12/23/2025
All yoga therapists are yoga teachers, but not all yoga teachers are yoga therapists.
Here's the difference:
Yoga Teachers:
🧘🏻♀️ Guide group classes in a specific style or tradition
🧘🏻♀️ Lead healthy populations through physical practice
🧘🏻♀️ Share general wellness and yoga philosophy
🧘🏻♀️ Complete 200-hour foundational training
Yoga Therapists:
🧘🏽 Work one-on-one with clients facing health challenges
🧘🏽 Assess through both yoga therapy and Western medicine lenses
🧘🏽 Create personalized protocols for specific conditions
🧘🏽 Address chronic pain, autoimmune disorders, anxiety, trauma, neurological conditions
🧘🏽 Complete 800+ hours of IAYT-accredited training
As a yoga teacher, you're trading time for money. Teaching classes, hoping studios book you, watching students struggle with issues you can't address properly.
As a yoga therapist, you become the person they refer their friends to. The practitioner doctors recommend. The expert people travel to see.
You work one-on-one, and you can create a more sustainable living - plus it doesn’t mean you have to give up teaching group yoga classes!
This is what an IAYT certification gives you.
Learn about our IAYT-accredited yoga therapy training program: https://breathingdeeply.com/yoga-therapy/program-details/
