200-HOUR yoga teacher training

The language of yoga

The language of yoga One of the things that really surprised me when I began my 200-hour yoga teacher training at Sampoorna - Yoga Teacher Training School in India, is how I had to learn how to speak again. I came into the school think this was the one thing I could do, having been a ballet teacher many years before, and then a publishing professional, used to speaking on the industry stage at many an event. Standing up in front of people was my thing, if you will. Except when it came to yoga. Having to learn the new [...]

The language of yoga

Why More and More Men are turning to Yoga Teacher Training

Why More and More Men are turning to Yoga Teacher Training As opposed to my own 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training earlier this year where there was only one male student, I noticed that there were several men both attending and teaching the course at Sampoorna - Yoga Teacher Training School India in November this year. On International Men’s Day, I spoke to a few of them to find out how they’d got into yoga, a largely female-dominated activity in the west, in the first place, and what had made them want to take, or ultimately teach, the yoga teacher training [...]

Why More and More Men are turning to 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
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