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How to Choose the Yoga Teacher Training that’s Right for You
How to Choose the Yoga Teacher Training that’s Right for You

How to Choose the Yoga Teacher Training that’s Right for You

How to Choose the Yoga Teacher Training that’s Right for You If you are contemplating yoga teacher training then you’ve probably been practising in a certain style for at least a little while, and been happy enough in that style of yoga to seek further knowledge about it, or at least want to know more about the principles behind yoga in general. Choosing a style of yoga for your yoga teacher training is a bit like choosing your degree subject after your high-school certificates. Perhaps you go for something you were good at at school [...]

How to Choose the Yoga Teacher Training that’s Right for You

The Twelve Poses of Christmas – asanas to get you through the holidays
The Twelve Poses of Christmas – asanas to get you through the holidays

The Twelve Poses of Christmas – asanas to get you through the holidays

The Twelve Poses of Christmas – asanas to get you through the holidays Christmas is almost upon us and whilst we might feel mostly full of festive frivolity and seasonal joy, we will also find our bodies under tremendous stress, with all the travelling, family situations and gift-buying pressures that come with it all, not to mention the tremendous eating and drinking. Here at Sampoorna - Yoga Teacher Training School in India, we’d like to offer you the gift of twelve yoga asanas that are going to help you get through it all, and come [...]

The Twelve Poses of Christmas – asanas to get you through the holidays

Six things to do before you start your yoga teacher training
Six things to do before you start your yoga teacher training

Six things to do before you start your yoga teacher training

BECOME A CERTIFIED YOGA TEACHER Course Details BECOME A CERTIFIED YOGA TEACHER Watch Promo Course Details Six things to do before you start your yoga teacher training You’ve booked your first yoga teacher training course and you’re raring to go. You want to be your best yogi self when you step through the doors of the yoga school for the first time, but you’re not quite sure what to expect. Take our six-step advice and prepare your mind, body and soul for the experience that will [...]

Six things to do before you start your yoga teacher training

How to cope in the final week of your Yoga Teacher Training course
How to cope in the final week of your Yoga Teacher Training course

How to cope in the final week of your Yoga Teacher Training course

How to cope in the final week of your Yoga Teacher Training course The final week of yoga teacher training can often bring out every anxiety we ever had about school exams, delivering a dissertation in university or preparing for a big presentation at work. It had been a long time since I’d experienced any of those things, but for many students, the length of time between academic life and yoga training isn’t that long, and they can simply go into panic mode as the written exams and practical teaching assessments loom towards them. When [...]

How to cope in the final week of your Yoga Teacher Training course

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

Six tips for teaching your first yoga class
Six tips for teaching your first yoga class

Six tips for teaching your first yoga class

Six tips for teaching your first yoga class So you’ve completed your 200-hour yoga teacher training and are at the cusp of beginning your yoga teaching career? Even though you have probably taught fellow-students in small groups during your yoga teacher training, your first real class can be an intimidating experience. While your practice teaching sessions might have been nerve wrecking, you were teaching in a safe and encouraging environment. So now what happens now that you have become a yoga teacher and are about to teach your very first class back home? How do you transfer what you’ve learned [...]

Six tips for teaching your first yoga class

Five reasons to become a yoga teacher
Five reasons to become a yoga teacher

Five reasons to become a yoga teacher

Five reasons why to become a yoga teacher Yoga-teaching is seen as ‘living the dream’ to many people, because they will be focusing on doing the thing they love every day, and (hopefully) getting paid for it. Some are lucky enough to travel the world doing it, teaching in paradise locations. Whilst as a career choice it’s not all palm-fringed beaches and namastes at sunset, yoga teaching has many benefits that you may not have even thought of. Here are five of the main ones… 1. It is immensely rewarding Essentially, every time you take a class, you are helping [...]

Five reasons to become a yoga teacher

Why More and More Men are turning to Yoga Teacher Training
Why More and More Men are turning to Yoga Teacher Training

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