Im und außerhalb des Yogastudios

Yoga Alliance is a nonprofit organization representing a big part of the yoga community in the world. It’s based in the United States and it has about 60,000 yoga teachers and 4,000 registered yoga schools.

Would you like to become a yoga instructor? Then, completing a yoga teacher training course is a very important step to take!

Just completed your yoga teacher training? Ready to teach your first lessons? Sitting all by yourself in front of a bunch of students is bound to make you nervous. For the first time, you’re the one the class is looking at. How do you deal with that? 

Have you ever considered becoming a yoga instructor, but just keep postponing it? Wait no more! Now’s the time to make your wish reality from the comfort of your own home.

Interested in becoming a yoga teacher? Or have you been looking for a way to take your yoga practice to new heights? 

Are you thinking about doing a yoga teacher training? There are plenty of courses around the world for a yogi to take the next step and become a yoga teacher – in an affordable way!

So you’ve taken yoga classes for a while now and it’s become apparent that teaching yoga is the next step for you. You are now looking for suitable yoga teacher training courses that can help you deepen your practice. 

The modern-day yogi is inundated with class and yoga teacher training options. It seems as though “yoga” has become a loose term, a type of workout focused on physical and mental strength, flexibility, mindfulness, and relaxation. 

So, you’re planning and preparing for your first yoga teacher training? Well, as they say, when the student is ready, the teacher appears!

You’ve decided to come to India for your yoga teacher training. Wonderful choice! You’ll learn from the very best gurus in the world in the place where yoga was born. However, you may still be wondering where exactly in India should you go.

Considering of joining a yoga teacher training course in India? While you’re bound to transform your life forever, there are just a few things you should know before your trip.

Thinking of getting a certification as an instructor? If you’re going to learn how to teach yoga, why settle for any other place to do so than the yoga capital of the world? 

Want to make a living with yoga? Looking for the best way to deepen your practice? Completing a yoga teacher training course is the first step towards becoming an instructor.

You’ve fallen in love with yoga, you’ve spent some time on the mat and now you really want to become a yoga teacher. But how to choose between 200, 300 or 500 hours of training?

It is really not so easy anymore to find a yoga teacher training program that suits your needs and will support you on a journey of self-development and transformation. 

As the heat and excitement of summer winds down and an evening chill enters the air, we often find ourselves with that nostalgic “back to school” feeling. Fall can feel like a time of new beginnings and with it comes the desire to start the next chapter in our personal or professional lives. 

Our body is a mini world made of five elements, Agni (Fire), Vayu (Air), Akasha (Aether), Bhumi (Earth) and Jala (Water); and when there is disturbance in these elements, it can lead to an imbalanced mind and cause our body to suffer from diseases. 

Here’s a fact: Exercising outdoors is way more beneficial than doing it indoors.

After many years of teaching yoga, I found out that these are the 4 most common injuries related to bad habits on the mat.

Have you been thinking about becoming a yoga teacher? 

If you are looking for a source to understand what’s happening in the global yoga community, this is the place for you. You’ll find an array of yoga tips and tricks that are useful for everyone no matter if you are a teacher or student. 

Yoga can do wonders for your body. The fact that you have made the decision to start learning this form of exercise is a wonderful step in the right direction. Yoga does not only provide many health benefits, flexibility, and control, it may even help with weight loss.​

Practicing yoga has the ability to go far beyond a 90-minute workout session, that is, if you let it. In fact, the fundamental principles of yoga are designed to infiltrate how we live our lives.

We often hear our students asking if there is any way to prevent injuries in yoga. In this post, I’m going to explain how to prevent the most common injuries and to avoid pain in your yoga practice.

I have to be honest. One of the primary reasons for starting my yoga practice was this one intention – to heal my body.

If you want to visit a place where nature and serenity work hand in hand, away from the bustling sound of any busy city, then Mount Koya is definitely the place for you.

Looking for a good yoga read? Well, you’ve found one of the top-ranked yoga books this year! Yoga Wisdom: Warrior Tales Inspiring You On and Off Your Mat is an excellent work by Stephanie Spence that will lift your spirit and motivate your practice well beyond the asanas.

Tripaneer, the global travel company behind BookYogaTeacherTraining.com, is proudly sponsoring the Inner Peace Conference 2018 to be held on October 6th & 7th in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Like many yoga students, you have likely toyed with the idea of deepening your yoga practice through intense study or perhaps becoming a yoga teacher yourself. But are you ready? Do you have what it takes?

Any passionate practitioner of yoga knows that a yoga class is only as good as its instructor. So, why not bring better yoga to the world and become a teacher yourself? Not only is it a rewarding profession, bringing physical fitness and mental well-being to students, it may also have the best career training in the world.

If you’ve noticed an influx of seniors taking up yoga lately, there’s a good reason. Actually, there are dozens of reasons with the bottom line being better health, improved range of motion along with less stress, pain and stiffness.

Looking for an original way to keep your students present during Savasana? Here’s a poem I wrote inspired by my yoga practice. I hope your class likes it too and that my words help you to find mindfulness.

Yoga is beneficial for every age group, especially for the kids. After all, today’s kids are as stressed as their elders. They have to go through a lot of pressure to stay competitive in school and other extra activities. In addition, unhealthy food choices, like fast food, have become a big part of their lifestyle.

Choosing a suitable career for yourself is a difficult task, mainly because so much depends on a single decision. For many people, it’s difficult to find where their interests lie and then determine if that can make for a stable career.

At the age of 33 years old, the best basketball player on the planet, LeBron James, is mocking Father Time, by soaring higher, sprinting faster, and playing better in his 15th season. The way James is playing, it is safe to surmise that the man known as The King will be ballin’ at an unbelievably high level for at least three more years and may even stay productive until he turns 40. By then, the 4-time MVP would likely be standing on top of the league’s all-time scoring ladder, supplanting the legendary Kareem Abdul-Jabbar along the way.

Lifestyle diseases have tremendously increased over the past several years. Today, more and more people become ill because of unhealthy life choices. Thankfully, a trend has started in an attempt to counter these lifestyle diseases. People have started to pay more attention to their health and are striving for better nutrition and physical activity.

Yoga retreats can be a profitable way to earn side-income for seasoned teachers while creating unforgettable experiences for your students.

“Half an hour’s meditation every day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.” - Saint Francis de Salles (erstwhile Bishop of Geneva).

Yoga may not be a type of cardio workout, but it is similar to some exercise routines in a way that it involves lots of turning and twisting. Because of this, you may experience stomachache, gas, and cramping if you don’t properly choose the foods that you eat before a yoga session.

To all the yoga teachers planning to add some extra activities to their retreats, holidaymakers, yogis, and skiers, this article might be helpful when planning to try out the combination of these two!

The ancient time-tested practice of yoga has been proven to help sustain healthy and dynamic relationships. How? For starters, yoga helps us to use our limbs better during intimacy. But that’s just the beginning, the philosophy of yoga advocates integrity and takes an ethical approach to life, both on and off the mat.

Life can be stressful! Busy schedules, waking up early for work, handling family issues, etc. Every day, too many factors add to our stress and that is something we can’t entirely avoid. However, this lifestyle can affect you physically, mentally and emotionally and can negatively impact everything from sleep, mood, digestion and even your relationships.

Traveling can present a whole host of amazing opportunities for yoga students. If you combine it with your practice on the mat, it can provide you with experiences that you just can’t get in a yoga studio.

While present-day fitness experts and gurus have developed countless exercises for leading a healthy lifestyle, yoga remains one of the most effective and powerful practices that impact our physical, mental and spiritual health. 

An interesting facet of yoga that many have often overlooked is the practice of karma yoga, where practitioners make an effort to detach from the material world and choose instead to focus on the deeds they perform. When practiced right, karma yoga can be liberating.

The recent Harry Potter yoga class took the Internet by storm, with participants pictured holding a wand as they practiced different yoga poses. They also had a sorting hat and got to listen to a reading of the passage from the Deathly Hallows! 

When speaking about the benefits of yoga, most of us discuss the advantages from an adult’s point of view. With kids being quite bubbly, energetic and always on the move, it might seem like yoga would be the last thing they would be interested in doing.

Maybe you have been talking to yourself or thought of joining yoga teacher training but negative attitudes and thoughts have kept drawing you back. The truth is that you have been being held back from introducing yourself into something extraordinary. 

If you are a runner, you may already know that many runners face a number of strength and flexibility issues. But did you know that yoga, when done as a part of your regular routine, may just be the antidote you need to resolve these adverse effects of running?

A couple of weeks ago, a yoga friend and yoga teacher got in touch with me to tell me that she will be stopping by Kyiv the next morning. Just coming back from a yoga retreat, she had proposed to meet at a vegetarian cafe in the city center. While surfing the net for a suitable vegetarian cafe, I stumbled upon an Ayurvedic center that houses both a yoga studio and a vegetarian cafe, serving fresh and tasty vegetarian food. 

Yoga’s health benefits are not just myths. Several scientific studies confirmed how beneficial yoga could be to anyone’s health. Yoga can help you get rid of back pains, ease anxiety and tension, and even increase your lifespan. And the best news yet is this – you can do yoga anywhere you are.  If it’s too inconvenient, you can even do the poses without a mat!

Yoga is one of the most effective health boosters. Together with normalizing weight, regulating blood circulation and improving posture, it also brings positive psychological changes, such as better sleep and mood improvement. 

Prenatal yoga can be very useful since it not only helps to keep your body in shape, but also helps the body to deal with stress, making it a popular practice among expecting mothers. 

I must confess that in all the years that I’ve practiced yoga, this year will be the first time I am actually aware of International Yoga Day. First observed in 2015, the International Yoga Day is celebrated each year on the 21st of June by yogis all over the world. Come Wednesday, 21st June, I’ll be on my mat early in the morning, practicing 108 Sun Salutations to commemorate the day. 

Now that you have been hit by the yoga wave, your only desire is to be an integral part of the yoga community. Not just as a member, but as someone who intensely participates in ‘spreading the word’. You do not just wish to practice yoga, but you also want to promote the magical essence of yoga by teaching this wonderful art form to others. 

The meaning of the word “yoga” has become synonymous with the “physical discipline of being fit.” Despite this common conception, yoga’s primordial philosophical and spiritual concepts are still being practiced today through the different yoga poses.

In 1970, there were approximately half the people in the world as there are today. Ever since we crawled out of our lumpy primordial soup, humanity’s intellect, ingenuity and inventiveness have enabled a greater proportion of us to stay alive for longer. Well done to us!

Let’s admit that it can be fairly intimidating to start doing yoga, especially when you’re stiff as a board. We do realize that not everyone’s born with the flexibility of a pretzel dough, but everything seems impossible until it’s done. The key is to start with the simplest pose and sort of build your way up to a more complex position. While you’re getting comfortable with your Shavasana, we have compiled the top 5 most ‘impossibly possible’ yoga poses you could ever strike (under the guidance of a suitably qualified yoga teacher of course) to stimulate your mind and get your yogi dreams all set!

I am never a fan of long-haul travels particularly because it leaves my body aching and my hair in a mess. After years of flying, I’ve come to discover that a short yoga stretch just before takeoff is what I need to counter the effects of being stuck the seat on the plane for hours on end. 

Over a month ago, we ran a giveaway, promising the chance to win a yoga retreat or a yoga teacher training of a lifetime by simply sharing with us why and where you’d like to go.

I recall, many years ago, having attended a yoga class where the yoga teacher spoke in great detail about chakras. “What on earth is she going on about?” I thought to myself, getting more confused by the minute as the teacher mentioned Sanskrit terms, one after another. 

While we’re all familiar with the different yoga styles like Hatha yoga, Bikram yoga or even Tantra yoga, a few other, slightly peculiar styles have crept up over the years causing a stir within the yoga community. These new yoga styles have certainly given new meaning to the term “new age” – a term that’s frequently been used to describe the practice – and have us wondering whether or not we should take them seriously. 

Over the weekend, I initiated a yoga session with my fellow yogi friends in a setting that was different to the one that we’ve been used to – the beach. It was a nice day to go out and seeing how close we all lived to the beach, it would have been silly not to take advantage of Mother Nature and get a dose of vitamin Sea.

In all the years that I’ve practiced yoga in a class setting, I’ve noticed the jarring absence or, at the most, the minimal presence of men in the class. Women dominated the room, and while there were a few men who came to practice, they were either extreme beginners or extremely advanced.

Why do you practice yoga? Is it to achieve that toned physique that you see on Hollywood celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Adam Levine? Or is it to build strength and flexibility? Perhaps it is to calm the mind or relieve stress.

In fitness, there will come a point where you will reach a state of plateau – typically after you’ve experienced fast-paced progress. Suddenly you find yourself in a lull. You’re maintaining your pace, if not more, but you seem to see no progress. 

Over the past week, I witnessed an influx of students at my teacher’s yoga classes. It was a lovely sight to see so many people from all walks of life being drawn to practice yoga. These newcomers, I happily noted, came back day after day to class, motivated and pumped to learn more.

Win a yoga retreat OR a yoga teacher training of a lifetime! It’s on us! 

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The first time I walked into my teacher’s yoga shala, I was taken aback. This wasn’t a typical yoga studio. For starters, the most jarring difference between this place and a yoga studio was its lack of mirrors. 

Yoga consists of many styles so that everyone who is searching for the evolution of the body and mind can find the best and most suitable one to practice. 

Whether you believe it or not, the food you consume makes up an important part of your yoga practice. The very basis of yoga is the principle of ahimsa, which means non-violence. This is the reason why so many yogis are also vegetarians and vegans.

As a yoga teacher, I have always believed that yoga is beneficial for everyone including children. This is why I have started introducing yoga to my toddler. Though he doesn’t quite understand it, he absolutely enjoys the time spent with mama on the mat.

If you were lucky enough to catch it, the intense tennis match between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal that happened during this past weekend is set to go down in history as the most spectacular match ever played.

As a yoga teacher, there may come times where you would use Sanskrit terms during class, whether you like it or not. This is because it is often the case where most Sanskrit words don’t have an English equivalent that fully explains the meaning of the terms.

With 2016 soon coming to an end, I, like many of you, have started thinking of my New Year resolutions for 2017. Among the few resolutions that come up every year is to keep to a daily yoga practice.

Over the course of a year as a yoga teacher, I have stumbled and tripped in my classes. As a teacher, I have had my highs, but also equally many lows. In this reflection, I share with the BookYogaTeacherTraining.com’s yoga community three of the most important lessons that I’ve learned. I hope you will find it useful as well!

In the years that I’ve practiced yoga, I can safely say that it has evolved in so many ways. I have evolved from a beginner to somewhat of an intermediate, though there is still so much more to learn. 

As a yoga teacher, I see a lot of my students face the same problems – stiff neck, hunched back, and chronic lower back pain. These problems are extremely common today as we spend much of our day staring at a computer screen, often sitting in a position that is harmful to our body. Even as we log off our computers, we pick up another gadget that requires us to slouch – our phones. 

Something magical happens when you chose to leave your day-to-day life behind and immerse yourself in an intensive yoga training in a foreign country. Not only is a space for deep transformation, but you have the added benefit of exploring another culture while exploring the depths of the self.

The Samahita Retreat team in Koh Samui recently shared their insights based on decades of combined experience practicing and traveling. Their stories are each different yet all reflect one thing: Making a steady state of mind and centeredness a priority. 

I have travelled to places near and far, and will continue to wanderlust around the globe but here are 8 reasons why I think you should consider It’s Yoga Teacher Training in Nicaragua:

The journey to become a yoga teacher is different for every instructor. Sometimes it takes you through only one studio in which you learn to master all the necessary knowledge from one experienced teacher; other times, the path is defined by several tutors in various places who mold the teaching style with different perspectives; and in some other occasions, the journey takes you all over the world before you find the right atmosphere to transmit your passion for yoga in a class.  

As a yoga teacher, you will have to unpack and deconstruct your student-teacher relationship to understand it more effectively. 

A few days ago, a student came to us at Himalaya Tapovanam and asked me what she should do if she wanted to be a yoga teacher. The first question that came in to my mind was: do you want to be a yoga teacher, or just a mere yoga trainer?