Yoga Teacher Training Insights

At some point after a school has run its 200-hour programme for a few cohorts, the question of specialised certifications tends to arise. Graduates ask what comes next. A faculty member with deep expe...

At some point in the planning of most yoga teacher trainings, a question arrives, quietly, usually, that is not on any curriculum checklist. It goes something like this: who is this really for?

The p...

Every teacher trainer has had the experience of giving feedback that did not land the way they intended. The words were accurate. The observation was fair. But something in how it was delivered, the t...

Most yoga teacher trainers have spent years receiving feedback on their own practice. Very few have been explicitly taught how to give feedback to someone learning to teach. These are different skills...

Restorative yoga looks deceptively simple from the outside. The teacher says very little, students lie still, and the pacing is unhurried. This surface simplicity is misleading. Teaching restorative y...

The connection between restorative yoga and trauma-informed teaching is not incidental, and understanding why they belong together is what allows a studio or school to offer restorative work that is g...

Most yoga teacher training curricula start the same way: someone opens a blank document and begins listing everything they know about yoga. Asana sequences, anatomy, philosophy, pranayama, adjustments...

Two hundred hours sounds like a lot until you try to fit it into a calendar. Then it suddenly feels like not enough. Scheduling a 200-hour yoga teacher training is one of the most practical and high-s...

Restorative yoga has moved steadily from the fringes of yoga culture toward the centre of many practitioners' lives. For experienced teachers, it represents a different mode of understanding the pract...

At some point in the planning of most yoga teacher trainings, a question arrives, quietly, usually, that is not on any curriculum checklist. It goes something like this: who is this really for?

The p...

Every teacher trainer has had the experience of giving feedback that did not land the way they intended. The words were accurate. The observation was fair. But something in how it was delivered, the t...

Restorative yoga looks deceptively simple from the outside. The teacher says very little, students lie still, and the pacing is unhurried. This surface simplicity is misleading. Teaching restorative y...