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Regulars spend the rest of the day reading in the same chair they had last year.",[570,573,576,579,583,586,590,593,596],{"time":571,"what":572},"06:45","Wake, warm herbal water",{"time":574,"what":575},"07:15","Yoga by the sea",{"time":577,"what":578},"08:15","Breakfast",{"time":580,"what":581,"note":582},"09:30","Physician's round, then therapy","Two treatments daily — abhyanga, steam, mud or shirodhara as prescribed.",{"time":584,"what":585},"12:30","Lunch",{"time":587,"what":588,"note":589},"14:00","Free","The beach, the herb garden, or the same chair.",{"time":591,"what":592},"16:30","Second treatment",{"time":594,"what":595},"18:00","Herbal drink and meditation",{"time":597,"what":598},"19:00","Dinner",[600,601,602,603,604,605,567],"Twenty-one nights","Daily physician consultation","All therapies and medicines","All meals on the prescribed diet","Daily yoga","Airport transfers from Colombo",[607,608,609],"Flights, ETA and insurance — flights quoted separately","Tips","Companion rate without a programme",[611,616,620],{"start":612,"end":613,"note":614,"places":615},"2026-12-05","2026-12-26","Dry season",8,{"start":617,"end":618,"note":619,"places":370},"2027-01-16","2027-02-06","Peak season",{"start":621,"end":622,"note":623,"places":624},"2027-03-06","2027-03-27","End of the dry season",14,[626],{"q":627,"a":628},"Will my German insurer reimburse this?","Some policies part-reimburse an accredited Ayurvedic cure with a referral obtained before travel. It is never automatic. Ask them first; we will supply whatever documentation they name.",[630,638,647],{"band":631,"label":632,"months":633,"sharing":634,"single":635,"note":637},"low","Low season","May to September",{"amount":263,"currency":34},{"amount":636,"currency":34},3340,"The southwest monsoon on this coast. Rain comes in bursts rather than all day, the sea is rough, and the rates fall by a third. For a treatment stay this matters far less than it sounds.",{"band":639,"label":640,"months":641,"sharing":642,"single":644,"note":646},"shoulder","Shoulder","April, October and November",{"amount":643,"currency":34},3150,{"amount":645,"currency":34},3780,"Inter-monsoonal and changeable. Warm, green, and quiet.",{"band":482,"label":648,"months":649,"sharing":650,"single":652,"note":654},"High season","December to March",{"amount":651,"currency":34},3650,{"amount":653,"currency":34},4410,"Dry, calm sea, and the coast at its best. Book early — the good rooms at the good houses are gone by September.",[656,660,662],{"nights":624,"label":657,"factor":658,"note":659},"The fortnight",0.7,"The shortest stay the house considers a cure rather than a holiday.",{"nights":528,"label":524,"factor":41,"note":661,"recommended":365},"What Barberyn's European regulars have been booking, in the same weeks, for decades.",{"nights":663,"label":664,"factor":665,"note":666},28,"The month",1.3,"For chronic presentations, and where the physician recommends it.",[668,672,676,680],{"value":669,"label":670,"detail":671},"40+","hours of therapy","Two treatment sessions daily across the three weeks, in separate men's and women's wings.",{"value":673,"label":674,"detail":675},"21","physician consultations","Daily review in the Sri Lankan Ayurvedic tradition, which diverges from the Kerala one in useful ways.",{"value":677,"label":678,"detail":679},"1","herb garden","On site, supplying the preparation kitchen. Ask to be walked round it — very few guests do.",{"value":681,"label":682,"detail":683},"60","years of practice","The house has been treating largely German and Swiss guests since the 1960s, which is a longer record than any marketing claim.","Per person for twenty-one nights in a sea-view room, including all Ayurvedic meals, daily physician review, all prescribed therapies and medicines, yoga and meditation, and return transfers from Colombo. Flights quoted separately — and this is the destination where holding the room from the previous day is worth the money, because most long-haul lands at four in the morning.",{"supervision":686,"team":687,"consultations":688},"Resident Ayurvedic physicians in the Sri Lankan tradition, with an on-site herb garden and preparation kitchen rather than bought-in medicines.","Therapists in separate men's and women's wings, assigned for the stay.","Daily physician review throughout — standard here, not an upgrade.",{"amount":263,"currency":34},{"amount":636,"currency":34},{"slug":692,"name":693,"resortSlug":146,"modalitySlug":11,"hook":694,"intention":202,"concerns":695,"nights":696,"groupSize":615,"intensity":530,"overview":697,"suitedTo":700,"notSuitedTo":705,"phases":709,"dayShape":732,"sampleDay":733,"included":760,"excluded":766,"departures":767,"faqs":775,"image":483,"imageAlt":484,"bands":779,"durations":794,"counted":806,"priceIncludes":822,"care":823,"price":827,"singlePrice":828,"resortName":147,"resortCharacter":138,"destinationSlug":28,"destinationName":29,"country":30},"santani-sleep-reset","The sleep reset","A circadian reset at altitude in the Sri Lankan hill country, with cool nights doing half the work.",[202,208,247],7,[698,699],"Altitude changes the proposition entirely: cool nights, no coastal humidity, and walking that is a pleasure rather than an ordeal. The programme is built around light exposure, a fixed eating window and Ayurvedic treatment for the nervous system.","It is short by the standards of this site, and deliberately so — a week is enough to move a sleep pattern, and the rest of the work happens at home with the protocol you leave with.",[701,702,703,704],"Broken sleep rather than an absence of it","Anyone with a week rather than a fortnight","Guests who want a modern building and a design-led setting","A first Ayurvedic experience",[706,707,708],"Diagnosed sleep apnoea, which needs investigating at home first","Anyone wanting a classical Panchakarma — this is not that","Guests who dislike a winding three-hour transfer from Colombo",[710,718,726],{"title":711,"days":712,"body":713,"points":714},"Measuring","Days 1–2","Consultation, a sleep history, and two nights simply observed before anything is changed.",[715,716,717],"Sleep history and consultation","Baseline observation","Eating window set",{"title":719,"days":720,"body":721,"points":722},"Resetting","Days 3–6","Morning light exposure and walking, shirodhara and abhyanga in the late afternoon, dinner finished by seven and lamps down early.",[723,724,725],"Morning light and walking","Daily Ayurvedic treatment","Fixed early dinner",{"title":727,"days":728,"body":729,"points":730},"Home","Day 7","A written evening routine built for your actual household, and a six-week follow-up.",[731,567],"Written protocol","Under three hours are fixed. Light exposure and the eating window do most of the work.",[734,738,741,744,747,748,750,752,756],{"time":735,"what":736,"note":737},"06:15","Wake and out into daylight","Morning light is the intervention; the treatments are secondary.",{"time":571,"what":739,"note":740},"Walk in the tea terraces","Forty-five minutes, outdoors, whatever the weather.",{"time":742,"what":743},"08:00","Breakfast — the eating window opens",{"time":745,"what":746},"10:00","Consultation or free",{"time":584,"what":585},{"time":587,"what":749},"Free — and genuinely so",{"time":591,"what":751},"Abhyanga or shirodhara",{"time":753,"what":754,"note":755},"18:30","Dinner — the eating window closes","Twelve hours after breakfast, without exception.",{"time":757,"what":758,"note":759},"20:30","Lights warm and low","No overhead light in the rooms after this hour.",[761,762,763,764,765],"Seven nights","Daily consultation and treatment","All meals","Daily yoga and guided walks","Transfers from Colombo or Kandy",[607,608],[768,772],{"start":769,"end":770,"note":771,"places":14},"2026-11-14","2026-11-21","Hill-country season",{"start":618,"end":773,"note":774,"places":615},"2027-02-13","Dry and cool",[776],{"q":777,"a":778},"Seven nights for a sleep problem — really?","A week moves a pattern; it does not fix a disorder. If you have been sleeping badly for years, this is a start and a protocol, not a cure — and if there is any suggestion of apnoea we will send you to a sleep clinic at home first.",[780,784,789],{"band":631,"label":632,"months":633,"sharing":781,"single":782,"note":637},{"amount":33,"currency":34},{"amount":783,"currency":34},2630,{"band":639,"label":640,"months":641,"sharing":785,"single":787,"note":646},{"amount":786,"currency":34},2480,{"amount":788,"currency":34},2980,{"band":482,"label":648,"months":649,"sharing":790,"single":792,"note":654},{"amount":791,"currency":34},2880,{"amount":793,"currency":34},3470,[795,798,803],{"nights":696,"label":796,"factor":41,"note":797,"recommended":365},"The reset","Enough to break a pattern and go home with a protocol.",{"nights":799,"label":800,"factor":801,"note":802},10,"The extended reset",1.36,"Where sleep has been broken for years rather than months.",{"nights":624,"label":657,"factor":804,"note":805},1.84,"The version that changes the baseline rather than the fortnight.",[807,811,814,818],{"value":808,"label":809,"detail":810},"7","nights of sleep tracking","The programme is built on your own data rather than a questionnaire, and it is revised mid-stay on what the data says.",{"value":812,"label":670,"detail":813},"16+","Ayurvedic and physiotherapeutic, chosen from the assessment.",{"value":815,"label":816,"detail":817},"0","clocks in the rooms","Deliberate. The single most effective intervention in the programme costs nothing.",{"value":819,"label":820,"detail":821},"500","metres of altitude","In a tea valley above Kandy — several degrees cooler than the coast, and it matters for sleep.","Per person for seven nights in a chalet, including all meals from the single kitchen, the sleep assessment and tracking, all prescribed therapies and physiotherapy, the movement timetable and return transfers from Colombo. Flights quoted separately.",{"supervision":824,"team":825,"consultations":826},"An integrated team — Ayurvedic physicians alongside western-trained doctors, physiotherapists, nutritionists and yoga teachers. That combination is unusual in Sri Lanka and is why the sleep programme here is more than a spa package.","Sixteen chalets in total, so the assessment is genuinely individual.","An opening assessment with sleep tracking, a mid-stay revision and a departure protocol.",{"amount":33,"currency":34},{"amount":783,"currency":34},[830],{"slug":28,"name":29,"place":831,"country":30,"countryCode":832,"cluster":9,"fame":41,"modalities":833,"hook":834,"caseFor":835,"hardFacts":840,"caveat":846,"season":847,"seasonNote":848,"practical":849,"figures":865,"faqs":878,"image":427,"imageAlt":885,"gallery":886,"coords":896,"gateway":899,"tempC":920,"climateNote":924,"leisure":925,"extensions":951,"resortCount":23,"programmeCount":23,"fromPrice":963,"minNights":696,"maxNights":528},"Beruwala, Bentota and Weligama","LK",[11,12],"The sixty kilometres of coconut coast that effectively invented the European Ayurveda holiday.",[836,837,838,839],"Barberyn Reef opened at Beruwala in 1984 as one of the first purpose-built Ayurveda resorts anywhere, and built a German, Swiss and Austrian clientele that still dominates the coast. Many guests return annually for two- and three-week cures, which is the strongest signal a wellness property can have.","The statutory system behind it is real and old. The Ayurveda Act No. 31 of 1961 created a Medical Council that registers practitioners, and the teaching institute dates to 1929.","Sri Lankan Ayurveda has its own materia medica and a gentler overall protocol than Kerala’s — more herbal steam and mud, less deep purification.","The season is the exact inverse of Kerala’s, so between them the two destinations cover the calendar.",[841,842,843,844,845],"The Ayurveda Act No. 31 of 1961 created the Ayurveda Medical Council, which registers practitioners.","The College of Indigenous Medicine was inaugurated on 10 June 1929 in Borella, Colombo; it became the University of Colombo’s Institute of Indigenous Medicine in 1977.","Barberyn Reef, Beruwala, opened in 1984 — widely described as one of the world’s first dedicated Ayurveda resorts.","Sri Lanka runs two monsoons on opposite coasts: the Yala (southwest) roughly May–September, and the Maha (northeast) roughly October–January. The Ayurveda coast sits on the southwest.","The Department of Ayurveda licenses treatment centres; it does not license businesses trading as \"spas\".","This is the destination where the gap between the good and the bad is widest. Sri Lankan press has repeatedly reported \"Ayurvedic spas\" opening on nothing more than a business registration, staffed by people with no clinical training, because the Department of Ayurveda licenses treatment centres and not spas. The licensed houses are excellent and the unlicensed ones are a massage with a Sanskrit menu. Ask for the registration; a real house produces it without hesitating.",[23,23,23,23,42,42,42,42,42,42,41,23],"December to April is the dry, calm-sea window on the southwest coast, and when the Ayurveda houses run at capacity with their long-stay European guests. The Yala monsoon soaks this coast from May: some properties simply close, and the ones that do not are quietly discounting a fortnight of rain.",[850,853,856,859,862],{"label":851,"value":852},"Airport","Colombo (CMB). Beruwala and Bentota are roughly ninety minutes by expressway; Weligama is two and a half hours.",{"label":854,"value":855},"Visa","Sri Lanka ETA online, usually approved within a day.",{"label":857,"value":858},"Language","Sinhala; English throughout, and German at the Beruwala houses.",{"label":860,"value":861},"Insurance","Some German and Swiss policies part-reimburse an accredited Ayurvedic cure with a referral obtained before travel. Never automatic — ask them first.",{"label":863,"value":864},"Companion","Well suited to a couple where only one is treating; the coast gives the other something to do.",[866,869,872,875],{"value":867,"label":868},"1929","Teaching institute founded",{"value":870,"label":871},"1961","Ayurveda Act",{"value":873,"label":874},"1984","Barberyn Reef opens",{"value":876,"label":877},"Dec–Apr","The season",[879,882],{"q":880,"a":881},"How is this different from Kerala?","Gentler and more comfortable, with a different plant pharmacopoeia and more herbal steam and mud. Kerala goes deeper, particularly for full purification. If it is your first programme, or you want to be by the sea, Sri Lanka is the better choice.",{"q":883,"a":884},"How do I tell a real Ayurveda house from a spa?","Ask whether the property is registered with the Department of Ayurveda as a treatment centre, and who the resident physician is. A licensed house answers both in a sentence. A spa changes the subject.","Turquoise water along the Sri Lankan southwest coast",[887,890,893],{"src":888,"alt":889},"photo-1516815231560-8f41ec531527","White sand and shallow water",{"src":891,"alt":892},"photo-1544161515-4ab6ce6db874","Warm oil poured for treatment",{"src":894,"alt":895},"photo-1596040033229-a9821ebd058d","Herbs prepared for a decoction",{"lat":897,"lng":898},6.42,79.99,{"airport":900,"code":35,"city":901,"routings":902,"transfer":918,"flightNote":919},"Bandaranaike International","Colombo — with the southern coast 90 minutes down the expressway",[903,907,911,914],{"from":904,"how":905,"time":906},"London & western Europe","Direct from London on the national carrier, or one stop via the Gulf from everywhere else.","11 hours direct",{"from":908,"how":909,"time":910},"The Gulf","Direct, several daily.","4.5 hours",{"from":8,"how":912,"time":913},"Direct from Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru.","1–3.5 hours",{"from":915,"how":916,"time":917},"Singapore & Bangkok","Direct.","3.5–4 hours","Ninety minutes to two hours to the Bentota and Beruwala coast on the southern expressway; three hours to the hill houses at Kandy. Included.","Most long-haul arrives between 02:00 and 05:00 — an accident of the Gulf wave, not a scheduling choice. Ask us to hold the first night at the property from the previous day so the room is yours on landing; a five-hour wait in a lobby is a poor start to a treatment fortnight and it costs one night to avoid.",[921,921,922,922,921,923,923,923,923,923,923,923],31,32,30,"Two monsoons on opposite coasts and almost no annual temperature range. The southwest coast is dry from November to April; the east coast is dry when the southwest is not.",[926,932,938,943,947],{"name":927,"kind":928,"duration":929,"note":930,"when":931},"Galle Fort","culture","Half day","A Dutch-walled town on a headland, UNESCO-listed and best walked at six in the evening when the ramparts fill with families rather than tour groups.","any",{"name":933,"kind":934,"duration":935,"note":936,"when":937},"A morning at a turtle hatchery","nature","2 hours","Several on the Kosgoda stretch, and they vary enormously. We will send you to one that releases at dusk rather than one that lets you hold them.","rest-day",{"name":939,"kind":934,"duration":940,"note":941,"when":942},"Tea country — Ella and Nuwara Eliya","Two nights","The Kandy to Ella train is the great railway journey of south Asia. Book the observation car weeks ahead and take the leg to Ella rather than the whole line.","after",{"name":944,"kind":934,"duration":945,"note":946,"when":942},"Yala or Udawalawe","Overnight","Udawalawe for elephants with near-certainty and a fraction of Yala’s jeep traffic. Leopards are Yala’s and never guaranteed.",{"name":948,"kind":928,"duration":940,"note":949,"when":950},"Sigiriya and the cultural triangle","The rock fortress at dawn, Dambulla’s cave temples, and Polonnaruwa by bicycle. Four hours inland — a proper extension, not a day trip.","before",[952,956,959],{"name":953,"nights":954,"note":955,"side":950},"The cultural triangle","3 nights","Sigiriya, Dambulla and Polonnaruwa before you settle on the coast. Ancient Sri Lanka, and the half of the island the beach houses never show you.",{"name":957,"nights":954,"note":958,"side":942},"Hill country by train","Kandy, the tooth temple, then the Ella line through tea. Cool, green, and 1,800 m up.",{"name":960,"nights":961,"note":962,"side":942},"The Maldives, one hour on","4 nights","A short hop from Colombo, and the least strenuous possible way to end a treatment fortnight.",{"amount":33,"currency":34},null,{"slug":12,"name":367,"tagline":368,"origin":966,"regulated":369,"regulationNote":967,"indications":968,"cautions":974,"whatHappens":979,"minimumNights":696,"recommendedNights":624,"image":980,"imageAlt":981,"originPlace":8,"body":982,"hardFacts":986,"evidence":993,"treatments":1015,"glossary":1040,"confusedWith":1068,"figures":1071,"faqs":1083,"destinationCount":370,"resortCount":1096,"programmeCount":14},"The Indian subcontinent; the modern schools trace to named twentieth-century teachers.","Not regulated anywhere. Anybody may call themselves a yoga teacher, and a two-hundred-hour certificate can be bought in a fortnight. We list schools by lineage — Krishnamacharya, Sivananda, Bihar, Iyengar, Ashtanga — and name the teacher and their years on every page, because that is the only signal that carries any weight.",[969,970,971,972,973],"Persistent low-grade stress and a nervous system stuck in the on position","Back and neck pain of postural origin","Building a practice that survives contact with an ordinary week","Breath and sleep, through pranayama rather than asana","Learning to teach, properly, over four weeks rather than two",[975,976,977,978],"Uncontrolled high blood pressure and glaucoma rule out inversions","Recent surgery, disc herniation or joint replacement — bring imaging and tell the teacher","Pregnancy needs a teacher trained specifically for it, not a modified general class","Hot rooms and vigorous flow are poor choices during illness or exhaustion","Twice-daily practice in a small group — a longer, slower morning session before food and something quieter at dusk — with pranayama, meditation and, on the immersions worth attending, philosophy taught rather than sprinkled. Expect to be corrected in your first week and to feel worse before you move better.","photo-1544367567-0f2fcb009e0b","A single held posture in silhouette at sunset",[983,984,985],"Yoga as it travels is a practice rather than a profession: there is no country on earth where \"yoga teacher\" is a licensed title, and that fact should shape how you choose. Yoga Alliance, whose RYS-200 and RYT-500 designations appear on most school websites, is a voluntary registry — it confirms that a school filed a curriculum document, not that anyone inspected the teaching or that it is safe.","What that means practically is that the school matters far more than the certificate. The lineages with real institutional history — Sivananda, Satyananda, Iyengar, Ashtanga, Krishnamacharya’s line at Chennai — have syllabi, senior teachers and a body of correction that a four-week training in a rented hall does not. Rishikesh has several hundred schools; this site lists three.","The other thing worth knowing is that the physical practice is the smallest part of the classical system and the largest part of the market. A serious residential stay will spend as much time on breathing, on the philosophy, and on what you do at six in the morning for the rest of your life, as it does on postures.",[987,988,989,990,991,992],"Swami Sivananda founded the Divine Life Society at Muni Ki Reti, Rishikesh, in 1936.","The UN General Assembly proclaimed 21 June the International Day of Yoga by resolution 69\u002F131 on 11 December 2014, with a record 175 co-sponsoring states.","Maharishi Mahesh Yogi established Chaurasi Kutia at Rishikesh in 1963; the Beatles stayed in February 1968.","\"Yoga teacher\" is not a regulated or licensed profession in any jurisdiction. Yoga Alliance is a voluntary registry, not an accreditor.","Alcohol and non-vegetarian food are prohibited within Rishikesh municipal limits.","Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras define asana in one line — *sthira sukham asanam*, steady and at ease — and devote the rest of the text to everything else.",[994,998,1001,1005,1008,1012],{"claim":995,"status":996,"note":997},"Yoga reduces chronic low-back pain and improves function","good","One of the better-supported claims in this whole atlas. Multiple randomised trials and systematic reviews find yoga about as effective as other active exercise therapies, and several national guidelines list it as an option for persistent low-back pain.",{"claim":999,"status":996,"note":1000},"Slow breathing lowers physiological arousal","Extending the exhale relative to the inhale raises vagal tone and lowers heart rate within minutes, in almost anyone, for free. The mechanism is uncontroversial; what a retreat adds is doing it thirty times instead of twice.",{"claim":1002,"status":1003,"note":1004},"Yoga helps anxiety and depressive symptoms","mixed","Reviews are generally positive with real caveats — small samples, weak blinding, active-control problems. It is a reasonable adjunct and it is not a treatment for a diagnosed disorder.",{"claim":1006,"status":1003,"note":1007},"Yoga improves sleep quality","Consistent modest benefit across several reviews, particularly in older adults and in menopause. Yoga nidra specifically is the single most useful thing most anxious people take home.",{"claim":1009,"status":1010,"note":1011},"Yoga is inherently safe and injury-free","none","It is not. Shoulder, wrist, knee, neck and lower-back injuries are all well documented, and headstand and shoulderstand carry specific risks. Injury rates rise with unqualified teaching, which brings you back to the school.",{"claim":1013,"status":1010,"note":1014},"Particular postures detoxify organs or \"wring out\" the liver","A common teaching-room metaphor with no physiological basis. Twisting feels good and does not clean anything.",[1016,1020,1024,1028,1032,1036],{"name":1017,"duration":1018,"body":1019},"Asana","60–120 minutes","The physical practice. In a serious school it is taught with correction, and a good teacher will spend the fortnight removing postures from your practice rather than adding them.",{"name":1021,"duration":1022,"body":1023},"Pranayama","30–45 minutes","Breath regulation — ratio breathing, alternate nostril, and in some schools retention. The part with the best evidence and the least glamour. Retention practices are not appropriate with a panic disorder, uncontrolled hypertension or in pregnancy.",{"name":1025,"duration":1026,"body":1027},"Yoga nidra","30–40 minutes","Guided rotation of attention through the body, lying down, awake. The most useful thing most guests take home and the easiest to keep doing.",{"name":1029,"duration":1030,"body":1031},"Meditation","20–60 minutes","Usually concentration on breath or mantra rather than anything mystical. Expect it to be uncomfortable for the first week; that is the practice, not a sign of failure.",{"name":1033,"duration":1034,"body":1035},"Kriya","20–30 minutes","Cleansing practices — neti for the nasal passages, kapalabhati breathing. Some, notably the swallowed-cloth and saltwater-flush practices, we would not take without a teacher who knows you.",{"name":1037,"duration":1038,"body":1039},"Philosophy and chanting","45–60 minutes","Sutra study, Vedanta talks, Sanskrit chanting. Optional at most houses and the part returning guests say they came back for.",[1041,1043,1045,1047,1050,1053,1056,1059,1062,1065],{"term":1017,"meaning":1042},"Posture. One of eight limbs, and the one the West took.",{"term":1021,"meaning":1044},"Regulation of the breath.",{"term":1025,"meaning":1046},"\"Yogic sleep\" — a guided lying-down practice, awake throughout.",{"term":1048,"meaning":1049},"Vinyasa","Movement linked to breath; a flowing style rather than held postures.",{"term":1051,"meaning":1052},"Hatha","Broadly, the physical branch — used loosely to mean a slower, held practice.",{"term":1054,"meaning":1055},"Ashtanga","A fixed vigorous sequence in set series. Demanding, and the injury profile is real.",{"term":1057,"meaning":1058},"Iyengar","Precision alignment with props and long holds. The best entry point if you have an injury.",{"term":1060,"meaning":1061},"RYS \u002F RYT","Yoga Alliance registry designations. A filing, not an inspection.",{"term":1063,"meaning":1064},"Shala","The hall you practise in.",{"term":1066,"meaning":1067},"Sthira sukham asanam","Yoga Sutra II.46 — \"steady and at ease\" — the whole definition of a posture.",{"name":1069,"difference":1070},"A yoga holiday","A yoga holiday is a good hotel with two classes a day and a teacher flown in. A yoga stay is a school: the same teachers all year, a syllabus, one-to-one correction, and a timetable that starts before six. Both are worth doing and they cost about the same, so it is worth knowing which you have booked.",[1072,1074,1077,1080],{"value":815,"label":1073},"Countries licensing yoga teachers",{"value":1075,"label":1076},"1936","Divine Life Society founded",{"value":1078,"label":1079},"8","Limbs; asana is one",{"value":1081,"label":1082},"2 yrs","Practice before a 200-hour training",[1084,1087,1090,1093],{"q":1085,"a":1086},"Do I need to be flexible or experienced?","For a retreat, no. For a teacher training, yes — two years of regular practice, and the schools worth attending ask. Arriving at a 200-hour training as a beginner is the commonest way to get injured and the commonest reason people do not finish.",{"q":1088,"a":1089},"How do I tell a good school from a bad one?","Ask who teaches — by lineage and years, not by name — and whether the same people teach all year or rotate. Ask the maximum class size. Ask what happens if you cannot do a posture. A school that answers all three concretely is a different proposition from one that sends a brochure.",{"q":1091,"a":1092},"Is a 200-hour training worth it if I never intend to teach?","Often, yes, and many people do exactly that. It is the only format that gives you a month of daily correction. Just be honest with yourself that it is a month of hard physical work and philosophy exams, not a holiday.",{"q":1094,"a":1095},"What about the more intense breathing practices?","Strong pranayama and breath retention are not appropriate with a panic disorder, uncontrolled hypertension, epilepsy, glaucoma or in pregnancy, and a good teacher will ask before they teach it. 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