Yoga Yoga Teacher Training Designated an Approved Career School by the Texas Workforce Commission

Austin, TX (PRWeb) December 6, 2006 -- Yoga Yoga Teacher Training (YYTT) is an Approved Career School by the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC), the state government agency charged with overseeing and providing workforce development services to employers and job seekers of Texas. To date, YYTT is the only yoga teacher training program in Texas to have the TWC approved status.

"We are the first yoga teacher training program in Texas to have this designation," explains Mehtab Benton, founder of Yoga Yoga Teacher Training and director of its programs. "By approving our program, the state of Texas is recognizing the yoga teaching profession as a valid and viable career choice."

The North American Studio Alliance (NAMASTA), which is an organization for mind-body professionals, estimates that currently there are 70,000 yoga teachers in North America. In 2006, 160 students were graduated from Yoga Yoga Teacher Training. There are currently 248 students enrolled in Yoga Yoga Teacher Training's programs. Two of the main reasons students give for registering in the YYTT program are to supplement a current career or to make a major career change. YYTT's largest demographic is women over 40 who are retired or looking for a career change. The number of men and students below age 35 in the YYTT program is increasing.

A new session of Hatha Teacher Training, including classes on anatomy and physiology plus yoga fundamentals and philosophy, begins in January of 2007. An open house to provide details about the program is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 9 from 1-3 p.m. at Yoga Yoga South, 1700 S. Lamar in Austin, TX. The 200-hour Teacher Training Program fee is $2595. For more details, call (512) 326-2273 or visit www.yogayoga.com/training. Hatha yoga, the physical discipline of classical yoga emphasizing yoga postures and breathing exercises for physical and psychological health and well-being, is the most widely taught and practiced yoga system in the world.

Statistics about Yoga
According to the Yoga in America study sponsored by Yoga Journal magazine:
• Americans spend $2.95 billion annually on yoga classes and products.
• 16.5 million U.S. adults practice yoga.
• 77.1 percent of yoga practitioners are women and 22.9 percent are men.                           
According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a component of the National Institutes of Health:
• 36 percent of U.S. adults use some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), such as yoga, meditation, chiropractic care and/or deep breathing exercises.
• Yoga ranks as one of the 10 most commonly used CAM therapies.

Additional industry statistics
http://nccam.nih.gov/news/2004/052704.htm
http://www.yogajournal.com/about_press020705.cfm
http://www.yogaalliance.org/
http://www.namasta.com/pressresources.php

About Yoga Yoga Teacher Training, LLC
Yoga Yoga Teacher Training, located in Austin, TX, offers Yoga Alliance nationally recognized 200-hour and 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher Training programs in Hatha Yoga and Kundalini Yoga. Graduates of the Kundalini program also are eligible for certification from the Kundalini Research Institute (KRI). To date, YYTT is the only yoga teacher training program in Texas to be approved as a career school by the Texas Workforce Commission. Providing the most comprehensive, broad-based program in the region, Yoga Yoga Teacher Training is the premier yoga teacher training center in the Southern United States. For more information, contact Yoga Yoga Teacher Training at (512) 326-2273 or visit www.yogayoga.com/training

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