Den Yoga-Lebensstil durch eine Lehrerausbildung leben

A purist style of yoga, developed by and named after B.K.S Iyengar in the 1960s, Iyengar Yoga emphasizes precision and alignment.

Hatha Yoga has been the same for centuries. However, our perception of it has changed.

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!

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

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. 

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.

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.

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.

Have you been thinking about becoming a yoga teacher? 

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.

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.

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.

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

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! 

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. 

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!

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. 

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?