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Contact: Jamie Hodge Perkins
jamie@yogayoga.com
(512) 771-6011
www.yogayoga.com

YOGA YOGA TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM DESIGNATED AN APPROVED CAREER SCHOOL BY THE TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION
Changing careers is one of the top reasons students give for enrolling in yoga teacher training.

Austin, Texas - (December 5, 2006) Yoga Yoga Teacher Training (YYTT) is an Approved Career School by the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC), the state government agency charged with overseeing and providing workforce development services to employers and job seekers of Texas. To date, YYTT is the only yoga teacher training program in Texas to have the TWC approved status.

The North American Studio Alliance (NAMASTA), which is an organization for mind-body professionals, estimates that currently there are 70,000 yoga teachers in North America. In 2006, 160 students were graduated from Yoga Yoga Teacher Training. There are currently 248 students enrolled in Yoga Yoga Teacher Training's programs. Two of the main reasons students give for registering in the YYTT program are to supplement a current career or to make a major career change. YYTT's largest demographic is women over 40 who are retired or looking for a career change. The number of men and students below age 35 in the YYTT program is increasing.

A new session of Hatha Teacher Training, including classes on anatomy and physiology plus yoga fundamentals and philosophy, begins in January of 2007. An open house to provide details about the program is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 9 from 1-3 p.m. at Yoga Yoga South, 1700 S. Lamar in Austin, TX. The 200-hour Teacher Training Program fee is $2595. For more details, call (512) 326-2273 or visit www.yogayoga.com/training. Hatha yoga, the physical discipline of classical yoga emphasizing yoga postures and breathing exercises for physical and psychological health and well-being, is the most widely taught and practiced yoga system in the world.

Statistics about Yoga
According to the Yoga in America study sponsored by Yoga Journal magazine:
•Americans spend $2.95 billion annually on yoga classes and products.
•16.5 million U.S. adults practice yoga.
•25 million people say they intend to try yoga within the next 12 months.
•77.1% of yoga practitioners are women and 22.9% are men.

According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a component of the National Institutes of Health:
•36% of U.S. adults use some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), such as yoga, meditation, chiropractic care, and/or deep breathing exercises.
•Yoga ranks as one of the 10 most commonly used CAM therapies.

Additional industry statistics
http://nccam.nih.gov/news/2004/052704.htm
http://www.yogajournal.com/about_press020705.cfm
http://www.yogaalliance.org/
http://www.namasta.com/pressresources.php

About Yoga Yoga, LLC (http://www.yogayoga.com)
Yoga Yoga is Austin's premier source for yoga with four locations and more than 350 classes weekly. With over 70 registered yoga teachers, Yoga Yoga provides a wide variety of yoga styles for new and continuing students as well as specialized classes for deaf students, expectant mothers, seniors, and children. Yoga Yoga also offers a nationally recognized Teacher Training program with 200 and 500-hour courses approved by the Yoga Alliance. For more information, contact Yoga Yoga at (512) 326-3900 or visit http://www.yogayoga.com.

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