Welcome to The Wellness Connection Yoga Teacher Training South Africa
Online Yoga Teacher Training
In Person Yoga Teacher Training Certification
Self Paced Paced Yoga Teacher Training
Internationally Recognised Yoga Teacher Training.
Yoga is for every body — and so are our Yoga Teacher trainings. Whether you dream of teaching or simply want to deepen your own Yoga practice, the Wellness Connection will meet you exactly where you are. Founded by Catherine Wilkinson, with over three decades of experience and more than 600 teachers trained, we are known for being warm, practical, and genuinely supportive — the kind of training where you finish not just certified, but truly ready to teach, if that is what you choose to do.
We offer high quality ONLINE yoga teacher training, IN PERSON yoga teacher training, and SELF PACED yoga teacher training at a reduced price to improve accessibility to yoga training.
300HR YOGA TEACHER TRAINING COURSE
200HR FULL-TIME YOGA TEACHER TRAINING COURSE
200HR PART-TIME YOGA TEACHER TRAINING COURSE
200HR PRIVATE YOGA TEACHER TRAINING COURSE
How Do I Choose A Yoga Teacher Training Course?
How do I know the Yoga Teacher training course is recognised internationally?
This logo lets you know that the course is certified by the biggest Yoga Alliance in the world so that you can teach anywhere. 
Is your Yoga teacher training course reviewed on Yoga Alliance?
The Yoga Alliance website reviews Wellness Connection Yoga teacher training courses as 5 star courses, for 200hr, 300hr, and Continued Education courses, and is the most reviewed yoga teacher training course in South Africa.
Does the Yoga Teacher training course guarantee that all of their Yoga teachers are the most qualified yoga teachers possible and are 500hr Yoga Alliance approved Yoga Teachers?
At Wellness Connection all Yoga teachers are registered as experienced 500hr Yoga Teachers with the Yoga Alliance , together with many years of experience as Yoga Teachers and Yoga Teacher trainers.
If you are looking for an online Yoga teacher training course does the company have physical studios too? This helps with trust. Does the school offer to meet you at the studios, as well as via online?
The Wellness Connection Yoga Academy offers online yoga teacher training as well as in person yoga teacher training at beautiful studios in Cape Town. We meet with potential trainees at our studios if they choose to do so.
Is the lead Yoga Teacher on the Yoga Teacher training course recognised internationally?
Catherine Wilkinson, the Wellness Connection Yoga lead teacher trainer, has been interviewed internationally on the popular Yoga meets Movement Science podcast & youtube website.
Catherine’s courses have been recommend by one of the most respected teachers in America, Jenni Rawlings, as the best Yoga Teacher training course for high quality, evidence based education at affordable prices.
Does the Yoga Teacher training course use the most up to date evidence?
A lot of Yoga training courses are not updated. Wellness Connection Yoga offers the most up to date content, based on hundreds of hours of research by experienced teachers.
Their research covers many areas including movement science, stretching & strength exercise, as well as different benefits of different styles of Yoga for health.
Are the Yoga Teacher Trainings priced competitively?
The Wellness Connection Yoga trainings are the most competitavely priced trainings in South Africa, and possibly internationally too.
We offer reduced rates, payment plans and scholarships
Does the Yoga Teacher training course have true testimonials with photos of the reviewer rather than just text?
The Wellness Connection Yoga has many excellent reviews from actual trainees, with photos, place of work & country.
Is the Yoga Teacher training course reviewd by respected teachers and organisations?
Wellness Connection Yoga Academy has been reviewed by Yoga South Africa owner Tarryn James as a high quality education training. International Teacher Jenni Rawlings recommends the Wellness Connection as her choice of one of the most up to date and affordable Yoga Teacher trainings world wide.
Does the course give you access to your course for life?
The Wellness Connection Yoga offers you life access to your yoga course contact recordings via a Private Youtube channel set up just for you and your fellow trainees.
You can go back and watch your entire course recordings whenever you like.
You also have access to the 3 main Yoga Teacher trainers for life, to help you with all things Yoga.
How much experience does the Yoga Teacher training school have, and do they have experience internationally?
Wellness Connection Yoga was the first Yoga teacher training school in South Africa, in 2013, to hold the Yoga Alliance approved certificates to teach both 200hr and 300hr Yoga Teacher training courses.
Wellness Connection Yoga has taught courses in the UK, Ireland and Mauritius in addtion to Cape Town, Johannesburg and online.
Wellness Connection Yoga has taught 1000’s of trainees to become successful Yoga teachers.
Does the Yoga Teacher training course get you to a point where you can teach immediately after completion?
Often new teachers do not feel their course has adequately equiped them to teach.
The Wellness Connection Yoga teacher training course progresses you to feeling confident in your pose demonstration, your sequencing, understanding movement and teaching so that by the end of the course many new teachers start teaching immediately.
Does the Yoga Teacher training course cover yoga anatomy, pose analysis, demonstration, sequencing, teaching practice as well as many other styles?
The Wellness Connection Yoga training course covers all of the above in depth as well as Yin, Kids, Pregnancy, Pilates, Meditation, Mindfullness, Massage, Yoga History & Philosophy.
Does the Yoga Teacher training course help you with your own practice?
Wellness Connection Yoga teachers are trained to help EVERY individual to understand their body in Yoga poses, so that they are able to practice to work towards what each trainee wishes.
