Yoga Teacher Training Insights

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...

Trauma-informed yoga isn't a niche specialty anymore. It's a baseline professional competency, and the yoga schools that haven't yet integrated it into their teacher training are increasingly behind t...

The request tends to arrive in the form of a question from a graduating cohort: will you run this again in the spring? Or as a nudge from two or three graduates who have friends who missed the intake....

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...