Course Summary
Course Category: Employment / Lifelong Learning
This course is designed to provide an introduction to teaching Yoga and Pilates enabling learners gain the knowledge and skills required to plan, prepare and deliver safe and effective Yoga and Pilates sessions.
This course also enables enthusiastic and aspiring individuals to achieve a qualification to become a confident practising complementary therapist, providing tailored treatments such as body massage, aromatherapy and reflexology to clients within the industry.
Course Details
This course prepares you for working in the following Career Sectors:
What will you study?
Yoga Teaching
Pilates Teaching
Body Massage
Reflexology
Aromatherapy
Anatomy and Physiology
Business Practice
Principles and Practice of Complementary Therapies
Important
- Colleges may add/remove modules to keep the course updated and to meet demands.
Progression to CAO Courses
The Student - Career Interests
This course is typically suited for people with the following Career Interests:
Social
The Social person's interests focus on interacting with the people in their environment. In all cases, the Social person enjoys the personal contact with other people in preference to the impersonal dealings with things, data and ideas found in other groups.
Many will seek out positions where there is direct contact with the public in some advisory role, whether a receptionist or a counsellor. Social people are motivated by an interest in different types of people and like diversity in their work environments. Many are drawn towards careers in the caring professions and social welfare area, whilst others prefer teaching and other 'informing' roles.
Naturalist
Not surprisingly, some aspect of the natural sciences will run through the Naturalist's interests - from ecological awareness to nutrition and health. People with an interest in horticulture, land usage and farming (including fish) are Naturalists.
Some Naturalists focus on animals rather than plants, and may enjoy working with, training, caring for, or simply herding them. Other Naturalists will prefer working with the end result of nature's produce - the food produced from plants and animals. Naturalists like solving problems with solutions that show some sensitivity to the environmental impact of what they do. They like to see practical results and prefer action to talking and discussing.
Further Research
Career Progression
Graduates may instruct Yoga/Pilates and provide teaching to the general public and gain employment as a self-employed Yoga/Pilates teacher in the health and fitness industry.
Graduates may progress directly into employment in a wide range of settings including Beauty Salons, Leisure Centres, Cruise Ships, Spas, Complementary Healthcare Clinics and as Mobile Therapists.
There are also careers available as freelance therapists, salon owners and beauty journalists.
Graduates may also progress to Advanced Beauty Therapy studies in Drogheda Institute of Further Education. (Subject to meeting certain criteria.)