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The full course length. Live contact, supervised practice, observation, self-study, and assessment all counted toward the 200-hour total.
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Six published thresholds, including the live-only principle that anchors them. Every figure verifiable, every figure publicly stated, every figure held by YogaPros since 2006.
The full course length. Live contact, supervised practice, observation, self-study, and assessment all counted toward the 200-hour total.
Real-time delivery, lead teacher present. The structural floor that separates a teacher-training course from a self-study programme.
Not one of the 180 contact hours can be pre-recorded, asynchronous, or self-paced. Live is the floor — and the line YogaPros has held since 2006.
Senior Yoga Teacher grade. The named lead on every accredited course — eight years of teaching and 4,000 cumulative hours since graduating. Double the threshold of the major US body.
The minimum proportion of contact hours delivered by the named lead teacher. Holds the coherence of the course; protects the graduate experience.
EYT (Experienced Yoga Teacher) grade. Four years and 2,000 cumulative teaching hours since graduating — or sector-equivalent for non-yoga modules such as business. Specialist guest teaching sits alongside.
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