Hi everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast. As always, I hope you are doing well.

You know that I am absolutely obsessed with yoga education, how yoga teachers are trained, and raising the bar for what passes off as yoga education in the modern world.

And I met a fellow yoga nerd.

Her name is Medha Bhaskar.

She is the co-founder of Amrita Bindu Yoga in Bengaluru, India.

And she holds a master's from S. Vyasa University.

And she's also a level three certified teacher with the ministry of Ayush.

She's also the vice president of the Women's Council Board in India.

Now, Medha and I are getting very nerdy.

We're getting into the trenches about what it means to study yoga.

Now, whether you are already teaching yoga or if you are considering teaching yoga,

this is a conversation that is for everyone. At the start of it, Medha goes straight into

making us understand what it means to be an educator. We start the conversation by tracing the history of how these yoga teacher trainings came about.

We go into the many layers of learning.

And that is so crucial in today's conversation because she hits the nail on the head when it comes to a 200-hour teacher training.

What you should get out of it as a bare minimum.

And then we detail this as a comparison between a 200 and a 300.

And when you should study which level of training, who is the ideal candidate, how to prepare

yourself, what are some of the pitfalls? And even though most of you listening to this conversation, you have already done these

trainings, you are probably not going to do another one soon, or you have switched to an online

mode of learning these trainings.

I still think this conversation is something we all need to listen to. Raising the bar for what

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