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 or two. Wonderful stuff. But see, here's the thing. If you want to be a yoga teacher, it doesn't start with heading off on a course to learn stuff from other people so you can then teach other people's stuff to … [Read more...]

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 I go about becoming a yoga teacher?, but the questions kept coming, so I thought it would be wise to open it up to the wider yoga community. Here's the first in a series of responses on what it takes to be a yoga … [Read more...]

I'm still getting a fantastic response from yoga teachers on what it takes to be a yoga teacher. This week we have an in-depth exploration from Satyanada representative Swami Karma Karuna. Satyananda teachers are amongst the most immersed in the world of yoga. Their training is both deep and wide, taking many years to complete, but perhaps most important of all, Satyananda teachers all have a relationship with a guru, creating a direct line to true knowledge. … [Read more...]

This is the fourth article in a series which has examined what it takes to become a yoga teacher. And who wouldn't want to be a yoga teacher? You get to do yoga all day long, swanning around the world attending workshops and teacher trainings is part of your job, and you're blissed out all the time. Plus you've got hordes of adoring students hanging on your every word. What a great career yoga teaching must be! Sign me up now! But it's not quite like that... and as Mike Berghan … [Read more...]