You’re a person who has lived a life, and that life is exactly what you’ll teach from. “Who am I to be a yoga teacher?” has no finish line, because no certificate, birthday, or handstand ever settles it, so the more useful move is to set it down and pick up a question...
Updated October 2026 Choose in-person yoga teacher training if you learn best surrounded by other bodies, a strong program is within reach, and its schedule fits your life. Choose an online training with a live cohort if you need the training to fit around work and...
Updated October 2026 For most people, the training isn’t the hard part of becoming a yoga instructor. A 200-hour yoga teacher training is built to be finished by people who show up, do the reading, and practice teaching, and the poses you can’t do yet matter far less...
Updated October 2026 Yes, you can take a 200-hour yoga teacher training purely for your own practice, and plenty of people do. Whether it’s the right choice for you comes down to how you feel about the part of the training that’s about teaching other people, because...
Updated October 2026 No, you’re not too old to become a yoga teacher, and you’re not too stiff! There’s no upper age limit on yoga teacher training (Yoga Alliance’s RYT 200 standards don’t list an age requirement at all), and no reputable training I know of tests your...
Updated October 2026 Most yoga teacher trainings ask for less than people expect: a completed application, a regular yoga practice, and, at many programs, maybe proof that you’re at least 18. You don’t need to be flexible or able to do advanced poses, and a background...
