SANCYA School of Yoga 

                 SANCYA School of Yoga is a Registered Yoga School (RYS) with Yoga Alliance, which designates this teacher training program as one which follows Yoga Alliance’s standards. Students who complete a verified training with this school will be eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYTs).

Yoga Alliance Certification in India – RYT 200, RYT 500

             Yoga Alliance is the national education and support organization for yoga in the United States. Yoga Alliance supports students to learn and teachers to teach yoga. The Yoga Alliance directory represents over 25,000 yoga teachers and schools that meet internationally recognized standards of training, experience, and ongoing professional development. Protecting the health and safety of society these standards encompass the many aspects of yoga including anatomy and physiology, yoga lifestyle and ethics, teaching methodology, and techniques training. Yoga Alliance standards provide teachers with an important foundation for their yoga teaching practice. Acknowledged by the designation RYT, E-RYT, and RYS, Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teachers and Registered Yoga Schools can be found at www.yogaalliance.org.

Yoga Alliance Certification in India is based on the recognition given to the yoga teacher training course at a registered yoga school (RYS) by Yoga Alliance. Yoga Alliance is an international body that supports yoga education and yoga teacher training and helps to maintain standards in various yoga categories. All Yoga Alliance RYS must meet the internationally recognized standards of training and professional development. Yoga teachers, who have successfully completed a certain standard of yoga teacher training like 200, 300 and 500-hour levels at an RYS and have received a certification of completion from the RYS, become qualified to register as a yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance as RYT-200, RYT-500

Yoga Alliance Certification Designations

Yoga Alliance does not provide the 200 hour or 500 hour certification but offers designations to those yoga schools and yoga teachers that are registered with Yoga Alliance. For registered yoga schools, the designations are RYS 200, RYS 500 while for registered yoga teachers the designations are RYT 200, E-RYT 200, RYT 500, E-RYT 500, etc. Registration with Yoga Alliance enhances the credibility of the yoga school or the yoga teacher as it serves to bestow recognition for yoga schools and yoga teachers. Yoga teachers who are already registered with Yoga Alliance as RYT 200 can upgrade to RYT 500 by completing 300 hours more of yoga teacher training from RYS 500 and providing proof of 100 hours of yoga teaching experience. Teachers can register as E-RYT 200 if they have successfully completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training at an RYS and have a minimum of two years teaching of 1000 hours of yoga teaching at a single yoga school and not from multiple schools. E-RYT 500 requires 500 hour teacher training at an RYS and 2000 teaching hours over four years, 1,500 of the teaching hours must have been taught after completing training with a RYS 200 or 500 and the remaining 500 teaching hours must have been taught after completing training with a RYS 300 or 500.

Yoga Alliance Certification – 200 & 500 Hour Teacher Training