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Sasha and Kyle Guiding A Class The alarm goes off before sunrise. The air in Chiapas at 2,200 metres is chilly at six in the morning, sometimes enough that you can see your breath inside the room. You pull on layers, splash water on your face, and walk to the heated practice hall in the dark. This is how twenty-eight consecutive days begin. For more on what the setting in San Cristóbal specifically contributes to the training — the altitude, the forest, the distance from ordi

San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas is one of the few places in Mexico where you can do a genuinely immersive yoga teacher training away from the resort circuit, in a highland environment that asks something of you before the training even begins. When most people imagine a yoga teacher training in Mexico, they imagine somewhere warm. White sand, probably. Open-walled studios facing the ocean. A taco stand that stays open late. San Cristóbal de las Casas is none of those thin

Most people picturing a meditation retreat in Mexico picture the coast. Tulum, maybe, or somewhere hot, with a pool and a view of the Caribbean. Clean, photogenic, expensive. San Cristóbal de las Casas is none of those things. It sits at 2,200 metres above sea level in the highlands of Chiapas, surrounded by pine forest and mountain valleys, in the same region where Tzotzil and Tzeltal Mayan communities have maintained their spiritual traditions without interruption for centu

A Group During A 10-day Silent Meditation Retreat The short answer is that it's truly impossible to say! For some people it can be the most beautiful, life affirming, healing and deeply reconnecting thing they will ever do. For others it can be highly uncomfortable and difficult on every level. Often it is a mix of both. Ten days sounds like a long time until about day four, when it starts to feel like it might not be long enough. Sometimes by day 7, it feel like the retreat

A yoga teacher training abroad is a full immersion program held in a foreign country, usually between 14 and 28 days, designed to support a depth of study that a part-time local program rarely provides. What makes one worth crossing an ocean for has less to do with the location itself and more to do with what the program chooses to do with the time it has. Most people who search for a yoga teacher training abroad have already decided they want to leave. The question they are

Two hundred hours sounds specific. It implies a standard. It does not deliver one. The 200-hour yoga teacher training is the entry-level certification recognised by Yoga Alliance, the largest international registry for yoga teachers and schools. Completing a registered 200-hour program qualifies you to register as an RYT 200, which is the credential most studios, platforms, and retreat centres ask for when hiring teachers. That much is consistent. What happens inside those tw

A meditation retreat for beginners does not require prior meditation experience to be worthwhile. What it requires is a willingness to be present with yourself without escape routes. That is a different capacity. And it is one most people underestimate they already have. The question most people ask before their first retreat is some version of: Am I ready? What they usually mean is: Am I good enough at meditation? This is the wrong question. Not because readiness does not ma