Muladhara, commonly called the root chakra, is a concept within traditional yogic and tantric subtle-body frameworks. Modern chakra teaching often uses it to explore safety, belonging and grounding. It is not a medical diagnosis: fatigue, anxiety, digestive problems or back pain cannot establish a chakra blockage and may…
Most people come to yoga for something simple. A looser back. Better sleep. An hour away from the phone. Then, somewhere along the way, a question shows up: what is actually happening in this practice? Yoga has been around for thousands of years as a way of bringing…
Most teachers come to a restorative yoga teacher training after the same kind of frustration. You have a student who cannot do your Tuesday class any more. Or never could. Someone recovering from illness. Someone in their seventies. Someone who cries in savasana and cannot say why. You…
Teachers rarely look for a 300 hour yoga TTC in Goa because they want more postures. They look because they have run out of answers. A student turns up with a shoulder that will not lift past ninety degrees. Someone in the back row holds their breath through…
A 500 hour yoga teacher training in Goa is the stage where a teacher stops repeating what they were taught and starts making their own decisions in the room. It is also one of the most misunderstood qualifications in yoga. People assume it is a single course. Often…
Goa attracts two kinds of yoga seekers. The first wants a steady daily practice while living or staying in the state. The second is passing through for a week or two and wants something more substantial than a resort stretching session. Both usually end up searching for the…
An Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training is a structured programme that teaches the Ashtanga Vinyasa method as a complete system: the set sequence, the breath and gaze practices that hold it together, the philosophy it comes from, and the skills needed to teach it to someone else. Most…
Searching for the best yoga teacher training abroad produces thousands of results, most of them ranked lists written by people paid a commission on every booking. The photographs look similar. The promises look similar. The prices vary by a factor of five for courses that appear, on the…
Teaching children requires more than adapting an adult yoga sequence. Children’s classes need age-appropriate activities, clear safeguarding boundaries, short instructions, and ways to accommodate different attention spans and needs. A specialist training should explain these skills and provide supervised opportunities to practise them. Children’s yoga training should address…
Yoga nidra for deep sleep is a guided practice you do lying down, in which you stay barely awake while the body drops into rest that measurably resembles deep sleep. I have taught it for twelve years, first at Bapu Nature Cure Hospital and later in our own…