CPD: the importance of ongoing yoga learning and training throughout your career.

By Sarah Swindlehurst/Mulliner

Keep on learning

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s a yoga teacher trainer, training people in teaching

yoga to all ages (pre-natal, baby through to teens)

and as a yoga teacher since 2002, I understand

the value of ‘Continued Professional Development’

(CPD) very well. Whether you have completed the full

200hr yoga teaching or a smaller specialised yoga training, CPD is

extremely important in assisting you to develop yourself and your

teaching further. It is also important for you personally to further

your own understanding for your own yoga practice.

Various registering yoga and therapy bodies may or may not

require that you complete a set number of CPD hours a year,

and those that do, CPD can encourage you to continue with your

learning. For example, the CNHC (Complementary and Natural

Healthcare Council) require registrants to participate in continuing

professional development (CPD), which is defined as ‘a range of

learning activities through which professionals grow and develop

throughout their careers to ensure that they retain their capacity

to practice safely, effectively and legally within their evolving scope

of practice’. The requirement is that a practitioner must attend ‘15

hours CPD each year, of which 10 hours must be directly relevant

to the discipline for which they are registered’.

CPD is valuable to you as a yoga teacher and as an individual