Janet Lau: Yin Yang Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training

The 200-hour certification and personal development paths differ in homework and assessment requirements. If you haven’t ruled out becoming a certified yoga teacher, we recommend first completing the academic requirements for Yin Yang Yoga and The Yogi’s Path. This allows you to enrich yourself through the program while also earning the 200-hour certificate. If the modules you enroll in meet the academic standards, you will receive the 200-hour certificate upon completion. If you are interested in advanced modules but do not yet hold RYT200 certification, you may still enroll—the difference is that the certificate issued at the end will count only as personal development.

Many topics in the program require participants to personally embody and realize them in daily life. Discussions in class, without the tempering of time, remain mere conceptual ideas on paper and cannot truly benefit oneself or others. We encourage participants to set aside time outside the training period to slowly digest and integrate the knowledge, gaining authentic personal insights through real-life experiences. True realization cannot be rushed; only right view attained through insight can genuinely elevate the heart.

In this lineage, functional teaching, energy balance, and the spirit of yoga are the foundational paths. Revisiting one of these modules allows participants to gain deeper understanding of the science behind the body and the essence behind spiritual practice. The first encounter with this knowledge is like an introduction—the participant’s understanding remains a conceptual framework. After a period of self-exploration and experience (including personal practice, reflection, and teaching), revisiting the same content reveals far deeper insights.
In simple terms, the level of consciousness during the second encounter has evolved significantly from the first, enabling participants to discover and explore deeper meanings. Participants revisiting a module will be assigned different homework and shadow learning opportunities to further deepen their understanding of the subject.

Through regular and practical interaction with the teacher, participants can review learned knowledge and receive guidance. Revisiting with the teacher in the short term allows the instructor to better understand each participant’s learning progress, optimize teaching, and provide more tailored support. Encouraging completion of all modules within four years preserves the foundation of the curriculum. If a participant needs to extend the four-year limit due to special circumstances, please notify in writing first and then discuss with Janet. The teacher will do their best to accommodate the learning plan, but approval cannot be guaranteed.

The advanced modules in the RYT300 program require participants to already hold a registered RYT200 certification to enroll and qualify for the certificate. We recommend focusing on completing your RYT200 first before starting advanced modules, as this will allow for deeper embodiment and understanding of the content. If you enroll in any advanced module without holding RYT200, the credits can only count toward personal development and cannot be applied to the 300-hour advanced training qualification.

If absences are less than 5% of the module hours, you may make up the missed hours by enrolling in Janet’s other short courses. If absences exceed 5% of the module hours, the missed hours cannot be made up; the certificate will reflect actual attendance hours, which may affect eligibility for the 500-hour certification. Ultimately, regardless of whether hours can be made up, participants cannot truly recover the missed content, so we strongly recommend attending the entire module.

If you do not yet hold an RYT200 certificate, you must first complete Yin Yang Yoga and The Yogi’s Path as foundational modules. For example, if you begin with an advanced module such as Mindfulness or Be Yourself without having completed the two core foundations (Yin Yang Yoga and The Yogi’s Path), credits from the advanced module can only count as personal development. If you later successfully obtain RYT200 certification (whether from this school or another) and wish to pursue RYT500, you will need to retake the three advanced modules. This ensures every participant in advanced training progresses step-by-step, from foundational to profound, and absorbs knowledge systematically.

Every body is unique, and not every asana is suitable for everyone. Therefore, the course does not use students’ asana proficiency as an admission criterion. The program includes in-depth asana analysis, teaching applications, and practice. Participants should have at least two consecutive years of recent experience in Vinyasa/Hatha and Yin yoga as a foundational requirement to facilitate understanding of the applied knowledge.

Yin Yang Yoga provides foundational theory on asanas, sequencing techniques, and the relationship between different body structures and practice—essentially the bedrock of teaching. Excessive intellectual knowledge can lead practitioners to fixate on right and wrong, easily falling into a self-fulfilling prophecy. The true essence of yoga lies in living with ethics and awareness, thereby finding inner freedom. The Yogi’s Path helps participants know themselves, cultivate virtuous qualities, learn to surrender to a greater existence, see a broader perspective, and transcend limitations of superiority and inferiority.
The other two advanced modules build upon these foundations, exploring more nuanced and profound life themes. For 200-hour students, Yin Yang Yoga and The Yogi’s Path form an essential required foundation.