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How to start teaching yoga?

Teach Yoga: Whatever your point of entry in the field of yoga as a student, once you have practised long enough, you get inspired to teach. The inspiration can be: from observing your yoga teacher, as next progressive step for growth in yoga or maybe to take yoga as a career. In all three, as the path you are choosing is Yoga, it comes with certain responsibilities. Why what is so special just because the field is yoga? The reason is simple: Yoga is the way of life, not just asana and pranayama. Though you may teach mainly these two, [...]

Yoga Mat: How to chose right one for awesome practice

[Updated August 2018] And curated list of best yoga mats Yoga Mat When you practice yoga, there is one constant companion for each class, without fail : your Yoga Mat. In earlier times, when Yoga was practiced only in ashrams, folded blankets were used as base for deeper practice. Or even Kusha grass before that. Which is not the case anymore. Now you have yoga mats in yoga studios, throughout the world. One of the main reason is the scarcity and cost of such rugs. The other factor is that ashram environment was totally different from what you have in your city based [...]