Yoga Teacher Training Insights

A meditation and mindfulness module is one of the most frequently mishandled sections of a 200-hour yoga teacher training. Schools either treat it as a peripheral add-on (a few guided sits tucked betw...

Most yoga schools set their fees by looking at what nearby programmes are charging and matching the figure, or shaving a little off to appear more accessible. The problem with this approach is not jus...

Pranayama is consistently one of the weakest components of the average 200-hour yoga teacher training. Most programmes give it limited, unevenly distributed contact time, with minimal attention paid t...

If your learning outcomes read like "students will understand yoga anatomy" or "students will learn sequencing principles," you have topic headings, not outcomes. The difference matters more than most...

It happens at workshops, mostly. Or in the corridor after a continuing education day, when a few teachers are still talking and no one quite wants to go home yet. Someone asks something specific — abo...

The problem with how most yoga teacher training programmes teach verbal cueing is not that they get the content wrong. It is that they teach it as a language skill. Trainees are shown the anatomy of a...

The phrase 'pedagogically sound' can sound like it belongs in an academic paper rather than a conversation about yoga teacher training. It does not. It means one thing in practice: your curriculum rel...

There is a particular quality to the moment a school director decides, seriously, to launch a teacher training. It is usually accompanied by genuine excitement: the sense that this is the next right t...

It's one of the worst-kept secrets in yoga: a significant number of 200-hour graduates leave their training uncertain whether they can actually teach. They have the certificate. They've completed the ...

If you are building or evaluating a 200-hour curriculum, the question worth asking is not just "what topics do we need to cover?" It is "what does a complete, accreditation-ready, pedagogically sound ...

When a school director sits down to plan the launch of a yoga teacher training, the question that surfaces first is almost always: how do I fill it? It is a natural question, and not an unreasonable o...

The growth of large-scale online teacher training has changed what prospective students compare when they research their options. A director who understands that shift makes more deliberate choices ab...