The letters look like they belong on a government form. RYT 200, RYT 500, E-RYT, YACEP. For someone looking at teacher training options in Dubai for the first time, the alphabet of credentials can make the whole enterprise seem more bureaucratic than it needs to be....
Most people who ask this question already suspect the answer. They have been practicing for a year or two, maybe longer. They think about alignment when they are not on the mat. They picked up a book about Patanjali or pranayama and found themselves genuinely...
Rest is not a reward for finishing. That’s a modern assumption, and a fairly recent one. The classical yogic tradition treated rest as a discipline in its own right, as something requiring skill, attention, and specific practice, not simply the absence of...
Most people who practice yoga regularly have never meditated. Most people who meditate regularly have never practiced yoga in any serious sense. Both groups tend to assume they’re doing something complete. The classical tradition would disagree with both of...
Yoga studios in Dubai see a familiar pattern. January brings a full room. By March, it’s half that. By June, the students who remain are a different kind of person from those who started alongside them, not more disciplined necessarily, not more naturally suited...
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