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5 Unexpected Benefits of a Small-Group 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training (like ours in North Somerset!)

If you’re considering a YTT, you might be weighing up options: weekend or intensive? Online or in-person? But here’s one more question to ask yourself — do I want to learn in a large group or a small one?

Morven Hamilton

Jun 27, 20253 min read

200 hour yoga course participants drinking tea, chatting and laughing in the yoga studio

What If Your “Weaknesses” Are Actually Your Strengths? (Dear New Yoga Teachers, This One’s for You Now you've fnished your 200 hour Yoga Training)

So, you’ve graduated from your 200-hour yoga teacher training. You’ve chanted the final Om, folded up your manual, and maybe even taught your first few classes. And now… cue the inner critic. I want to talk about some of the common “weaknesses” new yoga teachers experience — and why they might actually be signs that you’re right on track.

Morven Hamilton

May 23, 20253 min read

200 hour Yoga Teacher Training, Weston-super-Mare

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Morven practising upward facing bow in mid-forties

After thirty years of yoga, I am more anxious and more stiff than ever before

I started yoga when I was nineteen. Now, with my fiftieth birthday in sight and thirty years of daily yoga practice behind me, I have anxiety, stiffness, joint pain and knees that sound like Rice Krispies when I walk up the stairs. Yet, I need my yoga more than ever—and what’s more, I feel better in my body than I did when I was younger.

Morven Hamilton practising yoga at 200 hour yoga training venue The Phoenix Studio

Does Yoga Get Boring After 30 Years?

After more than thirty years of practice, I think I can say with some confidence that yoga absolutely can become boring. Even the most skilful of practitioners’ yoga can lose its lustre from time to time.

Morven practising metta in Rahjastan in India

Fake It Till You Make It - The Authentic Path to Your Truest Self

Sometimes the world needs you to be something you don’t feel ready to be, or don’t know how to be. Here is why "fake it till you make it" is the truest way to your authentic future self.

How to Fill Your Yoga Class

You’ve planned the sequence. You’ve lugged your props across a car park in the rain. You’ve lit a candle that immediately sets off someone’s asthma. And then you stand there wondering whether the whole thing is doomed.