Refinement: Preparing to Teach with Tin Ming 200-Hour Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher Training

Refinement: Preparing to Teach 200-Hour Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher Training is offered in two 100-hour modules. It is intended for advanced students who wish to deepen their practice and aspiring teachers who are looking for the tools to teach intelligently and confidently. This programme will certify students to teach alignment-focused and philosophically inspired Hatha and Vinyasa classes. This includes the principles of Hatha, Vinyasa, Restorative Yoga as well as the therapeutic benefits of yoga asana and pranayama.

This training is intended for anyone who is ready to move deeper into the practice of yoga or interested in learning how to teach yoga. By substantiating critical skills and knowledge to specific postures, the course materials inspire yoga teachers to find their own voice for giving clearer and more effective verbal instructions. Topics include the history of yoga, yoga philosophy and lifestyle, teaching methodology, sequencing, anatomy, and meditation. The course materials also provide knowledge in using props to design one-on-one private sessions.

Students who attend 100% of both Module I & II will receive a 200-hr Yoga Teacher Training certificate and qualify to register with the Yoga Alliance as a 200-hr RYT. 

Yoga Alliance Accredited School
PURE Yoga is a registered school with Yoga Alliance. Our teacher training programmes and teachers are internationally accredited, have exclusive recognition and qualify for the 200-hr Yoga Alliance Certification.

Yoga Alliance is an international governing board for yoga teachers and training programmes in the U.S and globally. Graduates of our programme are automatically eligible to register as a RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher) with Yoga Alliance. Becoming a RYT means having a higher profile and gaining international recognition as a yoga teacher, attributes that many hiring studios look for.

Mission Statement
We offer this training in an effort to grow our community of committed yoga practitioners, empowering those who demonstrate dedication to a personal practice, by sharing the knowledge, skills and tools we have learned so they too can start teaching yoga.

We intend to guide trainees toward a healthy self-confidence, while at the same time invoking in them a sense of humility and excitement, knowing that they are at the beginning of a long journey.

Training Schedule 

This in-depth 10-day programme is designed for yoga teachers and serious students. It provides foundational skills necessary for a safe and effective yoga practice including assessment skills from the perspective of structure and function, posture alignment, breath, subtle energy, and the principles of Ayurveda. Taking the benefits from a variety of styles and props, ranging from healing restorative practice to dynamic vinyasa practices, the course aims to guide participants in experiencing all asanas more deeply. By substantiating critical skills and knowledge to specific postures, the course materials inspire yoga teachers to find their own voice for giving clearer and more effective verbal instructions. The course materials also provide knowledge in using props for designing one-on-one private sessions.

This 10-day programme is designed for serious students working towards 200-Hour Yoga Alliance Certification. It includes more asanas and pranayama as well as meditation, chanting and an in-depth study of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. The course also explores the history, different paths and schools of yoga, approaches to plan.