Yoga Teacher Training Insights

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...

Most school directors who build their own 200-hour curriculum discover the true scope of the work only after they have committed to it. The topic list gets drafted in a weekend. The realisation that a...

You're not short of enthusiasm for this. You're asking whether it's actually the right call — for your studio, your team, and your community, right now. That's exactly the right question to be asking,...

Yoga Alliance's website contains the answers you need — but finding them, understanding them, and translating them into an actual program is a different matter entirely. If you've spent time clicking ...

Your training starts in six weeks. You have three modules written, twelve left to go, no student manual, and a faculty member who just asked you what they're supposed to teach on Day 4. You know yoga ...

The students in your yoga teacher training are not blank slates. They're adults (often in their 30s, 40s, and 50s) with decades of life experience, established professional identities, and a very spec...