Return to Ashtanga Modified Primary Series Yoga Teacher Training (YTT): through the coronacoaster

After starting a 9 month in person Ashtanga Modified Primary Series YTT with Jamie Yoga in Jan 2020, everything was put on hold in March as COVID-19 circulated & lockdown was implemented. It’s been a rollercoaster journey through the months in between & this weekend finally reinitiated training in a new way! Diana Brook had

My vinyasa practice (MVP): 200hrs final practicum experience & lessons learnt

Experience teaching the classI enjoyed preparing the script & choosing asanas for a 1hr mindfulness flow Karma practice. Recording this final practice for the 200hr MVP YTT felt like a consolidation of many of the teachings I have observed over the years, particularly with Diana Brook & Jo Gardener, two phenomenally inspiring yoga practitioners. I

Practicing self praise through reflection

In the past I’d spent a lot of time thinking & reflecting back or forward on many many different things. Doing the @myvinyasapractice YTT from the start it recommended daily journaling around your physical, intellectual, emotional & spiritual bodies. Checking in on how each body felt & defining how through the day you would help

Route into yoga teacher training – during Covid-19

My route into yoga teacher training (YTT), didn’t quite go as planned.. I set out in Jan 2020 on an Ashtanga Primary Modified 200hr YTT course with @jamieyogatrainings & @dianabrook aimed for delivery over a 9 month period with one weekend a month of face to face training. In March 2020 the Covid-19 pandemic hit

First experience of practicing Ashtanga Modified Primary Sequence in yoga teacher training

I have been doing yoga for many many years, which was what took me on this journey to teacher training. However, my previous practices, I soon came to realise were not full Ashtanga & had always been much slower & less physically intense. Following my first physical practice of the full ashtanga modified primary series