Iyengar Yoga

About the International Certification Mark

Only those teachers who hold and display this Mark are qualified and insured to teach Iyengar yoga. It shows that the teacher has been correctly trained and assessed to teach safely and thoroughly in the Iyengar Yoga method and has achieved a high level of excellence, purity and depth of understanding in yoga teaching and practice. Iyengar yoga teachers do not mix methods or dilute the teachings of the Iyengar system.

As a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher I am a member of the Iyengar Yoga Association of the UK and besides maintaining my own personal practice, I am required to attend regular classes and workshops for continuing professional development and specialised training and also to retain the use of the International Certification Mark.

About IYENGAR® Yoga teachers

Teachers are trained to extremely high standards and have to undergo rigorous assessments in order to qualify as teachers and also to gain further levels of certification. Prospective trainees must complete at least three consecutive years of learning from a qualified teacher before being accepted on a two year teacher training programme. After qualifying at the initial Introductory Teacher level, they may then, if they wish, progress to higher levels of certification, being assessed at each level.