The ethics lesson plans are designed to help students recognize the responsibilities of holding space as a professional yoga teacher and create a platform for guiding their behavior. These are rich discussion sets that should be used to help students begin to tackle thorny questions. 

Perfect for a 200-hour, 300-hour or continuing education.

Trainer notes provided in PDF and Word. Fully customizable and editable.

What’s included

• Trainer notes to guide you every step of the way
• Curriculum specially designed to make ethics relevant for yogis
• Fun and interactive discussions and activities to drive learning home
• Student handouts

Learning objectives

Ethics is divided into two sections. You can teach them separately (1 hour for the first session, 1.25-2 hours for second session) or teach them back to back

Ethics 1

By the end of this lesson, your students will be able to:

• Describe how teaching yoga is different from teaching a non-spiritual discipline
• Define transference and describe how it may show up in the yoga classroom
• Describe an appropriate professional teacher – student relationship
• Describe the boundaries of a teacher’s scope of practice

Ethics 2

• Create a code of conduct
• Address thorny ethical issues from the code of conduct perspective.

Total Lesson Time: 2.25-3 hours