For many yoga practitioners, there comes a point when they realize: yoga touches you more deeply than a weekly class. It becomes an attitude, a practice for everyday life, a tool for clarity and health.
Those who wish to deepen this knowledge – and pass it on to others – will find a reliable, holistic, health-oriented way to do so in the Benefit Yoga® teacher training .
The current training program is already underway – however, later entry is possible until February 2026.
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Why Benefit Yoga®? A holistic, health-oriented yoga style.
Benefit Yoga® is not a trendy yoga style. It is an integral approach that combines yoga for health and healing with traditional, authentic yoga and aims to harmonize body, breath, and mind .
The focus is on personal development. Those who teach yoga should also live yoga themselves – with openness, curiosity, and mindfulness.
The Benefit Yoga® teacher training provides sound professional and social skills, balanced between theory and practice.
The training doesn't just teach techniques. It fosters an understanding of the human being as a whole.
Four and a half years that can change your life
The training lasts a total of four and a half years and takes place alongside employment.
What you can expect:
- Intensive asana practice: precise alignment, mindful movements, health-oriented bodywork
- Breath & Meditation: Pranayama, relaxation, techniques for presence and inner peace
- Yoga philosophy as well as medical basics - including anatomy, physiology and pathology of the musculoskeletal system and organ systems
- Professional lesson planning, methodology & didactics: how to plan and lead yoga classes, adapt them to groups or individuals, and guide people safely
- Individual support: The training accompanies personal processes and supports you on your individual yoga path.
The teaching qualification is recognized by health insurance companies and qualifies graduates for professional, health-oriented teaching.
Job description: Yoga teacher
Becoming a yoga teacher opens up a fulfilling new life purpose for you.
In this professional field you can, among other things,
- Benefit Yoga® contributes to prevention and health promotion through its holistic approach,
- Become a cooperation partner of health insurance companies ,
- working within the framework of workplace health promotion in companies,
- to be recognized as a Benefit Yoga® teacher for prevention courses (according to § 20 SGB VIII) by the Central Testing Agency for Prevention
and much more.
You can find out more here: https://www.ecyt.de/yoga-lehrausbildung
Learning in a special environment
The classes take place at the European College for Yoga and Therapy (ECYT) – in the peace and vastness of the former Gerode Monastery.
Gerode Monastery offers what yoga needs: clarity, silence, community.
The training consists of 990 hours of classroom instruction, including internships, individual lessons, self-study and examinations .
A brief background: since 1977 , "WEG DER MITTE" has stood for high quality standards in training and professional development in the health and social sector.
The European College for Yoga and Therapy (ECYT) builds upon this foundation and also utilizes the integrative learning method developed by "WEG DER MITTE" (Path of the Middle). This approach combines theory and practice through the following six components: personal practice, observation, study, group work, lectures, teaching, and project work.
Who is this training suitable for?
For all those who see yoga not as a sport, but as a path.
For people who want to delve deeper into the practice, strengthen their health holistically, bring mindfulness into everyday life and authentically pass on yoga.
Participation requirements include a minimum age of 25, a completed secondary education, and completed or ongoing vocational training. Furthermore, you should have previously participated in at least two Benefit Yoga® seminars at the Weg der Mitte Kloster Gerode .
Participation in the Benefit Yoga® year-long group is also recommended as preparation.
Why now is the right moment for your Benefit Yoga® teacher training
Our everyday lives are getting faster. Our world is getting louder. Precisely for this reason, more and more people are looking for methods that stabilize, ground, and strengthen them.
Yoga offers all of this – and Benefit Yoga® teaches it with depth and professional expertise.
If you feel that your path in yoga can continue, now is the right time.
Ready for your next step?
Entry into the ongoing Benefit Yoga® teacher training program is still possible until February 2026 .
The next training course will start again in autumn 2027.
Alternatively, attending the Benefit Yoga® year-long group is a good way to prepare.
Learn more, get your questions answered, apply and get in touch:
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