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  4 out of 5

  By: Mariela Sep 03, 2021

  I found David's book to be very comprehensive as an initial training to be certified to teach yoga. He does a fantastic job at encouraging student-teachers to teach a pose during classes, which I think is a great way for us to gain experience while we are in the training. I would have enjoyed more practice in sequencing classes. I liked having to focus on teaching a couple poses a week but what I found lacking was the ability to easily sequence poses together and remember the Sanskrit terms. I know this is only the beginning of training and ease in teaching will come in time. Nevertheless, the training could have even shorter sequence practices spread throughout the training. (Perhaps 15-30min sequence practice in combination with teaching poses.) Overall, it was a wonderful experience and I am grateful to have met all my fellow trainees!

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  I found David's book to be very comprehensive as an initial training to be certified to teach yoga. He does a fantastic job at encouraging student-teachers to teach a pose during classes, which I think is a great way for us to gain experience while we are in the training. I would have enjoyed more practice in sequencing classes. I liked having to focus on teaching a couple poses a week but what I found lacking was the ability to easily sequence poses together and remember the Sanskrit terms. I know this is only the beginning of training and ease in teaching will come in time. Nevertheless, the training could have even shorter sequence practices spread throughout the training. (Perhaps 15-30min sequence practice in combination with teaching poses.) Overall, it was a wonderful experience and I am grateful to have met all my fellow trainees!

  School response

  Energy Yoga LLC

  Sep 03, 2021

  Thank you Mariela, With Covid-19, unfortunately we did not get as much hands on sequencing as we would have liked, but thank you very much for the feedback. Hopefully we will get back to normal soon and you can always attend future classes complimentary if you want to retake the sequencing portion after Covid-19 is finally over...