Yoga in Bali

marley007

Hi guys,

I'm looking into doing a yoga instructors course a month long in Bali, just wondering has any1 done this already....if so what did you think of it? I'd love to do it but i'm not very keen on the religous side of it, more so the general instruction and proper technique.

Any views welcome!

corkcomp

not trying to be smart, but why dont you just do a course somewhere else, without the religious aspect?

marley007

Honest answer.... it takes too long its a 2 year course here, where as its a month intensive out there! simple as!

Transform

marley007 wrote: »

Hi guys,

I'm looking into doing a yoga instructors course a month long in Bali, just wondering has any1 done this already....if so what did you think of it? I'd love to do it but i'm not very keen on the religous side of it, more so the general instruction and proper technique.

Any views welcome!

i would work under a really well practiced yoga teacher in ireland first or just attend classes with travelling yoga teachers that visit ireland all the time - could not recommend david swenson enough.

I did a weeks teacher training with him - absolutely excellent.

Thats what i did and was able to work with the likes of orla punch, david collins, tony purcell etc google them and have a chat with them

d'Oracle

marley007 wrote: »

Honest answer.... it takes too long its a 2 year course here, where as its a month intensive out there! simple as!

No offence here, but If I was looking for a yoga instructor, (given my modest experience with Yoga instructors) I would see that as good reason NOT to choose you.

1 month in Asia is not equivalent to 2 Years with a good, experienced instructor.

corkcomp

d'Oracle wrote: »

No offence here, but If I was looking for a yoga instructor, (given my modest experience with Yoga instructors) I would see that as good reason NOT to choose you.

1 month in Asia is not equivalent to 2 Years with a good, experienced instructor.

+ 1

marley007

The courses i was talking about here take 2 years because its one weekend a month! not a full time 2 year course! So a month intensive is a nice way to really throw yourself in the deep end and start practicing/studying. Thanks for the helpfull reply, will contact them first! Cheers.

d'Oracle

marley007 wrote: »

The courses i was talking about here take 2 years because its one weekend a month! not a full time 2 year course! So a month intensive is a nice way to really throw yourself in the deep end and start practicing/studying. Thanks for the helpfull reply, will contact them first! Cheers.

You should really use the spell check before you are sarcastically embolden text.

But someone who thinks that they will become a good teacher from "throwing themselves in at the deep end" rather than taking the time to learn something properly is probably not going to be concerned with how their post looks.

Maybe I have the wrong Idea though.
Maybe I wasted those 4 years in Engineering college, I'm sure I could have learned it in two month-long intensives.

marley007

Ok I've already done my degree in fitness and science i know my stuff, hence why courses are shorter because qualified instructors dont have to study anatomy. it makes it alot quicker! also all i'm looking for is a course doing alot of hours together so i can get a proper feel for it..no point in doing a few hours here and there and not even remembering what you did last time because it was so long ago! I've no intention of claiming i'm a guru after a month in fact chances are i wont even teach its only for experience!! So unless your gonna post usefully then dont bother!

d'Oracle

Well good luck with it either way.

Transform

contact the people i suggested and you will not be disappointed

ragg

d'Oracle wrote: »

No offence here, but If I was looking for a yoga instructor, (given my modest experience with Yoga instructors) I would see that as good reason NOT to choose you.

1 month in Asia is not equivalent to 2 Years with a good, experienced instructor.

Not sure i agree with that - Learning from the "source" so to speak, could potentially be better then learning off some irish guy who most likely just did a night course in yoga instruction.
I'm not belittling Irish yoga instruction, i have literally no experience with it, but sometimes immersing yourself in something for a short period of time can be extremely rewarding...

d'Oracle

ragg wrote: »

Not sure i agree with that - Learning from the "source" so to speak, could potentially be better then learning off some irish guy who most likely just did a night course in yoga instruction.
I'm not belittling Irish yoga instruction, i have literally no experience with it, but sometimes immersing yourself in something for a short period of time can be extremely rewarding...

I disagree.
You are basing your argument on the Irish instruction being of a poor standard.

I'm pretty sure I have an idea who one of the dudes Transform mentioned is. An Ashthanga guy.
Learning and working with someone with a heap of experience, like this guy, who has loads of experience and has trained with some top people over a number of years, would probably benefit better than spending one month learning from some dude in Bali.

There are lots of good Yoga teachers who go to India etc to learn from the top guru types. But they usually have a degree of skill and experience before they go.

For one thing, how do you get the chance to dial in the material?
Generally speaking its better to take ones time and learn stuff properly rather than try and stuff everything into a short time.

ragg

I'm not saying the standard is poor in Ireland, I don't know if it is or not, but im sure there is good people here..

My point is, the op said the course in ireland is one weekend a month for 2 years - i'd take a months intensive corse over that any day - regardless of what i was learning

d'Oracle

ragg wrote: »

I'm not saying the standard is poor in Ireland, I don't know if it is or not, but im sure there is good people here..

You didn't understand my post.

Your arguement was built on the fact that the standard could be poor.
Which is no way to build an argument, because when one seeks out the people who are good, the argument falls over.

ragg wrote: »

My point is, the op said the course in ireland is one weekend a month for 2 years - i'd take a months intensive course over that any day - regardless of what i was learning

And I disagree with that entirely.

Frankly, if I wanted to learn something and those were the options, I would go the route of a trainers course once a month and take regular instruction the other 3 weekends and through the weeks aswell.
Allowing me to process and absorb the instruction properly and become a better instructor than the guy who crammed the whole lot from an american bloke in a fancy foreign country.

I'm sorry if this offends you, but the month intensive, for someone who seems to have little experience, seems like the lazy way.

ragg

d'Oracle wrote: »

You didn't understand my post.

Your arguement was built on the fact that the standard could be poor.
Which is no way to build an argument, because when one seeks out the people who are good, the argument falls over.

Maybe, your right - but the world is full of snake oil salesmen. there is a lot of people who are self professed "best in ireland" be it, yoga, personal trainers, life coaches etc..
Personally, and im sure this isn't pc, but i'd rather learn yoga in bali (assuming its the bali in india) then in ireland - given the choice, would you learn irish dancing off a chinese person?

d'Oracle wrote: »

And I disagree with that entirely.

Frankly, if I wanted to learn something and those were the options, I would go the route of a trainers course once a month and take regular instruction the other 3 weekends and through the weeks aswell.
Allowing me to process and absorb the instruction properly and become a better instructor than the guy who crammed the whole lot from an american bloke in a fancy foreign country.

I'm sorry if this offends you, but the month intensive, for someone who seems to have little experience, seems like the lazy way.

I don't think its lazy, my analagy would be, to learn spanish, you can learn it one weekend a month in Dubin or for 30 days in spain? assuming you have the basics, you will get more out of being immersed in it thsn you would doing it for x hours once a month.
My mate is a kick boxer, he goes to thailand once a year for 4 weeks to train, the reason he does it, is because he is immersed in it with people who have learned the skill from birth.

Anyway, us two arguing about this is like two fat people fighting over an ab roler... Pointless

d'Oracle

Your mate is then going once a year for a month intensive as part of his overall training. Which is cool.
Not once for a month, at the end of which the yank says you are a teacher. Full stop.

Its bali in indonesia.

And I wouldn't be fit to teach Spanish after a month in Spain.

But you're right, neither of us are experts in pedagogy or Yoga so this is a bit pointless.

ragg

d'Oracle wrote: »

Its bali in indonesia.

Did he say that?? if he did I'd be less inclined. but I'm unsure if he actually said that.

d'Oracle wrote: »

And I wouldn't be fit to teach Spanish after a month in Spain.

Maybe a bad example using a language but given the choice I'd learn Spanish off a Spanish person..

But yeah, no more on this from my side, i just think that we have a tendency to think that Irish people = the best teachers regardless of discipline & that short time learning = bad, neither of which i believe in

d'Oracle

ragg wrote: »

Did he say that?? if he did I'd be less inclined. but I'm unsure if he actually said that.

Well no, infact I could be wrong about that.

And I don't think anything like that.

pinkypinky

The 2 year part-time course also requires you to have been practicing yoga for 2 years on a weekly basis. I know some people who've done it (with Yoga Therapy Ireland) and found it excellent. I take regular classes with one of them and she is brilliant.

The OP mentioned they weren't planning to teach, so why not do an intensive course. A month doing yoga in a warm country sounds fantastic to me!