...olo practitioners cultivating specialized niches.

2. You'll need to stand out to stay in. The yoga professionals who differentiate themselves with an approach or style that stands out will have a distinct advantage. While ten years ago people asked, "What is yoga?," the question now is "How is this yoga different from all other yogas?"

3. Yoga will be on the move. Yoga will continue to migrate into new territory beyond the standard studio or gym. Think yoga at your desk, for specific populations, or at out-of-the-box locations.

4. Yoga will step out of the waiting room and into the doctor's office. Yoga will continue to make headway in the health-care establishment as it becomes more and more widely accepted as a complementary alternative medicine. As this migration occurs, more structure will be needed, including peer-reviewed research studies to measure the efficiency for standardized protocols of yoga care.

5. Yoga will take up permanent residence on Madison Avenue. Companies looking to associate their products or services with a wellness lifestyle-even if it has nothing to do with wellness-will turn to yoga imagery. A sexy yogini sipping a glass of wine while sitting in lotus position on t...more

Jnana Yoga - Intellectually becoming god-Conscious

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Jnana Yoga is the yoga of intellectual inquiry, using the mind to come to the profound realization that our god-Self, the consciousness that we are in reality a manifestation of god, is beyond and behind our mind. However, we should not fall into the mistake of thinking that we can discover god through the use of the mind alone. To achieve Cosmic Consciousness, what can be called Self-realization, we must continually ask "Who am I", in other words, am I just this material body and material mind, or am I in fact an integral part of something greater. That something greater is considered by yogis to be god, the presence of which everything and everyone is made up, whether or not the individual realizes it or not. The purpose of Jnana Yoga is to come to just that r...more

What Should You Look for in a Yoga Teacher training Correspondence Course?

... example: If you are comparing a 100 hour program to a 200 training hour course, it should be expected that the 200 hour course would be more expensive.

The added materials, in your Yoga correspondence course, make a big difference in your training, and your level of confidence. If your decisions are based primarily on expenses, make sure you are still getting the best distance-learning Yoga certification course possible.

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Yoga Ethics For Instructors

...o assist or correct a physical posture.

All of the students are paying close attention to the movements of the instructor. Some students will become infatuated, or attached, as they associate their release of tension, and spiritual growth, with that person. A compassionate yoga instructor is a guide, who shows his or her students, that the true teacher is already within each student.

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