How much yoga training is enough?
…Yet, I’m still a yoga student- practicing regularly under the guidance of truly senior teachers, a title few in this impacted industry (there’s that word I hate again), can claim. Frankly, the more I learn about the Art and Science of Yoga, the more questions I have…generally pretty profound contemplative questions with no clear answers, but today, I ask a pretty mundane one: Is 200 hours really enough for someone to be teaching yoga!?
What’s your style?
Looking at the schedule of a yoga studio reveals a plethora of yoga styles: vinyasa, yin, Iyengar, restorative, slow-flow, prenatal….Wait, prenatal?! Is that actually a style of a yoga? It makes sense on a schedule to label a class as prenatal because, of course, it targets a very specific audience. However, prenatal is not in itself a style of yoga. I may be getting into semantics here, but prenatal is really a sub-heading of any style of yoga: A prenatal class may be vinyasa, yin, Iyengar, restorative, or any other style for that matter.