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Retreat Host - Prague, Czech Republic
personal. I started going on retreats and studying with teachers who opened the doors to the philosophical and internal layers of the practice. In 2022 I completed my 200 hour training without ever planning to teach. Yet the more I learned, the more I felt pulled to share....
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Yoga TeacherAt first, I called myself an Ashtanga teacher without understanding the full weight of what that meant. But after years of study and experience, I now feel like I've earned that title. The Black Yoga Room was born out of darkness. During my divorce, yoga became my refuge....
Yoga TeacherAfter college, Becca leaned into Power Yoga and began her first teacher training in 2008. Though she didn't finish that one, the calling didn’t fade. In 2012, she completed her 200-hour Power Yoga Teacher Training at West Hartford Yoga and began focusing on kids....
Yoga TeacherHealing postpartum, I turned to yoga not just for my body, but for my spirit. I began meditating and studying yogic texts more deeply. Then came my own health battles, Crohn's disease, a major surgery, and later colon cancer at 39....
Yoga TeacherI came back to yoga during one of the most difficult chapters of my life, and signing up for a 200-hour teacher training at an ashram outside of Miami was the one clear decision I could make. I didn't go to become a teacher—I went to find myself again. And I did....
Yoga TeacherMy yoga business didn't start as a business at all. I simply wanted to share what had helped me, so I hosted free classes in the park, posted content online, and supported others in the yoga community however I could....
Yoga TeacherApproaching 40, I signed up for both a 200-hour vinyasa and a Yin yoga training. Yin was a revelation. Though I originally told myself I'd never teach, friends began asking me to guide them — and slowly, I began teaching....
Yoga TeacherFrom dancing and teaching yoga in South Africa to creating her own aerial movement brand, Helen poured her energy into the work she loved. But when the pandemic hit, everything shifted. Her studio closed, and she relocated to Canada to pursue her master's in was not easy....
Yoga TeacherA turning point came during a Christmas break when I volunteered at a yoga retreat outside Sydney. The experience changed my inner compass. I realized that what I truly valued—purpose, connection, and well-being—had little to do with the corporate ladder I was climbing....
Yoga TeacherFort Worth offered her fresh ground to grow, and she didn't hold back. Stacie poured herself into the teaching life — morning classes, lunchtime privates, evening flows in packed studios....
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