range of activities
– provide and transmit solutions to sometimes complex problems
– transmit information and skills to others
Apply knowledge and skills to demonstrate autonomy, judgement and defined knowledge responsibility in known or changing contexts and within broad but established parameters and skills
In this course you will:
Learn to teach a series of mini sequences, stand-alone sequences and entire 1-hour yoga class routines based on the Diploma Teaching level of scope.
Instruct a 15, 30, 40 or 55 min yoga for health and well-being asana class; combine yoga breathing, concentration and/or relaxation with this class; vary the delivery and program to make it interesting for clients.
Work within the yoga health industry blending the ancient principles of classical yoga with the modern precision of safety and strength for dynamic and inspiring classes which strengthen, streamline the body, enhance posture and bring about body awareness.
Develop the skills to teach tension and stress reduction practices through yoga, meditation, relaxation and breathing.
Develop the skills to support abdominal and lower back care through yoga.
Learn to improve overall health and well-being of self and others through yoga health principles and practices.
Develop the skills on how to structure and effectively teach a class to a variety of levels and ages.
Cultivate the skill and sensitivity required to fulfil the varying needs of students.
Learn the art and science of yoga and its related disciplines.
Cultivate the communication, facilitation, learning and teaching skills to effectively share the yoga world view.
Develop the skills to teach yoga postures correctly with the breadth and safety features.
Cultivate confidence and capability to be able to teach effectively in a yoga class or individually.
Execute the principles of alignment and adjustment of yoga postures.
Develop core teaching skills: observation, demonstrations, use of language + voice tone, and sequencing.
Gain the ability to address and correct at a basic level, the various health concerns by confirming physical health status of private clients.
Develop the skills to teach yoga and its related practices from small to large group sessions i.e. a multilevel class.
Teach a series of exercise routines such as: eye, neck, shoulders, check and bust, standing, salute to the sun, abdominal and back gastric ease, spinal twist, classical sitting, side stretches, cat arch and variations, back breathing and tension release and the anti-rheumatic group of exercises.
Teach pranayama (yoga breathing)
Teach yoga nidra (deep relaxation)
Teach yoga concentration
Develop interpersonal skills
Learn about and practice occupational health and safety – the principles and practices that are relevant to the teaching of yoga.
Learn about practising yoga ethics, leadership and the professional yoga teacher.
Diploma of Yoga Teaching graduates will have a solid foundation to further learning: the Diploma of Yoga Teaching course is a pathway towards higher qualifications such as the Advanced Diploma of Therapeutic Yoga Teaching.
This quality yoga certification offers not only great information and training, but also an amazing reputation. Through learning with us, you will have more confidence about what you are teaching and your students will trust you
Become a registered yoga teacher with our teacher training programs. Like no other school in the world, the Health Institute Australia offers the most in-depth 600-hour, 1200-hour and 1800-hour hatha yoga teacher training courses.
Australian Commonwealth Register of Institutions – cricos.education.gov.au Provider ID=03791F
Registered Training Organisation No. 45524
This is the highest yoga qualification you can obtain not only in Australia but in the world with our Advanced Diploma course being 1800 hours.
Our yoga teacher training courses are fully compliant with the Australian Skills Quality Authority. This means that you can be assured of our commitment to the highest quality education available, and that your qualifications are recognised Australia-wide and beyond.
The Health Institute Australia is the ONLY registered school in Australia offering yoga teacher training to international students.
With 40 years of providing education in Yoga, many of our graduates have successfully established studios right across Australia and worldwide.
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