The Well-Educated Yogi

Of all the things you can learn, yoga offers the most opportunities for continuous exploration and lifetime development. In fact, it has been said that yoga can only be mastered after several lifetimes of practice. It makes a PhD program look like pre-K graduation.

The learning process in yoga takes on two forms: one you learn from a teacher—and one you learn from yourself.

The formalized learning in a classroom and from a teacher is called Shiksa in Sanskrit, while self-learning is called Svadhyaya. Both are essential for the understanding of yoga.

At Yoga Yoga we are first and foremost a school. We have teachers and students, classrooms and programs. We are in the business of education, delivering information, training students to become teachers and bringing you some of the best yoga teachers in the Western World.

There is a wealth of learning opportunities here, for beginners to advanced teachers, to help us get our Shiksa on.

Yet the other part of the learning is up to you; this part only comes from your involvement in your own yoga practice, the ability to engage your learning mind in class, to self-study and to observe with deep focus and awareness on your experience.

That is why in our teacher training programs a major emphasis is placed on developing your own personal practice where you work with yourself and become your own teacher.

That is why we offer the Yoga Yoga 40-day Challenge program to get you established in a committed practice that you can take with you wherever you go.

My teacher Yogi Bhajan said, "The only purpose for a teacher outside yourself is to recognize the teacher within yourself." And that is what both Shiksa and Svadhyaya reveals: an inner teacher that has been with you for lifetime after lifetime.

So come educate yourself and study yourself. We are all students and teachers coming together in this perfect moment in time to learn, to excel, and to serve.