This summer it will be – for me – twenty years into teaching The Original Hot (Bikram) Yoga. Which is only a fraction of the amount of time that my yoga mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, and grandparents practiced and taught before they trained me. But 20 years is finally enough to deeply understand where Bikram is coming from when he says, “It takes 10 years to become a yoga teacher.”
This prescription signifies a deep level of respect for what yoga asana is, what a yoga asana teacher is supposed to do, and the level of training & experience that one should have to transmit a living practice.
