Yoga Teacher Training Insights

Sequencing is the skill that separates teachers who deliver a class from teachers who take students on a journey. Most trainees intuitively sense that some classes flow better than others. Fewer know ...

The faculty decisions a school director makes before launching are among the most consequential in determining what graduates actually learn. They are both quality decisions and accreditation decision...

A written anatomy test can tell you whether a trainee knows the name of the muscle. It cannot tell you whether they can spot a student compensating because of that muscle's tightness, cue an adjustmen...

A trainer once described sitting down at the end of her first cohort with the programme schedule spread in front of her. She had been proud of it, genuinely proud. She had thought carefully about ever...

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...