01/08/2025
*What Does It Mean to Be a Teacher?*
Sasha and I need your input.
We are considering a new type of program, a Yoga Teacher Training, and we want to know your opinion.
But first, let me share with you a reflection about being a teacher:
After nearly 12 years of teaching, I’ve had to face—again and again—the quiet discomfort of the questions:
Who am I to teach this stuff? And what am I really teaching?
At first, I compared myself to Ramana Maharshi, to the Buddha, to my own teachers. Naturally, I felt like an imposter. Then I realised: I may never see the world as the Buddha saw it—but the aspiration and the path are real. And that’s what matters.
Nearly two decades of seeking. Of heartbreak and beauty. Of silent retreats and messy relationships. Of mystical stillness and maddening self-doubt.
What I can share, is authenticity.
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*Discovering Authenticity*
When I reflect on what authenticity means in the role of teacher, two things come into focus:
1. *Teaching from lived experience* – I try to only share what has truly landed in my body and awareness. If it hasn’t ripened, I don’t pretend otherwise. No performance (or let’s be real, as little as possible and trying to catch myself when I do).
2. *Honoring the roots* – After years of study, I’ve found not one pure tradition but a rich web of evolving lineages. So instead of seeking or preaching “true yoga,” I ask: *What did these teachings mean then? And how can they serve now?*
By authenticity I mean an integrity born of relationship—between the revelation of tradition, the results of practice and the reality of modern life.
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Why We’re Creating a Teacher Training
In a world where yoga is often reduced to postures or slogans, we stand for something deeper, more authentic.
You’ve probably heard:
We’re all one.
The universe is a divine play.
You create your reality.
Without the view, the practice, and the culture that birthed them, they’re just fortune-cookie slogans.
Our retreat participants often say things like:
> “I’d heard these teachings before… but I never really got them until now.”
> “I didn’t know this kind of yoga was connected to spiritual awakening.”
> “Something touched me so deeply—I didn’t even know I had that question until it was answered.”
That’s the gap we want to fill—when you understand where they come from and what they really mean, platitudes become **living teachings**. Teachings that change how you breathe, relate, move, grieve, love, and live.
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*Our Question to You*
Before we continue with planning the Teacher Training, we want to know if there is interest from you.
If we promise a living, breathing container for:
- Spiritual transformation grounded in direct experience
- Deep inquiry into tradition, context, and relevance
- Empowerment to share from the above
Would you be interested?
If you like the idea of us offering a Teacher Training, simply comment YES.
Or drop a DM with other feedback if you wish.
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What We Teach (And Why It Matters)
*View – Living Wisdom*
We trace yoga’s evolution—from early Sāṅkhya and Pātañjala ideas to the radical insights of Ta**ra and Haṭha Yoga—alongside the cultural roots that shaped them. So you can find your own place in the forest of tradition.
*Practice – Embodied Awakening*
We weave together postural intelligence, subtle-body awareness, and meditation practices that point again and again to the direct recognition of your essential nature. Helping you explore how these practices meet real, modern-day questions about existence and truth.
*Integration – Emotional Alchemy*
When things get hard (and they will), you’ll need tools—and so will those you teach. This training includes grounded support for emotional digestion—because spiritual growth without integration often leads to confusion, bypass, and burnout.
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Is This For You?
We’re still shaping the dates, format, and flow of the training—and we’d love your input.
