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Why you’re never too old for yoga teacher training
Why you’re never too old for yoga teacher training

Why you’re never too old for yoga teacher training

Why you’re never too old for yoga teacher training I enrolled on my 200-hour yoga teacher training at the age of 52 and I almost didn’t, because I knew how many young people, mainly girls, were interested in it and I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to keep up with them or bond with the group. Happily for me, I stuck with it and found my own ways of connecting with my fellow students. Yes, most of them were in their 20s and at the start of their adult lives, but there was a sprinkling of women at [...]

Why you’re never too old for yoga teacher training

Silent Day
Silent Day

Silent Day

Silent Day As part of our yoga teacher training at Sampoorna - Yoga Teacher Training School in India, my group was offered the chance to have a Silent Day as part of the course. Initially, led by an apparent lack of study time, the answer from the group was riddled with panicky ‘no’s. But a few of us were thinking, ‘I bet this is going to be one of the most profound experiences of the whole thing’ and backed the plan. In the end we agreed to go for it and I’m so, so glad we did. One of the [...]

Silent Day

You’re the Voice
You’re the Voice

You’re the Voice

You’re the Voice Slowly, slowly, I have started to find the words, and the clarity and the volume needed to communicate effectively. I almost feel like I’ve had to learn to speak again. I’ve had to learn to look people in the eye again and talk to them from the heart. These have been the hardest things.. Continue Reading → Lisa Edwards is 52 years old and originally from North Wales, where she taught ballet. She is a publisher, writer and now a newly graduated yoga teacher, living in north-west London. You can connect with more stories about her life [...]

You’re the Voice

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Final Thoughts
300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Final Thoughts

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Final Thoughts

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Final Thoughts and reflecting on my experience This is a write up of my experience on the 300 hour yoga teacher training with Sampoorna Yoga in Goa India. If you haven’t already you might want to take a look the first blogs in this series. This article follows on from the previous articles which wrote about my experience in weeks 1-4 of the course. There are also an earlier articles in the series that looked at considerations and advice I would give before committing to a yoga teacher training and my preparation before the course. [...]

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Final Thoughts

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Week 4
300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Week 4

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Week 4

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Week 4 This is a write up of my experience of week 4 of the 300 hour yoga teacher training with Sampoorna - Yoga Teacher Training School in India. If you haven’t already you might want to take a look the first blogs in this series. This article follows on from the previous articles which wrote up my experience in weeks 1-3. There are also earlier articles in the series that looked at considerations and advice I would give before committing to a yoga teacher training and my preparation before the course. Classes in week [...]

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Week 4

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Week 3
300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Week 3

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Week 3

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Week 3 This is a write up of my experience in week 3 of the 300 hour yoga teacher training with Sampoorna Yoga in Goa India. If you haven’t already you might want to take a look the first blogs in this series. This article follows on from the previous articles which were a write up of my experience in weeks 1 and 2. There are also earlier articles in the series that looked at considerations and advice I would give before committing to a yoga teacher training and my preparation before the course. Theory [...]

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Week 3

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Week 2
300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Week 2

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Week 2

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Week 2 This is a write up of my experience in week 2 of the 300-hour yoga teacher training with Sampoorna - Yoga Teacher Training School in Goa India. If you haven’t already you might want to look the first blogs in this series.This article follows on from the previous which was a write up of my experience in week 1. There are also earlier articles in the series that look at considerations and advice I would give before committing to a yoga teacher training and my preparation before the course. Week 2 Timetable: Anatomy: [...]

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Week 2

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Week 1
300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Week 1

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Week 1

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Week 1 This is a write up of my experience in week 1 of the 300-hour yoga teacher training with Sampoorna - Yoga Teacher Training School in India. If you haven’t already checked it out, you might want to look at my first blogs in the series which looked at considerations and advice I would give before committing to a choosing a yoga teacher training and my preparations before starting the course. Week 1 started with an opening fire ceremony with the 300-hour and 200-hour classes coming together to open the course. The significance of [...]

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Week 1

A DAY in my LIFE at SAMPOORNA YOGA
A DAY in my LIFE at SAMPOORNA YOGA

A DAY in my LIFE at SAMPOORNA YOGA

A DAY in my LIFE at SAMPOORNA YOGA Our first VLOG from our 500 hr (200 hr + 300 hr) Yoga TTC Graduate Naki. She took out the time out of our busy schedule and filmed a beautiful video on her day life when she was pursuing her 300 hour advanced Vinyasa flow teacher training in Feb - Mar 2019 at Sampoorna - Yoga Teacher Training School in India. She says : I loved filming and editing it, so many beautiful memories. Her mission in Life is spreading love and kindness through hugs and big smiles. https://youtu.be/ObQsQiAyE84 Naki discovered [...]

A DAY in my LIFE at SAMPOORNA YOGA

Stumbling up the path of yoga. Goa, January 2018
Stumbling up the path of yoga. Goa, January 2018

Stumbling up the path of yoga. Goa, January 2018

Stumbling up the path of yoga. Goa, January 2018 I’m not sure if I could have been in more of a mess when I turned up to the first morning of my month of yoga teacher training at Sampoorna Yoga in Goa. I could dance around the point here to never truly land on it, but to put it bluntly, I have never disliked myself as much as I did on the lead up to getting on the plane to head off to begin the next chapter of my life, a chapter that once had been a fantastical fictional dream, a faraway [...]

Stumbling up the path of yoga. Goa, January 2018