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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

A Mandala, Similar to That Used in Tantrik Vizualization practices Most yoga teachers learn a great deal about the body before they teach. Almost none of them are asked what the body is. This is not a trivial omission. Your answer to that question, whether you have examined it or not, shapes every cue you give, every adjustment you make. It fundamentally changes the very orientation of your own practice and therefore the way you guide future students. A teacher who believes t

I was invited to start teaching meditation and yoga retreats when I was 23. I had been practising for several years, I knew the postures, some philosophy, I could cue a class competently. I didn't feel competent, but I did feel well armed with my teachers words and was ready to regurgitate them on command. I loved the philosophy and exploring the presentation of the teachings that underpin any serious yoga practice. Quickly it became clear that yoga as a stretching routine wa

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

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