| Options for learning yoga at home were pretty | | | | Years later, as a yoga teacher, I'm now capable of |
| scarce way back when I first started. There were a | | | | sharing that experience. Over the past few years, |
| few videos and books available, but nothing that | | | | I've gotten a good reputation as the author of some |
| could really teach you step by step what it was all | | | | well respected online training programs, and I have |
| about. The internet was still a long way away... | | | | Swamiji, my guru, to thank for that. |
| I learned much of what I know about yoga from the | | | | I still teach yoga classes because I believe there is |
| source... India. I spent years travelling that magical | | | | much to be gained from them. But my experience |
| place, and had several great experiences along the | | | | has shown me how limiting they can be. It's difficult |
| way. But even after spending month after month in | | | | to provide much depth of instruction in the modern |
| traditional Yogashrams, a real profound sense of | | | | yoga class setting, and difficult to teach students |
| what yoga was all about still seemed to elude me | | | | how to safely and confidently practice at home. |
| somehow. | | | | The Internet has opened up a whole new realm of |
| But then I came across Swami Gitananda's "Yoga | | | | possibilities. |
| Step by Step," and everything changed. I had never | | | | There are tens of thousands of yogic websites online |
| seen a yoga book like it before, and I still have yet | | | | already, but for the most part, most teachers who |
| to see anything like it again today. Actually, it's not | | | | created them are still stuck in their yoga classes... yet |
| just a book. It's a real comprehensive | | | | to realize the great teaching potential of this global |
| correspondence course that changed my way of | | | | medium. |
| looking at yoga instruction forever. | | | | Teaching people how to practice yoga at home, |
| In fact, it changed my life! | | | | from home, is the way of the future. If only just a |
| It showed me how much I was missing in yoga, and | | | | few teachers start to realize how to use the internet |
| it also showed me how well it could be taught via | | | | to effectively share their teachings and get more |
| photos, diagrams and the written word. Now with | | | | people off the couch and doing yoga at home, then |
| the video capabilities of the internet, it can be done | | | | that future looks enlightened indeed. |
| even better! | | | | |