In-studio & online yoga Teacher Training, Darwin & beyond
Darwin teacher training, or elsewhere? Looking for the best “yoga instructor training near me”? See the best certified in-studio & online Yoga Instructor Training Australia has, Iyengar style. Please consider one of the top yoga instructor training course options. Read on to see why.
The Flametree Yoga Teacher Training program takes place in accordance with the outline of the online and in-studio yoga teacher training program
The Teacher Training offered by Flametree Yoga Studio is an apprenticeship style system. It involves a mix of weekend intensives, class attendances, weekly practise sessions, readings and yearly reviews.
All parts of the course, including each weekend, are with Chris Lalor, who is demonstrating the yoga poses in the video below. She is accredited as a Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher, and yoga therapist.
To join the program, you need to have been practising Iyengar Yoga for a minimum of 3 years.
Flametree is a registered Iyengar yoga school and is fully able to offer yoga training for you to become a certified Iyengar yoga teacher.
Discount codes for Darwin teacher training newcomers, including those lapsed 6 months
For our discounts, newcomers, at checkout, should use the codes below.
A newcomer is someone who has not yet arranged with Chris Lalor to commence teacher training. It includes anyone who has been lapsed as a teacher trainee for 6 months or more.
Newcomers First weekend in Year one
To get 90% off, use this discount code: 90%OFF
Newcomers 4 other weekends in Year One
To get 50% off, use this discount code: 50%OFF
So, to get started with your yoga instructor training payment, you click the “Add To Cart” button above.
Then, at checkout, you’ll see a box on the left hand side where you add the appropriate discount code.
If you’re unsure if the discounts apply to you, please contact us.
Flametree Bank Account Details for payments for Darwin yoga instructor training (online or local)
Our e-commerce payment facility lets you make a payment for each one of the several yoga instructor training weekends each year. In other words, you can pay as you go.
Chris, Accredited Senior Teacher, Will Do Your Yoga Instructor Training
You may be more ready and able to do our yoga teacher training program than you think.
If you want to discuss, please contact me.
Flametree Bank Account Details for payments for Darwin yoga instructor training (online or local)
In order to make a yoga instructor training payment direct to the Flametree Yoga studio bank account, please contact us for the bank details.
Receipt for yoga instructor training payment
When you make a payment for yoga instructor training, with the credit card facility above, you are automatically emailed a receipt.
If you make a payment direct to the Flametree Bank Account, as above, then please contact us for any receipt you may require.
To make this payment now, just click “Add To Cart” above.
You’ll go direct to check out to complete the transaction.
Arm Balances Lift Your Whole Weight

Chris Lalor, accredited as a Darwin Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher, & a yoga therapist, demonstrating an arm balance in Darwin NT. Check out one of the best certified in-studio & online Yoga Instructor Training Australia has.
Iyengar Teacher Training At Flametree Yoga Studio.
The program has a very comprehensive syllabus. It equips you with an understanding of yoga, refines your practise of asana and pranayama and provides you with skills to become a good safe yoga teacher.
The training can take anywhere from 3 to 5 years to gain a sufficient understanding of yoga to be ready to go up for the Iyengar Assessment.
The actual certification is done by the Iyengar Yoga Association of Australia.
To become a registered yoga teacher Darwin or beyond.
Chris Lalor, Senior Iyengar Teacher at Flametree will sign you off after you have satisfactorily completed a minimum of 300 hours of yoga teacher training.
These 300 hours comprise 100 hours of assisting and observing classes, as well as 200 hours of training. You will learn or greatly improve a wide range of asanas and pranayamas.
Our payment plans allow you to work at your personal practice, and learn yoga philosophy (including the Yoga Sutras), at your own pace.
The hours of training include the
- use of props,
- the science of yoga,
- the principles of technique, alignment, sequencing & timings,
- understanding how to plan a yoga class [sequencing],
- special options like restorative yoga,
- practical applications,
- philosophy of yoga,
- guided practice of assessment poses,
- other yoga education.
All in all, you get a comprehensive program that allows you to make a new beginning, or to develop your own yoga practice, and personal development.
Iyengar yoga is renowned for providing clear, precise, verbal instructions as a way to direct, focus, and quieten the student’s mind as they practice of both asana and pranayama.
You will learn how to deliver instructions so that you can become an effective teacher. Hear me, Chris Lalor, give a tiny lesson on Forearm Balance
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Watch the video to see some of the best certified in-studio & online Yoga Instructor Training Australia has.
Please consider one of the top yoga instructor training course options. Read on to see why.
Mr BKS Iyengar, who brought high quality yoga to the West, pioneered the use of a new style of precise verbal instruction.
The above video is one tiny example of it. It’s just one of the many unique aspect of Iyengar yoga.
In the video, you’ll hear me give a tiny example of how teachers are taught to just give you one tiny instruction at a time.
Then, they wait until you do each such step.
I (Chris Lalor), have always found that this type of instruction will take you further than you thought possible.
Self-development, personal transformation, better yoga, & new job options
Among other things, Flametree’s teacher training program is excellent for:
- self-development and personal growth
- dramatically improving your yoga (& being certified & insured to teach it)
- getting many more yoga benefits
- improving your pranayama breath meditation (& being certified & insured to teach it)
- understanding what’s happening in the mind and body of yourself and students
- immense yogic insights and yoga philosophy learning
- opportunity to teach a class while training, to improve progress (providing you show progress in all aspects of the training (see below)
- motivating yourself to do more yoga and pranayama, and / or
- getting a new full-time or part-time role in life.
Testimonials about yoga teacher training, and regular classes
Belinda, who completed Flametree Darwin Teacher training, has written of the huge number of benefits she has already gotten from yoga. In terms of yoga instructor training, she says:
“Flametree Iyengar yoga teacher training is rigorous and challenging. Not just on a physical level but how it asks you to look inwards, at your habits, ways of thinking, and being in the world. For me, it not only got me a teaching qualification but also some lifelong friends.”
As well as the above testimonials by Flametree’s yoga instructor former trainees, check out these genuine reviews of what current students say about their yoga classes at Flametree, and the yoga instruction by Chris Lalor and other teachers.
Elsewhere, also see more about how yoga instructor training gives you huge personal development.
Learn to teach poses that make yoga accessible to your students

Your yoga instructor training course will include using props so as to make yoga accessible to all sizes, ages, and genders..
Another Prop You’ll Learn To Use & Teach

Rolling over a Flametree barrel is one of the ways we improve spine flexibility. Plus it delivers the many advantages of backbends, such as energy. In your certified yoga instructor training, you’ll learn the use of all such props.
In-studio and online yoga school for yoga instructor training
Flametree yoga instructor training is easy to do via a mix of in-studio and online training options.
Those Trainees who live remote from Darwin, are required to attend a minimum of two training weekends each year in Darwin. Either prior to or after the training weekend, the trainee will be required to attend classes in-studio , where they will get the opportunity to observe and assist in regular classes.
The weekends should be combined with spending two periods of a fortnight in Darwin each year, when you can also do the in-class training [so-called assisting], where you are watching Chris teach class.
Overall, you get the best option for whatever mix of in-studio and online programs works for you.
The course material is fully flexible to accommodate your needs.
So, its the best online yoga teacher training you’ll find. It’s includes flexible LIVE sessions, including a weekly, Friday afternoon class to improve your yoga asanas. There are more details on our other teacher training page.
Therefore, if you’re looking for top yoga certification programs, please consider Flametree’s in-studio and online yoga teacher training programs.
On this page, and in our other reviews, you can also see the strong recommendation that fellow students have given Flametree’s certification course.
It will give you a strong foundation for teaching successfully in the yoga industry.
Hybrid training that works for your yoga journey
Flametree gives you a comprehensive training and an affordable payment plan, especially in the first year. That’s mainly because of the huge discounts we offer.
From your first class, our Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) program will build on and accelerate your knowledge of yoga, and whatever years of experience you have.
There’s no time limit for finishing, or getting anywhere on a deadline. The learning process commences at the training start date, and finishes when you choose.
Work on your yoga postures at your pace. There are also generous deals for unlimited asana classes, as a regular yoga student.
Of course, if you want, you can also make it a more intensive course. In that case, your training hours will grow faster. It’s likely that your teaching experience will too.
Byron Bay, Surry Hills, Gold Coast, Bondi Beach, or wherever
Flametree Yoga already does online classes, for its existing students, wherever they may be in their daily life.
These public classes, online and in-studio, are a great opportunity for you to get practical experience in due course (as soon as your basic training and performance is sufficient).
Once you achieve such a level, it can continue through your yoga certification course.
Your ongoing practical training, plus your in-studio and online study, will keep making you the best version of a yoga teacher that you choose to be.
You’ll Learn “Do-Able” Inversions, & How To Teach Them Step By Step

The huge value discounts will cease as soon as all current places are full. Please consider this top value yoga instructor training course.
Please consider the next yoga instructor training weekend for you
The next training weekend will be on December 6th & 7th 2025.
Plus, wherever you are with yoga, and your own self development, yoga teacher training will be a huge, new step in your personal journey.
Therefore, please consider teacher training, for your interest, or to further develop your yoga, or for a new or additional role in life.
If you take the plunge, you’ll be joining some of the best, certified in-studio & online Yoga Instructor Training Australia has.
Of course, if you want to discuss any aspect of this, or just want to get on with it, please contact me.
If you wish, please also check out our Flametree teacher training page for more on the course, and these new DISCOUNTS.
Check out more tiny videos of Chris Lalor demonstrating various levels of yoga poses.



