10/09/2026
A good teacher should be comfortable with being questioned.
I don’t believe our role as yoga teachers is to position ourselves as the person with all the answers. In fact, I think anyone claiming to have all the answers is probably worth questioning a little more.
The traditional guru/disciple model relies on hierarchy. One person holds the knowledge and authority, while everyone else is expected to trust it. And we know that when a culture discourages people from questioning authority, whether that’s about alignment, philosophy, diet, how you should practise or how you should live, it can create the conditions for much more serious abuses of power to go unquestioned too.
As teachers, we can know a lot and still say “I don’t know.” We can have strong opinions and still be willing to discuss them. We can share what we’ve learnt while encouraging students to test it against their own experience.
Ultimately, I think good teaching should make a student more trusting of themselves, not more dependent on their teacher. The hope is that eventually you take what you’ve learnt, keep exploring, and perhaps even outgrow the people who taught you.
That philosophy sits at the heart of how we approach Yoga in Depth. We’re not interested in creating one particular version of what a yoga teacher should be. We want to give you the knowledge, context and space to question what you’re learning and discover what you actually believe.
Yoga in Depth, our 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training, returns in 2027.
More details on our website 🤎
