Vinyasa Flow Teacher Training

Flow is where most people meet yoga, and it is where most of them meet force too — a class driven by the count, the pace set by whoever is fittest in the room. Soft flow is the opposite bargain: the breath sets the pace, and the shapes follow it.

Teaching it is mostly sequencing. Which shape earns the next one, where the breath is long enough to carry the movement and where it has quietly stopped being in charge, how to hold the pace of a room whose bodies are not the same age or the same morning.

The training treats flow as the moving half of soft yoga and yin as its still half — the same approach, different speed. Neither is a style to collect; both are ways of getting the body to stop bracing.

Held in Rishikesh, India and in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.