by Michelle Young | Dec 9, 2019 | International Intensive Yoga Teacher Training, Teaching Yoga, Yoga Teacher Training in Austin, TX
I started my teaching career over 15 years ago in Kuwait, where I was one of the Al Saba family’s private teachers. In the Middle East, the children of the royal family do not attend school. They are educated at home in a nontraditional setting. It was an enlightening... 
by Michelle Young | Mar 26, 2018 | Home Practice, Online Yoga Teacher Training, Yoga Teacher Training in Austin, TX
I feel extremely connected to the second chapter of the Upanishads, Kena. In this chapter the Gods are said to be boasting about their talents and accomplishments. They appear to forget that they are not doing anything, that their power and force is a direct force of... 
by Michelle Young | Feb 9, 2018 | International Intensive Yoga Teacher Training, Online Yoga Teacher Training, Teaching Yoga, Yoga Teacher Training in Austin, TX
This weekend in Yoga Teacher Training we will be working on sequencing using the principles we’ve learned so far. In our 200 hour yoga teacher training, we lay the foundation for Vinyasa Yoga as a system derived from Ashtanga Yoga and Hatha Yoga. We examine the... 
by Michelle Young | Oct 31, 2017 | International Intensive Yoga Teacher Training, Online Yoga Teacher Training, Teaching Yoga, Yoga Teacher Training in Austin, TX
Have you ever walked into a conversation about lineage at a yoga studio? Many of us have experienced a yoga teacher talking about lineage as if the Holy Grail, but what exactly is lineage and how does it pertain to Yoga. In Sanskrit, the word Shabdkosh, लिनीअज, means... 
by Michelle Young | Sep 2, 2017 | Yoga Teacher Training in Austin, TX, Yoga Therapy, Yoga Therapy Training
I’m currently in Yoga Therapy training at Soul of Yoga in San Diego, CA, and we are currently studying the sacrum in our Holistic Anatomy and Physiology class. Essentially the sacrum is the capstone of the human spine. It allows us to rotate around the axis of...
