{"id":41632,"date":"2012-03-13T09:49:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T17:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41632"},"modified":"2012-03-13T11:08:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T19:08:37","slug":"whats-the-difference-between-an-alexander-teacher-and-a-yoga-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41632","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s The Training Difference Between An Alexander Teacher And A Yoga Teacher?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A typical <A HREF=\"http:\/\/yoga.about.com\/od\/yogaenthusiast\/a\/teachertraining.htm\">yoga teacher<\/a> has taken a course of about 200 hours, often done in 12-hour stretches on weekends.<\/p>\n<p>An Alexander Technique teacher trains for three hours a day, five days a week, 36 weeks a year, for three years (a total of more than 1600 hours of training).<\/p>\n<p>A <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/oco\/ocos295.htm\">massage therapist<\/a> has training of about 500 hours.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.pilates.com\/BBAPP\/V\/education\/instructor-training\/program-details.html\">Training to teach pilates<\/a> requires about 300 hours.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.feldenkrais.com\/method\/frequently_asked_questions\/#8\">Feldenkrais practitioners train for about 800 hours<\/a>. Again, much of this training is done in long stretches of eight hours or more. By limiting daily training to three hours, Alexander Technique teacher training is of a different quality than these other modalities. On average, the Alexander teacher spends much more time and money on his education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A typical yoga teacher has taken a course of about 200 hours, often done in 12-hour stretches on weekends. An Alexander Technique teacher trains for three hours a day, five days a week, 36 weeks a year, for three years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41632\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10268,2354],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexander-technique","category-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41662,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41632\/revisions\/41662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}