Qualifications
Charlie Stewart-Brown and Indiv Yoga have earned several levels of approved certification and qualifications to ensure best-practices and high quality is passed on to students. Read Charlie’s profile at Yoga Alliance.
Charlie's Yoga Alliance Qualifications
Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher. An E-RYT 500 teacher must have successfully completed a 500-hour yoga teacher training program that is registered with Yoga Alliance and taught a minimum of four years since completing training with a 200-hour RYS.
Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher. Teachers can register as a RCYT if they have successfully completed both a 200-hour yoga teacher training program and a 95-hour kids yoga teacher training—in either order.
Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher. Teachers can register as a RPYT if they have successfully completed both a 200-hour yoga teacher training program and an 85-hour prenatal yoga training—in either order—that are registered with Yoga Alliance. Applicants must submit 30 teaching hours in prenatal yoga which must be performed after completing a program with a RPYS (Registered Prenatal Yoga School).
Registered Yoga School. This standard describes the Yoga Alliance’s requirements for a Registered Yoga School that offers the 200 hours yoga teacher training course. Topics for registered teacher trainings must be relevant to five educational categories.
Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider. The YACEP designation is designed for experts in the yoga community to set themselves apart and teach courses that qualify as Continuing Education hours for RYTs. Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT’s) who take courses with a YACEP can trust that their training counts toward meeting their Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Requirements.
The Yoga Alliance. The Yoga Alliance is the most highly respected, internationally recognised credentialing organization of the yoga community worlwide, renowned for having the highest yoga standards.
