Om Shanti: A Yoga Blog

At the risk of sounding cynical, I want to make the simple but potentially controversial observation that yoga teacher training programs have really been churning out a lot of really poor teachers in the past few years. My suspicion is that teacher training programs have become a veritable business for yoga studios and gyms, and, as a result, pretty much anyone who is willing to pay the ridiculous fees to enroll in one of these programs is just a few weeks away from being a “certified yoga instructor”. (more…)