We’re more than a nationally distinguished training college. We’re a community that offers practical support and spiritual nourishment.
At COTY, we work with you to overcome personal obstacles, build a sustainable career in complementary therapies, and forge a path to lifelong success.
At COTY, we work with you to overcome personal obstacles, build a sustainable career in complementary therapies, and forge a path to lifelong success.
With career-making instruction and unbeatable student support, our training at the College of Therapy Yoga & Zen Shiatsu gives you the best chance at success in the health, natural therapies and fitness industries.
We help you both harness the health benefits of yoga and oriental therapies for yourself – enhanced personal fitness, calmness of mind, a balance of the physical and the psychological – and give you the practical skills to share this knowledge with others.
We offer training in most oriental therapies including shiatsu and oriental medicine, giving you more scope to develop your love of health and happiness.
Our Certificate IV in Yoga Therapy Teaching (10932NAT) is one of Australia’s highest industry recognised qualifications in yoga teaching, Austudy approved and is fully recognised with Yoga Australia (YA) and International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT). As Australias only Registered Training Organisation for professional yoga therapy teacher training, this yoga teaching course will give you the qualifications you need to bring the benefits of yoga to others and turn your passion for yoga into a profession.
Our courses are delivered both at our training centre and online via live digital streaming in a blended learning model. We want to give you the opportunity for face-to-face instruction and hands-on mastery, as well as self-study and independent, practice from the comfort of home. Full live streaming yoga teacher training option now available.
Don't waste time studying what you already know! Your previous work experience, training, and life skills can help you advance your career in the health or fitness industries. Learn about completing the qualifications you need by receiving the Recognition for Prior Learning (RPL) credits to get you there.
Our Bespoke Courses option allows you to build your own unique course to suit your interests and or fulfil learning requirements.
Why Japanese based Yoga Therapy and what is it, anyway? The concept of yoga as a therapy is a relatively modern one, yet it has begun to revolutionize complementary medicine. In meridian yoga therapy, we work with the few basic elements of our bodies that we have control over – the way we breathe, move and eat. Only when the body is working at an optimal level, can we achieve balance in our mental, emotional, and spiritual health and wellbeing.
Meridian Yoga Therapy draws directly from the Five Elements system of oriental medicine. The Japanese Shiatsu tradition that underlies the COTY style of yoga, further links the Five Elements with the meridians of the body through which qi (energy) flows. These same elemental energies have numerous associations – seasons of the year, nutrition, lifestyle tendencies, therapeutic recommendations, and more. We teach students how to access and manipulate the meridians through yoga postures that suit the present season and corresponding element, so they begin to recognise and correct imbalances within their own bodies.
Need some help choosing a course? Want to chat about prospective career paths? We want to help you figure out what’s right for you, even if that means directing you elsewhere.
So go ahead and reach out! We’re all ears (and shoulders, hips and knees).