It’s been a strange old year, hasn’t it? But as the dog days of summer draw to a close, and September comes round we habitually get into that back-to-school frame of mind. So how can we make the most of these light, late summer days until we get to the darker, colder days of the […]
Many people are attracted to yoga by its physicality rather than its spirituality. Teaching some simple deep breathing techniques is a great way to introduce pranayama to novice yogis. So What is Pranayama Anyway? In its simplest form, pranayama is just deep breathing. Yes, we can make it technical by using only one nostril, closing
Born in Riga, Latvia to European aristocracy in 1899, Indra Devi was the first female to been allowed into an Indian ashram (let alone the first woman to study in an ashram) in the 1930s. Studying with the “godfather” of modern Hatha Yoga, Krishnamacharya (famous for also teaching Iyengar and Pattabhi Jois), Indra Devi is
Born in Brasil in 1939 and teaching yoga since 1967, Dharma Mittra has been teaching yoga for almost 50 years, and is still teaching at the Dharma Yoga Centre in New York City, as well as offering courses and retreats around the world. After years of reading books about yoga as a teenager, Dharma Mittra
In order to be a yoga teacher you need to start teaching yoga. That’s it. There are no legal requirements or regulations governing the yoga teaching world, but there are plenty of organisations out there purporting to be national, international and even global governing bodies. What Exactly Are the Yoga Regulating Bodies? Up until the late 20th
What’s it like going to a big yoga convention or festival? Can you really learn anything amongst hundreds of other yogis? Is it worth the money, time and effort? Poppy Pickles writes about her experience at the Iyengar Yoga UK Convention in Harrogate in May this year. Going to a yoga convention or festival away
There are lots of things that feel long about this pandemic. There are long lockdowns, long queues for the supermarkets, long waits to be vaccinated and long gaps between seeing our friends and family. But one of the many human tolls of Covid-19 is the condition termed ‘long Covid’. As yoga teachers and practitioners, this
If you’re thinking about taking the plunge and signing up to do a yoga teacher training course, there will be a multitude of doubts, excuses and fears that arise in your mind. As yogis, we’ve already thought, felt, and experienced them all — so let us metaphorically take your hand and lead you through them
Ashley Russell is an experienced yoga teacher and trainer, choreographer, registered mental health nurse, and EMDR trauma therapist (recently highlighted in Prince Harry’s new documentary on mental health). He talks to YogaLondon about growing up gay in the 80s, about trauma therapy, and how yoga gave him a place to simply be a ‘body in
There is one thing that you can guarantee all yoga teachers will share: a love of yoga. Apart from that, the only other thing you can guarantee is that they will be entirely different. And that’s what’s so great about them! But, there is a clichéd view that if you’re a yoga teacher you should
