Centered Yoga is a leader in the field of yoga education and yoga teacher training worldwide.Since its founding in 1999, Centered Yoga has offered courses for professional yoga teachers, those aspiring to become teachers, and sincere students seeking to delve deeper into their practice and understanding of the contemplative yoga path.
Our basic yoga teacher training program, An Education in Yoga: Foundation Course, is considered one of the most comprehensive in the world. It is also of the highest standard, with a broad scope that encompasses asana, vinyasa, pranayama, yoga philosophy, anatomy and physiology, meditation, chanting, and spiritual practices. Authenticity and integrity are our hallmarks, as we firmly believe that a deep understanding of not only the correct practice, but also its purpose, is essential to produce an effect that is both true and pointed in the right direction.
Centered Yoga holds one-month residential yoga teacher training program at Samahita Retreat, a leading destination for yoga retreats and holidays in Koh Samui, Thailand, along with a number of advanced yoga training courses to advance the student and teacher. Through its founder, Paul Dallaghan, Centered Yoga also conducts other yoga teacher training programs around the world.
Paul has trained one-on-one with noted yogi Sri O.P. Tiwari, master of pranayama and head of the oldest yoga institute, Kaivalyadham. He also received advanced asana training with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, the late master of ashtanga.
Both of these great teachers have personally certified Paul in these practices, a unique position as the only one to receive this double honor.
Centered Yoga is known both in Asia and around the world as one of the most respected and longest-running Yoga Alliance-registered yoga teacher training programs, at both at the 200- and 300-hour levels. In fact, we maintain our own programs and standards to the 1100-hour level. We are proud of our reputation for a high standard of personal practice and learning.
Centered Yoga’s purpose is not to churn out teachers but to guide, inspire, and uplift students of yoga. Sincerity is therefore a primary qualification, the inner quality that allows a student to approach his or her personal development and the practices in an earnest and mature way.