The Costs and Benefits of Private Yoga
Weighing the cost of private yoga is a great way to explore the benefits of one-on-one instruction.
Understand Your Body’s Needs in Private Sessions
Listening to how your body responds, with compassion and with the support of a teacher, can help you develop a strong connection with yourself.
Learn how to refine yoga poses through private instruction.
When you invest in your yoga practice, you are directly benefiting your mental and physical health. Just like purchasing healthy food to nourish your body, paying for private instruction nourishes your understanding and awareness.
What you learn during a private yoga session is the equivalent of months of public classes.
Private instruction teaches you how to inquire more deeply into your body and your specific needs. Inquiring into your body is about meeting yourself where you are at. Every moment. On and off the mat. That is the practice of yoga!
Private instruction guides you to this way of being by cutting through the distractions that often arise in public settings.
Cultivating a deeper understanding of yourself, knowing how to align your body in a way that serves you, and reaping the benefits of self-care, are just a few ways private instruction will impact you.
Support a sustainable, knowledgable practice for public classes.
Public classes are a gift to the community and a great way to practice yoga.
The more you know about your body and the principles of yoga, the more you’ll reap the benefits of public class time.
Education will always be with you - wherever you go, whenever you practice yoga.
A single private lesson, or a series of private lessons, will enhance your experience of public classes because you’ll be on your mat with a greater understanding of your own body.
That understanding of your body means you’ll know how to adjust yourself in a way that supports sustainability and spaciousness in every pose.
Modifications and variations of yoga poses are few ways to make a practice your own.
Making the practice your own also means applying detailed adjustments that can barely be seen from the outside. These detailed adjustments engage the work of stabilizer muscles to better align your whole body and increase your ability to breath with more ease.
Education and Experience Determine Cost of Private Lessons
How much you spend on private instruction should equate to how much you are getting out of it.
There are many options available for private yoga instruction. Some instructors might charge as little as $40 an hour, while others ask for upwards of $150 an hour.
You might wonder - Why is there such a difference?
Check out your teacher’s yoga background.
A teacher’s yoga education greatly influences their knowledge, experience, and ability to effectively communicate yoga principles.
There are many teacher training programs available today, and anyone interested can and should pursue a yoga education to become a yoga teacher.
Every teacher training is required to cover a set of core topics if they want to be registered as an official Yoga Alliance School.
The lead teacher(s) of a yoga teacher training program determines of the quality of education.
A student can earn their teacher certification from a trainer that has been practicing yoga for a couple years or from a trainer that has been practicing and teaching for a few decades. With this in mind, there can be a notable difference in the knowledge someone in teacher training will be exposed to.
When a yoga teacher graduates from their foundational 200-hour training program, they have the option to pursue further education.
When further education is completed, an advanced 500-hour certification can be earned. Within those additional 300 hours, an exceptional amount of information is received and effort is expended, which again, can vary from training to training.
If you’re interested in private instruction that is going to impact your practice - beyond the session itself and into each time you step onto your mat - look for private instructors that have completed a 500-hour certification through a high quality training program and have at least a few years of teaching experience.
You’ll greatly benefit from the lessons passed through your private instructor from their teacher.