This is a continued series of articles featuring “letters” (ok, emails) between two of our regular contributors, Chuck and Kaitlin. Chuck and Kaitlin both completed their Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) a year ago and shared the experience with Bad Yogi. We’ll just be over here, spyin’ on their ...
When I made the decision to register for my 200 hour teacher training (YTT), I had no idea what a challenging experience it would be. I expected to be a student just like I was in high school- writing papers, taking notes, and reading textbooks. After my first weekend of YTT, I realized it was ...
I remember this mind trick kids would play on each other when I was younger, saying something like “Don’t think of a pink elephant!” and of course, that is what happens right away. You think of a pink elephant. It seems that the mind does not recognize the not when it hears ...
In my opinion, it can be quite easy for people to show up to yoga and consider it as a pure physical practice. To see it as the same as any other class at the gym. Or to be very “good” at those yoga classes, without really understanding the effect the poses are having on them. And ...
The Beginning: From teaching kid’s yoga to teaching teen yoga Teen yoga teacher training was something I started thinking about soon after I had completed my Kids YogaDance teacher training, Yoga Philosophy short course and Chakra Balancing diploma back in 2016. I felt that whilst the training ...
No cell service. Zero money (Chase Bank unbeknownst to me prepares me with Bank of Marutia rupees verses Indian ones) and a non-English speaking taxi driver who is hell-bent on taking me to the crappy Golden Palace Hotel (where he receives his commission) 45 minutes away. Deep in Delhi. The ...
I am an absolute bookworm, so I was super excited to have the opportunity to read something new and relevant, and most of all practical to my ongoing Yoga Teacher Training! The Yoga Teaching Handbook: A Practical Guide for Yoga Teachers and Trainees is a well-structured collaborative work by ...
In 2013, I began practicing yoga. I started this practice because I was broken in my heart and soul. A yogi friend suggested it might help. It did. I loved how I felt at the end of a class, all tingly, happy and calm. Practicing made me feel a little less broken. By the middle of 2014, I ...
I graduated as a yoga teacher in December last year. My teacher had told me that I should have my first yoga class lined up when I got back home, and listening to him (instead of my fears) I contacted my local gym and scheduled two yoga classes right after Christmas. I taught my first class ...
I went to a yoga class today!!! I am so proud, I feel amazing, I am so energized, so fulfilled and so happy! No shit, Sherlock! Yoga makes you feel good? Well, the thing is that I am a yoga teacher. And when teaching yoga is what you love doing the most in the whole world, it is easy to say yes ...
