What Is the Difference Between RYT 200 and E-RYT 200?

What Is the Difference Between RYT 200 and E-RYT 200?

The short answer: RYT 200 means you’ve completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training and registered with Yoga Alliance. E-RYT 200 means you’ve done that plus logged at least 1,000 hours of teaching experience after certification. The “E” stands...
What Is the Difference Between RYT 200 and E-RYT 200?

Can I Teach Yoga Without Certification?

The short answer: Legally, yes — there is no law in the United States that requires yoga teachers to be certified. Yoga is an unregulated industry, and anyone can technically teach a yoga class. But whether you should teach without certification is a different...
Top Somatic Coaching Programs And How To Choose One

Top Somatic Coaching Programs And How To Choose One

Life has a way of storing things in our bodies. From past stuck emotions to stored trauma to stress and tension, your body, especially your nervous system, is holding what happens to you. You might not realize it, but that tightness in your shoulders or the lump in...
How to Become a Yoga Instructor: 8 Things You MUST Know (2026)

How to Become a Yoga Instructor: 8 Things You MUST Know (2026)

So — how do you actually become a yoga instructor? Here’s the short answer: complete a 200-hour yoga teacher training (YTT), register with Yoga Alliance, and start teaching. That’s the path. And while there are details and decisions along the way, it...
The 3 Archetypes: Yoga Personality Types & Choosing A YTT

The 3 Archetypes: Yoga Personality Types & Choosing A YTT

What is your yoga personality? Are you the caring, compassionate Healer? The strong and empowering Queen? Or the motherly and protective Matriarch?  These three archetypes embody distinct qualities and energies that can enhance and deepen your yoga journey. ...