Teaching with Veterans Yoga Project
Your Path to Fulfilling Your Purpose
For those called to serve the Veteran community, there is no place quite like Veterans Yoga Project to recognize and realize your purpose. Since 2010, Veterans Yoga Project (VYP) has trained more than 1,500 yoga teachers and healthcare providers in the tools of mindful resilience for trauma recovery via our weekend 17.5 hour Mindful Resilience Training (MRT).
Over the past few years, we’ve expanded our focus to providing support to our MRT-trained teachers so they can effectively share these tools with more Veterans in clinical settings, online, and throughout our communities. We now offer nearly 5,000 classes annually taught online, at VA’s, Vet Centers, and active-duty and community-based Veteran service organizations. The clinical benefits of these classes are documented through our Pain and Stress Analysis which consistently shows VYP encounters reduce pain and stress over 70% on average. You too can make a difference when you teach with VYP.
How to Become a VYP Teacher
All VYP teachers are certified in the techniques of Mindful Resilience for Trauma Recovery.
To become a VYP teacher takes two steps:
- Potential candidates (clinicians, healthcare professionals, and certified 200 hour yoga teachers) must enroll in and complete our 17.5 hour Mindful Resilience for Trauma Recovery Training (MRT). You can find more details and a complete schedule of our upcoming trainings here.
- In order to provide more support for our teachers and for the Veterans we collectively serve, we created the VYP Teachers Alliance. All of our MRT graduates need to join this Alliance in order to teach VYP online or local classes. This network allows us to provide continuing education and resources to our teachers, and better document the reach and the effectiveness of yoga for those we collectively serve.
If you are a yoga instructor and have completed VYP’s Mindful Resilience Training, please see our FAQs below to learn how to join our network of providers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Why a VYP Teachers Alliance?
A: The Veterans and families that we teach deserve high quality instruction that provides maximal benefit with minimal risk. VYP teachers are well respected in the Veteran community and among Veteran treatment programs and are known to hold themselves to the high standards of integrity that our Veterans and families deserve. The VYP Teachers Alliance formalizes these standards by establishing educational and training requirements for teachers who are providing services for Veterans as part of Veterans Yoga Project.
Q: Who can become a member of the VYP Teachers Alliance Program?
A: All yoga teachers who have completed the VYP Mindful Resilience Training in addition to having completed training with a registered school (i.e. Yoga Alliance) will have the opportunity to complete the requirements to become a VYP Teachers Alliance member.
Q: Can I become a member of the Teachers Alliance if I am not teaching classes to Veterans?
A: Yes, you can become a Teachers Alliance member if you fulfill all requirements.
Q: Is there a cost/fee for membership?
A: There is no cost for Teachers Alliance membership for MRT-trained yogis who are teaching Veterans and who complete all the requirements.
Q: What is the term of membership?
A: Teachers Alliance membership continues for as long as the annual requirements are met.