| Yoga instruction isn't limited to the classroom | | | | enthusiastic yoga teachers for knowledgeable ones, |
| anymore, thanks to the internet. The World Wide | | | | and the modern standards of a few hundred hours |
| Web has opened up a huge new realm of yoga | | | | of yoga teacher training sure don't help matters. |
| possibilities. Unfortunately, it has opened up a whole | | | | These extremely basic requirements are a terribly |
| new can of worms too! | | | | insufficient barometer for gauging whether or not |
| Along with informative sites by knowledgeable | | | | someone really does have the understanding and |
| teachers, there's also a whole lot of incomplete and | | | | experience to properly teach yoga. |
| misleading information being spread by inexperienced | | | | It may seem a lot easier to determine who is a good |
| yoga enthusiasts. This cut-and-paste cyber world | | | | yoga teacher live and in person then over the |
| makes it simple for anybody to create a website on | | | | internet. But that also relies on you, the student, |
| any topic, yoga included, and load it up with content | | | | having enough knowledge and experience to really |
| that makes the creator seem like they are an | | | | know the difference. The Bhagavad Gita cautions us |
| authority … when in most cases, they are far from | | | | that in Kali Yuga, our present worldly age, "great |
| it. | | | | orators are often mistaken for the wise," and that |
| The bottom line about yoga instruction online is, | | | | has certainly become the case in the modern yoga |
| Buyer Beware! | | | | scene. |
| You can definitely learn yoga online … but you don't | | | | Amid a sea of yoga junk on the internet today, |
| want to be careless about it. As with anything online, | | | | there are definitely some nuggets of gold … some |
| proper research is your best friend. | | | | masters who have taken their immense knowledge |
| Yoga instruction online is not really any different than | | | | and experience of yoga and are applying it through |
| in the living, breathing world. You need a teacher with | | | | modern technology in unique and valuable ways. |
| adequate knowledge and experience. Unfortunately, | | | | Sorting through the massive online yoga universe to |
| that knowledge and experience is lacking in most | | | | find them takes work … but once you do, I'm sure |
| yoga teachers today … on or offline. | | | | you'll feel that it was time and effort well spent. |
| The modern yoga world too often mistakes | | | | |