31/03/2026
It’s a big question in the yoga world I’m speaking about here.
🙏 I have blanked out the names of the trainers and institutions this graduate of my Yoga-Plus for Bone Health training is referring to here (in a screenshot from her email to me) as it is not my intention to belittle anyone.
🫶 My intention is to help you know that I will supply you with accurate, detailed, digestible information about human anatomy & movement, & how that can support you, supporting your students.
The 3rd slide is from a graduate of Yoga for Menopause and Beyond teacher training, a screenshot of her review of my course on the website (both courses are accredited there).
How do I feel about this? I feel that terrible thing we’re not supposed to feel: pride!!
📚 I have studied long and hard in order to know what I know, and I have decades of experience teaching students and training professionals with pedagogical skills that it takes time to settle into.
But… We have choices as teachers: we can choose to teach very traditionally, with very little anatomical knowledge, and really deeply trust the practice.
Or we can choose to be quite precise and considered, taking a critical eye to the practice.
😇 It’s my conviction that when we are dealing with populations, whose bodies are less robust than they might be in their 20s and 30s, that the second option is preferable.
And I know myself, and in the hundreds of yoga teachers I have trained, that yoga injury is more common than we like to admit.
🫣 I always say to my trainees that I am a user of Yoga. I am a secular Yogi.
I feel that it has unbelievable benefits, when we twin asana, meditation, and pranayama, together with information and adaptation from exercise science, and deep knowledge of the changing human body.
❓How important do you think it is to be anatomically accurate and knowledgeable in your teaching?
I know that many yogis, understandably, feel that it’s less important than it might be in something like Pilates for example.
I’d love to hear your thoughts ⬇️
