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Yahweh Yoga Teaching Academy Earns Distinction as First, Exclusively Christian, Yoga Academy Worldwide to Receive both accreditations as State License as Private Post-Secondary Education College and Registered Yoga School with Yoga Alliance.

In 2009, Yahweh Yoga Christian Yoga Teaching Academy announced it has been named a licensed, private, post-secondary education college by the Arizona State Board for Private Postsecondary Education. The licensure remains today and complements the organization’s existing status as a Registered Yoga School with Yoga Alliance institution and makes it the first Christian Yoga Teaching Academy worldwide to achieve this status.

Did you know?

We believe the school you choose should be accredited in order for you to maximize your career and ministry opportunities. More and more potential employers ask for credentials and the school you graduated from for the safety of their students. In fact, there are so many people offering yoga teacher trainings today that are not licensed or accredited that it is now become the law in 40 states to require anyone accrediting yoga teachers to be a Licensed Private Post Secondary Education (PPSE) institution.

The mission of Private Post Secondary licensing is:

  • To ensure legal operations, ethical practices and quality education in the private post-secondary sector.
  • To ensure public access to reliable and valuable alternative higher educational opportunities and vocational training options.
  • To assist those injured by private post-secondary educational institutions.
  • To collect or secure monies sufficient to provide for student financial restitution.
  • To provide equitable financial restitution, in a timely manner, to students financially injured as a result of a school closure.
  • To protect the health, safety and welfare of citizens by regulating private post-secondary educational institutions and providing services to their students.

Who is Yoga Alliance and why is it important to be a Registered Yoga School with them?

From the Yoga Alliance website: “Yoga Alliance® is the national education and support organization for yoga in the United States. They work in the public interest to ensure that there is a thorough understanding of the benefits of yoga, that the teachers of yoga value its history and that the public can be confident of the quality and consistency of instruction.”

Yoga Alliance is universally recognized as the world’s authority for setting standards and ethics for yoga school curriculums, yoga teacher trainings and yoga teacher’s standard’s in the world.

Yoga Alliance sets high curriculum standards, which include 180-hours hands on with ERYTs and RYTs before anyone can earn their status as Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance. In order for a student to earn their RYT, they must attend a Registered Yoga School (RYS) that has been approved by Yoga Alliance. Yahweh Yoga has been a registered yoga school with Yoga Alliance since 2005…we love them!

How does Yoga Alliance support You and Christian Yoga?

  • Being a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) through Yahweh Yoga brings you instant professional respect by other professionals throughout the yoga industry. These professionals are potential employers. The Yoga Alliance RYT designation denotes excellence in meeting high educational training standards. It gives you an edge with perspective employment opportunities.
  • Yoga Alliance supports all yoga. Diversity. Integrity. Community is their motto. It is a pleasure working with them, they are genuinely supportive of the Christian yoga movement.
  • Yahweh Yoga is listed as an actual style of yoga on their website. i.e. Ashtanga, Bikram, Anusara and Yahweh Yoga.
  • Some have stated that Yoga Alliance requires students to say Hindu Prayers and does not allow Christian yoga schools to use Bibles. This simply is not the case. If you have any questions about this, please contact Yoga Alliance personally at 1.888.921.YOGA (9642).
  • Yoga Alliance welcomes all faiths and allows us to use the Bible wherever we see fit in our curriculum.
  • We do teach the History of Yoga which is a very interesting study and useful in understanding today’s yoga industry. The history of yoga helps to educate us and the public about the fact that yoga is a “methodology, not a “theology” and that all religions or those without religions can practice yoga. There are many methodologies practiced along diverse religious lines such as “Prayer” and “Meditation”, which are used by most religions. Yoga is one such methodology.

Yahweh Yoga is about safety and standards.

To view AZ Private Post-Secondary standards please click here.

To view the Yoga Alliance Standards please click here.

If you have questions about our teacher training program, please contact us.