An interview with Claire Szabo-Cassella on the Hot Yoga Teacher Training programme

In keeping with our recent exploration of what it takes to be a yoga teacher, the Yoga Lunchbox spoke to Claire at Hot Yoga to find out more about their six month teacher training programme. It’s one of the few teacher training programmes available in New Zealand, and starts every year in July. Why does [...]

How do I go about becoming a yoga teacher? Part II

It’s one of the most popular questions that I get through this website, via the facebook page, and in Google searches. People want to know how to become a yoga teacher and they want to know about teaching yoga as a career. I took a stab at answering this in my first post How do [...]

Broken Warriors – reaching out to prisoners with yoga

by guest author Adhyatma, Srinivasa Yoga House, Hamilton I first came across the idea of teaching Yoga to prison inmates when I was staying in an ashram in the northern parts of Bihar, India. I had traveled there without much prior knowledge of why I was really going there, what I was in for, or [...]

How do I go about becoming a yoga teacher?

This is something people email me all the time to ask – what courses do I need, where do I find them, how much do they cost? And yoga teacher training courses are often great – full immersion in the world of yoga for a set period of time including guidance from a great teacher [...]

Wellington yogi Kelly Fisher interviewed on Forever Fitness

Co-owner of Wellington’s Yoga Unlimited, Kelly Fisher, has just been interviewed on Forever Fitness by Ish and Bevan. It’s a great 30 minute podcast, and well worth a listen (click to hear). If you’ve never listened to a podcast before, and get antsy siting at the computer listening away… throw it on and do what [...]

The Benefits of Teaching Yoga

by Guest Author Swami Nishchalananda, who established Mandala Yoga Ashram in 1986. As students and practitioners of Yoga we are all well aware of the benefits Yoga can have on all levels of our being. Teaching Yoga can be a way of passing on to others what we have received. Teaching Yoga gives us an [...]

How to successfully create a yoga career

  Inspired by Yoga For Change: Part 1 written by Margaret Burns Vap It starts with a yoga class to deal with stress, or injury. You walk out of class every week feeling like a million dollars and you wonder, “What can I do to feel this way more often?”. So you start doing more [...]

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