transforming the world - one yoga posture at a time...
Lalita Doerstel, Senior Dru Yoga teacher trainer
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Our course prospectus contains a wealth of information. If you have a question, request a call back from one of our Dru team. But if you're ready to take the next step, download the application form to your right. :-)
Teacher training or self development?
About 30% of our trainees do the course for their own personal or professional development as a therapist or group leader. Whatever your yoga ambitions, you'll find that Dru Yoga is an empowering, energising and balancing approach to vitality, health and wellbeing.
Dru Yoga Teacher Training
You will experience new, higher levels of energy. You will also become more relaxed and better able to cope with the stresses of everyday life.
And perhaps even more importantly, you will discover greater depths within than you might ever have given yourself credit for. And with these, go on to make a difference in many, many people's lives.
Now is the perfect time to embark on this exciting journey of your self-discovery!
Evidence of health benefits
University research shows that Dru Yoga eases back pain, decreases stress, reduces anxiety and fatigue... while boosting confidence and emotional well-being. You'll be well-placed to make a great living!
Check out university research papers involving Dru Yoga:
- The effectiveness of yoga for improving wellbeing and resilience to stress in the workplace.
- Yoga for reducing perceived stress and back pain at work.
- The cost-effectiveness of yoga for preventing and reducing back pain at work: trial protocol.
- More on Dru Yoga research and benefits...
Online training platform
This training video taught by senior tutor, Louise Rowan explores the Charity Pose and includes the body preps needed as well as info on how to teach it safely to your students.
Find out what others say about Dru ...
Find out more or apply now
Our course prospectus contains a wealth of information, and if you can't find answers to your questions, our friendly office staff would love to help you. Or if you're ready to take the next step, download the application form to your right.
Watch a live session from the course
In Dru we often talk about the koshas or the layers of our body and mind. In this video Sylvia will help us to tune into each of the layers through this sequence.
You can be confident that your training ...
Is based on a comprehensive, in-depth syllabus
Provides clear, easy-to-follow illustrated manuals
Offers free, unlimited access to online video resources to support you during the course
Includes one-to-one tuition to guide you through your training
Is recognised by both national and international yoga organisations
Leads to membership of a vibrant global network of Dru teachers and a connection with like-minded friends.
Accreditation and standards
The International School of Dru Yoga offers you the highest standard of teacher training
Choosing the right school to train with is a big decision and will help shape your entire career as a yoga teacher. The International School of Dru Yoga offers you the highest standard of teacher training. The Dru Yoga teacher training course includes 350 guided learning hours, is registered as a 350 hour course with Yoga Australia and a 200 hour course with Yoga Alliance which is currently being updated to a 300 hour course.
With thousands of Dru Yoga teachers worldwide, and many hundreds in training each year, we are now one of the largest yoga organisations. If you choose to become a yoga therapist the Dru Yoga Therapy Diploma is accredited by the British Council of Yoga Therapists and the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council.
Become an Advanced Dru Yoga teacher
With 500+ guided learning hours, chosen from a variety of CPD trainings, you can bring your Dru Yoga teaching qualification to the Advance level. Each postgraduate training course will add another string to your bow—ultimately allowing you to promote yourself as an advanced level yoga teacher.
How do I reach Advanced level
There are so many ways to develop your skills as a Dru Yoga teacher. We offer a wide range of CPD options as well as a fully accredited yoga therapy diploma course. Our postgraduate training programmes enable you to keep expanding your knowledge
- Advanced Yoga Practitioner diploma
- 100 guided learning hours
- Discover the secrets of how to use yoga as a precise, laser-like lens to redesign your consciousness.
Make a difference to the next generation
Nuturing Dru Yoga classes for mums-to-be
- Back Care Certificate course
- 75 guided learning hours
- Meet a rising demand—back pain is the world’s main cause of sickness absence.
- Prenatal Certificate course
- 75 guided learning hours
- Work with antenatal clinics and run private classes with mothers-to-be.
- Kids & Teens Teaching diploma
- 18 guided learning hours
- Work with children and schools. Inspire future generations. Provide robust tools for well-being.
- Dru Dance Teaching diploma
- 100 guided learning hours
- Exhilarating and inspiring! Take all the fun of a Dru Yoga class and soup it up by 100%
You’re in good company
Since 1987, thousands of Dru yoga teachers have been trained worldwide. In the UK we have as many as 14 courses running in various parts of the country to help you find a course that suits your needs.
If you are a therapist
Boost your skills as a therapist with Dru Yoga's profound knowledge of how to clear painful thoughts and emotions from the body. Teach your clients self-help techniques to stay balanced between visits.
Earn as you learn
Half of our students start to teach before graduation, earning as much as half their course costs before they finish. It's pretty easy to earn the rest within a year.
Create a supportive group environment
Understand how to make your yoga classes into a supportive group experience with Dru's deep understanding of group energetics. Many HR professionals and corporate trainers do the course just for this reason!
Become a master of yoga's subtle energetics
Deeply understand the subtle reasons yoga postures work. Dru Yoga teachers are trained to simultaneously improve all layers of awareness: physical, subtle energy, emotive, discriminating, unity.
Make friends for life!
How could we miss this? It's very likely you'll make some of the warmest, most supportive friendships of your life amongst the many like-minded people you'll meet on the Dru Yoga teacher training course.
Julie
retired teacher, Llanerch-y-medd
I feel like this course is enabling me to discover myself, module by module - whether I wanted it or not deep soul searching is ensured and a new ‘me’ is emerging.
You can be confident that your teacher training
- presents a comprehensive, indepth syllabus
- provides clear, easy-to-follow illustrated manuals
- is taught by top international tutors
- offers the recognition of an international school
- leads to membership in a vibrant network of Dru teachers (DPN).
Applying is easy!
- Simply download and fill in the application form
- Then ask your yoga teacher, a colleague or friend to write you a reference
- Send your application and reference back to the Dru team
- We will be in touch to arrange an interview or a session at a nearby try-out day.
- Reserve your place on the course by paying your registration fee*
Dru Yoga - become who you really are.
The Dru Yoga teacher training course helps you become more 'you'.
What now?
We'll review your application and references and get back to you shortly. We’d normally want to meet you or speak with you by phone or skype, so we’ll be in touch to arrange an interview. Alternatively, you could attend a session at a try out day.
We're very much looking forward to welcoming you onto the Dru Yoga teacher training course!
You can pay your registration fee* via our training courses >>
Find out more or apply now
Our course prospectus contains a wealth of information, and if you can't find answers to your questions, our friendly office staff would love to help you. Or if you're ready to take the next step, download the application form to your right.
Radha Patel
Dru Yoga teacher and online presenter
Do it just for yourself or to extend your skills
As we said right in the beginning, you can choose to do this training to become a teacher or for your own personal or professional development.
About one third of our students do the course for themselves or to further their own career as a
- therapist
- human resources leader
- management trainer
Dru’s deep insights into the body-mind system will make a huge contribution to your life. The deep insights into group energetics that you will learn will enable you to dramatically improve your communication and team building skills.
Above all this is the start of a wonderful period of in-depth learning, building personal and professional skills, establishing new friendships and an exciting journey of self-discovery!
Dru Yoga - become who you really are.
You will begin to experience new, higher levels of energy resulting from establishing your own daily yoga practice.
Want to deepen your practice?
If you have no intention of teaching, you'll find the Dru Yoga course richly rewarding. You'll be in good company, because many Dru Yoga trainees do the course simply to gain yoga's many benefits just for themselves.
You'll enjoy the teaching skills
And in our experience you'll enjoy the teaching skills sections, which are deliberately taught with you in mind: they are fun, build friendships, and help you deepen your practice.
Moreover, these sessions help you learn the energetics of communication, which will boost your relationships with family, friends, colleagues and in your profession.
KOSHA AWARENESS
I enjoyed everything about this workshop. Nice to be on the receiving end. Padma's introduction to the koshas. The very interesting technique for the diaphragm and diaphragmatic breathing. The pear tree partner work and flowing individual sequence.
Friendships that last
The nature of Dru Yoga teaching creates a warm, supportive group environment. It's very likely that you'll form some of the greatest friendships of your life from amongst the warm and friendly bunch of like-minded people you'll meet.
Give back to the world
Dru Yoga practitioners tend to enjoy giving back to society, finding their own unique ways to add to the world. Run a marathon in Rwanda to support rebuilding efforts? Set up a new charity? Dru Yoga will help you discover the sky is the limit!
Discover your potential, clarify your purpose
Above all, the Dru Yoga teacher training course helps you become more 'you'. It will help you clear away the stress and busy-ness of modern living, soften old emotional pains and regain the fresh originality of your lifelong dreams.