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What to do when you finish your yoga teacher training
What to do when you finish your yoga teacher training

What to do when you finish your yoga teacher training

What to do when you finish your yoga teacher training You’ve completed your yoga teacher training course, taught your final exam class, taken your written exam and enjoyed your graduation ceremony. What do you do now? Well, first of all, enjoy the moment because ones like these don’t come along very often. You’ve probably worked hard in one of the most intense periods of your life – whether it was a weekend-based two-year yoga teacher training course or a four-week one, you’ve likely been through something that has changed your perspective on life permanently and [...]

What to do when you finish your yoga teacher training

Humble Warriors – leaving your ego at the door in Yoga Teacher Training
Humble Warriors – leaving your ego at the door in Yoga Teacher Training

Humble Warriors – leaving your ego at the door in Yoga Teacher Training

Humble Warriors – leaving your ego at the door in Yoga Teacher Training My ego almost stopped me doing my yoga teacher training. I had a shoulder injury caused by doing chaturanga incorrectly for a long time and I couldn’t even consider the thought of starting a course at such a low technical par. At that time, I thought that yoga was primarily about performance in asanas, and as part of the signature sequence – the sun salutation – I thought I’d get marched out of the room for not being able to do all [...]

Humble Warriors – leaving your ego at the door in Yoga Teacher Training

Nine Signs You Are Ready For Yoga Teacher Training
Nine Signs You Are Ready For Yoga Teacher Training

Nine Signs You Are Ready For Yoga Teacher Training

Nine Signs You Are Ready For Yoga Teacher Training You may be ready for Yoga Teacher Training and not even know it yet. For one thing, you’ve clicked on this blog so you must be a little bit curious. Let’s see if any of these signs apply to you… 1. You’re passionate about yoga You’re at that point where the hashtag #yogaeverydamnday is actually your life. Somehow you started with one or two classes per week and ended up with six or even seven. Your day doesn’t feel right unless it starts or ends with [...]

Nine Signs You Are Ready For Yoga Teacher Training

What do we mean when we say namaste?
What do we mean when we say namaste?

What do we mean when we say namaste?

What do we mean when we say namaste? It’s one of those things we do almost without thinking, at the start and end of a yoga class, palms pressed together at our hearts, bowing our heads. Some have even turned it into a piece of theatre at the end of a class, prostrating themselves to floor in a gesture intended to show complete humility and gratitude. I remember the first time someone explained to me what the gesture and the word actually meant. A teacher at Sampoorna - Yoga Teacher Training School in India told us that it was an [...]

What do we mean when we say namaste?