An interview with Barbara Coley on Svastha Yoga Teacher Training

T. Krishnamacharya is likely the man who’s had the biggest influence on the explosion of yoga in modern times. Born in 1888, he was by all accounts a legend. A Yoga Journal article written in 2001 by Fernando Pages Ruiz summed up Krishnamacharya’s immense contribution to yoga by saying: You may have never have heard [...]

An interview with James Bryan on Knoff Yoga Teacher Training

Nicky Knoff and James Bryan If you’re interested in yoga teacher training, and looking for New Zealand-based training, one of your options is Knoff Yoga Teacher Training. While the Knoff Yoga School is based in Cairns, Australia, they travel to hold their month-long immersion teacher training courses. The next intake of students in the Wellington-based [...]

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

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 [...]

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

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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