How do I choose a Yoga Teacher training course?
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.
Does the Yoga Teacher training course use the Yoga Alliance logo? This logo lets you know that the course is certified by the biggest Yoga Alliance in the world so that you can teach anywhere. Your certificate is recognised internationally.

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 experienced Registered Yoga Teachers with the Yoga Alliance with many years of experience as Yoga Teachers and Yoga Teacher trainers.
Is your Yoga teacher training course reviewd 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, recognised as the best Yoga teacher training course in South Africa.
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.
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 and reviews.
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, experienced by her.
Is the lead Yoga Teacher on the Yoga Teacher training course recognised internationally?
Catherine Wilkinson, 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 course give you access to your course for life?
The Wellness Connection Yoga offers you life access to your yoga course 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, 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.