SAYF Certified Benefits
SAYF Instructor Benefits
Why become a SAYF-Certified Instructor?
Personal Benefits
- Reduce the likelihood of asana injury for yourself and your students
- Guide your students to sustain their practice long enough to enjoy the psychological and personal/spiritual benefits of yoga.
- Yoga injury prevention. SAYF may reduce the likelihood of injury for a life long relationship with yoga asana.
Professional Benefits
- Online, accessible, human movement mechanics training. Yoga biomechanics is now required for RYT 200 TT.
- 20 CE hours. Lifetime access to the SAYF Training: affordable, online, continuing education credits for many organizations.
- YOU listed on the SAYF-Certified Teacher Directory.
- Discounted insurance rates for SAYF-Certified teachers.
Community Benefits
- Protect your people. Protect yourself.
- SAYF training provides a foundation for consistency in your studio/community while honoring creativity and diversity.
- Reduce the likelihood of students discontinuing their practice due to injury. Most students don't tell their teacher they got injured.
- SAYF supports teaching inclusive and accessible classes.
The full 20 Hour SAYF Training is only $499 (24.95/credit hour), with discounts and scholarships available. Register through your studio or yoga school for up to 40% off! Register on your own as a SAYF Ambassador for 20% off.
In The SAYF Training You Will:
- Dive deeper into up to date research on yoga asana and sound human movement mechanics.
- Explore skeletal and muscle anatomy as it applies to yoga.
- Broaden your awareness of teaching language, tradition, diversity and how to consider them all in your classes.
- Align breath, bandhas, and human movement principles to all poses.
- Apply critical thinking for pose considerations and injury reduction for yourself and students.
- Learn through well researched text, videos, images, diagrams, stress-free quizzes and a final exam.
- Explore our training content for a variety of learning styles!
- Receive lifetime access and 20 CE hours for your yoga, therapeutic or movement modalities and certifications.
What to Expect
- A self-paced online training that is both in-depth yet, understandable for many yoga training backgrounds.
- Explore the basics of human movement mechanics and generally agreed upon principles that reduce the likelihood of yoga injury.
- Learn through text, dynamic videos, images, and other diverse learning tools.
- 20 quizzes, one for each chapter, and a unique final exam that doesn't just test your knowledge, but continues to build your understanding.
- SAYF is a common sense approach, honoring experience, expert opinion, tradition, and research.
- Connect with a growing professional community, dedicated to sustainable asana!
- Build your credibility, SEO, and visibility as an instructor through our online directory as a SAYF Certified Instructor.
Try the SAYF Training risk free! If you are not satisfied with the program, receive a full refund within 14 days.