I enjoyed the training, but, my friend who took the online course received the same materials, manual, and curriculum I did. The training even utilizes the online student portal in class, Dr. Paul guided us through all of it, there were live demonstrations, student partner groups, videos we watched in class too, and we discussed topics in depth, but, I could have probably taken this from home and saved.

Don’t get me wrong, the class was great….it’s just I took this onsite to get registered with Yoga Alliance and now I am finding out my employers don’t even care about the registration. One even said that they don’t go by that because of how many bad registered instructors they have hired in the past. And they didn’t feel like it meant quality to be registered. They now rely on a “demonstration class” – part of the interview – to show them if a teacher is good or not. I did get the teaching position there though…..so, there is that.

I don’t get why if the training has the same manual, curriculum, and everything, the big difference is you have other students, the lead instructor, and have to be there for a month, that Yoga Alliance doesn’t register online. I mean, they are an online registry, aren’t they. I did the majority of my degree online, same curriculum as I would have gotten in class at the university. Why is Yoga Alliance so stuck in the past?

My class and Dr. Paul were great, I just feel that I could have done the same with the online yoga training, and it is frustrating to see my friend getting the same opportunities I do and she paid 1/7 the price.