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“My mission is to help you to share your passion for yoga.
For this purpose, I have created Yoga Teacher University, your go-to place to deepen your knowledge about yoga and become the best yoga teacher you can be!
In my YogaAlliance certified teacher training programs, you learn step by step to teach with competence, confidence, compassion and joy.
I am authorised by YogaAlliance to teach 100% online yoga teacher trainings. No matter if you take one of my trainings online or in person – you will be qualified to teach both online and in person classes at internationally high standards.
Start your journey now and become a certified yoga teacher!”
About Martin
Hey there, I am Martin. I am associated with YogaAlliance, probably the most widely known yoga association world-wide. I have reached YogaAlliance’s highest level of certification, E-RYT 500, and I am a registered Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP). I have been practicing yoga since 2007, teaching yoga since 2011 (more than 12’000 classes) and offering yoga teacher trainings since 2015. I am also a certified Yin Yoga teacher, AcroYoga teacher and massage therapist. It is a great privilege and joy for me to help others discover the benefits of yoga and guide people on their path to becoming a yoga teacher.
Before I became a full-time yoga teacher, I studied Psychology and Business at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and worked for global corporations around the world. In the beginning, I practiced yoga because it helped me to get rid of numerous health issues I was suffering from: back pains, knee pains, heart problems, the general feeling of being totally stressed out all the time, and I had gained 40kg of weight. Yoga has helped me enormously to feel physically healthy and mentally balanced again.
I never thought that I would be a yoga teacher one day. At that time, I lived in New York City and my yoga teacher came to me and said: “Hey Martin, you are coming here all the time. You could as well sign up for our upcoming teacher training!” Despite my doubts, he encouraged me do it – which turned out to be the most life-changing experience. I started teaching a lot of classes right away, while still being employed full-time. As a Psychologist, my job was to run leadership development programs for employees and managers all over the world and I started to incorporate yoga and mindfulness techniques into these trainings, which was very rewarding. I started to feel a strong desire to share my passion for yoga, and wanted to learn as much about it as I could. Two years later, I quit my job and started my own yoga studio …
Yoga Teacher University
Martin Becker
Am Rheinpark 6
79576 Weil am Rhein