December 1, 2025
The Ideal Graduate: Cultivating Qualities and Skills in Our 200HR Yoga Teacher Training
Our teaching team shares the qualities and skills they aim to cultivate in our training graduates.
December 1, 2025
(and know if you’re actually ready)
At some point, yoga stops being “that class you go to sometimes” and starts to change something in you.
Maybe you came to your first few classes out of curiosity, stress, or a general desire for self-improvement. But somewhere along the way, it clicked. You felt the shift – in your body, your mood, your outlook. Yoga stopped being just exercise and started to feel like a practice that actually supports your life.
For some people, that happens quickly. They “get it” straight away and keep coming back because they can feel the difference. For others, it builds over time as classes quietly stack up and the benefits become harder to ignore.
If you’re reading this, chances are:
People from all walks of life step into a 200-hour training. The common thread isn’t age, job, or background. It’s that yoga has affected them in a real, felt way—enough that they’re asking:
“What else is there? What would it be like to really study this?”
Alongside that curiosity, it’s normal to have doubts:
This guide will walk you through what to look for in a 200-hour yoga teacher training in Sydney—so you can make a choice that fits your life, your practice, and where you want to go next.
Before you compare course outlines or price tags, get honest about what’s drawing you in.
Common reasons people consider a 200-hour:
You don’t need a perfect, polished answer. You just need enough self-awareness to know:
A good training won’t demand that you have it all figured out. It will help you clarify what role yoga and teaching might play in your life going forward.
This is one of the biggest pieces.
When you’re choosing a 200-hour yoga teacher training in Sydney, ask:
Red flags to watch out for:
Yoga is a lived, embodied practice. Teaching it well comes from time in the room with real students, not just delivering content from a manual.
Look for:
At Rare, our training is led by Australia’s most experienced teaching team, who are in front of students every week in our busy Bondi and Surry Hills studios. Busy classes force you to constantly refine your craft – every cue, every sequence, every adjustment. That’s the level of experience you want to learn from.
One of the strongest signals you can look for is where the training actually lives.
A 200-hour training that’s based in a big, busy studio with an established community is a very good sign. It means the teachers are in the room with real students all the time, not just turning up a few weekends a year to deliver theory.
The simplest way to check this?
Go to the studio you’re thinking of training at.
Take a handful of classes with different teachers.
See how it feels.
Notice:
When a studio is full, something special happens:
That’s what we see every day at Rare. Our whole teaching team is at the top of their game because our community expects – and deserves – a fantastic class, every time.
You want your 200-hour training to sit inside this kind of environment, not bolted on around the edges of it.
A 200-hour yoga teacher training is a big commitment.
The structure needs to work with your life, not against it.
Ask yourself:
Some trainings run in one continuous block (for example, four full weeks). That can be powerful, but it also means:
At Rare, we’ve deliberately chosen a two-module format for our 200-hour training in Sydney:
This structure means:
Trying to cram everything into one block can make it harder to absorb. Spacing it out gives your body and nervous system time to digest, embody and apply what you’re learning.
There’s a lot of online content out there: videos, PDFs, pre-recorded modules. They absolutely have their place.
But for a foundational 200-hour teacher training, we firmly believe:
It needs to be an in-person experience.
You’re learning how to:
Online components can support that, but they shouldn’t replace it.
When you’re weighing up trainings, ask:
Your future students will show up in person. It makes sense that your training does too.
This is one of the most common fears people have before training.
Here’s the reality:
A naturally flexible person often doesn’t know what it feels like to be tight, stiff or scared to move. Someone who has had to work for every bit of mobility? They get it.
If you’ve:
…you’re in a very good position to guide others with empathy and clarity.
A good training will be honest with you: it’s fine if you’re not “advanced”, but you should be ready to put in the work on and off the mat.
Very common. Most people are unsure.
Training doesn’t lock you into a career path. What it does do is give you clarity:
Both outcomes are valid. The point is depth, not pressure.
Life happens – illness, work, family.
A solid training will have a plan for this. In Rare’s 200-hour training, we know things come up, and we work with students to create makeup time where needed, within reason. The key is communication and commitment.
That’s exactly why our format is built the way it is.
Rather than needing to disappear for a whole month, our two-module structure means:
It’s still a big commitment – it should be – but it’s designed for real humans with jobs and lives, not just those who can vanish for a month.
8. Will I be forced into a cookie-cutter teaching style?
Some trainings teach one set sequence and one fixed way to do everything. That can be useful at the very beginning, but if it’s the only option, it becomes limiting fast.
At Rare, our focus is different:
The goal isn’t to create copies of one teacher.
The goal is to help you become a skilful, grounded version of you.
If we put all of this together, here’s what you’re really looking for in a training:
That’s exactly what we’ve built our program around at Rare:
If you’ve read this far and something in you is quietly nodding along, your next step can be simple:
👉 Click the “Enquire Now” button on our 200-Hour Teacher Training page.
You’re not signing your life away. You’re just:
Whether you end up teaching or simply deepen your own practice, a 200-hour training is a powerful way to spend time with yourself, your body and your life in a new way.
If yoga has been tapping you on the shoulder for a while now, this might be your invitation to explore what’s next.
